After outperforming expectations in 2020, Republicans can taste the House majority. But they’re guaranteed to lose a seat in West Virginia and will have to gain a district elsewhere on their way to 218 seats.
In the Senate, West Virginia is as powerful as it has been since the death of legendary Sen. Robert Byrd, with Sen. Joe Manchin wielding veto power over the Democratic agenda in the evenly split chamber and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito emerging as a leader among the moderate Republican bloc.
It is a different story in the House, where the Mountain State is poised to…
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