Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Republicans Should Worry About Losing the House

Split-ticket voting is disappearing in the U.S., so if Clinton wins big ...

June 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM EDT

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Republicans need to start worrying about losing their majority in the House of Representatives.

Republicans accept the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is favored to win the presidency, and they know that her election would probably end their majority in the Senate. But in a year that has upended political expectations, they have clung to one comforting assumption: Their hold on the House is secure.

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