The complete composition of the 119th United States Congress, which is scheduled to convene on January 3, 2025, has not been settled as majority control of the House of Representatives is still up for grabs.
As of early afternoon eastern time on November 8, Republicans hold a 211-199 majority in the House, with 25 races still to be decided and the seesaw going full force.
Republican candidates in Pennsylvania grabbed three seats, two of them coming at the expense of incumbents with wins by Ryan Mackenzie and Robert Bresnahan. In Nevada, Democratic incumbents Susie Lee and Steven Horsford won re-election.
Incumbent Democratic representatives Don Davis in North Carolina and Kim Schrier in Washington retained their seats.
The race in the 2nd congressional district of Maine between incumbent Jared Golden and state representative Austin Theriault is such that it will head to the state capital in Augusta next week for a ranked choice voting tabulation. Neither candidate won over 50 percent of the vote.
As COSA co-founder and senior advisor Michael Farris pointed out during the election night edition of "COS Live", a Republican majority in the House may bode well for the movement to call an Article V convention in the form of favorable rules that will confine Congress to its limited role in calling a convention.
In the Senate, the Republican Party added another seat to its growing majority in when, according to the Associated Press, David McCormick was declared the winner in Pennsylvania over incumbent Bob Casey, who was seeking a fourth term.
Casey has refused to concede the election, however, and The Epoch Times is reporting that Pennsylvania's secretary of state claims there are still over 100,000 ballots yet to be counted.
For the moment, McCormick's victory gives Republicans a 53-45 majority in the Senate. When president-elect Donald Trump assumed office in 2017, Republicans held 51 seats in the Senate. This January, Trump will have a more comfortable majority for confirming appointees.
The Senate races in Arizona and Nevada were yet to be called as of this writing. They are also the only laggards remaining in the U.S. presidential election, though the results will merely change the Electoral College tally, not the result.
According to the AP, the deadline for mail-in ballots to be submitted and counted in Nevada is November 9. Vote-counting in Arizona -- including in pivotal Maricopa County -- continues.
Stay tuned for updates as one of the most exciting and consequential elections in U.S. history comes to an end and a potentially seismic political realignment and structural change begins.
