16 unresolved races will determine House control
After this weekend's projections, Republicans have clinched at least 214 seats in the next House, and Democrats have secured at least 205. That leaves 16 seats that are still unresolved, and Republicans need to win just four of them in order to win a majority.
That shouldn't be too hard. Based on what's been counted so far, Republicans have more votes in eight of the unprojected races. Democrats might be able to take the lead in a couple of these (I'm thinking California's 13th or 45th) because California still has millions of ballots left to count and those are expected to break disproportionately for Democrats, but Republicans appear well positioned to eventually win between four and six additional seats. There likely are not enough Democratic votes uncounted for them to take the lead in Arizona's 1st, Arizona's 6th, California's 22nd and California's 41st. In Iowa's 1st, Democrats are holding out hope that a combination of late-adjudicated provisional ballots and/or a recount will flip the seat to them, but it's unlikely. And in Alaska, Republican Nick Begich has a relatively comfortable lead right now, but no one really knows how the race will change when later-arriving mail ballots get counted starting tomorrow and when ranked-choice tabulations are run on Nov. 20.