Democrats will likely need to win the national House popular vote by roughly four percentage points just to capture the chamber, following a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the Voting Rights Act and a Virginia Supreme Court decision striking down the state's newly drawn Democratic map, according to The New Yorker. Said Nate Cohn, chief political analyst at the New York Times: "The stalemate that existed has been broken, and the Republicans now seem likely to obtain a meaningful edge heading into the midterms."