Johnson Predicts Republicans Keep the House, as PBS Sees Democratic Momentum

Speaker Mike Johnson says he believes Republicans will hold on to their U.S. House majority, PBS NewsHour reports, pushing back against what the network describes as a surge of Democratic momentum in the final stretch of midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. The 'ever the optimist' label is the network's framing, not his. A speaker predicting his own survival is a cheap bet either way: call it right and you look prescient, call it wrong and no vote has been changed by a forecast.