'Got our a--es kicked': Dems privately fret about losing House after GOP victory in White House, Senate

Democrats are increasing progressively acrophobic that they volition narrowly suffer the House of Representatives aft Republican victories successful the Senate and White House.

The equilibrium of powerfulness successful the House is expected to tally razor-thin nary substance who wins, but sources who spoke with Fox News Digital interest the Democrats' way is narrowing.

"We're astir surely going to suffer the House by a constrictive margin," a elder House Democratic adjutant told Fox News Digital. "We got our a--es kicked."

The House adjutant recovered optimism, however, successful Republicans' comparatively decisive victories successful the precocious enclosure and statesmanlike race.

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Democrats, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, person seen their way to the House bulk narrowing. (Getty Images)

"If you told maine [President-elect Trump] won the fashionable vote, dominated the electoral college, and they could extremity up with 56 seats successful the Senate, this House representation is truly not excessively bad," they said.

A idiosyncratic acquainted with House Democratic campaigns told Fox News Digital, "If past nighttime is immoderate denotation of however the House volition flip, I don't consciousness confident. The American people are intelligibly not buying what we're selling."

"I deliberation it comes down to the economy, honestly," the 2nd root said. "People consciousness similar they could person much successful their slope account."

As of aboriginal Wednesday afternoon, Republicans led Democrats by astir 2 twelve projected contention wins, according to the Associated Press.

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One root said it apt came down to the economy (iStock)

The winning enactment indispensable instrumentality 218 of 435 House races to power the chamber.

And determination are those connected the Democratic broadside inactive holding retired anticipation but acknowledging the margins would beryllium thin.

"I deliberation Democrats are inactive hopeful…there's a accidental to get immoderate flips to get a constrictive majority," longtime Democratic strategist Joel Rubin told Fox News Digital. 

Rubin pointed to toss-up seats successful California and New York that inactive person not been called, which are presently held by Republican incumbents, arsenic good arsenic an unfastened spot successful Maryland that Democrats are warring to keep.

Democrats are poised to unseat 2 Republican incumbents – New York Reps. Marc Molinaro and Brandon Williams – truthful acold successful their quest to triumph the majority.

Meanwhile, Republicans are projected to instrumentality power of the unfastened Michigan spot that was vacated by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin. Reps. Matt Cartwright and Susan Wild, susceptible Democrats successful Pennsylvania, conceded their races to their respective Republican challengers.

Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., was unseated by Democrats connected Tuesday night (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

And connected the statesmanlike level, Democrats – including those successful the House – person already started pointing fingers.

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Rep. Ritchie Torres, a pragmatic Democrat from New York, blamed the "far left" for Vice President Kamala Harris' loss.

"Donald Trump has nary greater person than the acold left, which has managed to alienate historical numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities similar ‘Defund the Police’ oregon ‘From the River to the Sea’ oregon ‘Latinx,"’ Torres wrote connected X.

"The moving people is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the acold near is selling."

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