Mike Johnson Predicts GOP Gains 7-8 House Seats as Redistricting Fights Expand

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 13

Seven to eight seats is the gain House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans could add in the midterms, with a path to double digits if more states redraw House maps.
Johnson argued the GOP can buck the usual midterm losses for a president’s party because of what he called a strong governing record, stronger candidates and President Donald Trump’s active campaigning.
Redistricting is central to that forecast: Johnson cited moves in Alabama and Tennessee and said Mississippi, Missouri, Maine and South Carolina could also become battlegrounds.
South Carolina also showed the limits of that strategy on Tuesday, when several Republicans blocked a map change that would have erased the state’s only Democratic-leaning U.S. House seat.
Johnson said only a few presidents’ parties have gained House seats in midterms over the past 90 years, framing 2026 as a rare chance for Republicans to defy that history.

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