General Discussion

The House of Representatives press gallery site shows 220 to 213. https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown I think that site has not been updated for either MTG or this death. The Hill article showing 218 Republicans likely reflects both of these.

There are 435 seats in total. From the Hill's article, there are four empty seats, one is definitely ours this month and the NJ one likely ours in April. That will leave these two seats empty - the GA one is very red. I don't know anything about the CA one, but it does mean that if we win the NJ seat in April, it will be 218 vs 215 with 2 vacant. This would means the Speaker loses if we get 2 Republicans to vote with us. He also has to be careful about absent representatives.