Though Republicans seized control of the presidency and the Senate Tuesday night, Democrats have held onto the prospect of a majority in the House—but now that hope, too, is slipping.While it’s still technically possible,

Democrats’ hopes for a powerful check on Donald Trump by controlling the US House are fading, with Republicans increasingly confident they will hold unified control in Washington ahead of next year’s big fights over tax cuts and spending.

Democrats are looking on nervously as their last-ditch goal of recapturing the House in an otherwise brutal election shows signs of fizzling. Why it matters: The House emerged early Wednesday morning as Democrats' last hope of denying President-elect Trump full control of Congress.

Iowa Democrats had gotten their hopes up, and honestly, how could they not? On Saturday night, J. Ann Selzer—the most renowned pollster in Iowa, if not the entire country—released her final pre-election survey,

With Democrats losing the Senate and on the brink of losing the presidential race, the party’s main hopes resided in the House, where the party was hoping to flip the narrowly divided chamber. As election night stretched into Wednesday,