John Boehner: ‘One In Three Chance’ GOP Loses Control Of The House

House Speaker John Boehner acknowledged some upcoming challenges for the GOP on Monday. Holding on to the majority in the House, he said, isn’t going to be easy.

“I believe that we will but we’ve got a real challenge,” he said when asked, according to The Hill, if the GOP will maintain control.

Boehner’s interview with Fox News is slated to air Tuesday. While he said Republicans would keep the majority, he didn’t refer to it as an easy feat. He “said that his biggest worries were districts in Democratic-leaning states that would not be contested at the presidential level. In many, the local Republican parties are less organized and less used to running competitive races.”

From The Hill:

“We have 50 of our members in tough races, 89 freshmen running for their first reelections and we have 32 districts that are in states where there is no presidential campaign going to be run, no big Senate race and we call these orphan districts,” he said. “You take 18 of them, California, Illinois and New York, where you know we’re not likely to do well at the top of the ticket and those districts are frankly pretty vulnerable.”

Boehner predicted:

“I would say that there is a two in three chance that we win control of the House again but there’s a one in three chance that we could lose and I’m being myself, frank. We’ve got a big challenge and we’ve got work to do.”

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