Pelosi says Republican's 'red wave' turned into a 'little, tiny trickle'

As states crossed the state proceed to number votes successful a choky conflict for power of the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats "haven't fixed up."

"Whatever the outcome, we're connected the way to taking our state to a amended spot than was being dragged down by the different side," she told ABC's "This Week" Sunday.

NBC estimates Republicans could triumph 219 House seats erstwhile each uncalled races are settled — hardly much than the 218 needed to instrumentality the bulk — portion Democrats could triumph 216. The projection carries a borderline of mistake of plus-or-minus 4 seats.

Democrats held their razor-thin bulk successful the U.S. Senate, NBC News projected Saturday, staving disconnected a full-bore effort by Republicans to leverage economical volatility and nationalist discontent into power of the precocious enclosure of Congress.

Republicans had hoped, and galore had openly anticipated, a "red wave" would lavation Democrats retired of their majorities successful some branches of the legislature.

"Who would person thought 2 months agone that this 'red wave' would crook into a little, tiny trickle, if that astatine all," Pelosi, a Democrat who is 2nd successful the enactment of statesmanlike succession, told CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.

Pelosi said she has besides been told that midterm voters were swayed by the Republican party's effect to the convulsive onslaught connected her husband, Paul Pelosi, past month.

A California man, David DePape, broke into the couple's San Francisco home, wielded a hammer and was prepared to kidnap and interruption the kneecaps of Nancy Pelosi, national prosecutors revealed successful a transgression complaint.

Nancy Pelosi was successful Washington, D.C., astatine the clip of the break-in, but her hubby Paul, 82, was near with a skull fracture and superior injuries to his close limb and hands.

While galore members of Congress were speedy to express their support and good wishes to the couple, respective Republicans shared misinformation and conspiracy theories astir the attack. In a since-deleted tweet, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), who sits connected the House Homeland Security Committee, suggested the attacker was a "nudist hippie antheral prostitute."

Pelosi told ABC her hubby is "improving" and having "one bully time aft another," but she told CNN that the trauma of the onslaught was "intensified" by the Republicans' "ridiculous, disrespectful attitude."

"It wasn't conscionable the attack, it was the Republican absorption to it, which was disgraceful," she told CNN.

DePape, 42, was charged with the national crimes of attempted kidnapping of a national authoritative and assaulting an contiguous household subordinate of a United States authoritative with the intent to retaliate against the official. He has pleaded not guilty.