The Republican minority is now made much more in the image of President Donald Trump.

Inside the House GOP more closely mirrors Trump's mold

The Republican minority is now made much more in the image of President Donald Trump.

Jan. 6, 2019 / 8:59 AM EST
By Dante Chinni and Sally Bronston

WASHINGTON - This week a new Democratic majority arrived in the House of Representatives promising to change Washington. But along with it came a new Republican minority that is made much more in the image of President Donald Trump.

The 2018 midterms may have shifted power in Washington, but they also deepened the divide between the two parties, particularly in the House. A walk through of presidential results in House districts shows how the GOP landscape has shifted.

Through the most basic frame, a change can be seen in the GOP/Clinton districts – those are seats where Hillary Clinton won the presidential vote in 2016 while a Republican won the congressional race.

As President Donald Trump took office in 2017 there were 23 of these seats in the House, but after the 2018 midterms, there are only two such seats. The other 21 districts flipped to the Democrats.

Those numbers matter because of how they changed the political character of the House Republicans. There may be fewer Republicans in the lower chamber now, but those that remain are tethered more closely to Trump and his view of the party.

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