Updated On: 18 November, 2022 08:32 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Set stage for a divided government; narrow margins upend Republican politics and prompt finger-pointing about what went wrong

U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (centre) speaks to members of the press after the House Republican Conference voted for him to be its nominee for Speaker of the House Tuesday. Pic/AFP
Republicans were projected to win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party held control of the Senate.
The victory gives Republicans the power to rein in Biden’s agenda, as well as to launch potentially politically damaging probes of his administration and family, though it falls far short of the “red wave” the party had hoped for. The final call came after more than a week of ballot counting, when Edison Research projected Republicans had won the 218 seats they needed to control the House. Republican victory in California’s 27th Congressional district took the party over the line.