GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over signs the 2026 midterm elections could be a wipeout for Republicans that could cost them control of the House and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.

There’s growing anxiety in the Senate and House GOP conferences that Trump’s sinking approval rating will create a headwind in swing states and districts.

But GOP lawmakers say they still have time to improve their party’s image before next November.

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    1 day ago

    False. The distribution of seats requires a lot of skewing to fit the vastly different sizes of populations.

    I’m not proving your point at all. The fact that we don’t listen to the cast majority of people to represent the country as a whole is dumb. The fact that your presence in a state that votes differently from you actually works AGAINST you, is even dumber.

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      21 hours ago

      The apportionment formula is straightforward, you can find calculators to see what would happen as more representatives gets added. It’s not magic.

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          8 hours ago

          The system is fine, the cap is too small, but that could be fixed, and much more easily than making a new system.

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            7 hours ago

            The system is extremely flawed and the cap made it more broken. Winner take all in almost every state makes it actively detrimental to the majority of voters.