{"id":92850,"date":"2026-05-11T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/martin-democrats-path-to-congressional-majority-got-tougher-this-week-but-still-in-reach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:42:09","slug":"martin-democrats-path-to-congressional-majority-got-tougher-this-week-but-still-in-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/martin-democrats-path-to-congressional-majority-got-tougher-this-week-but-still-in-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin: Democrats&#8217; Path To Congressional Majority Got Tougher This Week, But Still In Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Politico&#8217;s Jonathan Martin, NYT&#8217;s Tyler Pager, GOP strategist Matt Gorman, and former Harris staffer Ashley Etienne join NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; to discuss the gerrymandering battle going into the midterms and who in the Trump administration is positioning themselves to run for president in 2028.   Martin said the advantage goes to the Republicans in the race to redraw Congressional districts. &#8220;On the broader question of who is better for this fall in terms of the political environment, Democrats still have an advantage,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think you have an environment right now in which a sitting president is in the 30s in terms of his approval rating. That bodes well for the party out of power.&#8221;  &#8220;That said, I think this climb got a little steeper this past week for the Democratic Party because of the combination of what happened in Virginia and obviously the Supreme Court ruling on the VRA. It&#8217;s going to be harder for them to get back the majority,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I still think the odds are that it happens. But make no mistake, this was the best week Donald Trump has had in months. And it&#8217;s now going to be more of a challenge for Democrats this fall.&#8221;  &#8220;I just think that the environment is unlikely to get better for the GOP this fall unless gas prices come down significantly by Labor Day. It&#8217;s hard to see how Democrats wouldn&#8217;t still take back the House and still have a chance to take back the Senate.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/10\/martin_democrats_path_to_congressional_majority_got_tougher_this_week_but_still_in_reach.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico&#8217;s Jonathan Martin, NYT&#8217;s Tyler Pager, GOP strategist Matt Gorman, and former Harris staffer Ashley Etienne join NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; to discuss the gerrymandering battle going into the midterms and who in the Trump administration is positioning themselves to run for president in 2028. Martin said the advantage goes to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6446,6204,5791,1333,1852,370,417,18212,4452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}