For Democrats around the country, the last hope rests in the House.

The party lost control of the Senate on Tuesday, as expected. And by the early hours of Wednesday, Decision Desk HQ projected that former President Trump would win the presidency, securing the 270 electoral votes he needed to defeat Vice President Harris and return to the White House next year for a second term.

Only the House remains unresolved, leaving the battle for the lower chamber as the Democrats’ last chance to control a lever of power in Washington — and push back on the second Trump administration.

It’s a dynamic that hasn’t been overlooked by Democrats, who were dejected by their party’s performance and watching anxiously for signs that all was not lost.

“In terms of the power trifecta, the House is the only hope for Democrats to maintain a check on our out of control Donald Trump,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a 15-year veteran of the lower chamber, told The Hill in an interview early Wednesday morning.

“The results tonight are grim … for the country, and Democrats offer those who believe in constitutional democracy the only hope of presence in the White House and an enabling Republican Senate,” he continued. “So a lot is........

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