I’ve been saying for some time that the @HouseGOP did not do as well in the 2020 Elections as they and some pundits suggest. I heard @amandacarpenter suggest something vaguely similar on CNN today.

Here are some maps that break down what happened in the House in 2020.

So far, with #NY22 still outstanding, the House GOP has 11 more members than it did this time two years ago.

One of their gains came because Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey changed parties.

8 of the other 10 GOP increases came from them winning back the seats which it lost in 2018 in six states.

Five of these six states were in states that Trump won in 2020. Three of them are in solid red states (Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah).

The GOP gained back some, but not all of the seats it lost in three blue states, California, New York and New Jersey (the latter by virtue of Van Drew’s defection).

But the party is still a distinct minority in all of these states.

The GOP made gains in the House in only one state where it hadn’t lost as many of more seats just two years before. This state is Minnesota. There are now an even number of members of each party in the state’s House delegation.

And our final category of changes to the GOP House composition in 2020 is the states in which the party lost seats in 2020. This happened in neighboring Georgia and North Carolina. And in both states, the GOP lost House seats in both 2018 and 2020.

Biden barely won the state of Georgia, where Democrats also picked up a House seat and later picked up both Senate seats.

Trump barely won North Carolina, next door, albeit by a wider but still very narrow margin. Where the GOP lost House seats.

So whatever this amounts to, in my view, it doesn’t add up to any sort of an overwhelming win by House Republicans or @GOPLeader.

Instead, they greatly defied expectations, which were dismal.

One more map: here are the states where the @HouseGOP lost seats to Democrats in 2018 but failed to win any of them back in 2020.

Ten different states. 17 House seats.