'Down to the wire': Steve Scalise predicts House control may be decided today

EXCLUSIVE: Americans could cognize the balance of power successful the House of Representatives arsenic soon arsenic Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., anticipates.

The apical House Republican spoke with Fox News Digital aft his enactment won commanding victories successful the White House and Senate connected Election Day. The Fox News Decision Desk projected the GOP having a flimsy borderline implicit Democrats successful the House arsenic of Wednesday afternoon.

"I mean, California's the main authorities still. You know, successful a batch of those adjacent races, our incumbents are starring the mode – by tiny margins, but we knew determination would beryllium tiny margins," Scalise told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday evening.

"We besides person immoderate seats that we person a accidental to flip that are leaning our way, too. So, you know, we're watching each of them, and they're coming down the wire. But I deliberation we'll cognize by [Thursday], hopefully."

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is assured Republicans volition triumph the House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Republicans successful President-elect Donald Trump’s sphere and elsewhere are "in a large mood" aft Tuesday night, Scalise said.

"It appears we're going to clasp the House and flip the Senate," Scalise said. "You know, it's going to beryllium a uncommon accidental wrong immoderate authorities to truly absorption successful January connected turning this state around."

Scalise already signaled part of what that whitethorn look similar earlier successful the day, erstwhile helium publically called for the assorted prosecutions into Trump to extremity present that helium was re-elected president.

He and different Trump allies had agelong dismissed the transgression probes arsenic a misuse of the national government, contempt immoderate of them starring to expansive assemblage indictments and transgression convictions.

Asked if a Republican-led Washington would look to betterment the justness strategy to marque specified perceived attacks harder, Scalise said, "There needs to beryllium reform."

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"I deliberation this is 1 of the issues wherever the nationalist spoke precise loudly past night, that they privation to extremity the weaponization of the national authorities against governmental enemies," Scalise said. 

The Biden medication has denied the national investigations into Trump are politically motivated.

"President Trump's made it clear, he’s going to cleanable house. I deliberation radical privation to see, you know, successful essence, the soiled cops get removed," Scalise said.

"They privation to person restored religion successful each of these erstwhile large agencies. And the American radical merit that, due to the fact that these agencies request to beryllium focused connected doing their job, and that's to support Americans safe."

In a further amusement of assurance that Republicans would triumph the House, Scalise sent a missive to House Republicans connected Wednesday evening announcing helium was moving for bulk person again.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith was reported to beryllium winding down his probe into Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In the 4-page memo, helium elaborate what the archetypal 100-day goals of a Republican national authorities would look like.

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"Now it is up to america to enactment intimately with Trump to enact authorities that volition supply semipermanent alleviation and enactment our state connected a sustainable trajectory. In the archetypal 100 days, House Republicans volition beforehand a bold, blimpish docket that volition get the system backmost connected track, fastener successful debased taxation rates, and unafraid our confederate border," helium wrote successful the missive obtained by Fox News Digital.

He pledged Republicans would propulsion done blimpish reforms via a process called "reconciliation," which has been utilized by some parties successful the past to unit done important argumentation reforms successful a fund measure that lone needs a elemental bulk to walk the Senate, alternatively of the accepted 60-vote threshold.