: Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives with a razor-thin majority in the next Congress. The AP has not called the race for control of the chamber, but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries conceded that the GOP would have a majority.

Republicans have finally completed the so-called trifecta and secured the 218 seats required for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in a presidential contest since 2004 — when President George W. Bush got 62 million votes. Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump

Donald Trump won the presidency (again). Republicans won the Senate. But there’s one more big political prize to be awarded after Tuesday’s election: the House of Representatives, which could still break either way depending on what happens in the roughly 28 races that remain too close to call as of Thursday afternoon.

Speaker Mike Johnson and House GOP leaders are projected to have successfully kept their half of Congress in Republican hands for another two years.

Republicans win 218 US House seats, claiming a majority and completing the party’s sweep into power alongside Trump