117th United States Congress

The 117th United States Congress is the Congress that will last from January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2023. Following the 2020 U.S. House elections with the 2020 U.S. Senate elections to be yet concluded as the 2021 Georgia runoff elections are to be held on January 6, 2021, the Democratic Party is expected to narrowly hold the House by a narrow margin, though their majority has been significantly slashed following heavy losses. They only managed to gain three open House seats (two of which were due to redistricting) while losing a dozen in unexpected upsets.

Current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi faces a tough fight in maintaining her position, as two incoming far-left Democrat representatives-elect have announced their hesitancy to support her.

2020 U.S. House election results

See main article: United States House of Representatives elections, 2020

Following the impeachment coup against Donald Trump pushed through by House Democrats that was unpopular among voters in swing states/districts, the campaign wing of the Democrat establishment insisted that they would expand their majority, with the Cook Political Report also changing several of their predictions, marking a number of seats being in favor of the Democrats. However, the following districts represented by mostly left-wing Democrats who ran for re-election flipped towards the GOP:

• California's 21st district: T.J. Cox lost in a rematch of the 2018 Midterms to Moderate Republican David Valadao by 0.9% of the votes cast
• California's 39th district: Despite fake predictions that the race was "Likely D", Gil Cisneros lost to Republican Young Kim in a rematch of the 2018 election
• California's 48th district: Phony "moderate" Harley Rouda lost to Michelle Steel in a district centered in Orange County
• Florida's 26th district: In an upset, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell was defeated by Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez in a race changed merely two weeks before the general election from "tossup" to "Lean D" by the increasingly unreliable Cook Political Report
• Florida's 27th district: Donna Shalala lost in a major upset to GOP challenger Maria Elvira Salazar; the race was rated "Likely D" by the Cook Political Report
• Iowa's 1st district: Incumbent Democrat Abby Finkenauer lost to Republican state representative Ashley Hinson
• Minnesota's 7th district: Longtime DINO Collin Peterson lost to Michelle Fischbach in the strongly conservative district by a margin of over ten points
• New Mexico's 2nd district: Xochitl Torres Small lost to Republican Yvette Herrell
• New York's 11th district: Left-wing Democrat Max Rose, despite being considerably lucky in the 2018 Midterms in running against an incumbent establishment Republican then, lost re-election to Nicole Malliotakis in a district covering the entirety of Staten Island
• Oklahoma's 5th district: Kendra Horn lost re-election to Stephanie Bice in a largely conservative area
• South Carolina's 1st district: Liberal Democrat Joe Cunningham lost re-election to Republican state representative Nancy Mace by a very narrow margin
• Utah's 4th district: Ben McAdams lost re-election to Burgess Owens by a narrow margin

Of thirteen House Republicans whose re-election efforts were rated as "tossups" by Cook Political Report, none lost in the general elections. Democrats only flipped the following open seats:

• Georgia's 7th district: Republican representative Rob Woodall of the mostly urban, increasingly liberal area retired, and the open seat was by Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux, who had unsuccessfully challenged Woodall in the 2018 Midterms
• North Carolina's 2nd district: due to redistricting in late 2019 that shifted a mostly Republican area into a liberal stronghold, George Holding retired and the seat was won by leftist Deborah Ross
• North Carolina's 6th district: also due to redistricting, conservative Rep. Mark Walker retired and the seat was won by Democrat Kathy Manning

Republicans successfully held numerous open seats, including:

• Texas' 23rd district: incumbent RINO Will Hurd of the mostly Hispanic district that had previously been more liberal retired, and Republican nominee Tony Gonzales won the open seat in a surprise upset despite nearly every election rating except for RCP considering it "Lean D (flip)"
• Texas' 24th district: despite the Cook Political Report changing its rating for the seat merely a day prior to the general election from "Tossup" to "Lean D (flip)", Republican nominee Beth Van Duyne won the general election to succeed retiring Republican incumbent Kenny Marchant very narrowly

Democrat circus/Republican incompetence

Following the 2021 Capitol riot, House Democrats on January 11, 2021 introduced an article of impeachment against Donald Trump, falsely claiming that he was directly responsible for the violent breaking and entering of the United States Capitol Building. Several conservative Republicans led by Ken Buck and joined by Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, Nancy Mace, Tom McClintock, Kelly Armstrong, as well as Mike Gallagher poorly attempted to oppose the impeachment by sending a letter to incoming junta leader Joe Biden begging him to urge Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop the resolution. Several NeverTrump House Republicans soon announced their support for the sham measure, including John Katko (R–NY), Fred Upton (R–MI), Adam Kinzinger (R–IL), Liz Cheney (R–WY), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R–WA). They were joined by Dan Newhouse (R–WA), Anthony Gonzalez (R–OH), Peter Meijer (R–MI), Tom Rice (R–SC), and David Valadao (R–CA) in ultimately voting to impeach Trump. Chip Roy (R–TX) accused Trump of committing "impeachable offenses" and was joined by globalist Moderate Republican Michael McCaul (R–TX) in suggesting such as well, though both voted against the resolution. Nancy Mace (R–SC), a freshman congresswoman who won a narrow race in 2020 partially riding the coattails of Trump, blamed him for the riot though ultimately voted against the impeachment.

As Democrats plotted to impeach Trump a second time, several House Republicans attempted to "compromise" between far-leftists and conservatives by introducing a resolution to officially censure Trump over the riot; the resolution was introduced by Brian Fitzpatrick (PA–1), Young Kim (CA–39), Fred Upton (MI–6), Tom Reed (NY–23), Mike Gallagher (WI–8) John Curtis (UT–3), and Peter Meijer (MI–3).

Several House Republicans following the House impeachment vote announced that they would continue to support Liz Cheney being the chair of the House Republican Conference, the top third position in the House GOP. These RINO Backers, with some being strongly conservative while others moderate, included House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Chip Roy, Nancy Mace, Carlos Gimenez, Rodney Davis, Michael McCaul, Mike Gallagher, and Dan Crenshaw.

DCCC

According to Breitbart News:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) tapped Dyjuan Tatro, the former “triggerman” for Albany’s Original Gangsta Killers, or OGK, street gang to help lead efforts in protecting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) slim majority in the House. The DCCC, led by chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), hired Tatro, a former New York gang member, to serve as a senior adviser for “diversity and inclusion.” He served time for “shooting two rival gang members in 2006” and was also convicted in 2011, serving six years for racketeering conspiracy, according to the New York Post. According to the outlet, Tatro “confessed to the shootings, and to a ‘razor slashing’ of another victim in 2002 as well as to dealing drugs,” making around $12,000 per month doing so.

Covid-19

Congressional Democrats blocked a Republican bill which would require the Department of Homeland Security to test all border apprehensions for covid.