National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) on Tuesday said he anticipated House Republicans would pick up seats, but that the net gain is “not going to be double digits.”
“I'm confident we'll hold the majority. As far as what the net gain will be, I'm not sure,” Hudson said in an interview with The Hill the afternoon of Election Day.
“It's not going to be double digits, I don't think. You know, I just think there's so many close races,” Hudson said. “But I'm confident we'll hold … I honestly don't know what the final number’s going to look like.”
House Republicans have a historically slim majority, and Democrats need a net gain of at least four seats to win control of the lower chamber.
Election analysts see the House as essentially a toss-up. And because of the high number of competitive races in states that take longer to count ballots, like California, a final result may not be clear for days or weeks.
“California will probably take a week, like usual,” Hudson said of the timing of election results. “New York may take a little longer, and we've got a number of contested races in both.”
But Hudson said he believes the NRCC will have a good sense of where things stand by Wednesday morning.
To get a sense of which way the results are going, Hudson is looking to bellwether races in states that are expected to have results relatively early on Election Night in........