, Columnist
Six House Races to Watch for a Democratic Wave
The party needs to carry a group of districts in Trump country if it expects to declare a blue tsunami.
For the Democrats, this is not flyover country.
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Democrats need 23 seats to take control of the House. They are about there with likely pickups of suburban seats across the country, from Pennsylvania and Minnesota to Colorado and California. Most of these districts tilt blue, or Democratic, and were carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But to produce a blue wave, gaining 35 to 40 seats, Democrats have to capture Republican-held seats in red-tinted small towns and rural America that haven't been friendly in recent years.