The Republicans’ House majority is teetering on the brink of collapse, but the dysfunction doesn’t appear to have put much of a damper on their 2024 prospects.
Republicans lead in the generic congressional ballot, which measures which party respondents would prefer to see in the majority, by 1.6 points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average.
Two of the three polls taken this month have the two parties tied. The third by Yahoo News has the Democrats leading by 3.
FiveThirtyEight’s polling average is kinder to the Democrats, but not by much. As of Thursday, President Joe Biden’s party leads by just 0.4 points.
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