to Capitol Hill now where control over the House of Representatives remains up for grabs right now CBS News continues to characterize house control as leaning Republican Democrats would need a net gain of four seats to win a house majority 19 races have still not been called as of this morning several of those races are still considered a tossup at least 11 House Seats changed parties over this election Nicole Killian joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on that Nicole do Democrats feel that they still have a path to win
here do you think the short answer is yes uh particularly if you talk to minority leader Hakeem Jeff who has urged his members uh that Democrats aren't conceding anything as of yet that was his message and a call to house Democrats just last week uh and he has acknowledged even in public statements that he believes there are still a number of outstanding races that remain too close to call that being said we know House Republicans feel very strongly about their and their positioning and believe that they are on
track to retain the House Majority as you showed there in that graphic there is still a number of outstanding seats but the magic number that either party needs to cross is 218 so once that threshold is reached then obviously uh the house could be called but no matter who wins uh it is very clear that either party would have a very narrow majority in the house which is what we have seen for the last several cycles and Nicole new Congressional members are arriving driving in Washington tomorrow to begin their orientation on Capitol Hill but
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is not allowing some of them to participate why is that yeah well for that reason I mean obviously there are a lot of close contests in the house similarly there are some close contest in the senate for instance the Pennsylvania race hasn't been called at least by CBS some other outlets have called it but uh you know you have Dave McCormick and Bob Casey locked in a very tough fight there are still some outstanding 100,000 ballots that still have to be counted many of those overseas military provisional
ballots so uh at this point the incumbent Senator Bob Casey has not conceded that race although many feel that uh McCormack at this point has been uh duy elected but for that reason uh he is not being allowed to participate and that's pretty much the explanation that we have gotten from uh the majority leader and his team is that this is pretty customary because there are those outstanding ballots that still have yet to be counted they're going to hold off on allowing McCormack to participate in any kind of new membership orientation
until those results are finalized also worth noting even in Arizona a close contest between Ruben gyo and Cary Lake even though gyo is up uh he is also hasn't been invited to this new member orientation so uh Schumer's team basically argues that look you know we want to make sure these results are final uh and we're not trying to slide anyone but that's just kind of how the way it's worked in the past and they kind of want to uh keep that precedent of w until those results are finalized before allowing uh these candidates to
participate in any kind of new member orientation yeah it's important to note though this is interesting Nicole that leadership elections are expected to begin on Wednesday in both the house and the Senate president-elect Trump hasn't endorsed any candidates yet but he is weighing in on how they should lead particularly in the Senate he's calling on the next majority leader to support recess appointments for his nominees can you walk us through what that means yeah well basically a recess appointment would allow the president-elect kind of
circumvent the process of having his nominees go through Senate confirmation and in essence the Senate would have to be out for 10 days or longer to be able to do these recess appointments now keep in mind that for the last several years this has not really been customary every couple of days we have what are called proforma sessions uh which basically kind of uh keeps president from uh being able to do just that to you know move any kind of appointments through the recess process but what is notable is that certainly as we prepare for those
leadership elections as you mentioned particularly for Senate Majority Leader all three of the candidates have pretty much backed this idea Rick Scott being one of them saying that he 100% agrees with the president-elect but uh John Corin out of Texas uh John Thun uh the Republican whip from South Dakota have also said that they're willing to keep all options on the table so certainly this could be a deciding factor in terms of whoever is victorious in the majority leadership race uh certainly uh having that backing from the president-elect in
terms of endorsing his position even though the president-elect hasn't made an official endorsement of any of the candidates just yet all right all right Nicole Killian live for Capitol Hill thank you so much for that Nicole

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