There is a special election today in Tennessee. It should be a slam dunk safe Repub win. But it is not . Mark Green retired and opened up the possibility . GOP military veteran Matt Van Epps is running against lunatic lefty Aftyn Behn. If this year's elections are any indication ,it could be a nail biter .

Behn is a former organizer for the Soros funded “resistance” group 'Indivisible Project '
Open Society Foundations - Awarded Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships - Open Society Foundations (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=indivisible)

Aftyn Behn | The Forge (https://forgeorganizing.org/author/aftyn-behn/)
She hates Nashville, which is in the district .
“I hate this city,” “I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music,” she railed. “I hate all the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘It city’ to the rest of the country.”
'I hate this city’ Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn at center of controversial clip (https://katv.com/news/nation-world/i-hate-this-city-democratic-candidate-aftyn-behn-at-center-of-controversial-clip)

That should be a disqualifier . But she has closed the gap


What is the main issue ? You guessed it . Affordability .

Republican Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee special election for House seat | Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-keep-crucial-congressional-seat-gop-hands-special-election-victory)

closer than it should've been

The Repub majority is in danger . The margin is so thin that the torch could be passed to the Dems next year.

This Tennessee win was by 9 pts in a district Trump won by 22.

MTG is bowing out in January .(stayed long enough to qualify for a pension.......now expect her to be a frequent contributor to the View ) . There will be a special election for the seat some time early next year. There are also special elections in Dem districts in Texas and NJ . That will leave the Repub majority to less than a handful of Reps

This does not take into accounts other potential retirements ; deaths (3 in 2025 all Dems ) ; leaves of absence for illness or other personal reasons . Going into the 2026 midterms 39 Reps from both parties have already announced they will not run again.

Of course if the House switches majorities , Hakeem Jeffries will have to deal with the same situation. It is conceivably that the majority could switch parties more than once before the midterms .
This does not even take into account Reps who vote against their party on any given vote.
Speaker Johnson has his work cut out for him.