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00:00:00IRONY IN THE FACT THAT YOU'RE
00:00:06CONSTITUTIONALLY OBLIGATED TO SWEAR ME IN IN JANUARY. [APPLAUSE]
00:00:14SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:00:18WOLVERINE ONE, BUCKEYES ZERO. [APPLAUSE]
00:00:27DONALD --
00:00:28>> MONDAY AMERICA'S LEADING
00:00:33TELEVISION CALL-IN PROGRAM C-SPAN'S WASHINGTON JOURNAL COMES TO PRIMETIME LIVE.
00:00:36>> I TRUST YOU GUYS COMPLETELY.
00:00:39>> EVERY MORNING WE HAVE BEEN
00:00:43TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS. >> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS.
00:00:46>> NOW THE CONVERSATION WILL ALSO COME TO PRIMETIME.
00:00:52WASHINGTON JOURNAL PRIMETIME WEEKNIGHTS STARTING MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN.
00:00:57>> NOW, MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
00:01:03COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
00:01:06VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS, OF THE RESULTS
00:01:09WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF
00:01:11POWER IN CONGRESS AND SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
00:01:15WE BRING YOU THE LATEST ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE
00:01:19REACTIONS AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
00:01:23C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
00:01:27HOST: 6:00 A.M. ON THE EAST
00:01:32COAST 3:00 WESTFORD YOU'RE WATCHING AN ELECTION DAY
00:01:34ADDITION OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL.
00:01:38OUR 14 OF OUR COVERAGE OF THE
00:01:39MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND AS OF THIS MORNING DEMOCRATS HAVE WON
00:01:43CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND THE
00:01:45SENATE WITH SEVERAL KEY PICKUPS INCLUDING TEXAS, MICHIGAN AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
00:01:49ON THE HOUSE SIDE DEMOCRATS OVERTURNING REPUBLICANS IN KEY
00:01:53DISTRICTS ACROSS THE U.S.. AS WE GO FORWARD WE WILL SHOW
00:01:55YOU NOT ONLY WHO WON AND LOST,
00:01:59BUT WHAT IT MEANS FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE 120TH CONGRESS NEXT YEAR.
00:02:03HERE IS AN UPDATE ON WHERE THINGS STAND WHEN IT COMES TO
00:02:06THE BALANCE OF POWER. ON THE SENATE SIDE DEMOCRATS
00:02:09NEEDED TO PICK UP FOUR SEATS TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE SENATE.
00:02:13THEY HAVE CURRENTLY 150 FOUR
00:02:15WITH SEVEN PICKUPS AS OF TODAY
00:02:18IN THE HOUSE SIDE ONLY THREE
00:02:21SEATS NEEDED TO BE FLIPPED FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:02:26THEY HAVE ONE CURRENTLY 25 PICKUPS 220 EIGHT SEATS TOTAL WHEN IT COMES TO THAT CONTEST.
00:02:32GIVING CONTROL AS OF TODAY OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE TO
00:02:36DEMOCRATS IN THE 120TH CONGRESS IS SEATED.
00:02:40THERE ARE TWO OUTSTANDING SENATE SEATS TO BE DECIDED. RACES WE ARE WATCHING.
00:02:44IN MISSISSIPPI WITH THE
00:02:47INCUMBENT CINDY HYDE-SMITH NOW
00:02:49TRAILING A TIE WITH THE DEMOCRAT
00:02:52, THAT IS BEEN STAYING
00:02:56CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE EVENING INTO THIS MORNING WE
00:02:59WILL SEE HOW THAT CHANGES. ALASKA WITH SENATOR DAN SULLIVAN
00:03:03IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS
00:03:05GAINING A SLIGHT EDGE OVER MARY
00:03:08PELTOLA WITH 72% OF THOSE VOTES IN.
00:03:1348 .5% FOR DAN SULLIVAN THERE. IF YOU GO TO KANSAS THERE IS A
00:03:16PICKUP SEAT THERE WITH ADAM
00:03:18HAMILTON WINNING, THE DEMOCRAT JUST A LITTLE OVER 50% OF
00:03:22SUPPORT OVER SENATOR ROGER MARSHALL. 98% OF THE VOTES IN.
00:03:28TURNING TO IOWA, JOSH TARIQ PICKING UP A SEAT IN THAT STATE
00:03:32IT'S BEEN A LONG WHILE SINCE IOWA HAS ANTIDEMOCRATIC TO THE SENATE.
00:03:35JOSH DEREK WITH A LITTLE OVER
00:03:3850.5% OF SUPPORT WITH 98% OF
00:03:42VOTES IN OVER ASHLEY HINSON WHO GAINED 46.4%.
00:03:47JAMES TALARICO 94% OF THOSE
00:03:48VOTES COUNTED GAINING 54.9
00:03:53PERCENT OF SUPPORT OVER KEN PAXTON WITH 43.2% OF SUPPORT.
00:03:58TURNING TO SOME OTHER STATES, A
00:04:02PICKUP IN OHIO, SHERROD BROWN WHO SERVED IN CONGRESS AND THAT
00:04:05SEAT RETURNING NOW AFTER WINNING
00:04:07A VICTORY WITH 50% OF THE VOTE
00:04:09IN 99% OF THE VOTES COUNTED THE
00:04:13VICTORY OVER THE CURRENT INCUMBENT SENATOR JON HUSTED IN OHIO.
00:04:18IN MAINE, A LONG TIME WATCHED SEAT WITH SO MANY THINGS
00:04:21CHANGING IN THAT RACE OVERALL
00:04:24TROY JACKSON THE DEMOCRAT 86% OF
00:04:27VOTES IN 53.8% OF SUPPORT FOR
00:04:29TROY JACKSON OVER THE INCUMBENT
00:04:33SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS AS OF RIGHT NOW GAINING MORE THAN 46.1% IN THAT STATE.
00:04:38THE LONGTIME SENATOR FROM THAT STATE AND HAS SURVIVED MANY CHALLENGES.
00:04:41IN NORTH CAROLINA FORMER
00:04:44GOVERNOR ROY COOPER 58 .7% OF SUPPORT FOR HIM WITH 99% OF
00:04:48VOTES IN. HE DEFEATS MICHAEL IN THE NORTH
00:04:52CAROLINA RACE TURNING SOUTH
00:04:55CAROLINA ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR REPUBLICANS ANNIE ANDREWS THE DEMOCRAT WINNING WITH 99% OF VOTES IN.
00:05:0251.1% OF SUPPORT OVER THE INCUMBENT SENDER DARLINE GRAHAM THE REPUBLICAN.
00:05:09IT WAS EARLIER THIS MORNING THAT MICHIGAN BECAME ANOTHER PICKUP SEAT FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE
00:05:13SENATE.
00:05:14ABDUL EL-SAYED WINNING WITH 95%
00:05:21OF VOTES IN.
00:05:2352.4 PERCENT OF SUPPORT FOR HIM
00:05:25OVER THE REPUBLICAN MIKE ROGERS 45.6%.
00:05:29THOSE ARE ON THE SENATE SIDE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE KEY HOUSE
00:05:32RACES WHICH HELPED DETERMINE DEMOCRATS GAINING POWER IN THE
00:05:36HOUSE IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY ONE OF THOSE CLOSELY
00:05:39WATCHED RACES RIGHT OFF THE BAT THAT WOULD DETERMINE THE NIGHT,
00:05:42THE DEMOCRAT DEFEATING RALPH ALVARADO.
00:05:47A VERY REPUBLICAN DISTRICT OF
00:05:49KENTUCKY AND INDIANA DEMOCRAT JD
00:05:53FORD BEATING THE CURRENT INCUMBENT REPRESENTATIVE
00:05:56VICTORIA SPARTZ SOMETIMES SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT
00:05:58SOMETIMES GOING AGAINST HIM IT IS NOW FINDING HERSELF BEHIND AS
00:06:02FAR AS THE VOTE.
00:06:07AND THEN BRYAN STEIL HEAD OF
00:06:10HOUSE ADMINISTRATION, LOSING
00:06:16AGAINST MITCHELL BERMAN 52% OF SUPPORT FOR HIM AND ANOTHER
00:06:19DEMOCRATIC PICKUP WITH 52%
00:06:22SUPPORT FOR MITCHELL BERMAN. SOME OF THE KEY HOUSE RACES.
00:06:25WE WILL WATCH AS THEY COME IN.
00:06:28TAKING A LOOK AT THE GOVERNOR'S
00:06:31RACES, A KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS THERE IN GEORGE OF THE DEMOCRAT
00:06:35WINNING OVER RICK JACKSON 54.3%
00:06:37OF SUPPORT FOR HER WITH 99% OF VOTES IN.
00:06:42THAT IS IN GEORGIA THERE. ANOTHER PICKUP IN OHIO AND THE
00:06:46GOVERNOR RACE WITH AMY ACTON
00:06:48WITH 52.3% OF SUPPORT AND 99% OF
00:06:53VOTES AND SHE DEFEATED VIVEK RAMASWAMY HIM ONLY GAINING 44.4%
00:06:56SUPPORTIVE STATE.
00:06:59IN TEXAS AND OTHER CLOSELY
00:07:00WATCHED RACE GINA IN A HOST
00:07:04DEFEATING THE CURRENT GOVERNOR
00:07:05GREG ABBOTT 52.8% OF SUPPORT FOR
00:07:09HER 94% OF VOTES IN. REPUBLICANS DID GAINED SEATS IN
00:07:14FLORIDA, BYRON DONALDS 50% OF
00:07:18SUPPORT FOR HIM WITH 99% OF VOTES COUNTED OVER THE FORMER
00:07:22REPUBLICAN NOW DEMOCRAT DAVID JOLLEY.
00:07:24HIM ONLY GAINING 48.7 PERCENT OF
00:07:28SUPPORT THERE IN THAT RACE. WE WILL SHOW YOU THESE CONTESTS
00:07:31AND MORE AS THEY COME IN DURING THE COURSE OF THE MORNING AS YOU
00:07:35TAKE A LOOK WE WILL GIVE YOU UPDATES AS THEY COME IN WHEN IT
00:07:40COMES TO THE BALANCE OF POWER EVEN THOUGH THE HOUSE AND THE
00:07:44SENATE ALREADY IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS AS OTHER RACES GET CALLED WE WILL SHOW THEM TO YOU.
00:07:48WE WANT TO INVITE YOU TO THE CONVERSATION IF YOU WANT TO GIVE
00:07:50YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHAT YOU SAW AND CONTINUING ON THROUGH TODAY.
00:07:53FOR DEMOCRATS IT IS 202-748-8000 .
00:07:57FOR REPUBLICANS, 202-748-8001.
00:08:00AND INDEPENDENTS, 202-748-8002.
00:08:05IF YOU WANT TO TEXT YOUR
00:08:08THOUGHTS ABOUT ELECTION DAY AND WINNERS AND LOSERS AND THINGS
00:08:10YOU'VE SEEN, 202-748-8003.
00:08:15YOU CAN ALWAYS POST ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES AS WELL AS
00:08:19YOU CONTINUE TO WATCH US THROUGH THE MORNING.
00:08:21JOINING US ON THE SIX-HOUR ADDITION OF OUR PROGRAM WILL
00:08:26CONTINUE ON THROUGH NOON AND TO GIVE US SOME CONTEXT AND UPDATES
00:08:28AS THEY COME ON ERIC OF NATIONAL
00:08:32JOURNAL THE HOTLINE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR GIVING US YOUR
00:08:35TIME TODAY. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO
00:08:39UNDERSTAND THE SEACHANGE WE'VE SEEN FOR DEMOCRATS?
00:08:41GUEST: THIS IS A HUGE REFERENDUM
00:08:44ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE WAS COMING IN WITH HISTORICALLY LOW
00:08:48APPROVAL RATINGS. EIGHT MONTHS OF THE WAR IN IRAN
00:08:51AFTER PROMISES TO END OF THAT WAR WITHIN FOUR TO SIX WEEKS.
00:08:55SO REALLY DEMOCRATS WERE ABLE TO RUN WITH PRICES AT THE PUMP AND
00:08:59RUN THE ARGUMENT REPUBLICAN'S
00:09:00RENTED 2024 SAYING THE
00:09:04GOVERNMENT IS NOT THINGS A 4 -- MAKING THINGS AFFORDABLE FOR YOU. THEY'VE REALLY BEEN ABLE TO WALK
00:09:08IN PRETTY MUCH JUST ON PRESIDENT TRUMP.
00:09:13HOST: THE PRESIDENT SAYING HE
00:09:16WASN'T ON THE BALLOT YET NOT TOO
00:09:19LONG AFTER THAT SAYING I WASN'T ON THE BALLOT I IF I WAS HE WENT
00:09:21ON TO SAY WE WOULD RUN IN A
00:09:25LANDSLIDE. THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION OF THIS MATTER.
00:09:28WHAT ABOUT THIS IDEA THAT HE WASN'T ON THE BALLOT?
00:09:32GUEST: HE GOT AS CLOSE AS HE
00:09:35POSSIBLY COULD TO GETTING ON THE BALLOT.
00:09:38HE WAS IN 29 STATES BETWEEN OCTOBER 1 AND NOVEMBER 1.
00:09:41A LOT OF THESE STRONGHOLDS HE WAS IN OKLAHOMA IN IOWA AND KANSAS.
00:09:46IT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE HELPED THOSE DOWN BALLOT REPUBLICANS VERY MUCH.
00:09:52I'M PERSONALLY NOTING MARIA IN
00:09:55THE FLORIDA 27 IS UP BY A LITTLE
00:09:57BIT MORE THAN A POINT WITH 99% IN.
00:10:01SHE'S A STAND OUT AMONG REPUBLICANS BECAUSE SHE CUT AND
00:10:05ADD SAME TRUMPET GOING TO FIND IMMIGRATION.
00:10:07HER SOUTH FLORIDA SEAT HAS A
00:10:10HIGH CUBAN POPULATION SO THIS
00:10:12SEEMS TO SAVE HER FOR NOW BUT IS
00:10:14REALLY A CRITICAL SEEMS OF DON BEYER.
00:10:17>> WHEN COMES THE DEMOCRATS ON
00:10:21THE SENATE SIDE WAS IT THINGS THEY SAID AS TO WHAT THEY WILL PROMISE TO DO ONCE THEY GET TO
00:10:25THE SENATE OR MORE REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENT TRUMP?
00:10:28GUEST: THE WAY I AM READING THIS
00:10:31WITH BASICALLY EVERY SENATE BATTLEGROUND GOING TO DEMOCRATS IT SEEMS TO BE MUCH MORE OF A
00:10:35REFERENDUM ON TRUMP THAN ANY SPECIFIC A CANDIDATE.
00:10:38WE HAVE ABDUL EL-SAYED IN KANSAS
00:10:42AND ROGER MARSHALL, OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL FIT THEIR STATES A
00:10:45LITTLE BIT BETTER BUT IT DOES
00:10:47NOT SEEM LIKE THE CANDIDATE QUALITY MATTERED IN ANY STATE
00:10:51EXCEPT I WOULD SAY SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE SENATOR DARLINE
00:10:55GRAHAM STRUGGLED TO COME OUT OF THE PRIMARY AFTER HER BROTHER'S
00:10:59DEATH. SHE WENT FAMOUS FOR A DEBATE
00:11:03LINE SAYING SHE WAS UNPREPARED AND INEXPERIENCED AND I THINK THAT HARMED HER AND ALLOWED
00:11:07ANNIE ANDREWS TO STEP IN.
00:11:08HOST: SUSAN COLLINS A LONGTIME
00:11:13SENATOR FROM THE STATE A LOT OF NAME VALUE AND YET THIS TIME AROUND.
00:11:18GUEST: SHE JUST COULD NOT ESCAPE
00:11:22THIS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. EVERY MAIN VOTER GOT PULLED OVER
00:11:24THE LAST YEAR EVERY DOOR WAS KNOCKED.
00:11:28TROY JACKSON WAS VERY LATE INTO THE RACE HE HAD TO REPLACE
00:11:30GRAHAM PLATNER AFTER HE WAS
00:11:32BOGGED DOWN BY SCANDAL. I BELIEVE THE THIRD-PLACE
00:11:36FINISHER AND THE GOVERNOR'S PRIMARY EARLIER IN THE CYCLE SO
00:11:39HE HAD AN UPHILL BATTLE MANY
00:11:43DEMOCRATS WERE NOT HUGELY CONFIDENT ABOUT MAINE GOING IN EVEN IF THEY FELT GOOD ABOUT
00:11:47SENATE CONTROL.
00:11:48THIS WAS A TOUGH RACE SO IT
00:11:52REALLY SPEAKS TO THE ENVIRONMENT BUT HE WAS ABLE TO PULL THROUGH.
00:11:55HOST: TALK ABOUT THE TWO SENATE
00:12:00SEATS WE ARE WATCHING. WHAT SHOULD WE BE WATCHING FOR AS FAR AS WHO PULLS AHEAD IN THOSE RACES.
00:12:04GUEST: I BELIEVE IT'S WITHIN 43
00:12:08VOTES WITH 95% IN.
00:12:11THAT IS A RACE THAT ONLY CAME ONLINE VERY RECENTLY FOR
00:12:15DEMOCRATS GOING UP AGAINST CINDY HYDE-SMITH.
00:12:21ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL A LOT OF
00:12:23THEM HAVE PARACHUTED IN TO
00:12:26MISSISSIPPI IN THIS FINAL HEAT SHOWING SUPPORT FOR BLACK DEMOCRATS AS THEY WERE HARMED BY
00:12:30THE SUPREME COURT GUTTING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN APRIL.
00:12:34THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RACES WHERE
00:12:38DEMOCRATS REALLY WANTED THAT SAID THE MONEY DID NOT COME IN.
00:12:43IF THIS REMAINS CLOSE AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE, HE HAS A
00:12:46CHANCE HERE BUT IF HE DOESN'T
00:12:51IT'S A HEARTBREAKER IT'S A CASE WHERE DEMOCRATS COULDN'T STRETCH
00:12:54THAT FAR ENOUGH ANOTHER TWO OR 3 MILLION MIGHT'VE PUSHED OVER THE LINE.
00:12:58HOST: ALASKA THEY HAVE BEEN
00:13:02TRADING THE TOP PLACE OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS WITH DAN SULLIVAN
00:13:05NOW ON TOP OF 48 POINT 5% OVER MARY PELTOLA.
00:13:10AGAIN STILL TOO EARLY TO CALL. THERE WILL BE SOME SITUATIONS IF
00:13:14NEITHER OF THOSE HIPPO THRESHOLD FOR RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN YOU
00:13:18EXPLAIN THAT FOR VIEWERS.
00:13:20GUEST: ALASKA IS IN FOR A LONG
00:13:25DAY/NIGHT NOW. DAN SULLIVAN IS AHEAD THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THE CANDIDATE CAN REACH THE 50%
00:13:30THRESHOLD.
00:13:32THE ONE WRINKLE I WOULD ADD IS
00:13:34THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS
00:13:36BEEN VERY KEEN ON THIS RACE THERE ARE TWO DAN SULLIVAN'S IN
00:13:40THE RACE THOUGH RIGHT NOW THE SECOND ONE IS ONLY ABOUT 1.7%.
00:13:46INITIALLY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WAS ARGUING IT WOULD BE TOO CONFUSING FOR
00:13:50VOTERS AND IF THE LOSS WAS BY
00:13:52VERY SMALL MARGIN THAT THEY
00:13:56WOULD INTERVENE AND WERE TRYING
00:13:58TO GET ALASKA TO BLOCK CERTIFICATION OF THOSE RESULTS. IT REALLY DOES NOT LOOK LIKE WE
00:14:02WILL BE IN THAT POSITION. IT LOOKS LIKE EITHER SOMEONE
00:14:05WILL REACH 50% THRESHOLD OR A FAIRLY CLEAR ANSWER.
00:14:10I THINK REPUBLICANS WERE IN A
00:14:11MUCH BETTER POSITION AND YOU
00:14:15KNOW 54 SENATE SEATS VERSE 55 IS
00:14:17NOT TO BE THE DEALBREAKER THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN.
00:14:20HOST: REPUBLICANS ARGUE THAT
00:14:23OTHER DAN SULLIVAN WOULD CAUSE CONFUSION YET TO THESE NUMBERS SUGGEST THAT'S NOT THE CASE?
00:14:27GUEST: TOTALLY PAID 1.7% IS
00:14:30NOTHING. THERE WERE SOME VIDEOS OF VOTERS
00:14:34SAYING THEY WERE CONFUSED BUT A LOT OF THEM WERE TIED TO THE
00:14:37INCUMBENT SENATOR'S CAMPAIGN.
00:14:40SULLIVAN SEEMS TO BE -- ALASKA
00:14:45VOTERS WERE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY
00:14:47WRITE IN LISA MURKOWSKI WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES VOTERS
00:14:51TO PAY ATTENTION.
00:14:52HOST: WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOUSE RACES.
00:14:55WE WILL TALK ABOUT BOTH DURING OUR TIME TOGETHER. WHAT WAS THE SURPRISE FOR YOU.
00:15:01GUEST: NORTH CAROLINA IS A BLOODBATH.
00:15:05THERE WERE STATES DEMOCRATS DIDN'T EVEN INVEST IN.
00:15:09NORTH: 14 OF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
00:15:10REALLY JUST WHERE THERE MAY HAVE
00:15:14BEEN MONEY ISSUES, DEMOCRATS IN
00:15:20THE HOUSE WERE REALLY ABLE TO
00:15:23CAPITALIZE ON THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT EVEN WITHOUT HEAVY INVESTMENT.
00:15:26NORTH CAROLINA NINE WHICH IS THE
00:15:30NRC C CHAIRS SEAT.
00:15:32HE IS OUT, A 24 HOURS AGO I WAS
00:15:35SAYING HUDSON WOULD ALMOST
00:15:38DEFINITELY WIN THIS SEAT BUT IF HE WAS IN A CLOSE RACE THAT WAS
00:15:41GOING TO BE YOU KNOW A VERDICT ON REPUBLICANS.
00:15:44AND HE IS JUST OUT WHICH TELLS
00:15:47YOU HOW FAR DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.
00:15:50HOST: 48.9% OF REPORTED THE
00:15:55IRONY IS IT'S HIS JOB TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE GET REELECTED BACK TO CONGRESS.
00:15:57>> HE WAS MANAGING THE NATIONAL
00:16:00CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES MONEY THIS YEAR.
00:16:02THEY HAVE A CASH ADVANTAGE OVER DEMOCRATS. BUT HE HAD TO PUT 500,000 INTO
00:16:06HIS OWN SEAT. OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE
00:16:10THAT WHEN YOU HAVE BATTLEGROUNDS.
00:16:17IN A GOOD ENVIRONMENT FOR DEMOCRATS -- FOR REPUBLICANS
00:16:20THAT SHOULDN'T BE TOUCHED AT ALL. FOR HIM TO NOT ONLY HAVE TO
00:16:23SPEND IN HIS RACE AND DO NOT
00:16:25HAVE SPENT ENOUGH IS A COMPLETE INDICTMENT.
00:16:29HOST: IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR
00:16:33HER OR ABOUT THE RACES YOU'VE SEEN AND OBSERVATIONS YOU WANT TO MAKE THE PHONE NUMBERS WILL
00:16:37BE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
00:16:38202-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:16:42202-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS.
00:16:47INDEPENDENTS, 202-748-8002.
00:16:51RICHARD IN DELAWARE BUT YOU FOR CALLING US. GO AHEAD.
00:16:56CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:17:00I WANTED TO SAY ONE THING AT THE
00:17:05OUTSET, C-SPAN PRIME TIME --
00:17:08CONTENT WILL BE ALONG JUST WELCOME ADDITION TO YOUR PROGRAMMING.
00:17:12AS FAR AS THE ELECTION GOES I
00:17:13VOTED FOR CHRIS COONS, I
00:17:17CONSIDER MYSELF TO BE A LIBERAL
00:17:20AND A PROGRESSIVE, I'M 75 YEARS
00:17:24OLD AND I GUESS I WOULD SAY A
00:17:30WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROCESS --
00:17:34PROTESTANT MALE. SOMEONE WHO GREW UP PRESBYTERIAN
00:17:36AND REPUBLICAN UNTIL HE WAS 10
00:17:40YEARS OLD OR SO AND WAS INCLINED
00:17:43TO VOTE FOR RICHARD NIXON IN
00:17:451960 BUT I WASN'T OLD ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CAST THE VOTE.
00:17:49AND SINCE THEN I HAVEN'T HAD MUCH INTEREST IN VOTING
00:17:53REPUBLICAN FOR PRESIDENT AND I
00:17:56WAS PROUD THAT MY FATHER VOTED
00:17:58FOR JOHN KENNEDY AND THAT'S THE BACKGROUND I COME TO THIS WITH.
00:18:04I AM JEWISH TODAY AND I HAVE
00:18:08THOUGHTS ABOUT ISRAEL AND ALL OF THAT.
00:18:11I WANTED TO SAY TONIGHT I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE SOME ADVICE TO
00:18:15DEMOCRATS.
00:18:19BE PLEASED AND PROUD OF WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOW.
00:18:23BUT DON'T GLOAT OVER IT. I THINK THE MESSAGE THAT WE
00:18:27SHOULD ALL TAKE TO HEART IS THAT
00:18:29WE HAVE ONE COUNTRY AND WE HAVE
00:18:33ONE PEOPLE AND THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
00:18:36AISLE TO QUOTE OUR PRESIDENT, BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE.
00:18:40AND I KNOW THAT SOME OF THE
00:18:44COUNTRY INCLUDING TWO ALASKA IS
00:18:46A YOUNG MAN AND I RAN ACROSS THE
00:18:51GOOD NATURE OF MANY FOLKS I RAN
00:18:56INTO.
00:18:56HOST: HE SAID A COUPLE OF THINGS
00:19:00AND I WANTED TO START WHAT FACES DEMOCRATS NOW THAT THEY HAVE THIS POWER.
00:19:04GUEST: THAT'S MOSTLY WHAT I'M THINKING OF.
00:19:07IN THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS AT 25 PICKUPS SO FAR.
00:19:10THEY SHOULD HAVE A FAIRLY COMFORTABLE MAJORITY.
00:19:13THERE WAS INITIALLY CONCERNED
00:19:16THAT HOUSE MINORITY LEADERS ARE TO BE HOUSE SPEAKER HAKEEM JEFFRIES WOULD HAVE CAUCUS
00:19:20ISSUES. THERE WERE A LOT OF PROGRESSIVE
00:19:22DEMOCRATS COMING IN AND SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON HAS A VERY SMALL
00:19:26MAJORITY SO HE HAS HAD TO WORK WITH EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER TO GET THEM WHAT THEY WANTED.
00:19:31IN THE LAST TWO YEARS. JEFFRIES WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE A
00:19:35SLIGHTLY MORE CENTRIST DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS AND A VERY
00:19:38LARGE MAJORITY SO HE IS KIND OF
00:19:42ABLE TO TELL SOME PEOPLE KNOW
00:19:44AND IN THE SENATE SIMILARLY THEY
00:19:48WON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME A FILIBUSTER BUT 54 SEATS POSSIBLY
00:19:52MORE THAN THAT IS A VERY HEALTHY MAJORITY.
00:19:55THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A TON OF
00:19:59DEFECTIONS THAT ARE GOING TO MATTER NECESSARILY.
00:20:00HOST: FOR CANDIDATES LIKE ABDUL
00:20:03EL-SAYED WE SAW HIM CAMPAIGN
00:20:06WITH BERNIE SANDERS AND
00:20:10ALEXANDRA CAUSEY OF CORTEZ. WHO DOES HE HAVE TO ALIGN
00:20:13HIMSELF WITH AND HOW MUCH WILL
00:20:16HE PUSH BEING A PROGRESSIVE VERSUS WORKING WITH OTHER DEMOCRATS TO GET THINGS DONE.
00:20:19GUEST: -- HE IS A HUGE PROPONENT
00:20:23OF MEDICARE FOR ALL.
00:20:25IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME BUT THAT WILL HAVE SUPPORT IN THE
00:20:28DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS IN PRESIDENT
00:20:30TRUMP HAS SAID GOING IN.
00:20:35DEMOCRATS CAN DEFINITELY HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS BUT WHETHER
00:20:37THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PASS THE LEGISLATION IS ANOTHER QUESTION.
00:20:41TRUMP HAS SAID HE WILL BE MR. VITO BUT HE ALSO SAID HE WANTS
00:20:44TO MAKE DEALS WITH DEMOCRATS AND WORK WITH THEM HE DOESN'T WANT
00:20:48TO BE IN LAME DUCK FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS IN OFFICE.
00:20:51I WOULD GUESS THINGS ARE LIKELY GOING TO STAY IN THE BIPARTISAN
00:20:56LANE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS BUT
00:20:57I THINK DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WILL
00:21:00BE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS ON WHAT THEY MIGHT DO 2028 AND BEYOND.
00:21:04HOST: IF YOU GO TO THE TRUTH
00:21:09SOCIALLY WAS EARLIER THIS MORNING HE POSTED THIS. ONE OF THOSE RED CAPS HE IS
00:21:12FAMILIAR WITH AND IN BIG BOLD LETTERS THE WORD VITO ON IT.
00:21:15>> HE'S BEEN SAYING THAT THE
00:21:19LAST 24 TO 48 HOURS.
00:21:23THIS IS HIS LAST SORT OF CHANCE
00:21:25HERE WITH REPUBLICANS LOSING
00:21:29POWER IN BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS. HE WILL LIKELY BE SIGNING THAT PEN A LOT.
00:21:34HE HASN'T HAD ANY VITO'S THE
00:21:35LAST TWO YEARS BECAUSE HE'S BEEN
00:21:38ENJOYING PARTY CONTROL OF THE TWO CHAMBERS BUT I EXPECT THAT TO CHANGE.
00:21:42HOST: AS YOU ARE WATCHING
00:21:47VIEWERS IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR SCREEN ON THE LEFT SIDE
00:21:50THERE IS A CONSTANT SOURCE OF INFORMATION WHERE THAT BALANCE
00:21:53OF POWER LIES MOMENT BY MOMENT. IF YOU LOOK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF
00:21:57YOUR SCREEN ON THE SENATE SIDE
00:22:00WE SEE THAT THERE IS 54 SEATS
00:22:02CLAIMED FOR DEMOCRATS TOTAL,
00:22:04SEVEN PICKUPS AGAINST 44 FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE.
00:22:09ON THE HOUSE SIDE 228 SEATS CLAIMED FOR DEMOCRATS THERE.
00:22:1425 PICKUPS 139 SEATS. ERICA FELL ON THE RED SIDE OF
00:22:18THE SCREEN NO PICKUPS ON EITHER
00:22:21ONE OF THOSE FRONTS THERE. TALK ABOUT THAT.
00:22:23GUEST: I WAS EYEING MATT DUNLAP
00:22:27WAS ONE OF REPUBLICANS TOP
00:22:29PICKUPS WITH JARED GOLDEN RETIRING.
00:22:32AS OF NOW DUNLAP IS UP LIKE 1000
00:22:37VOTES ROUGHLY WITH 85% IN SO IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT WILL HOLD
00:22:41BUT BEYOND THAT, THE ENVIRONMENT
00:22:44HAS BEEN TOO PAINFUL. THEY HAVE LOST TOO MANY SEATS FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY
00:22:49INROADS ON THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. HOST: DO YOU GET THE SENSE THAT
00:22:55NOW THAT THE RESULTS ARE AND THERE'LL BE SOUL-SEARCHING IN THE PARTY ITSELF.
00:22:59GUEST: ALMOST DEFINITELY.
00:23:03JOHN CURTIS TENDS TO BE MORE
00:23:04THAN MODERATE ON THE INSIDE BUT
00:23:07HE HAD POSTED AT SOME POINT LAST NIGHT REPUBLICANS NEEDED TO DO
00:23:11SOME SOUL-SEARCHING AND THEY NEEDED TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AT THE VERY LEAST THEY NEED TO
00:23:15MESSAGE THAT THEY MESSED UP ON
00:23:17THE ECONOMY AND WILL NEED TO TURN SOMETHING AROUND ON THE IRAN WAR.
00:23:22THE PERSON WHO IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST EMOTIONAL TURMOIL IS
00:23:26VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE WHO IS
00:23:30LIKELY TO RECEIVE THEIR PUBLIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT BUT IS
00:23:32GOING TO NEED TO ANSWER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACTIONS.
00:23:36FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS AND THUS FAR HE HAS BEEN A STAUNCH
00:23:41DEFENDER. THE QUESTION IS HOW STRONG A DEFENSE IS AFTER THESE RESULTS.
00:23:45HOST: TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU GET THE SENSE THAT NOW THE DAMAGES
00:23:49DONE THERE WAS A SENSE OF HOW REPUBLICANS ALIGN THEMSELVES TO
00:23:53TRUMP AND IF IT WOULD BE MORE WILLING TO PULL AWAY.
00:23:55GUEST: I THINK THERE WILL BE
00:23:59SOME KIND OF DEFECTIONS SO TO SPEAK BUT THEY WILL HAVE TO BE
00:24:02SOMEWHAT CAREFUL HE IS STILL THE
00:24:03PRESIDENT AND AT LEAST AS A FEW
00:24:07MONTHS AGO SEEMED TO HAVE VERY STRONG CONTROL OVER THE PARTY.
00:24:11PART OF THE ISSUE HERE IS HE WAS
00:24:14ABLE TO GET MANY OF HIS PRIMARY PIX OUT OF THOSE RACES SO KEN
00:24:18PAXTON WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES IN TEXAS.
00:24:21JOHN KASS OF LOUISIANA FOR THAT
00:24:24ONE SEEMS TO HAVE STAYED FINE FOR REPUBLICANS AND THOMAS
00:24:27MASSIE IN KENTUCKY WAS VERY OUTSPOKEN.
00:24:31IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME THAT SOMEONE LIKE THOMAS MASSIE OR
00:24:35MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WHO ALSO RESIGNED OVER BREAKS WITH TRUMP
00:24:38IS GOING TO RISE TO PROMINENCE
00:24:41ONCE AGAIN BUT YOU MIGHT SEE MORE PEOPLE LIKE MARIA IN
00:24:45FLORIDA 27 WHO WILL SPEAK OUT
00:24:47AGAINST SPECIFIC POLICIES BUT TRUMP IS ENFORCING AND GO FROM THERE.
00:24:52HOST: WITH 94% OF THE VOTES IN
00:24:56JAMES TALARICO WITH 55.1% OF
00:25:00SUPPORT OVER ONE MILLION VOTES OVER KEN PAXTON.
00:25:03HOW WOULD YOU ASSESS HIS
00:25:06VICTORIES IS A JUST KEN PAXTON AS A CANDOR OVER THERE OTHER
00:25:10FORCES IN THE LONE STAR STATE THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE.
00:25:11GUEST: TEXAS WAS A DREAM FOR
00:25:16DEMOCRATS. WINNING IN ALMOST EVERY STATEWIDE CONTEST.
00:25:19GOVERNOR-ELECT GENE IN A HOST
00:25:23DEFEATING GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT.
00:25:24LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S RACE, THE
00:25:29I BELIEVE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER HAS ALSO FLIPPED.
00:25:32THAT WAS A FAMOUS RACE BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HAD
00:25:37SAID SOMETHING RACIALLY INSENSITIVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS POPULATION.
00:25:42SOMETHING ELSE I WOULD NOTE SO
00:25:44TALARICO IS THE LARGEST FUND
00:25:48RAISED CANDIDATE TODAY HE STILL
00:25:56MANAGED TO BE OUTSPENT BY REPUBLICAN GROUPS.
00:25:59HE WAS OUT THERE NATIONALLY HE WAS MAKING THAT NAME FOR HIMSELF.
00:26:03HE'S KIND OF DONE THE IMPOSSIBLE HERE IN TEXAS.
00:26:05HOST: WHAT WAS HE ABLE TO DO
00:26:09VERSUS A BETO O'ROURKE BUT HE WAS NOT ABLE TO DO.
00:26:11GUEST: IN SOME WAYS IT SEEMS TO BE RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME.
00:26:18DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS LOOK TO TEXAS FOR A LONG TIME.
00:26:23PAXTON VERY MUCH A WEAKER CANDIDATE THAN TED CRUZ WHO IS STILL IN OFFICE.
00:26:28BUT TALARICO IS COMING IN WITH HIS FAITH BASED APPROACH.
00:26:32HE IS A PASTOR AND JUST TALKED
00:26:33ABOUT THAT A LOT ON THE TRAIL AND HOW HE SEES CHRISTIANITY
00:26:37FITTING IN IN THE DEMOCRATIC
00:26:39PERSPECTIVE OF TRYING TO GO FOR WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT.
00:26:44HOST: LET'S HEAR FROM JAMES
00:26:48TALARICO AFTER THE VICTORY THERE AND SOME OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:26:52>> WE BUILT A MOVEMENT UNLIKE
00:26:57ANY OF THE STATE HAS EVER SEEN.
00:26:59WE UNITED TEXANS FROM ALL
00:27:02BACKGROUNDS AND BELIEFS ON THE ONE TEAM TO TAKE ON THIS BROKEN
00:27:06CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM.
00:27:09FIRST-TIME VOTERS, A THREE-TIME
00:27:10TRUMP VOTERS WORKING PEOPLE FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE STATE WHO
00:27:14ARE FED UP AND READY FOR CHANGE.
00:27:17THIS WIN, THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY
00:27:23UNDERDOG WHO HAS BEEN COUNTED OUT AND LEFT BEHIND.
00:27:26THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY TEACHER
00:27:29AND EVERY NURSE, FOR EVERY
00:27:31FARMER AND EVERY RANCHER, FOR
00:27:34EVERY YOUNG PERSON WHO'S TRYING TO BUY A HOME, FOR EVERY PARENT
00:27:38WHO IS TRYING TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE.
00:27:42THIS WIN, THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY
00:27:48TEXAN WHOSE EVER WONDERED IF ANYONE WAS LISTENING.
00:27:52I HEARD YOU.
00:27:55WE HEARD YOU AND TONIGHT, THE WORLD HEARS YOU. [APPLAUSE]
00:28:06TO THE TEXANS WHO SUPPORTED THIS
00:28:09MOVEMENT, I AM HUMBLED BY YOUR
00:28:12TRUST AND I WILL WORK EVERY DAY TO BE WORTHY OF IT.
00:28:16AND TO THE TEXANS WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR ME, I WILL BE YOUR SENATOR TWO.
00:28:23I WILL ALWAYS SERVE YOU, I WILL
00:28:29ALWAYS FIGHT FOR YOU.
00:28:32THIS WIN IS NOT ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR REPUBLICAN PARTY IS MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT.
00:28:38THERE IS SOMETHING BROKEN IN
00:28:41AMERICA.
00:28:42OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS BROKEN,
00:28:46OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN. EVEN OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH
00:28:51OTHER FEEL BROKEN. THAT IS BECAUSE THE MOST
00:28:55POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT IT THAT WAY.
00:28:58MY GRANDDAD WAS A BAPTIST
00:29:03PREACHER IN SOUTH TEXAS AND WHEN
00:29:04I WAS LITTLE, HE TOLD ME THAT WE
00:29:09FOLLOW A BAREFOOT RABBI WHO GAVE US TWO COMMANDMENTS.
00:29:11LOVE GOD AND LOVE NEIGHBOR.
00:29:16BECAUSE -- BECAUSE THERE IS NO
00:29:19LOVE OF GOD WITHOUT LOVE OF NEIGHBOR.
00:29:25[APPLAUSE]
00:29:29EVERY SINGLE PERSON BEARS THE
00:29:33IMAGE OF THE SACRED. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS HOLY.
00:29:38NOT JUST MY NEIGHBOR WHO LOOKS
00:29:40LIKE ME, MY NEIGHBOR WHO PRAYS
00:29:43LIKE ME, NOT JUST MY NEIGHBOR
00:29:46WHO VOTES LIKE ME. I AM CALLED TO LOVE ALL OF MY
00:29:50NEIGHBORS THE WAY I LOVE MYSELF.
00:29:58BECAUSE, DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES
00:30:02, WE ALL WANT OF THE SAME THINGS.
00:30:05A SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD A GOOD JOB,
00:30:07A HIGH QUALITY WELL-FUNDED PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE ABILITY TO
00:30:11SEE A DOCTOR WHEN WE NEED ONE.
00:30:17BUT THE BILLIONAIRES WHO OWN THE
00:30:22SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS, WHO OWN
00:30:24THE CABLE NEWS NETWORKS, WHO OWN
00:30:26THE FIGHTING, THEY WANT TO SET
00:30:30EACH OTHER'S THROATS. THEY WANT US FOCUSED ON HOW WE
00:30:33ARE DIFFERENT INSTEAD OF HOW WE ARE THE SAME. THEY WANT US LOOKING LEFT AND
00:30:38RIGHT AT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF UP AT THEM.
00:30:41THE REAL FIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY
00:30:45IS NOT LEFT VERSUS RIGHT. IT IS TOP VERSUS BOTTOM.
00:30:48HOST: 6:30 ON THE EAST COAST
00:30:53HERE. WE HAVE 5.5 HOURS TO GO.
00:30:57JAMES TALARICO YOU JUST HEARD FROM. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FINDING
00:31:00OUT MORE WHEN IT COMES TO THE DATA WE ARE TAKING IN FROM THE
00:31:04ASSOCIATED PRESS, GO TO OUR WEBSITE.
00:31:07YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND CLICK THE STATES THAT ARE OF MOST INTEREST
00:31:10TO YOU AND EXAMINE THE SENATE,
00:31:13HOUSE, GOVERNOR'S RACE, AND OTHER DATA WHEN IT COMES TO THE
00:31:17LATEST INFORMATION. ALL OF AVAILABLE TO YOU AT C-SPAN.ORG.
00:31:26FROM THE FOLKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THERE IS DATA FROM VOTERS.
00:31:30TALK ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT ROLE IN TEXAS.
00:31:34IT SHOWS A BREAKDOWN OF
00:31:36INDEPENDENT VOTERS, 60% OF THOSE BREAKING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
00:31:40CANDIDATE, 19% FOR THE
00:31:41REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND ANOTHER
00:31:45CANDIDATE, 13 PERCENT. TALK ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE INDEPENDENT.
00:31:46GUEST: THIS IS A HUGE SWING.
00:31:50IT SEEMS LIKE THE REPUBLICAN COALITION HAS SOMEWHAT FALLEN
00:31:52APART BUT INDEPENDENTS OR PART
00:31:57OF THAT IN 2024 IN THE REAL NAME OF THE GAME ESPECIALLY IN TEXAS
00:32:01WAS WINNING OVER INDEPENDENTS SO
00:32:04THIS WAS A HUGE SWING AND I
00:32:06THINK BEYOND THAT REPUBLICANS
00:32:10ARE MOVING AWAY FROM TRUMP, AT LEAST TO THE EXTENT THAT I DO
00:32:13NOT THINK WE KNOW YET. THEY MAY HAVE NOT SHOWN UP.
00:32:16OR THEY MAY HAVE JUST LEFT THE
00:32:19SENATE RACE BLANK BECAUSE OF ISSUES WITH KEN PAXTON, THE
00:32:23REPUBLICANS, BUT INDEPENDENTS
00:32:26WERE ABLE TO DELIVER FROM --
00:32:31DELIVER FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:32:32HOST: IN CALIFORNIA, INDEPENDENT
00:32:38LINE, YOU ARE NEXT UP. GO AHEAD.
00:32:42>> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN
00:32:44OBSERVATION ABOUT THIS TIME AROUND AS FAR AS THE GO.
00:32:49ESPECIALLY IN MICHIGAN WITH
00:32:53RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA REARING
00:32:58ITS HEAD DURING THE CAMPAIGN,
00:33:00EVERYBODY MAKING FUN OF
00:33:02EL-SAYED'S NAME AND FAITH AND
00:33:06CALLING HIM A TERRORIST, THAT SHOWS YOU IT IS OPEN SEASON ON
00:33:11MUSLIMS JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS A DIFFERENT NAME, WHICH I DO AS WELL GROWING UP.
00:33:15THAT IS VERY CHILDISH AND FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
00:33:19STATES TO MAKE FUN OF HIS NAME
00:33:22BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ARABS THEY
00:33:28GIVE HIM AN AIRPLANE AS WELL AS BUYING HIS COINS.
00:33:31HE DOES NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT IT DOES NOT MAKE FUN
00:33:35OF THEIR NAMES BUT THAT ITSELF
00:33:39-- SUBLIMINALLY EVEN IN YOUR A NOTICE THAT.
00:33:46YOU HAVE CALLED AMY ANDREWS DR.
00:33:48ANNIE ANDREWS SO MANY TIMES.
00:33:51BUT BEYOND THAT IS JUST -- IT
00:33:56REMINDED ME OF WHEN OBAMA WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND
00:34:00PICKING ON NAMES AT SUCH A CHILDISH THING TO DO AND I
00:34:03REMEMBER BACK IN SCHOOL AND THEY
00:34:07STILL DO THAT AND UNFORTUNATELY
00:34:09REPUBLICANS HAVE TENDENCIES TO DO THAT MORE.
00:34:12INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY CRITICIZING
00:34:17SOMEBODY ABOUT THEIR VIEWS OR
00:34:19OPINIONS OR POLICIES ALL THEY DO
00:34:22IS PICK ON THEIR NAMES.
00:34:23HOST: WE GOT THE POINT AND NOW
00:34:27WE CAN CALL HIM SENATOR ELECT ABDUL EL-SAYED.
00:34:30LEADING UP TO IT, THERE WERE NAMES BEING CALLED.
00:34:34CONNECTIONS MADE BY SOME TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. BUT NONE OF THAT WAS ABLE TO STICK.
00:34:38GUEST: IT DOES NOT SEEM THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL.
00:34:42THIS WAS PREVALENT ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE ESPECIALLY IN MICHIGAN AND EVEN DOWN BALLOT.
00:34:47THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
00:34:49WHO LOST IN THE PRIMARIES TO
00:34:52SOMEONE WHO HAD DROPPED OUT,
00:34:55LIKELY BECAUSE OF HIS NAME SO
00:34:56THIS WAS A POINT REPUBLICANS WERE HITTING ON AND I THINK PART
00:35:00OF IT WAS JUST BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF GOOD NEWS TO
00:35:05SHARE. THE ECONOMY IS IN NOT A GREAT PLACE.
00:35:09SO A LOT OF THE DEMOCRATS -- REPUBLICAN ARGUMENT GOING INTO
00:35:12THE MIDTERMS WAS DEMOCRATS ARE
00:35:16SCARY, DEMOCRATS ARE EXTREME, THESE KINDS OF THINGS.
00:35:19AND THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE PLAYED OUT FOR THEM.
00:35:21HOST: LEADING TO THE SENATE
00:35:24ELECTION IN MICHIGAN THERE WAS A
00:35:25QUESTION ON IF DR. EL-SAYED WAS
00:35:29ABLE TO GAIN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTE.
00:35:30GUEST: IT SEEMS HE HAS BEEN ABLE
00:35:33TO SUCCEED WITH MOST DEMOGRAPHICS. THERE WAS A LATE A SHAKEUP WHERE
00:35:38HALEY STEVENS, WHO LOST IN THE PRIMARY, ENDORSED MIKE ROGERS,
00:35:41CLAIMING HE HAD THE BETTER IN WITH BLACK VOTERS IN MICHIGAN.
00:35:45THAT IS NOT SEEM TO HAVE PLAYED
00:35:46OUT AND I WILL KNOW THAT
00:35:50EL-SAYED AND ANNIE ANDREWS IN
00:35:50SOUTH CAROLINA ARE TWO
00:35:54DEMOCRATIC DOCTORS TO COME INTO POWER AND I THINK IT IS NOTABLE
00:35:57BECAUSE DEMOCRATS TEND TO HAVE THE ADVANTAGE ON HEALTH CARE BUT
00:36:00REPUBLICANS CUT MEDICARE IN THE
00:36:03ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL THAT WAS PASSED LAST YEAR SO I THINK THEY
00:36:07WERE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR PLANS, ESPECIALLY EL-SAYED WITH
00:36:10MEDICARE FOR ALL TO THIS WAS A HUGE ADVANTAGE.
00:36:12HOST: NEVADA SIX WAS AN
00:36:16INTERESTING RACE FOR YOU TO WATCH AT THIS POINT. WE ARE WATCHING A LOT AND WE
00:36:20WILL TELL YOU A LOT DURING THE COURSE OF OUR TIME TOGETHER BUT WHY THERE?
00:36:23GUEST: NEVADA TWO.
00:36:26NORTHERN NEVADA HAS NEVER GONE DEMOCRATIC SINCE IT WAS FOUNDED
00:36:31IN 1983.
00:36:34CURRENTLY THE DEMOCRAT IS UP.
00:36:39THE REPUBLICAN IS AN INTERESTING CANDIDATE.
00:36:41HE WAS ORIGINALLY RUNNING IN NEVADA FOUR, THE LAS VEGAS AREA,
00:36:46BUT ONCE THE INCOME IT ANNOUNCED
00:36:50RETIREMENT HE MOVED OVER SO THAT HAS BEEN A CONTENTIOUS RACE
00:36:54BECAUSE HE IS COMING IN FROM A DIFFERENT AREA OF THE STATE AND
00:36:57HE ALSO HAD A LOT OF OPPOSITION
00:37:01SCANDALS DROP OVER THE LAST TWO
00:37:05WEEKS AND NATIONAL NEWS OUTLETS OVER HIM EMBELLISHING HIS MILITARY RECORD AND HAVING
00:37:09FINANCIAL CONCERNS TO THE POINT WHERE THE INCUMBENT VOTED
00:37:13THIRD-PARTY.
00:37:14SO IT SEEMS FLIPPO JUST DID NOT
00:37:22HAVE THE HOME SUPPORT TO CARRY THIS THROUGH.
00:37:23HOST: THAT RACE IS NOT CALLED
00:37:27YET BUT 80% OF VOTES IN THAT RACE AS WE LOOK AT IT.
00:37:30TAKING A LOOK AT THE SENATE RACE IN KANSAS, THE FIRST DEMOCRATS
00:37:33WIN IN 94 YEARS WHEN IT COMES TO ADAM HAMILTON.
00:37:37HOW DID THAT HAPPEN IN THAT STATE?
00:37:39GUEST: THAT IS THE THIRD DOCTOR
00:37:43ON THE SENATE BALLOT, ROGER MARSHALL, AN OB/GYN, AND THAT A
00:37:46HUGE PART OF HIS RACE WAS -- SO
00:37:49I'M HAMILTON'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER
00:37:53CAME FROM THE OPPOSITION RESEARCH WORLD AND BROUGHT ABOUT THIS SCANDAL THAT MARSHALL HAD
00:37:57GONE AFTER PATIENTS WHO DID NOT PAY ON TIME.
00:38:02THIS REALLY SEEMS TO PERMEATE TO
00:38:03THE POINT THAT MARSHALL KINDA
00:38:06MADE HIS OWN AD AGAINST THE ADVICE OF HIS CAMPAIGN TEAM.
00:38:10IT DID NOT AIR COMMIT TO DISPUTE
00:38:14THAT BUT THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
00:38:16SO MARSHALL WAS NOT PREPARED FOR
00:38:21A COMPETITIVE SENATE CONTEST. THIS WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT CAME ONLINE PRETTY LATE BECAUSE IT
00:38:25HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE DEMOCRATS HAD A FIGHTING CHANCE IN THE SENATE AND KANSAS.
00:38:31MARSHALL ALSO IS A PASTOR WHO
00:38:33WAS ABLE TO RELY ON THAT BASE OF
00:38:37HIS CHURCH AND TAKE THAT TO VICTORY.
00:38:38HOST: TO WHAT DEGREE -- WE SAW
00:38:41HIM AND JAMES TALARICO AND OTHERS TALK ABOUT RELIGION.
00:38:44TO WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU SURPRISED HE BECAME THAT MUCH A COMPONENT OF THE RACE?
00:38:48GUEST: I'M ONLY SOMEWHAT
00:38:52SURPRISED BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR A WHILE.
00:38:56TALARICO IS KIND OF THE MASTHEAD
00:39:00OF THIS IN IOWA AS WELL WHO DEFEATED ANOTHER ONE WHO IS A
00:39:03PASTOR WHO TALKED ABOUT THIS.
00:39:05REPUBLICANS ARGUED THE SORT OF
00:39:08DEMOCRATIC VISION OF RELIGION WAS NOT GOING TO PLAY WITH
00:39:12VOTERS. IT COULD GO EITHER WAY.
00:39:14IT COULD BE THAT THEY REALLY ENJOYED THAT VISION OF RELIGION.
00:39:17IT COULD BE THEY DID NOT CARE
00:39:20AND JUST WANTED SOMEONE WHO IS NOT A REPUBLICAN.
00:39:22HOST: AS WE SEND YOU THIS INFORMATION THROUGH THE COURSE
00:39:26OF OUR MORNING IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR SCREEN YOU
00:39:28WILL SEE ALERTS AS FAR AS CURRENT RACES, WHERE THEY STAND
00:39:33CUT RIGHT NOW SHOWING THE FLORIDA -- THE GOVERNOR FROM
00:39:36GEORGIA RACE AND THE RESULTS THERE. THAT IS PART OF THE INFORMATION YOU CAN TAKE IN AS HE WATCHED
00:39:40THROUGH THE MORNING. LET'S HEAR FROM CALIFORNIA AS WELL.
00:39:45DEMOCRATS LINE. GOOD MORNING.
00:39:47CALLER: I LIVE IN OAKLAND,
00:39:52CALIFORNIA. I'M A TRANSPLANT FROM TEXAS SO I'M HAPPY TEXAS WHEN BLUE.
00:39:59YOUR HOST TALKED ABOUT MONEY IN POLITICS.
00:40:01I FIND IT VERY INTERESTING THAT TALARICO DID NOT TAKE ANY AIPAC
00:40:06MONEY AND THEY WON IN TEXAS
00:40:12BASED OFF OF -- I'M THINKING OF ELON MUSK AND TRYING TO TAKE
00:40:15OVER SWATHS OF LAND FOR DATA
00:40:17CENTERS AND TESLA AND FACTORIES OUT THERE.
00:40:20I FIND IT VERY SURPRISING THEY WON IN TEXAS WITHOUT THAT MONEY
00:40:24BUT IN CALIFORNIA WE LOST THE
00:40:28BILLIONAIRES TAX, WHICH ALSO GIVES ME A LITTLE BIT OF LEAN
00:40:33INTO WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
00:40:37I THINK JEFFRIES AND SCHUMER NEED TO GO.
00:40:40AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT
00:40:45EL-SAYED AND TALARICO BOTH
00:40:48MENTIONED PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN THEIR VICTORY SPEECHES.
00:40:50I THINK THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
00:40:54-- I WAS LISTENING TO NPR WHEN I WENT TO CAST MY BALLOT AND I
00:41:00HEARD THE PRESIDENT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION SAY THEY ARE
00:41:03LOOKING TO PROJECTS 2029.
00:41:05FOR ME, IT COMES DOWN TO GAS,
00:41:08GRASS, GROCERIES, I.C.E., FLOCK,
00:41:13DATA CENTERS, AND ELON MUSK AND HOW WE HAVE TO GET THEM OUT OF POLITICS.
00:41:16HOST: THAT IS IN CALIFORNIA.
00:41:21BEFORE YOU RESPOND TO HIS
00:41:22THOUGHTS, JAMES TALARICO SHARING
00:41:26ON HIS INSTAGRAM FEED HIM AND
00:41:27THE GOVERNOR-ELECT CELEBRATING
00:41:30AT A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT. IT COULD BE A WHATABURGER.
00:41:34THAT IS WHAT I AM THINKING. THEY ARE TOASTING.
00:41:37GO AHEAD AND RESPOND.
00:41:38GUEST: AIPAC PRIOR TO ELECTION
00:41:41NIGHT ANNOUNCED IT WILL NOT BE
00:41:44SPENDING IN CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES ANYMORE.
00:41:47IT STILL HAS THE UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT, WHICH IS ITS
00:41:50ALLIED PAC, EXPECTED TO
00:41:54CONTINUED SPENDING. THE AIPAC NAME HAS BECOME TOO
00:41:57TOXIC FOR THEM TO CONTINUE
00:42:01STAYING A PLAYER HERE. YOU POINTED OUT ELON MUSK, WHICH
00:42:03I WOULD SAY HE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST LOSERS OF TONIGHT.
00:42:07HE SPENT $190 MILLION IN TEXAS
00:42:09AND LOST NOT ONLY THE SENATE RACE BUT THE GOVERNOR'S RACE,
00:42:13WHICH LIKE YOU SAID IS HUGE FOR
00:42:16HIM JUST BECAUSE HE HAD A LOT OF
00:42:19-- TESLA IS BASED IN TEXAS.
00:42:22HE HAS BEEN ON REPUBLICANS TO
00:42:26OFFER FAVORABLE REGULATIONS FOR HIS COMPANIES.
00:42:28THAT IS WHY HE IS SPENDING SO
00:42:30MUCH IN TEXAS SO FOR HIM TO LOSE THESE STATEWIDE RACES IS GOING TO AFFECT HIM.
00:42:34HOST: BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE
00:42:38VICTORIES FOR DEMOCRATS CAME FROM STATES HANDILY WON BY
00:42:40PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHAT DOES IT
00:42:44SUGGEST GOING FORWARD AS OTHER CONTESTS TAKE PLACE PARTICULARLY
00:42:48AS PEOPLE ARE LOOKING TO 2028?
00:42:51HOST: SOMETHING INTERESTING TO ME IS THE GOVERNOR'S RACE IS IN
00:42:55TEXAS AND GEORGIA SO BOTH THE
00:42:58STATES, THE SENATORS WERE RUMORED TO BE CONSIDERED --
00:43:02CONSIDERING PRESIDENTIAL RUNS WITH THOSE ARE CONTINGENT ON THE
00:43:04GOVERNOR BEING PART OF THEIR SAME PARTY TO APPOINT A
00:43:08REPLACEMENT SO THAT IS TRUE FOR TED CRUZ IN TEXAS AND FOR JON
00:43:13OSSOFF IN GEORGIA SO TED CRUZ
00:43:15HAD BEEN RUMORED TO RUN MAC -- RUN.
00:43:19THE CALLER EARLIER MENTIONED DISCUSSIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM
00:43:22WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THAT IS WHERE TED CRUZ HAS BEEN
00:43:25TRYING TO CARVE A NICHE AFTER HE
00:43:28HAD RUN IN 2016. NOW HE MIGHT NEED TO RETHINK
00:43:31THINGS BECAUSE IF YOU WINS THAT NOMINATION HE WOULD NEED TO
00:43:35LEAVE THE SENATE.
00:43:38THE GOVERNOR WILL BE APPOINTING
00:43:42HIS REPLACEMENT. THAT COULD LEAVE A PATH FOR JAMES TALARICO THOUGH I HAVE NO
00:43:45IDEA IF HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN. THE SAME THING IS TRUE IN WHERE
00:43:49JON OSSOFF HAS DENIED AMBITIONS
00:43:52TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY BUT KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS WAS MUCH
00:43:56MORE OF A LONGSHOT THAT HE WAS
00:43:58IN GEORGIA AND LANCE BOTTOMS WILL BE APPOINTING HIS
00:44:02REPLACEMENT, WHICH DOES GIVE HIM FREEDOM TO RUN WITHOUT THE RISK
00:44:04OF A REPUBLICAN SENATOR IN GEORGIA BUT IT IS NOT CLEAR YET.
00:44:07HOST: TWO YEARS AGO, HE WAS ON A
00:44:12DANGER LIST WHEN IT CAME TO WINNING ANOTHER TERM TO THE SENATE AND YET THAT WAS A CHANGE
00:44:17THAT TURNED AROUND FOR HIM.
00:44:18GUEST: HE WAS THE MOST
00:44:21VULNERABLE SENATE DEMOCRAT GOING INTO 2026 BUT IT TURNED AROUND.
00:44:25NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BUT BECAUSE OF MIKE
00:44:29COLLINS AS A CANDIDATE.
00:44:32HE WAS ANOTHER ONE FOR A LOT OF ALLEGATIONS OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS ON HIS STAFF.
00:44:37JOHN ALSO IF -- OSSOFF -- IT
00:44:47WAS TO THE POINT THAT SENATE REPUBLICAN GROUPS HAD CUT OFF
00:44:50SPENDING IN GEORGIA TO FOCUS ON OTHER RACES LIKE KANSAS AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
00:44:54HOST: THIS IS ERIKA FILTER
00:44:58JOINING US WITH NATIONAL JOURNAL, THE HOTLINE NATIONAL
00:45:01CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT, TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF YESTERDAY, THE SENATE AND
00:45:06HOUSE NOW WILL BE IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS.
00:45:10YOU CAN SEE THOSE RESULTS ON YOUR SCREEN ON THE LEFT SIDE.
00:45:13WE WILL SHOW YOU THE SEATS THAT ARE PICKED UP ON THE NUMBER OF SEATS CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS AND
00:45:17REPUBLICANS APPEARING ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN YOU WILL GET A CHANCE AND UP-TO-DATE
00:45:21MONITOR OF RESULTS OF RACES. YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE
00:45:24INFORMATION ON THAT CORNER, THE BOTTOM LEFT-HAND CORNER.
00:45:28THERE IS A QR CODE YOU CAN ACCESS AND YOU CAN ALSO GET MORE
00:45:32INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE IF YOU WANT THE LATEST INFORMATION,
00:45:36PART OF OUR COVERAGE HERE AT C-SPAN.
00:45:3920 HOURS TOTAL WILL BE THE TOTAL
00:45:41WHEN WE ARE DONE AT NOON SO STAY
00:45:45WITH US AND HAVE A CHANCE TO CALL IF YOU CAN.
00:45:48STEVE IN MISSOURI, INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:45:50CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
00:45:54I'M HAPPY FOR THE DEMOCRATS. IT IS THE BEST CHOICE WE
00:45:57COULD'VE HAD BUT TALK IS CHEAP.
00:46:01WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW?
00:46:05THE REPUBLICANS HAVE COMMITTED TREASON. AND I WANT THEM PROSECUTED.
00:46:10THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO BUT NUMBER
00:46:13ONE ON MY LIST, I WANT THEM PROSECUTED.
00:46:16I DO NOT WANT THEM TO JUST LIKE
00:46:19THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ELECTION.
00:46:21THAT IS THE HIGHEST CRIME IN OUR
00:46:25COUNTRY, TREASON, AND THAT IS
00:46:26JUST ONE AMONG HUNDRED THEY HAVE COMMITTED.
00:46:30IF YOU DON'T DO NOTHING ABOUT THAT, YOUR WIN MEANS NOTHING.
00:46:34AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. AND THANK YOU.
00:46:37HOST: IS THERE A SPECIFIC THING
00:46:41YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THEM INVESTIGATING? CALLER: MY GOD.
00:46:45THERE ARE SO MANY. WAR CRIMES. STEALING OUR MONEY.
00:46:50SIDING WITH RUSSIA. THAT IS THE HIGHEST TREASON.
00:46:53YOU CANNOT GET NO HIGHER THAN THAT AND THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.
00:47:00I WISH THAN THE BEST OF LUCK. THEY GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO BUT
00:47:02WE GOT TO GET THAT DONE BEFORE
00:47:04WE CAN SAY HURRAH ABOUT ANYTHING. THANK YOU.
00:47:08HOST: ERIKA FILTER COMMIT WAS
00:47:11ROBERT GARCIA, THE RANKING
00:47:13MEMBER OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, TALKED ABOUT THE
00:47:17ISSUES THEY WANT TO INVESTIGATE
00:47:19AND HE PUT" TWO WORDS -- LAWYER UP.
00:47:22IS THIS WHAT WE ARE FACING?
00:47:24GUEST: 100%.
00:47:27HE HAS BEEN IN POSITION TO DO THIS FOR A WHILE AS THE RANKING
00:47:31MEMBER ON THE HOOK -- HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
00:47:33HE HAS BEEN PIVOTAL IN THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO JEFFREY
00:47:38EPSTEIN AND THE ASSOCIATED FILES.
00:47:42THAT WILL LIKELY CONTINUE. THAT HAD BIPARTISAN SUPPORT IN THE LAST CONGRESS AND WILL
00:47:46LIKELY CONTINUE.
00:47:50GARCIA HAS SAID HE WILL PURSUE
00:47:51INVESTIGATIONS OF CORRUPTION.
00:47:54ENRICHING FROM AN TRUMP'S FAMILY
00:47:58AND PAY TO PLAY SCHEMES AT THE HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT.
00:48:01THESE ARE THE BIG PRIORITIES DEMOCRATS HAVE MENTIONED.
00:48:05LOOKING INTO TECH AND ELON MUSK,
00:48:09THESE ARE THE THINGS AND PETE
00:48:11HEGSETH MIGHT ALSO BE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK BECAUSE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN IRAN.
00:48:15HOST: SENATOR ED MARKEY PUT OUT
00:48:17THIS AND SAID THEY ARE GOING TO NEED TO PLANT NEW FORESTS FOR
00:48:21ALL THE SUBPOENAS WE WILL BE PRINTING.
00:48:23GUEST: ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD
00:48:26BLANCHE SAID THE JUSTICE
00:48:31DEPARTMENT WILL COOPERATE IN ANY INVESTIGATIONS BUT THAT WAS
00:48:34BEFORE DEMOCRATS OFFICIALLY TOOK
00:48:36CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND BEFORE ANY OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONS HAVE
00:48:40BEEN ANNOUNCED. IN PAST TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONS,
00:48:44BILL BARR WAS HESITANT TO GIVE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES
00:48:47INFORMATION AND RECEIVED A CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS CHARGE SO
00:48:50THAT IS THE NEXT QUESTION. DEMOCRATS HAVE OPTIONS.
00:48:53THEY CAN GO TOWARD THE COMPANIES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS
00:48:57WORKED WITH AND THOSE ARE LIKELY
00:48:58TO BE LAWYERING UP.
00:49:02HOST: WE HEARD DEMOCRATS TALK
00:49:05ABOUT IF THEY WERE REELECTED AND GIVEN POWER THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY
00:49:09AND THINGS OF POCKETBOOK NATURE FOR AMERICANS.
00:49:13WHAT DO THEY HAVE AS FAR AS A
00:49:16SPECIFIC PLAN GOING FORWARD ON HOW TO ACHIEVE THAT?
00:49:20ON HOW TO ACHIEVE AFFORDABILITY ISSUES OR MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR AMERICANS AS THEY TALKED ABOUT
00:49:24LEADING TO THE ELECTION? GUEST: GREAT QUESTION.
00:49:28A LOT OF IT HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT UNCLEAR. THE BIG PRIORITIES NOW ARE
00:49:31STOPPING THE WAR IN IRAN AND
00:49:32CURBING TRUMP'S TARIFFS.
00:49:36CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO LEVY WAR BUT THIS IS KIND OF
00:49:41GONE UNDER ENFORCED UNDER THE
00:49:42REPUBLICAN CONGRESS SO THAT IS LIKELY TO CHANGE AS SOON AS
00:49:46DEMOCRATS GET INTO POWER ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY HAVE SENATE CONTROL.
00:49:50TARIFFS -- IT IS A BIT OF A
00:49:53LEGAL BATTLE NOW. SO IN THEORY CONGRESS CAN GAIN
00:49:56MORE CONTROL OVER TARIFFS.
00:50:00HOST: BERNIE IS NEXT IN ALABAMA.
00:50:07-- BRITTANY IS IN ALABAMA ON THE LINE FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:50:12GO AHEAD.
00:50:12CALLER: I WAS CALLING BECAUSE I
00:50:19DO LIVE IN ALABAMA BUT I AM FROM
00:50:20MISSISSIPPI AND -- I'M SORRY.
00:50:26I AM AT WORK. I'M VERY PROUD OF MY STATE
00:50:30BECAUSE I NOT ONCE EVER THOUGHT IN MY LIFETIME I WOULD BE WHERE
00:50:34WE COULD EVEN REMOTELY TURN TO A
00:50:37BLUE STATE SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THEM NOT ONLY CONCERN NOW IS
00:50:41THAT AS FAR AS THE DEMOCRATIC
00:50:45PARTY GOES THEY WILL GET IN AND UNDERPERFORM AND THAT HAS BEEN A
00:50:48PROBLEM FOR YEARS, PEOPLE WANT
00:50:53-- SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THAT DONE.
00:50:56I DO FEEL LIKE OTHER THINGS ARE
00:51:03MORE IMPORTANT THAN GAS NOW.
00:51:04IT SHOULD NOT TAKE A TWO PERSON
00:51:09HOUSEHOLD TO SURVIVE. BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE
00:51:12THAT SO IF YOU LIKE THOSE ARE THE ISSUES THAT MATTER MORE NOW.
00:51:16BUT I'M PROUD OF MY HOME STATE.
00:51:20I AM ELATED THAT IS EVEN A POSSIBILITY OF HIM WINNING.
00:51:24HOST: THAT IS BRITTANY IN
00:51:28ALABAMA AND A COUPLE CALLERS TALKING ABOUT DON'T GET BOGGED DOWN ON THE LEGAL SIDE VERSUS
00:51:31OTHER THINGS PROMISED BY DEMOCRATS.
00:51:34GUEST: DEMOCRATS CAN WALK AND
00:51:38CHEW GUM ESPECIALLY WITH THE MAJORITIES THEY ARE LIKELY GOING TO HAVE IN THE HOUSE.
00:51:41SO I THINK IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE ROBERT GARCIA CAN DO
00:51:45HIS OWN THING WHILE THE MAJORITY OF CONGRESS IS FOCUSING ON
00:51:48TARIFFS AND THE WAR AND INITIATIVES TO GET THESE PRICES
00:51:51DOWN JUST BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC
00:51:54CAUCUS WILL BE SO CENTRIST.
00:51:58IT IS SO MANY FLIPS IN GOP TERRITORY THAT IT LIKELY WILL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FOCUSED
00:52:03ON MEETING INDEPENDENCE.
00:52:06THEY WANT TO KEEP THE SEAS EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT FAVORED TO KEEP
00:52:09THEM IN 2028 SO THEY WANT TO BRING SOMETHING ABOUT.
00:52:14THE OTHER QUESTION WILL BE WHAT TRUMP DOES. HE SAID HE WOULD BE MR. VITO.
00:52:18HE IS NOT GOING TO WANT TO CONTINUE MEASURES THAT MAKE LIFE
00:52:22MORE DIFFICULT FOR AMERICANS BUT HE IS NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO WANT TO GIVE DEMOCRATS WINDS TO
00:52:26CAMPAIGN ON IN 2028 AND BEYOND.
00:52:27HOST: THIS IS OUR LINE FOR REPUBLICANS.
00:52:30CALLER: GOOD MORNING, AMERICA.
00:52:34I AM A REPUBLICAN, BUT I'M
00:52:39SHOCKED, WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE.
00:52:43I'M NOT SURPRISED BECAUSE ALL
00:52:44THIS MONEY THAT HAS GONE INTO
00:52:51THESE CAMPAIGNS, THEY THOUGHT
00:52:53THEY COULD CONTROL AMERICA.
00:52:59ALL THESE VERY POWERFUL PEOPLE
00:53:04-- PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING OUT HERE. I FEEL BAD FOR THEM.
00:53:08I CARE ABOUT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN AMERICA.
00:53:11AND YOU KNOW YOU GUYS AT C-SPAN
00:53:17HAVE DONE SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB.
00:53:20YOU'RE SO AWESOME. BUT THEY COULD NOT BUY THE ELECTIONS.
00:53:24PEOPLE ARE PISSED OFF.
00:53:29PEOPLE ARE UPSET. IT IS OUT OF CONTROL.
00:53:33THEY TRY TO BUY THESE ELECTIONS AND THEY COULD NOT DO IT AND THE
00:53:35PEOPLE STOOD UP AND WE ARE GOING
00:53:39TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. HOST: BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, WHAT
00:53:43YOU THINK ABOUT GOVERNOR-ELECT
00:53:48BYRON DONALDS? CALLER: BYRON DONALDS WON. HE IS A GOOD MAN.
00:53:55MOODY IS FROM NEAR TAMPA.
00:54:00SHE IS IN POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME.
00:54:06BUT MARCO RUBIO, THIS IS HIS IN
00:54:10NOW IN 2028 BECAUSE HE CAN BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
00:54:15WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE FUTURE.
00:54:16HOST: LOU IN TAMPA, FLORIDA
00:54:21THERE.
00:54:21SENATOR MOODY WON 50.9% OF THE
00:54:26BOAT VERSUS HER DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER.
00:54:29IN A STATE LIKE FLORIDA, WHAT DO
00:54:32THOSE MARGINS TELL YOU? GUEST: THIS WAS SUCH AN
00:54:36INTERESTING RACE.
00:54:38ANGIE NIXON WAS DSA BACK.
00:54:41SHE BEAT OUT NOT EUGENE VINDMAN
00:54:46BUT THE OTHER BENJAMIN IN A
00:54:48PRIMARY -- VINDMAN IN THE
00:54:55PRIMARY. ALEX VINDMAN.
00:54:59ALEX VINDMAN IN FLORIDA WHO
00:55:03TESTIFIED AGAINST TRUMP IN 2024, I BELIEVE.
00:55:08BUT HE WAS KIND OF THE MAINSTREAM PICK.
00:55:11NIXON RAN A PHENOMENAL GROUND GAME.
00:55:14SHE WAS REALLY OUT THERE, ONE OF THESE INSTANCES OF SOUTHERN
00:55:17BLACK DEMOCRATS REALLY OVER PERFORMING.
00:55:21I THINK ONCE SHE WON THE PRIMARY NOT MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT FLORIDA
00:55:24WAS IN PLACE SO THE FACT THIS WAS WITHIN THREE POINTS IS HUGE
00:55:27FOR HER SPECIFICALLY AND ALSO AN
00:55:31INDICTMENT OF REPUBLICANS.
00:55:33HOST: WITH THOSE MARGINS IN
00:55:38MIND, BYRON DONALDS, 50% OF THE VOTE HE HAS RECEIVED SO FAR
00:55:41VERSUS DAVID JOLIE, 48.7%.
00:55:43GUEST: DAVID JOLLY WAS NOT ON
00:55:52DEMOCRATS RADAR GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE MAP. DONALD'S HAD A TOUGH PRIMERICA
00:55:57FISHING -- FACING RACIAL ATTACKS
00:56:00FROM A NO-NAME CANADA BUT HE DID GET BUZZ FOR THAT DESPITE
00:56:02FINISHING WITH ABOUT 10% IN THAT PRIMARY.
00:56:06DONALD'S REMAINED CLOSE TO TRUMP. HE HAD THE ENDORSEMENT FROM THE PRIMARY ONWARDS.
00:56:15JOLLY IS OVER PERFORMING HERE. I DON'T THINK IT WOULD GO BLUE ANYTIME SOON BUT IS ANOTHER OF
00:56:19THE STATES THAT MIGHT BE LOOKED AT ONCE DEMOCRATS HAVE MORE
00:56:23MONEY TO PLAY WITH.
00:56:23HOST: LET'S HEAR REACTION FROM
00:56:28THE CURRENT SENATE MINORITY LEADER, CHUCK SCHUMER, EXPECTED
00:56:31TO BECOME THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER. HERE IS WHAT HE HAD TO SAY FOLLOWING ELECTION DAY.
00:56:36[VIDEO CLIP] >> WOW.
00:56:41NOW, AGAINST ALL ODDS, WE
00:56:46DEMOCRATS HAVE WON THE SENATE.
00:56:49AND WE HAVE FIVE WORDS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
00:56:54RELIEF IS ON THE WAY.
00:56:58WHEN I FIRST TALKED ABOUT TAKING
00:57:00BACK THE SENATE IN 2025, PEOPLE
00:57:04ROLLED THEIR EYES AND SAID IT CANNOT BE DONE. HOW DID WE WIN?
00:57:09FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE FOCUSED
00:57:11ON AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR PAIN AND NEEDS.
00:57:15THEIR SUFFERING.
00:57:17THEY ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD LIFE.
00:57:20AND THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN.
00:57:23AND WE FOCUSED ON WHAT THEY NEEDED AND WHAT THEY WANTED AND
00:57:28WHAT THEY ASKED FOR. WE LISTENED TO THEM.
00:57:31THEY TALKED ABOUT COSTS ABOVE ALL. CHAOS AND CORRUPTION.
00:57:38WE ALSO RECRUITED GREAT CANDIDATES. EVEN IN RED STATES.
00:57:42THESE PEOPLE TOUCHED MY HEART. EVERYONE ONE OF THEM THAT WE
00:57:47RECRUITED HAD GREAT OTHER
00:57:49OPPORTUNITIES BUT THEY RAN OUT OF PATRIOTISM.
00:57:53THEY KNEW THEIR COUNTRY NEEDED THEM.
00:57:55THEY KNEW IN MANY CASES, EVERY CASE, THEY WERE THE BEST
00:57:59CANDIDATE FOR THEIR STATE AND THEY WERE GREAT.
00:58:00AND THEN THE REPUBLICANS AND
00:58:15FOLLOW TRUMP OVER THE CLIFF.
00:58:18SOME OF THE TIME, HE TALKED ABOUT EXTRANEOUS THINGS.
00:58:21THAT WERE RIDICULOUS BUT MUCH OF
00:58:22THE TIME HE IMPLEMENTED THINGS
00:58:26THAT RAISE THEIR COSTS ON
00:58:30ELECTRICITY, HEALTH CARE, ON GOODS.
00:58:34WELL, REPUBLICANS HAD A CHOICE. OF FOLLOWING TRUMP OVER THE
00:58:39CLIFF EVEN THOUGH TRUMP POLICIES
00:58:42MADE AMERICAN FAMILIES PAY MUCH WORSE -- PAIN MUCH WORSE.
00:58:47WE NEVER WAVERED. WE LISTENED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WANTED.
00:58:52WE SAT DOWN IN THEIR KITCHENS AND LIVING ROOMS AND SAID, WHAT
00:58:56SHOULD WE DO? THEY TOLD US AND WE LISTENED.
00:59:00WE LISTENED AND THEY DID NOT.
00:59:03THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REDUCED THE
00:59:07RED BRICK WALL TO A PILE OF BRICKS.
00:59:11AS A RESULT, THERE IS NO A
00:59:14GENERATIONAL REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP.
00:59:18THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE AMERICA
00:59:21NOW AND ON INTO THE FUTURE.
00:59:24AMERICANS VOTED FOR CHANGE.
00:59:27AND NOW DEMOCRATS MUST DELIVER.
00:59:34HOST: ERIKA FILTER AT THE
00:59:38UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, AS FAR AS
00:59:41THEY'RE PULLING MORE INFORMATION THEY GOT, IT WAS NATIONWIDE WHEN
00:59:45IT COMES TO THE JOB DISAPPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, THOSE SAYING
00:59:48THEY WERE VERY SATISFIED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION, 50 1%.
00:59:5260% SAID THEY WERE SOMEWHAT SATISFIED AND 70 1% NOT
00:59:56SATISFIED AT ALL ALL FACTOR INTO WHAT WE SAW.
01:00:00YOU HEARD CHUCK SCHUMER SAY RELIEF IS ON THE WAY BUT NOW THEY HAVE TO DELIVER.
01:00:08GUEST: THAT WAS NOTABLE TO ME AS WELL. SURVEYS HAVE SHOWN BEFORE THE ELECTION EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC
01:00:11REPORTED MORE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THAN 2024
01:00:15SO THIS IS NO SURPRISE HERE BUT
01:00:18SCHUMER IS GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE
01:00:20ACTION AND HE HAS REAL OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO WITH AT
01:00:24LEAST 54 SENATE SEATS GOT TWO
01:00:28PENDING HERE. AS HE MENTIONED, HE WAS A MAJOR
01:00:30PLAYMAKERHE WAS A MAJOR PLAYMAK.
01:00:38JEFF TARIK WAS TOUGH AND IOWA.
01:00:40HE RECRUITED ROY COOPER.
01:00:43AND MARY PELTOLA, WHO REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHERE SHE IS AT IN ALASKA.
01:00:50HE BACKED HALEY STEVENS IN MICHIGAN BUT RAN WITH ABDUL
01:00:52EL-SAYED.
01:00:55DEMOCRATS GOT BEHIND HIM IN FULL
01:00:57FORCE, AND THEY ARE REAPING THOSE REWARDS.
01:01:00HOST: FIVE HOURS TO GO WHEN IT COMES TO OUR COVERAGE OF
01:01:04ELECTION 2026 ON C-SPAN.
01:01:08>> MONDAY, AMERICANS LEADING TELEVISION CALL-IN PROGRAM,
01:01:11"WASHINGTON JOURNAL," COMES TO PRIMETIME LIVE.
01:01:14>> LEVEL HAVE IT COVERAGE. >> I TRUST YOU GUYS.
01:01:18>> EVERY MORNING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN TAKING
01:01:22AMERICA'S CALLS. NOW THAT CONVERSATION WILL ALSO
01:01:25COME TO PRIME TIME. >> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED
01:01:29STATION. >> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL PRIMETIME," WEEKNIGHTS STARTING
01:01:33MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN.
01:01:36>> NOW, MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
01:01:38COVERAGE OF THE 2020 SIX MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
01:01:42VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS.
01:01:45THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER AND CONGRESS AND SHAPE THE POLITICAL
01:01:49LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
01:01:51WE ARE BRINGING YOU THE LATEST ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE
01:01:55REACTIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
01:02:00C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR
01:02:01FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION
01:02:07NIGHT.
01:02:10HOST: THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION OF "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" FOR YOU, AS WE LOOK AND DIG INTO THE RENTAL -- THE RESULTS OF
01:02:14CAMPAIGN 2026, BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS
01:02:18AS OF THIS MORNING. AND WE ARE STILL WATCHING TO SEE
01:02:20THE RESULTS OF A COUPLE OF SENATE RACES.
01:02:24IN MISSISSIPPI, SCOTT CALLING
01:02:28CURRENTLY TIED WAS SENATOR CINDY HYDE-SMITH, 48 POINT 9% OF
01:02:31SUPPORT FOR BOTH OF THOSE, AS OF
01:02:34NOW WITH 96% OF VOTES COUNTED.
01:02:37AND IN ALASKA, AS WE CONTINUE TO
01:02:40WATCH THAT, SENATOR DAN
01:02:42SULLIVAN, THE REPUBLICAN, I HAD
01:02:46WITH 100,000 PLUS, 48.5% VERSUS
01:02:49MARY PELTOLA AT 47.7%.
01:02:51WE WILL WATCH THOSE RACES, AND
01:02:53WHEN CALLS ARE MADE DURING THE COURSE OF THE MORNING, PROBABLY
01:02:58MISSISSIPPI BEFORE ALASKA, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT.
01:03:00WE WILL LET YOU KNOW WHERE THE BALANCE OF POWER STANDS
01:03:04SPECIFICALLY. ON OUR WEBSITE, LOOK AT THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN FOR THE
01:03:08CONSTANT UPDATE OF WHERE THINGS STAND.
01:03:11WE TOLD YOU BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE ARE IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS
01:03:14WHEN IT COMES TO THE STATS, 54
01:03:18SEATS SO FAR WAS SEVEN BEING
01:03:22PICKUPS, VERSUS 44 FOR REPUBLICANS AND FOR THE HOUSE.
01:03:26220 EIGHT SEATS CURRENTLY
01:03:29GAINED, 25 PICKUPS FOR THE
01:03:31REPUBLICANS, 139 SEATS.
01:03:34WATCH THAT INFORMATION AS THE MORNING GOES ON.
01:03:36WE WILL CONTINUE ON UNTIL 12 OR
01:03:38NOT CLIP -- UNTIL 12:00, GETTING
01:03:41ANALYSIS AND LOOKING AT RACES AND HEARING FROM YOU IF YOU WANT
01:03:44TO MAKE YOUR THOUGHTS KNOWN.
01:03:48DEMOCRATS, (202) 748-8000. REPUBLICANS, (202) 748-8001.
01:03:50INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002.
01:03:58JOINING US IS ERIKA FILTER OF NATIONAL JOURNAL, HERE TO WALK
01:04:03THROUGH THE RESULTS. YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE
01:04:04EVENTS IN IOWA.
01:04:08JOSH TURK WITH THAT SLIGHT LEAD
01:04:10OVER ASHLEY HINSON IN IOWA, OF ALL PLACES, A DEEPLY RED STATE
01:04:14AT ONE TIME. TALK ABOUT THE DYNAMICS OF THIS RACE.
01:04:19GUEST: ASHLEY HINSON, THE REPUBLICAN, WAS ONE OF THE
01:04:23REPUBLICANS' BEST CANDIDATES GOING INTO LAST NIGHT. SHE WAS THE REPRESENTATIVE IN
01:04:27IOWA AND HAD BEEN DOING THE WORK
01:04:31OF TRUMP. IOWA WAS IN A TOUGH POSITION OF THE LAST TWO YEARS.
01:04:35IT IS VERY AGRICULTURAL,
01:04:38AFFECTED BY THE TARIFFS ON THE WAR IN IRAN, AFFECTING BOTH
01:04:42IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. THESE AGRICULTURE CANDIDATES
01:04:45WERE STRUGGLING, ALLOWING
01:04:47DEMOCRATS TO WIN, NOT ONLY IN
01:04:49THE SENATE RACE BUT ALSO IN IOWA
01:04:53WHICH WAS VIEWED AS A TOSSUP IN THE FINAL RATINGS.
01:04:57EARLIER IN THE CYCLE, IT WAS NOT REALLY A DREAM IN IOWA.
01:05:01HOST: LOOKING AT OHIO, SENATE
01:05:03RACE THERE, A FAMILIAR FACE,
01:05:06SHERROD BROWN OVER JON HUSTED.
01:05:09WHY THE DYNAMICS IN THAT STATE, WHICH IS HAD REPUBLICAN
01:05:12GOVERNORS AND OVER MIKE DEWINE. WHAT HAPPENED THERE?
01:05:16GUEST: OHIO HAS BEEN TRENDING TO THE RIGHT, BUT THIS IS JUST A
01:05:19MAJOR REPUDIATION OF TRUMP.
01:05:21SHERROD BROWN WAS OUSTED IN 2024.
01:05:24THERE WAS SOME POLLING GOING AROUND EARLIER IN THE CYCLE AND
01:05:28PEOPLE WERE NOT QUITE SURE WHO WAS IN OFFICE, WHETHER IT WAS HOUSTON POPPA OR BROWN.
01:05:33-- WHETHER IT WAS HUSTED OR
01:05:37BROWN.
01:05:41BROWN IS A PROLABOR CANDIDATE
01:05:45AND ANTI-CRYPTOCURRENCY CANDIDATE. HE IS LIKELY TO COME IN SWINGING
01:05:49HERE. EXPECT THOSE POLICIES TO SHIFT
01:05:54AGAINST ATTACK. HOST: IN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, LET'S GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE.
01:05:58BOTH A STRONG REPUBLICAN STATES AT ONE POINT, BUT NOT BIG
01:06:02CHANGES, PARTICULARLY IN NORTH CAROLINA WITH THE ELECTION OF ROY COOPER.
01:06:08GUEST: ROY COOPER, ALONG WITH JON OSSOFF AND GEORGIA, WERE
01:06:10SOME OF DEMOCRATS VESTS GOING
01:06:18INTO LAST NIGHT.
01:06:21THEY HAD STOPPED SPENDING TO
01:06:24FOCUS ON MORE VULNERABLE STATES LIKE SOUTH CAROLINA WILL, WHICH
01:06:27ON THE OTHER HAND, WAS A SHOCKER.
01:06:29COOPER WAS GOING UP WITH FORMER
01:06:32RNC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL WHATLEY.
01:06:35OBVIOUSLY, HE WILL SKEW CLOSE TO TRUMP.
01:06:38COOPER, SUPER NAME ID, A GOOD
01:06:41REPUTATION WHEN HE GOT OUT AS GOVERNOR.
01:06:47GIVEN HOW THE REST OF THE MAP
01:06:48LOOKS, THERE WAS -- THIS IS NO
01:06:52SURPRISE. SOUTH CAROLINA IS A MAJOR SUPPLIES.
01:06:55DARLINE GRAHAM SUFFERED SOME CANDIDATE QUALITY ISSUES GOING
01:06:58IN, AND SHE HAD A TOUGH PRIMARY TO REPLACE HER BROTHER LINDSEY
01:07:01GRAHAM IN THE SENATE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
01:07:05ANNIE ANDREWS HAD LOST IN NANCY
01:07:10MACE'S DISTRICT IN 2022. SHE HAD NOT WON A RACE IN SOUTH
01:07:14CAROLINA KIND OF COMING INTO
01:07:19THIS, NOW WINNING STATEWIDE. HOST: A LARGE AMOUNT OF RED IN
01:07:22THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE, SOME NORTHERN PARTS.
01:07:25TOWARDS THAT MIDDLE, A LOT OF BLUE, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE
01:07:29ALWAYS. GUEST: KNOW, AND I AM LOOKING AT
01:07:32SOUTH CAROLINA ONE, WHICH I DO
01:07:37NOT THINK HAS BEEN CALLED YET.
01:07:40THIS IS ONE THAT DEMOCRATS HAD BEEN HOPING FOR BUT WAS VERY
01:07:43MUCH -- ANY BLUE AND SOUTH
01:07:45CAROLINA OTHER THAN JIM CLYBURN
01:07:48IS GOING TO BE A SURPRISE. ALSO THINKING ABOUT THIS IN
01:07:51TERMS OF 2028.
01:07:55DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD HER FIRST PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES IN SOUTH
01:07:58CAROLINA COME 2028. ANNIE ANDREWS LIKELY GOING TO
01:08:02BECOME A MAJOR DEMOCRATIC
01:08:05KINGMAKER IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
01:08:10HOST: ERICA WOLFF FRUCHTER --
01:08:13ERIKA FILTER WITH US. YOU WOULD NORMALLY EXPECT OUR SHOW TO END AT 10:00 BUT IT WILL
01:08:17BE EXTENDED BY TWO HOURS FOR THE
01:08:19LATEST RESULTS WHEN IT COMES TO THE RESULTS OF ELECTION IN GET
01:08:23YOUR THOUGHTS. YOU CAN CALL THE NUMBERS ON THE SCREEN.
01:08:26MISSISSIPPI IS NEXT.
01:08:30JEQUENTIS IN MISSISSIPPI,
01:08:36INDEPENDENT LINE. THANKS FOR HOLDING ON. GO AHEAD. HELLO?
01:08:43CALLER: HELLO. HOST: GO AHEAD, YOU ARE ON.
01:08:47CALLER: I AM GLAD THE DEMOCRATS
01:08:49WIN, BUT THEY HAVE TO REALLY
01:08:52TIGHTEN UP THEIR GAME FOR 2028 STILL.
01:08:56HOST: WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS?
01:08:58HOST: OK.
01:09:062028 NOW COMING INTO VIEW AS OF YESTERDAY.
01:09:09GUEST: YEAH, THE DYNAMICS OF THAT RACE WILL VERY MUCH DEPEND
01:09:12ON WHAT DEMOCRATS DO IN CONGRESS
01:09:15AND THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
01:09:17IN SOME WAYS, THEY'RE KIND OF
01:09:22BLOODBATH TONIGHT HAS ALMOST OPENED UP A PATH FOR REPUBLICANS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
01:09:26A LOT OF CALLERS TODAY HAVE SAID
01:09:32DEMOCRATS NEED TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE PROMISES THEY HAVE MADE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL OVER THE
01:09:34LAST YEAR OR TWO. IT IS A STRANGE POSITION WHERE
01:09:38THEY HAD THESE LARGE MAJORITIES, BUT THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO BE ABLE
01:09:41TO PASS A TON OF LEGISLATION AND LESS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WILLING
01:09:45TO PLAY BALL. SO IT WILL BE A STRANGE DECISION
01:09:49POINT OF DECIDING WHETHER TO GIVE DEMOCRATS VICTORIES THEY
01:09:52MIGHT BE ABLE TO CAMPAIGN ON IN 20 28.
01:09:56INSTEAD, THEY MIGHT HAVE A
01:09:58FLIP-FLOPPING OF REPUBLICANS COMING IN AND SAYING DEMOCRATS
01:10:02HAD CONTROL OF CONGRESS. THERE COULD BE A FLIP-FLOP.
01:10:06IT COMES OUT TO IT DEMOCRATS CAN GET DONE.
01:10:09HOST: SPEAKING A FLIP-FLOPPING, WE ARE SHOWING PEOPLE ON THE
01:10:13SCREEN, LOOK AT DISTRICTS SIX OUT OF KENTUCKY, A DEMOCRAT NOW WINNING THAT RACE.
01:10:16TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT.
01:10:19GUEST: THAT WAS A DREAM FOR DEMOCRATS, AN EARLY INDICATOR OF A DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI.
01:10:25KENTUCKY SEX HAS BEEN KIND OF A LARGE DREAM FOR DEMOCRATS FOR A WHILE.
01:10:28-- KENTUCKY SIX HAS BEEN KIND OF
01:10:36A LARGE DREAM FOR DEMOCRATS FOR A WHILE. ANDY BESHEAR IS THE CURRENT
01:10:40GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY, AND HE WAS
01:10:43KIND OF USING THIS AS HIS WHITE WHALE GOING INTO THE CYCLE.
01:10:46HE SPENT $600,000 FOR GUMBO,
01:10:53WHICH GOES A LONG WAY IN KENTUCKY.
01:10:56HE HAS A LOT MORE TO BRAG ABOUT
01:10:59COMING THE NEXT FOLLOWING WEEKS
01:11:01OR MONTHS, BUT THAT IS A
01:11:04HOMESTEAD VICTORY FOR HIM.
01:11:05HOST: MICHAEL JOINS US FROM
01:11:09KENTUCKY, REPUBLICAN LINE. CALLER: HELLO, SIR.
01:11:14I WANT TO GO ON HERE TO SAY I
01:11:18MYSELF HAVE NOT VOTED, AND
01:11:23BECAUSE BACK IN 2020I VOTED FOR
01:11:26DONALD TRUMP, AND I AM A REPUBLICAN AND WILL STAND BY IT,
01:11:30AND ALL THESE PROMISES THAT ARE
01:11:31MADE -- TO THE PEOPLE LIKE ME, I
01:11:36AM 20 YEARS OLD AND PAY MY OWN
01:11:38BILLS, WORKING BLUE-COLLAR.
01:11:42ALL THESE PROMISES ALL THESE POLITICIANS MAKE, AND NOBODY
01:11:45FOLLOWS UP ON HALF OF THE PROMISES.
01:11:49ABOUT THE INFLATION, EVERYONE IN MY GENERATION IS YOUNG AND
01:11:53SUFFERING. PEOPLE GOT KIDS AT 21 AND CAN BARELY FEED THEM.
01:11:58ANDY BARR, I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE HE PREACHES
01:12:02ABOUT FIGHTING INFLATION.
01:12:04I HOPE HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH ABOUT IT, BECAUSE WE REALLY NEEDED.
01:12:08GAS IS GOING CRAZY, GROCERIES. EGGS GOING CRAZY, JUST EVERYTHING.
01:12:13I REALLY JUST WISH IT WAS NOT SO
01:12:18REPUBLICAN VERSUS DEMOCRAT. I WISH WE COULD MEET IN THE MIDDLE SOMEWHERE, LIKE A
01:12:22DEMOCRAT THAT BELIEVES IN SOME REPUBLICAN VALUES.
01:12:26WE LIVE IN SUCH A GREAT COUNTRY.
01:12:31THAT IS ALL I GOT TO SAY.
01:12:36HOST: OK. REPUBLICANS WHO EITHER DID NOT VOTE OR VOTED FOR A DEMOCRAT,
01:12:39HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DID THAT HAVE?
01:12:43GUEST: I THINK A LOT OF REPUBLICANS ARE IN THAT SAME BOAT WERE THEY PROBABLY STAYED
01:12:47HOME AND WERE NOT SUPER EXCITED ABOUT TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS.
01:12:51TRUMP HAS SAID HE WAS NOT ON THE
01:12:54BALLOT, OTHERWISE REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE WIN IN A LANDSLIDE.
01:12:57BUT HE WAS ALL OVER THE TRAIL OVER THE LAST MONTH OR SO.
01:13:00PEOPLE WERE VERY MUCH AWARE AND A LOT OF THESE GOP STRONGHOLDS
01:13:04WHAT TRUMP WAS DOING. IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE THAT
01:13:07REALLY PUSHED THE NEEDLE IN ANY WAY. TRUMP HAD ACTUALLY GIVEN HIS
01:13:11KIND OF CLOSING ARGUMENT ON
01:13:14MONDAY AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING POOL.
01:13:16HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT D.C. BEAUTIFICATION, BUT
01:13:20HE ALSO SAID HE MET ALL OF HIS PROMISES AND MORE.
01:13:22I REALLY THINK PEOPLE JUST DID NOT BUY THAT.
01:13:25THEY ARE SEEING PAIN AT THE GROCERY STORE AND AT THE GAS PUMP.
01:13:29IT IS NOT ENOUGH, AND REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO NEED TO
01:13:32WORK WITH DEMOCRATS TO SALVAGE
01:13:36ANY APPROVALS GOING INTO 20 28.
01:13:40HOST: ASSUMING THEY WON THE
01:13:42POSITIONS, WHAT FACES THE SENATE
01:13:45MINORITY LEADER JOHN THUNE AND A
01:13:50GUEST: JOHNSON HAS HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WORKING IN A VERY
01:13:52NARROW REPUBLICAN MAJORITY, SO
01:13:57HE HAS HAD TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS IN THE PAST.
01:14:00DEMOCRATS HAVE SAVED HIM FROM SEVERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS. THERE IS ONE COMING UP THAT WILL
01:14:03LIKELY BE LAME-DUCK, AND I
01:14:10BELIEVE FUNDING EXPIRES SOMETIME IN DECEMBER.
01:14:13THAT WILL KIND OF BE THE ACTIVITY GOING INTO THE REST OF THIS MONTH.
01:14:16ANOTHER QUESTION FOR JOHNSON IS WHETHER A LOT OF THIS
01:14:20REPUBLICANS EVEN COME BACK TO WASHINGTON FOR THIS LAME-DUCK PERIOD.
01:14:25WITH DEMOCRATS HAVING THE MAJORITIES THAT THEY DO, IT IS
01:14:27NOT CLEAR THAT HOUSE REPUBLICANS
01:14:30ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH.
01:14:34THEY JUST MIGHT NOT WANT TO REALLY PLAY BALL HERE.
01:14:37ONCE YOU ARE IN THE HOUSE, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE THESE
01:14:42FOLKS AND WILL HAVE TO TALK TO
01:14:43REPORTERS ABOUT DEFEAT.
01:14:47MANY REPUBLICANS TONIGHT HAVE GIVEN CONCESSION SPEECHES.
01:14:50BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
01:14:51BETWEEN THAT AND COMING INTO THE
01:14:54LAME-DUCK, MAKING ADDITIONAL CHOICES THAT WILL LIKELY BE
01:14:57UNPOPULAR AND MIGHT EVEN BE REVERSED ONCE DEMOCRATS GET INTO POWER.
01:15:02THERE HAD ALREADY NOT BEEN A TON OF ENTHUSIASM BECAUSE OF THE
01:15:05MIDTERM OUTLOOK, AND NOW THAT
01:15:08DEMOCRATS HAVE GOTTEN THOSE VICTORIES, IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME
01:15:12THAT REPUBLICANS WILL SHOW UP COME WHENEVER THEY ARE BACK.
01:15:15HOST: THE CURRENT HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON MAKING COMMENTS AFTER YESTERDAY, AND HERE IS
01:15:19SOME OF THOSE. [VIDEO CLIP]
01:15:22>> WE ARE ON THE TWO HUNDRED 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREATEST
01:15:25NATION AT THE WORLD, THE MOST FREE, SUCCESSFUL, POWERFUL,
01:15:30BENEVOLENT NATION. BUT IT IS STILL A GRAND
01:15:34EXPERIMENT, GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
01:15:36WE DO NOT HAVE A KING OR MONARCH, WE HAVE TO DO IT FOR OURSELVES.
01:15:40FOR ALL THOSE WHO TAKE THAT SACRIFICE TO STEP UP AND SERVE,
01:15:43WE ARE REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEM ALL.
01:15:45I ALSO WANT TO THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE AND THE WHOLE CABINET.
01:15:50THEY RAN WITH OUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES HAND IN HAND,
01:15:54ALONGSIDE OUR CANDIDATES AROUND THE COUNTRY. THIS WAS A TEAM EFFORT, REALLY WAS.
01:15:58I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT WE FACE, SURREAL ODDS HERE.
01:16:00FROM THE FIRST DAY OF THIS ELECTION, WE KNEW THAT YOU KEEP
01:16:04THE HOUSE AND SUSTAIN OUR MAJORITY, WE WOULD HAVE TO DEIFY
01:16:07MORE THAN A CENTURY OF MIDTERM HISTORY.
01:16:10ONLY HAPPENED TWICE IN 90 YEARS AT A SITTING PRESIDENT HAS
01:16:13PICKED UP OR HELD SEATS FOR HIS
01:16:15PART IN THAT FIRST TWO-YEAR CYCLE.
01:16:18A LOT OF REASONS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME.
01:16:21LOOKS LIKE HISTORY WILL BE KEPT TONIGHT.
01:16:24WE WENT ON OFFENSE EARLY AND LAUNCHED ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC
01:16:28POLITICAL OPERATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF CONGRESS. I PROMISE YOU THAT.
01:16:31WE MADE OUR CASE IN TERMS OF THE LANGUAGE OF COMMON SENSE.
01:16:34WE SAID THIS IS A CONTRAST ELECTION BETWEEN COMMON SENSE AND CRAZY.
01:16:39I WILL MAINTAIN THAT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. I SAID FROM DAY ONE THAT I WAS
01:16:42GOING TO LEAVE EVERYTHING ON THE FIELD IN THIS ENDEAVOR, AND I AM
01:16:46PROUD TO SAY THAT IS WHAT WE DID. THEY GAVE ME THE STATS.
01:16:50IN THIS TWO-YOUR CYCLE, I LET
01:16:54ALMOST 500 INDIVIDUAL CAMPAIGN EVENTS ACROSS 36 STATES.
01:16:58I BROKE EVERY FUNDRAISING RECORD THERE HAS EVER BEEN, BY GOD'S
01:17:01GRACE, AND BECAUSE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM.
01:17:04WE RAISED MORE THAN $526 MILLION FOR THIS CYCLE.
01:17:12SO LISTEN TO THIS, I AM TELLING
01:17:13YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND HAVE BEEN A BIG PART
01:17:17OF THIS, SINCE BECOMING SPEAKER, I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM ABOUT
01:17:20TO TELL YOU, I HAVE RAISED MORE
01:17:23THAN $870 MILLION, WHICH MAKES
01:17:25ME I THINK THE LARGEST FUNDRAISER AND THE REPUBLICAN
01:17:29PARTY FOR DONALD J. TRUMP. [APPLAUSE]
01:17:34I HAVE ALSO -- LISTEN TO THIS, I
01:17:36HAVE ALSO TRAVELED ENOUGH CAMPAIGN MILES TO CIRCLE THE
01:17:40GLOBE MORE THAN 14 TIMES, OK.
01:17:44HOST: HE IS LISTING HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS THERE. I WANTED TO POINT OUT, IN
01:17:50LOUISIANA, HE WAS ALSO
01:17:53CAMPAIGNING QUITE FREQUENTLY FOR JULIA LETLOW, SHE JUST BARELY
01:17:56WINNING HER RACE THERE. GUEST: YEAH, THIS WAS ANOTHER
01:17:59KIND OF SLEEPER RACE FOR DEMOCRATS.
01:18:03THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO GET THERE, BUT THEY ALSO HAD NOT SPENT
01:18:07ANYTHING WHATSOEVER. THE BIG KIND OF INTRIGUE IN
01:18:10LOUISIANA WAS THE INCUMBENT SENATOR BILL CASSIDY WAS DEFEATED.
01:18:15CASSIDY WAS ONE OF THE ONLY REMAINING SENATORS WHO HAD VOTED
01:18:19TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP, ALONG WITH SUSAN COLLINS, I
01:18:22BELIEVE, WHO IS ALSO OUT NOW.
01:18:26LETLOW KIND OF GLIDED AWAY WITH THE PRIMARY.
01:18:29SHE HAD TRUMP'S SUPPORT.
01:18:31BUT THERE WAS SOME LINGERING QUESTIONS AFTER CASSIDY HAD BEEN OUSTER THERE.
01:18:36HOST: THE DATA WE RECEIVED FROM
01:18:40VOTERS, TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE THEY WERE VOTING AND THE ISSUES THEY FOUND IMPORTANT,
01:18:44WHEN IT COMES TO THAT MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE, THE WAR IN IRAN
01:18:48TOPPING AT 43 PERCENT FOR
01:18:50DEMOCRATS, 28% FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:18:54IMMIGRATION, 15 PERCENT, 53 PERCENT FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:18:58HEALTH, 54% FOR DEMOCRATS, 33% FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:19:03ECONOMY THE LARGEST ISSUE, 60 1%
01:19:05FOR DEMOCRATS AND 55% FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:19:09THEY ASKED THE QUESTION OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, IF AMERICA'S BEST DAYS ARE BEHIND THEM.
01:19:1459% OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS SAID
01:19:17THAT, 40% OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS ARE RESPONDING THAT WAY.
01:19:21OTHER DATA THAT CAME IN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,
01:19:23FIRST-TIME VOTERS THERE, 62% OF FIRST-TIME VOTERS VOTING FOR A
01:19:27DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE, AND 34
01:19:31PERCENT GIVING THEIR SUPPORT TO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
01:19:33AND THEN THE CONGRESSIONAL JOB
01:19:38APPROVAL, 40 7% OF REPUBLICAN
01:19:40VOTERS, ONLY 12% OF DEMOCRATS.
01:19:44THAT DATA GIVES YOU A SNAPSHOT OF MOOD, AND I SUPPOSE MOOD
01:19:47GOING INTO THIS ELECTION WAS SOMETHING THAT PLAYED OUT WITH
01:19:51THE VICTORIES OF DEMOCRATS THIS TIME AROUND.
01:19:53GUEST: THE ECONOMY AND THE WAR
01:19:57ARE VERY CLOSELY INTERTWINED.
01:20:02. PRESIDENT TRUMP PUT IN THESE TARIFFS BUT ALSO THE BLOCKAGE OF
01:20:06THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ ANYWHERE ON
01:20:10AFFECTED TRADE AND FUEL PRICES
01:20:13VERY MUCH -- THE BLOCKAGE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IN IRAN
01:20:17AFFECTED TRADE AND FUEL PRICES VERY MUCH. THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL CUT
01:20:20MEDICARE LAST YEAR AND A LOT OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS.
01:20:23SO IF YOU ARE ALREADY HURTING, YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS
01:20:27MAY HAVE GONE UP IN THE LAST YEAR.
01:20:30OVERALL, A POOR PICTURE FOR REPUBLICANS. THEY WERE NOT GOING INTO LAST
01:20:34NIGHT FOR OPTIMISTIC. THIS IS VERY MUCH A REPUDIATION
01:20:37AND SIGN THAT VOTERS ARE DEMANDING CHANGE, AND THEY ARE
01:20:40ANGRY WITH THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP. HOST: JOHN JOINS US FROM
01:20:44CALIFORNIA, DEMOCRAT. THANKS FOR WAKING UP EARLY WITH
01:20:46US AND CALLING IN. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
01:20:50THIS IS JOHN IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
01:20:52I JUST WANTED TO ASK ERIKA A
01:21:00QUICK QUESTION.
01:21:00IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT WHEN
01:21:04DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS WAKE UP THIS MORNING, THERE'S
01:21:06GOING TO BE A GREAT FRACTURE IN
01:21:10THE LOYALTY THAT THE REPUBLICANS
01:21:11HAD FOR TRUMP.
01:21:14NOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS HOLD 54
01:21:17SEATS AND POSSIBLY TWO MORE
01:21:20SEATS THAT THEY MAY GAIN, THAT WOULD PUT US AT 56 SEATS, I
01:21:24WANTED TO ASK HER THOUGHTS ABOUT
01:21:26POSSIBLY PERSUADING 10
01:21:30REPUBLICANS TO COME OVER TO GAIN
01:21:31THAT 66 SEATS WE WOULD NEED TO NOT ONLY IMPEACH HIM BUT TO
01:21:35REMOVE HIM.
01:21:40GUEST: SO, PRIOR TO LAST NIGHTS RESULTS, DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
01:21:43HAD BEEN VERY MUCH OPPOSED TO IMPEACHMENT AND THEREFORE
01:21:47REMOVAL. BUT EVEN 50 SEATS IN THE SENATE
01:21:50WAS A GUARANTEE BY ANY MEANS. SO THEY ARE MY SHIFT.
01:21:56HOWEVER, I THINK SHOULD THAT HAPPEN, IT WOULD BE A VERY SLOW
01:22:00PROCESS. THAT WOULD START WITH
01:22:04INVESTIGATIONS, LIKELY IN THE HOUSE, FROM CALIFORNIA REP
01:22:08ROBERT GARCIA. A LOT OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATS, JD
01:22:11PRITZKER WAS ON ONE OF THE SHOWS EARLIER THIS WEEK SAYING LET'S
01:22:14WAIT FOR INVESTIGATIONS TO SEE WHAT THOSE BRING UP.
01:22:18THEY SAID TO KIND OF HOLD THE PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE BUT HAVE
01:22:21NOT SPELLED OUT WHAT THAT MEANS.
01:22:24THAT COULD CHANGE, EITHER BASED
01:22:26ON THESE LARGE MAJORITIES OR
01:22:29COULD CHANGE DEPENDING ON WHAT
01:22:30THEY SORT OF UNCOVER IN THESE INVESTIGATIONS.
01:22:34I WILL ALSO NOTE, LISA MURKOWSKI
01:22:37IN ALASKA HAS BEEN VERY MUCH A THORN IN SENATE REPUBLICANS'
01:22:42SIDE.
01:22:43SUE COLLINS AND BILL CASSIDY ARE
01:22:47BOTH ON THEIR WAY OUT, BUT THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN WILLING TO FLIP,
01:22:50ALONG WITH MITCH MCCONNELL WHO IS RETIRING.
01:22:54SO IT IS NOT TOTALLY CLEAR TO ME WHERE THOSE DEFECTIONS WILL COME
01:22:57IN OTHER THAN MOST LIKELY MURKOWSKI, WHO TRUMP HAS ALREADY
01:23:01SAID HE KIND OF HAS HIS EYE ON GOING INTO 2028.
01:23:05WITH AT LEAST 44 SEATS FOR
01:23:07DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE, I THINK REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO BE
01:23:11WILLING TO NEGOTIATE.
01:23:15HOST: 54 SEATS BEING CLAIMED BY
01:23:19DEMOCRATS CURRENTLY, SEVEN PICKUPS.
01:23:2244 SEATS CLAIMED BY REPUBLICANS. TWO SEATS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
01:23:26ON THE HOUSE SIDE, 200 28 SEATS,
01:23:3025 PICKUPS WHEN IT COMES TO DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE HOUSE,
01:23:34100 39 FOR REPUBLICANS. DEMOCRATS ON THE SENATE SIDE HAVE TALKED OVER THE YEARS,
01:23:38SHOULD THEY GAIN POWER, TWO THINGS, FUTURE OF FILIBUSTER AND
01:23:41WHAT THEY DO ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT. HOW DOES THAT CONVERSATION CHANGE NOW?
01:23:47GUEST: TOP OF MY LIST WOULD BE THE SUPREME COURT.
01:23:50ALMOST EVERY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT
01:23:53HAS TALKED ABOUT REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT IN SOME WAY.
01:23:57THAT IS FOR A LOT OF REASONS BUT ONE OF THE BIGGEST IS LOUISIANA
01:24:00AND WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL, WHICH BASICALLY IT ALLOWED
01:24:04REDISTRICTING THAT DID NOT PLAY OUT FOR REPUBLICANS BUT HAMPERED
01:24:07THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT THROUGH A
01:24:12LOT OF THESE MAJORITY MINORITY DISTRICTS. DEMOCRATS ARE KIND OF
01:24:15HEARTBROKEN BY THIS, ESPECIALLY
01:24:17THE LOSS OF POWER IT MEANT FOR BLACK SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS.
01:24:21SINCE THEN, THERE HAS BEEN KIND OF A HUGE APPETITE TO REFORM THE
01:24:25COURT IN SOME WAY, WHETHER THAT IS ADDING A CODE OF ETHICS,
01:24:28ADDING TERM LIMITS, OR EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES ON THE
01:24:33COURT. KIND OF FUNNY ACTUALLY BECAUSE
01:24:36SOME DEMOCRATS HAVE EXPLICITLY SAID THEY WANT TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES.
01:24:39AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE ELON
01:24:42MUSK BEFORE THE ELECTION THREATENING THAT DEMOCRATS WILL
01:24:45EXPAND THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES.
01:24:47I THINK THAT IS LIKELY AN REFORM
01:24:51IS ALMOST CERTAIN IN SOME WAY.
01:24:53HOST: AND FUTURE POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS ON THE SUPREME COURT AND WHETHER THAT GETS
01:24:57APPROVED OR NOT. GUEST: YEAH, THE TWO KIND OF
01:25:01TARGET JUSTICES WOULD BE SAMUEL ALITO AND CLARENCE THOMAS.
01:25:04SAMUEL ALITO, THERE WAS A KIND OF A SNAFU EARLIER THIS YEAR
01:25:07WERE IT WAS REPORTED HE WAS GOING TO RETIRE, BUT THAT WAS RETRACTED.
01:25:11HE MOST RECENTLY SAID HE THINKS ABOUT WHETHER TO RETIRE EVERY
01:25:15YEAR AND SAID HE WAS NOT THINKING ABOUT POLITICS.
01:25:19BUT AT THAT TIME, THE SENATE WAS
01:25:21NOT AT THE POINT IT IS NOW.
01:25:24CLARENCE THOMAS HAS EXPLICITLY SAID HE HAS NO INTEREST IN
01:25:27RETIRING, BUT HE IS THE OLDEST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AND IS ON
01:25:30THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE.
01:25:32TWO YEARS HERE, AND A LOT OF
01:25:35THESE SIGNATURES WILL BE IN FOR SIX-YEAR TERMS.
01:25:38SO THERE IS TIME FOR MOVEMENT THERE.
01:25:41HOST: LINE FOR REPUBLICANS, NORTH CAROLINA, SCOTT, HELLO.
01:25:45CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
01:25:47I JUST HAD A FEW COMMENTS. WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
01:25:51I MEAN, THEY ALREADY SPELLED IT OUT.
01:25:54JAMIE RASKIN IN CALIFORNIA, LAWYER UP.
01:25:57THEY ARE GOING TO DO NOTHING ABOUT COST OF LIVING.
01:26:01HERE IS MY PREDICTION, THEY ARE
01:26:05GOING TO GO AFTER EVERYONE AND ANYTHING THEY CAN GET THEIR
01:26:08HANDS ON.
01:26:10THEY ARE GOING TO PACK THE
01:26:13SUPREME COURT AND KILL THE FILIBUSTER.
01:26:15AND TRUMP WILL DO EXACTLY WHAT
01:26:18OBAMA DID, RULED BY THE PEN.
01:26:24EVERYTHING WILL BE EXECUTIVE ORDER. THERE'S REALLY NOTHING, OTHER
01:26:28THAN THE COURT JUSTICES AND
01:26:28SUPREME COURT, IF ONE SHALL
01:26:32OPEN, THAT DEMOCRATS WILL BE ABLE TO DO. YOU KNOW.
01:26:35TRUMP HAS VETO POWER.
01:26:39REPUBLICANS THAT ARE STAYING IN
01:26:40WILL NOT GO ALONG WITH ANYTHING
01:26:44THAT DEMOCRATS PUT ON THE TABLE.
01:26:48THEY WILL HAVE TO BARGAIN. LIKE TRUMP SAID, HE IS WILLING
01:26:52TO NEGOTIATE, BUT THEY ARE NOT
01:26:55GOING TO GET THERE CLAWING BACK
01:26:59OF ANY BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.
01:27:03THEY WILL HAVE TO GET THAT SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT, AND HE
01:27:07WILL NOT SIGN THAT. AND THEY WILL NOT HAVE THE
01:27:09OVERWHELMING SUPPORT BY
01:27:12REPUBLICANS TO DO SO.
01:27:16THIS WHOLE FAÇADE OF EVERYTHING
01:27:19IS GOING TO CHANGE FOR THE GOOD,
01:27:22I MEAN, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO STOP THE WAR IN IRAN?
01:27:26ARE THEY GOING TO CUT OFF FUNDING FOR THESE SOLDIERS? I DON'T THINK SO.
01:27:30THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY THE
01:27:34LAST THING THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO SHOW THAT THEY WANT TO CUT
01:27:38OFF FUNDING.
01:27:43IT IS A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT, AND GREAT JOB FOR DEMOCRATS FOR
01:27:46WINNING, BUT I FEEL LIKE NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE.
01:27:50HOST: OK, YOU PUT A LOT OUT THERE FOR OUR GUEST. ERIKA FILTER, WALK US THROUGH
01:27:54IT. GUEST: SOON TO BE SENATE
01:27:57MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER SAID RELIEF IS ON THE WAY.
01:28:01BUT AMERICANS HAVE A LOT OF DISTRUST IN GOVERNMENT AND
01:28:05CONGRESS RIGHT NOW.
01:28:07A LOT IN THE PRIMARIES, A LOT OF THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO
01:28:11SOUGHT STATEWIDE OFFICE, IT WAS
01:28:15MOST LIKELY BECAUSE OF DISSATISFACTION WITH WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
01:28:20IT HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY LOW OUTPUTS FOR THE LAST SEVERAL
01:28:23CONGRESSES. ONE THING THAT MIGHT SHIFT AS
01:28:26THE SIZE OF THESE MAJORITIES. HISTORICALLY, AS THERE'S BEEN
01:28:29VERY SLOW MAJORITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE HOUSE, THAT REALLY DO NOT
01:28:33ALLOW FOR MUCH TO GET DONE. HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF WIGGLE
01:28:37ROOM FOR SOMEONE LIKE HAKEEM JEFFRIES MEANS THERE IS A LEGITIMATE POSSIBILITY OF REALLY
01:28:41PUTTING SOMETHING OUT THERE.
01:28:42THAT SAID, AS THE CALLER POINTED
01:28:47OUT, PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL STILL BE SORT OF THE BE ALL END ALL
01:28:51WITH THE ULTIMATE VETO POWER.
01:28:53DEMOCRATS WILL NOT HAVE THE POWER TO OVERRULE THOSE VETOES.
01:28:57SO HE CAN REALLY DECIDE WHAT GETS DONE. DEMOCRATS WILL OBVIOUSLY COME IN
01:29:01WITH A LOT OF POWER. BUT IN TERMS OF ACTUAL CHANGE,
01:29:05IT WILL SOMEWHAT DEPEND ON WHAT TRUMP IS GOING TO ALLOW.
01:29:09HOST: HE REFERENCED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA FAMOUSLY SAID I
01:29:10HAVE A PEN AND I HAVE A PHONE
01:29:14AND I WILL USE IT, AND HE SAID THE CURRENT PRESIDENT HAS THE SAME.
01:29:19GUEST: DEMOCRATS HAVE TALKED ABOUT REDUCING PRESIDENTIAL POWER.
01:29:23THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORIC NUMBER OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, AND SOME
01:29:26HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED IN COURT, BUT THERE HAS BEEN A MEANS OF
01:29:30GETTING AROUND THE GRIDLOCK IN CONGRESS. DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN SORT OF
01:29:33LOOKING FOR -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY LOOPHOLES, BUT AREAS IN
01:29:38WHICH THE PRESIDENTIAL POWER HAS
01:29:41EXPANDED, ESPECIALLY WITH A FRIENDLY CONGRESS.
01:29:42THEY ARE LIKELY TO PUT CURBS ON
01:29:46THOSE, EVEN IF THEY FEEL GOOD ABOUT 2028.
01:29:50I THINK THERE IS A CURRENT PRIORY -- PRIORITY OF REDUCING
01:29:54THAT EXECUTIVE POWER.
01:29:56HOST: THIS IS C-SPAN'S COVERAGE
01:29:59OF ELECTION 20, "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" SPECIAL EDITION THAT
01:30:02GOES UNTIL NOON TODAY, WALKING
01:30:04TO THE RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S ELECTION, SHOWING YOU WHERE THE
01:30:08BALANCE OF POWER LIES, TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE HOUSE
01:30:10AND SENATE NOW THAT IT IS IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS.
01:30:13YOU ARE INVITED JOINT AS FOR THE CONVERSATION.
01:30:17YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL OR TEXT US YOUR THOUGHTS.
01:30:20A COUPLE WAYS YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG.
01:30:23IF YOU WATCH OUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW, ALL THE INFORMATION ON THE
01:30:26LEFT-HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN, THAT BALANCE OF POWER, AND THE
01:30:29BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, RESULTS FROM SOME RACES.
01:30:32YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE AND ANALYZE WHAT IS GOING ON ON THE
01:30:36HOUSE AND SENATE SIDE AS FAR AS
01:30:40THE BALANCE OF DATA. AT C-SPAN.ORG FOR THAT.
01:30:44WE WILL GO UNTIL NOON TODAY. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT SOME OF
01:30:47THE GOVERNOR RACES.
01:30:49NOW THAT WE HAVE RESULTS,
01:30:51STARTING IN GEORGIA, A CLOSELY
01:30:55WATCHED CONTEST, KEISHA LANCE
01:30:56BOTTOMS WITH 54.3% OF SUPPORT
01:31:00WERE 99% OF VOTES IN, THE WINNER OF THAT RACE OF THAT RACE OVER
01:31:03PHARMACEUTICAL MAGNATE RICK
01:31:05JANSSEN -- RICK JACKSON, 45.7%.
01:31:11LOOKING AT OHIO, AMY ACTON THE WINNER IN THAT CONTEST WITH
01:31:1552.3% OVER VIVEK RAMASWAMY.
01:31:19IN TAXES, WE HAVE BEEN SHOWING YOU THAT, BIG NIGHT FOR TAXES
01:31:23OVERALL -- -- IN TEXAS, A BIG
01:31:30NIGHT OVERALL. GINA HINOJOSA, DEMOCRAT, WITH
01:31:3352.8% OF HER GREG ABBOTT. SHE WAS DECLARED THE WINNER IN
01:31:37THAT CONTEST. IN FLORIDA, CONGRESSMAN BYRON
01:31:41DONALDS NOW THE GOVERNOR-ELECT OF FLORIDA.
01:31:4550% OF THE SUPPORT AND THAT RACE OVER DAVID JOLLEY.
01:31:4999 PERCENT OF VOTES IN. LET'S HEAR A LITTLE BIT FROM THE GOVERNOR-ELECT.
01:31:54[VIDEO CLIP]
01:31:57>> MY 30 YEARS IN FLORIDA HAS BEEN A VERY INTERESTING 30
01:32:00YEARS, BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, A
01:32:02STORY OF REDEMPTION, A STORY OF
01:32:06PEOPLE I MET ALONG THE WAY BACK IN COLLEGE, THROUGH YOUNG
01:32:09ADULTHOOD, COACHING KIDS,
01:32:12SERVING IN CHURCH, BEING IN THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT, FIGHTING MY
01:32:15WAY TO POLITICS, AND NOW I AM
01:32:20YOUR NEXT GOVERNOR. [APPLAUSE]
01:32:27I WANT TO THANK MY WIFE, BECAUSE
01:32:30ERICA HAS BEEN THE ROCK OF OUR FAMILY.
01:32:34SHE HAS ALLOWED ME TO DO THIS. EVERYBODY, GIVE IT UP FOR THE
01:32:38NEXT FIRST LADY OF THE GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA. [APPLAUSE]
01:32:45I WANT TO THANK MY SONS, BECAUSE
01:32:49MY SONS HAVE HAD TO SACRIFICE PROBABLY MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
01:32:53YOU SEE, FOR EVERYBODY LISTENING, NOTHING HAPPENS JUST
01:32:56BECAUSE IT HAPPENS.
01:33:00IT IS A LOT OF SACRIFICE ALONG THE WAY. SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICE THE MOST ARE THE
01:33:03PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU THE MOST. SO I WANT TO THANK MY SONS FOR
01:33:07LETTING ME BE ON THIS JOURNEY. [APPLAUSE]
01:33:13TO MY FAMILY, TO MY MOM, MY MOM IS HERE TONIGHT --
01:33:17[APPLAUSE]
01:33:22TO MY MOTHER, YOU LAID THE
01:33:27FOUNDATION OF THE MAN THAT I HAVE BECOME, SO I JUST WANT TO SAY, MOM, THANK YOU.
01:33:32I JUST HAD A PHONE CALL -- I
01:33:35ACTUALLY JUST HAD TWO PHONE CALLS. THE FIRST PHONE CALL WAS FROM
01:33:38DAVID JOLLEY -- NO, NO, NO, HOLD
01:33:42ON. WE TALKED, AND I HAD TO
01:33:47CONGRATULATE DAVID ON RUNNING A HARD-FOUGHT RACE. HE DID. [APPLAUSE]
01:33:54SO WHEN THIS CAMPAIGN -- IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING FROM ME, WE WORK
01:33:57HARD EVERY SINGLE DAY, AND WE WORK HARD AND WE DO IT WITH
01:34:01INTEGRITY, AND WE WIN WITH CLASS AND DIGNITY.
01:34:04AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE DAVID ON A HARD-FOUGHT RACE. [APPLAUSE]
01:34:14BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, IN OUR STATE, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING.
01:34:17WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING AT THEIR INSURANCE BILLS.
01:34:21WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING AT THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS, NOT
01:34:24MONTH IN, MONTH OUT, DAY-IN, DAY
01:34:27OUT, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY WILL MAKE ENDS MEET.
01:34:30MY MISSION IS TO ENSURE THEY CAN BUILD A GREAT LIFE HERE IN THE GREAT STATE OF FLORIDA.
01:34:34[APPLAUSE]
01:34:39HOST: THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ELECTED TO GOVERNORSHIP IN THE
01:34:42STATE OF FLORIDA, BYRON DONALDS, MAKING COMMENTS THERE.
01:34:45IF YOU LOOK AT OUR MAP, LARGE SWATHS OF RED WHEN IT COMES TO
01:34:49THE VICTORY THAT BYRON DONALDS
01:34:53HAD, IT HAD POCKETS OF BLUE.
01:34:55TALK ABOUT THAT RACE, BUT WHAT
01:34:57OTHER GOVERNOR RACES DID YOU SEE LAST NIGHT?
01:35:01GUEST: BYRON DONALDS CAME IN WITH A MASSIVE WARCHEST, BUT HE
01:35:05HAS SORT OF A DIFFICULT PRIMARY. HE HAD PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
01:35:09ENDORSEMENT, BUT FLORIDA
01:35:12GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAD BEEN PRETTY SLOW TO SUPPORT DONALD'S.
01:35:16THIS WAS IN SOME WAYS A TOUGH ENVIRONMENT FOR HIM.
01:35:20THIS IS SO FLORIDA, DAVID JOLLEY
01:35:24WAS NOT ON MOST DEMOCRATS' RADARS.
01:35:27HE ENDED UP WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE.
01:35:30A LOT OF THE STATES HAD A STRONG
01:35:34PERFORMANCE FOR REPUBLICANS, JUST COMPARATIVELY.
01:35:37LOOKING AT THE MAP, KEEPING AN EYE ON KANSAS WHICH HAS NOT BEEN
01:35:41CALLED YET, THAT WAS THE SECOND
01:35:46MOST LIKELY RACE TO FLIP, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE IT
01:35:49WILL BE STAYING WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
01:35:52LAURA KELLY HAS BEEN THERE FOR TWO TERMS BUT IS NOW OUT.
01:35:55THE DEMOCRAT WON AND SORT OF AN
01:35:57UPSET AGAINST ETHAN CORSON WHO
01:36:00HAD BEEN LAURA KELLY'S PICK. WHOLE SURE AND MASTERSON ARE
01:36:05BOTH IN THE KANSAS STATE HOUSE AND HAVE SIMILAR VOTING PROFILES
01:36:08ON A LOT OF THE ISSUES IN
01:36:10KANSAS, INCLUDING DATA CENTERS
01:36:14SORT OF AT LARGE AND THE MOVING OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS STADIUM.
01:36:18JUST GIVEN THE SENATE RESULTS, I
01:36:20THINK THAT WHOLE SURE HAT -- HOL
01:36:28SCHER HAS A SHOT NOW.
01:36:30HOST: WHAT CAME ABOUT IN TEXAS
01:36:34WITH GINA HINOJOSA AND HER RACE?
01:36:37GUEST: SHE WAS PULLING VERY WELL.
01:36:40JAMES TALARICO WAS KIND OF A TSUNAMI FOR TEXAS. BUT DEMOCRATS WERE KIND OF
01:36:45BICKERING OVER HOW MUCH TO SPEND
01:36:47IN THE TEXAS GOVERNOR'S RACE
01:36:51BECAUSE WHAT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
01:36:55IT LATINO DEMOCRATS HAD
01:36:56PETITIONED FOR THE DJA CHAIR,
01:37:02KENTUCKY GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, TO INVEST $10 MILLION IN THE
01:37:06TEXAS RACE. THEY NEVER GOT THERE.
01:37:07I THINK THEY GOT TO ABOUT $1 MILLION. BUT GINA HINOJOSA WAS ABLE TO
01:37:11PULL THROUGH THIS BY VERY MUCH
01:37:15BEING AN UNDERDOG AND KIND OF BEING AN UNDERDOG EVEN IN
01:37:18DEMOCRATIC CIRCLES.
01:37:21MY QUESTION RIGHT NOW IS WHETHER ANDY BESHEAR STILL FACES SOME
01:37:24SCRUTINY FOR HIS DECISION TO LEAVE KANSAS ALONE.
01:37:29OBVIOUSLY, A HERE -- I DO NOT
01:37:34THINK ANYONE WILL BE ACTIVELY MAD AT HIM. BUT ONCE WE ARE TALKING 2028,
01:37:39ESPECIALLY WITH THESE RESULTS, I THINK ANYONE WHO HAD THE THOUGHT
01:37:42IN THE HEAD OF RUNNING IN 2028,
01:37:44THAT IS KIND OF A SHOUT NOW. THERE SEEMS TO BE A TON OF DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM.
01:37:50SMALL DISAGREEMENTS LIKE THIS ONE MIGHT COME BACK OUT.
01:37:54HOST: JORDIN IN TEXAS, DEMOCRAT.
01:37:57CALLER: GOOD MORNING. HOW ARE YOU? HOST: THANK YOU, YOU ARE ON.
01:38:01CALLER: I WANTED TO COME ON HERE AND SAY I AM A DEMOCRAT HERE IN
01:38:06NORTH TEXAS, IN THE HASLETT AREA, ROANOKE.
01:38:09LAST NIGHT WAS A COMPLETE AND
01:38:12AND -- COMPLETE AND UTTER REFERENDUM ON THE PRESIDENT TO
01:38:15LET HIM KNOW THAT TEXAS IS NOT
01:38:17FOR SALE, IT WILL NEVER BE FOR SALE, AND YOU CAN NEVER BRIBE US
01:38:22WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS PREYED ON
01:38:29PEDOPHILES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND HAS RUN TO ANOTHER STATE TO DO IT.
01:38:33PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOW THROWING CATCH UP AT THE WALL. WE ARE SO EXCITED.
01:38:37TEXAS IS MOTIVATED AND HAPPY FOR GINA AND HAPPY FOR JAMES,
01:38:41BECAUSE WE KNOW NOW THAT THE POWER IS WITH THE PEOPLE.
01:38:44IT IS NOT GOING TO BE WITH
01:38:46BILLIONAIRES AND ALL, ELON MUSK AND THESE TECH GURUS.
01:38:49SUPER PAC'S ARE ABOUT TO GET BANNED.
01:38:55WE ARE SO ECSTATIC, AND I WANT TO THINK THE STATE OF TEXAS FOR
01:38:58EVERYTHING WE HAVE DONE. WAKING UP AND SINGING THROUGH
01:39:02THE LIES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. DEMOCRATS WANT TO SERVE THE PEOPLE.
01:39:05THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO. WE DON'T WANT TO SIT HERE AND DO
01:39:09EVERYTHING FOR TRANS PEOPLE AND ALL THESE LIES THAT ARE MADE UP BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING ELSE TO RUN ON.
01:39:15THE DOGS ARE BARKING.
01:39:20GOOD JOB, DEMOCRATS, AND GOOD JOB, TEXAS.
01:39:24HOST: IT IS PLACES LIKE PRESIDIO, THE DISTRICT THERE FOR
01:39:27GINA HINOJOSA, A LOT OF RED, BUT IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THESE
01:39:30COUNTIES TOWARDS THE SOUTH, THAT
01:39:33IS WHERE THE POWER WAS, EVEN GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF RED IN THAT
01:39:37STATE. GUEST: ALSO LOOKING AT THE RIO
01:39:40GRANDE VALLEY THAT WAS SORT OF
01:39:41THE DECIDING FACTOR FOR HINOJOSA .
01:39:4540 POINT SWINGS AND SOME OF THESE AREAS.
01:39:49REPUBLICANS TRIED TO REDRAW A LOT OF THOSE DISTRICTS,
01:39:52ESPECIALLY IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TO BE MORE FAVORABLE TO THEM.
01:39:56SO FAR, THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE PLAYED OUT.
01:40:00I AM OF TWO MINDS HERE.
01:40:02IN ONE WAY, DEMOCRATS HAVE WON
01:40:05NEARLY EVERY STATE WIDE RACE IN TEXAS, OBVIOUSLY A HUGE
01:40:08REPUDIATION OF TRUMP.
01:40:10I AM NOT SURE THEY KEEP THOSE BEYOND THIS CYCLE.
01:40:14THE NEXT QUESTION FOR DEMOCRATS LOOKING TO EXPAND IS WHETHER
01:40:16THEY CAN SNAG TEXAS 40 ELECTORAL
01:40:21VOTES FOR THE 2028 GENERAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
01:40:24HOST: WHY DO YOU QUESTION THEM KEEPING THE RACES?
01:40:27GUEST: IT WILL DEPEND ON THE DEMOCRATS DO.
01:40:31THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A BLUE TSUNAMI.
01:40:34I THINK ONCE TRUMP IS KIND OF
01:40:36CLOSER TO THE OUT OF OFFICE AND ONCE DEMOCRATS HAVE SORT OF
01:40:39SHOWN WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO IT IN A GOVERNMENT CAPACITY,
01:40:43THERE MIGHT BE MORE SKEPTICISM. REPUBLICANS MIGHT BECOME
01:40:47INTERESTED AGAIN AND SOME OF THESE RACES.
01:40:49WE HAVE SEEN HOW EXTREME SOME OF THE MARGINS WERE.
01:40:542028 HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN IN A LOT
01:40:56OF WAYS BECAUSE WE NEED TO SEE WHAT DEMOCRATS DO ONCE THEY ARE
01:41:00IN OFFICE. BUT THE GENERAL DEMOCRATIC
01:41:03ENTHUSIASM AND ANGER TOWARD
01:41:06REPUBLICANS HAS DRIVEN A LOT OF
01:41:10THINGS THAT MIGHT NOT BE LONG TERM HOLDS.
01:41:13HOST: WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT INDEPENDENT VOTER DATA REFLECTED
01:41:16IN TEXAS, DEMOCRATS GETTING 60% OF THOSE INDEPENDENT VOTERS
01:41:20THERE IN THE LONE STAR STATE, 19 PERCENT FOR REPUBLICANS, AND
01:41:24OTHER CANDIDATES 13%.
01:41:27INDEPENDENTS MAKING A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
01:41:31GUEST: THIS IS A MAJOR SWING, WHAT YOU NEED SOMEWHERE LIKE TEXAS.
01:41:34THERE ARE CERTAIN RACES AROUND THE MAP WHERE DEMOCRATS CAN RELY
01:41:38ON JUST GENERAL ENTHUSIASM AND RALLYING THEIR BASE, BUT TEXAS
01:41:42IS SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU NEED TO RECRUIT IS INDEPENDENTS.
01:41:48SOMETHING FOR TEXAS, THE LATINO VOTE, THAT IS WHAT REPUBLICANS
01:41:50WERE RELYING ON IN THEIR
01:41:53REDRAWING OF DISTRICTS.
01:41:56LATINOS SWUNG HARD FOR TRUMP IN
01:42:002024, BUT NOW THEY REALLY SEEM TO HAVE MOVED AWAY, ALONG WITH OTHER DEMOGRAPHICS.
01:42:05LATINOS ARE VERY SENSITIVE
01:42:07TOWARDS THE ECONOMY AND ALSO
01:42:10TOWARDS TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY, ESPECIALLY IN A BORDER
01:42:14STATE LIKE TEXAS. HOST: FRANK JOINS US FROM
01:42:17DELAWARE, REPUBLICAN. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
01:42:20I WOULD LIKE TO START OFF BY SAYING THAT AS THE WOMAN WHAT
01:42:24SHE THINKS THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DO, AND SHE CANNOT TELL
01:42:27YOU WHAT SHE THINKS THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DO
01:42:30BECAUSE SHE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DO.
01:42:34AND NEITHER DID THE DEMOCRATS THAT RAN FOR OFFICE.
01:42:38THE QUESTION ABOUT AFFORDABILITY, THEY COULD NOT ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
01:42:42THE ONLY THING THEY RAN ON WAS
01:42:44AFFORDABILITY AND BEATING DONALD TRUMP. WHEN IT COMES TO ASK THEM
01:42:48QUESTIONS, THEY COULD NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. THEY DON'T KNOW THE ANSWERS.
01:42:52THEY JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH
01:42:53THIS NEXT TWO YEARS TAXING YOU,
01:42:58LYING TO YOU, ANYTHING THEY CAN
01:43:00TO GET THROUGH THIS TWO YEARS,
01:43:03THEN WE GO THROUGH ALL THIS AGAIN.
01:43:06AND CALIFORNIA, THEY WILL NEVER GET ANY SMARTER IN CALIFORNIA.
01:43:09I AM 76 YEARS OLD NOW, 30, 40
01:43:14YEARS I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THESE ELECTIONS, THEY HAVE NEVER
01:43:17GOT ANY SMARTER. THESE DEMOCRATS, NO WONDER THEY
01:43:21HAVE A DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THEY NEED SOMEBODY TO HELP THEM.
01:43:24BECAUSE THEY ARE IN AN INSANE
01:43:27ASYLUM, AND YOU ARE LETTING THEM RUN IT. THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
01:43:33HOST: MONTE IS IN SPRING, TEXAS, INDEPENDENT.
01:43:36CALLER: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT
01:43:37LAST CALLER IS THE REASON WHY REPUBLICANS ARE IN THE STATE
01:43:41THEY ARE IN. THEY WANT TO RUN CULTURAL WARFARE. I WILL TELL YOU WHAT DEMOCRATS
01:43:44ARE NOT GOING TO DO, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GO AFTER PEOPLE FOR
01:43:48USING CANNABIS. IT IS A BIG REASON FOR TAXES,
01:43:52THEY WERE DOING VOTING
01:43:56RECRUITMENT AT VAPES SHOPS.
01:44:01THEY ARE NOT GOING TO PERSECUTE THE IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE THE
01:44:05DIRTY LITTLE SECRET IN TAXES.
01:44:07EVERYONE KNOWS UNDOCUMENTED LABOR IS USED IN ALMOST EVERY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN TEXAS.
01:44:14THEY SAID THEY WERE NOT GOING TO GO AFTER THE HARD-WORKING
01:44:18IMMIGRANTS TRYING TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, WHICH THEY DID.
01:44:20THAT IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO DO.
01:44:24I AM INDEPENDENT AND DON'T VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
01:44:27I HAVE NEVER VOTED FOR ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATES SINCE
01:44:321992, ROSS PEROT. BUT IF DEMOCRATS CAN READ THE ROOM AND NOT DO THE THINGS THAT
01:44:36GOT TRUMP IN THE OFFICE THE FIRST TIME, THEN THE SECOND
01:44:40TIME. THIS IS A POPULIST ERA AND THEY
01:44:42NEED TO LISTEN TO THE CONSTITUENTS. THEY DO NOT NEED TO RAISE A BUNCH OF MONEY.
01:44:46THEY NEED TO GO VIRAL, WHICH IS WORTH MILLIONS.
01:44:51YOU JUST HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE REALLY SAYING AND WHAT THEY REALLY WANT. READ THE ROOM.
01:44:55HOST: OK, THANKS. HE SAID IT IS A POPULIST ERA.
01:44:57WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? GUEST: IT REALLY DOES SEEM LIKE
01:45:01DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO NEED TO CONTINUE HAMMERING OUT THIS
01:45:04MESSAGE OF AFFORDABILITY, KIND
01:45:07OF THE BUZZWORD.
01:45:13IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE ALL VOTERS CARE ABOUT IS HELPING THEIR
01:45:17POCKETBOOKS, NOT SAYING UNJUSTIFIABLY.
01:45:22IT IS JUST A QUESTION WHAT DEMOCRATS CAN ACCOMPLISH ONCE THEY ARE IN OFFICE.
01:45:26I DID WANT TO KNOW, BOTH CALLS MENTION TO THE CULTURE WAR
01:45:29ASPECT OF THINGS. I THINK BECAUSE OF THE POPULIST
01:45:32SENTIMENT HERE, THERE WAS AN
01:45:36ANALYSIS FROM THE TRANSGENDER FREEDOM ALLIANCE THAT SAW THAT
01:45:402% OF DEMOCRATS' ADS AGREED ON
01:45:44THE ANTI-TRANS POLICIES THAT REPUBLICANS HAD BROUGHT UP.
01:45:47MOST OF THEM WERE KIND OF
01:45:49TALKING MORE ABOUT AFFORDABILITY OR CHILDREN'S SAFETY OR THE
01:45:53EPSTEIN FILES OR HEALTH CARE.
01:45:56ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, AT LEAST, THEY WERE ABLE TO REFOCUS THE
01:46:00CONVERSATION AWAY FROM CULTURE WARS AND AUTO POLICY.
01:46:03WHETHER THOSE POLICIES SHOW UP AND HOW THEY SHOW UP ARE STILL
01:46:07BIG QUESTIONS. HOST: IN VIRGINIA, THERE WERE THREE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS,
01:46:11WHEN DEALING WITH REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, MARRIAGE EQUALITY, AND
01:46:14THE OTHER ON VOTING RIGHTS, ALL PASSING WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH
01:46:18OF VIRGINIA. TO WHAT DEGREE IS THAT A SURPRISE?
01:46:22GUEST: THERE HAD BEEN KIND OF A
01:46:26SMALL CAMPAIGN OPPOSING THE FIRST TWO OF THOSE
01:46:28CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. I AM NOT SUPER SURPRISED THAT ALL THREE PAST.
01:46:35SPANBERGER WIN BY A PRETTY BIG
01:46:37MERCHAN IN 2025, AND WHILE SHE
01:46:42IS NOT INCREDIBLY POPULAR WITH THE DEMOCRATIC BASE, SHE IS LESS PROGRESSIVE THAN THE VIRGINIA
01:46:45STATE HEISE -- STATEHOUSE.
01:46:50HOST: A GOVERNOR'S RACE, JOHNSON
01:46:53AND BENSON OUT OF MICHIGAN --
01:46:58JOCELYN BENSON OUT OF MICHIGAN.
01:47:02GUEST: JOHNSON WAS FAVORED TO KEEP THIS RACE FOR DEMOCRATS,
01:47:05STILL IS THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN MICHIGAN AND WAS THE
01:47:08SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2020, SO FACED TRUMP'S ATTACKS ON
01:47:13ELECTIONS FOLLOWING THE 2020 ELECTION.
01:47:15SHE DID NOT TALK ABOUT A TON,
01:47:20BUT IT HELPS FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW
01:47:26WHO SHE IS.
01:47:29THE QUESTION NOW IS WHERE
01:47:31GRETCHEN WHITMER GOES. SHE CANNOT RUN FOR GOVERNOR
01:47:35AGAIN.
01:47:36SHE HAS SEEN LIKE SHE IS
01:47:40HESITANT ON THE 2028 QUESTION.
01:47:44HOST: SHE HAS MADE FRIENDLY
01:47:46GESTURES TOWARDS THE PRESIDENT AT TIMES WITH CERTAIN ISSUES,
01:47:49GETTING A LOT OF FLAK FOR THAT. GUEST: SHE CAUGHT A TON OF FLAK FOR THAT.
01:47:54THERE IS A PICTURE OF HER HIDING COMING OUT OF A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP.
01:47:59THE HAVE DISASTERS IN THEIR STATES AND NEED TO REACH OUT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR EMERGENCY
01:48:04FUNDING, SO THEY NEED TO KEEP A
01:48:06FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
01:48:09HOPEFULLY THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENTS THAT HE IS GOING TO
01:48:13HOLD DEALS WITH DEMOCRATS HOLD.
01:48:16HOST: THAT GOVERNORS RACE FOR
01:48:21MICHIGAN, 96% OF VOTES IN.
01:48:26LET'S HEAR FROM JAMES IN NEW YORK CITY, DEMOCRAT.
01:48:30YOU ARE NEXT. CALLER: HI, I JUST HAVE TO SAY I
01:48:34AM VERY ELATED THAT THE BLUE
01:48:39TSUNAMI HAPPENED YESTERDAY.
01:48:41AND TO SOME OF THE CALLERS AND A
01:48:46LOT OF THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE
01:48:47LISTENED FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS,
01:48:51I GUESS WITH BEING A NEW YORKER,
01:48:55WE ALWAYS KNEW WHAT DONALD TRUMP WAS AND IS.
01:49:03THE THING THAT REALLY GOT ME IS
01:49:04THE CAPITULATION OF INSTITUTIONS
01:49:09, SCHOOLS, LAW FIRMS THAT HE
01:49:15CARED ABOUT THEM.
01:49:19THIS IS BEYOND JUST -- WE ALL
01:49:21KNOW HE IS RACIST, XENOPHOBIC,
01:49:25AND MISOGYNIST, WE ALL KNOW THAT .
01:49:28HE IS AN ELITIST. AND OUT OF THE DEMOCRATS WILL
01:49:31HAVE TO ESTABLISH LAW THAT HAS
01:49:35TO BE FOLLOWED, AND I AM SO
01:49:36HAPPY THAT ELON MUSK WASTED $417
01:49:43MILLION, JUST LIKE HE LOST IN WISCONSIN, THINKING THAT HE
01:49:46COULD BUY A SOUTH AFRICAN THAT
01:49:49IS GOING TO COME INTO THIS COUNTRY AND TRY TO BUY US OFF.
01:49:54HONESTLY, PEDRO, I WAS GIVING UP ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
01:49:58AND I AM SO HAPPY THAT THEY HAVE SPOKEN.
01:50:01ONE MORE THING, MY GIRLFRIEND FROM AUSTRALIA WAS HERE.
01:50:05I AM VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND HAVE
01:50:06TO USE THE VOTING MACHINE IN NEW YORK.
01:50:11IT BROKE DOWN YESTERDAY.
01:50:13OK, YOU DO IT WITH A HEADSET.
01:50:17THE PEOPLE HELPED ME. THEY HAD A REPUBLICAN AND A
01:50:21DEMOCRAT, AND MY GIRLFRIEND FROM
01:50:25AUSTRALIA FILLED IN THE LITTLE OVAL.
01:50:27THEY TOLD ME THE FIRST VOTE IS
01:50:31VOID AND THE SECOND ONE IS GOOD.
01:50:34THAT JUST SHOWS THE REPUBLICANS, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR
01:50:38VOTING PROCESS. IT IS ALL THE REPUBLICANS. HOST: OK, GOT YOU.
01:50:42THANK YOU. ANYTHING FROM THAT?
01:50:45GUEST: YEAH, HE NOTED THAT TRUMP
01:50:47IS KIND OF THIS ELITIST, AND
01:50:49THAT REALLY WAS A MAJOR THEME.
01:50:54OBVIOUSLY, DEMOCRATS WILL NEED TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE WORKING FOR SORT OF THE COMMON MAN.
01:50:57BUT ONE ASPECT OF THAT WILL
01:50:59LIKELY BE THE INVESTIGATIONS
01:51:02THAT ROBERT GARCIA IS GOING TO BRING FORWARD.
01:51:05IT IS VERY MUCH CENTERED ON HOW
01:51:08TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY HAVE ENRICHED THEMSELVES WHILE IN
01:51:11OFFICE WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND
01:51:13FAMILY, AND ALSO THE FREEDOM 250
01:51:18GROUP WHICH WORKED A LOT WITH MAJOR CORPORATIONS.
01:51:20KIND OF A LOT TO WORK WITH HERE.
01:51:23PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BALLROOM, THE
01:51:27250, VARIOUS BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS, HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.
01:51:30ALL OF THIS IS VERY LIKELY TO BE A GREATER TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
01:51:34GOING INTO THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
01:51:36BUT I THINK THE BOTTOM LINE WILL BE THAT DEMOCRATS NEED TO SHOW
01:51:41THAT THEY ARE READY.
01:51:44HOST: AND THERE IS THIS IDEA OF
01:51:47CORRUPTION, POLLING SHOWED PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT IT,
01:51:50DEMOCRATS LATCHED ONTO IT LEADING UP TO IT, AND NOW THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE NOW
01:51:54THAT THEY HAVE THE POWER IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
01:51:57IS THIS THROUGH INVESTIGATIONS OR OTHER MEANS?
01:52:00GUEST: YOU ARE RIGHT THAT CORRUPTION WAS KIND OF A MAJOR
01:52:03FACTOR HERE, WHICH I THINK WAS A
01:52:04BIT OF A SURPRISE, USUALLY
01:52:08ELECTIONS OUR ECONOMY, ECONOMY, ECONOMY.
01:52:12OBVIOUSLY, CORRUPTION IS PART OF THAT.
01:52:14IT HARKENS BACK TO THE 2006
01:52:21ELECTION. THERE WERE KIND OF A LOT OF FACTORS THAT PLAY THIS TIME
01:52:24AROUND THAT WERE PRESENT IN 2006
01:52:29. PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN OFFICE WERE CORRUPT.
01:52:32THERE WAS A WAR WITH THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY, AND THE ECONOMY
01:52:34WAS KIND OF IN THE TOILET.
01:52:40WE HAVE ULTIMATELY BEEN HERE BEFORE.
01:52:41THE QUESTION IS WHETHER
01:52:44DEMOCRATS CAN INVESTIGATE AND ALSO WHETHER THEY CAN PUT IN
01:52:47SOME ETHICS MEASURES.
01:52:50RAHM EMANUEL, THE DNC CHAIR IN
01:52:562006, HAS PROPOSED CODES OF
01:52:57ETHICS BEFORE -- FOR I THINK
01:53:01BASICALLY EVERY FEDERAL OFFICE, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENCY.
01:53:04THAT MIGHT GO SOMEWHERE DEPENDING ON THE APPETITE. BUT I WOULD FIGURE IT WILL BE A
01:53:08LITTLE BIT LOWER PRIORITY THAN A LOT OF OTHER THINGS ON THE
01:53:13DEMOCRATS' AGENDA.
01:53:14HOST: U.S. SENATE, 54 SEATS
01:53:17CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS, GIVING
01:53:19THEM POWER GOING INTO THE 100 20TH CONGRESS.
01:53:23SEVEN PICK UP SEATS THERE, VERSUS 44 SEATS WERE REPUBLICANS.
01:53:26IN THE HOUSE, 228 SEATS PICKED
01:53:29UP BY DEMOCRATS HERE AT 139
01:53:32SEATS GAIN FOR REPUBLICANS. WE ARE WATCHING TWO SENATE
01:53:36RACES, MISSISSIPPI AND ALASKA. SPEAKING OF THE HOUSE, HERE IS
01:53:41THE HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES FROM YESTERDAY. [VIDEO CLIP]
01:53:43>> MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE THIS
01:53:47COUNTRY AFFORDABLE FOR EVERY
01:53:52SINGLE AMERICAN. [APPLAUSE]
01:53:55THIS IS A CHANGE ELECTION, AND
01:53:59WE UNDERSTAND AS HOUSE DEMOCRATS
01:54:01THAT WE NEED TO DELIVER DRAMATIC
01:54:05CHANGE. THINGS ARE BROKEN.
01:54:08WE NEED A CONGRESS THAT PUTS THE
01:54:11AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST.
01:54:14THE WEALTHY, THE WELL-OFF, AND
01:54:15THE WELL-CONNECTED TRIED TO BUY
01:54:19THIS ELECTION.
01:54:23THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE RESPONDED IN A RESOUNDING WAY
01:54:26AND MADE CLEAR THAT AMERICA IS
01:54:30NOT FOR SALE. [APPLAUSE]
01:54:37WE WILL DELIVER A CONGRESS THAT
01:54:43PUTS EVERYDAY AMERICANS FIRST,
01:54:46WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS FIRST,
01:54:49MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS FIRST,
01:54:51AND ALL THOSE WHO ASPIRE TO BE
01:54:54PART OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE COMMITTED TO
01:54:58FIGHTING FOR AN AFFORDABLE AMERICA.
01:55:00WE WILL FIGHT HARD TO LOWER THE
01:55:03HIGH COST OF HOUSING AND
01:55:05GROCERIES AND GAS. WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT HARD TO
01:55:09MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ENSURE
01:55:12THAT EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CAN
01:55:17AFFORD TO GO SEE A DOCTOR WHEN THEY NEED ONE. [APPLAUSE]
01:55:25WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR HOSPITALS.
01:55:28WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR NURSING HOMES. WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
01:55:32BASED HEALTH CENTERS. AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT TO
01:55:35REVERSE THESE PAINFUL MEDICAID CUTS. [APPLAUSE]
01:55:43WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT, IN
01:55:47ADDITION TO FIGHTING TO MAKE
01:55:48THIS COUNTRY AFFORDABLE, WE ARE
01:55:51GOING TO BRING ACCOUNTABILITY TO
01:55:54THOSE WHO HAVE VISITED
01:55:56UNPRECEDENTED CORRUPTION ON THIS
01:56:00COUNTRY, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN HIGH OFFICE WHO ARE SO
01:56:03FOCUSED ON ENRICHING THEMSELVES,
01:56:07THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, THEIR
01:56:08FRIENDS, OR THEIR DONORS, THEN THEY ARE NOT FOCUSED ON MAKING
01:56:12LIFE BETTER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:56:15BUT HOUSE DEMOCRATS WILL PUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST.
01:56:19WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS ELECTION , A DRAMATIC CHANGE ELECTION,
01:56:23MEANS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE CRYING OUT FOR
01:56:27TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE. WE HEAR YOU. WE SEE YOU.
01:56:31WE FEEL YOU. AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE
01:56:34COMMITTED TO MAKING LIFE BETTER FOR YOU. [APPLAUSE]
01:56:40BEGINNING ON DAY ONE.
01:56:46THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN MOMENT.
01:56:51THIS IS A PATRIOTIC ONE.
01:56:54THIS IS NOT A BLUE MOMENT OR A
01:56:59RED MOMENT. IT IS A RED WHITE AND BLUE MOMENT, BECAUSE AMERICA HAS WIN
01:57:03TONIGHT. [APPLAUSE]
01:57:08HOST: HOUSE MINORITY LEADER EXPECTED TO BECOME THE HOUSE
01:57:12SPEAKER, HAKEEM JEFFRIES, MAKING COMMENTS THERE.
01:57:14WHEN DO WE START SEEING MORE
01:57:17COMMENTS AND PRESS CONFERENCES, THINGS LIKE THAT? HOW DOES THAT USUALLY WORK AS
01:57:21FAR AS HOW THEY WILL ACHIEVE THE GOALS STATED?
01:57:25GUEST: THAT BEGINS TODAY, BUT THEY KIND OF NEED TO WAIT FOR A
01:57:29FEW MORE CALLS. DEMOCRATS HAVE A VERY STRONG
01:57:32HOLD ON THE HOUSE, BUT THE
01:57:34QUESTION IS HOW MUCH THEY GROW THAT MAJORITY.
01:57:37I THINK 60 RACES LEFT TO BE CALLED.
01:57:40NOT ALL THOSE WILL GO TOWARDS DEMOCRATS.
01:57:46228 VERSUS 268 IS A VERY
01:57:49DIFFERENT NUMBER. THERE WERE CONCERNS EARLIER THIS
01:57:53CYCLE THAT JEFFRIES WOULD HAVE A SMALL MAJORITY, HAS BEEN THE
01:57:56CASE IN MANY PAST CONGRESSES.
01:58:01HE IS ON TRACK TO HAVE A VERY COMFORTABLE MAJORITY.
01:58:05HE WILL LIKELY BE ABLE TO DO KIND OF WHATEVER HE WANTS,
01:58:09LIKELY ALONG THIS CENTRIST PATH,
01:58:14ESPECIALLY WITH TRUMP STILL IN OFFICE. IT KINDA REMAINS TO BE SEEN.
01:58:18WE HAVE FIGURED OUT AS MORE
01:58:19RACES GET CALLED --
01:58:26HOST: DOES THE TRANSITION PERIOD BEGIN AUTOMATICALLY?
01:58:30A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE, CONSIDERING THEY ARE COMING INTO POWER THE NEXT YEAR?
01:58:35GUEST: LAME-DUCK PERIOD UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR, THEY WILL
01:58:39COME IN ON JANUARY 3. THERE ARE A FEW THINGS FOR THE
01:58:43REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE TO FIGURE OUT. ANYTHING THEY GET DONE NOW,
01:58:48ALMOST ANYTHING, COULD BE REVERSED BY DEMOCRATS.
01:58:51I THINK THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS
01:58:52GOING TO COME DOWN TO TRUMP'S VETO POWER.
01:58:56HE SAID HE WILL BE MR. VITO, BUT
01:58:58HE IS ALSO SAID HE DOES NOT WANT TO BE A COMPLETE LAME-DUCK
01:59:02PRESIDENT AND HE IS WILLING TO CUT DEALS WITH DEMOCRATS.
01:59:05IN SOME WAYS, IT WILL BE UP TO HIM WHETHER LEGISLATION GOES
01:59:08THROUGH. HOST: IF YOU ARE JOINING US, WE HAVE BEEN WALKING YOU THROUGH
01:59:12THE RESULTS, OR THE RESULTS AS WE KNOW THEM AS OF RIGHT NOW
01:59:15WHEN IT COMES TO LAST NIGHT ELECTION.
01:59:17WE DO KNOW THAT DEMOCRATS ARE TAKING THE HOUSE AND SENATE, AS
01:59:20YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN.
01:59:2354 SEATS SO FAR TAKEN BY
01:59:25DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE, SEVEN PICKUP'S.
01:59:29228 SEATS IN THE HOUSE, 25 PICKUPS THERE.
01:59:32WE INVITE YOU TO CALL IN THIS MORNING, AND WE WILL CONTINUE ON
01:59:36UNTIL NOON. ERIKA FILTER TALKED ABOUT SOME
01:59:40OF THOSE RACES WE STILL HAVE TO DECIDE ON, ESPECIALLY IN THE
01:59:43SENATE AS WE WATCH THOSE TWO RACES. AS ALWAYS, YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE YOURSELF.
01:59:47DEMOCRATS, (202) 748-8000. REPUBLICANS, (202) 748-8001.
01:59:50INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002.
01:59:58AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE YOU CAN SEE MORE
02:00:02INFORMATION THERE AT C-SPAN.ORG. THIS IS PART OF OUR ELECTION
02:00:062026 COVERAGE AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE MIDTERMS, PART OF 20
02:00:09HOURS OF PROGRAMMING ON C-SPAN.
02:00:16>> MONDAY, AMERICA'S LEADING TELEVISION: PROGRAM, C-SPAN'S
02:00:19"WASHINGTON JOURNAL," COMES TO PRIME TIME, LIVE.
02:00:24EVERY MORNING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS.
02:00:28>> I AM FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR
02:00:30THEIR THOUGHTS. >> NOW THEIR CONVERSATION WILL ALSO COME TO PRIME TIME.
02:00:36>> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT THERE.
02:00:40>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL PRIME TIME.
02:00:43>> NOW MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
02:00:46COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
02:00:50VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS. RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE
02:00:54BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
02:00:58WE ARE BRINGING YOU THE LATEST
02:01:04DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE REACTIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
02:01:09C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR FRONT SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT. HOST: AS PART OF THEIR FRONT ROW
02:01:12SEAT IT IS A SPECIAL EXTENDED
02:01:15EDITION OF "WASHINGTON JOURNAL." WE ARE GOING UNTIL NOON, GIVING
02:01:21YOU THE RESULTS FROM CAMPAIGN 2026.
02:01:23AS ALWAYS, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR THOUGHTS KNOWN ON THE PHONE LINES.
02:01:27WE ARE WATCHING SUB OR RACES AS WE GO ON.
02:01:31TWO RACES YET TO BE CALLED ON THE SENATE. SEVERAL RACES YET TO BE CALLED IN THE HOUSE.
02:01:36MCGRATH HOLDING THE BALANCE OF POWER GOING INTO THE 128
02:01:39CONGRESS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. WE WILL GIVE YOU THAT
02:01:43INFORMATION AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE MORNING, ESPECIALLY SHOWING
02:01:46WHAT HAPPENED DISTRICT BY DISTRICT AND STATE-BY-STATE.
02:01:50THERE IS A LOOK AT HOW SOME STATES ARE TREATING LAST NIGHT VIA NEWSPAPERS.
02:01:54THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS. THIS IS THEIR HEADLINE THIS
02:01:58MORNING. DEMOCRATS WIN BACK U.S. SENATE.
02:02:03ELECTION PICTURE THERE OF SOMEONE VOTING.
02:02:04IF YOU GO TO THE TAMPA BAY TIMES, REFLECTING WHAT WE SHOWED
02:02:08YOU NOT LONG AGO WITH BYRON DONALDS, THE GOVERNOR-ELECT.
02:02:12ONLY IN AMERICA. ART OF THAT SPEECH HE MADE LAST
02:02:16NIGHT, CAPTURED BY THE TAMPA BAY TIMES.
02:02:18THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CAPTURING KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS'
02:02:23VICTORY, BECOMING THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. THIS IS THE ATLANTA
02:02:27JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. HISTORIC.
02:02:31KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS SHATTERS RACIAL AND GENDER CLASS CEILING.
02:02:35THE NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER TALKING ABOUT CHRIS PAPPAS.
02:02:38ADDING HIS SENATE SEAT. THAT IS THEIR HEADLINE THIS MORNING.
02:02:43IF YOU GO TO THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS AS WELL.
02:02:48ON THE SENATE SIDE IT IS JAMES TALARICO'S VICTORY ON THE
02:02:51GOVERNOR SIDE IT IS GINA HINOJO
02:02:57SA'S VICTORY.
02:02:59IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW
02:03:02YORK POST, TRUMP SUFFERS HISTORIC REBUKE AS DEMOCRATS ROMP IN MIDTERMS.
02:03:06THEY HAVE THE GRAPHIC THERE. LOU TSUNAMI IS HOW THEY DECIDE TO HEADLINE IT.
02:03:11THAT IS A SNAPSHOT, TAKING A LOOK AT HEADLINES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
02:03:16IF YOU HAVE JOINED US AS PART OF
02:03:19OUR 20 HOURS, YOU KNOW WE HAVE PROVIDED YOU THIS TIME AROUND
02:03:21WITH SOMETHING CALLED THE
02:03:24DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD, WHICH GIVES YOU THAT GRANULAR LOOK OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
02:03:28HERE TO UPDATE US ARE JOHN MCARDLE AND JACOB ARE BASKING.
02:03:33>> WE ARE ITCHING TO GET BACK TO
02:03:37THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD.
02:03:3914 HOURS AGO, JACOB, IF YOU HAD
02:03:41TOLD US THERE ARE TWO SENATE
02:03:46RACES YET TO BE CALLED WE WOULD HAVE SAID ALASKA IS ONE OF THOSE, BUT MISSISSIPPI?
02:03:50CAN WE START IN MISSISSIPPI AND WHAT IS GOING ON? >> LET'S DO IT.
02:03:56MISSISSIPPI, NAILBITER.
02:04:00THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE THERE IS A DISTRICT ATTORNEY, AHEAD BY
02:04:0343 VOTES. NOT 43%, 43 VOTES.
02:04:08OVERSEEN CINDY HEIGHT-SMITH, THE REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT.
02:04:12WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO HERE. AP SAYS 96% OF THE VOTE IN.
02:04:18WE CAN CLICK THROUGH A FEW OF THESE COUNTIES. >> JACKSON COUNTY IN THE
02:04:22SOUTHEAST PART OF THE STATE. THIS IS CINDY HYDE-SMITH TERRITORY.
02:04:25>> ON THE GULF COAST.
02:04:29STILL SOME VOTES IN. YOU CLICK THROUGH TO DEMOCRATIC
02:04:33COUNTIES, PLACES LIKE HOLMES,
02:04:37YAZOO COUNTY STILL 5% OUT. THESE ARE GOOD PLACES FOR SCOTT
02:04:41COLON -- SCOTT COLOM.
02:04:47WE ARE NOT DONE WITH MISSISSIPPI JUST QUITE YET.
02:04:49>> WITH TWO RACES YET TO BE
02:04:56CALLED, DEMOCRATS TRYING TO GET UP TO 56 SEATS IN THE SENATE.
02:04:58JUST TO CHECK IN ON ALASKA, 72% OF THE VOTE IN.
02:05:02IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME FOR THE REST OF THAT VOTE TOTAL
02:05:05TO COME IN, BUT WHAT ARE WE SEEING NOW?
02:05:08>> IT IS REALLY CLOSE AND THAT
02:05:12IS WHAT WE EXPECTED HEADING INTO THIS ELECTION. IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A
02:05:15TIGHT CONTEST BETWEEN DAN
02:05:18SULLIVAN AND MARY PELTOLA.
02:05:22SULLIVAN CURRENTLY UP BY 1600 VOTES, BUT MORE THAN A QUARTER OF THE BOAT LEFT TO BE COUNTED,
02:05:25AND WE KNOW FROM PREVIOUS
02:05:30ELECTIONS THAT VOTE SHOULD FAVOR MARY PELTOLA.
02:05:34IT IS COMING FROM THE FAR REACHES OF THE STATEMENT ALASKA,
02:05:37ONE OF THE RARE STATES IN THE UNION WHERE THE MORE RURAL AREAS
02:05:41VOTE MORE DEMOCRATIC DUE TO THEIR NATIVE POPULATION.
02:05:46AND THE URBAN AREAS IN ALASKA,
02:05:49LIKE FAIRBANKS, VOTE MORE REPUBLICAN.
02:05:52AS WE TALLY MORE OF THESE VOTES
02:05:54THEY SHOULD BE GOOD FOR PELT OLA
02:05:57-- PELTOLA.
02:05:59>> JACOB, YOU WERE SAYING IT IS
02:06:04STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A MAP OUT OF 1998. WHAT DID YOU MEAN?
02:06:07>> THE SOUTH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.
02:06:14VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA.
02:06:17WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A POTENTIAL DEMOCRATIC FLIP IN MISSISSIPPI.
02:06:21OBVIOUSLY, DEMOCRATS FLIPPED TEXAS.
02:06:23LAST NIGHT WE WERE WAITING TO SEE WHETHER DEMOCRATS COULD FLIP
02:06:26A GOVERNORS RACE IN TENNESSEE. THERE WAS A MOMENT IN THE LATE
02:06:3290'S WHERE BILL CLINTON AND AL
02:06:36GORE WHERE THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND HAS THE COUNTRY HEADED INTO THE 2000S
02:06:40THERE WAS A THOUGHT THAT DEMOCRATS COULD PUT TOGETHER A
02:06:43DURABLE COALITION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH.
02:06:48NOT JUST THE SOLID SOUTH OF DEMOCRATIC YORK, BUT SOMETHING
02:06:51THAT COMBINED LIBERAL WHITE VOTERS WITH A MOTIVATED BLACK
02:06:53VOTER BASE TO KEEP THOSE ESTATES COMPETITIVE. IT DID NOT PAN OUT.
02:06:58WE SELL REPUBLICANS RUN DOMINANT ACROSS THE AMERICAN SOUTH FOR
02:07:01THE NEXT 20 YEARS.
02:07:04BUT THESE RESULTS TONIGHT, A
02:07:07CLOSE RACE IN LOUISIANA, A CLOSE GOVERNORS RACE IN ALABAMA
02:07:09BETWEEN JOB -- DOUG JONES AND TOMMY TUBERVILLE.
02:07:16THIS FEELS A LOT LIKE WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S PROMISE WAS 25 YEARS AGO.
02:07:19>> THIS PART OF THE SOUTH IS A
02:07:23PART WHERE DONALD TRUMP HAD HIS FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER THE SENATE RACES.
02:07:26IF THIS IS A REPUDIATION OF DONALD TRUMP IN THESE MIDTERM
02:07:30ELECTIONS, TALK ABOUT HIS ROLE IN SOME OF THESE RACES IN THE SOUTH.
02:07:33>> THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON
02:07:36THE REPUBLICAN SIDE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS WE
02:07:40SAW LAST NIGHT, BUT I THINK CHIEF AMONG THEM HAS TO BE DONALD TRUMP.
02:07:44THE REASON IS BECAUSE HE GOT INCREDIBLY INVOLVED IN THESE SENATE RACES.
02:07:48WE CAN START IN TEXAS, WHERE THE
02:07:51INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN SENATOR, JOHN CORNYN, FOUND HIMSELF ON
02:07:55THE SHORT END OF THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT STICK.
02:07:58KEN PAXTON WAS THE BENEFICIARY
02:08:00THERE AND JAMES TALARICO PUTTING A GENERATIONAL DRUBBING ON KEN
02:08:04PAXTON.
02:08:06DEMOCRATS WINNING EVERY SINGLE STATEWIDE OFFICE IN TEXAS.
02:08:09THIS IS CATACLYSMIC FOR THE TEXAS REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND IT
02:08:12IS BECAUSE TRUMP PICKED KEN PAXTON AS THE SENATE NOMINEE.
02:08:17WE CAN CONTINUE EAST HERE.
02:08:20LOUISIANA, REPUBLICANS ARE BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF. LOOK AT THAT.
02:08:24A LESS THAN TWO-POINT MARGIN IN
02:08:26LOUISIANA, A STATE DONALD TRUMP CARRIED BY 20-PLUS POINTS TWO
02:08:30YEARS AGO. HE GOT IN HERE AND ENDORSED
02:08:35AGAINST BILL CASSIDY, THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN SENATOR. THAT MADE IT AN OPEN SEAT AND
02:08:40GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DEMOCRATS TO PULL OFF AN UPSET.
02:08:43>> MISSISSIPPI. WE TALKED ABOUT MISSISSIPPI.
02:08:47COME OVER TO GEORGIA AND THE PEACH STATE.
02:08:48>> TRUMP HAS THIS LONG-STANDING
02:08:53BEEF WITH BRIAN KEMP, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THE REPUBLICANS' DREAM CANDIDATE.
02:08:57IT NEVER MADE SENSE FOR KEMP TO TAKE THAT PLUNGE THIS CYCLE.
02:09:03TRUMP-ENDORSED MIKE COLLINS OVER DEREK DOOLEY.
02:09:04I DON'T THINK DOOLEY WOULD HAVE
02:09:10WON, BUT HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER THAN MIKE COLLINS.
02:09:13IT IS ANOTHER ONE TRUMP GOT INVOLVED IN.
02:09:15>> GEORGIA WAS PLUS TWO FOR
02:09:19TRUMP IN 2024.
02:09:21SOUTH CAROLINA WAS PLUS 18 TRUMP TERRITORY TWO YEARS AGO.
02:09:24>> THIS IS A REPUBLICAN STATE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
02:09:30DARLINE GRAHAM, FIVE MONTHS AGO, WAS 1000 MILES AWAY FROM THE
02:09:34UNITED STATES SENATE.
02:09:37THEN TRUMP NOT ONLY ENDORSED
02:09:39HER, BUT HE MADE SURE THAT SHE
02:09:41GOT OVER THE FINISH LINE IN THAT
02:09:44REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, WHICH WAS NO EASY FEAT. HE RALLIED FOR HER SEVERAL TIMES.
02:09:49HE MADE HER PART OF HIS POLITICAL PROJECT, AND CLEARLY
02:09:53VOTERS WERE NOT BUYING IT. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT IF
02:09:56RALPH NORMAN WERE THE NOMINEE, THE REPUBLICAN DARLINE GRAHAM BEAT.
02:10:00>> FROM THIS PART OF THE STATE. THERE IS A LOT OF GLUE DOWN THERE.
02:10:03>> ANNIE ANDREWS CAN GIVE HER
02:10:07THANKS TO THE RALPH NORMAN VOTERS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
02:10:11IN THAT AREA, THEN IN GREENVILLE
02:10:14COUNTY, WHICH SHE CARRIED NARROWLY IN LAST NIGHT'S ELECTION.
02:10:19AGAIN, THIS IS A CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP PUT ON THE MAP, DARLINE GRAHAM.
02:10:23SHE WAS NOT GOING TO BE THE SENATE CANDIDATE UNTIL TRUMP GOT INVOLVED HERE.
02:10:28NOW IT IS A DEMOCRATIC C.
02:10:28>> TO FINISH OFF, NORTH
02:10:33CAROLINA, THE TAR HEEL STATE. >> THIS MIGHT BE THE MOST
02:10:36EGREGIOUS OF THE ALL, BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP CAME INTO NORTH
02:10:40CAROLINA A YEAR AGO AND SAID, I'M GOING TO PICK THE NOMINEE. THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A
02:10:45NOMINEE, IT IS GOING TO BE MY PICK. FOR A MOMENT IT LOOKED LIKE IT
02:10:49MIGHT BE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. SHE SAID SHE WOULD NOT DO IT, SO
02:10:53TRUMP SAID WE ARE GOING TO GO WITH MICHAEL WHATLEY.
02:10:57IF YOU WERE NOT PLUGGED IN, MICHAEL WHATLEY WAS THE CHAIRMAN
02:11:00OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NORTH CAROLINA AND THEN BRIEFLY WAS
02:11:03THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RNC, THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY.
02:11:07BUT HE HAD NEVER SERVED IN ELECTED OFFICE BEFORE.
02:11:10HE HAD WORKED AS A LOBBYIST. HE HAD WORKED AS A PARTY LEADER AND WAS UNPROVEN ON THE
02:11:14ELECTORAL STAGE, AND THIS IS THE RESULT HERE.
02:11:18ROY COOPER, WHO WAS THE STRONGEST DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
02:11:22PROBABLY ANYWHERE ACROSS THE MAP LAST NIGHT, WINNING BY 19 POINTS.
02:11:25>> A PLACE DONALD TRUMP WON BY
02:11:28THREE POINTS JUST TWO YEARS AGO. >> EXACTLY.
02:11:32THIS WIN HAS MASSIVE IMPLICATIONS DOWN BALLOT AS WELL, WHICH I'M SURE WE WILL GET INTO.
02:11:36THIS IS A CANDIDATE WHO WAS
02:11:40HANDPICKED BY DONALD TRUMP, WHO HAS GONE ON TO A GENERATIONAL DEFEAT IN THEIR STATE.
02:11:43>> THAT IS ONE OF THE
02:11:46POSTMORTEMS HERE THIS MORNING.
02:11:49WE WILL GET INTO A LOT MORE FOR YOU AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.
02:11:51HOST: GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU VERY
02:11:55MUCH. SPEAKING OF NORTH CAROLINA, MIKE JOINS US FROM THAT STATE, REPUBLICAN LINE. HI.
02:11:59CALLER: HI. YES, THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
02:12:05LOOK, NO, I THINK IT IS A TOTAL REPUDIATION, REALLY, OF TRUMP.
02:12:12AND I JUST THINK IT IS A
02:12:14THOROUGHGOING REPUDIATION.
02:12:18I THINK THE BIGGEST THING IS, THE BIGGEST LESSON TO BE LEARNED
02:12:22-- THERE IS ALWAYS A SILVER LINING AND IT IS THAT
02:12:25REPUBLICANS JUST DID NOT DELIVER HERE.
02:12:28YOU KNOW, FROM 2025 YOU KNOW,
02:12:32WHEN CONGRESS WAS SWORN IN, TO
02:12:35TODAY, ROUGHLY TWO YEARS, REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT DELIVERED A WHOLE LOT.
02:12:39I THINK THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE.
02:12:42I KNOW THE MACRO ENVIRONMENT IS TOUGH AND THE ECONOMY. WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE REASONS
02:12:46FOR THAT, BUT YOU DON'T REALLY
02:12:49NECESSARILY GET TO PICK A LOT OF THAT AND YOU'VE GOT TO GOVERN
02:12:53AND DELIVER THROUGH THAT.
02:12:56AND MEET FOLKS WHERE THEY ARE AT, OR RIGHT?
02:12:59WITH POLICIES THAT ARE GOING TO HELP FAMILIES, HELP COMMUNITIES.
02:13:04I THINK REPUBLICANS FOR A WHOLE HOST OF REASONS JUST DID NOT GET IT DONE.
02:13:08I THINK THAT IS THE BIGGEST
02:13:10LESSON HERE, IS, JUST REFOCUS ON PEOPLE'S PRIORITIES.
02:13:16IT IS NOT EVEN NECESSARILY ABOUT TRUMP.
02:13:18I THINK THIS IS OBVIOUSLY KIND
02:13:20OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END, LEGISLATIVELY, OF TRUMP, AND OF
02:13:25COURSE THERE IS STILL TWO MORE
02:13:28YEARS OF TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT LEGISLATIVELY IT IS ESSENTIALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
02:13:33BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS STILL WORK TO DO AND YOU'VE GOT TO
02:13:37APPROACH IT WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE.
02:13:39SO, JUST REPUBLICANS NEED TO
02:13:42REORIENT AND FOCUS ON POLICIES THAT ARE GOING TO HELP PEOPLE.
02:13:44HOST: THANK YOU, MIKE FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
02:13:48HE TALKED ABOUT THE END LEGISLATIVELY. YOUR HEAD IS NODDING.
02:13:50GUEST: THAT APPEARS TO BE TRUE.
02:13:55HONESTLY, CONGRESS HAD NOT BEEN DOING A LOT PRE-THIS ELECTION.
02:14:01THE MARQUEE LEGISLATION WAS THE ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL, BUT THAT WAS LARGELY DRIVEN BY TRUMP.
02:14:06TRUMP TOLD THEM TO GET IT DONE AND THEY GOT IT DONE.
02:14:09IT WAS NOT SUPER-INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS BEYOND MAKING SURE IT
02:14:13PASSED, BUT CONGRESS HAS BEEN IN LOCKSTEP PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THAT IS LONG GONE NOW.
02:14:19HE STILL HAS THE POWER OF THE PEN.
02:14:22HE HAS SIGNED MANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS, EVEN BEFORE LOSING CONTROL OF CONGRESS, AND I
02:14:26EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE.
02:14:29REALLY, WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS WHETHER DEMOCRATS MAKE AN
02:14:33ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL POWER.
02:14:36IT HAS BEEN A BIG ISSUE AMONG THE BASE. IT IS A QUESTION OF WHAT THEY
02:14:40CAN DO AND WHETHER THEY WILL HAVE TIME, KEEPING IN MIND THAT
02:14:43TRUMP CAN VETO PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING THEY CAN PASS.
02:14:45HOST: THE PRESIDENT ON TRUTH
02:14:48SOCIAL, GIVING HIS THOUGHTS, POSTING THERE.
02:14:51THIS IS HIM FROM EARLY THIS MORNING.
02:14:54I WASN'T ON THE BALLOT, AND IF I WAS WE WOULD HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE.
02:14:58THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, SIGNED, THE PRESIDENT.
02:15:02ALSO POSTING ON TRUE SOCIAL, AS
02:15:06OUR GUEST HAS REFERENCED, A RED CAP, COMMONLY KNOWN WITH HIS
02:15:11CAMPAIGN, WITH LARGE LETTERS IN WHITE SPELLING OUT "VETO."
02:15:16THE PRESIDENT IS TALKING TO
02:15:17DASHA BURNS, THE HOST OF OUR
02:15:20"CEASEFIRE" PROGRAM ON C-SPAN DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR COVERAGE.
02:15:24HE GAVE THE PRESIDENT A CALL AND TRY TO FIND OUT HIS THOUGHTS POST-ELECTION DAY.
02:15:29HERE IS THAT FROM YESTERDAY. >> LET'S TRY TO CALL THE
02:15:33PRESIDENT. I THINK IT IS TIME. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HIM.
02:15:37LET'S SEE IF HE PICKS UP.
02:15:41LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. >> WE ARE GETTING THERE.
02:15:44>> ASK HIM THAT ISRAEL P.M.
02:15:50QUESTION. [LAUGHTER]
02:15:53>> MIGHT BE A LITTLE BUSY.
02:15:57>> HI, MAY I ASK WHO IS CALLING?
02:16:00>> THIS IS DASHA BURNS WITH POLITICO.
02:16:05HELLO? >> ONE MOMENT, PLEASE.
02:16:12PRES. TRUMP: DASHA, HOW ARE YOU?
02:16:15>> YOU ARE ON WITH MY COLLEAGUES
02:16:18HERE AT POLITICO. WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE? WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED WITH
02:16:22YOUR PARTY TONIGHT? PRES. TRUMP: I WASN'T ON THE
02:16:25BALLOT, AND WE DIDN'T GET THE PEOPLE OUT, BUT I WASN'T ON THE BALLOT.
02:16:28IF I WAS ON THE BALLOT WE WOULD HAVE WON. WE WOULD HAVE WON IT ALL EASILY.
02:16:33>> YOU TOLD VOTERS TO VOTE AS IF YOU ARE ON THE BALLOT.
02:16:38PRES. TRUMP: YEAH. THINK ABOUT ME BEING ON THE
02:16:40BALLOT, BUT THEY DIDN'T AGREE AND THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE CANDIDATES IN MOST CASES.
02:16:45JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS.
02:16:49>> ARE THERE CANDIDATES YOU THINK DID NOT DO ENOUGH IN THIS ELECTION?
02:16:54PRES. TRUMP: I DON'T WANT TO BLAME EVERYBODY.
02:16:57IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING PERIOD OF TIME.
02:16:59I WATCHED WITH GREAT INTEREST, LEARN FROM IT.
02:17:02>> WHAT DID YOU LEARN, SIR?
02:17:04PRES. TRUMP: WELL, WE ARE GOING
02:17:08TO WORK WITH THE DEMOCRATS TO MAKE SURE THINGS GO WELL FOR OUR COUNTRY. THEY'RE IMPORTANT.
02:17:12THEY HAVE ALREADY CALLED AND THEY WANT TO WORK WITH ME.
02:17:14I HAVE THE RIGHT OF THE TWO EVERYTHING, BUT ANNA WANT TO BE
02:17:18SITTING THERE FOR TWO YEARS VETOING EVERYTHING.
02:17:19WE WANT TO SEE THINGS HAPPEN TOO. I HAVE SPOKEN TO CERTAIN LEADERS
02:17:23OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, AND WE
02:17:25WILL PROBABLY -- I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS IN THE DEMOCRATS ALSO.
02:17:29>> HAS HAKEEM JEFFRIES CALLED?
02:17:32PRES. TRUMP: I WANT TO SAY WHO,
02:17:36BUT WE WILL WORK WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND MAKE THINGS WORK OUT WELL.
02:17:39>> WOULD YOU CONSIDER DOING AN IMMIGRATION DEAL?
02:17:42PRES. TRUMP: I WERE CONSIDERED WHATEVER IS APPROPRIATE AND GOOD
02:17:46FOR THE COUNTRY. >> HAVE YOU SPOKEN WITH CHUCK SCHUMER?
02:17:50PRES. TRUMP: DEMOCRATS CALLED ME.
02:17:53>> SO, YOU ARE WILLING TO DO SOME BIPARTISAN WORK?
02:17:57PRES. TRUMP: I'M ALWAYS WILLING TO DO THAT.
02:18:01I WOULD BE WILLING TO DO THAT
02:18:05ANY TIME, INCLUDING TWO YEARS AGO I WOULD HAVE DONE THAT.
02:18:07>> HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK, MR.
02:18:11PRESIDENT, THIS CHANGES THE TRAJECTORY OF THE FINAL TWO YEARS OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION?
02:18:14PRES. TRUMP: I WILL LET YOU KNOW A YEAR FROM NOW.
02:18:20WE HAVE A POWERFUL VETO POWER. THE ULTIMATE. IT IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.
02:18:27AND I THINK THEY ARE GOING TO COME BACK AND SAY, HOW DO WE GET IT DONE?
02:18:31WE WILL GET SOME THINGS IN.
02:18:33>> DOES THIS CHANGE YOUR
02:18:36THINKING ABOUT 2028? MARCO RUBIO, JD VANCE, SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE?
02:18:39PRES. TRUMP: THAT IS A LONG WAY OFF.
02:18:42>> WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
02:18:45PRES. TRUMP: ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS COME TOGETHER.
02:18:50JUST KEEP GOOD POLICY. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THE OIL
02:18:54PRICE BECAUSE OF IRAN, BUT I'M
02:18:57VERY -- I'M TOTALLY CONVINCED
02:19:00THAT MY DECISION ON IRAN FOR THE LONG-TERM BENEFIT OF OUR COUNTRY
02:19:04-- FOR THE WORLD -- WAS A CORRECT 1 -- AND IT CONTINUES TO BE.
02:19:07>> WHAT CAN AMERICANS EXPECT IN IRAN?
02:19:11ARE YOU GOING TO ESCALATE NOW? PRES. TRUMP: WELL, WE ARE GOING
02:19:14TO TAKE A LOOK AND IF WE SEE ANY OPPORTUNITY TO DO ONE THING OR ANOTHER WE ARE GOING TO DO WHAT
02:19:19IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. >> THERE HAS BEEN SPECULATION
02:19:22YOU MIGHT USE NUCLEAR POWER OVER IRAN. IS THAT A POSSIBILITY?
02:19:26PRES. TRUMP: I DON'T NEED A. WE HAVE ALREADY KNOCKED THEM
02:19:30OUT, SO I DON'T NEED THAT.
02:19:30>> WE SPOKE TO BYRON DONALDS
02:19:34EARLIER TONIGHT, WHO IS SOMEONE YOU HAVE ENDORSED AND SUPPORTED
02:19:38AND WAS A REAL BRIGHT SPOT FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
02:19:41WHAT DO YOU THINK HE DID TO BE SUCCESSFUL WHERE OTHERS WEREN'T?
02:19:43PRES. TRUMP: HE IS A GOOD GUY
02:19:47AND CANDIDATE AND HE RAN A GOOD RACE AND I ENDORSED HIM, WHICH IS IMPORTANT.
02:19:51HE CALLED ME AN HOUR AGO AND
02:19:53THANKED ME, AND WE HAD THE
02:19:56SENATOR, ASHLEY OLSEN, ELECTED, WITH MY ENDORSEMENT.
02:20:00MY ENDORSEMENT ELECTED A LOT OF PEOPLE. >> DO YOU THINK THAT MIKE
02:20:05JOHNSON SHOULD STAY ON AS MINORITY LEADER?
02:20:06PRES. TRUMP: I THINK HE HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB.
02:20:11I THINK HE HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB. >> SO YOU THINK HE SHOULD KEEP A
02:20:15LEADERSHIP POSITION? PRES. TRUMP: I THINK HE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB.
02:20:19THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION. HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
02:20:23BUT HE IS A GOOD PERSON AND HE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB.
02:20:26I WILL SEE YOU, WE WILL DO AN INTERVIEW. I'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE.
02:20:29>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. APPRECIATE IT.
02:20:32HOST: PRESIDENT TRUMP YESTERDAY
02:20:36GIVING HIS THOUGHTS POST-ELECTION DAY. LET'S HEAR FROM AUDREY,
02:20:39PHILADELPHIA, INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
02:20:43IT IS A NEW DAY IN AMERICA.
02:20:46I WAS UP UNTIL 3:00 A.M. WATCHING C-SPAN COVERAGE AND YOU
02:20:51GUYS DID A GREAT JOB AND I APPRECIATE IT AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PRIME TIME: SHOW.
02:20:57I'M SO PROUD OF AMERICA AFTER YESTERDAY. IT WAS NOT JUST DEMOCRATS WHO MADE THAT HAPPEN.
02:21:01IT WAS LACKS -- BLACKS, WHITES,
02:21:08DEMOCRATS, AND PRINCIPAL CONSERVATIVES.
02:21:23I THINK HE SOWED THE SEEDS FOR A LOT OF THIS MOVEMENT.
02:21:26I WENT AND VOTED AFTER WORK YESTERDAY, AND I WAS ABLE TO
02:21:30VOTE FOR CHRIS RABB, A
02:21:36DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST WHO IS NOW GOING TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND I DON'T
02:21:38WANT CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES IN LEADERSHIP.
02:21:43I WOULD LOVE TO SEE BERNIE SANDERS HEADING THE SENATE
02:21:47MAJORITY AND RO KHANNA IN THE HOUSE.
02:21:51AND KING A POLITICAL GEEK I CAME
02:21:54UP WITH A 20-POINT AGENDA FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
02:21:57I WON'T TELL YOU ALL OF THEM, BUT I WILL TELL YOU MY TOP FIVE.
02:22:01I WANT THEM TO REVOKE CITIZENS UNITED, I WANT MEDICARE FOR ALL,
02:22:05I WANT THEM TO END THE IRAN WAR,
02:22:08SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY, AND IMPEACH PETE HEGSETH. I THINK THEY CAN DO ALL OF THAT.
02:22:13I DON'T WANT THEM TO IMPEACH TRUMP.
02:22:16I JUST WANT THEM TO HOLD HIM IN CHECK UNTIL HE IS OUT OF OFFICE.
02:22:20AND I WOULD URGE EVERYBODY TO
02:22:22LISTEN TO EL-SAYED'S VICTORY
02:22:28SPEECH, WHICH WAS BEAUTIFUL. AND I'M SO HAPPY THAT ELON MUSK
02:22:31AND AIPAC MONEY GOT FLUSHED LAST NIGHT.
02:22:35THAT MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING. HOST: AUDREY IN PHILADELPHIA THERE.
02:22:40A LAUNDRY LIST SHE LISTED OFF, I'M SURE MANY PROGRESSIVES WANT TO SEE.
02:22:45PROMISING IS ONE, GOVERNING IS ANOTHER.
02:22:48WHAT FACES THE DEMOCRATS NOW AS THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE PROMISES MADE?
02:22:51GUEST: YEAH. SOMETHING SHE POINTED OUT THAT I
02:22:55FIND INTERESTING IS REVOKING CITIZENS UNITED.
02:22:59THERE IS NO REAL WAY FOR CONGRESS TO DO THAT, AS FAR AS
02:23:02I'M AWARE, BUT I'M LOOKING AT IN MONTANA THERE WAS A BALLOT
02:23:07INITIATIVE WHICH -- THIS IS KIND
02:23:12OF A DEMOCRATIC LEGAL THEORY THAT WOULD CHANGE THE DEFINITION
02:23:16OF -- OR, RELY ON THE DEFINITION
02:23:19OF A CORPORATION TO REDUCE HOW MUCH THEY CAN SPEND ON RACES IN MONTANA.
02:23:24IT IS SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED. AS OF RIGHT NOW THAT IS PASSING
02:23:28WITH 65%.
02:23:30VERY MUCH A SIGN THAT AMERICANS WANT SOMETHING TO BE DONE TO
02:23:34RESTRICT CAMPAIGN FINANCE.
02:23:36ANOTHER MEASURE IN ALASKA THAT WOULD REPEAL RANKED CHOICE
02:23:39VOTING, THEIR TOP FOUR PRIMARY,
02:23:43AND CAMPAIGN-FINANCE RULES, IS CURRENTLY FAILING BY TWO POINTS.
02:23:47BUT THAT WAS REALLY CLOSE. OVERALL IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS A
02:23:50HUGE APPETITE TO REPEAL CAMPAIGN-FINANCE.
02:23:56THERE WAS A KNOW THE IN HAWAII
02:23:58PAST TO RESTRICT CORPORATE
02:24:01SPEECH, ESSENTIALLY, AND THAT WAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
02:24:06SO, IT KINDA REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT CAN HAPPEN.
02:24:09THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WHERE DEMOCRATS NEED TO LOOK AT SUPREME COURT REFORM,
02:24:13POTENTIALLY EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF JUSTICES, EVEN THOUGH THERE
02:24:17IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS GOING INTO THEIR GOVERNANCE OF CONGRESS AFTER THESE LARGE VICTORIES.
02:24:20HOST: JOSHUA IN ILLINOIS, DEMOCRATS' LINE.
02:24:24HI. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
02:24:28I WANT TO START OFF AND SAY, THANK YOU, AMERICA, FOR GOING OUT TO VOTE.
02:24:33I WAS AFFECTED BY THE TARIFFS.
02:24:38WE WERE FORCED TO LEGALLY COLLECT TARIFFS WE HAD TO CHARGE AMERICAN COMPANIES.
02:24:43EVENTUALLY THE SUPREME COURT RULED THOSE ILLEGAL.
02:24:45EVERY TIME I CALLED INTO C-SPAN THE REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE
02:24:48REPUBLICAN PARTY GAVE UP THEIR POWERS TO THE PRESIDENT. THIS IS A REPUDIATION FOR THAT.
02:24:53SECOND, I'M GLAD THAT PEOPLE WERE NAMING CORRUPTION AS ONE OF
02:24:55THE MAIN REASONS THEY VOTED THIS ADMINISTRATION OUT.
02:25:00AFFORDABILITY IS IMPORTANT, BUT CORRUPTION SHOULD BE A MANDATE TO GO AFTER ALL OF THESE
02:25:04GRIFTERS IN POWER.
02:25:06LASTLY, I WANT TO ASK YOUR GUEST
02:25:09ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY OF
02:25:12A SINGLE-ISSUE LEGISLATION SO YOU CAN PUT THESE REPUBLICANS ON
02:25:16THE RECORD AND FORCE THEM TO VOTE AGAINST AMERICANS. AMERICANS, YOU KNOW?
02:25:23THEY FOLLOWED WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS?
02:25:26WE NEED HOPE FOR AMERICANS AND I JUST WANT TO ASK THE GUEST IF
02:25:28THEY REMEMBER THE LAST TIME
02:25:30EITHER PARTY WAS PASSING
02:25:34SINGLE-ISSUE LEGISLATION? WE ARE USED TO SEEING THESE
02:25:37OMNIBUS, THESE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILLS. IT IS THE LAST TIME YOU HAVE SEEN --
02:25:42GUEST: THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION
02:25:46AND A GREAT POINT. ACTUALLY, REPUBLICANS HAD DONE
02:25:49THIS IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE MIDTERMS.
02:25:52THEY HAD A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO FORCE DEMOCRATS TO CONDEMN SOCIALISM.
02:25:57A FEW OTHER TOUGH VOTES.
02:25:59AT TIMES TO GET THEM ON THE
02:26:02RECORD ON SOME UNPOPULAR ISSUES GOING INTO 2026.
02:26:06OBVIOUSLY, THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE PANNED OUT FOR REPUBLICANS, BUT DEMOCRATS ARE
02:26:10VERY LIKELY TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR.
02:26:13ESPECIALLY BECAUSE TRUMP HAS ULTIMATE VETO POWER.
02:26:17DEMOCRATS MOST LIKELY WILL NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THE
02:26:19FILIBUSTER IN THE SENATE, SO
02:26:22THEY REALLY WANT A LOT OF THESE SYMBOLIC VOTES, SO TO SPEAK.
02:26:26WANT TO GET REPUBLICANS ON THE RECORD. THEY ARE HUNGRY FOR 2028 ALREADY.
02:26:31THEY WANT TO HOLD ON TO THE DISTRICTS THEY HAVE WON.
02:26:33YOU WANT TO EXPAND IN 2020.
02:26:36IT IS UP TO THEM TO FORCE REPUBLICANS TO VOTE AND ALSO
02:26:40EXPAND WHAT SEEMS TO BE A
02:26:41BEGINNING OF A DIVORCE BETWEEN
02:26:45CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHICH I THINK
02:26:47COULD PLAY OUT IN SOME OF THESE.
02:26:50HOST: OUR GUEST IS WITH US
02:26:53THROUGH THE COURSE OF THIS PROGRAM, BUT JOINING US THROUGHOUT THE MORNING TO TALK
02:26:56ABOUT OTHER ASPECTS OF WHAT
02:26:58HAPPENS NOW, WITH THE VICTORIES OF DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE AND
02:27:03SENATE, STEVE NEWCOMB OF THE WASHINGTON SUN.
02:27:07GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING. THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
02:27:11HOST: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS NOW?
02:27:14>> NOW WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A
02:27:18DEMOCRATIC CELEBRATION. RIGHT NOW THOSE ARE THE NEXT STEPS.
02:27:23DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF THE BREADTH OF THIS AND
02:27:26SCOPE THE HOUSE IS PROBABLY
02:27:30GOING TO REACH OVER 250
02:27:34DEMOCRATS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, EVEN
02:27:35IF I HAD TOLD MY MOST, SORT OF,
02:27:41EAGER DEMOCRATIC SOURCES THAT LAST WEEK I DON'T THINK IT WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME. RIGHT NOW I THINK DEMOCRATS,
02:27:45SORTING THROUGH JUST HOW BIG OF A VICTORY THIS COULD BE.
02:27:49WE STILL HAVE RESULTS IN ALASKA, SOME OTHER PLACES.
02:27:52I KNOW THE MISSISSIPPI SENATE RACE IS NOT FINISHED AS WELL.
02:27:57THEY WILL GET TO CAPITOL HILL NEXT WEEKEND THAT IS WHEN THE
02:28:00RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD IN TERMS OF LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS AND SHAPING AN AGENDA.
02:28:03HOST: WHEN THEY COME BACK NEXT WEEK WHAT ARE THE LEADERS IN THE
02:28:08HOUSE CURRENTLY, MIKE JOHNSON
02:28:12AND SENATOR THUNE, WHAT ARE THEY TELEGRAPHING AS FAR AS NEXT STEPS OR WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
02:28:15>> NEXT WEEK WILL BE LEADERSHIP
02:28:20ELECTIONS FOR AT LEAST THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE, AND THAT IS GOING TO BE A BIG ONE TO WATCH.
02:28:25THEY GOT WIPED OUT IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE. USUALLY WHEN THAT HAPPENS YOU
02:28:30SEE CAUCUSES AND CONFERENCES
02:28:35WANT TO CHANGE AT THE TOP. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF
02:28:40NOW, CURRENTLY SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, IF HE STICKS AROUND AND
02:28:44TRIES TO BE MINORITY LEADER FOR HOUSE REPUBLICANS.
02:28:45BUT ALSO SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD A
02:28:48WORSE RELATIONSHIP WITH TRUMP IS THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, JOHN THUNE.
02:28:53SO, I THINK THAT SOME OF THE
02:28:56MOST IMMEDIATE DRAMA IN
02:28:58WASHINGTON IS GOING TO BE THOSE LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS NEXT WEEK
02:29:01ON CAPITOL HILL.
02:29:06WE HOST: HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF PROGRESSIVES ELECTED TO CONGRESS. AND NOT ONLY WHAT IT WOULD MEAN
02:29:09FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES, SHOULD HE
02:29:13BECOME HOUSE SPEAKER, WHICH IS EXPECTED, AND THE RETURN OF THE
02:29:15SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, CHUCK SCHUMER.
02:29:19HOW MUCH PUSH WILL THEY GET FROM THERE AND HOW MUCH WILL EITHER OF THOSE GENTLEMEN YIELDS TO
02:29:23THOSE THINGS?
02:29:23>> I ACTUALLY THINK THE SORT OF
02:29:27SIZE OF THIS DEMOCRATIC FLOOD,
02:29:29OR TSUNAMI, HAS THE POTENTIAL TO
02:29:32KIND OF DROWN OUT SOME OF THE
02:29:34PROGRESSIVE VOICES ON THE HILL.
02:29:37BECAUSE OF THE MARGINS THAT THESE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE
02:29:41LOOKING AT, LIKE I SAID IN THE
02:29:42HOUSE 250-PLUS SEATS, THAT GIVES
02:29:45HER HAKEEM JEFFRIES, WHO IS IN LINE TO BECOME SPEAKER, A BIGGER
02:29:49MAJORITY THEN HE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED AND PUTS THEM IN A
02:29:52POSITION WHERE HE MIGHT NOT HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, ACQUIESCED TO THE
02:29:57DEMANDS OF A NUMBER OF PROGRESSIVES. THE SAME FOR CHUCK SCHUMER IN THE SENATE.
02:30:02THESE SENATE SEATS THEY WON WHICH ARE THE MAJORITY MAKERS,
02:30:05WE ARE TALKING ABOUT KANSAS, ALASKA, OHIO.
02:30:09IF THEY HOLD ONTO MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA, THESE ARE MODERATE
02:30:12CANDIDATES WHO WERE RECRUITED BY
02:30:15SCHUMER, WHO WERE BACKED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT. YES, IT LOOKS LIKE THE
02:30:19PROGRESSIVE WILL WIN IN MICHIGAN. BUT THE MAJORITY-MAKERS ARE
02:30:22MODERATES AND I THINK THIS WILL
02:30:24ONLY BOLSTER THE HAND OF SOME
02:30:29MODERATE LEADERS LIKE HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND CHUCK SCHUMER.
02:30:30HOST: I KNOW IT IS EARLY, BUT
02:30:34WHEN CONGRESS IS SEATED NEXT YEAR, WHAT DO YOU THINK IT LOOKS
02:30:36LIKE IN TERMS OF COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP, ACTIVITY?
02:30:41WILL THERE BE HEARINGS? LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS?
02:30:44WHAT IS THAT BREAKDOWN FOR YOU?
02:30:46>> ALL OF THE ABOVE, AND I THINK
02:30:50THAT IS A CHALLENGE FOR DEMOCRATS, TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO
02:30:53HIT FIRST, WHAT TO SORT OF DO FIRST. I HAVE TALKED TO A LOT OF FOLKS
02:30:57WHO SAY IN THE RUN-UP TO
02:30:59EXPECTING WINNING THE MAJORITY,
02:31:02NOW THE REALITY, THAT THEY NEED TO FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY.
02:31:07THAT THIS IS WHAT GOT THEM HERE.
02:31:09THAT UNDERLYING THIS BLUE WAVE IS THIS ECONOMIC ANXIETY, THESE
02:31:12CONCERNS ABOUT CORRUPTION, AND
02:31:16THAT DEMOCRATIC, SORT OF,
02:31:17MESSAGE AND PLATFORM HAS TO ATTACK THAT EARLY NEXT YEAR.
02:31:23YOU ARE TALKING ACA TAX CREDITS, MEDICAID CUTS THAT REPUBLICANS
02:31:26MADE LAST YEAR THROUGH THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL.
02:31:30THOSE ARE CONCRETE STEPS DEMOCRATS, REVERSING CUTS
02:31:34REPUBLICANS HAVE MADE, THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IMMEDIATELY.
02:31:37YOU ARE GOING TO GET A LOT OF HEARINGS, INVESTIGATIONS INTO
02:31:40THE PRESIDENT HIS FAMILY, AND HIS CLOSE ALLIES.
02:31:42HOST: WHAT IS YOUR ASSESSMENT OF
02:31:47THE WEEKS WHEN CONGRESS RETURNS TO THE END OF THE YEAR AT THE START OF THE LAME-DUCK?
02:31:50GUEST: WELL, I KNOW REPUBLICANS
02:31:56WANTED TO GET A LOT DONE IN THE LAME-DUCK. I CAN IMAGINE, GIVEN THE RESULTS
02:31:59LAST NIGHT, THERE WILL BE A
02:32:03DESIRE TO SHOVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE DOWN THE THROAT OF CONGRESS THAT THEY CAN.
02:32:08THAT IS, REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES.
02:32:11THIS IS THEIR LAST CHANCE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO FAST-TRACK YOUR WAY TO LEGISLATION.
02:32:17NOW, I THINK THE TERRAIN GETS ROCKIER AND YOU GET TO A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW MUCH
02:32:21POWER A LAME-DUCK PRESIDENT AND LAME-DUCK CONGRESS HAS, BUT I
02:32:25THINK YOU ARE GOING TO SEE REPUBLICANS TRY TO DO A LOT IN
02:32:29THIS LAME-DUCK BECAUSE THIS IS THEIR LAST SHOT.
02:32:30HOST: OUR GUEST WAS TELLING US
02:32:33THERE IS STILL A DEADLINE, SO TO SPEAK, WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT.
02:32:37>> ABSOLUTELY. GOVERNMENT FUNDING.
02:32:41YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE DEBT CEILING, WHICH IS
02:32:44MAYBE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN GOVERNMENT FUNDING IN A WAY.
02:32:48SO, THAT IS ACTUALLY AN AREA
02:32:50WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL HAVE SOME COMMON GROUND WITH DEMOCRATS.
02:32:54I KNOW THERE ARE DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE TALKED ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE DEBT LIMIT.
02:32:58ELIZABETH WARREN. THAT IS SOMETHING PRESIDENT
02:33:01TRUMP HAS TALKED ABOUT AS WELL. THEY HAVE SOME BIG THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF WHEN THEY GET BACK
02:33:06BEFORE LEAVING AND THEN COMING BACK IN JANUARY.
02:33:09HOST: STEPHEN NEUKAM REPORTS FOR THE WASHINGTON SUN.
02:33:14THANKS FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
02:33:17HOST: GIVING US THEIR TIME THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE
02:33:22MORNING, OUR DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD AND DEMOCRACY HUB.
02:33:25>> LET'S FOCUS ON THE HOUSE FOR
02:33:30A SECOND. DEMOCRATS ONLY NEEDED THREE PICKUPS TO TAKE THE HOUSE.
02:33:33RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE 25 AND THERE ARE 68 RACES STILL OUTSTANDING.
02:33:37WE DON'T KNOW HOW HIGH THEY WILL GO, BUT ESTIMATES THAT THEY
02:33:40COULD END UP WITH TO HUNT 50,
02:33:43200 55 OR MORE SEATS IN THE HOUSE WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE.
02:33:48LET'S TALK ABOUT THE STORY OF THE HOUSE THROUGH THE TAR HEEL STATE.
02:33:52WE ARE GOING TO DIVE BACK INTO NORTH CAROLINA.
02:33:54>> THE TAR HEEL STATE, TO ME, IS
02:33:59THE STORY OF LAST NIGHT'S ELECTION IN TERMS OF THE DEPTH
02:34:03OF THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES. WE CAN TELL THAT STORY.
02:34:06WE ARE GOING TO START WITH ONE SPECIFIC COUNTY.
02:34:09>> IT IS EASIER TO SEE THOSE
02:34:13WHEN WE SHIFT TO THE SENATE RESULTS HERE. >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT GUILFORD COUNTY.
02:34:17THIS IS GREENSBORO.
02:34:18>> JUST TO MAKE IT EASIER, I'M
02:34:21GOING TO CIRCLE THAT SQUARE. >> THERE WE GO.
02:34:26WINNSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, ONE OF THE STATE'S LARGEST CITIES.
02:34:29ROY COOPER PUTTING UP A 42 POINT
02:34:33WIN OVER MICHAEL WHATLEY, THE REPUBLICAN IN THE SENATE RACE.
02:34:36IF WE GO BACK TO 2020 CAN SEE
02:34:39CAL CUNNINGHAM DID WIN IT AS WELL BY 22 POINTS.
02:34:44ROY COOPER, OUTPERFORMING THE LAST SENATE NOMINEE BY 20 POINTS IN GUILFORD COUNTY.
02:34:49THIS TELLS A BIG PART OF WHY ROY COOPER WAS ABLE TO PUT UP A
02:34:53SIGNIFICANT STATEWIDE VICTORY, BUT IT ALSO HAS DOWN BALLOT
02:34:57IMPLICATIONS BECAUSE IF WE LOOK AT THE HOUSE MAP WHAT WE SEE IS
02:35:01THAT GUILFORD COUNTY TOUCHES THREE DIFFERENT REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS.
02:35:07>> FORMERLY-REPUBLICAN.
02:35:09>> ALL THREE OF THESE DISTRICTS
02:35:13THE DEMOCRAT IS LEADING IN, AND IT IS BECAUSE THEY CARVED UP GREENSBORO.
02:35:17THEY PARCELED OUT THOSE DEMOCRATIC VOTES.
02:35:20THEY DIDN'T THINK SOMEBODY WOULD WIN THAT COUNTING ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE BY 20 POINTS.
02:35:24NOW THAT HAS HAPPENED AND ALL THREE OF THOSE DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THE WAVE.
02:35:29THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY THREE DISTRICTS IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT ARE GOING TO FLIP TOWARD
02:35:33DEMOCRATS. BUT LET'S RUN THROUGH THE TAPE. .
02:35:35>> LET'S GO FROM WEST TO EAST.
02:35:40THIS IS ONE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER LAST NIGHT.
02:35:42>> JAMIE EGER -- JAMIE AGER WAS
02:35:48A DEMOCRATIC STAR. THE MARGIN, CERTAINLY IMPRESSIVE.
02:35:53AS A DISTRICT DONALD TRUMP WON BY 11 POINTS.
02:35:57THIS ONE, ALREADY IN THE DEMOCRATIC COLUMN.
02:35:58>> THIS ONE WAS NOT. THE 14TH DISTRICT.
02:36:02>> THE 14TH DISTRICT, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
02:36:06TIM MOORE DREW THIS DISTRICT FOR HIMSELF.
02:36:10THIS IS A DISTRICT THAT WAS
02:36:13CUSTOM-DESIGNED BY TIM MOORE. NOT JUST TO BE A REPUBLICAN
02:36:17DISTRICT. TO BE TIM MOORE'S DISTRICT WHEN
02:36:20HE WAS STATEHOUSE LEADER. NOW HE IS TRAILING LAKISHA
02:36:25WOMACK, WHO HE OUTSPENT IN THIS
02:36:29RACE 35 TO ONE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A
02:36:32DIFFERENCE OF $1.9 MILLION TO $55,000.
02:36:36>> HOW MUCH DID YOU KNOW ABOUT LAKISHA WOMACK FOR LAST NIGHT?
02:36:40>> I HAVE A 100% HONESTY POLICY HERE.
02:36:44I DID NOT KNOW WHO SHE WAS, AND I DO THIS FOR A LIVING.
02:36:48A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW WHO LAKISHA WOMACK WAS UNTIL THIS RACE CAME ONLINE.
02:36:53I DON'T KNOW IF TIM MOORE KNEW WHO SHE WAS, BUT HE CERTAINLY DOES NOW.
02:36:56>> MOVING ACROSS THE STATE, COME
02:37:00UP TO THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
02:37:00>> VIRGINIA FOXX IS THE CHAIRMAN
02:37:05OF THE RULES COMMITTEE. SHE IS AN INCREDIBLY SENIOR
02:37:08REPUBLICAN, A CLOSE ALLY OF HOUSE LEADERSHIP. SHE IS CURRENTLY TRAILING BY 99
02:37:12VOTES TO CHUCK HUBBARD. HE IS A LOCAL JOURNALIST.
02:37:17HE IS FROM WILKES COUNTY.
02:37:20TALKED ABOUT HOW THIS DISTRICT TOUCHES GREENSBORO.
02:37:23I DIDN'T KNOW WHO CHUCK HUBBARD WAS, ONLY BECAUSE VIRGINIA FOXX
02:37:25STARTED AIRING ATTACK ADS SICKO.
02:37:29I SAID, THAT'S INTERESTING.
02:37:31THIS IS A DISTRICT THAT VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP BY 18 POINTS.
02:37:36WHAT IS A SENIOR REPUBLICAN DOING ELEVATING HER OPPONENT TO ATTACK HIM?
02:37:40NOW WE KNOW THE ANSWER. HE WAS PROBABLY GOING TO WIN. >> THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
02:37:44>> THIS IS A TRUMP PLUS 17 C.
02:37:49ANOTHER ONE OF THESE GREENSBORO DISTRICTS. THIS IS ANOTHER SEAT THAT NORTH
02:37:53CAROLINA REPUBLICANS REDREW LAST CYCLE TO ELECT A REPUBLICAN.
02:37:57THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY TROUBLE THAT TIME, BUT HE FACED SERIAL JEFFERSON.
02:38:03THIS RACE DID NOT GET A TON OF
02:38:04SPENDING, BUT MCDOWELL STILL
02:38:08OUTSPENT JEFFERSON 61. THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE HIM FROM THIS WAY.
02:38:11>> THEN RICHARD HUDSON, THE RNCC
02:38:18CHAIR. WHOSE JOB WAS TO DESIGN A
02:38:22STRATEGY FOR REPUBLICANS TO HOLD THE HOUSE. HE MAY BE LOSING HIS OWN SCENE.
02:38:25>> AND HE IS LOSING IT TO
02:38:27RICHARD OJEDA, WHO IS A
02:38:31PERENNIAL CANDIDATE. HE RAN FOR CONGRESS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
02:38:37HE EVEN RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN
02:38:392020 VERY BRIEFLY, THOUGH OBVIOUSLY DID NOT CATCH FIRE
02:38:43THERE. BEFORE MOVING BACK TO HIS HOME STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
02:38:47NOW HE IS GOING TO BE
02:38:51CONGRESSMAN-LOCKED -- CONGRESSMAN-ELECT RICHARD OJEDA.
02:38:54>> ONE MORE IN NORTH CAROLINA TO
02:38:58TALK ABOUT AS THE RESULTS COME IN.
02:39:02WHEN THEY UPDATE THESE RESULTS WE LOSE THEM FOR A SECOND.
02:39:05LET'S DIVE BACK INTO THE TAR HEEL STATE.
02:39:11>> SO, PAUL BARRINGER IS AN ATTORNEY. HE IS A HEALTH CARE CONSULTANT.
02:39:15HE MOVED BACK TO THE STATE A YEAR OR TWO AGO. THIS IS ANOTHER RACE THAT CAME
02:39:20ONLINE THIS IS A TRUMP PLUS 16
02:39:22DISTRICT, BUT BRAD KNOTT, A
02:39:27FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY, LOOKS LIKE HE COULD LOSE HIS SEAT AFTER ONE TERM IN CONGRESS.
02:39:30>> THAT IS A STORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
02:39:34CAN WE BUMP OVER TO THE VOLUNTEER STATE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TENNESSEE?
02:39:40TENNESSEE RIGHT NOW, EIGHT REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS TO POTENTIALLY ONE DEMOCRATIC
02:39:43DISTRICT. THAT WOULD BE THE SAME AS 2024,
02:39:46BUT THIS IS A RACE THAT HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY INTERESTING TO YOU
02:39:50BECAUSE IT IS A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.
02:39:52>> NONE OF US WERE EXPECTING THIS RIGHT.
02:40:00TRAILING BY 280 VOTES. IF ANYONE TELLS YOU THIS RACE
02:40:04WAS ON THEIR RADAR THEY ARE LYING TO YOU. NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS RACE.
02:40:08THE STORY HEADING INTO LAST NIGHT IN TENNESSEE WAS ALL ABOUT
02:40:11THE REDISTRICTING THAT CRACKED MEMPHIS.
02:40:15>> THAT WAS THIS DISTRICT IN
02:40:20TENNESSEE, THAT MEMPHIS AREA. WE WILL COME BACK TO IT AND DRAW AROUND MEMPHIS OVER HERE.
02:40:25THEY WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF THE BLUE VOTE BY MOVING IT INTO
02:40:28OTHER DISTRICTS IN TENNESSEE. >> LET'S BE REAL.
02:40:32THEY WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF
02:40:32THE BLACK VOTE BY PARCELING OUT
02:40:36MEMPHIS VOTERS INTO THREE OTHER SEATS.
02:40:38IF WE LOOK AT THE 2026 RESULTS
02:40:40WE CAN SEE THAT, IN FACT, THEY LOOKED TO BE FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL.
02:40:45THEY BROUGHT THE FIFTH DISTRICT IN. THAT IS A CLOSE RACE, BUT THE
02:40:49REPUBLICAN IS GOING TO WIN.
02:40:51THEY BROUGHT THE NINTH DISTRICT,
02:40:54WHICH USED TO BE CONCENTRATED HERE IN MEMPHIS, ALL THE WAY OUT.
02:40:57THE REPUBLICAN LOOKS LIKE HE IS
02:41:00GOING TO WIN THERE AS WELL, BUT THEY WERE SO CONCENTRATED ON
02:41:03MEMPHIS THEY FORGOT TO CHECK ON NASHVILLE.
02:41:05WHEN THEY BROUGHT SCOTT DES
02:41:12JARLAIS DISTRICT IN, --
02:41:17THAT MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE A DISTRICT THAT SHOULD BE ON
02:41:20DEMOCRATS' RADAR, AND THAT IS WHY IT WASN'T.
02:41:23HIS DISTRICT GOT 19 POINTS LESS REPUBLICAN. HE HAS HAD SOME SCANDALS.
02:41:28THAT HAS NOT FOR HIM WHEN HE HAS BEEN IN A LOOP BE RITZY.
02:41:32BUT YOU GIVE HIM COMPETITIVENESS
02:41:34AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS COULD BE THE UPSET OF THE NIGHT.
02:41:39VICTORIA BRODERICK IS GOING TO BE THE DEMOCRAT REPRESENTING THE MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICT IN AMERICA.
02:41:45IF SHE CAN HOLD ONTO THAT VICTORY.
02:41:47>> WITH THOSE STORY LINES, WITH
02:41:52THE NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE
02:41:53GERRYMANDER YOU THINK THIS MAKES REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
02:41:58RECONSIDER THEIR QUICKNESS TO GERRYMANDER IN ELECTIONS TO COME?
02:42:00>> IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE.
02:42:04REPUBLICANS THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE THEIR SILVER BULLET
02:42:06AND THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO WIN ANY OF THE SEATS THEY REDREW FOR
02:42:10THEIR OWN BENEFIT. HE SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN TEXAS.
02:42:14WE TALKED THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE. IN FLORIDA LAST NIGHT.
02:42:19THESE ARE PLACES REPUBLICANS WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO REDRAW MAPS AND IT DID NOT HELP THEM.
02:42:23IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE THAT THE PARTIES COULD TAKE A BEAT
02:42:27BEFORE THEY EMBARK ON THEIR 2028 REDISTRICTING CAMPAIGNS OVER THE
02:42:30NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. >> 68 DISTRICTS YET TO BE CALLED.
02:42:34WE WILL DIVE INTO A FEW MORE OF THEM AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE MORNING.
02:42:37HOST: LET'S GO BACK TO CALLS.
02:42:41JOHN IN MASSACHUSETTS, REPUBLICAN LINE. THANKS FOR WAITING.
02:42:43CALLER: I AM ON THE AIR? HOST: YOU ARE ON.
02:42:47GO AHEAD. CALLER: I THINK THIS IS A TOUGH
02:42:50LOSS FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
02:42:54AT THE END OF THE DAY ALL I
02:42:55REALLY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT IS --
02:42:59HOST: LET'S GO TO VOELKER IN
02:43:04MINNESOTA, INDEPENDENT LINE. YOU ARE NEXT UP.
02:43:06CALLER: HI, MORNING.
02:43:12YEAH, GREAT ELECTION.
02:43:14I MEAN, WE OVERCAME THE
02:43:20PREJUDICE TOWARDS GENDER,
02:43:24NATIONALITY, ORIGIN, AND RELIGION.
02:43:29THAT, I THINK, IS GREAT FOR THE FUTURE.
02:43:34MY OPINION, I THINK, FINISH THAT
02:43:37IRAN THING, NO MATTER HOW.
02:43:41THAT HAS AN IMPACT THROUGH THE
02:43:44STRAIT OF HORMUZ ON OUR ECONOMY.
02:43:50AND REINSTATE THE FUNDING FOR
02:43:53UKRAINE.
02:43:57NATIONAL HEALTH, AND SO ON.
02:44:01AND CLEAR THE EPSTEIN AND
02:44:06WHATEVER ELSE SCANDAL.
02:44:10BUT, YEAH, IT IS A MAJOR ISSUE.
02:44:14MY OPINION, THE WAR. HOST: OK.
02:44:20ERICA, WAS FOREIGN POLICY BEING THIS TIME AROUND?
02:44:21GUEST: YES. I GUESS IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS
02:44:25THAT ARE SOMEONE-RELATED.
02:44:28FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE WAR IN IRAN HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR EIGHT
02:44:31MONTHS, EVEN THOUGH TRUMP SAID IT WOULD BE A MATTER OF WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS RESOLVED.
02:44:35IT IS A PRIMARILY ECONOMIC ISSUE.
02:44:39BLOCKING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, JACKING UP FUEL PRICES. NO HUGE SURPRISES THERE.
02:44:45THAT WAS ALWAYS A BOONDOGGLE FOR REPUBLICANS.
02:44:47THE OTHER FOREIGN POLICY HASN'T SHOWN UP IS THE U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL.
02:44:52THIS SHOWED UP A LOT IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES, TO THE
02:44:55POINT WHERE AIPAC IS NO LONGER
02:44:58GOING TO SPEND IN CONGRESSIONAL
02:45:00RACES, ED ANNOUNCED -- LAST WEEK, EARLIER THIS WEEK?
02:45:04AT SOME POINT. JUST A CLEAR SIGNAL OF HOW TOXIC
02:45:08THAT BRAND HAS BECOME. TRUMP ALSO ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY,
02:45:11I BELIEVE, THAT HE WOULD END $4
02:45:16BILLION IN AID TO ISRAEL AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
02:45:20WHETHER HE STICKS WITH THAT IS UNCLEAR, BUT HE WAS SAYING, I DON'T WANT REPUBLICANS SADDLED
02:45:24WITH THIS. THEY ARE GETTING HIT WITH THIS A LOT ON THE TRAIL. CLEARLY AN ISSUE.
02:45:29ISRAEL IS ALSO PUSHING TRUMP TO STRIKE IRAN. IT IS PART OF THAT CONFLICT AS WELL.
02:45:33THE MIDDLE EAST VERY MUCH ON THE TOP OF MIND FOR VOTERS.
02:45:37HOST: THAT LATTER PART ABOUT THE
02:45:42SUSPENSION OF FUNDS, I SUPPOSE THAT MIGHT GET PUSHED BACK FOR REPUBLICANS AND MR. TRUMP SUPPORTERS AS WELL?
02:45:46GUEST: I WAS VERY SURPRISED TO SEE MR. TRUMP ANNOUNCE THAT YESTERDAY.
02:45:50I ALMOST THINK IF HE HAD ANNOUNCED THAT A FEW WEEKS
02:45:52EARLIER IT MAY HAVE ACTUALLY SHIFTED THE NEEDLE IN SOME OF
02:45:56THESE REDWALL AREAS.
02:45:59BUT, YEAH, REPUBLICANS HAVE A
02:46:02BETTER TRACK RECORD WITH ISRAEL THAN DEMOCRATS, BUT BOTH
02:46:05PARTIES, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES, ARE
02:46:08BECOMING INCREASINGLY SKEPTICAL OF THE U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL.
02:46:12HOW MUCH IS BEING SPENT, ESPECIALLY, IN TERMS OF THE U.S.
02:46:16ECONOMY STRUGGLING. PEOPLE ARE ASKING, WHY IS ALL OF
02:46:19THIS MONEY GOING TO ISRAEL AND A WAR IN IRAN?
02:46:23THERE LIKELY WILL BE REPUBLICAN PUSHBACK, BUT I THINK THAT
02:46:27HONESTLY MIGHT GET WRAPPED UP IN A LOT OF REPUBLICAN SOUL-SEARCHING.
02:46:31HOST: THE WAR IN IRAN, 43% OF
02:46:36DEMOCRATS WHO GAVE THEIR OPINION FOR THAT DATA, VERSUS 20%
02:46:40REPUBLICANS, SAYING THAT WAS THEIR MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE.
02:46:43THEN THE ECONOMY, WHICH YOU REFERENCED, 61% OF DEMOCRATS
02:46:46SAYING THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE.
02:46:4955% REPUBLICANS SAYING THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE. THAT MANIFESTED ITSELF LAST NIGHT.
02:46:53GUEST: NEARLY EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC
02:46:57HAD SAID THEY HAD FACED INCREASED FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
02:47:01SINCE 2024. THERE IS NOT A LOT YOU CAN DO IT THAT IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN.
02:47:05JD VANCE WAS PROBABLY THE TOP NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SPEAKING ON
02:47:09THE ECONOMY DURING HIS LINE WAS
02:47:11VERY MUCH, GIVE US TIME, GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE HERE.
02:47:16BOTH HE AND TRUMP WERE PROMISING A SWIFT END TO THE WAR IN IRAN
02:47:20THAT WOULD LOWER, ESPECIALLY FUEL PRICES.
02:47:24ULTIMATELY IT WAS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.
02:47:28THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DELIVER ENOUGH IN TIME. DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO NEED TO
02:47:31AT LEAST SHOW THEY WANT TO LOWER
02:47:35PRICES, TO SORT OF KEEP THE SUPPORT THEY GOT LAST NIGHT.
02:47:37HOST: LARRY, NORTH CAROLINA.
02:47:41DEMOCRATS' LINE. HOW ARE YOU DOING?
02:47:42CALLER: YES, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY
02:47:46HOW PROUD AM OF THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
02:47:52TELLING TRUMP WHAT HE CAN DO WITH HIS $5,000 BRIBE.
02:47:58TELL HIM WHERE TO SHOVE IT.
02:47:59HOST: THE PRESIDENT, SAYING IF
02:48:03IT WENT THE OTHER WAY, HE HAD
02:48:05MADE THESE PROMISES LEADING UP TO ELECTION DAY.
02:48:07GUEST: YEAH, HE WAS INCREASINGLY DESPERATE.
02:48:13I DON'T WANT TO SAY BRIBES, BUT INCENTIVES FOR VOTERS TO CHOOSE REPUBLICANS. THOSE DID NOT TURN OUT.
02:48:19THE MOST PROMINENT WAS THOSE $5,000 CHECKS, WHICH HE
02:48:22ANNOUNCED AT THE MIDTERM CONVENTION IN DALLAS IN
02:48:26SEPTEMBER. BUT THEN IN HIS CLOSING ARGUMENTS ON MONDAY HE BROUGHT
02:48:30IT UP AGAIN. HE SAID, EVERY AMERICAN WOULD GET $5,000.
02:48:34THEY WOULD HAVE TO SPEND IT IN THE U.S. THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE VERY MUCH OVER.
02:48:38I GUESS PART OF HIS MIDTERM STRATEGY WAS ALSO ANNOUNCING
02:48:42INVESTMENTS IN STATES HE WAS
02:48:44POINTING TO CONSTRUCTION OF AUTO
02:48:47PLANS, OF STEEL PLANTS IN THESE REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLDS.
02:48:51STILL WAS NOT ENOUGH. IDEALLY THEY WILL STILL GO THROUGH.
02:48:55IT WILL STILL ECONOMICALLY BENEFIT STATES, BUT YOU MIGHT
02:48:58NOT GET THE CREDIT FOR IT NOW THAT IT IS A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.
02:49:00HOST: FROM WESLEY -- WESLEY
02:49:05JOINS US FROM MARYLAND, OUR LINE FOR REPUBLICANS. GO AHEAD.
02:49:08CALLER: GOOD MORNING. I JUST WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE
02:49:12ACTUAL BALLOT, AND I LIVE IN
02:49:13MARYLAND AND I FEEL THAT -- I'VE
02:49:18STILL FEEL IT IS FRAUDULENT.
02:49:21THERE WAS NO SENATE REPUBLICAN ON THE BALLOT IN MY COUNTY. CHARLES COUNTY.
02:49:28AND, I MEAN, WHEN WE GOING TO
02:49:30GET TO A LEVEL WHERE IT IS
02:49:33FEDERALLY-REGULATED, WHERE ALL OF THE BALLOTS MUST BE THE SAME
02:49:36EXCEPT FOR, SAY -- I MEAN,
02:49:42YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE REPUBLICANS, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE AN EQUAL SYSTEM HERE.
02:49:46I CANNOT REMEMBER WHO THE SENATE REPUBLICAN WAS, SO I COULD NOT WRITE HIM IN.
02:49:51AND I DON'T FEEL THAT WE ARE
02:49:53EVEN THERE YET ON THE CLARITY OF
02:49:57WHO IS VOTING FOR WHAT AND WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE. OUR BALLOTS GO.
02:50:02THAT IS WHAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT. I STILL FEEL IT IS FRAUDULENT.
02:50:06WAS THERE ANY ANSWER TO THAT? HOST: THAT IS WESLEY IN MARYLAND.
02:50:12ERICA FILTER, ELECTION INTEGRITY, SECURITY, ALL OF THOSE ISSUES LEADING UP TO THIS
02:50:16TIME AROUND. NOW THAT IT IS DONE, WHAT DO WE
02:50:19KNOW AS FAR AS CONCERNS, COMPLAINTS, ETC.?
02:50:21GUEST: THE CALLER KIND OF
02:50:26MENTIONED WANTING FEDERAL CONTROL OVER BALLOTS. THIS ACTUALLY CAME UP A LITTLE BIT.
02:50:29STATES DO HAVE THE ULTIMATE
02:50:32CONTROL OVER THEIR BALLOTS AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.
02:50:35YOU KNOW, CALIFORNIA HAS A SUPERLONG BALLOTS. THE DESIGN IS ULTIMATELY UP TO
02:50:38THE STATES. IN TERMS OF ELECTION INTEGRITY I
02:50:41THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE
02:50:45BEAT, PROBABLY MYSELF INCLUDED, WERE EXPECTING MORE DRAMA.
02:50:50ON ELECTION DAY WESTCHESTER
02:50:53COUNTY IN NEW YORK 17, WHERE MICHAEL LAWLER CONCEDED, HAD SOME ISSUES EARLY ON ELECTION DAY.
02:50:58THE BALLOTS THEY PRINTED WERE TOO THICK FOR THE SCANNERS, SO
02:51:02THEY HAD TO TABULATE BY HAND. THE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
02:51:05HAD AGREED TO PROCESS ALL OF
02:51:09THOSE RESULTS IN A CENTRAL COUNTY. NO ISSUES THERE AGAIN.
02:51:12LAWLER CONCEDED.
02:51:18EVEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHICH MANY HAD BEEN WORRIED
02:51:21WOULD CONTINUE SOWING DOUBT ON
02:51:23ELECTIONS, AS IT HAD DURING
02:51:27PUMP'S PRIMETIME SPEECH IN JULY. IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE COMING
02:51:30THROUGH, JUST BECAUSE OF THE MAJORITIES AND BECAUSE OF THE MARGINS.
02:51:35THE BIGGEST CONCERN IS IN
02:51:36ALASKA, WHERE THE DOJ HAD FILED
02:51:39A LAWSUIT TO BLOCK THE CERTIFICATION OF THE RESULTS IF
02:51:43DAN SULLIVAN LOSES.
02:51:44THE COURTS HAD STRUCK DOWN THAT
02:51:48LAWSUIT, SO ALASKA IS FREE TO
02:51:51CERTIFY ITS OWN RESULTS, PENDING A STATE OF MASTICATION.
02:51:53BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW IT IS LOOKING LIKE THAT WILL NOT
02:51:56MATTER BECAUSE THERE IS 54 SEATS FOR DEMOCRATS WITHOUT ALASKA.
02:52:00TRUMP HAS SAID HE WILL ACCEPT
02:52:01THE ELECTION RESULTS. HAD IT BEEN CLOSER THERE MAY
02:52:05HAVE BEEN MORE QUESTIONS, BUT
02:52:08JUST BECAUSE OF THE PERFORMANCE WE SAW FROM DEMOCRATS LAST NIGHT THERE IS NOT A LOT OF ROOM TO MAKE CHALLENGES.
02:52:12HOST: ACCORDING TO DATA, THERE
02:52:14WAS NO SENATE RACE IN MARYLAND.
02:52:17THAT IS FROM OUR WEBSITE. IF YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE, YOU
02:52:21CAN SEE AND TRACK NOT ONLY SENATE RACES ACROSS THE UNITED
02:52:25STATES, BUT ALSO MANIPULATE THE HOUSE RACES BY DISTRICT. GOVERNORS RACES AS WELL.
02:52:29THAT IS PART OF OUR COVERAGE THERE. IF YOU LOOK ON THE SCREEN WE
02:52:33WILL KEEP A RUNNING TALLY OF THE CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE,
02:52:36BOTH IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS AS OF
02:52:39RIGHT NOW IN THE 120TH CONGRESS.
02:52:42IF THE FOUR SEATS GAINED BY DEMOCRATS IN THIS YEAR'S
02:52:45CONTEST, WITH SEVEN PICKUPS. 44 SEATS FOR REPUBLICANS.
02:52:50YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEMOCRATS, 228 SEATS.
02:52:55139 SEATS HELD BY REPUBLICANS. STILL MORE TO COME ON THE HOUSE SIDE.
02:53:00TWO RACES TO WATCH ON THE SENATE SIDE AS WELL.
02:53:02WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AND AS
02:53:06WE GO THROUGHOUT THE MORNING WE WILL ALSO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE
02:53:08REACTION FROM CANDIDATES IN SOME
02:53:12OF THOSE RACES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
02:53:14IT WAS IN KANSAS, DEMOCRAT ADAM HAMILTON WINNING. WE GOT HIS RESPONSE.
02:53:19WE WILL ALSO HEAR FROM HIS
02:53:20CHALLENGER, REPUBLICAN ROGER MARSHALL.
02:53:24>> HERBERT HOOVER WAS PRESIDENT
02:53:28THE LAST TIME A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED.
02:53:33[LAUGHTER] I WANT TO SAM GRATEFUL FOR ALL
02:53:37OF THE REPORTERS BACK IN THE ROOM. I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER
02:53:41POLITICIANS THAT MOCK YOU AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO IN TELLING THE TRUTH. [APPLAUSE]
02:53:56IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
02:53:57HOW DID A DEMOCRAT WIN IN KANSAS
02:54:01FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A CENTURY?
02:54:04ESPECIALLY IN A STATE WHERE ONLY 25% OF THE PEOPLE ARE DEMOCRATS?
02:54:08HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
02:54:12I WANT TO SAY, FIRST OF ALL, THAT I THINK THE PEOPLE IN
02:54:16KANSAS, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, WERE SAYING WHAT IS
02:54:20HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON IS NOT OK. [APPLAUSE]
02:54:23I WANT TO LIST A FEW THINGS WE ALREADY KNOW. OF COURSE, A WAR NOBODY WANTED.
02:54:27TARIFFS. THESE THINGS HAVE ADDED $250 A
02:54:31MONTH TO THE AVERAGE PERSON IN KANSAS.
02:54:34HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE LIVING PAYCHECK BY PAYCHECK.
02:54:39DECISIONS IN WASHINGTON ARE HURTING PEOPLE STRUGGLING ALREADY.
02:54:44FARMERS, BUSINESSES, RANCHERS, EVERY KANSAN HEARD BY THE TEARS.
02:54:47I THINK ABOUT 60,000 KANSANS WHO
02:54:49A YEAR AND A HALF AGO DON'T HAVE
02:54:52HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE OF DECISIONS MADE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
02:54:55THAT IS NOT WHO WE ARE. I THINK ABOUT THOUSANDS OF
02:54:58CHILDREN TAKEN OFF OF SNAP BENEFITS. I HAVE BEEN TO A LOT OF FOOD
02:55:02PANTRIES IN KANSAS. WE HAVE A FOOD MOBILE THAT
02:55:06DISTRIBUTES FOOD IN FOOD DESERTS. [APPLAUSE]
02:55:12A SOURCE OF FOOD IN KANSAS CITY FOR PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE.
02:55:15WHEN YOU VISIT THESE PLACES THEY SAY, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD
02:55:18ANYMORE BECAUSE BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT MADE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING. THAT IS NOT OK.
02:55:23THAT IS NOT WHO WE ARE IN KANSAS.
02:55:28KANSANS ARE ALSO FED UP WITH THE WAY POLITICIANS DIVIDE US. [APPLAUSE]
02:55:33MARIAN TOLD ME, SHE IS IN HER
02:55:3670'S, LAST TIME I WAS IN GREENSBURG WAS 15 YEARS AGO WHEN
02:55:39I GOT TO DELIVER A FIRE TRUCK. THE TORNADOES TOOK THEIRS OUT
02:55:44AND OUR CHURCH PURCHASED A FIRE TRUCK. I WAS TALKING TO MARION AND SHE
02:55:48SAID, IN ADDITION TO HELPING PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO
02:55:51FEED THEIR FAMILIES AND PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE,
02:55:55I WANT MY NEXT SENATOR TO HELP US NOT TO DISLIKE PEOPLE IN THE OTHER PARTY.
02:55:59[APPLAUSE]
02:56:03SHE SAID, OUR POLITICIANS ARE SO DIVIDED.
02:56:06I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS I CAN'T TALK TO ANYMORE.
02:56:09I HAVE KIDS I GREW UP WITH AND WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS.
02:56:13I WANT SOMEBODY TO BRING US TOGETHER.
02:56:16>> THANKS, EVERYBODY, FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT.
02:56:19I TRIED TO READ A CHAPTER FROM A
02:56:21BOOK OF PROVERBS TODAY, AND TODAY IS NOVEMBER 3.
02:56:26PROVERBS THREE, CHAPTER FIVE SAYS THAT WE SHOULD TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.
02:56:31THAT YOU SHOULD LEAN NOT ON YOUR
02:56:34OWN UNDERSTANDING AND ACKNOWLEDGE HIM IN ALL YOU SHOULD DO AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR
02:56:38PATHS STRAIGHT. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO KEEP DOING.
02:56:41WE ARE GOING TO KEEP LEANING NOT ON OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, WE ARE
02:56:45GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD AND TRUST HIM WITH THIS GREAT NATION.
02:56:50I CALLED ADAM HAMILTON. I CONGRATULATED HIM.
02:56:53WE ARE CONCEDING. I DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWERS.
02:56:56IT HAS BEEN A GREAT HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVE KANSAS FOR 10 YEARS.
02:57:02JUST LOVE THIS STATE, LOVE THIS COUNTRY.
02:57:04YOU KNOW, THINK OF BENJAMIN
02:57:08FRANKLIN SAYING, OR WE GOING TO KEEP THIS REPUBLIC OR NOT?
02:57:11AND, YOU KNOW, I SURE HOPE AND PRAY SO.
02:57:15I AM GRATEFUL. ALL OF MY STAFF, THE HARD
02:57:19WORKERS, THE DOORKNOCKER'S, MY
02:57:22CHIEF, ROBERTSON, AND KATIE
02:57:27SAWYER, AND MY CAMPAIGN CHAIR. OF COURSE, MY FAMILY AS WELL.
02:57:31IT IS HUMBLING, RIGHT?
02:57:32IT IS VERY HUMBLING.
02:57:36I HAVE ALWAYS SAID, MAKE DISAPPOINTMENT AN APPOINTMENT
02:57:38WITH GOD, AND THAT IS WHAT THE MARSHALL FAMILY WILL BE DOING.
02:57:41I'M GRATEFUL YOU ALL WOULD COME AND ALL OF THE SUPPORT.
02:57:46SO MANY OF YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR TIME, YOUR TREASURE, ALL OF THESE THINGS.
02:57:52GOSH, 250 YEARS OF FREEDOM. WE KNEW IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE FREE.
02:57:56AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP FIGHTING FOR THIS GREAT NATION.
02:58:00SO, JUST FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS, WE LOVE YOU, WE
02:58:04WANT TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY AND THIS REPUBLIC.
02:58:07APPRECIATE EVERYBODY COMING OUT TONIGHT. GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
02:58:16HOST: THE RESULTS IN THAT KANSAS SENATE RACE. YOU HEARD FROM THE VICTOR AND
02:58:20ROGER HAMILTON, WHO WAS DEFEATED. PART OF OUR COVERAGE AT C-SPAN.
02:58:23YOU CAN SEE THINGS IN UPDATED AS WE GET INFORMATION ON OUR
02:58:27WEBSITE AND ALSO THE SCREEN AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE MORNING.
02:58:31ERICA FILTER JOINING US AS WELL. WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET SURPRISED
02:58:35AS OF THE RESULTS OF YESTERDAY?
02:58:36GUEST: 100% THE SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE RACE.
02:58:41I THINK -- I KNOW WAS NOT ON OUR SENATE REPORTER'S RADAR.
02:58:45WE WERE LOOKING AT LOUISIANA, KANSAS, MISSISSIPPI AS OUR MAYBES.
02:58:51SOUTH CAROLINA, DARLINE GRAHAM WAS THE SENATOR ELECTED AFTER HER BROTHER DIED EARLIER THIS
02:58:55YEAR, BUT SHE HAD A TOUGH GO OF IT IN THEIR PRIMARY.
02:59:00SHE KIND OF HAD A VIRAL DEBATE
02:59:02MOMENT, SAYING SHE WAS NOT SUPER
02:59:06EXPERIENCED, NOT SUPER PREPARED. THAT SEEMS TO HAVE HARMED HER.
02:59:10IT IS ANNIE ANDREWS, WHO LOST
02:59:13AGAINST NANCY MACE IN 2022, WILL BE THE SENATOR FROM SOUTH
02:59:17CAROLINA FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS.
02:59:20HONESTLY, A TOTAL UPSET. I DON'T THINK MANY PEOPLE SAW THIS COMING AT ALL.
02:59:24I THINK IT WILL BE A BIG ROLE IN
02:59:28THE 2028 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
02:59:30SOUTH CAROLINA IS SET TO VOTE FIRST.
02:59:33EXPECT A LOT OF THESE 2028 PEOPLE TO GO TO ANNIE ANDREWS VICTORY PARTIES.
02:59:37HOST: THIS IS PART OF OUR COVERAGE.
02:59:41WE HAVE SLATED 20 HOURS STARTING AT 4:00 YESTERDAY WHEN IT COMES
02:59:45TO COVERAGE OF CAMPAIGN 20 TO BRING YOU THE LATEST IN INFORMATION WHEN IT COMES TO NOT
02:59:49ONLY WHO WON, BUT ULTIMATELY WHO
02:59:51WILL CONTROL CONGRESS JOHN -- CONGRESS.
02:59:56YOU ARE WATCHING C-SPAN'S COVERAGE OF ELECTION 2026.
03:00:01>> MONDAY C-SPAN'S WASHINGTON
03:00:05JOURNAL COMES TO PRIME TIME LIVE.
03:00:07>> THE MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE.
03:00:11>> EVERY MORNING FOR 40 YEARS WE
03:00:15HAVE BEEN TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS. >> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR
03:00:18THEIR THOUGHTS. >> NOW I WILL COME TO PRIME TIME.
03:00:22>> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT THERE.
03:00:26WEEK NINE STARTING MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN.
03:00:28>> NOW MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
03:00:34COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
03:00:38VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS. THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE
03:00:41BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
03:00:46WE ARE BRINGING YOU THE LATEST
03:00:48ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE REACTIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
03:00:54C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
03:00:57HOST: THAT FRONT ROW SEAT
03:01:00CONTINUES FOR THREE MORE HOURS ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL AS WE TAKE A
03:01:04LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF CAMPAIGN
03:01:072026 AND WHAT IT DOES WHEN IT
03:01:11DETERMINES THE POWER OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE, BOTH IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS AS OF TODAY.
03:01:15WE WILL SEE THE 120TH CONGRESS
03:01:20CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
03:01:22THERE ARE SOME RACE IS OUTSTANDING.
03:01:25IN MISSISSIPPI, STATIC AT 48.9%
03:01:29EACH.
03:01:3196% OF VOTES IN.
03:01:39ALASKA AS YOU HEARD IS
03:01:40REFERENCE, MARY PELTOLA.
03:01:46SHE AND SENATOR DAN SULLIVAN
03:01:48HAVE BEEN FLIP-FLOPPING BUT NOW
03:01:52WITH 48.2% OF THE VOTES WAS 74% TOTAL COUNTED.
03:01:56SENATOR DAN SULLIVAN WITH 47.9% OF THE VOTES IN.
03:02:00LOOKING AT THE KEY RACES WHEN HE WAS A TOSSUP RACE IN KANSAS.
03:02:05YOU HEARD FROM THOSE TWO
03:02:07CANDIDATES, ADAM HAMILTON AND ROGER MARSHALL.
03:02:10ADAM HAMILTON WINNING WITH 50.9% OF THE VOTE.
03:02:15IN IOWA, JOSH DIRECT VERSUS ASHLEY HINSON.
03:02:18IT ENDS DECORATIVE GOP
03:02:22CONTROL ABILITIES.
03:02:2450.5% FOR JOSH TUREK.
03:02:35JAMES TALARICO GAINING 55.2% OF THE VOTE OVER KEN PAXTON IN THE RACE.
03:02:37TURNING TO OHIO, FORMER SENATOR
03:02:43SHERROD BROWN BECOMES A SENATOR ELECT SHERROD BROWN AS HE GOES BACK TO CONGRESS.
03:02:4550% OF THE VOTE GAINED IN THAT SENATE SPECIAL RACE IN OHIO.
03:02:51OUT OF MAINE, LONG TIME SENATOR
03:02:53SUSAN COLLINS LOSING TO TROY
03:02:58JACKSON. TROY JACKSON GETTING 53.8% OF
03:03:00SUPPORT THERE OVER SUSAN COLLINS
03:03:03WITH 86% OF THE VOTES IN. TO THE CAROLINAS AND NORTH
03:03:06CAROLINA, ROY COOPER VERSUS MICHAEL WHATLEY.
03:03:08GOVERNOR COOPER WINNING HANDILY
03:03:12IN THAT RACE WITH 58.7% OF SUPPORT IN NORTH CAROLINA.
03:03:17SOUTH CAROLINA, HE HEARD IS REFERENCE THAT. SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM LOSING TO
03:03:21ANNIE ANDREWS WITH 51.1% OF THE VOTE.
03:03:2599% OF THOSE VOTES IN.
03:03:26IN MICHIGAN, ABDUL EL-SAYED WILL
03:03:33NOW BECOME SENATOR ELECT.
03:03:40THAT IS WITH 97% OF THE VOTES IN. THOSE ARE THE TOSSUP'S WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THROUGHOUT THE
03:03:44COURSE OF THE MORNING. WE WILL UPDATE OTHER RACES AS
03:03:47THEY COME IN, INCLUDING RACES
03:03:51ACCORDING -- THAT OCCURRED ON THE WEST COAST AND CALIFORNIA.
03:03:55WE GO BACK TO OUR DEMOCRACY HUB.
03:03:56HOST: WE WANT TO DIVE INTO THE
03:03:59GOLDEN STATE. WE THOUGHT MAYBE THIS WAS A
03:04:03TIGHT ELECTION WE WOULD BE BITING OUR NAILS ABOUT CONTROL
03:04:05OF THE HOUSE AND SOME OF THE CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS.
03:04:10IT HAS NOT COME DOWN TO THAT. DEMOCRATS HAVE 25 SEATS.
03:04:13240 SEATS AND THERE ARE 68 RACES TO BE CALLED IN THE HOUSE.
03:04:19JACOB, LET'S WALK THROUGH SOME OF THESE CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS THAT WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE
03:04:23PRETTY FOCUSED ON BUT PLAYED A
03:04:25KEY ROLE IN DEMOCRATS' VICTORY LAST NIGHT.
03:04:28>> THEY REDREW THE MAP IN
03:04:32RESPONSE TO THE TEXAS REPUBLICAN GERRYMANDER.
03:04:35THEY STARTED IN THE FIRST DISTRICT. MIKE MCGUIRE, A STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADER HANDILY
03:04:39DEFEATED JAMES GALLAGHER, THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN.
03:04:43THAT IS A DEMOCRATIC FLIP OFF THE BOARD.
03:04:45HOST: THERE IS A SQUIGGLY LITTLE
03:04:49DISTRICT RIGHT THERE. IT IS TOUGH TO CLICK ON.
03:04:52GUEST: THERE WAS A LITTLE
03:04:55MUSICAL CHAIRS BETWEEN CONGRESS AND KEVIN KILEY AND HOBBY BARRA. THEY FLIPPED DISTRICTS.
03:05:01KEVIN KILEY ABANDONED THE REPUBLICAN LABEL TO RUN AS NO
03:05:04PARTY AFFILIATION IN CALIFORNIA.
03:05:08THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO ESCAPE THIS BLUE WAVE.
03:05:09RICHARD PAN IS A DOCTOR AND HE
03:05:13WON HIS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WITH A 15 POINT LEAD WITH HALF THE VOTE COUNTED.
03:05:17HOST: AND THE CENTRAL BALLOT -- CENTRAL VALLEY HERE.
03:05:20GUEST: WE DON'T HAVE A RACE CALLED AND WE ARE WAITING FOR A
03:05:24HALF OF THOSE TO BE COUNTED BUT
03:05:26RANDY V.A. GUESS -- VILLEGAS,
03:05:31NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE BUT HE BE THE ESTABLISHMENT
03:05:34CANDIDATE IN THE PRIMARY AND HE IS RUNNING WELL AHEAD OF DAVID
03:05:40VALADEO, ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN SURVIVORS IN THE CONFERENCE.
03:05:44WE TALKED ABOUT MIKE LAWLER WHO CONCEDED HIS RACE.
03:05:48BRIAN FITZPATRICK WHO LOST A BOB HARVEY.
03:05:49HOST: THIS WAS A NAME WE KEPT HEARING CYCLE AFTER CYCLE.
03:05:53GUEST: THIS GUY CAN HOLD ON THROUGH A WAVE.
03:05:57THE RACE HAS NOT BEEN CALLED BUT
03:05:59RANDY VILLEGAS WITH THE LEAD
03:06:03LOOKS PRETTY COMFORTABLE AS WE ENTER WEDNESDAY.
03:06:06HOST: 43% TO VOTE FOR THE DEBTS
03:06:10TO COME FOR THE VOTE. THE 40TH DISTRICT.
03:06:12GUEST: THIS WAS HELD BY DARRELL
03:06:20ISSA. HE DECIDED NOT TO RUN FOR REELECTION.
03:06:27MARNIE VON WILPERT.
03:06:35BY ALMOST 20 POINTS HERE WITH HALF THE VOTE COUNTED.
03:06:38THIS IS A FLIP FOR DEMOCRATS.
03:06:41WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW GERRYMANDERING HAS NOT BEEN
03:06:45SUCCESSFUL OR ADVANTAGEOUS FOR REPUBLICANS TONIGHT.
03:06:49THE CALIFORNIA MAP DOING WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO FOR DEMOCRATS.
03:06:51HOST: WHEN WILL WE KNOW FOR
03:06:58SURE IN CALIFORNIA?
03:06:58GUEST: YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS
03:07:03MINE. CALIFORNIA WILL TAKE ITS TIME BUT WITH A NUMBER OF RACES THE
03:07:06WRITING IS ON THE WALL FOR REPUBLICANS.
03:07:09WE TALKED ABOUT TENNESSEE 4.
03:07:12I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY WINNING CALIFORNIA 48.
03:07:14HOST: YOUR GUESS IS USUALLY A
03:07:17LOT BETTER THAN MINE. PEDRO, YOU TALKED ABOUT SUSAN
03:07:22COLLINS NOT RETURNING. IN THE HOUSE SIDE SOME OF THE
03:07:23LONGEST-SERVING MEMBERS ARE RETURNING.
03:07:27I WANT TO TALK ABOUT MARCY
03:07:30KAPTUR, THE LONGEST-SERVING WOMAN IN THE HOUSE.
03:07:33SHE WILL BE BACK FOR EIGHT 23RD TERM IN CONGRESS.
03:07:36GUEST: THE MAYOR OF TOLEDO.
03:07:39WE WERE WAITING ON TOLEDO TO REPORT LAST NIGHT. LUCAS COUNTY.
03:07:43A LATE SHIPMENT OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS FROM THE POST OFFICE.
03:07:47THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO REPORT VOTES UNTIL LATE IN THE EVENING.
03:07:51FOR A LONG TIME DEREK MAREN WAS IN THE LEAD.
03:07:53HOST: THEY WERE QUESTIONING IF SHE WOULD RETURN FOR THE 23RD TERM.
03:07:56GUEST: WHEN THE VOTES CAME IN
03:07:59AND LUCAS COUNTY HIT, MARCY KAPTUR FIRMLY IN THE LEAD.
03:08:05THE LONGEST-SERVING WOMAN IN THE CONGRESSIONAL HISTORY. HOST: LET'S GO WITH A MEMBER OF
03:08:09CONGRESS WHO SERVED JUST ONE TERM LONGER THAN MARCY KAPTUR, HAL ROGERS.
03:08:15HE WAS FIRST ELECTED ABOUT SIX WEEKS BEFORE I WAS BORN.
03:08:18GUEST: WELL, WE WON'T SAY WHAT
03:08:23YEAR THAT WAS ON AIR, JOHN.
03:08:28HE AND RONALD REAGAN WERE ELECTED TO FEDERAL OFFICE AT THE SAME TIME.
03:08:32HAL ROGERS STILL KICKING IN HIS ADVANCED AGE.
03:08:35HOST: HE WILL BE THE DEAN OF THE
03:08:37HOUSE AGAIN, THE LONGEST SERVING MEMBER REGARDLESS OF PARTY IN THE HOUSE.
03:08:42GUEST: IT'S A CEREMONIAL POSITION. THEY GET TO WHERE THE SPEAKER.
03:08:47HAL ROGERS AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES ALMOST CERTAINLY WILL GET AN NICE LITTLE PHOTO OP AT THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY.
03:08:53AGAIN, ONE OF THE MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS, PERHAPS THE MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICT IN
03:08:56THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. THE BLUE WAVE DID NOT QUITE MAKE IT TO EASTERN KENTUCKY.
03:09:00HOST: HAL ROGERS AND HAKEEM
03:09:04JEFFRIES, A PHOTO OP YOU CAN WATCH ON C-SPAN, PEDRO. HOST: THANK YOU.
03:09:08ONE MORE THING TO DISCUSS WHEN IT COMES TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
03:09:12WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE SENATE RACE THERE.
03:09:16IN MANY STATES IT IS A CLOSE RACE. PEOPLE CAN ASK FOR A RECOUNT. WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN
03:09:20MISSISSIPPI?
03:09:23GUEST: THE MARGIN IS 43 VOTES IF
03:09:25THE DEMOCRAT'S UP EVER SO SLIGHTLY.
03:09:29I BELIEVE IT'S THE ONLY STATE
03:09:32WHERE THEY HAVE NO AUTOMATIC RECOUNT NO MATTER HOW CLOSE IT
03:09:35IS AND THE CANDIDATES ACTUALLY CAN'T REQUEST IT RECOUNT UNLESS THERE IS SOME SORT OF JUDICIAL INTERVENTION.
03:09:41IF HE HOLDS THE LEAD I WOULD EXPECT THAT JUDICIAL INTERVENTION TO COME THROUGH.
03:09:46I WOULD EXPECT SOME SORT OF
03:09:46RECOUNT BUT IF NOT, THERE'S NOT
03:09:50A LOT HE CAN DO HERE.
03:09:52THIS WAS A RACE THAT WAS VERY
03:09:56LATE TO COME ONLINE BECAUSE IT IS MISSISSIPPI.
03:10:01THE DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE THROUGH AND
03:10:05$500,000 -- FACE -- A DEMOCRATIC
03:10:10SUPER PAC THROUGH AND $2 MILLION FOR A COLUMN. THIS IS THE LAST OF THE FLIPS THEY WANTED.
03:10:14THIS WOULD BE HUGE IF THEY GOT
03:10:15IT BUT GIVEN HOW CLOSE IT IS NOW
03:10:21IT IS NOWHERE NEAR GUARANTEE.
03:10:21HOST: WE GO UNTIL NOON.
03:10:25AS FAR AS PROGRAMMING IS CONCERNED, 11:00 WE ARE
03:10:28EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK
03:10:32SCHUMER ON EVENTS OF YESTERDAY.
03:10:34LATER ON IN THE MORNING AROUND
03:10:37NOON WE WILL HEAR FROM HAKEEM JEFFRIES AS WELL.
03:10:39AS THAT HAPPENS WE WILL BRING
03:10:41THAT TO YOU. WE ARE BRINGING TO YOU KNOW
03:10:45KRISTEN BAY TALK OF THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER, WHO COVERS THE WHITE HOUSE.
03:10:50THE MOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE, HOW WOULD YOU GET TO THAT?
03:10:53-- GAUGE THAT?
03:10:54GUEST: MULTIPLE STAGES OF GRIEF
03:10:59OVER THE PAST 12 HOURS OR SO. MY TALKS WITH WHITE HOUSE
03:11:03OFFICIALS, THERE WAS A LOT OF PROFANITIES AND STUFF THAT CANNOT BE REPEATED ON AIR.
03:11:09FOLKS WERE DEFIANT. THAT IS THE RIGHT WORD TO DESCRIBE THE MOOD RIGHT NOW.
03:11:12ONE OFFICIAL TOLD ME VOTERS ARE
03:11:15GOING TO HAVE BUYERS REMORSE BECAUSE THEY CLEARLY BELIEVE THE
03:11:17WAR IN IRAN WAS THE MAIN POINT
03:11:19OF BLAME FOR THE RESULTS.
03:11:25ULTIMATELY THEY ARE STILL SAYING GAS PRICES ARE GOING TO COME DOWN SUPER QUICKLY BECAUSE
03:11:28PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GOING TO WRAP UP THE WAR INCREDIBLY QUICKLY.
03:11:33THEY ALSO TOLD ME THE PRESIDENT
03:11:35IS GOING TO ESCALATE AND INTENSIFY THE RADICAL LEFT.
03:11:40AN AIDE SAID SIMPLY BUCKLE UP. I THINK WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
03:11:44SAYING IS A LITTLE MORE NUANCED.
03:11:46WE SAW HIM ON TRUTH SOCIAL
03:11:49BLAMING EVERYBODY FROM "RHINO
03:11:51GREG ABBOTT" THE FOX NEWS AND
03:11:55THEIR DECISION TO HAVE DEMOCRATIC ON DENTS THE AIR AT
03:11:57ALL TIMES FOR THE ELECTION LOSSES.
03:12:01THAT RHETORIC DID NOT STOP HIM FROM DOING AN INTERVIEW WITH FOX
03:12:04NEWS SUPER EARLY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING.
03:12:07A MUCH MORE CONCILIATORY TONE. HE TALKED ABOUT HOW HE IS
03:12:10FRIENDS ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE AISLE AND WANTS TO WORK WITH THE OTHER PARTY TO ADDRESS
03:12:15IMMIGRATION AND OTHER ISSUES. HE TOLD US HE SPOKE TO AT LEAST
03:12:19FIVE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN, SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN ON
03:12:23TUESDAY NIGHT. ULTIMATELY HE THINKS HE CAN WORK
03:12:27ACROSS THE AISLE.
03:12:30HE HAS THE UNIMPEACHABLE POWER OF THE VETO.
03:12:32HOST: ON YOUR EX FEED YOU
03:12:36REPOSTED WITH THE PRESIDENT POSTED HIMSELF, A RED HAT WITH
03:12:39THE WORD VETO ON IT. IF THAT IS A SIGNAL, LET ME KNOW.
03:12:43IT SOUNDS LIKE A -- HOST: IT SOUNDS --
03:12:46GUEST: IT SOUNDS LIKE A THREAT.
03:12:49AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO TAKE DONALD TRUMP AT HIS WORD.
03:12:52ON THE ONE HAND HE'S REJECTING STRENGTH AND TELLING DEMOCRATS
03:12:55EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT HAVE BOTH
03:12:58MAJORITIES AND THE MARGINS ARE
03:13:00SIGNIFICANTLY WIDER THAN WHAT REPUBLICANS HELD IN THE LAST TWO
03:13:04YEARS, HE'S NOT AFRAID TO STAND IN THEIR WAY.
03:13:07AT THE SAME TIME LET'S PAY
03:13:10ATTENTION TO WHAT HE SAID IN THAT FOX NEWS INTERVIEW.
03:13:12THERE IS STILL REAL OPPORTUNITY
03:13:16FOR BIPARTISAN ACCORD ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES.
03:13:20WHETHER IT IS REWRITING THE IMMIGRATION CODE. DURING THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST
03:13:24TERM HE WAS WILLING TO EXTEND
03:13:26AMNESTY TO DR. -- DACA
03:13:30RECIPIENTS IF THEY WOULD GET ON BOARD WITH HIS BORDER SECURITY INITIATIVES.
03:13:34I THINK THE BIG ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS AFFORDABILITY.
03:13:37EVEN REPUBLICANS WOULD CONCEDE THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH DONE TO
03:13:42ADDRESS THE HOUSING CRISIS OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS.
03:13:45THAT IS WHAT VOTERS WANT TO SEE. WILL DEMOCRATS PLAY BALL WITH
03:13:49THE PRESIDENT OR WILL THEY SIMPLY LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS,
03:13:52IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS? IT IS TOO EARLY TO TELL BUT
03:13:55BASED ON THE MAP WHILE I THINK
03:13:59THE BALL IS IN DEMOCRATS COURT RIGHT NOW.
03:14:00HOST: WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE HOW ARE THEY PREPARING AS FAR AS
03:14:04STAFFING IS CONCERNED TO GO TO
03:14:06CONGRESS UNDER THIS NEW REGIME TO WORK OUT WHAT GETS DONE
03:14:10LEGISLATIVELY?
03:14:13GUEST: THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR -- THE PREVIOUS LEGISLATIVE
03:14:17DIRECTOR JAMES BRAID HAS RECENTLY DEPARTED THE WHITE
03:14:18HOUSE AS HIS DEPUTY KATIE
03:14:22PHILLIPS WAS ELEVATED INTO HIS ROLE. WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IS THE FACT THAT THE WHITE HOUSE
03:14:25COUNSEL'S OFFICE HAD STAFFED UP
03:14:30IN THE MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE ELECTION.
03:14:31THEY ARE CLEARLY PREPARED TO GO
03:14:34TOE TO TOE WITH DEMOCRATS, WHETHER IT'S ON LEGISLATIVE
03:14:37MATTERS OR FIGHTING THESE POTENTIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND IMPEACHMENT.
03:14:42I THINK WE CAN'T TAKE PRESIDENT
03:14:46TRUMP'S WORD HEAVILY ENOUGH. HE'S TELLING US HE IS ALREADY
03:14:49REACHING OUT TO DEMOCRATS.
03:14:50WE KNOW JARED KUSHNER AND A TOP
03:14:54INTERMEDIARY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
03:14:56MET WITH HAKEEM JEFFRIES, A MEETING THAT POTENTIALLY SEEM TO
03:14:59BE SPEAKER JEFFRIES TOOK A LOT OF HEAT FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS OVER.
03:15:03THAT TOOK PLACE EARLIER THIS SUMMER. THE OUTREACH IS HAPPENING.
03:15:07TO WHAT EXTENT AND WHETHER OR NOT DEMOCRATS WILL BE WILLING TO
03:15:12EXTEND AN OLIVE BRANCH AND ADDRESS THESE ISSUES VOTERS REALLY CARE ABOUT, THAT IS TO BE DECIDED.
03:15:16HOST: ON THE WHITE HOUSE FEED
03:15:19THERE'S A PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT THAT SAYS PSA, TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT.
03:15:24I SUPPOSE THE KIDS WOULD CALL IT A FLEX. THEY ARE PROBABLY CRINGING BY
03:15:28NOW BUT THIS IS THE ATTEMPT TO REMIND PEOPLE HE IS STILL IN POWER.
03:15:30GUEST: THAT'S RIGHT. THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT.
03:15:35HE HAS THE VETO.
03:15:36EVEN THOUGH DEMOCRATS HAVE SUCH
03:15:40IMPRESSIVE PICKUPS ON TUESDAY NIGHT, THEY DON'T NECESSARILY
03:15:44HAVE A COMPLETELY VETO-PROOF MAJORITY AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
03:15:47THEY NEED TWO THIRDS VOTES IN
03:15:51BOTH CHAMBERS TO OVERRIDE A PRESIDENTIAL VETO.
03:15:54THERE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE SOME TYPE OF BIPARTISAN ACCORD. DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE VERY
03:16:00CAREFUL AFTER THIS ELECTION.
03:16:02THE MARGIN DEMOGRAPHICS THAT
03:16:05SWUNG THESE RACES BLUE, MANY OF
03:16:07THEM VOTED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS IN THE 2024 ELECTION.
03:16:12THEY ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY DEMOCRATS. THEY WANT TO SEE RESULTS AND THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS IN
03:16:17CONGRESS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LOSES SIGHT OR LOSES TRACK
03:16:21OF THAT, THEY PRIORITIZE THE
03:16:25INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT AND
03:16:27HIS TOP DEPUTIES OVER ADDRESSING AFFORDABILITY.
03:16:31MAYBE REGULATING DATA CENTERS. THAT WAS A HUGE, HUGE ISSUE FOR
03:16:35VOTERS IN EXIT POLLS. THERE MIGHT BE A SWING BACK TO THE RIGHT IN THE 20 28 CYCLE.
03:16:40HOST: WHAT IS THE STORY YOU WILL PURSUE IN THE DAYS AHEAD?
03:16:44GUEST: I HAVE 12 OF MY NOTEBOOK NOW.
03:16:48I THINK THE ONE THAT IS THE MOST INTRIGUING TO ME, AND I HATE TO
03:16:51SAY IT BECAUSE WE JUST WRAPPED UP THE 2026 ELECTION IS WHAT DO
03:16:55THESE RESULTS MEAN FOR 2028.
03:16:58IT IS KIND OF OBVIOUS, NO-BRAINER, BUT WILL JD VANCE
03:17:02EVEN BE ABLE TO RUN RIGHT NOW? I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF
03:17:05PEOPLE IN THE PARTY WHO ARE LOOKING AT MARCO RUBIO AS
03:17:09PERHAPS A RESET CANDIDATE WHO
03:17:10MIGHT BE ABLE TO RE-CONSOLIDATE
03:17:13THE OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY, PULLING IN PARTS OF THE MEGA
03:17:16COALITION -- MAGA COALITION.
03:17:22YOU HAVE TO ASK THE SAME THING ON THE OTHERS OF THE AISLE. WHAT IS HIS BLUE WAVE MEAN FOR
03:17:25THE NEXT CROP OF DEMOCRATS?
03:17:28THERE ARE THREE GOVERNORS WHO WON REELECTION LAST NIGHT.
03:17:31WES MOORE, JB PRITZKER AND JOSH SHAPIRO OF PENNSYLVANIA.
03:17:35SOMEONE NOT ON THE BALLOT,
03:17:37ALEXANDRA CAUSEY OF CORTEZ,
03:17:39COULD MAKE -- ALEXANDRIA CAUSEY
03:17:42OF CORTEZ -- OCASIO-CORTEZ
03:17:49COULD MAKE HISTORY. IS THAT AN OF CENTRIST DEMOCRATS?
03:17:53THAT IS WHAT I'M LOOKING AT.
03:17:54HOST: WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM.
03:18:01THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING. GUEST: ALWAYS A PLEASURE.
03:18:05HOST: ERICA FILTER.
03:18:092028 IS ON YOUR RADAR. GUEST: CHRISTIAN IS RICE.
03:18:14VANCE HAS A TALL TASK SHOULD HE CHOOSE TO RUN.
03:18:17HE'S BEEN A STAUNCH DEFENDER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP GOING INTO LAST
03:18:21NIGHT AND HE'S GOING TO NEED TO
03:18:24CHANGE HIS TUNE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
03:18:26HIS ECONOMIC MESSAGING PRIOR TO LAST NIGHT WAS KIND OF, YOU
03:18:31KNOW, WAIT IT OUT AND GIVE REPUBLICANS A CHANCE. I KNOW YOU ARE HURTING BUT YOU
03:18:35NEED TO TRUST US. THE AMERICAN VOTERS SHOWED THEY
03:18:39DID NOT TRUST THIS ADMINISTRATION.
03:18:42IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO GET OUT FROM UNDER TRUMP,
03:18:47ESPECIALLY -- HE IS THE NUMBER TWO AND TRUMP IS STILL IN OFFICE
03:18:50AND LIKELY GOING TO HOLD MEMBERS
03:18:54OF HIS CABINET AS CLOSE TO HIM AS HE CAN. TRUMP SAID 2020 IT IS TOO FAR
03:18:58OFF. -- 2028 IS TOO FAR OFF.
03:19:03HOST: EVELYN JOINS US FROM
03:19:07TEXAS, INDEPENDENT LINE. GO AHEAD. CALLER: THANK YOU, GOOD MORNING.
03:19:11I AM SO HAPPY FOR THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.
03:19:13JEANNE SHAHEEN OSA -- JEANNE
03:19:17SHAHEEN OS -- GINA HINAJOSA.
03:19:28I WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL THE WOMEN. LOOK AT THE WOMEN GOVERNORS,
03:19:32FROM -- I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING
03:19:34THESE WOMEN AND MOST ESPECIALLY
03:19:36KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS.
03:19:39I'M SO JOYFUL, SO ELATED.
03:19:43I MUST HAVE SLEPT AN HOUR. I COULD NOT SLEEP.
03:19:47PEDRO, YOU AND MIMI -- SORRY, I'M GETTING EMOTIONAL.
03:19:52I'M SO HAPPY WHEN I WATCH YOU GUYS. I WAS HURTING WHEN ONE OF THE
03:19:56CALLERS ATTACKED MIMI YESTERDAY.
03:20:02I WANTED TO JUMP INTO MY TV AND
03:20:02HUG MIMI THE WAY I WANT TO HUG
03:20:06DR. AMY ACTON, DR. ANNIE ANDREWS.
03:20:11ALL THESE WOMEN THAT ARE RUNNING. I'M SO HAPPY.
03:20:13AT THE SAME TIME WE NEED TO COME
03:20:18TOGETHER AND START RESPECTING ONE ANOTHER. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY.
03:20:21THANK YOU, PEDRO.
03:20:24PLEASE HUG MIMI FOR ME.
03:20:27I DID NOT LIKE SHE WAS BEING ATTACKED.
03:20:29I'M SORRY TO GET EMOTIONAL BUT WOMEN NEED TO BE RESPECTED ALL AROUND.
03:20:35WHETHER YOU ARE DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, OR INDEPENDENT.
03:20:39HOST: THANK YOU FOR THE SENTIMENTS.
03:20:42I'M SURE MIMI APPRECIATES IT
03:20:46TOO. HAVE WE SEEN A CYCLE WHERE WOMEN GAINED SO MUCH POWER?
03:20:50GUEST: 2018 WAS THE YEAR THE
03:20:54WOMEN, THE OTHER MIDTERM UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF HISTORY
03:20:58MAKING CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR.
03:21:01EARLIER TODAY WE POINTED OUT THEY ARE NOW FIVE BLACK
03:21:04GOVERNORS IN STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS, DAVID
03:21:08CROWLEY, WES MOORE, BYRON DONALDS, DEB HAALAND I BELIEVE
03:21:12IS NOW THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN GOVERNOR IN NEW MEXICO.
03:21:16THERE IS A LOT TO BE HAPPY ABOUT
03:21:17A LOT OF HISTORY MADE LAST NIGHT.
03:21:21HOST: TIFFANY IN NEBRASKA, DEMOCRATS LINE.
03:21:25CALLER: HELLO.
03:21:28GOOD MORNING FROM DISTRICT 2 IN NEBRASKA.
03:21:32HOST: GO AHEAD.
03:21:35CALLER: I WANT TO SAY TO EVERY
03:21:38PERSON OUT THERE WHO IS
03:21:42DISENFRANCHISED AND THINK THEIR VOTE DOES NOT MATTER, THIS SHOWS
03:21:46WE MATTER. OUR VOICES ARE BEING REPRESENTED.
03:21:50THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE. NOT THE VOICE OF THE ELITE.
03:21:54I THINK THE BIGGEST THING THAT
03:21:56DREW PEOPLE WHERE THE MEDICARE
03:22:00INCREASES.
03:22:03PEOPLE WENT TO ENROLL AND FOUND
03:22:08WHAT AN EXPENSIVE ADJUSTMENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MADE TO OUR
03:22:12LIFE AND OUR REASON AND ABILITY TO EXIST.
03:22:16I AM SO PROUD OF DR. EL-SAYED
03:22:22AND POWELL IN MY DISTRICT
03:22:24SHOWING WE ARE A COUNTRY OF MANY COLORS.
03:22:27WE ARE NOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT US
03:22:31TO BE. OUR STATES HAVE THE RIGHT TO
03:22:35MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. I DO NOT WANT TO EVER SEE THE
03:22:40REGULAR -- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REGULATE OUR VOTES.
03:22:42THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. I'M SO HAPPY AND PROUD TODAY.
03:22:45HOST: IN YOUR STATE THE INCOME
03:22:50AT SENATOR PETE RICKETTS HOLDING OFF A CHALLENGE FROM THE INDEPENDENT DAN OSBORNE.
03:22:54HOW DID YOU THINK ABOUT HOW THAT RESULT?
03:22:57CALLER: IT MAKES ME KIND OF SAD.
03:23:02THE WAY THAT RICKETTS HAS BEEN RUNNING THINGS.
03:23:06I KNOW THAT DAN DID NOT GET THE
03:23:11-- HIS VOICE OUT THERE CLEARLY.
03:23:13THERE WAS A LOT OF -- A LOT OF
03:23:17JUST, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THE
03:23:20POLITICS IS DIRTY AND THE
03:23:23RECORDINGS WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT THAT THEY WILL SHARE WITH EVERYBODY AND PUSH
03:23:26EVERYBODY AGAINST SOMEONE INSTEAD OF GOING ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT.
03:23:30OUR RECORD.
03:23:32WHO IS GOING TO FIGHT FOR US AND WHO IS NOT.
03:23:36I DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT WE
03:23:41HAVE NOT PROGRESSED IN THAT AREA.
03:23:42I THINK WITH POWELL BEING A
03:23:45REPRESENTATIVE IS GOING TO HELP.
03:23:47HOST: TIFFANY IN NEBRASKA.
03:23:51THIS RACE, ONE OF THE FEW WITH
03:23:55INDEPENDENTS RUNNING AS A MAJOR CANDIDATE.
03:23:56GUEST: THAT IS A STORYLINE THAT
03:23:59HAS NOT PANNED OUT THE CYCLE.
03:24:02THERE WERE SEVERAL INDEPENDENTS
03:24:04DEMOCRATS FELT GOOD ABOUT AND THAT WAS NEBRASKA, MONTANA, EVEN IDAHO.
03:24:09THERE WERE CANDIDATES THAT
03:24:12DEMOCRATS WERE HOPING WOULD NOT HAVE THE PARTY BRAND THAT WOULD
03:24:16BE ABLE TO SIPHON OFF THAT OPPOSITION TOWARD REPUBLICANS.
03:24:19THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE HAPPENED.
03:24:22OSBORNE RAN IN 2024.
03:24:27ULTIMATELY WAS NOT ABLE TO SUCCEED BECAUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT BEING SO MUCH BETTER
03:24:31FOR REPUBLICANS TWO YEARS AGO. THIS TIME AROUND IT SEEMS LIKE
03:24:35PEOPLE KNOW WHO OSBORNE IS. LAST TIME HE COULD GET AWAY WITH
03:24:39BEING THE FACELESS CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT.
03:24:44EVEN THOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT IS MORE IN HIS FAVOR PEOPLE KNOW
03:24:48WHO HE IS IN THE GIMMICK IS A LITTLE LESS, YOU KNOW, WILL NOT
03:24:52WORK AS EFFECTIVELY THE SECOND TIME AROUND.
03:24:53THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY WITH A
03:24:57GROWING TREND OF INDEPENDENTS AND HE COULD GO SOMEWHERE IN
03:25:01FUTURE CYCLES. IT WAS I THIS TIME AROUND.
03:25:02HOST: WE ARE HOLDING AT 54 SEATS
03:25:06TAKEN BY DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE ACCORDING TO OUR SCREEN.
03:25:1144 SEATS HELD BY REPUBLICANS. SEVEN PICKUPS TO DATE WHEN IT
03:25:15COMES TO THAT. WE TURN TO THE HOUSE I, 228
03:25:18SEATS HELD BY DEMOCRATS CURRENTLY.
03:25:2025 PICKUPS, 139 SEATS HELD BY
03:25:24REPUBLICANS GIVING DEMOCRATS POWER IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN THE NEXT CONGRESS.
03:25:27REX FROM WEST VIRGINIA,
03:25:32REPUBLICAN LINE. YOU ARE NEXT UP.
03:25:33CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO AND
03:25:36THE YOUNG LADY ON THE SCREEN.
03:25:40I WATCHED THIS LAST NIGHT AND AM
03:25:42PICTURING IN MY HEAD HOW DID
03:25:47VIRGINIA WIN A SENATE SEAT SEAT 1% OF THE VOTE IN.
03:25:49ALL THE DEMOCRATS ARE PROMISING
03:25:52EVERYTHING. AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE.
03:25:57I CAN'T AFFORD HEALTH CARE WITH
03:26:01$2300 A MONTH AND I'M A RETIRED
03:26:02WORKER HOW THE WORLD CAN A
03:26:07PERSON -- CONGRATULATION ON
03:26:10THEIR WINS, BUT PROMISES CAP SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE ON THEIR
03:26:14PRIORITY. THEY DON'T KEEP PROMISES.
03:26:19THE NEXT THING I'M GOING TO SAY
03:26:20IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE -- THEY
03:26:23ARE GOING TO WIND UP AS SOON AS I GET SWORN IN AT THE FIRST OF
03:26:27THE YEAR, THEY WILL IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP.
03:26:31HAVE A GOOD DAY. HOST: WE HAVE TALKED A LITTLE
03:26:35ABOUT THIS. SEVERAL HIGH DEMOCRATS HAD RESISTED AGAINST THAT IDEA.
03:26:38GUEST: YES, BUT THAT WAS WHERE
03:26:42DEMOCRATS HAD 28 PICKUPS.
03:26:4325, SORRY.
03:26:47SEVEN IN THE SENATE.
03:26:49THE BASE IS GOING TO BE ITCHING FOR IMPEACHMENT OR AT THE VERY LEAST SOME ACTION TOWARDS
03:26:54PRESIDENT TRUMP. THAT COULD SHIFT.
03:26:58LEADERSHIP HAS HESITATED. THEY WANT TO AT LEAST START WITH
03:27:01EFFORTS TO DELIVER ON THESE PROMISES OF AFFORDABILITY.
03:27:06THEY WANT TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE WITHOUT NECESSARILY IMPEACHING HIM FOR A THIRD TIME
03:27:11BECAUSE THAT HAS BACKFIRED ON DEMOCRATS IN PREVIOUS CYCLES.
03:27:14THE BASE REALLY WANTS IT AND A
03:27:17LOT OF DEMOCRATS SAY LETS SEE WHERE THIS INVESTIGATION GOES.
03:27:20THERE MIGHT BE ROOM FOR THOSE CONVERSATIONS TO HAPPEN.
03:27:23HOST: IT'S BEING REPORTED FROM
03:27:27PUNCH BOWL SAYING REPRESENTATIVE JIM JORDAN WILL ANNOUNCE
03:27:31HE'S RUNNING FOR HOUSE MINORITY LEADER. THAT MANEUVERING IS NOT TO BE UNEXPECTED.
03:27:34GUEST: HE HAD BEEN SIGNALING THIS PRIOR TO LAST NIGHT'S
03:27:43ELECTIONS. HE CHALLENGED KEVIN MCCARTHY AND SPEAKER ELECTIONS FOR MIKE JOHNSON WAS EVENTUALLY CHOSEN.
03:27:47JORDAN, I THINK IT'S FAIR TO INFLAMMATORY AT THE LEAST.
03:27:52HE'S OUTSPOKEN IN THE SENATE -- THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
03:27:54I COULD SEE HIM WINNING A LEADERSHIP ELECTION WHICH WILL
03:27:59HAPPEN ON TUESDAY ACTUALLY. LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
03:28:04JORDAN WILL BE ABLE TO BE
03:28:07ALLOWED VOICE AS THE MINORITY PARTY.
03:28:12REPUBLICANS WILL BE ABLE TO CRITICIZE DEMOCRATS FOR ANY
03:28:15ACTIONS THEY TAKE LOUDLY AND THAT IS GOING TO BE THERE PATH
03:28:19TO ELECTORAL SUCCESS IN 2028 AND 2032.
03:28:23I SEE JORDAN HAVING A LEGITIMATE SHOT AT LEADERSHIP WHEN HE CAN
03:28:25USE THIS AS A TOOL FOR CRITIQUE
03:28:30THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY CONSTRUCTIVE.
03:28:31HOST: THE DELEGATES AND
03:28:35REPUBLICANS, HE HAS THE SUPPORT AND CERTAIN FACTORS?
03:28:38GUEST: THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
03:28:42IS NOT TOTALLY CLEAR TO ME.
03:28:45WE NEED TO SEE HOW MANY REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS LOSE ELECTIONS TODAY.
03:28:49IF RICHARD HUDSON IN NORTH
03:28:51CAROLINA 9 IS LOSING THE
03:28:56ELECTION, THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIR, THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A FAX.
03:29:00HOWEVER -- HAVE AN EFFECT. JORDAN IS MORE ON THE FREEDOM
03:29:05CAUCUS HARD RIGHT SIDE OF THE THING.
03:29:10REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE MORE AUTOMATIC VICTORIES IN THE TRUMP HEAVY DISTRICTS.
03:29:15THERE IS A PATH FOR HIM TO GET THERE. HOST: LET'S ASSUME MIKE JOHNSON
03:29:19WILL NOT JUST LET THAT HAPPEN EASILY. GUEST: NO, HE INDICATED HE WANTS
03:29:23TO SEEK REELECTION TO HIS ROLE
03:29:26AS HOUSE -- NOW MINORITY LEADER.
03:29:29I WAS NOTICING THIS EARLIER.
03:29:32HE WAS SPEAKING LAST NIGHT ABOUT
03:29:34HIS ABILITY TO FUND RAISE FOR
03:29:38OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT LAST NIGHT, WHICH WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE.
03:29:42REPUBLICANS HAD A HUGE CASH ADVANTAGE FROM THESE INFRASTRUCTURE GROUPS.
03:29:46MAGA, INC. IN THE CONTEXT OF
03:29:55NOT WINNING THIS ELECTION. THAT IS WHAT I EXPECT JOHNSON TO
03:29:58LEAN ON, HE CAN FUND RAISE AND
03:30:00AN OPPORTUNITY TO AFFORD THE
03:30:04BATTLES THAT WILL COME IN 2028 AND 2032.
03:30:08HOST: 20 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING
03:30:12AROUND THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. THAT STARTED AT 4:00 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE ON
03:30:16THROUGH TODAY AT NOON, AND ALL DURING THAT TIME WE WILL PROVIDE
03:30:20ANALYSIS THAT YOU ARE HEARING
03:30:25NOW. YOU CAN GET INFORMATION ON YOUR SCREENS AT OUR WEBSITE AND FOLLOW ALONG ON OUR VARIOUS PLATFORMS.
03:30:29ONE OF THE GREAT ADD-ONS THIS YEAR IS OUR DEMOCRACY HUB.
03:30:32THAT IS WHERE OUR GENTLEMEN JOIN US AT THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD.
03:30:35HOST: SOMETIMES IT IS THE
03:30:39DEMOCRACY DUDES AND THE DEMOCRACY HUB AND DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD.
03:30:42WE WILL TAKE WHATEVER YOU CALL US.
03:30:46I'M SURE VIEWERS ARE NOT SUPER EXCITED ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT CYCLE BUT YOU CAN'T HELP IT.
03:30:51THE CYCLE BEGINS IMMEDIATELY AFTER ONE CYCLE ENDS.
03:30:54LET'S TALK ABOUT 2028.
03:30:58THIS IS THE END OF THE 2026 CYCLE AND WE ARE WAITING FOR TWO CALLS IN THE SENATE.
03:31:02WHAT'S A GOOD WAY TO TALK ABOUT
03:31:03THE SENATE AND 2028? -- IN 2028?
03:31:09GUEST: LET'S LOOK AT THE LAST TIME THAT CLASS WAS UP FOR
03:31:12ELECTION IN 2022. THESE ARE THE SEATS THAT ARE
03:31:16GOING TO BE UP FOR REELECTION IN 2028.
03:31:20HOST: IS IT HELPFUL TO CHANGE
03:31:23THIS TO AN EIGHT TO SEE THE
03:31:26FIELD WE ARE TALKING ABOUT?
03:31:30REPUBLICANS, STILL TWO RACES TO BE CALLED FOR THE SENATE. FOR REPUBLICANS TO WIN BACK THE
03:31:34SENATE IN 2028 THEY NEED AROUND
03:31:38FIVE PICKUPS AND THE PRESIDENCY OR MAYBE SIX PICKUPS.
03:31:41DO THEY HAVE, LOOKING AT THE EARLY MAP, DO THEY HAVE THOSE
03:31:44OPPORTUNITIES TWO YEARS FROM NOW?
03:31:46GUEST: THEY MAY BUT THEY WOULD
03:31:49HAVE TO RUN THE TABLE. WE CAN WALK THROUGH A COUPLE OF
03:31:53PLACES WHERE THEY WILL CERTAINLY BE LOOKING.
03:31:56THE FIRST IS CURRENTLY READ ON THE MAP BUT WE MIGHT SHADED THAT
03:32:00BLUE -- EIGHT IT BLUE IN OHIO.
03:32:06GUEST: THIS WAS THE JD VANCE PICKUP.
03:32:09GUEST: THIS IS NOW SHERROD
03:32:13BROWN'S SEAT THAT HE WON LAST NIGHT.
03:32:16REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO TARGET THAT RACE IN TWO YEARS WHEN IT'S UP FOR A FULL TERM.
03:32:20HOST: SHERROD BROWN RAN TWO
03:32:24YEARS AGO, RAN THIS YEAR, AND WILL HAVE TO RUN IN TWO YEARS AGAIN.
03:32:29GUEST: THREE CAMPAIGNS IN THREE CYCLES WHICH IS WHY PEOPLE RUN FOR THE SENATE IS TO AVOID
03:32:32HAVING TO RUN EVERY TWO YEARS.
03:32:34HOST: WHERE ELSE ARE THEY GOING TO TARGET?
03:32:38GUEST: THEY WILL LOOK AT GEORGIA
03:32:41DESPITE THE DRUMMING LAST NIGHT.
03:32:45WHO KNOWS IF WARNOCK WILL BE RUNNING OR PERHAPS A DIFFERENT
03:32:47RACE WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2028.
03:32:50THAT'S ANOTHER POTENTIAL PICKUP OPPORTUNITY. NEW HAMPSHIRE WILL BE A REPUBLICAN TARGET EVEN THOUGH
03:32:54THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET ACROSS THE FINISH LINE IN QUITE SOME TIME.
03:32:58THAT IS THREE. THEN YOU HAVE TO PUSH ACROSS TO
03:33:02THE WEST COAST.
03:33:05ARIZONA, MARK KELLY'S SEAT.
03:33:09HE WON A REASONABLE VICTORY IN 2022.
03:33:12ALSO A NARROW RACE. HE WILL BE A TARGET.
03:33:15HOST: NEVADA.
03:33:17GUEST: CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO IS
03:33:21UP FOR REELECTION IN 2028.
03:33:24THAT'S A REPUBLICAN TARGET. LET'S COUNT THEM UP.
03:33:281, 2, 3, 4, 5. DEPENDING ON ALASKA AND
03:33:34MISSISSIPPI, REPUBLICANS COULD BE IN A REALLY DIFFICULT SPOT HEADING INTO 2028.
03:33:38HOST: WE THOUGHT DEMOCRATS WOULD BE IN A DIFFICULT SPOT HEADING
03:33:43INTO 2026, AND BY THE WAY,
03:33:47HERE'S HOW IT'S ENDING UP IN 2026. MISSISSIPPI AND ALASKA ARE YET TO BE CALLED.
03:33:51GUEST: THIS IS THE ULTIMATE LESSON, AS FUN AS IT IS TO TALK
03:33:54ABOUT 2028.
03:33:57TWO YEARS IS AN ETERNITY IN POLITICS. WHAT SENATE DEMOCRATS SHOWED US
03:34:00IS BECAUSE A MAP IS STRUCTURALLY DIFFICULT DOES NOT NECESSARILY
03:34:06MEAN YOU CAN'T MAKE PLAYS IF THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOOD ENOUGH.
03:34:08IF YOU GO BACK TO 2022, I WILL MAKE A POINT CLEAR.
03:34:12STATES LIKE OREGON AND ILLINOIS
03:34:16AND, YOU KNOW, CONNECTICUT,
03:34:22CERTAINLY PENNSYLVANIA.
03:34:23HOST: JOHN FETTERMAN'S SEAT.
03:34:26GUEST: THAT WILL BE A COMPETITIVE RACE.
03:34:30THEY ARE AS DEMOCRATIC AS TEXAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTH
03:34:33CAROLINA ARE REPUBLICAN.
03:34:37THE FACT THE DEMOCRATS COULD PUT THOSE RACES ON THE BOARD THIS
03:34:41YEAR MEANS REPUBLICANS, LOOK,
03:34:46THEY ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD WEEK RIGHT NOW.
03:34:49IF THE SILVER LINING IS THERE
03:34:51FOR REPUBLICANS, TONIGHT SHOWED
03:34:53YOU CAN BEAT PARTISANSHIP IF THE FACTORS ARE ALIGNED IN YOUR
03:34:57FAVOR.
03:34:58HOST: THAT'S A VERY EARLY LOOK AT 2028 IN THE SENATE.
03:35:02HOST: THANK YOU, DELMON.
03:35:05THE DUDES, AS THEY WILL BE GIVEN OUT FROM HERE ON OUT.
03:35:08TAKE THIS FOR WHAT YOU WELL. MARKET WAS REPORTING THAT THE
03:35:12DOW WAS SET UP IN 1000 POINTS HIGHER, LEADING ONE OF ITS TOP
03:35:16DAYS IN 2026.
03:35:19LET'S HEAR FROM CRAIG IN SOUTH CAROLINA, INDEPENDENT LINE.
03:35:22CALLER: THANKS FOR C-SPAN.
03:35:25YOU HAVE TO KEEP HUMOR IN THE
03:35:27BACK POCKET AND INTEGRATED, THE
03:35:34YOUNG KID WAS CAUGHT SPEEDING THROUGH TOWN. ALL HE SAYS THROUGHOUT 20
03:35:38MINUTES OF THE SHOW IS MY DAD IS
03:35:41GOING TO GET ME OUT OF THIS. THIS RICH KID.
03:35:47DONALD TRUMP HAS PRESSURED EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET TO GET HIM OUT OF HER LAWN.
03:35:51THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
03:35:54NO ONE IS GOING TO GET US OUT OF THIS MESS EXCEPT FOR CONGRESS.
03:35:59CONGRESS SLOWED DOWN THE VIETNAM WAR.
03:36:02YOU CUT DOWN FUNDING AND IRAN IS
03:36:06COSTING US $3 BILLION A DAY.
03:36:09AMERICA'S TOTAL DEBT AND LESS THAN THREE MONTHS HAS GONE UP BY $550 BILLION.
03:36:14YOUR GRANDKIDS.
03:36:18I WILL STOP THERE.
03:36:21THE OTHER THING IS THAT THIS
03:36:27JIMMIE JOHNSON OR WHOEVER WANTS TO RUN THE HOUSE OF
03:36:30REPRESENTATIVES, THE FREEDOM CAUCUS IN SOUTH CAROLINA HAD A
03:36:33GENTLEMAN NAMED RJ MAY.
03:36:38HE PRODUCED KIDS PORN AND SENT
03:36:41IT OUT WEST. ALAN WILSON JUST GOT VOTED IN AS GOVERNOR.
03:36:45THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE PAPER. ALAN WILSON WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL.
03:36:52THEY NEVER BUSTED THE SEXUAL PREDATOR.
03:36:55THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TOLD THE MOTHERS A LIBERTY SHUT UP.
03:36:59THEY SAID WHAT? THEY SAID OK.
03:37:02HOST: CRAIG BRODD OF THE IRAN WORK.
03:37:06THAT IS SOMETHING THE NEW CONGRESS WILL HAVE TO FACE AS FAR AS HOW TO RESOLVE THAT ON THEIR END.
03:37:10GUEST: IT'S A MAJOR QUESTION NOW.
03:37:13THERE WAS REPORTING PRIOR TO THE ELECTION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS CONSIDERING RESUMING STRIKES
03:37:17AND IRAN. -- IN IRAN.
03:37:24WE SAW SELECTED STRIKES THE MORNING OF ELECTION DAY. IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT HAPPENS FROM HERE.
03:37:28TRUMP GREEN LET VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE TO NEGOTIATE WITH IRAN.
03:37:32HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING VERY HIGHLY OF THOSE NEGOTIATIONS.
03:37:37HE WAS ALSO FACING A MIDTERM ELECTION WHERE A LOT OF VOTERS
03:37:40WANT A SWIFT END TO THE WAR.
03:37:43IT IS NOT CLEAR WHAT CONGRESS CAN DO IF TRUMP DOES NOT WANT
03:37:46CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION.
03:37:49CONGRESS DOES HAVE THE ULTIMATE POWER TO DECLARE WAR.
03:37:53TRUMP HAS THE VETO POWER. DEPENDING ON WHAT CONGRESS TRIES
03:37:56TO DO IT IS NOT CLEAR WHAT WILL
03:38:00HAPPEN. WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IS THAT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS DEMOCRATS HAVE PUT OUT
03:38:06RESOLUTIONS TO CURB TRUMP'S POWERS AND IRAN.
03:38:08THOSE ARE LIKELY TO PASS.
03:38:13SOME HAD ALREADY PASSED THE HOUSE. THEY WERE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT IN THE CURRENT SENATE. NOW IT'S A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME.
03:38:17HOST: HARRISON FROM SOUTH
03:38:20CAROLINA, ONE OF THE STATES TO WATCH LAST NIGHT. DEMOCRATS LINE. BELOW.
03:38:23CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
03:38:28I'M VERY TIRED THIS MORNING. I HAD NO INTENTION OF STAYING UP
03:38:31WATCHING ALL THAT UNFOLD BUT WOW .
03:38:35AS I DIGEST WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS MY TAKE AWAY.
03:38:40I DON'T THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS
03:38:45WON. I DON'T THINK THE REPUBLICANS
03:38:49LOST. I THINK THAT TRUMP THE PERSON LOST.
03:38:54MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHAT I SAW AND
03:38:59THE OPTIMISM THAT I HAD HIS BIG
03:39:01MONEY LOST LAST NIGHT -- IS BIG
03:39:06MONEY LOST LAST NIGHT. I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON THE
03:39:09MONEY THAT WAS SPENT AND IN MY
03:39:12OPINION WAS COMPLETELY WASTED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
03:39:17WE ALWAYS HEAR THE POLITICAL
03:39:21PUNDITS TALK ABOUT HE OUTSPENT HIM OR HIS WARCHEST IS THIS BIG.
03:39:25IT LOOKED LIKE THE MONEY JUST
03:39:28BLEW UP IN EVERYONE'S FACE THAT THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE.
03:39:31ONE LAST POINT.
03:39:34GOING FORWARD THERE WILL BE A
03:39:36LITTLE BIT OF A HONEYMOON.
03:39:41IT'S UNFORTUNATELY GOING TO GET UGLY AGAIN.
03:39:46I SAID THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO MY FRIENDS.
03:39:49I LIVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND I'M IN THE MINORITY CALLING ON THE DEMOCRAT LINE.
03:39:55IF THIS IS NOT A WAKE-UP CALL TO
03:39:57START RUNNING ON PLATFORMS -- I
03:40:00HAVE SAID IT 70 TIMES THAT I'M BLUE IN THE FACE.
03:40:02IT IS TIME TO GET BACK TO PLATFORM POLITICS.
03:40:06I THINK THE PARTIES SHOULD TAKE THAT AS A LESSON.
03:40:10THANK YOU. HOST: STARTING WITH THE MONEY,
03:40:14OPEN SECRETS.
03:40:1812 BILLION DOLLARS SPENT THE CYCLE. GUEST: THE LAST ESTIMATE WAS
03:40:21$11.6 BILLION. JUST AN AVALANCHE OF MONEY.
03:40:26I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THIS UP.
03:40:28I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS. THIS WAS THE BIG POLITICAL
03:40:31SCIENCE EXPERIMENT.
03:40:34REPUBLICANS WERE UNPOPULAR.
03:40:39TRUMP WAS HISTORICALLY UNPOPULAR. THE ECONOMY LOOKED BAD. POLLING LOOKED BAD. EVERYTHING BUT THE MONEY WAS
03:40:43WORKING AGAINST REPUBLICANS. THE QUESTION WAS CAN $1 BILLION A REPUBLICANS?
03:40:48TRUMP'S GROUP SPENT NEARLY HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.
03:40:53ELON MUSK SPENT NEARLY HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.
03:40:58DEMOCRATS WERE ABLE TO WIN IN THE RACES THEY REALLY DID NOT INVEST IN, ESPECIALLY NORTH
03:41:01CAROLINA AND LAUREN BOEBERT'S
03:41:06DISTRICT. THERE WERE CONCERNS EARLIER IN
03:41:09THE CYCLE BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD A MASSIVE CASH DISADVANTAGE. THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO
03:41:14CAPITALIZE ON THE ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT AFFORD TO GET THEIR CANDIDATES OUT.
03:41:19LARGELY THAT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE AFFECTED IT. PEOPLE WERE SMART.
03:41:23THEY RECOGNIZED WHAT THEY WANTED TO SAY WITH THEIR VOTE.
03:41:27THE ONE EXCEPTION MIGHT BE MISSISSIPPI.
03:41:30THE COUNT HAS NOT MOVED IN A WHILE AND STILL 43 VOTES UP FOR
03:41:33THE DEMOCRAT WITH 96% IN.
03:41:36THIS WAS NOT REALLY A RACE ON THE DEMOCRATS RADAR WHEN THEY
03:41:40WERE NOT SURE THEY WOULD HAVE SENT A CONTROL AT ALL, LET ALONE 54 SEATS.
03:41:45IT IS POSSIBLE DEMOCRATS WILL
03:41:49SAY THEY WISH THEY COULD'VE SPENT MORE IN MISSISSIPPI.
03:41:52THE MONEY REALLY DID NOT MOVE THE NEEDLE FOR REPUBLICANS.
03:41:56HOST: THE ONE PERSON NOT
03:41:59SPENDING HIS OWN MONEY WAS DONALD TRUMP ITSELF. GUEST: HE SPENT ABOUT $400
03:42:03MILLION FOR MAGGOT INC. --
03:42:07MAGA, INC.
03:42:11A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SKEPTICAL BECAUSE IN THE PAST MIDTERM CYCLES HE HAS NOT SPENT THAT
03:42:15MONEY. HE KEPT IT FOR HIS OWN REELECTION BATTLES, FOR HIS
03:42:19LEGAL FEES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
03:42:22SOME SPECULATED HE WOULD GIVE THE MONEY FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.
03:42:26I THINK HE STILL HAS $100
03:42:28MILLION IN THE BANK IN MAGA, INC.
03:42:33IT'S MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE HAVE.
03:42:38HE DID PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS.
03:42:41WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE DOING RECRIMINATIONS AFTER LAST NIGHT'S ELECTION, THEY MIGHT
03:42:45JUST SAY TRUMP DID NOT SPEND EARLY ENOUGH IN SOME OF THE RACES.
03:42:48I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CAN SPEND A WHAT YOU CAN REALLY SAY IN THIS ENVIRONMENT.
03:42:52HOST: LUBBOCK, TEXAS. THE LINE FOR REPUBLICANS,
03:42:57LORENZO. CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO AND
03:43:01ERICA. I'M SCARED.
03:43:05I'M GROUCHY.
03:43:07I'M REAL WORRIED ABOUT MYSELF.
03:43:10I'M TIRED.
03:43:13I THINK MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS WHAT THIS ELECTION HAS BEEN ABOUT.
03:43:17THIS IS CLEARLY A REFERENDUM ON
03:43:21THE REPUBLICANS' TOTAL
03:43:26INABILITY TO MAKE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS PERMANENT. PEOPLE ARE STANDING IN LINE.
03:43:31THEY HAVE TO LET YOU VOTE. IT IS POSSUMS AND WORK THINGS OUT.
03:43:35IT IS NOT FAIR, NOT RIGHT.
03:43:39IT IS NOT DECENT. I WILL TAKE MY ANSWER OFF THE AIR.
03:43:43HOST: LET ME REPHRASE THAT AS A
03:43:47SENSE OF TURNOUT BY REPUBLICANS. GUEST: ONE BIG QUESTION GOING IN
03:43:51WAS TRUMP IS SUCCESSFUL WITH VOTERS WHO ONLY TURNED WHEN
03:43:55TRUMP IS ON THE BALLOT. CAN THEY GET THOSE VOTERS TO
03:43:59TURN OUT FOR DOWN BALLOT REPUBLICANS WHEN TRUMP IS NOT ON
03:44:02THE BALLOT?
03:44:07HE SAID ON TRUE SOCIAL LAST NIGHT IF HE WAS ON THE BALLOT REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE. I'M NOT SURE THAT'S TRUE IN THE
03:44:11SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENT BUT IT DOES SEEM LIKE A LOT OF REPUBLICANS STAYED HOME AND NOT READY TO GO
03:44:14TO BAT FOR THESE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO TRUMP.
03:44:19THAT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE IN TEXAS WHERE JAMES TALARICO IS WINNING
03:44:23HANDILY.
03:44:25ANECDOTAL REPORTS WERE SAYING A LOT OF REPUBLICANS LEFT THE
03:44:29SENATE RACE BLANK BECAUSE KEN
03:44:31PAXTON HAD A LOT OF BAGGAGE.
03:44:37NOT A SUPER LIKABLE CANDIDATE. IF NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT
03:44:40REPUBLICANS, PAXTON WILL NOT DRIVE YOU TO TURNOUT.
03:44:43HOST: IN THE MAINE SENATE RACE,
03:44:48TROY JACKSON CAME AND LACEY MANAGED TO BE THE VICTOR. WHAT CONTRIBUTED TO THAT?
03:44:53GUEST: THAT WAS A RACE I WAS SKEPTICAL ON.
03:44:57SUSAN COLLINS WAS THE IRON LADY.
03:45:00SHE HAD SURVIVED SO MANY TIGHT REELECTION CONTESTS.
03:45:03SHE WAS THE ONLY GOP SENATOR IN
03:45:05A STATE THAT I GOT FOR KAMALA HARRIS.
03:45:10IF KANSAS SENATE IS FLIPPING, IF SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE IS
03:45:13FLIPPING, THERE IS NO WAY MAINE
03:45:17IS GOING TO ELECT SUSAN COLLINS.
03:45:21TROY JACKSON DEFINITELY CAME IN WITH AN UPHILL BATTLE.
03:45:25HE ENTERED LATE. HE FINISHED THIRD IN THE STATE'S
03:45:29DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY.
03:45:33I DO THINK A YEAR OR TWO AGO SO IT WAS A TROY JACKSON WOULD WIN
03:45:36THAT RACE. IT SHOWS YOU HOW MUCH CAN CHANGE.
03:45:39HOST: LET'S HEAR FROM SENATOR
03:45:42ELECT TROY JACKSON AND THE CURRENT SENATOR NOW LEAVING
03:45:46OFFICE, SUSAN COLLINS. [VIDEO] >> WE DID IT. WORKING PEOPLE DID IT.
03:45:53[CHEERS]
03:45:56I'M SO PROUD TO BE STANDING HERE
03:45:59WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT -- THIS MORNING NOW.
03:46:04[LAUGHTER]
03:46:10A LITTLE MORE THAN 100 DAYS AGO I STOOD IN FRONT OF OUR
03:46:14CONVENTION AND ASKED YOU TO PUT
03:46:15YOUR FAITH --
03:46:20[CHEERS]
03:46:23I TOLD YOU WE HAD A PARTY
03:46:27TONIGHT UNITE, A MOVEMENT TO DEFEAT.
03:46:30[CHEERS]
03:46:35TONIGHT -- TONIGHT -- THIS
03:46:41MORNING THE PEOPLE OF MAINE HAVE ELECTED THAT BLOGGER TO THE
03:46:44UNITED STATES SENATE. [CHEERS]
03:47:02[LAUGHTER]
03:47:09IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS AFTER
03:47:12GETTING HOME FROM A SHIFT OR
03:47:14SITTING AT THE TABLE WONDERING HOW YOU ARE GOING TO PAY THE
03:47:17NEXT BILL, I WANT YOU TO HEAR
03:47:21SOMETHING VERY CLEARLY. YOU ARE SENDING SOMEBODY TO
03:47:26WASHINGTON WHO KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE.
03:47:28[CHEERS] [APPLAUSE]
03:47:35BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I AM GOING
03:47:38TO REMEMBER WHO SENT ME THERE.
03:47:42>> MY LIST IS REALLY ENDLESS.
03:47:47I AM SO GRATEFUL TO ALL THE
03:47:51COUNTY AND TOWN CHAIRS.
03:47:54YOU KNOCKED ON DOORS, YOU MADE
03:47:56THOSE CALLS, YOU PUT UP THE
03:47:59SIGNS, YOU ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO VOTE. YOU MADE THE CASE.
03:48:04I AM SO GRATEFUL TO EACH AND
03:48:08EVERY ONE OF YOU. OUR PARTY CHAIRMAN IS HERE TONIGHT AS WELL.
03:48:13THERE IS SO MANY OTHER HERE AND
03:48:1870 OTHER PEOPLE WHO PLAYED SUCH IMPORTANT ROLES.
03:48:22MICHAEL BOB, A GREAT HELP TO ME.
03:48:26THERE ARE SO MANY OTHERS, I SHOULD STOP NOW OR I WILL GO
03:48:30DOWN A LIST OF LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
03:48:35WE HAD A GREAT ALL OF MAINE BUS
03:48:40TOUR. WE WENT ALL OVER THE STATE.
03:48:43I HAVE GOT TO TELL YOU, THE
03:48:47CROWDS WERE HUGE, THE RECEPTION
03:48:48WAS WARM, AND THE RESPONSE COULD
03:48:51NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER.
03:48:56IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO REPRESENT MAINE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
03:49:02THE RESULTS ARE GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO COME IN.
03:49:06WE WILL KEEP WATCHING AND I WILL
03:49:08BE BACK THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
03:49:10IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE KNOW HOW
03:49:16GRATEFUL I AM TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING.
03:49:21LET'S CELEBRATE. [CHEERS]
03:49:26HOST: THAT WAS SENATOR SUSAN
03:49:30COLLINS BEFORE THE RACE WAS CALLED. TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT OF THE FINAL
03:49:35THOUGHTS, YOU CAN SEE MORE THAT ON OUR VARIOUS PLATFORMS.
03:49:38IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A SENATE WITHOUT A SUSAN COLLINS. WHAT ULTIMATELY LED TO HER DOWNFALL?
03:49:42GUEST: SHE HAS BEEN A GIANT OF
03:49:45THE SENATE FOR SO LONG.
03:49:48ULTIMATELY THIS IS AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE REPUBLICANS
03:49:52CAN'T SURVIVE IN A STATE THAT
03:49:54KAMALA HARRIS ONE AND 2024 --
03:49:58WON IN BANK 24.
03:50:01SHE WAS THE ONLY GOP SENATOR WHERE HARRIS WON BACK IN.
03:50:05HUGE SHIFT TO THE LEFT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
03:50:08SOMEONE LIKE MAINE ON A HAIR TRIGGER.
03:50:12SOMETHING TO NOTE IS THAT THERE
03:50:14HAVE BEEN INCREASING SKEPTICISM
03:50:17TOWARD OLDER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
03:50:21AS SOME HAD HEALTH ISSUES WHILE IN OFFICE.
03:50:25LINDSEY GRAHAM PASSED EARLIER THIS YEAR LEADING TO HIS SISTER
03:50:29TAKING HIS SEAT AND EVENTUALLY LOSING IT TO ANNIE ANDREWS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
03:50:33IT HAS BEEN MORE PRONOUNCED ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, ESPECIALLY IN THE PRIMARIES.
03:50:39NATIONALLY AND IN BOTH PARTIES THERE IS A LOOK AT WHO THE LEADERS ARE AND WHETHER THEY
03:50:45WILL, YOU KNOW, BE OF SOUND MIND
03:50:46AND BODY IN THE NEXT 2, 4, 6
03:50:51YEARS OF THEIR TERMS IN OFFICE.
03:50:53HOST: TOM KANE ALSO LOSING AND
03:50:57THAT WAS AFTER HIS ABSENCE FROM CONGRESS PRISON AND EXTENDED
03:51:01PERIOD OF TIME.
03:51:03GUEST: THEY STOPPED SPENDING ON
03:51:07THAT RACE PRETTY EARLY. THE FIRST CANDIDATE THEY HAD A TRIAGE TO DEFEND OTHERS IN THIS
03:51:12TOUGH MAP FOR REPUBLICANS.
03:51:14HE WAS GONE IN AN UNEXPLAINED WAY FOR MONTHS.
03:51:18NEW JERSEY 7 ALREADY A SWINGY
03:51:22DISTRICT AND THIS WAS THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR KANE.
03:51:27HOST: TEXAS, THE LINE FOR INDEPENDENTS, DANIEL.
03:51:30CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
03:51:33HOST: GO AHEAD. CALLER: I WILL MAKE THIS SHORT.
03:51:38THERE ARE FIVE REASONS WHY DONALD TRUMP HAS COST THE
03:51:43REPUBLICANS -- WELL, THEY WERE
03:51:46SUPPOSED TO WIN BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN.
03:51:49NUMBER ONE, ON JULY -- I BELIEVE
03:51:55IT WAS JULY 16, 2025, DONALD
03:51:57TRUMP POSTED ON TRUE SOCIAL THAT
03:51:59THE EPSTEIN HOAX WAS A SCAM AND
03:52:02THEY BOUGHT INTO IT. I DON'T NEED YOUR SUPPORT ANYMORE. OK THEN.
03:52:08YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
03:52:11THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE IN SPITE
03:52:14OF DONALD TRUMP. THEY WILL BUT INDEPENDENT,
03:52:18DEMOCRATIC, OR NOT AT ALL. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
03:52:22HAPPENED. WHEN YOU ATTACK YOUR BASE, THEY WILL TURN ON HIM AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
03:52:26THEN WE HAVE TARIFFS.
03:52:30TALK ABOUT RENAMING LAKE ONTARIO .
03:52:34THE GULF OF AMERICA.
03:52:38BOOT LICKING NETANYAHU. STARTING THE IRAN WAR.
03:52:42RAISING GAS PRICES.
03:52:45CAMPAIGNING AT RALLIES TALKING
03:52:46ABOUT MEN'S BUTTS.
03:52:51HOW DOES THAT BENEFIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
03:52:53IT DOESN'T WHEN YOU ELECT A
03:52:57CLOWN, EXPECT A CIRCUS. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AMERICA
03:53:01GREAT AGAIN? WHEN THIS CLOWN GETS OUT OF OFFICE --
03:53:05HOST: THANK YOU.
03:53:08THE LAUNDRY LIST AS FAR AS THE REASONS DEMOCRATS HAD A GOOD NIGHT LAST NIGHT.
03:53:13GUEST: I THINK THE NATIONAL
03:53:16POLITICAL CLASS WAS LOOKING AT
03:53:18THE EPSTEIN INVESTIGATIONS THAT THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
03:53:21WAS CONDUCTING LAST YEAR, AND
03:53:25EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE UNDER DEMOCRATS. THE SOON-TO-BE HOUSE OVERSIGHT
03:53:29COMMITTEE CHAIR ROBERT GARCIA WAS INFLUENTIAL IN DEMOCRATS
03:53:33DECIDE PURSUING THE INVESTIGATION. THEY WANTED TO TIE THAT TO TRUMP
03:53:36AND MAKE THEM LOOK BAD AHEAD OF THE CYCLE. EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE.
03:53:41THE OTHER THING HE MENTIONED WAS TRUMP FLIPPED HIS OWN STRATEGY
03:53:45AND TALKED ABOUT RENAMING LAKE
03:53:49ONTARIO AND GULF OF MEXICO AND
03:53:53JOHN HUSTED AND ALL THESE
03:53:57THINGS. STEVE BANNON HAD BOASTED ABOUT
03:54:01THIS FLIP HIS OWN STRATEGY.
03:54:02IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY WORK WHEN
03:54:05REPUBLICANS ARE ON DEFENSE ON SO MANY ISSUES.
03:54:08WHEN YOU ARE FACING A BAD
03:54:10ECONOMY, AND WARNER RON, HIGH FUEL PRICES, TARIFFS, ALL THE
03:54:13THINGS HE MENTIONED, IT WOULD BE BETTER TO BE FOCUSED ON HOW YOU
03:54:17ARE SOLVING THE ISSUES INSTEAD OF STARTING MORE CONTROVERSIES.
03:54:23AT CERTAIN POINT VOTERS JUST SEE HOW MANY ISSUES THERE ARE AND
03:54:26THERE'S AN OVERARCHING SENTIMENT OF OPPOSITION TO REPUBLICANS.
03:54:30HOST: YOU ARE WATCHING A SPECIAL
03:54:33EDITION OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL. NORMALLY WE WOULD FINISH AT 10:00.
03:54:37WE WILL GO UNTIL NOON. IF YOU WANT TO CALL IN AND
03:54:40COMMENT ON THE ELECTIONS, THE
03:54:43RESULTS, THE VICTORIES ARE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE, YOU CAN DO THAT AT (202)
03:54:46748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
03:54:48(202) 748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS.
03:54:51INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002.
03:54:56IF YOU WANT TO TEXT US, YOU CAN DO THAT AT (202) 748-8003.
03:55:01AS ALWAYS, YOU CAN POST ON OUR VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ON
03:55:03FACEBOOK AND ON X IF YOU WANT TO
03:55:07MAKE YOUR COMMENTS KNOWN FOR OUR
03:55:10GUEST THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE MORNING.
03:55:13WE WILL CONTINUE ON THROUGH NOON WITH OUR COVERAGE TODAY.
03:55:16CALIFORNIA IS NEXT, DON ON THE INDEPENDENT LINE.
03:55:20CALLER: I WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT AND PREFERENCE THIS WITH
03:55:24ANY PRESIDENT AS FAR AS STATE ELECTIONS.
03:55:30I KNOW IT'S ALREADY OVER BUT FOR
03:55:34THE PRESIDENT TO TRAVEL AROUND -- WE CAN DO THE MATH.
03:55:3825 CAMPAIGN RALLIES AND ALL THE STATES HE TRAVELED AROUND TRYING
03:55:44TO DRUM UP VOTERS, HOW MUCH COST
03:55:47WAS THAT FOR HIM TO TRAVEL AROUND?
03:55:49LET'S SAY CONSERVATIVE --
03:55:53CONSERVATIVELY $1 MILLION TO GO TO EACH STATE.
03:55:55WHO IS PAYING FOR THAT?
03:55:59THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY, AND NOBODY IS STANDING UP TO THIS PRESIDENT. NOBODY QUESTIONING HIM.
03:56:03EVERYBODY IS AFRAID OF HIM. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH MONEY
03:56:07IN POLITICS.
03:56:08JANUARY 6, THAT WAS WRONG TO PARDON ALL HIS PEOPLE.
03:56:13THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT THAT OUR MISTAKES THAT
03:56:17HAPPENED BECAUSE OF POWER, CONTROL AND MONEY.
03:56:20I'M CURIOUS ABOUT YOUR GUEST AND
03:56:25HER COMMENTS ON WHO PAID FOR HIM TO TRAVEL AROUND THIS COUNTRY.
03:56:30GUEST: IT'S DEFINITELY TAXPAYER
03:56:34DOLLARS. THAT IS SOMETHING TO POINT OUT. I NOTED THIS EARLIER.
03:56:40TRUMP'S CLOSING ARGUMENT WAS HE SPENT MORE THAN 20 MINUTES
03:56:43TALKING ABOUT HIS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
03:56:50THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING POOL, HIS BALLROOM, THE ARCH HE
03:56:53IS PLANNING, ALL THESE THINGS
03:56:55THAT REALLY DRAW ATTENTION TO WHERE THE WHITE HOUSE IS
03:56:59SPENDING -- WHERE THE WHITE
03:57:01HOUSE'S SPENDING IS GOING WHEN AMERICANS ARE FEELING PAIN IN THE POCKETBOOKS.
03:57:07IT'S DIFFICULT TO CLOSE ON THE ARGUMENT OF D.C. BEAUTIFICATION
03:57:11WHICH NOT EVEN EVERY DZ RESIDENT CARES ABOUT, LET ALONE SOMEONE
03:57:15IN CALIFORNIA -- D.C. RESIDENT.
03:57:18TRUMP WAS IN A LOT OF THESE GOP STRONGHOLDS IN THE LEAD UP TO
03:57:21THE ELECTION. IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT THE
03:57:25TAXPAYER MONEY THEY DID GO TOWARDS THOSE VISITS EVEN YIELD
03:57:28AND HAVE VERY MANY ELECTORAL VICTORIES.
03:57:32HOST: IN NEW HAMPSHIRE -- I
03:57:37DON'T THINK WE TALKED ABOUT IT DIRECTLY BUT CHRIS PAPPAS WILL BECOME SENATOR FROM NEW
03:57:41HAMPSHIRE. THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE SENATOR.
03:57:45THAT ALSO DEFEATED JOHN SUNUNU, SOME WITH A FAMILY LINE WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS.
03:57:50GIVE THAT ASSESSMENT. GUEST: IN AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE
03:57:55THIS THAT WILL NEVER BE A CONCERN FOR DEMOCRATS. THERE WAS A BRIEF MOMENT OF FEAR
03:57:58THAT POPULACE MIGHT BE IN
03:58:00TROUBLE -- PAPPAS MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE.
03:58:05JOHN SUNUNU IS THE LESS POPULAR
03:58:06BROTHER TO CHRIS SUNUNU.
03:58:12NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTERS ARE SMART.
03:58:15AS FAR AS I KNOW -- I HAVEN'T
03:58:19CHECKED IN A WHILE BUT I BELIEVE THE REPUBLICAN IS IN A SAFE SPOT
03:58:23TO SECURE REELECTION.
03:58:23THE GOVERNORS VERSUS THE HOUSE
03:58:28AND SENATE ARE DIFFERENT STORIES. NEW HAMPSHIRE IS TRADITIONALLY PRETTY BLUE IN CONGRESS.
03:58:33EVEN THOUGH HE'S KIND OF A MODERATE THAT SHE IS KIND OF A
03:58:38MODERATE, THEY ARE GOING TO
03:58:39REMAIN WITH THE DEMOCRATS
03:58:43PRETTY SOLIDLY. HOST: WE ARE GIVING YOU THIS
03:58:47INFORMATION. WE WANT TO THANK OUR GUEST FOR STAYING WITH US AND GIVING HER
03:58:51ANALYSIS FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL. WORKING PEOPLE FIND YOU WORK?
03:58:54GUEST:
03:58:58NATIONALJOURNAL.COM/HOTLINE.
03:59:01NEWSLETTERS GO OUT TWICE A DAY. ALSO ON X.
03:59:03HOST: WHAT IS THE NEXT STORY YOU
03:59:07ARE LOOKING AT AFTER TODAY?
03:59:08GUEST: THE 2028 PRIMARY STARTS
03:59:13NOW. JB PRITZKER PUT OUT A 75 PAGE MEMO ON WHAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO
03:59:17ON DAY ONE OF CONGRESSIONAL CONTROL.
03:59:19I WILL BE FOLLOWING THAT CLOSELY
03:59:22AND WHERE THE REPUBLICAN FIELD PLANS FOR 2028 AS WELL.
03:59:24HOST: ERICA FILTER, THANK YOU
03:59:26FOR YOUR TIME THIS 20. YOU ARE WATCHING CONTINUING
03:59:30COVERAGE OF CAMPAIGN 2026. IT IS 10:00 ON THE EAST COAST.
03:59:34WE WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NOON. STAY WITH US AS WE SHOW YOU THE
03:59:37LATEST RESULTS FROM LAST NIGHT SELECTIONS.
03:59:45>> MONDAY, AMERICA'S LEADING TELEVISION CALL-IN PROGRAM COMES TO PRIME TIME.
03:59:48>> THE MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE.
03:59:52>> I TRUST YOU GUYS COMPLETELY.
03:59:56>> I'M FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR
03:59:59THEIR THOUGHTS. >> THAT CONVERSATION WILL COME
04:00:03TO PRIME TIME.
04:00:04>> THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT
04:00:08THERE.
04:00:08>> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" PRIME
04:00:12TIME STARTING WEEKNIGHTS AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN. >> THE MIDTERM ELECTION
04:00:16RESULTS. THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE
04:00:18BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
04:00:21SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
04:00:24FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
04:00:28CANDIDATE ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
04:00:31CAMPAIGN 2020 SIX IS YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
04:00:41HOST: THIS IS THE COVERAGE, 20
04:00:45HOURS IN TOTAL, TWO HOURS LEFT UNTIL NOON AS WE CONTINUE ON
04:00:50SHOWING YOU THE LATEST IN RESULTS.
04:00:54GIVE ANALYSIS AS WELL.
04:00:59KEEP CALLING UNTIL NOON.
04:01:00(202) 748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
04:01:04REPUBLICANS, (202) 748-8001.
04:01:08INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002.
04:01:12THIS TELLS THE TALE OF WHERE WE STAND.
04:01:1554 SEATS IN THE SENATE CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS. SEVEN PICKUPS AS A RESULT OF
04:01:20THAT.
04:01:21ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, 44 SEATS
04:01:26.
04:01:26IN THE HOUSE, 280, 220 EIGHT
04:01:31SEATS CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS. 100 39 CLAIMED BY REPUBLICANS.
04:01:35THAT WILL CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE MORNING.
04:01:38YOU COULD CONTINUE MONITORING THE AIR AS WE GET THAT
04:01:41INFORMATION PLUS OTHER INFORMATION ON THE LATEST RESULT AS WELL.
04:01:45IT IS A DASHBOARD OF SORTS BUT
04:01:47NOT THE DASHBOARD THAT WE HAVE BEEN HIGHLIGHTING.
04:01:55GAINED AND MANAGED. TAKE IT AWAY.
04:01:56>> LET'S GO OVER IT.
04:02:00YOU MENTIONED IT, IT COULD GO AS
04:02:07HIGH AS NINE SEATS BY THE TIME IT IS SAID AND DONE.
04:02:10WE TALKED ABOUT JUST HOW CLOSE MISSISSIPPI IS.
04:02:13LET'S CHECK IN ON ALASKA THAT HAS TURNED BACK TO BLUE.
04:02:21MEANING MARY PELTOLA IS BACK AHEAD.
04:02:2574% EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF THE VOTE OUT.
04:02:28WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE LATEST NUMBERS?
04:02:32>> IT'S HARD NOT TO GET EXCITED
04:02:35WE KNOW THIS COULD BE HEADING
04:02:38TOWARDS CHOICE VOTING
04:02:43TABULATION. THAT HAPPENS IF NO CANDIDATE
04:02:46ENDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTE. WE HAVE PELTOLA, SENATOR
04:02:51SULLIVAN, WE HAVE THE REPUBLICAN
04:02:55AND TEACHER DAN SULLIVAN.
04:02:57>> EXACTLY.
04:02:59>> I EXPECT THESE TWO WILL TRADE
04:03:04BACK AND FORTH OVER THE COMING DAYS AND POTENTIALLY WEEKS.
04:03:07MARY PELTOLA DOES VERY WELL OUT
04:03:10OF THE MORE RURAL, REMOTE PARTS OF ALASKA.
04:03:13SHE WOULD BE THE FIRST ALASKAN NATIVE SENATOR.
04:03:17WHERE THE RURAL AND MORE OUTWARD
04:03:21AREAS.
04:03:23>> ALASKA IS AN INTERESTING
04:03:28STATE. THE POLITICS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT OUT THERE.
04:03:33YOU MENTIONED THE MORE OUTER
04:03:34LYING PARTS OF THE STATE AGAIN
04:03:38SIGNIFICANT POPULATIONS. THOSE ARE THE MORE DEMOCRATIC AREAS.
04:03:44THEY COULD GENEROUSLY BE CALLED THE ANCHORAGE SUBURBS.
04:03:49IT IS PROBABLY LARGER THAN A COUPLE OF STATES.
04:03:55FAIRBANKS, THE OTHER REPUBLICAN
04:03:59STRONGHOLD IN ALASKA.
04:04:03REPUBLICANS DO WELL IN THE RURAL AREAS.
04:04:07>> CHECK ON THE HOUSE RACE FOR
04:04:11US IN ALASKA.
04:04:11>> DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY GOT BEHIND
04:04:17AN INDEPENDENT, BILL HILL, A
04:04:23TEACHER. HE CURRENTLY TRAILS THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN.
04:04:28BEAT MARY PELTOLA BY ABOUT NINE POINTS.
04:04:32KIND OF A BLACK SHEEP IN HIS FAMILY.
04:04:37THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY THE FIRST
04:04:44FAMILY FAMILY OF ALASKA. DIED IN A PLANE CRASH AS IT IS
04:04:48UNFORTUNATELY TOO COMMON IN ALASKA.
04:04:54FROM 2009 THROUGH 2015.
04:04:58HE LOOKS LIKE HE IS IN DECENT POSITION.
04:05:02INCLUDING A DEMOCRAT WHO HAS
04:05:08NEVER BEEN TO ALASKA BUT IS SERVING FEDERAL TIME.
04:05:12HE GOT ON THE BALLOT. HE IS A PERENNIAL CANDIDATE.
04:05:20IT MIGHT WORK OUT FOR NICK BEGICH.
04:05:24>> THE LAST FRONTIER, WE ARE
04:05:28WATCHING A LOT OF ONE CALLED HOUSE RACES FROM THE LAST FRONTIER TO THE CIVIL STATE.
04:05:33TAKE US TO THAT MASSIVE NORTHERN NEVADA DISTRICT.
04:05:38>> NEVADA2, THIS DISTRICT IS
04:05:45AROUND YOUR AGE.
04:05:48A LITTLE YOUNGER.
04:05:501982 IS THE FIRST TIME THIS NORTHERN NEVADA SEAT WAS UP FOR GRABS.
04:05:57WE HAVE WASHOE COUNTY, RENO IS THE DOMINANT CITY.
04:06:00DEMOCRATS WHEN THEY DREW THIS CONGRESSIONAL MAP DREW THIS
04:06:05DISTRICT TO BE A REPUBLICAN VOTE SINK.
04:06:10A VOTE SINK IS WHERE YOU PUT ALL
04:06:12OF THE VOTES FROM A PARTY.
04:06:18WE HAVE LAS VEGAS DOWN THERE.
04:06:22THREE DISTRICTS TOUCH LAS VEGAS.
04:06:24THE FIRST, THIRD, FOURTH ALL TOUCH LAS VEGAS.
04:06:29THEY ARE ALL DEMOCRATIC LEANING DISTRICTS.
04:06:33NEVADA IS PRETTY EVENLY FUNDED STATE.
04:06:36THE ANSWER IS IN THE SECOND DISTRICT.
04:06:40THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SEED THAT REPUBLICANS WIN.
04:06:48TERESA BONITA S THOMPSON, THE
04:06:49DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS SIX POINTS AHEAD.
04:06:55SHE'S ALSO A FORMER MISS NEVADA. SHE'S A VERY GOOD POLITICIAN.
04:07:02CONVERSELY HE HAD SOME ISSUES. HE BEAT THE ESTABLISHMENT
04:07:06CANDIDATE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.
04:07:11TRUMP-ENDORSED FLIP OH OVER THE GOVERNOR.
04:07:18HE BECAME DEATHLY POSE -- DAVE
04:07:28FLIPPO'S WORST NIGHTMARE. HE VOTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE IN THE RACE.
04:07:32SHE IS GETTING ABOUT 5% OF THE VOTE.
04:07:37>> 6%.
04:07:41MAYBE IT DIDN'T MATTER. MIGHT HAVE WON THE MAJORITY ANYWAY.
04:07:48THE FACT THEY TAKE THESE REPUBLICAN VOTERS CLEARLY HURTING.
04:07:51>> LET'S HEAD TO ARIZONA IN ONE
04:07:58OF THOSE MASSIVE RURAL DISTRICTS.
04:08:00>> WE HAVE A VERY CLOSE RACE,
04:08:04JUST 86 VOTES SEPARATE THE
04:08:07DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
04:08:09>> 80% OF THE VOTES IN.
04:08:20IN THAT SAME DISTRICT, SAME
04:08:22CANDIDATES, ELI CRANE WON BY NINE POINTS.
04:08:29NOW WINNING BY 0.1%.
04:08:33A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE NAVAJO
04:08:35NATION WHICH HAS A HEALTHY PRESENCE.
04:08:39IT WILL BE A PICK UP IF IT HOLDS.
04:08:43TALK ABOUT THE SIX DISTRICT OF ARIZONA.
04:08:44>> A TUCSON BASED DISTRICT.
04:08:52ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN RISING
04:08:53STARS IN THE STATE, A FORMER AID
04:08:56WHO LED THE STATE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
04:08:59HE WON A VERY CLOSE ELECTION IN
04:09:042020 TWO, A CLOSE ELECTION IN 2024 AGAINST THE SAME OPPONENT.
04:09:09PREVIOUSLY NOMINATED A LIBERAL WHITE COLLEGE PROFESSOR TO RUN
04:09:13AGAINST.
04:09:15THIS TIME THEY RAN A MARINE
04:09:19DRILL INSTRUCTOR, SHE IS WINNING
04:09:23BY ABOUT EIGHT POINTS WITH 80% OF THE VOTE IN.
04:09:27GIVEN HOW THE NIGHT IS GOING FOR DEMOCRATS I WOULDN'T BE
04:09:31SURPRISED IF SHE GETS THE CALL.
04:09:33>> WHAT IS GOING ON IN ARIZONA,
04:09:36IS IT THE FIRST DISTRICT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT?
04:09:38>> THIS IS SCOTTSDALE, A
04:09:42WEALTHY, HIGHLY EDUCATED SEAT.
04:09:45OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS,
04:09:49CONGRESSMAN DAVE SCHWEIKERT, HE GOT MENTIONED IN THE SAME BREATH.
04:09:55EVEN WHEN THEIR DISTRICTS WERE
04:09:57VOTING, THEY FOUND A WAY TO HOLD ON.
04:10:02>> EVEN AS SUSAN COLLINS HEADS
04:10:07TO DEFEAT, SHE HAS EARNED HER
04:10:09PLACE WITH THE JOE MANCHIN'S AND
04:10:13THE JON TESTER'S.
04:10:15DAVE SCHWEIKERT BY LEAVING THIS
04:10:17SEAT OPEN HAS CREATED THE
04:10:21CONDITIONS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE WHO VIEWERS MIGHT KNOW
04:10:26BETTER.
04:10:27THE FORMER NFL PLAYER KICKER,
04:10:31PLAYED FOR THE CARDINALS, AS WELL AS ANOTHER -- A NUMBER OF OTHER TEAMS.
04:10:37ONE OF SEVERAL DEMOCRATIC DOCTORS.
04:10:40FROM THE GRAND CANYON STATE.
04:10:43LET'S CHECK ON THINGS IN THE CENTENNIAL STATE.
04:10:46THE TWO DISTRICTS OF THE OTHER'' LINE.
04:10:50LET'S START WITH LAUREN BOEBERT'S DISTRICT.
04:10:51>> SHE CURRENTLY TRAILS EILEEN
04:10:55LA BACHER BY ABOUT 5000 VOTES.
04:11:00A LOT LEFT TO COUNT.
04:11:02THIS IS THE MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICT IN THE STATE.
04:11:06IT IS A TESTAMENT TO HOW UNPOPULAR LAUREN BOEBERT IS THAT
04:11:10SHE IS TRAILING EVEN IN HER OLD
04:11:12DISTRICT, COLORADO THREE, THE
04:11:15REPUBLICAN IS CLEARING --
04:11:18CLINGING TO A NARROW LEAD.
04:11:20IT IS SEVERAL POINTS LESS REPUBLICAN.
04:11:24IF ANY REPUBLICAN IS GOING TO
04:11:25SURVIVE THE BLOODBATH, IT'S
04:11:29GOING TO BE JEFF HURD OVER LOW IN BOEBERT -- LAUREN BOEBERT.
04:11:34PHIL WEISER UP 27 POINTS OVER VICTOR MARX.
04:11:4077% OF THE VOTING. THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT.
04:11:48IN ABSOLUTE COLLAPSE FOR REPUBLICANS AT THE TOP.
04:11:52>> IN THE MOUNTAIN WEST, WE WILL KEEP TAKING TOURS AROUND THE STATE.
04:11:57HOST: HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT OVER
04:12:01THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. CHUCK SCHUMER IS EXPECTED TO
04:12:03MAKE SOME COMMENTS AT AROUND
04:12:0711:00 -- AROUND 11:00 LEFT. WE ARE EXPECTED TO HEAR FROM THE
04:12:10HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES WHEN IT COMES TO LAST
04:12:15NIGHT'S ELECTION. WE MAY HEAR DIRECTLY FROM SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON.
04:12:19THERE IS REPORTING OUT SAYING
04:12:22SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAID HE'S NOT RUNNING FOR HOUSE GOP
04:12:26LEADER.
04:12:29ABBY TURNER FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL JOINS US, WELCOME BACK.
04:12:32GUEST: THANK YOU.
04:12:34HOST: IF THAT DOES COME TRUE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
04:12:37GUEST: REPUBLICANS LOSE A POSITION.
04:12:42THEY LOSE THE SPEAKERSHIP HERE.
04:12:44THE MAJORITY LEADER WILL BECOME THE MINORITY LEADER. THAT IS STEVE SCALISE.
04:12:49I'M NOT SURPRISED JOHNSON IS SAYING HE'S NOT GOING TO GO FOR THIS POSITION.
04:12:55MAYBE IF DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE
04:12:59WON A COUPLE OF SEATS. THEY COULD'VE HAD AN ARGUMENT.
04:13:02DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING UPWARDS OF 250 SEATS.
04:13:07I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD HAVE MUCH SUPPORT AT ALL AMONG THE
04:13:09REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
04:13:12JIM JORDAN IS GOING TO RUN FOR THE MINORITY LEADER.
04:13:16WHAT YOU WILL SEE FROM STILLEY'S IF HE IS EXPECTED TO GET IN.
04:13:21THE ARGUMENT THEY WILL HAVE TO MAKE IS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
04:13:24THIS LOSS AND WHAT IS THE PATHWAY FORWARD HERE?
04:13:30HE HAS THE INVESTIGATIVE EXPERIENCE TO KIND OF PUSH BACK
04:13:33AGAINST SOME OF THE DEMOCRATIC
04:13:38INVESTIGATIONS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. INQUIRIES, ALL OF THAT.
04:13:43I'M NOT SURPRISED JOHNSON IS MAKING THIS. I WILL BE EXCITED TO SEE IF HE
04:13:49SPEAKS TODAY OR NOT. I THINK THERE WILL BE A MAJOR
04:13:54SHAKEUP BECAUSE THINGS WENT SO DRASTICALLY WRONG.
04:13:59THE RESULT WE SAW LAST NIGHT INTO THIS MORNING WAS THE PIE-IN-THE-SKY FOR DEMOCRATS.
04:14:05THIS WAS THE OUTCOME THEY WANTED. THAT CAME TO FRUITION.
04:14:09HOST: TO GOVERNOR'S RACE IS TO
04:14:13FOCUS ON. TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BOTH OF THOSE RACES?
04:14:17GUEST: KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS IS
04:14:22THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED GOVERNOR IN U.S. HISTORY.
04:14:26BYRON DONALDS IS THE REPUBLICAN NARROWLY ELECTED HERE.
04:14:29WE SAW A RECORD NUMBER OF BLACK
04:14:33GOVERNORS ELECTED LAST NIGHT. YOU HAD DAVID CROWLEY IN
04:14:36WISCONSIN. A LOT OF FIRSTS LAST NIGHT.
04:14:38HOST: WHEN IT COMES TO KEISHA
04:14:43LANCE BOTTOMS, A COMPETITOR WITH A LOT OF MONEY.
04:14:46WHAT BROUGHT HER OVER DO YOU THINK?
04:14:47GUEST: BEFORE LAST NIGHT I THINK
04:14:52THERE WAS A LOT OF CONVERSATION THAT SHE WILL NEED SENATOR JON OSSOFF TO HELP HER CROSS THE
04:14:56FINISH LINE.
04:14:59WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT, SHE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT ALL BY HERSELF.
04:15:04RICK JACKSON PUT UP OVER $200 MILLION ON THE AIRWAVE.
04:15:09AT SOME POINT IT BECOMES OVERSATURATED.
04:15:13AS I THINK I WAS LOOKING AT THE
04:15:15RESULTS THIS MORNING FOR A LOT
04:15:17OF THESE GOVERNORS RACES THAT RAN CLOSELY.
04:15:21WHAT WE SEE IS GOVERNORS RACES
04:15:23THAT ARE INSULATED FROM NATIONAL HEADWINDS.
04:15:26HOST: BYRON DONALDS, STATE THAT
04:15:31HE WON NARROWLY, HE WAS A FORMER REPUBLICAN NOW.
04:15:36WHAT WENT IN HIS FAVOR?
04:15:41GUEST: GET A TON OF MONEY HERE IN FLORIDA.
04:15:46EVEN AS WE SAW FLORIDA AND EVERY OTHER STATE SWING TOWARDS
04:15:51DEMOCRATS, IT IS A HEAVY REPUBLICAN STATE HERE.
04:15:54JOLLY I THINK COULD HAVE BENEFITED FROM SOME NATURAL RESOURCES.
04:15:58HE WAS MAKING THAT PLEA.
04:16:01SAYING IF I HAD MORE MONEY I COULD PULL THIS OFF.
04:16:05HOST: ABBY TURNER WILL JOIN US
04:16:11AND KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING WHEN IT COMES TO INFORMATION.
04:16:17LET'S HEAR FROM FRESNO CALIFORNIA.
04:16:20CALLER: I WOULD LIKE TO START
04:16:24WITH I AM THRILLED WITH THE BLUE WAVE.
04:16:27WE ARE TRULY SHOWING THAT WE ARE
04:16:31A PARTY. LOOKING AT THE RESULTS, THERE IS
04:16:35PROOF OF THAT.
04:16:38I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ETHICS AND
04:16:41ACCOUNTABILITY GOT BACK INTO
04:16:45CONGRESS. I KNOW THAT WHEN I WORKED FOR
04:16:47THE GOVERNMENT WE WERE CLEARLY
04:16:50VERSED ON ETHICS.
04:16:58CYBERSECURITY, MY POSITION WAS
04:17:02ONE THAT WAS TARGETED BY DOGE
04:17:06AND LED TO MY DECISION TO RETIRE EARLY.
04:17:11SHOUT OUT TO ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. WE ARE SOME OF THE HARDEST
04:17:15WORKING PEOPLE.
04:17:18IN TERMS OF OUR NEW CONGRESS I
04:17:22WOULD LIKE TO SEE AGAIN
04:17:25ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS IN
04:17:30REGARDS TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
04:17:32FIND YOUR IDENTITY.
04:17:38THAT WAS POSSIBLE THROUGH A HOSTILE TAKEOVER.
04:17:46IF YOU ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO
04:17:47SUPPORT YOU, YOU ARE NO LONGER
04:17:50THE GOP. I THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH
04:17:54THIS IS YOU ARE THE PARTY OF DO
04:17:58AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO.
04:18:02LOSING SUPPORT, YOU ARE TO BLAME
04:18:07FOR THAT.
04:18:09WHAT WE ARE SHOWING IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WE ARE A
04:18:12PARTY THAT IS WELCOMING NEW
04:18:14IDEAS OF DIVERSITY AND WE ARE
04:18:19WILLING TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAT
04:18:22ARE NEEDED TO MOVE OUR COUNTRY FORWARD.
04:18:27I AM THRILLED WITH THE OUTCOME.
04:18:28HOST: THANK YOU VERY MUST --
04:18:32MUCH. OF COURSE WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY
04:18:36OUT ON THE SENATE.
04:18:38WHEN YOU GO TO GOVERNORS RACES, DO THOSE ISSUES PLAY OUT THERE AS WELL?
04:18:43GUEST: COVERING STATES I HAVE
04:18:48ALWAYS SAID GOVERNORS RACES ARE INSULATED.
04:18:52I THINK SOME OF THE FRUSTRATIONS
04:18:54VOTERS HAVE WITH REPUBLICANS ARE BEING OVER INTO THESE GOVERNORS RACES AS WELL.
04:19:01TRUMP STILL PLAYS VERY HEAVILY HERE.
04:19:04YOU NEED TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT TO WIN A PRIMARY.
04:19:07TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT DIDN'T ALWAYS HELP YOU IN A GENERAL ELECTION.
04:19:12I THINK TO THE CALLER'S POINT
04:19:15ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FIGURING OUT WHO THEY ARE.
04:19:20HOW MUCH WEIGHT DOES MAG I HAVE
04:19:24-- MAGA HAVE IN THIS PARTY?
04:19:27HOST: THE REPORT THAT STEVE
04:19:31SCALISE IS RUNNING FOR MINORITY LEADER.
04:19:33GUEST: NO SURPRISE.
04:19:36HE HOLDS A MINORITY LEADER SPOT. I'M NOT REALLY SURE HOW THIS
04:19:41WILL PLAY OUT YET.
04:19:42WE WILL SEE WHO ELSE LOSES.
04:19:48THE OTHER REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS
04:19:49ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK, IT WILL
04:19:55BE BETTER TO UNDERSTAND WHERE CERTAIN MEMBERS ARE GOING.
04:19:59THERE IS NOT A LOT OF TIME FOR THESE MEMBERS.
04:20:03HOST: TALK ABOUT STATE
04:20:06LEGISLATORS, WHAT WE SEE HAPPEN?
04:20:08GUEST: DEMOCRAT SECURED TRIFECTA
04:20:11IS IN A NUMBER OF STATES.
04:20:13LAST NIGHT DEMOCRATIC SECURED
04:20:17TRIFECTA'S IN MICHIGAN,
04:20:20MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA IS STILL TEETERING.
04:20:24DEMOCRATS COULD HAVE A TRIFECTA THERE.
04:20:26BOTH HOUSES OF THE STATE LEGISLATOR.
04:20:33IT HAS ALSO CLAIMED VICTORY IN
04:20:36THE GEORGIA HOUSE, NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE.
04:20:40VERY BIG NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS.
04:20:43JUST TO TAKE A STEP BACK. REPUBLICANS MADE A VERY BIG
04:20:48INVESTMENT.
04:20:52DEMOCRATS HAVE STRUGGLED TO BUILD BACKGROUND AFTER THIS.
04:20:58HOST: LET'S HEAR FROM ZACH
04:21:02JOINING US FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
04:21:05CALLER: MORNING, HOW ARE YOU GUYS?
04:21:13BEING A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN, IT
04:21:16WAS A VERY HOPEFUL FEELING IN
04:21:20WHERE OUR REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS FALLEN THUS FAR.
04:21:24HOPEFULLY WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.
04:21:29MY POINT WOULD BE NOW THAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND CHUCK
04:21:33SCHUMER ARE ESSENTIALLY IN CHARGE NOW, I'M WONDERING IF
04:21:36THEIR FEET WILL BE HELD TO THE FIRE WHEN IT COMES TO THE MONEY
04:21:41THEY HAVE ACCEPTED REPRESENTING FOREIGN INTEREST.
04:21:45I KNOW A LOT OF THE DEMOCRATS I
04:21:47SEE AND I LIVE NEXT TO HAVE A LOT OF THE SAME QUESTIONS AND
04:21:51THEY ARE VERY NERVOUS AS TO WHERE THEIR ALLEGIANCES LIVE.
04:21:55IS IT AMERICA OR IS IT FOREIGN INTEREST?
04:22:03MY SECOND POINT HAD TO DO WITH
04:22:05THE CLEAR BIAS OF NOTRE DAME AND
04:22:09HOW THEY DON'T LIKE NOTRE DAME AND THEY ARE PUSHING THE SEC ON THEIR NETWORKS.
04:22:13GUEST: I THINK ESPECIALLY IN THE
04:22:17HOUSE HAKEEM JEFFRIES WILL FACE A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM PROGRESSIVES.
04:22:21IT IS MITIGATED BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJORITY THEY HAVE.
04:22:27LARGE-SCALE DONATIONS, MONEY
04:22:31FROM PLACES LIKE AIPAC, ALL OF THAT.
04:22:35THEY PUT PRESSURE ON JEFFRIES AND SCHUMER.
04:22:40IT CHANGES AND WHERE DEMOCRATS STAND ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
04:22:45HOST: TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FIND
04:22:48THE MONEY ABOUT AIPAC HAS BECOME A STORYLINE ABOUT THE CYCLE?
04:22:51GUEST: YOU LOOK AT A PLACE LIKE
04:22:55MICHIGAN, THIS EMERGED OUT OF THE SENATE RACE.
04:22:59REPRESENTATIVE HALEY STEVENS.
04:23:02THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE
04:23:05LARGE-SCALE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT
04:23:08IS COMING IN FROM CERTAIN INTERESTS HERE.
04:23:11THIS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A TOPIC.
04:23:16THEY ARE SCALING BACK AS WELL. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE ROLE THAT THEY PLAY.
04:23:23HOST: YOU TALKED ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES ON THE
04:23:27STATE LEVEL, THE ISSUES THEY
04:23:31BROUGHT TO THE TABLE IS IN A FIGHT OR IMPRESSION AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS OVERALL?
04:23:35WHAT FACTORS DO YOU THINK LED TO VICTORIES?
04:23:40GUEST: IT COMES DOWN TO STATE FACTORS.
04:23:43IOWA IS A STATE THAT IS TRENDING
04:23:47TOWARDS GOVERNOR-ELECT. HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT TRUMP AT
04:23:51ALL.
04:23:55THE RISING CANCER RATES.
04:23:59OBVIOUSLY WHEN VOTERS WENT OUT TO THE POLLS YESTERDAY THEY WERE
04:24:03THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE IMPLICATIONS.
04:24:08DIESEL PRICES.
04:24:12YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE IN
04:24:15MY COMMUNITY THAT HAVE CANCER.
04:24:19GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES, THEY
04:24:22ARE BENEFITING FROM THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT.
04:24:25TO REALLY SEAL THE DEAL YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THESE HYPER LOCAL ISSUES.
04:24:30HOST: ROY JOINS US FROM KANSAS,
04:24:34INDEPENDENT LINE.
04:24:37CALLER: I JUST WANT TO MAKE A
04:24:40COMMENT LAST WEEK ON WASHINGTON
04:24:48JOURNAL A LADY CALLED IN A
04:24:52STRONG TRUMP SUPPORTER AND SHE
04:24:52GUARANTEED THAT THE REPUBLICANS
04:24:58WOULD CONTINUE TO HOLD THE HOUSE AND SENATE AFTER THE ELECTION.
04:25:03I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT LADY IS THINKING ABOUT TODAY.
04:25:09A GENTLEMAN CALLED IN FROM TENNESSEE SAYING NOT LONG AFTER
04:25:12THAT LADY WAS ON, SHE SAID
04:25:15DONALD TRUMP IS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER.
04:25:23I CAN IMAGINE HE IS HAPPY WITH THE TURNOUT.
04:25:27I'M HOPEFUL FOR AMERICA.
04:25:31THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
04:25:33HOST: ABBY TURNER, WHAT IS THE
04:25:38NEW GOVERNOR-ELECT OF MICHIGAN THINKING TODAY?
04:25:43GUEST: I THINK SHE'S FEELING
04:25:46PRETTY GOOD. AFTER MIKE DUGGAN GOT OUT OF THIS RACE, DEMOCRATS WERE HAVING
04:25:50AN AMAZING DAY.
04:25:54IT HAPPENS DIFFERENTLY THAN IT DOES IN A PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.
04:25:58YOU HAVE A MORE EDUCATED ELECTOR
04:26:02AND IT TURNS OUT. JOCELYN BENSON KNEW THIS WAS GOING HER WAY.
04:26:06WASN'T GOING TO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
04:26:09THAT IS THE THIRD TIME JOHN JAMES HAS LOST STATE IN MICHIGAN.
04:26:12HOST: DID YOU REPEAT THINGS FROM
04:26:16THE PREVIOUS TWO TIMES?
04:26:19WAS IT JUST OVERALL UPSET OR DISSATISFACTION WITH DONALD TRUMP?
04:26:23GUEST: HE FOCUSED TOO MUCH ON
04:26:26DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.
04:26:30HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN WAS TRYING TO
04:26:31TIE JOCELYN BENSON TO MAMDANI,
04:26:34ABDUL EL-SAYED.
04:26:40THEY WERE UNDERSTANDING THE GOVERNORS RACE, THE SENATE RACE.
04:26:47THAT ARGUMENT REALLY FELL THROUGH.
04:26:49HOST: WHAT FACTORS LED TO AMY
04:26:53ACTON'S VICTORY IN OHIO?
04:26:55GUEST: THE AD THAT CAME OUT FROM
04:26:59VIVEK RAMASWAMY, WE WERE SEEING BEFORE THAT THAT HE WAS NOT
04:27:03DOING GOOD. IT WAS HARD FOR HIM TO SELL HIS
04:27:06CHARACTER TO VOTERS ON A TIME OF HIGH CLASS.
04:27:13LOWERING TAXES, ADDRESSING HIGH COSTS.
04:27:16I THINK THAT IS REALLY HARD FOR THOSE TO CONTEND WITH.
04:27:21HOST: SPEAKING OF OHIO, THAT IS
04:27:25WHERE OUR NEXT CALLER IS FROM.
04:27:28CALLER: GOOD MORNING, THANK YOU.
04:27:33THE FIRST IS THAT I'M SO PROUD
04:27:36OF AMERICA.
04:27:39I HAVE BEEN SO HOPELESS SINCE
04:27:42THE DAY TRUMP GOT BACK INTO OFFICE.
04:27:46I'M SITTING ON THE COUCH.
04:27:49I FEEL LIKE FLOATING AWAY.
04:27:55I WANTED TO CALL BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING IS ABOUT TRUMP DOING
04:28:00THESE RALLIES. VOTE LIKE I AM ON THE BALLOT.
04:28:07I BELIEVE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DID.
04:28:10WE VOTED ON TRUMP BEING ON THE BALLOT.
04:28:14I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE I'M SEEING THAT WERE
04:28:19ELECTED IN AREAS.
04:28:24I'M SORRY I'M GETTING WORDLESS. FRESH FACES.
04:28:28THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN THAT WON IN TEXAS.
04:28:31I'M SORRY I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME.
04:28:35HE IS A CHRISTIAN MAN.
04:28:37WHEN I HEARD HIM SPEAK OVER THE
04:28:42LAST COUPLE WEEKS, I CALLED HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES.
04:28:47A TRUE CHRISTIAN, IF YOU WANT TO
04:28:54KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BIBLE AND
04:28:58LOVE EVERYBODY ELSE THE SAME.
04:29:03YOU ARE REPRESENTING ME.
04:29:08TRULY, I HAVE HEARD PRESIDENT
04:29:10TRUMP SAY THE WORD.
04:29:14IT MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP.
04:29:18I'M EXCITED, FRESH FACES.
04:29:22BE AN INDIGENOUS LADY THAT GOT ELECTED.
04:29:27WE NEED THOSE PEOPLE TO
04:29:32REPRESENT EVERYBODY. HOST: PUT A LOT OUT THERE FOR
04:29:36THE GUESTS, WE WILL LET HER RESPOND.
04:29:38GUEST: SHE TOUCHED ON DEMOCRATS
04:29:43RUNNING CANDIDATES OF FAITH. THIS IS SOMETHING THEY HAVE
04:29:46STRUGGLED TO CONTEND WITH AND REPUBLICANS HAVE LEANED INTO FAITH. WE SAW A FEW DEMOCRATS.
04:29:53WE HAD STATE REPRESENTATIVE LINDSAY JAMES, SHE IS A CHAPLAIN.
04:30:02DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO LEAN MORE INTO TALKING ABOUT THEIR FAITH ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
04:30:08HOST: ABBY TURNER WILL CONTINUE
04:30:12ON WITH US. BEFORE WE GO TO AN UPDATE ON
04:30:14SOME RACES THERE, INTERNATIONALLY THIS WAS BEING
04:30:18WATCHED BY MANY ACROSS THE WORLD.
04:30:24YOU CAN SEE THE DEMOCRATIC WAVE IN CONGRESS.
04:30:27HISTORIC VICTORIES.
04:30:30THAT IS PART OF LAMONT'S COVERAGE.
04:30:35THEY GO WITH BLUE WAVE IN THE HOUSE IN THE SENATE.
04:30:40OUT OF LONDON, THE TIMES THEY
04:30:42ARE, TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT.
04:30:45WHITE HOUSE INSISTS HE WILL IT ACCEPT THE RESULT AS VOTERS BACK HIS OPPONENT.
04:30:51THE BLUE WAVE IS SLOWLY MAKING ITS WAY TO BERLIN.
04:30:55IT CHANGES THE LAW INCLUDING FOR THE CHANCELLOR THERE AND RIO DE
04:31:00JANEIRO, IT IS A SETBACK FOR TRUMP.
04:31:04THEY SPEND SCRUTINY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
04:31:08THIS FOCUSING ON THE MINUTE -- MICHIGAN SENATE RACE.
04:31:12IT IS NO BARRIER TO WINNING BATTLEGROUND STATES.
04:31:16SOME OF THE COVERAGE INTERNATIONALLY.
04:31:21SAYING TODAY THE DECLINING POWER AND HEGEMONY OF THE UNITED
04:31:24STATES SUFFERED A REVERSIBLE
04:31:27FALL. IT'S HARD MILITARY POWER AND ITS INTERNATIONAL SOFT POWER.
04:31:32GOING ON TO SAY THE PROCESS OF THE U.S. COLLAPSE HAS
04:31:36ACCELERATED. THAT IS SOME OF THE
04:31:40INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO OUR ELECTION YESTERDAY.
04:31:42WE HAVE BEEN GIVING YOU A DETAILED REACTION TO WHAT
04:31:45HAPPENED YESTERDAY COURTESY OF OUR DASHBOARD GOING BACK NOW.
04:31:52>> A LOT OF TALK BEFORE THE
04:31:55ELECTION. JACOB AND I HAVE BEEN GOING
04:32:00THROUGH THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE FOR THE MAIN SENATE RACES.
04:32:04>> INCLUDING MAINE.
04:32:09>> I WILL THROW A LOT OF NUMBERS
04:32:13OUT AND THEN I WILL LET YOU COOK.
04:32:16TROY JACKSON, THE FINAL POLLING NUMBERS HAD HIM AHEAD BY FIVE.
04:32:20COME DOWN TO NEW HAMPSHIRE,
04:32:24CHRIS PAPPAS, THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE HAD HIM AHEAD BY NINE.
04:32:30ROY COOPER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
04:32:32FINAL POLLING AVERAGE, PLUS 12,
04:32:34HE WINS BY CLOSE TO 2019.
04:32:43TO GEORGIA, JON OSSOFF WAS PLUS
04:32:4710, HE WINS BY PLUS 18.
04:32:49OHIO, IT WAS SHERROD BROWN BY PLUS THREE.
04:32:52JAMES TALARICO, FOR IN THE FINAL
04:32:56POLLING AVERAGE, HE WINS BY PLUS 12.
04:33:00WE DO IOWA, JOSH DEREK WAS UP BY ONE.
04:33:07ADAM HAMILTON WAS UP IN THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE, HE WINS
04:33:10BY PLUS FIVE.
04:33:14WHERE THE POLLS GOOD? WERE THEY ACCURATE?
04:33:16>> NEXT -- EL-SAYED PLUS
04:33:24SIX IN THE FINAL POLLS.
04:33:27>> THERE IS AN INTERESTING TREND
04:33:34, THE POLLS HAD A DECENT NIGHT.
04:33:37THE MARGIN WAS FAIRLY CLOSE.
04:33:40THE DIFFERENCE, OHIO, IOWA, EVEN
04:33:46KANSAS, THEY WERE A POINT OR TWO
04:33:48OFF AS WE EXPECT THEM TO BE ALL
04:33:51IN THE DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION. ROUGHLY DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT
04:33:56HERE. IT IS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
04:34:00WHERE WE SAW THE POLLS UNDER SHOE DEMOCRATS.
04:34:02>> OFF BY EIGHT IN TEXAS AND OFF
04:34:07BY EIGHT AGAIN IN GEORGIA. WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE POLLING
04:34:11IN THAT ONE.
04:34:13>> NOBODY WAS BOTHERING OUTSIDE
04:34:17OF A FEW PARTISAN POLLSTERS. NORTH CAROLINA WE HAVE PLENTY OF
04:34:22POLLING AND IT UNDERSHOT DEMOCRATS THERE CONSIDERABLY.
04:34:27TO ME, WE HAVE TO DIG IN DEEP TO THESE NUMBERS.
04:34:31RIGHT OFF THE TOP I THINK THE
04:34:34COMPOSITION OF THE ELECTORATE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, BARELY
04:34:38DIFFERENT THAN WHAT POLLSTERS WERE ANTICIPATING. A FAIR AMOUNT OF PERSUASION.
04:34:46POTENTIALLY VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT.
04:34:49IT HELPS BUT IT DOESN'T GET YOU ALL THE WAY THERE.
04:34:52THERE ARE TRUMP VOTERS WHO VOTED FOR SCOTT COLON IN THAT RACE.
04:34:59>> IT WAS UNDER POLLING DEMOCRATS, ARE YOU FEELING GOOD
04:35:02IF YOU ARE OUT THERE IN ALASKA WAITING FOR THE FINAL QUARTER OF
04:35:06THE BOAT TO COME IN?
04:35:08>> I'VE TEXTED WITH THE FEW
04:35:12SOURCES IN ALASKA AS WE WAIT FOR THOSE FINAL VOTES TO COME IN.
04:35:18ALASKA IS DIFFERENT THAN THE LOWER 48.
04:35:21I THINK IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO
04:35:25READ TOO MUCH INTO THE TEA LEAVES HERE.
04:35:30NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT POLITICAL
04:35:33WORLDS. THE FACT REMAINS THAT EVERY ONE
04:35:36OF THESE RACES, DEMOCRATS BEAT
04:35:39THEIR OPPONENT ESSENTIALLY EVERY SINGLE TIME.
04:35:43IF YOU ARE MARY PELTOLA AND YOU ARE LEADING NARROWLY IN THE
04:35:48POLLS, AT WORST IT MAKES YOU FEEL NEUTRAL, AT BEST IT MAKES
04:35:52YOU FEEL GOOD.
04:35:53>> AS YOU LOOK AT THE 2020, THE
04:35:59POLLS STILL A BIG FACTOR IN HOW YOU DO YOUR RACE?
04:36:03>> POLLS ARE THE WORST FORM OF
04:36:08POLITICAL ANALYSIS EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHER ONES. THEY ARE STILL THE BEST TOOL THAT WE HAVE.
04:36:13DIRECTIONALLY THEY WERE CORRECT.
04:36:16DEMOCRATS WIN MANY RACES WHERE THEY WERE TRAILING IN THE POLLING?
04:36:19THEY WERE LEAVING IN THOSE
04:36:21STATES THAT YOU READ OFF.
04:36:28AT LEAST ON THE SENATE SIDE.
04:36:29>> IT WAS SIX AT THE END, SHE
04:36:34ENDS UP WINNING BY PLUS THREE.
04:36:36>> THE DEMOCRATIC OVER PERFORMANCE FROM THE POLLING.
04:36:39NOT SOMETHING SO DRASTIC.
04:36:46IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW POLLSTERS RECAPITULATE AFTER
04:36:49THIS ELECTION CYCLE.
04:36:56MISSING OUT ON TRUMP VOTERS. GRASA WE WILL FIND OUT AS THEY
04:36:59WERE BEING OVERLY CONSERVATIVE WITH THEIR SAMPLING, WITH THEIR
04:37:04ASSUMPTIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED THEY WOULD UNDER SHOE THE REPUBLICAN SUPPORTING.
04:37:10THEY RESULTED IN A PRETTY UNIFORM OVER PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE BOARD.
04:37:13>> THAT'S YOUR DEEP DIVE INTO THE POLLS.
04:37:17HOST: THANK YOU.
04:37:21THIS IS COMING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ABOUT
04:37:25ISSUES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO VOTERS THIS TIME AROUND WHEN IT
04:37:27COMES TO THE WAR. 43% SAYING IT WAS THE MOST
04:37:31IMPORTANT ISSUE VERSUS 28% OF REPUBLICANS.
04:37:3615% OF DEMOCRATS SAYING IT IS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR THEM.
04:37:40REPUBLICANS ON HEALTH CARE, SAYING THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE.
04:37:47SOMETHING YOU WORRIED ABOUT OVER THE WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS, THE ECONOMY.
04:37:52SAYING THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE VERSUS REPUBLICANS.
04:37:56PEOPLE ASKED ABOUT IF AMERICA'S BEST DAYS WERE BEHIND THEM.
04:38:0259% OF THOSE VOTERS SAID YES,
04:38:05THAT IS THE CASE.
04:38:10THOSE FIRST-TIME VOTERS PARTICIPATING, WHO DID THEY VOTE FOR? WHO DID THEY SUPPORT IN THE
04:38:14GENERAL SENSE?
04:38:1762% SUPPORTING A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE VERSUS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
04:38:22LEADING UP TO IT WE HEARD ABOUT JOB APPROVAL.
04:38:26CONGRESS OVERALL AND HOW THAT FACTORS INTO THINGS.
04:38:3012% GAVE CONGRESS THAT RATING OF APPROVAL.
04:38:36THE PRESIDENT'S JOB DISAPPROVAL
04:38:41RATINGS DIRECTLY BY SITUATION WHEN IT COMES TO VERY SATISFIED
04:38:46WITH FINANCIAL SITUATIONS.
04:38:51NOT SATISFIED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATIONS, 71%.
04:38:56A LOT OF DATA, DOES THAT MAKE IT
04:38:58DOWN TO THE GOVERNORS RACES, DO THOSE ISSUES RESONATE THERE?
04:39:01GUEST: FEELINGS ABOUT THE
04:39:05ECONOMY WERE PROBABLY SOME OF THE BIGGEST DRIVERS.
04:39:08THEY LOOKED TOWARDS THE PRESIDENCY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
04:39:13THEY ARE THE PEOPLE THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR TAXES VERY QUICKLY.
04:39:18THEY COULD TAKE AWAY A GROCERY
04:39:21TAX, WHEN I TALK TO STATE
04:39:23LEGISLATORS THEMSELVES, THEY
04:39:27WERE HEARING A LOT OF FRUSTRATION WITH WASHINGTON AND CHANNELING THAT TO LOOKING TO
04:39:31THEIR STATE LEGISLATORS FOR HOPE.
04:39:33HOST: WHERE THEIR CANDIDATES I
04:39:37REALLY CAPITALIZED ON THAT SENTIMENT OR DISSATISFACTION?
04:39:40GUEST: I THINK ALL OF THE
04:39:43DEMOCRATS HAD A HARD-LINE FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY.
04:39:47ONE THING I WILL FOCUS ON IS KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS.
04:39:50THIS IS A STATE THAT THEY HAVE A
04:39:55VERY STRAINED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM .
04:39:57NOT ONLY WAS SHE FOCUSING ON THE ECONOMY BUT SIGN THAT INTO
04:40:01HEALTH CARE. SHE WAS ABLE TO DRAW THAT
04:40:05CONTRAST WITH A BILLIONAIRE
04:40:07HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE. BRIAN JOINS US FROM SOUTH
04:40:11CAROLINA. GO AHEAD.
04:40:12CALLER: I APPRECIATE THE TIME
04:40:16YOU HAVE GIVEN ME HERE.
04:40:20I AM NOT DEMOCRAT, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN.
04:40:26I AM ONE OF THE NATIONAL
04:40:28ADVOCATES FOR REDUCING TOXIC
04:40:30WATER AND HELP REPRESENT FAMILY
04:40:34MEMBERS AFFECTED.
04:40:36DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
04:40:40CAMPAIGN RALLY IN NORTH CAROLINA
04:40:42HE MENTIONED THAT IF THE
04:40:44REPUBLICANS WIN, SETTLEMENTS
04:40:50WOULD BE MADE. IF YOU LOST THERE WOULD BE NO SETTLEMENTS.
04:40:53FOR ME, USING VETERANS AND THEIR
04:40:58FAMILIES AS POLITICAL PONDS IS
04:41:02TOTALLY WRONG.
04:41:05WITH WHAT IS GOING ON LESS THAN
04:41:092% OF THE VETERANS FAMILIES OF
04:41:14THE 470,000 CLAIMS HAVE BEEN SETTLED IN FOUR YEARS.
04:41:19THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 73 YEARS.
04:41:23BOTH PARTIES HAVE DONE WHAT
04:41:27COULD'VE BEEN MORE FOR THE VETERANS IN CONGRESS.
04:41:33THIS SUBJECT ABOUT PRESIDENT
04:41:35TRUMP AND VETERANS AS PAWNS.
04:41:40HOST: WE HAVE YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
04:41:46THE ROLE VETERANS PLAY THIS TIME AROUND. WE HAD ON THE HOUSE AND SENATE
04:41:49OR THINGS WITH GOVERNORS AND STATE LEGISLATORS.
04:41:53GUEST: THERE WAS JUST SOME OF
04:41:57THIS SATISFIED -- DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WAR IN IRAN NOT BEING DECLARED A WAR.
04:42:04I THINK THERE IS SOME
04:42:06FRUSTRATION AMONG VETERANS, PEOPLE BEING DEPLOYED TO THIS
04:42:10AREA. THE EARLY 2000'S.
04:42:14I SAW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS ON
04:42:18THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. GRAHAM PLATNER WAS SOMEBODY THAT WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS
04:42:23WAS MY EXPERIENCE AND THIS IS WHAT I'M SEEING NOW WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
04:42:28HOST: ALAN WILSON, THE
04:42:33REPUBLICAN, ONE OF THE FEW AFTER LAST NIGHT.
04:42:36TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE.
04:42:41>> IT WAS A LOT CLOSER THAN
04:42:45EXPECTED BECAUSE OF THE SENATE RACE. JERMAINE JOHNSON IS THE
04:42:49DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR. WILSON WAS OK.
04:42:56I THINK THIS WAS ONE OF THE TWO
04:42:58STATES SO FAR WHERE WE HAVE RESULTS SPLITTING THEIR TICKET
04:43:03BETWEEN GOVERNOR AND SENATE.
04:43:07I THINK BASED ON THE POLLING WE WERE EXPECTING TO SEE A LOT MORE
04:43:10SPLIT TICKETS WITH GEORGIA,
04:43:13TEXAS, IOWA, WHAT WE SEE HERE IS
04:43:16VOTERS FELT THE SAME WAY THEY DID ABOUT THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
04:43:20HOST: ONE MILLION PLUS VOTES FOR
04:43:24ALAN WILSON OUT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
04:43:27AS WE TOLD YOU EARLIER, SENATE
04:43:32MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER EXPECTED TO ADDRESS THE CAMPAIGN
04:43:34COMMITTEE SCHEDULED FOR 11:00.
04:43:38WHEN THAT HAPPENS WE WILL TAKE YOU TO IT.
04:43:41AND THEN LATER ON ABOUT NOON THE
04:43:45HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES EXPECTED TO MAKE COMMENTS AS WELL.
04:43:49MARIA IS IN VIRGINIA, INDEPENDENT LINE. HELLO.
04:43:51CALLER: HELLO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
04:43:55COVERAGE LAST NIGHT, THAT WAS AMAZING.
04:44:01I AM A TRUE INDEPENDENT. I AM PURPLE AND I HAVE ALWAYS
04:44:04VOTED FOR WHO I THINK WILL
04:44:07REPRESENT ME AND THE PEOPLE OF MY COMMUNITY THE BEST THAT THEY WILL DO.
04:44:13WHEN TRUMP WON THIS ELECTION, I
04:44:17ASSUMED THAT WHEN HE WAS DOING OVERREACH OF THE EXECUTIVE
04:44:21POWERS THAT THE SENATE
04:44:25LEADERSHIP, THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WOULD PUT -- WOULD
04:44:28STAND IN LINE TO DO THE BALANCE OF POWER.
04:44:33THIS COUNTRY IS A BALANCE OF POWER MADE FOR THE PEOPLE.
04:44:38I AM SO GLAD THAT THE PEOPLE
04:44:43STOOD UP. WHEN THE RICH CONTROL THE
04:44:47COUNTRY, DEMOCRACY IS DEAD. I WAS SCARED AND NOW I HAVE HOPE.
04:44:51FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME I VOTED ALL BLUE.
04:44:55I NEVER VOTED THE PARTY LINE IN MY LIFE.
04:44:57HOST: MARIA IN VIRGINIA SAYING
04:45:02SHE VOTED ALL BLUE IN TEXAS.
04:45:04A LOT OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR ALL
04:45:08BLUE.
04:45:09GINA HE AND A HOST OF -- GINA
04:45:14TAKING HIS FOURTH RUN FOR
04:45:20GRANTED HERE. DEMOCRATS WERE A LITTLE WORRIED
04:45:23TO INVEST IN TEXAS.
04:45:29EVEN IF THEY THREW 10 OR $15 MILLION IT MIGHT NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
04:45:33THE KEY TO WINNING THIS RACE WAS
04:45:36TALKING ABOUT THE BILLIONAIRES, TALKING ABOUT BIG TECH.
04:45:40SHE RAN MULTIPLE ADS. SHE REALLY TAPPED INTO SOME OF
04:45:44THOSE VOTER SENTIMENT ACROSS BIG
04:45:46TECH, AI, SOME OF THE POWERS
04:45:50HABIT COZIED UP TO DURING HIS TERM.
04:45:55I HAVEN'T CHECKED SINCE THIS MORNING BUT THEY WERE CLAIMING
04:45:58VICTORY THAT THEY HAVE FLIPPED THE TEXAS STATE HOUSE, THAT
04:46:02WOULD BE HUGE. THAT IS THE SAME LEGISLATURE THAT REDREW TEXAS MAPS.
04:46:09I THINK THE REDISTRICTING THAT
04:46:10KICKED OFF WAS VERY MUCH ON
04:46:13DEMOCRATS MINDS.
04:46:15IF ATTIC KEPT THE GOVERNORSHIP,
04:46:19THEY KEPT THE STATE HOUSE AND SENATE THEY COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN BEFORE 2028.
04:46:23THE TEXAS STATE HOUSE, IF THEY
04:46:26DO FLIP IT, THAT VERY MUCH HAS
04:46:30TO DO WITH SOME OF VOTER BACKLASH.
04:46:35HOST: WE SHOWED YOU AND DISCUSS
04:46:38THE GOVERNOR RACE IN OHIO WITH
04:46:42AMY ACTON AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY, LET'S LISTEN TO A PORTION OF THEIR SPEECHES.
04:46:46>> THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN
04:46:50A MOVEMENT BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
04:46:55THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY OHIOAN WHO
04:47:02HAS LONGED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AGAIN.
04:47:09WHO SOLVE PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF
04:47:09MAKING THEM.
04:47:13WHO DO NOT MISTAKE KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS.
04:47:20BECAUSE OF YOUR HARD WORK OHIO
04:47:24HAS CHOSEN UNITY AND INDECENCY.
04:47:30OVER DIVISION AND HATE.
04:47:38THE HEALING BEGINS TODAY.
04:47:47WE MUST NEVER GIVE UP ON ONE ANOTHER.
04:47:53THIS WAS A TOUGH RACE. THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER.
04:48:01I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING VERY
04:48:04CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.
04:48:07I WILL BE A GOVERNOR FOR ALL OHIOANS.
04:48:10>> AS YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN IT
04:48:16IS A TOUGH AND CHALLENGING NIGHT FOR REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
04:48:22A TOUGH NIGHT FOR US HERE IN OHIO.
04:48:25EARLIER THIS EVENING, I HAD AN
04:48:28OPPORTUNITY TO CALL DR. ACTON TO
04:48:30CONGRATULATE HER ON HER VICTORY
04:48:34IN THIS RACE. I WISH HER WELL TO LEAD THIS
04:48:38STATE TO HOPEFULLY GREATER HEIGHTS IN THE FUTURE.
04:48:42IT WAS A TOUGH RACE.
04:48:44IT WAS BITTER AT TIMES IN BOTH
04:48:47DIRECTIONS.
04:48:49THE TIME TOMORROW IS TO HOPEFULLY HAVE HER LEADERSHIP
04:48:53BRING THE STATE TOGETHER.
04:48:57I HAVE HOPE AND CONFIDENCE THAT
04:48:59SHE WILL DO WHAT IS REQUIRED TO BRING OHIO TOGETHER, TO BRING
04:49:04OUR VOTERS AND CITIZENS TOGETHER TO LEAD OHIO TO THE BEST PLACE
04:49:08POSSIBLE. WE ARE ROOTING FOR THE SUCCESS
04:49:11OF THE STATE, YOUR SUCCESS.
04:49:14THAT MEANS ALL OF US SHOULD BE
04:49:16ROOTING FOR THE SUCCESS OF HER ADMINISTRATION.
04:49:20WE ARE HOPEFUL FOR OHIO TO ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS.
04:49:25HOST: AS ALWAYS YOU COULD FIND
04:49:29THESE SPEECHES ON OUR WEBSITE
04:49:32AND CONTINUE WATCHING ON C-SPAN.ORG.
04:49:35LET'S GO TO ILLINOIS, DEMOCRATS LINE.
04:49:42CALLER: WE CANNOT FORGET WE HAVE
04:49:47AN ELECTION IN 2028 COMING UP.
04:49:50AS MUCH AS DEMOCRATS HAVE POWER,
04:49:57THEY ALSO DON'T. THEY NEED TO COMMUNICATE THAT.
04:49:59I'M FROM A POLITICAL SCIENCE
04:50:05BACKGROUND.
04:50:05I UNDERSTAND THAT ALL --
04:50:09EVERYBODY DOESN'T KNOW, THEY
04:50:13CAN'T DO EVERYTHING IN TWO YEARS.
04:50:16THE DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING IF THEY
04:50:19ARE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL NEEDS
04:50:22TO BE ON WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT CONTROL.
04:50:30GUEST: I THINK YOU WILL SEE A
04:50:34LOT OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, WASHINGTON MAY BE STALLED.
04:50:39GOVERNORS, THIS IS A MESSAGE
04:50:42DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAMMER HOME.
04:50:45THE GOVERNORSHIPS, SOME OF THE
04:50:49OTHER SWING STATES HAVE PUT TEXAS ON THE MAP.
04:50:53IF DEMOCRATS COULD RUN GOVERNORS
04:50:59LIKE SCHAPIRO, PRITZKER.
04:51:02THEY COULD TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THEY'RE GOVERNOR HAS DONE FOR THEM.
04:51:06I WAS TALKING TO SOME
04:51:08STRATEGISTS THE REPUBLICANS COME
04:51:12IN, IN 2028.
04:51:21THIS WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CYCLE, ONE OF THE TOP
04:51:25OPPORTUNITIES FOR REPUBLICANS.
04:51:29KARI LAKE, NOT THE BEST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN 2022.
04:51:32BIG SWING ON LATINO VOTERS FOR TRUMP AS WELL.
04:51:37THOSE LATINO VOTERS SWUNG BACK.
04:51:40A VERY CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF CONGRESS UP AGAINST HOBBS HERE.
04:51:44HE WAS THE RIGHT PROFILE FOR ARIZONA THIS YEAR.
04:51:48HOST: SPEAKING OF GIVING HIS
04:51:52THOUGHTS TO 2028, GOVERNOR
04:51:55DESANTIS FROM FLORIDA MAKING HIS OWN THOUGHTS FROM LAST NIGHT.
04:51:58I WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. [VIDEO CLIP]
04:52:02>> LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT
04:52:06HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. THIS IS CLOSE TO AN EXTINCTION
04:52:09LEVEL EVENT FOR REPUBLICANS IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AS WE
04:52:13HAVE SEEN PROBABLY IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.
04:52:18WHEN EVERYONE AND OFFERS LEAVES
04:52:22FOR EITHER A TERM LIMIT OR GOT VOTED OUT.
04:52:28ONLY ONE STATE WILL HAVE REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF THE STATE.
04:52:34IF YOU LOOK AT OUR CHIEF RIVAL
04:52:37AND IN A HEALTHY SENSE, OVER MY
04:52:41LIFETIME, TEXAS HAS BEEN THE CROWN JEWEL OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS.
04:52:50THE LEADER FOR REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES, WHEN YOU GO THE GENERATION.
04:52:59THEY LOSE A VERY PUBLICIZED U.S. SENATE RACE, THEY LOST EVERYTHING.
04:53:05THE GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL,
04:53:08THEY LOST FOUR SUPREME COURT
04:53:10JUSTICES ON THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT.
04:53:14THEY MAY EVEN LOSE THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE IN ONE HOUSE OR EVEN BOTH.
04:53:20NOT JUST FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD
04:53:26REVERBERATE. THE REPUBLICAN DOESN'T HAVE
04:53:30TEXAS AS AN ANCHOR, WE WILL NOT
04:53:33BE VIABLE NATIONALLY GOING FORWARD.
04:53:40IT WAS VERY CLEAR, WE WERE RUNNING THE HEADWINDS.
04:53:45I SAID A VICTORY WOULD BE MINIMIZING THE LOSSES GIVING THE CLIMATE.
04:53:57WE KNEW THEY COULD BE WORSE.
04:54:00I DON'T THINK WE THOUGHT IT COULD BE QUITE THIS BAD.
04:54:04THE DEMOCRATS WILL LIKELY GO
04:54:07INTO JANUARY WITH 56 SENATE
04:54:08SEATS AND AS MUCH AS 250 EIGHT
04:54:12U.S. HOUSE SEATS. WHAT THAT DOES, NOT ONLY WILL
04:54:16THAT TOTALLY CHANGE THE DYNAMIC OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO THE
04:54:20DETRIMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.
04:54:23THIS WILL LAST FAR BEYOND TWO YEARS.
04:54:28YOU ARE NOT AS REPUBLICANS GOING
04:54:32TO BE ABLE TO RETAKE THE SENATE
04:54:36JUST TWO YEARS FROM NOW.
04:54:38PROBABLY NOT VIABLE TO TAKE THAT BACK AS WELL.
04:54:43THIS IS REALLY GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT TWO YEARS, FOUR YEARS,
04:54:46SIX YEARS.
04:54:52UNIFIED CONTROL IN WASHINGTON
04:54:54AGAIN LIKE WE ENJOYED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.
04:54:58JUST THINK WHAT THIS MEANS
04:55:00HAVING 56 SENATORS. THAT MEANS NO SUPREME COURT
04:55:04JUSTICE WILL BE CONFIRMED UNDER
04:55:07PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENS IN THE NEXT SIX WEEKS.
04:55:16THERE WILL BE ABLE TO BE CONFIRMED.
04:55:18THAT WOULD LIKELY BE TRUE FOR THE FOUR YEARS AFTER THAT.
04:55:23HOST: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THOSE WORDS?
04:55:27GUEST: I WILL LOOK AT THIS THROUGH THE 2028 LENS.
04:55:31WHAT I'M HEARING IS HE SAYING TEXAS IS NOT THIS REPUBLICAN
04:55:35STRONGHOLD ANYMORE.
04:55:38FLORIDA MAYBE DIDN'T DO SO GREAT ON THEIR GERRYMANDERED HOUSE
04:55:41SEATS BUT THEY WEATHERED THE STORM STATEWIDE. THEY KEPT THE SENATE SEAT HERE.
04:55:48IN THE POLITICAL REALITY WE ARE IN.
04:55:54VERY BIG, VERY ELECTORAL COLLEGE HEAVY STATES LEANING REPUBLICAN
04:55:57AND SAY FLORIDA SEEMS TO BE THE MORE REPUBLICAN STATE NOW.
04:56:00HOST: ABBY TURNER IS JOINING US.
04:56:04WE ARE EXPECTING COMMENTS FROM SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER.
04:56:09WHEN HE GETS TO THE MICROPHONE
04:56:12WE WILL TAKE THAT LIVE FOR YOU,
04:56:14DALLAS, TEXAS, JUMP ON IN.
04:56:18CALLER: I'M FROM DALLAS, NORTH
04:56:22CAROLINA.
04:56:26I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, I AM A
04:56:28REAL DIEHARD REPUBLICAN.
04:56:31SKY WASN'T FOLLOWING.
04:56:37IT IS KIND OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE.
04:56:43I CAN'T SEE WHY PEOPLE IN NORTH
04:56:47CAROLINA VOTED ROY COOPER FOR GOVERNOR.
04:56:50WHAT HE DID WITH THE HURRICANES
04:56:52IN NORTH CAROLINA, I DON'T
04:56:56BELIEVE HE WILL DO ANYMORE.
04:57:00PEDRO, I'M NOT LOOKING TO HELP
04:57:03OUT BUT I THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
04:57:06HOST: MIKE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA
04:57:11WITH COMMENTS FOR ROY COOPER. GUEST: ROY COOPER SEEMS TO BE AN
04:57:15ANOMALY.
04:57:17I DON'T THINK HE HAS EVER LOST
04:57:21AN ELECTION.
04:57:22HE HAS WON TIME AFTER TIME BY VERY LARGE MARGINS.
04:57:29HE IS EXTREMELY POPULAR. HE PUT THIS SENATE SEAT BED VERY
04:57:32EARLY ON IN THIS CYCLE.
04:57:37REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO CHALLENGE THIS.
04:57:40I THINK HE'S IN A PRETTY SOLID SPOT FOR NOW.
04:57:45HOST: JEFFREY IS FROM OHIO. WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM CHUCK
04:57:48SCHUMER IN A LITTLE BIT. CALLER: IF LAST NIGHTS ELECTION
04:57:54RESULTS WERE A REPUDIATION OF
04:57:57PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POLICIES AND HIS PRESIDENCY, HOW DO I
04:58:01UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE TERMS
04:58:02THAT HE HAS BEEN TWICE ELECTED
04:58:06PRESIDENT. IN HIS OWN MIND HE HAS BEEN ELECTED THREE TIMES.
04:58:10IS IT A MATTER OF DESPERATION BY
04:58:13VOTERS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER THAT
04:58:15EXPLAIN HIS ELECTIONS AND ALSO
04:58:19LAST NIGHTS ELECTION RESULTS? THAT IS IT.
04:58:22CALLER: IT'S IT --
04:58:25GUEST: IT'S A DESPERATION FROM VOTERS.
04:58:29DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING WE DID ALL
04:58:31OF THESE THINGS FOR THE ECONOMY.
04:58:34PEOPLE WERE NOT FEELING LIKE THAT.
04:58:38TRUMP HAS A UNIQUE ABILITY TO TURN OUT VOTERS WHEN HE'S ON THE
04:58:42BALLOT AND HE COULD TURN OUT NEW TRUMP VOTERS.
04:58:46WE SOUGHT LATINO VOTERS, BLACK
04:58:50VOTERS, WE HAVE THIS GROUP.
04:58:52HE HAS THE ABILITY TO DO IT. ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS WE
04:58:56HAVE SEEN IS 2024 HE WAS
04:59:01PROMISING TO FIX THE ECONOMY AND WOULD NOT START NEW WARS, LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
04:59:05HOST: DO YOU THINK LAST NIGHT
04:59:09HURTS THE BRAND AND THE ABILITY TO RISE ABOVE?
04:59:10GUEST: I WAS SHOCKED AT HOW SOMBER HE WAS LAST NIGHT WHEN HE
04:59:15CALLED INTO SOME OF THE SHOWS.
04:59:17I WILL WORK WITH DEMOCRATS ON SOME THINGS.
04:59:21HE SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT THE RESULTS. THERE'S A RECKONING OF WHAT
04:59:25PLACE DOES MAGA HAVE?
04:59:30THEY DOMINATE PRIMARIES AND SOME OF THESE CANDIDATES STRUGGLE
04:59:34WITH THE GENERAL ELECTORATE. WHO DOES THE PARTY RECRUIT POP
04:59:38UP? WHO THE REPUBLICANS AS A BASE WANT AS THEIR NOMINEE?
04:59:41HOST: WE HAVE NOT SEEN MUCH
04:59:45MOVEMENT ON THE FRONTS. JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THE SENATE
04:59:48NOW AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES,
04:59:5154 SEEDS GAINED AFTER LAST NIGHTS ELECTION.
04:59:54ON THE HOUSE IT IS 200 28 SEATS
04:59:57WITH 20 FIVE PICKUPS. ONE 39 HELD FOR REPUBLICANS.
05:00:01THIS AND OTHER THINGS AS PART OF
05:00:03OUR COVERAGE OF ELECTION 2026.
05:00:0720 HOURS OF COVERAGE. WE ARE ON THE TAIL END OF THAT NOW.
05:00:10STAY WITH US AS WE
05:00:15>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL COMES TO
05:00:21PRIME LIVE. >> BUBBLEHEADED COVERAGE.
05:00:23>> TRUST YOU COMPLETELY -- THE
05:00:28MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE.
05:00:29>> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS.
05:00:33>> THE CONVERSATION WILL COME TO PRIMETIME.
05:00:36>> THE MOST UNBIASED OUT THERE.
05:00:38ANNOUNCER: STARTING MONDAY AT 9 P.M. EASTERN.
05:00:42ANNOUNCER: MORE OF C-SPAN
05:00:47ONGOING COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
05:00:51VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS, THE
05:00:54RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
05:00:58SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
05:01:00THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS,
05:01:04CANDIDATE REACTIONS AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
05:01:07CAMPAIGN 2026, YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
05:01:10HOST: 19 HOURS WE'VE COMMITTED
05:01:15TO COVERAGE OF CAMPAIGN 2026.
05:01:20IN THIS FINAL HOUR, ANALYSIS AND
05:01:23PENDING COMMENTS FROM CHUCK
05:01:27SCHUMER, AS WELL AS HAKEEM JEFFRIES.
05:01:30PART OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY, THE
05:01:33BALANCE OF POWER FOR NEXT YEAR, DEMOCRATS HOLDING THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
05:01:38THE MARGINS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
05:01:39TWO SENATE RACES STILL PLAYING.
05:01:44MANY HOUSE RACES PLAYING OUT. YOU CAN BE PART OF THE
05:01:48CONVERSATION. STAY WITH US. (202)-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
05:01:52(202)-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS. (202)-748-8002 FOR INDEPENDENTS. YOU CAN TEXT US AT (202)-748-8003.
05:02:02AS WE WAIT FOR SENATOR SCHUMER,
05:02:07WE GO BACK TO THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD.
05:02:10>> WE WERE DOING A TOUR OF THE
05:02:15CLOSEST RACES IN THE COUNTRY.
05:02:16THE CLOSEST IS A STATEWIDE RACE
05:02:21IN THE MAGNOLIA STATE, MISSISSIPPI.
05:02:26JACOB, 43 VOTES SEPARATE LOSS
05:02:29AND VICTORY HERE.
05:02:32JACOB: 43 VOTES FOR SCOTT COLOM.
05:02:38CINDY HYDE-SMITH HAS SOWN THE
05:02:42SEEDS OF HER OWN DESTRUCTION,
05:02:46SHE BRAGGED ABOUT HOW SHE
05:02:47STOPPED COLOM'S CAREER RISE.
05:02:52>> THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS HE GOT IN THE RACE.
05:02:55>> HERE WE ARE, WE STILL HAVE A
05:03:00BIT LEFT ACCOUNT.
05:03:01COLOM'S CAMPAIGN SAID THEY ARE
05:03:08TRACKING ADDITIONAL PROVISIONAL BALLOTS THAT COULD COME IN OVER THE NEXT FIVE DAYS.
05:03:11>> WHAT'S THE RECOUNT PROCEDURE.
05:03:14>> THIS IS THE THING, NO RUNOFF
05:03:18OR RECOUNT IN MISSISSIPPI. A LOT OF OTHER STATES HAVE
05:03:23RUNOFFS BUT NOT MISSISSIPPI.
05:03:26NO PROVISION IN STATE LAW ALLOWS FOR A RECOUNT UNLESS ON A JUDGE'S ORDERS.
05:03:31JOHN: UNLESS A JUDGE DECIDES TO ORDER A RECOUNT/
05:03:35JACOB: CORRECT.
05:03:40JOHN: THIS STATEWIDE RACE MAKES
05:03:44SOME OF THESE OTHER RACES LOOK LIKE A BLOWOUT.
05:03:46TWICE THE AMOUNT OF VOTES
05:03:49SEPARATING THE CANDIDATES IN
05:03:52ARIZONA'S 2ND. 86 VOTES.
05:03:57JACOB: NAILBITER OF A HOUSE RACE.
05:04:01NEZ, FORMER OF THE NAVAJO
05:04:05NATION, IN A REMATCH AGAINST
05:04:08CRANE, SHARK TANK AND NAVY VETERAN, HIS COMPANY BOTTLE
05:04:13BREACH, RIGHT NOW HE MIGHT BE
05:04:14CRACKING OPERA BOTTLE --
05:04:19CRACKING OPEN A BOTTLE BECAUSE HE IS TRAILING.
05:04:20JOHN: COLORADO, THIS IS A
05:04:28SEPARATION OF 1200 VOTES.
05:04:29JACOB: WE'VE GONE FROM MINUSCULE TO A BLOWOUT.
05:04:33.4% SEPARATING THEM IN THE
05:04:38COLORADO THIRD. JOHN: THE VOLUNTEER STATE, TENNESSEE.
05:04:44SCOTT DESJARLAIS'S EFFORTS TO
05:04:46STAY IN THE HOUSE, HE'S IN ONE OF THE CLOSEST RACES IN THE
05:04:50COUNTRY AT THIS HOUR. HE'S BEHIND BY 280 VOTES.
05:04:54JACOB: THE MOST SHOCKING ON THE HOUSE SIDE.
05:04:59VICTORIA BRODERICK AHEAD OF
05:05:02SCOTT, 280 VOTES, .2% BY THE
05:05:06MARGIN.
05:05:06JOHN: OVER TO NORTH CAROLINA,
05:05:10THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
05:05:14LESS THAN 100 VOTES.
05:05:15JACOB: NAILBITER IN THE TAR
05:05:19HEEL, COVERED ON THE PRECIPICE
05:05:22OF OUSTING HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE
05:05:25CHAIRWOMAN VIRGINIA FOXX, A
05:05:29SENIOR REPUBLICAN IN THAT CHAMBER POTENTIALLY GOING FOR DEFEAT.
05:05:31JOHN: THESE RED DISTRICTS, AND
05:05:35WHAT WAS EXPECTED A SAFE PART OF THE STATE FOR REPUBLICANS, LET'S
05:05:39START IN THE THIRD DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
05:05:41JACOB: THIS IS THE DISTRICT THEY
05:05:45MADE LESS REPUBLICAN TO MAKE THE FIRST DISTRICT TO THE NORTH LESS
05:05:50DEMOCRATIC. JOHN: THEY DIDN'T WIN THE FIRST
05:05:53DISTRICT AND NOW THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE THIRD.
05:05:55JACOB: 233 VOTES BETWEEN MURPHY
05:05:59AND SMITH, THIS IS CLOSE.
05:06:00JOHN: ONE MORE BEFORE WE LEAVE
05:06:04NORTH CAROLINA, CRAZY HOW MUCH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THEM.
05:06:08LESS THAN 2500 VOTES IN THE SEVENTH.
05:06:10JACOB: I NAILBITER FOR DAVID ROUSER.
05:06:15TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, 14
05:06:19DISTRICTS IN NORTH CAROLINA, DEMOCRATS LEADING IN 10 AND THEN
05:06:23THOSE TWO DISTRICTS IN THE EAST WHERE REPUBLICANS ARE CLINGING TO TINY LEADS.
05:06:28IN THE OTHER TWO SEATS, IT'S NOT
05:06:31AS IF REPUBLICANS ARE BLOWING THE DOORS OFF. ONE POINT LEAD IN THE 10TH DISTRICT.
05:06:36IN THE EIGHTH, A TWO POINT LEAD.
05:06:39MARK HARRIS IS A BIG WINNER
05:06:42TONIGHT WITH A 1.8% MARGIN.
05:06:45JOHN: A STATE THAT REPUBLICANS
05:06:49GERRYMANDERED AND THEY COULD END UP WITH TWO OF THE 14 DISTRICTS IN THE STATE?
05:06:53JACOB: THEY GERRYMANDERED IT AHEAD OF 2024.
05:06:57THEY GOT ANOTHER SHOT.
05:07:00UPDATED INFO 2026 THEY REDREW AGAIN AND THEY STILL MAY HAVE
05:07:03STRETCHED THEMSELVES TOO THIN.
05:07:06ROY COOPER 18 POINT VICTORY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET CAUSING THEM HEARTBURN.
05:07:10JOHN: ONE MORE RACE, LESS THAN
05:07:15HALF A PERCENTAGE POINT SEPARATING THE CANDIDATES, IN
05:07:18THE NORTHERN MAINE DISTRICT,
05:07:21THAT RURAL AREA UP THERE, IT IS LESS THAN 800 VOTES.
05:07:24JACOB: WE ARE WAITING FOR A LOT
05:07:27OF THE VOTE LEFT, 15% BEING COUNT SLOWLY.
05:07:32FORMER STATE AUDITOR MATT DUNLAP IN THE LEAD AGAINST FORMER GOVERNOR PAULA PAGE.
05:07:36THE PAGE -- LEPAGE, EACH TIME HE
05:07:42HAS CARRIED THE SECOND DISTRICT.
05:07:45HE HAS WON IT IN ALL THREE
05:07:50PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
05:07:56DUNLAP IT BE INSULT TO INJURY. JOHN: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
05:08:01NIGHT, DEMOCRATS NEEDED THREE
05:08:03SEATS TO TAKE THE HOUSE, THEY ARE CURRENTLY AT 25 PICKUPS.
05:08:07WHAT COULD THIS NUMBER GET TO? 50?
05:08:11JACOB: THAT MIGHT BE A STRETCH.
05:08:15PERFECTLY POSSIBLE DEMOCRATS GET
05:08:1740 OR 41 PICKUPS IN THE HOUSE.
05:08:22THAT WOULD PUT THEM AT 256.
05:08:2741 SEATS WOULD BE 256, THEIR
05:08:29BIGGEST MAJORITY SINCE 2008,
05:08:33THAT BROUGHT US BARACK OBAMA. JOHN: A COMFORTABLE MAJORITY IN
05:08:37THE HOUSE. HOST: APPRECIATE IT.
05:08:42EXPECTING COMMENTS FROM CHUCK
05:08:45SCHUMER, MOMENTS FROM NOW.
05:08:47JD VANCE PUTTING OUT A LONG TWEET ABOUT LAST NIGHT.
05:08:52HERE'S PART OF THE ASSESSMENT.
05:08:57SAYING THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR, THE PRESIDENT SAID SO
05:09:01HIMSELF LAST NIGHT. P ARGUES IT WAS WORTH IT.
05:09:07AGREE OR DISAGREE, THAT IS AT
05:09:10LEAST HONEST BUT EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST.
05:09:14ANY HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THEIR.
05:09:17I REMEMBER, TAKE THAT ENERGY
05:09:25INTO ELECTING REPUBLICANS.
05:09:27TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE PISSED, LET'S
05:09:32GET BACK TO SAVING OUR COUNTRY.
05:09:33GUEST: IT SOUNDS LIKE HE IS ACCEPTING BLAME.
05:09:38WE REALIZE WHAT WE DID IS NOT RIGHT TO FOCUS ON.
05:09:41LET'S GET TOGETHER AHEAD OF 2028.
05:09:43FURTHER DOWN, HE HAS A LIST,
05:09:48FOCUS ON ENDING THE WAR, INFLATION, AMERICA FIRST.
05:09:53YOU CAN EXPECT THAT FROM A CAMPAIGN.
05:09:55HOST: UNDERCURRENT. GUEST: THESE ARE THINGS HE WILL
05:09:59BE FOCUSING ON AS HE LAUNCHES A PRESIDENTIAL BID.
05:10:04HOST: WE'VE HEARD FROM PRESIDENT
05:10:08TRUMP LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. WE ARE HEARING FROM YOU.
05:10:12WE ARE EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM CHUCK SCHUMER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
05:10:16WE WILL KEEP YOU TUNED IN.
05:10:20CAMPAIGN 2026.
05:10:23WISCONSIN, DEMOCRATS, JEAN JUMP ON IN.
05:10:26CALLER: I LOST MY VOICE.
05:10:31I'VE BEEN AT THE BREWERS PARADE.
05:10:34THE BREWERS ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE WHERE MONEY DOESN'T BY WINNING.
05:10:39SUCH AN AMAZING DIVERSE TEAM. PLAYERS FROM VENEZUELA.
05:10:44IT'S A NICE ANALOGY. I'M EXCITED.
05:10:50WE JUST GOT BACK FROM OSLO, NORWAY.
05:10:55I'M SICKENED BY THE PRESIDENT'S COMMENT THAT THE COUNTRY IS TERRIBLE.
05:10:59SHOUT OUT TO NORWAY. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. OSLO.
05:11:04IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE THERE
05:11:06BECAUSE -- HE CAN'T TAKE THE
05:11:13MEDAL.
05:11:15THEY SAID IT TOOK TWO REGIMES TO GET RID OF DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA.
05:11:20WE ARE SO EXCITED WE STOPPED THIS DISMANTLING.
05:11:24THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA. SO EXCITED ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA,
05:11:28TEXAS.
05:11:29IN WISCONSIN, WE ARE IN THE
05:11:33WESTERN SUBURBS MAKING PROGRESS, MAKING SURE PEOPLE COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK'S.
05:11:38SCOTT FITZGERALD IS THE NEXT ONE.
05:11:41HE HIDES A HALF A MILE FROM OUR HOME AND WE NEVER SEE HIM.
05:11:45SO MUCH CREDIT, REBECCA.
05:11:49ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT TO VOTE, IT IS CHANGING AMERICA.
05:11:53WE WERE AT A CONCERT LAST NIGHT. EVERYONE AROUND US WAS WATCHING C-SPAN.
05:12:00IT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT THE 30 YEAR OLD AND YOUNGER CROWD. SO PROUD OF THEM.
05:12:04LET'S KEEP GOING, KEEP THIS MOMENTUM.
05:12:08IT'S MORE ABOUT SMART POLITICS.
05:12:12I BELIEVE IN A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SMART POLITICS.
05:12:17PEOPLE KNOW WHY THEY VOTE FOR SOMEONE.
05:12:18IN THIS COUNTY, ASK PEOPLE, WHY
05:12:24THEY ARE VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP, WELL IT IS KIND OF OCCULT THING.
05:12:28THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY. I HOPE WE CAN CHANGE THAT. LOOKS LIKE WE ARE.
05:12:32HOST: THE YOUNGER VOTER,
05:12:36GOVERNORS RACES, THEIR INFLUENCES?
05:12:39GUEST: YOUNGER VOTERS WERE
05:12:43ENFRANCHISED IN TEXAS.
05:12:43WE SAW THAT WITH JAMES TALARICO.
05:12:48THEY WERE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
05:12:51MICHIGAN, ABDUL EL-SAYED,
05:12:56UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ALL THOSE PLACES.
05:12:59YOUNG VOTERS WERE ENERGIZED.
05:13:01A POLL EARLIER SAID 60 SOME NEW
05:13:04VOTERS WENT FOR DEMOCRATS THERE.
05:13:07THAT PROBABLY INCLUDES YOUNG
05:13:0918-YEAR-OLD VOTERS, COLLEGE STUDENTS.
05:13:12HOST: DAVID GROLEY
05:13:19DEFEATING TIFFANY. GUEST: THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN
05:13:22EASIER FOR REPUBLICANS.
05:13:25TOM TIFFANY, VERY CONSERVATIVE,
05:13:29RAN A VERY SMART CAMPAIGN.
05:13:33WASN'T TOUTING HIS TRUMP ENDORSEMENT MUCH ON THE AIRWAVES.
05:13:36FOLKSY GRANDPA VIBE, LIKE HE
05:13:39WOULD SIT WITH AT THANKSGIVING AND CHAT WITH.
05:13:42DEMOCRATS SAID THAT IS THE CHARACTER WE ARE HAVING TO RUN
05:13:47AGAINST BUT IT IS SHEER ENVIRONMENT.
05:13:48HOST: ROBERTA, CALIFORNIA,
05:13:52REPUBLICAN. GOOD MORNING. CALLER: HEY.
05:13:56KIND OF IRONIC. LIVING CALIFORNIA.
05:14:02IF WE THINK CALIFORNIA IS THE WAY WE WANT TO BE, DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
05:14:06EVERYTHING IS MORE EXPENSIVE.
05:14:08WE HAVE EVERY PROBLEM SOCIALLY
05:14:11WRONG FROM HOMELESSNESS TO
05:14:13MENTAL ILLNESS TO A GOVERNOR WHO
05:14:17IS CRAZY, WHOSE WIFE IS CRAZIER.
05:14:21LET ME ASK YOU, ALL THESE
05:14:24DEMOCRATS WHEN OUTVOTED -- WENT
05:14:27OUT AND VOTED BECAUSE OF WHAT?
05:14:30I HAVEN'T HEARD THE NAME SOROS AT ALL.
05:14:34HE HAS BEEN BUYING DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS FOR YEARS.
05:14:37WE ARE ALL SITTING HERE ACTING LIKE HE DIDN'T BUY THIS ONE.
05:14:41ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FROM CHINA PUT
05:14:44IN BILLIONS AND BILLIONS INTO OUR ELECTIONS.
05:14:47EVERYONE IS ACTING LIKE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OUT HERE --
05:14:51EITHER THEY DON'T KNOW OR THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
05:14:53I WILL TELL YOU, C-SPAN, YOU NOW
05:14:59HAVE OWNERSHIP BY ABC.
05:15:04WE SHOULD START TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT. HOST: THERE IS NO PART OWNERSHIP BY ABC.
05:15:08CALLER: YOU KNOW WHAT? LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
05:15:13EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IT COMES UP ON C-SPAN. ABC.
05:15:18HOST: WE ARE AN ENTITY UNTO OURSELVES.
05:15:21WE SOMETIMES RELY ON OTHER THINGS LIKE VIDEO FEEDS BUT WE
05:15:24ARE A NETWORK UNTO OURSELVES. CALLER: EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU ASKED FOR MONEY.
05:15:28HOST: SURE WE DO. WE HAVE EXPANDED THE FUNDING STREAM.
05:15:32CALLER: YOU ASKED FOR PRIVATE MONEY. HOST: WE DO.
05:15:36CALLER: YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THAT YOURSELF?
05:15:38HOST: I AM FULLY AWARE.
05:15:41I WILL LEAVE YOU THERE BECAUSE I
05:15:44WILL CLARIFY AGAIN, WE HAVE TO
05:15:46ASK FOR PRIVATE DONATIONS, IF THEY WISH TO SUPPORT THIS
05:15:50NETWORK, IT IS PART OF THE EXPANDING EFFORT WE ARE MAKING
05:15:54IN TERMS OF OUR MAJORITY OF SUPPORT FROM THE CABLE INDUSTRY,
05:15:58AND WE ARE EXPANDING OUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR CALLING AND LISTENING.
05:16:03TWO MINUTES AGO WE GOT THE WARNING FROM SENATOR SCHUMER.
05:16:08WE ARE EXPECTING TO GO TO THAT IN A MOMENT.
05:16:10ABBY TURNER, LOOKING AHEAD,
05:16:13GOING FROM HERE, WHAT ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO?
05:16:20NOW THAT THESE CHANGES MAY HAVE BEEN MADE?
05:16:22GUEST: GOING AHEAD, I WANT TO
05:16:26SEEK AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS DELIVER ON THIS?
05:16:28EARLY ON IN THE CYCLE, THERE WAS
05:16:31CONCERN AFFORDABILITY WAS
05:16:33BECOMING THE DEMOCRACY BUZZWORD FOR 2024.
05:16:37FIGHTING AGAINST TRUMP, THERE
05:16:41WAS CONCERN IF WE THREW OUT WORD AFFORDABILITY EVERYWHERE, IT WOULD LOSE IMPACT ON VOTERS.
05:16:47AS THE CYCLE PROGRESSED I HEARD LESS ABOUT THAT, I HEARD SPECIFICS.
05:16:51THE BIG TEST IS IF GOVERNORS CAN
05:16:53DELIVER ON THESE, ESPECIALLY IN
05:16:56STATES WHERE THEY HAVE TO COMPROMISE WITH GOP LEGISLATORS LIKE GEORGIA AND IOWA.
05:17:00HOST: HEALTH CARE BEING A MAJOR
05:17:05ISSUE, THE PROGRESSIVES WILL BE A CHALLENGE AS WELL.
05:17:07GUEST: THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE SEEN.
05:17:12THERE ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES AT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
05:17:16NOT AS BIG OF A CONVERSATION IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSE AND SENATE BUT IN PLACES LIKE NEW
05:17:20YORK, BLUE STATES ARE SEEING THE RISE OF THIS AS WELL.
05:17:22HOST: MARYLAND, INDEPENDENT-MINDED.
05:17:26CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO AND
05:17:30GUEST. I'M LOOKING BIGGER PICTURE.
05:17:35IT'S GOOD THE DEMOCRATS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED.
05:17:41DON'T COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS BEFORE THEY HATCH.
05:17:47IN GOD WE TRUST.
05:17:51IF I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THINGS --
05:17:54HOST: LET ME PAUSE YOU THERE. SENATOR SCHUMER.
05:18:02SEN. SCHUMER: LET ME BEGIN BY
05:18:06PLAGIARIZING FRANKIE VALLEY. OH WHAT A NIGHT.
05:18:11AGAINST ALL ODDS.
05:18:13DEMOCRATS WON THE SENATE AND WE
05:18:16HAVE FIVE WORDS FOR THE PEOPLE. RELIEF IS ON THE WAY.
05:18:242025 I SAID WE COULD WIN BACK THE SENATE AFTER HE LOST THE
05:18:27PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE, PEOPLE ROLLED THEIR EYES.
05:18:33WE NEVER WAVERED.
05:18:37NOW WE HAVE WON THE SENATE. WHAT CHANGED?
05:18:42FIRST AND FOREMOST, OUR
05:18:45COALITION MOVED AS ONE BODY
05:18:48HOUSE AND SENATE TO DEFINE THE
05:18:52ISSUES AMERICANS CARED MOST ABOUT. WE TALKED TO AMERICANS.
05:18:56WHAT'S ON YOUR MINDS? NUMBER ONE, COST.
05:19:01THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
05:19:04HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO RAISE A
05:19:07FAMILY AND DO THE THINGS YOU WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU TO HAVE
05:19:11A GOOD LIFE AND YOUR KIDS WOULD HAVE A GOOD LIFE.
05:19:16SECOND, TRUMP'S CORRUPTION.
05:19:18THEY KNOW HE WAS THE
05:19:24MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT EVER BUY A LOT AND PEOPLE HATED IT.
05:19:27WE WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
05:19:29NUMBER ONE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNEW WE WERE ON THEIR SIDE ON
05:19:33THE ISSUES. THE SECOND THING WE DID, WE
05:19:37INCLUDED GREAT CANDIDATES WHO KNEW HOW TO TAILOR THEIR MESSAGE TO THE STATES.
05:19:43EVERY CANDIDATE WE RECRUITED,
05:19:46WHENEVER I TALKED TO THEM, THE
05:19:49NUMBER ONE THING THAT MOTIVATED THEM WAS PATRIOTISM.
05:19:51EACH ONE OF THEM COULD HAVE
05:19:54GOTTEN A DIFFERENT JOB, PROBABLY
05:19:55PAID MORE, TAKEN LESS TIME.
05:20:01THEY BELIEVED IN THEIR STATES, IN THEIR COUNTRY.
05:20:05AS THEY CAMPAIGNED, THE PEOPLE SAW THAT.
05:20:09THESE WERE GOOD PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARED.
05:20:12WE HAVE AN AMAZING CROP OF NEW SENATORS.
05:20:17THAT'S GREAT.
05:20:21WHAT WE HAVE NOW SEEN, THIS IS
05:20:25IMPORTANT, IS A GENERATIONAL
05:20:26REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP THAT'S
05:20:30GOING TO CHANGE AMERICA NOT ONLY NOW BUT INTO THE FUTURE.
05:20:35WHEN YOU HAVE DEMOCRATIC
05:20:37SENATORS INTENT ON WORKING THEIR STATES AND SHOWING PEOPLE OF
05:20:40THEIR STATE WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE
05:20:43REALLY ABOUT, WHETHER IOWA,
05:20:47SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, IT WILL
05:20:51MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THIS AGAIN IS A GENERATIONAL
05:20:56REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP THAT
05:21:00HAS HUGE CONSEQUENCES FOR HISTORY.
05:21:05WELL, IN TERMS OF THE MAJORITY
05:21:09-- IT'S NOW 54, COULD GO UP TO
05:21:1455, 56 -- WITH THIS MAJORITY,
05:21:23AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN DEMOCRATS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE OURSELVES WORTHY OF THEIR TRUST.
05:21:27THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB, MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING THE
05:21:32ELECTION -- DOING THINGS.
05:21:34NOT ONLY HAVE WE LISTENED TO YOU AND WE ARE LISTENING BUT WE WILL
05:21:39DO THINGS TO MAKE YOUR LIVES BETTER. MANY FOLKS WHO VOTED FOR US
05:21:44YESTERDAY ARE STILL SKEPTICAL. THAT'S OK.
05:21:46THESE VOTERS DIDN'T GIVE US THE MAJORITY SO WE CAN DO WHATEVER
05:21:50WE WANT. THEY ENTRUSTED US WITH THE
05:21:52MAJORITY TO DO WHAT THEY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT.
05:21:57REPUBLICANS RECEIVED THAT OPPORTUNITY TO YEARS AGO AND
05:22:00SQUANDERED IT.
05:22:05GOP MISREAD AMERICANS DEMAND FOR CHANGE AS A MANDATE TO DO
05:22:09TRUMP'S SELF-SERVING BIDDING.
05:22:13TRUMP SPENT HALF HIS TIME TALKING ABOUT THINGS RELEVANT TO
05:22:16THEIR LIVES, ANNOYING -- THE
05:22:21REFLECTING POOL, THE NEW WALL --
05:22:27MOST OF THE TIME, HE DID THINGS THAT HURT THEM.
05:22:33RAISED THEIR HEALTH CARE COSTS,
05:22:35ELECTRICITY BILLS, GASOLINE AND DIESEL COSTS.
05:22:41REPUBLICAN EYES WERE SO GLUED TO
05:22:44TRUMP'S SOCIAL FEED, THEY MISSED
05:22:48THE TRUTH STARING THEM DEAD IN THE FACE.
05:22:51AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR COUNTRY IS GOING RIGHT NOW.
05:22:57NOW REPUBLICANS HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO KEEP LISTENING TO THE
05:23:02NONSENSE COMING OUT OF 1600
05:23:04PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE OR START
05:23:08ACTING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IF THEY CONTINUE TO EMBRACE
05:23:13TRUMP, THEY WILL BE FOLLOWING
05:23:15HIM RIGHT OVER THE CLIFF AS THIS
05:23:18ELECTION HAS SHOWN AND IT WILL GET EVEN WORSE FOR THEM.
05:23:22WHAT IS OUR ASSIGNMENT?
05:23:25FIRST, AMERICANS WANT WASHINGTON TO BRING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING.
05:23:29THE ANGUISH AMERICAN FAMILIES
05:23:31FEEL AS THEY ASK THEMSELVES DO I PAY FOR GAS TO DRIVE TO WORK OR
05:23:35GROCERIES TO FEED THE KIDS?
05:23:36HEALTH CARE OR ELECTRICITY TO
05:23:41KEEP MY FAMILY WARM THIS WINTER?
05:23:44SECOND, AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT.
05:23:48THEY KNOW TRUMP IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
05:23:52NO AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE TO MAKE
05:23:55TRADE-OFFS AT THE SUPERMARKET WHILE TRUMP IS MAKING INSIDER TRADES ON THE STOCK MARKET.
05:24:02AMERICANS ARE CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT ACCOMMODATION.
05:24:07THIRD, THEY WANT TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
05:24:12WE HAVE SEEN TOO MANY AMERICANS DIE ON OUR STREETS AND IN A
05:24:16UNIFORM OVERSEAS BECAUSE OF TRUMP POSSE READ A JUDGMENT.
05:24:19THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IN IRAN.
05:24:23HE'S NEVER MADE IT CLEAR, HE CHANGES HIS MIND MINUTE TO
05:24:27MINUTE. THIS WAR MUST END, IT MUST END.
05:24:31MAKE NO MISTAKE, WHENEVER TRUMP
05:24:35DEFIES THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR THE LAW, WE WILL
05:24:38LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM
05:24:42TO COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
05:24:45THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S SUPPLICANT SENATE ARE OVER.
05:24:49I WILL HAVE MORE TO SAY IN THE COMING DAYS ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS
05:24:52PULLED OFF THIS VICTORY, HOW OUR MAJORITY PLANS TO DELIVER FOR
05:24:56THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
05:24:59BUT, I WOULD LIKE TO CONCLUDE ON
05:25:01THIS NOTE, IF THERE IS ONE
05:25:05HOPEFUL OPTIMISTIC TAKE AWAY, WE SHOULD REMEMBER, FROM THIS
05:25:09ELECTION, OUR DEMOCRACY RUNS DEEP. VERY DEEP.
05:25:14OUR FOUNDERS CREATED THIS AMAZING DOCUMENT, THE CONSTITUTION.
05:25:18THEY ENVISIONED COEQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.
05:25:23BUT THEY SAID WAS AMBITION WAS MADE TO COUNTERACT AMBITION.
05:25:28WHEN AMBITION TURNS TO BLIND LOYALTY, THERE IS ONE LESS FIREWALL.
05:25:33THEY THOUGHT THE LEGISLATURE
05:25:37WOULD CHECK A KING LIKE PRESIDENT. THIS SENATE HAS FAILED.
05:25:43THERE WAS ONE LESS FIREWALL.
05:25:45IN OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND
05:25:48BALANCES WHERE POWER DERIVES FROM THE CONSENT OF THE
05:25:52GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE STRONGEST LEVER
05:25:55AMERICANS HAVE TO COUNTER A WANT TO BE KING.
05:26:02SO LONG AS AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO USE IT. YESTERDAY AMERICA DID.
05:26:07EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES, THESE TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN
05:26:11AMONG THEM, AMERICANS HAVE NEVER
05:26:13LOST FAITH THEY CAN CHANGE THIS COUNTRY WITH THEIR VOTE.
05:26:19THE ONUS IS NOW ON US TO PROVE THEM RIGHT.
05:26:23YES. NO NO NO.
05:26:27NOPE NOPE NOPE.
05:26:28>> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THE
05:26:32PRESIDENT YET ABOUT HOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE THAT FIREWALL?
05:26:36SEN. SCHUMER: NOT YET. >> HOW ARE DEMOCRATS GOING TO
05:26:39END THE WAR WITH IRAN? SEN. SCHUMER: WE ARE GOING TO
05:26:43END THE WAR. WE HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY WHO HAVE JOINED US.
05:26:50THE FOUNDING FATHERS HAD THE POWER OF THE PURSE AS ONE OF THE
05:26:54WAYS OF DETERRING A PRESIDENT
05:26:56WHO DOES WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. YES?
05:26:59>> YOU TOOK A LOT OF CRITICISM IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
05:27:05WAS THIS A VINDICATION FOR YOU AND YOUR VISION FOR THE SENATE?
05:27:08SEN. SCHUMER: THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
05:27:14THIS IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, WHAT
05:27:17THEY WANT AND NEED AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP THEM, PLAIN AND
05:27:21SIMPLE. YES? IGOR.
05:27:25NO. IGOR? >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:27:30SEN. SCHUMER: EVERYONE WILL MAKE
05:27:34THEIR OWN INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF PETE HEGSETH. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:27:39IS THIS GOING TO BE A BLANKET HOLD? [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:27:42SEN. SCHUMER:: WE WANT JUDICIAL
05:27:46NOMINEES LIKE WE SHOWED IN 2023.
05:27:54WHO OBEY THE LAW AND HAVE FIDELITY TO THE RULE OF LAW.
05:27:56TOO MANY OF TRUMP'S NOMINEES DID
05:28:00NOT HAVE THAT AT ALL. YES. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:28:05-- ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER -- [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:28:08-- WOULD YOU SUPPORT -- [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:28:11SEN. SCHUMER: THE FIRST THING WE
05:28:14ARE GOING TO DO IS REDUCE
05:28:16PEOPLE'S COSTS, WORK THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS SO IT DOES.
05:28:20THANK YOU. [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:28:25SEN. SCHUMER: HE ASKED CAN I WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT OK.
05:28:30WE ARE GOING TO WORK HARD TO
05:28:33DRIVE COSTS DOWN WITH THE PRESIDENT OR WITHOUT HIM.
05:28:38PERIOD. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:28:42HOST: SENATE MINORITY LEADER
05:28:47CHUCK SCHUMER COMMENTING ON YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS, EXPECTED
05:28:49TO BECOME THE MAJORITY LEADER WHEN THE 120TH CONGRESS COMES IN.
05:28:53GUEST: A LOT OF THINGS STOOD OUT.
05:28:57VOTERS GAVE US TRUST BUT WE HAVEN'T EARNED IT.
05:29:00HOST: HE'S COMING BACK. SEN. SCHUMER: [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:29:05ASK YOUR QUESTION. >> YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A
05:29:11DIFFERENT CONFERENCE WITH A LOT OF SENATORS FROM RED STATES.
05:29:16IS THIS A REPUDIATION OF THE LEFT? HOW DOES THIS CHANGE HOW YOU GOVERN?
05:29:20SEN. SCHUMER: IF YOU LISTENED TO
05:29:22OUR CANDIDATES, WHETHER
05:29:25PROGRESSIVE OR MODERATE, AND WE
05:29:28HAD SOME OF EACH BECAUSE WE ARE A BIG TENT, THEY WERE SAYING THE SAME THINGS.
05:29:32THIS MORNING, CORY BOOKER,
05:29:35BEFORE I WENT ON MORNING JOE,
05:29:38ADAM HAMILTON, WHAT THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO DO WAS REMARKABLY
05:29:42SIMILAR. REDUCE COSTS AND AND THE CORRUPTION.
05:29:46EACH CANDIDATE'S, SOON TO BE
05:29:50SENATORS, SAID IT IN A WAY THAT FIT THEIR STATE.
05:29:55IT'S DIFFERENT IN MAINE, IN KANSAS.
05:29:59IT WAS THE SAME MESSAGE.
05:30:01WE WILL BE UNITED AS A CAUCUS FOCUSING ON THE ISSUES.
05:30:05WHAT WHAT WHAT?
05:30:05>> WHAT ABOUT INVESTIGATIONS,
05:30:10THE BALANCE BETWEEN INVESTIGATIONS AND POLICY? SEN. SCHUMER: THERE WERE SUCH
05:30:14RAMPANT CORRUPTION, THERE HAS TO
05:30:17BE INVESTIGATIONS BUT WE WILL NOT TAKE OUR EYE OFF THE BALL.
05:30:19NUMBER ONE, REDUCING COSTS AND ENDING CORRUPTION.
05:30:23>> [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:30:24SEN. SCHUMER: WE HAVE A
05:30:29BIPARTISAN GROUP WORKING ON
05:30:32PERMITTING REFORM, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL COME UP WITH --
05:30:36[INDISCERNIBLE]
05:30:40>> HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THOSE
05:30:43CANDIDATES WHO WON WHO SAID THEY WOULDN'T VOTE FOR YOU?
05:30:46SEN. SCHUMER: TO REPEAT THE
05:30:49ANSWER, THE ISSUE IS NOT ME.
05:30:54I WILL BE REELECTED AS MAJORITY LEADER.
05:30:58THE ISSUE IS FOCUSING ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WANT. [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:31:08HOST: I BELIEVE HE HAS DONE THIS TIME AROUND.
05:31:13TAKEAWAYS FROM THE EXTENDED VERSION? GUEST: REDUCE COSTS.
05:31:19TAMP DOWN CORRUPTION.
05:31:23IT'S GOING TO BE HARD FOR DEMOCRATS. TRUMP WILL BE STANDING IN THE
05:31:27WAY WITH THE VETO.
05:31:32INTERESTING NEXT FEW MONTHS TO SEE HOW DEMOCRATS APPROACH THE BALANCE.
05:31:39THEY HAVE TO REDUCE COSTS, STRIKE THE BALANCE WITH INVESTIGATIONS.
05:31:44IN THE FINAL FEW WEEKS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, DEMOCRATS WERE
05:31:47WARY TO TALK ABOUT CORRUPTION,
05:31:50TYING IT BACK TO DEMOCRACY, SORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
05:31:54TRUMP FAMILY, THROUGH THE COST-OF-LIVING ISSUE.
05:31:57WHAT THIS FAMILY IS DOING IS THE REASON WHY COSTS ARE SO HIGH FOR YOU.
05:32:01I COULD SEE A WAY WHERE THEY
05:32:03COULD WEASEL THAT IN, START TO
05:32:05DO INVESTIGATIONS SCHUMER TALKED ABOUT AND SAY THIS IS HOW WE ARE ADDRESSING THE ISSUE.
05:32:11IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY TO GET ANYTHING ACROSS THE LINE.
05:32:13HOST: YOU ARE WATCHING
05:32:20CONTINUING COVERAGE OF ELECTION
05:32:212026, THE MIDTERMS, PART OF 20
05:32:25HOURS OF COVERAGE HERE AND YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG ON OUR WEBSITE, OUR APP.
05:32:30YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO WHERE POWER STANDS.
05:32:34THE HOUSE AND SENATE WILL BE CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS NEXT
05:32:38YEAR. WE ARE WAITING FOR HAKEEM
05:32:41JEFFRIES TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THE
05:32:43HOUSE SIDE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST
05:32:46NIGHT AND WHAT IT MEANS GOING FORWARD.
05:32:48WHEN HE APPEARS, WE WILL TAKE THOSE COMMENTS LIVE IN TALK TO YOU.
05:32:54MARYLAND, GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR THOUGHT?
05:32:56CALLER: IN GOD WE TRUST.
05:33:00I THINK THIS COMES FROM THE TOP. WE NEED A BUDGET.
05:33:05GET A BUDGET. TOP TO BOTTOM.
05:33:13DON'T OVERSPEND.
05:33:16LET'S GET THIS DEBT IN FOCUS,
05:33:20FIND OUT HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH THE BUDGET AND THIS DEBT.
05:33:25THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT MONEY
05:33:27SPENDING AND THAT OTHER STUFF.
05:33:30BEFORE NOW, BEFORE THE DEMOCRATS
05:33:33GOT IN, AND WERE IN BEFORE, OK?
05:33:39THE UNEXPECTED, WE DEAL WITH A
05:33:42LOT OF ISSUES NOT FORESEEN.
05:33:44THIS CLIMATE CHANGE, AI STUFF, A
05:33:49BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF COMING DOWN THE PIKE.
05:33:55WE NEED TO PUT OUR MINDS WITH A MINDSET TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS AS WELL.
05:34:00JUST LIKE MR. SCHUMER SAID, I'M
05:34:01AGREEING WITH HIM, WE NEED TO
05:34:04BRING THE PEOPLE IN PERSPECTIVE
05:34:07ON HOW THEY ARE GOING TO CHANGE
05:34:11THIS.
05:34:15LET'S GET WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO
05:34:16DO FOR US, LET US GET IT
05:34:20TOGETHER, TOGETHER. HOST: WHETHER CHUCK SCHUMER OR
05:34:23THE STATE LEVEL, CAMPAIGNING IS ONE THING AND GOVERNING IS
05:34:27HARDER WHEN YOU'VE MADE PROMISES. GUEST: SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. [LAUGHTER]
05:34:32THE SENATE AND HOUSE HAVE TO DO THIS.
05:34:38GOVERNORS WHO DON'T HAVE A TRIFECTA WILL HAVE TO SET A REALITY CHECK WITH THEIR
05:34:42CONSTITUENTS. THESE ARE MY PROMISES, THESE ARE
05:34:45THE FACTORS I'M UP AGAINST.
05:34:47TRUMP'S VETO, A GOP STATE
05:34:51LEGISLATOR HERE. AT THE STATE LEVEL, THERE ARE
05:34:54EXECUTIVE ACTIONS GOVERNORS SAID THEY WANT TO TAKE.
05:34:58A LOT HAVE SAID THEY WANT TO CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON DATA
05:35:02CENTERS. A LOT OF THESE ISSUES THEY CAN
05:35:06DO IN STATES BUT A LOT OF THE
05:35:08AFFORDABILITY STUFF HAS TO BE DONE BY A STATE LEGISLATURE.
05:35:12HOST: MATT, VIRGINIA, DEMOCRAT.
05:35:15CALLER: THANK YOU.
05:35:24ORIGINALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC AGENDA.
05:35:26YOU MENTIONED JD VANCE'S POST.
05:35:33THEY HAVE GIVEN THE DEMOCRATS A
05:35:34GOOD OPPORTUNITY, ONE OF THE
05:35:37THINGS I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT --
05:35:40HOW ARE THE DEMOCRATS GOING TO DELIVER ON THE PROMISES TO LOWER COSTS?
05:35:45IT'S ALWAYS EASIER TO BE AGAINST SOMETHING THAN FOR SOMETHING.
05:35:48JD VANCE'S PRIMARILY MENTIONING
05:35:54THEY LOST BECAUSE OF ONE REASON AND THAT WAS THE WAR.
05:35:57HE SAID THAT IS ONE OF HIS PRIORITIES.
05:36:00IF I AM DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP, THE FIRST THING I DO IS PUT
05:36:05SOMETHING WHETHER A WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OR A VOTE FRONT AND CENTER.
05:36:10MENTIONED THAT THE VICE
05:36:11PRESIDENT AGREES, THAT THE WAR
05:36:14NEEDS TO END AND TIE THAT IN IN
05:36:15TERMS OF ENDING THE WAR AND HOW
05:36:18THAT COULD THEREBY LOWER PRICES FOR AMERICANS. PUT THAT FRONT AND CENTER.
05:36:26PUT THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICANS,
05:36:29DEMOCRATS ON RECORD AS HAVING TO VOTE RIGHT THERE.
05:36:34IT WOULD GIVE THEM SOMETHING
05:36:38TANGIBLE TO SHOW IF THEY COULD PASS THAT AND IT PUTS THE BALL
05:36:41-- THE SENATE COULD PASS THAT
05:36:45HOPEFULLY WITH THEIR NEW MAJORITY AS WELL. THEN YOU WOULD REALLY MAKE IT
05:36:49DIFFICULT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
05:36:51VETO SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHEN HIS OWN VICE PRESIDENT IS
05:36:55TALKING ABOUT THAT. TRUMP HIMSELF ALLUDED TO THE
05:37:00WAR, THAT THAT WAS AN ISSUE.
05:37:05THAT IS SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON. HOST: THANK YOU.
05:37:08GUEST: OUR CALLER MIGHT BE
05:37:12HAVING A SNEAK PEEK AT CHUCK SCHUMER'S PLAYBOOK.
05:37:15THIS WOULD BE AN INTERESTING MANEUVER.
05:37:19POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF CUTTING OFF FUNDING FOR THE WAR. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.
05:37:24TRUMP THINKS ABOUT HIMSELF A LOT.
05:37:26HE ALSO WANTS TO MAKE SURE REPUBLICANS HAVE A CHANCE AT WINNING 2028.
05:37:32HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH DO I WANT TO END THE WAR OR JEOPARDIZE JD VANCE?
05:37:37VERY BAD LOOK FOR VANCE IF HE
05:37:39HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SAYING THE REASON WHY COSTS ARE HIGH IS
05:37:42THE WAR AND WE WANT TO END IT AND YOUR OWN PRESIDENT WILL NOT
05:37:46SIGN THIS TO END IT.
05:37:49IT WOULD BE A PRECARIOUS POSITION FOR JD VANCE TO BE IN.
05:37:52TRUMP WILL HAVE TO WAY THAT.
05:37:53HOST: JOINING US FOR THE RIDE,
05:37:56IT WILL BE A PRECARIOUS
05:37:59SITUATION IF I DON'T GO BACK TO THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD
05:38:03PARTICULARLY FOR TAXES.
05:38:04JOHN: WHEN LAST WE TALKED, WE
05:38:11TALKED ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN GERRYMANDER IN 2024, THEN A
05:38:14SECOND SHOT IN NORTH CAROLINA AND HOW THAT CHANGED IT.
05:38:18THIS IS THE 2024 DISTRICTS IN NORTH CAROLINA, YOU CAN SEE HOW
05:38:23MUCH BLUER IT IS IN 2026. THE LONE STAR STATE.
05:38:27VERY HIGH-PROFILE REDISTRICTING.
05:38:31DID IT BACKFIRE?
05:38:33DID TEXAS NORTH CAROLINA ITSELF?
05:38:37JACOB: THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO
05:38:40HAVE NORTH CAROLINAD ITSELF.
05:38:43THEY GOT DANGEROUSLY CLOSE.
05:38:47THAT IS NOT TO SAY TEXAS HAS GONE WELL FOR REPUBLICANS.
05:38:50THEY LOST EVERY STATEWIDE RACE
05:38:52AND THEY WILL PROBABLY LOSE A
05:38:54HOUSE DISTRICT, DESPITE THE FACT
05:38:57THEY REDREW THE MAP TO PICK UP AS MANY AS FIVE SEATS.
05:39:00JOHN: NOT A GREAT NIGHT FOR REPUBLICANS.
05:39:03WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO HOLD ON?
05:39:05JACOB: LET'S LOOK AT HOUSTON.
05:39:11COUPLE DISTRICTS, THE SECOND DISTRICT, THIS CAME ONLINE LATE.
05:39:15CLOSED POLLING. THE OPEN DAN CRENSHAW SEAT.
05:39:20TOTH AHEAD OF FINNIE BY TWO
05:39:25POINTS.
05:39:26JOHN: NEXT DOOR IS THE 38TH READ
05:39:29JACOB: BONCK WILL BE THE NEXT
05:39:34REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN HERE.
05:39:37THEY REDREW THIS IN 2022 TO BE SOLID REPUBLICAN.
05:39:40THEN THEY LOST THE GOP PRIMARY. THREE POINT VICTORY IN A
05:39:44DISTRICT THAT WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP BY 21 POINTS TWO YEARS AGO.
05:39:48JOHN: THE DISTRICTS THAT TOUCH
05:39:54SUBURBAN DALLAS, THE FIFTH.
05:39:55JACOB: TEXAS FIVE, TRUMP PLUS 22
05:40:01SEAT, NOT ON ANYONE'S RADAR.
05:40:04LOOKING FOR THE UNCALLED RACE,
05:40:07GOOD AND AHEAD BY JUST 7000 VOTES, A MARGIN OF 3%.
05:40:10JOHN: ONE OF THOSE DISTRICTS
05:40:12THAT TOUCHES WHAT BECAME A BLUE
05:40:15PART OF THE STATE LAST NIGHT, THE 27TH.
05:40:18JACOB: MICHAEL CLOUD, ANOTHER
05:40:22TRUMP PLUS 21 SEAT, HE'S UP BY
05:40:25JUST TWO AND A HALF POINTS, ANOTHER UNCALLED RACE.
05:40:27JOHN: WHY NOT GO BACK TO DALLAS?
05:40:30JACOB: JACE YARBOROUGH AHEAD BY
05:40:34THREE POINTS OF DAN BARRIOS,
05:40:37ANOTHER RACE THAT REPUBLICANS STARTED SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY
05:40:40ON IN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, THE CLUB FOR GROWTH SPENT SEVERAL MILLIONS.
05:40:45THE STORY OF WHY TEXAS REPUBLICANS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE
05:40:49TO HOLD ON IS BECAUSE THEIR CANDIDATES HAD SO MUCH MONEY AS WELL AS THE PARTISANSHIP.
05:40:55TEXAS 32, A TRUMP PLUS 18 DISTRICT.
05:41:00REPUBLICANS WILL DROP A SEAT AND LOSE THE NINTH IN HOUSTON.
05:41:04COUPLE POINTS WORSE FOR THEM AND THEY COULD HAVE LOST ANOTHER SIX
05:41:09DISTRICTS, BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE DOWN THERE, BACK TO HOUSTON, THE
05:41:13NAILS SEAT, USED TO BE TROY
05:41:16NEHLS, NOW IT IS HIS IDENTICAL
05:41:20TWIN BROTHER TREVOR NELS, RUNNING FOR THIS. HE'S UP BY THREE POINTS.
05:41:26UNINSPIRING REPUBLICAN VICTORIES IN SIX DISTRICTS THAT VOTED FOR
05:41:30TRUMP BY A MARGIN OF 18 POINTS OR MORE.
05:41:32THAT IS THE STORY OF TEXAS,
05:41:35STRUGGLING TO HOLD ONTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTS OF THE STATE.
05:41:38JOHN: THAT IS TEXAS.
05:41:41WE HAVE BEEN TELLING STORIES THROUGHOUT THE MORNING OF ALL THESE STATES.
05:41:45HOST: THANKS.
05:41:49SEAN, COLORADO, REPUBLICAN LINE. THANKS FOR WAITING.
05:41:53CALLER: NO WORRIES. WHAT'S UP PEDRO?
05:41:59SAD DAY FOR AMERICA. YOU ARE LIKE KIDS ON CHRISTMAS.
05:42:04THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT PUSHED THE DEMOCRATS OVER THE LINE.
05:42:0970 IS A MEMBERS IN, ABDUL, OMAR
05:42:14WINNING EVEN THOUGH SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER AND STOLE MILLIONS AND SHE STILL WINS.
05:42:18THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OBAMA
05:42:22IMPORTS THOUSANDS OF SOMALIANS AND WE HAVE MAIL-IN VOTING.
05:42:25I WAS AT LINE IN THE POLLS IN COLORADO.
05:42:27I SWEAR TO GOD, THEY CALLED IT
05:42:321% AND PEOPLE WERE STILL IN LINE.
05:42:34THEY CALLED THE COLORADO ELECTION. THESE BLUE CITIES ARE STEALING
05:42:38STATES. ONE STATE AFTER ANOTHER, THEY STEAL IT.
05:42:44THE MAIL-IN VOTING GOES ON FOR MONTHS AND WEEKS.
05:42:47I HAVE A HOME IN EUROPE. FLORIDA IS A GREAT STATE.
05:42:52EUROPE IS DESTROYED. THESE KIDS, CHARLIE KIRK WAS RIGHT.
05:42:57THESE KIDS ARE INDOCTRINATED. POLITICS ARE DESTROYING THEIR MINDS.
05:43:01SAD DAY FOR AMERICA.
05:43:02HOST: DAVID, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, INDEPENDENT.
05:43:06CALLER: THANK YOU.
05:43:11ABOLISH AND PROSECUTE I.C.E.,
05:43:18ZIONISM IS RACIST AND GENOCIDAL.
05:43:18THE ELECTION LAST NIGHT WAS A
05:43:22VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS.
05:43:27THEY DO NOT PROPOSE AN OPPOSITION PARTY TO THE FASCIST
05:43:30RISING IN AMERICA.
05:43:34CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES NEED TO GO. THEY LACK LEADERSHIP.
05:43:38THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN THERE TO BE THE ANTI-TRUMP.
05:43:40THEY ABSOLUTELY ARE LIFTING US
05:43:44UP TO LET US GO AGAIN AND I
05:43:44FULLY SUPPORT ABSOLUTELY A LARGE
05:43:50SOCIALIST WORKING PARTY MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
05:43:53WE NEED TO OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION. THE RESULTS OF LAST NIGHTS
05:43:58ELECTION, MERELY WE DON'T LIKE WHAT TRUMP IS DOING.
05:44:02BOTH PARTIES HAVE ABSOLUTELY BEEN LETTING US DOWN.
05:44:06THE FOUNDING FATHERS, EVEN
05:44:09THOUGH THEY WERE SLAVE OWNERS AND ABHORRENT PEOPLE, TOLD US
05:44:14THAT THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM MAKES US NATIONALISTIC, TO FOCUS ON IDOLATRY.
05:44:19WE NEED A THIRD PARTY SYSTEM, RANK CHOICE VOTING MOVING FORWARD.
05:44:24WE NEED TO CELEBRATE THE WIN BUT THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ACROSS
05:44:28THE NATION NEED TO NOT JUST
05:44:31STAND AGAINST I.C.E., USE THEIR
05:44:38POLICE FORCES TO OPPOSE THEM PHYSICALLY.
05:44:39WE HAVE MAST FIGURES MOVING THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND KILLING US.
05:44:43HOST: DAVID IN CHICAGO WASN'T
05:44:48THE FIRST WANT TO MENTION ON THE
05:44:48DEMOCRATIC SIDE THAT THE LEADERS
05:44:52SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES HAVE TO GO. WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT HAPPENING?
05:44:56GUEST: THEY ARE BOTH SAFE TO
05:44:59HAVE THEIR RESPECTIVE
05:45:03POSITIONS. WE SAW CANDIDATES ON BOTH SIDES SAYING THEY WOULD NOT BACK THEN
05:45:08BUT THEIR MARGINS ARE COMFORTABLE.
05:45:12JEFFRIES, IF HE HAD A DOZEN OR
05:45:14SO MARGIN OVER THE REPUBLICANS,
05:45:17MIGHT HAVE BEEN TESTY WITH THESE PROGRESSIVE DSA CANDIDATES.
05:45:21WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING UPWARDS OF
05:45:23250, THAT NULLIFIES THIS WING OF THE PARTY IN OPPOSING HIM FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP.
05:45:27HOST: RUDY, CALIFORNIA, HAKEEM
05:45:32JEFFRIES WAITING, DEMOCRAT LINE.
05:45:35CALLER: HOW YOU DOING PEDRO AND
05:45:39ABIGAIL? I HAVE A GRANDDAUGHTER, I CALLER ABBY.
05:45:44SENATOR SCHUMER HAS THE RIGHT IDEA.
05:45:48DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH
05:45:51IMPEACHMENT OR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS.
05:45:55THEY DON'T PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE
05:45:57OR GAS IN THE CAR, TAKE CARE OF HEALTH CARE AND CHILDCARE.
05:46:00FOR ME, THE DEMOCRATS BETTER
05:46:06RECOGNIZE IMPEACHMENT AND THAT STUFF IS NOT GOING TO DO THEM
05:46:10GOOD. THANK YOU.
05:46:13HOST: HOW LONG DO HONEYMOON
05:46:16PERIODS LAST IN THESE
05:46:20SITUATIONS?
05:46:21GUEST: NOT LONG AND NOT WHEN
05:46:24PRICES ARE THIS HIGH.
05:46:27VOTERS WANT TO SEE DEMOCRATS IN POWER. THEY WANT TO SEE PRICES LOWERED.
05:46:31THERE IS SKEPTICISM OVER TRUMP
05:46:351, LOOKING AT THE MOVES DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER THE
05:46:38ANTI-MAGA.
05:46:41VOTERS WANTED MORE FROM THEM, TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR.
05:46:46THAT IS THE TASK AT HAND FOR DEMOCRATS AHEAD OF 2028.
05:46:51MAYBE THAT TAKES COMPROMISING WITH TRUMP TO GET THINGS ACROSS
05:46:54THE LINE, TO LOWER COSTS AND END THE WAR IN IRAN.
05:46:59IT WILL BE HARD FOR DEMOCRATS TO GET THIS DONE WITH A DIVIDED
05:47:02GOVERNMENT. HOST: MARY, OHIO, REPUBLICAN
05:47:06LINE. CALLER: THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH THE PREVIOUS
05:47:11CALLER, IMPEACHMENT WILL PUT FOOD ON ANYONE STABLE.
05:47:14I AGREE WITH THE CALLER FROM MARYLAND ABOUT THE BUDGET BEING SO IMPORTANT.
05:47:20FIND IT INTERESTING CHUCK SCHUMER REFERENCED THE POWER OF THE PURSE, WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE
05:47:25WAR, BUT 12 TIMES A YEAR BOTH
05:47:29PARTIES REFUSED TO DO THEIR JOB AND THEY AVOID PASSING BUDGET
05:47:33BILLS AND THAT IS THEIR PRIMARY FUNCTION.
05:47:34AS FOR THE BLUE WAVE, I HOPE IT
05:47:38PRODUCES SOMETHING POSITIVE. MAYBE IT WILL FORCE COMPROMISE.
05:47:43I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE ALL THAT LIFE-CHANGING.
05:47:46PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS LIKE CLINTON, OBAMA AND GEORGE BUSH
05:47:51FACED OPPOSITION PARTIES AND THE CONGRESS AND SOMETIMES IT CAN LEAD TO A GRIDLOCK AS WELL.
05:47:56I'M HOPING FOR THE BEST BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING WE
05:47:59WANT CHANGE, WE ARE TIRED OF
05:48:03GRANDSTANDING, OF THE POLITICAL AND DECISION.
05:48:07WE WANT SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR EVERYONE. HOST: A SIMILAR THEME.
05:48:12PEOPLE WANT PEOPLE TO OWN UP TO WHAT THEY PROMISED.
05:48:14GUEST: AS WE HAVE SEEN IN MANY
05:48:17CONGRESS IS A RECENT, FEWER
05:48:20BILLS INTRODUCED IN PAST BUT THEY ARE VERY LARGE BILLS.
05:48:276 MILLION LEGISLATIVE WORDS PER CONGRESS, FEWER NUMBER OF BILLS.
05:48:31WE WILL PROBABLY SEE BIG BUDGET BILLS.
05:48:33HOST: SO-CALLED REGULAR ORDER, I
05:48:37GUESS THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.
05:48:40WHETHER THEY DELIVER ON IT IS ANOTHER THING.
05:48:42CLIFF, THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA, A
05:48:47CLOSE WATCH AREA, INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: HI, GLAD TO BE ABLE TO TALK.
05:48:52I'M IN THE VILLAGES.
05:48:59I'M NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING HOW
05:49:02THE AFFORDABILITY PART CANNOT BE
05:49:06SOMETHING THE DEMOCRATS THAT'S
05:49:08WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IS IN
05:49:12FLORIDA, WE PASSED AMENDMENT THREE, WHICH IS GOING TO LOWER OUR PROPERTY TAXES.
05:49:17THERE'S A LOT OF EFFORTS HERE TO GET RID OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE.
05:49:21I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE GAS PART.
05:49:25MOST OF WHAT I COULD SEE, THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING ON IS THE WAR
05:49:29IS BAD AND THAT IS INCREASING OR GAS PRICES.
05:49:33I THINK THEY WERE THE SAME PARTY THAT BLOCKED THE KEYSTONE
05:49:38PIPELINE, THEY HIT OFFSHORE DRILLING, THEY STOPPED ALASKA
05:49:43ENERGY, GRID LINE FIVE AND THEY
05:49:46DRAINED THE OIL RESERVES. I'M WONDERING WHAT THEY REALLY
05:49:51BELIEVE, ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN
05:49:55IS GOING TO DO TO LOWER GAS
05:49:58PRICES, WHEN WE ARE REDUCING THE NUMBER OF REFINERIES?
05:50:02WE ARE NOT PRODUCING, A COUNTRY
05:50:06INDEPENDENT OF OIL AGAIN. WE ARE GOING IN REVERSE.
05:50:08I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY PLAN ON
05:50:13REDUCING COSTS TO THE CONSUMER.
05:50:16HOST: WHEN YOU ARE VOTING FOR
05:50:19GOVERNOR, IF I MAY ASK, WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?
05:50:22CALLER: HE WAS NOT MY FIRST
05:50:27ELECTION BUT HE ENDED UP BEING A REPUBLICAN.
05:50:32DONALD. HOST: THAT WAS CLIFF.
05:50:39WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY, BYRON DONALDS?
05:50:43GUEST: ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS
05:50:47THAT EMERGED IN THIS WAS HURRICANE INSURANCE.
05:50:50WE SEE MORE HURRICANES. THEY BECOME MORE DISASTROUS YEAR
05:50:54AFTER YEAR. FLORIDIANS ARE HAVING TO DEAL WITH THIS.
05:50:58THAT IS SOMETHING HE MAY HAVE TO TAKE UP AS WELL.
05:51:00HOST: SOME GOVERNORS HAVE TO
05:51:04DEAL WITH BALLOT INITIATIVES, ESPECIALLY VIRGINIA.
05:51:08WHAT DO THOSE TELL US ABOUT THE SENTIMENT PEOPLE HAD?
05:51:11GUEST: I COVERED SOME OF THE
05:51:17ABORTION RELATED BALLOT MEASURES, VIRGINIA, NEVADA,
05:51:21IDAHO, MISSOURI.
05:51:25MISSOURI, THIS MEASURE WOULD REPEAL THE CONSTITUTIONAL
05:51:28AMENDMENT PASSED IN 2024 TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS.
05:51:31THERE WAS A GOP LED EFFORT FROM
05:51:35THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO NULLIFY THAT AND VOTERS REJECTED IT.
05:51:38ABORTION RIGHTS WEREN'T SUCCESSFUL ALL OVER THE BALLOT.
05:51:42IDAHO HAD A MEASURE, IT WAS NOT
05:51:46CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. IT WAS MORE STATUTORY.
05:51:50IT WOULD BE PUT INTO LAW TO ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS BUT
05:51:53VOTERS REJECTED THAT.
05:51:56VIRGINIA AND NEVADA BOTH HAVE THE STATUTORY RIGHT TO ABORTION
05:51:59BUT THEY BOTH ENSHRINED THAT IN THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS LAST NIGHT.
05:52:02HOST: HAKEEM JEFFRIES EXPECTED
05:52:07MOMENTARILY, AT LEAST BY NOON.
05:52:09RICK,, ILLINOIS, REPUBLICAN LINE.
05:52:12CALLER: HOW YOU DOING?
05:52:15JUST HAPPY THE PEOPLE SPOKE TO
05:52:19THE COUNTRY.
05:52:25LET THE REPUBLICANS TAKE A COUPLE YEARS OFF.
05:52:29[INDISCERNIBLE]
05:52:32ALL THIS STUFF GOING ON IN THE WHITE HOUSE --
05:52:36HOST: ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?
05:52:40CALLER: REPUBLICAN.
05:52:43I VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS LAST NIGHT.
05:52:46I WANT CHANGE.
05:52:51[INDISCERNIBLE]
05:52:53I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT I DID VOTE
05:52:57DEMOCRAT BUT I JUST WANT
05:52:59EVERYONE TO KNOW, LET THE PEOPLE
05:53:05DO THEIR JOB THAT GOT IN.
05:53:07HOST: WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR SPECIFICALLY?
05:53:11CALLER: CHANGE, GETTING FOOD ON
05:53:17THE TABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE MONEY.
05:53:20PEOPLE WORKING THREE JOBS A WEEK. IT IS SAD OUT THERE.
05:53:30I SAW WHAT WAS GOING ON THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
05:53:32YOU NEVER HEAR [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:53:40-- IN THE HOUSE BECAUSE EVERY
05:53:42TIME DONALD TRUMP SAID DO IT, THEY DO IT.
05:53:49I SAW HOW EVERYTHING WAS GOING. [INDISCERNIBLE]
05:53:55I DID IT.
05:53:57HOST: OK.
05:53:59CALLER: I'M JUST HAPPY AND I
05:54:03HOPE THEY LET REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS DO THEIR JOBS.
05:54:07HOST: THANK YOU.
05:54:08GUEST: ONE OF THE BEST CASES
05:54:11THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED FOR REPUBLICANS LAST NIGHT IS THERE VOTERS STAYED HOME.
05:54:17THIS IS A REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED DEMOCRATIC.
05:54:20THAT'S THE REASON WE ARE SEEING SUCH A BIG WAVE HERE.
05:54:23THE PROBLEM REPUBLICANS FACED --
05:54:27THEY WANTED TO GET VOTERS TO THE POLLS AND VOTE REPUBLICAN.
05:54:32SOME REPUBLICAN VOTERS WERE SO DISILLUSIONED, THEY WENT OUT AND VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS.
05:54:36HOST: WE WILL LEARN ABOUT
05:54:39TURNOUT IN THE DAYS AHEAD. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE
05:54:43WHAT FACTORS KEPT PEOPLE HOME OR
05:54:46CAUSED THEM TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE. THAT WILL BE AND WHAT YOU COVER?
05:54:50GUEST: SOME STATES, REPUBLICANS
05:54:54HAD TO TURN OUT TO DELIVER DEMOCRATS A VICTORY. IOWA.
05:55:00REPUBLICANS HAVE A HEAVY VOTER REGISTRATION ADVANTAGE HERE.
05:55:04ROB STAND MADE A UNIQUE APPEAL.
05:55:07HE WOULD OPEN RALLIES WITH EVERYONE SINGING AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.
05:55:12EVERYONE WOULD CLAP FOR REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AND
05:55:16INDEPENDENTS. HE WAS ABLE TO WIN THEM OVER BECAUSE OF HIS MESSAGE.
05:55:22CALLERS SAID THEY WERE TIRED OF THE DIVISIVENESS IN THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.
05:55:28SAND IS A DEMOCRAT BECAUSE HE HAS TO BE.
05:55:30HE'S CRITICIZED BOTH PARTIES AND HE DOESN'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE
05:55:34A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.
05:55:34HOST: ANGELA, ALABAMA, DEMOCRAT.
05:55:38CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
05:55:41FEDERAL EMPLOYEE UNDER DOD.
05:55:46I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME, HER
05:55:51THOUGHTS ABOUT FEDERAL WORKERS TURNING OUT FOR THE ELECTION.
05:55:56LIVE IN ALABAMA.
05:56:03I KNOW SHOMARI FIGURES DID WIN
05:56:07THE GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT.
05:56:13WON MORE STATEHOUSES IN ALABAMA.
05:56:18IF SHE COULD EXPOUND ON THAT. HOST: THANKS.
05:56:20GUEST: STATEHOUSES I'M NOT SURE
05:56:23BUT I KNOW DEMOCRATS HAD A
05:56:26VICTORIOUS WAVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN FLIPPING STATE LEGISLATIVE SEATS.
05:56:29ON FEDERAL WORKERS, WE DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS YET.
05:56:34I DON'T KNOW IF WE COLLECT THOSE DEMOGRAPHICS.
05:56:392025, FEDERAL WORKERS, DOGE
05:56:44PLAYED HEAVILY INTO THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL RACE.
05:56:47MANY WERE DISGRUNTLED.
05:56:51ON SHOMARI FIGURES DISTRICT, THIS IS ONE OF THE STATES
05:56:55REPUBLICANS REDREW AND IT BACKFIRED. THEY SPENT MILLIONS.
05:56:59THEY REDUCED THE BLACK VOTING
05:57:04POPULATION TO AROUND 40% I THINK.
05:57:06THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES
05:57:09REPUBLICANS TRIED AND FAILED TO DRAW A DEMOCRAT OUT.
05:57:13ONE OF THE REASONS DEMOCRATS
05:57:16WERE SO SUCCESSFUL IN SOME OF THESE REDRAWN DISTRICTS WERE
05:57:20BECAUSE THEIR REPRESENTATIVES DIDN'T ALL RETIRE.
05:57:23KATHY CASTOR, SOTO, FIGURES.
05:57:29IT HELPS TO HAVE THE INCUMBENCY ADVANTAGE.
05:57:30HOST: 54 SEATS PICKED UP BY
05:57:34DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE, SEVEN PICKUPS OVERALL.
05:57:38228 IN THE HOUSE, 25 PICKUPS.
05:57:43WHAT ARE THE STORIES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPORTING IN THE DAYS AHEAD?
05:57:46GUEST: I LOVE MY STATES.
05:57:49I'M A LITTLE BIASED.
05:57:51INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THE
05:57:53SURPRISE GAINS DEMOCRATS MADE AT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
05:57:59THEY ARE DECLARING VICTORY IN TEXAS, NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
05:58:04I DON'T KNOW IF AP HAS CALLED ALL THE NUMBERS YET.
05:58:07THERE'S A STORY TO BE TOLD ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS TRIED TO INVEST AT
05:58:11THE STATE LEVEL FOLLOWING REPUBLICANS HAVING SUCH A HEAVY
05:58:15HOLD OVER STATE LEGISLATORS AFTER THEIR 2010 INITIATIVE.
05:58:19HOST: WHAT WAS THE SURPRISE OF THE NIGHT FOR GOVERNORS RACES?
05:58:24GUEST: ABSOLUTELY TEXAS.
05:58:29BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WERE WARY OF SAYING ANYTHING.
05:58:33DEMOCRATS DIDN'T WANT TO PUSH THIS TO THE FOREFRONT.
05:58:37THEY'VE TRIED AND FAILED TO UNSEAT ABBOTT BEFORE. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE TOO
05:58:41HOPEFUL.
05:58:45THERE WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST CAMPAIGNS OF A DEMOCRAT I SAW IN THE FIELD THIS CYCLE.
05:58:50SHE KNEW ABOUT THE ISSUES. SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT DATA
05:58:53CENTERS, CAMERAS AND BIG TECH THAT HAS COME TO TEXAS.
05:58:59THE ROLE OF BILLIONAIRES. SHE WAS ABLE TO TAP INTO THE
05:59:04PSYCHE, THIS GROWING FEAR OF THE ROLE OF BILLIONAIRES AND BIG TECH.
05:59:08HOST: THESE ARE ISSUES PEOPLE
05:59:11CAN RELATE TO RATHER THAN LARGER POLICY ISSUES.
05:59:13GUEST: WHEN I TALKED TO PEOPLE
05:59:17WHO WORK ON THE TECH SIDE AND STRATEGISTS, THEY SAY THE
05:59:21DATACENTER ISSUE WORKS SO WELL BECAUSE YOU SEE THEM IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
05:59:25IT'S A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF
05:59:26THE FEARS AMERICA HAS HAD ABOUT
05:59:30THE GROWING ROLE OF TACK AND BILLIONAIRES.
05:59:33HOST: YOU ARE WATCHING COVERAGE
05:59:35OF ELECTION
05:59:39>> MONDAY AMERICA'S LEADING TELEVISION CALL-IN PROGRAM,
05:59:43C-SPAN'S "WASHINGTON JOURNAL," COMES TO PRIMETIME LIVE.
05:59:46>> MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE. >> I TRUST YOU GUYS COMPLETELY.
05:59:49>> EVERY MORNING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS.
05:59:53>> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS.
05:59:55>> NOW THAT CONVERSATION WILL ALSO COME TO PRIMETIME.
05:59:58>> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT THERE.
06:00:02>> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" PRIMETIME WEEKNIGHTS STARTING
06:00:04MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN.
06:00:07>> NOW MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
06:00:10COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
06:00:13VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS.
06:00:16THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
06:00:20SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
06:00:23WE BRINGING YOU THE LATEST ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE
06:00:27REACTIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE
06:00:28RACES TO WATCH.
06:00:32C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR
06:00:33FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION
06:00:37NIGHT. >> WHEN IT COMES TO THE BALANCE OF POWER WE KNOW DEMOCRATS WILL
06:00:39CONTROL THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN THE NEXT CONGRESS.
06:00:42TWO RACES STILL ON THE SENATE SIDE THAT WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE
06:00:45ON OVER THE NEXT DAYS.
06:00:47OUT OF MISSISSIPPI THAT WE HAVE
06:00:50SHOWN YOU BEFORE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS, SCOTT COLOM
06:00:55STILL WITH 48.9% WITH THE VOTES IN.
06:00:59A TIE,