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Fri Nov 2, 2018, 02:34 PM Nov 2018

State of the race': Top 10 GOP House seats most likely to flip in a blue wave

Republicans are scrambling to minimize their losses in Tuesday's midterm elections in an effort to deny Democrats the 23 seats they need to recapture a majority in the House.

In recent weeks, Republican groups have redirected millions of dollars to competitive districts where their prospects appear brighter.

Meanwhile, President Trump has gone to bat for several vulnerable GOP incumbents.

A handful of GOP lawmakers are fighting uphill battles for survival and appear likely to lose their seats, according to party strategists, with just days left before the vote.

Here are the 10 Republican incumbents seen as most likely to lose their seats.

Keith Rothfus (PA-17)

Rothfus, a three-term congressman, is locked in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent battle against Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) -- and the odds aren't on his side.

Court-ordered redistricting earlier this year took Rothfus out of a safe Republican district that he had represented for three terms and threw him into a fight against Lamb in a newly redrawn swing district.

Republicans are acutely aware of just how vulnerable Rothfus is. Lamb has repeatedly outraised him this cycle, and, in September, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) began pulling the plug on its ad buys in Pennsylvania's 17th District.

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