With five weeks until the midterms, Charlie Cook predicts Democrats will gain 20 or more House seats and likely four in the Senate, potentially taking both chambers; he cites voter anger over rising prices, especially fuel, and Trump’s tariffs.
Cook described the expected result as an anti-Trump backlash rather than a pro-Democratic wave, saying Republicans who supported the president could be hurt. He said a Senate flip, which had seemed unrealistic a year earlier, was now very realistic, though some Senate races would be close.
