Most political experts will say that the 2022 midterms are going to be bad for the Democrats. With slim majorities in the House and Senate, there’s very little cushion for them to sustain losses without losing power.
Chris Cillizza of CNN, to his credit, acknowledges that historical precedent suggests Democrats are going to have a bad year in 2022. “The first midterm election of a newly elected president is almost always bad news for their party in Congress. Republicans lost 40 seats in the House in 2018, while Democrats dropped 62 seats in 2010,” he explained. “In fact, the president’s party has lost, on average, nearly 28 House seats and more than three Senate seats in the 19 midterm elections between 1946 and 2018.”
