A big enough Democratic wave could threaten the party's existing House leadership team while washing away the Republican majority.
Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, a member of Congress since 2009, hears echoes of the post-Watertage Democratic gains in 1974 in this year’s election. Once a defender of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Connolly said the California Democrat’s future atop the caucus “will depend on the size and composition of the freshman class.”
“If we beat all expectations and it’s a massive class, well then you’ve got a real wild card there,” he told the Washington Examiner. “The Watergate class took out a lot of sitting chairmen on their own team.”
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The blue wave is only found in the islands. The only waving the democrats will be doing is waving good bye!
It will be a blue ripple like every midterm.
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