By Tim Reid and Gabriella Borter PHOENIX, Ariz./BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (Reuters) – Republicans were favored to wrest control of the U.S. House of Representatives away from President Joe Biden’s Democrats based on early returns in Tuesday’s midterm elections, though the prospects of a “red wave” appeared to have dimmed. With polls closed across most of the country, Republicans had flipped five Democratic seats in the U.S. House, Edison Research projected, the very number needed to capture a majority and cripple Biden’s legislative agenda. But importantly, that number can change as close to 200 of th…