House Democrats are on track to hold somewhere between 251 and 268 seats, by CBS News' estimate, up from 214 going into Tuesday. The size of that majority has opened a fight between the party's centrists and its left over what the next two years are for, according to Axios interviews with more than a dozen sitting and incoming House Democrats.
CBS projected the Democratic takeover at 10:29 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 3, and about 75 races were still undecided early Wednesday. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Democrats will win "at least 255 seats, if not more." The majority line is 218.
He marked the win on X:
Too big to rig.
Thank you, America.— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) November 4, 2026
As we noted in our takeaways from the GOP's wipeout, the margin is large. That blows up the leverage of the incoming progressive "Bloc," the left-backed freshmen who planned to trade their votes for changes to House rules, plum committee seats and floor votes on Medicare-for-All, defunding ICE and cutting U.S. aid to Israel, Axios reported. With a margin of dozens, one Democrat told the outlet, "the Bloc has way less influenc
