Congress

80% of the minorities in the current congress are Democrats.

When the 2024 election is complete 48% of Americans prefer there to be a Congress controlled by Democrats while 46% prefer a Congress controlled by Republicans. [NBC News Survey 6/20/23]

Approval of the Congress is up roughly 1.2 points from where it was a year ago and disapproval is down 0.2 points.

	Approve	Disapprove
Real Clear Pol. 6/27/23	22.8%	68.6%
Real Clear Pol. 5/16/23	27.0%	65.5%
Real Clear Pol. 3/28/23	26.4%	65.2%
Real Clear Pol. 2/14/22	24.4%	65.4%
Real Clear Pol. 12/19/22	27.6%	62.4%
Real Clear Pol. 11/23/22	23.8%	62.8%
Real Clear Pol. 10/13/22	25.3%	65.8%
Real Clear Pol. 8/30/22	20.6%	67.4%
Real Clear Pol. 8/2/22	19.6%	71.0%
Real Clear Pol. 6/15/22	21.2%	69.0%
Real Clear Pol. 5/17/22	22.4%	68.0%
Real Clear Pol. 4/16/22	22.2%	67.5%
Real Clear Pol. 3/15/22	21.8%	67.8%
Real Clear Pol. 2/18/22	20.8%	68.3%
Real Clear Pol. 1/17/22	22.4%	66.4%

The House of Representatives

Washington Watch uses the report by David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report for its report on elections in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Solid Republican	188	Solid Democrat	173
Likely GOP	11	Likely Dem	17
Lean GOP	8	Lean Dem	13
GOP Tossup	14	Dem Tossup	11
Total	221	Total	214

The Senate

Republicans – 49
Democrats – 48
Independents – 3

The 2024 Senate Election

	Democrats	Republicans	Independents
Seats not up in 2024	28	39	0
Seats up in 2024	23	11
Safe in 2024	15	9
	CA-Open	IN-Open
	Murphy	Hawley
	DE-Open	Wicker
	Hirono	Cramer
	Warren	Fischer
	MD-Open	Ricketts
	King (I)	Blackburn
	Klobuchar	Romney
	Menendez	Barrasso
	Heinrich
	Gillibrand
	Whitehouse
	Kaine
	Sanders (I)
	Cantwell
Likely	0	2
		Scott (SC)
		Cruz
Lean	5
	MI-Open
	Tester
	Rosen
	Casey
	Baldwin
Toss Up	3
	Sinema (I)
	OH – B
	Manchin

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