{"id":113,"date":"2017-12-26T06:50:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tukhabartimes.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2017-12-26T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:50:24","slug":"113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Leave Few Seats Unchallenged in Quest for House Control"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A voter last year at a polling location in the county courthouse building in Marion, Ark. Democrats are putting forward candidates even in states like Arkansas where Republicans remain heavy favorites.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Andrea Morales\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Representative Pete Sessions, a veteran Republican, was re-elected to his affluent Dallas-area House seat in 2016 with 71 percent of the vote, the remaining 29 percent split between the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton won the district by three percentage points, but no Democratic candidate even showed up to ride her coattails.<\/p>\n

In 2018, there will be 10.<\/p>\n

Federal Election Commission filings show that if a wave crashes on the Republican House majority in November,\u00a0as many have predicted<\/a>, Democratic surfers will be on their boards to catch it. Nearly a year out from the election, Democratic candidates have filed in all but 20 House districts held by Republicans. By comparison, Democrats in 80 districts do not have a Republican opponent for their seat.<\/p>\n

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Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate in the Alabama special Senate election, thanking his supporters on election night in Birmingham.<\/span>\u00a0Credit<\/span>Bob Miller for The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Democrats are not just filing to run in districts where Mrs. Clinton performed well. They are also running for conservative seats that were uncontested in 2016 and where Republicans remain heavy favorites, in states like Texas, Arkansas and Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Four Democrats \u2014 a farmer, a soccer coach, an immigration lawyer and a health care consultant \u2014 are on the primary ballot in Illinois\u2019 16th District, a C-shaped district outside Chicago running from Wisconsin to the Indiana border. The Republican incumbent, Representative Adam Kinzinger, ran unopposed in 2016, when President Trump won the district by 17 points. Mr. Kinzinger is not high on anyone\u2019s endangered list.<\/p>\n

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