Inside the Decision Desk: When will we know Senate and House control?

In 2024, Donald Trump’s election night wins in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Florida meant most Americans went to bed Tuesday with a good idea of the result of the election — and woke up to the networks’ having called enough states to declare Trump the president-elect.

Two years later, control of Congress is at stake. Republicans are trying to hang on to slim majorities in both chambers as Democrats try to wrest power in Washington for the final two years of Trump’s term.

Democrats are heavily favored in public polling in the House and in a number of key Senate contests — and if those numbers prove accurate, it’s possible that NBC News could project control of both chambers on election night. But it’s likelier that determining the winners in important races will take time.

Of course, no one, including the Decision Desk, will know what will unfold until election night, but we will have a good sense possibly early in the night of how the contests are trending. The answer of when we could call control in both the House and the Senate depends not only on how states count their votes, but also…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business