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00:00:02TO PRIME TIME.
00:00:03>> THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT
00:00:07THERE.
00:00:07>> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" PRIME
00:00:12TIME STARTING WEEKNIGHTS AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN. >> THE MIDTERM ELECTION
00:00:16RESULTS. THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE
00:00:18BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
00:00:20SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
00:00:23FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
00:00:27CANDIDATE ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
00:00:30CAMPAIGN 2020 SIX IS YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
00:00:40HOST: THIS IS THE COVERAGE, 20
00:00:44HOURS IN TOTAL, TWO HOURS LEFT UNTIL NOON AS WE CONTINUE ON
00:00:49SHOWING YOU THE LATEST IN RESULTS.
00:00:53GIVE ANALYSIS AS WELL.
00:00:58KEEP CALLING UNTIL NOON.
00:00:59(202) 748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:01:03REPUBLICANS, (202) 748-8001.
00:01:08INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002.
00:01:12THIS TELLS THE TALE OF WHERE WE STAND.
00:01:1454 SEATS IN THE SENATE CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS. SEVEN PICKUPS AS A RESULT OF
00:01:19THAT.
00:01:20ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, 44 SEATS
00:01:25.
00:01:25IN THE HOUSE, 280, 220 EIGHT
00:01:31SEATS CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS. 100 39 CLAIMED BY REPUBLICANS.
00:01:35THAT WILL CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE MORNING.
00:01:37YOU COULD CONTINUE MONITORING THE AIR AS WE GET THAT
00:01:41INFORMATION PLUS OTHER INFORMATION ON THE LATEST RESULT AS WELL.
00:01:44IT IS A DASHBOARD OF SORTS BUT
00:01:46NOT THE DASHBOARD THAT WE HAVE BEEN HIGHLIGHTING.
00:01:54GAINED AND MANAGED. TAKE IT AWAY.
00:01:55>> LET'S GO OVER IT.
00:01:59YOU MENTIONED IT, IT COULD GO AS
00:02:06HIGH AS NINE SEATS BY THE TIME IT IS SAID AND DONE.
00:02:09WE TALKED ABOUT JUST HOW CLOSE MISSISSIPPI IS.
00:02:12LET'S CHECK IN ON ALASKA THAT HAS TURNED BACK TO BLUE.
00:02:20MEANING MARY PELTOLA IS BACK AHEAD.
00:02:2474% EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF THE VOTE OUT.
00:02:27WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE LATEST NUMBERS?
00:02:31>> IT'S HARD NOT TO GET EXCITED
00:02:35WE KNOW THIS COULD BE HEADING
00:02:37TOWARDS CHOICE VOTING
00:02:43TABULATION. THAT HAPPENS IF NO CANDIDATE
00:02:45ENDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTE. WE HAVE PELTOLA, SENATOR
00:02:50SULLIVAN, WE HAVE THE REPUBLICAN
00:02:54AND TEACHER DAN SULLIVAN.
00:02:56>> EXACTLY.
00:02:58>> I EXPECT THESE TWO WILL TRADE
00:03:03BACK AND FORTH OVER THE COMING DAYS AND POTENTIALLY WEEKS.
00:03:06MARY PELTOLA DOES VERY WELL OUT
00:03:09OF THE MORE RURAL, REMOTE PARTS OF ALASKA.
00:03:12SHE WOULD BE THE FIRST ALASKAN NATIVE SENATOR.
00:03:16WHERE THE RURAL AND MORE OUTWARD
00:03:21AREAS.
00:03:23>> ALASKA IS AN INTERESTING
00:03:27STATE. THE POLITICS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT OUT THERE.
00:03:32YOU MENTIONED THE MORE OUTER
00:03:33LYING PARTS OF THE STATE AGAIN
00:03:37SIGNIFICANT POPULATIONS. THOSE ARE THE MORE DEMOCRATIC AREAS.
00:03:43THEY COULD GENEROUSLY BE CALLED THE ANCHORAGE SUBURBS.
00:03:48IT IS PROBABLY LARGER THAN A COUPLE OF STATES.
00:03:54FAIRBANKS, THE OTHER REPUBLICAN
00:03:58STRONGHOLD IN ALASKA.
00:04:03REPUBLICANS DO WELL IN THE RURAL AREAS.
00:04:06>> CHECK ON THE HOUSE RACE FOR
00:04:10US IN ALASKA.
00:04:10>> DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY GOT BEHIND
00:04:16AN INDEPENDENT, BILL HILL, A
00:04:22TEACHER. HE CURRENTLY TRAILS THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN.
00:04:27BEAT MARY PELTOLA BY ABOUT NINE POINTS.
00:04:31KIND OF A BLACK SHEEP IN HIS FAMILY.
00:04:37THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY THE FIRST
00:04:43FAMILY FAMILY OF ALASKA. DIED IN A PLANE CRASH AS IT IS
00:04:47UNFORTUNATELY TOO COMMON IN ALASKA.
00:04:53FROM 2009 THROUGH 2015.
00:04:57HE LOOKS LIKE HE IS IN DECENT POSITION.
00:05:01INCLUDING A DEMOCRAT WHO HAS
00:05:07NEVER BEEN TO ALASKA BUT IS SERVING FEDERAL TIME.
00:05:12HE GOT ON THE BALLOT. HE IS A PERENNIAL CANDIDATE.
00:05:19IT MIGHT WORK OUT FOR NICK BEGICH.
00:05:23>> THE LAST FRONTIER, WE ARE
00:05:27WATCHING A LOT OF ONE CALLED HOUSE RACES FROM THE LAST FRONTIER TO THE CIVIL STATE.
00:05:32TAKE US TO THAT MASSIVE NORTHERN NEVADA DISTRICT.
00:05:37>> NEVADA2, THIS DISTRICT IS
00:05:44AROUND YOUR AGE.
00:05:48A LITTLE YOUNGER.
00:05:491982 IS THE FIRST TIME THIS NORTHERN NEVADA SEAT WAS UP FOR GRABS.
00:05:56WE HAVE WASHOE COUNTY, RENO IS THE DOMINANT CITY.
00:05:59DEMOCRATS WHEN THEY DREW THIS CONGRESSIONAL MAP DREW THIS
00:06:04DISTRICT TO BE A REPUBLICAN VOTE SINK.
00:06:09A VOTE SINK IS WHERE YOU PUT ALL
00:06:11OF THE VOTES FROM A PARTY.
00:06:17WE HAVE LAS VEGAS DOWN THERE.
00:06:21THREE DISTRICTS TOUCH LAS VEGAS.
00:06:23THE FIRST, THIRD, FOURTH ALL TOUCH LAS VEGAS.
00:06:29THEY ARE ALL DEMOCRATIC LEANING DISTRICTS.
00:06:32NEVADA IS PRETTY EVENLY FUNDED STATE.
00:06:35THE ANSWER IS IN THE SECOND DISTRICT.
00:06:39THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SEED THAT REPUBLICANS WIN.
00:06:47TERESA BONITA S THOMPSON, THE
00:06:48DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS SIX POINTS AHEAD.
00:06:54SHE'S ALSO A FORMER MISS NEVADA. SHE'S A VERY GOOD POLITICIAN.
00:07:01CONVERSELY HE HAD SOME ISSUES. HE BEAT THE ESTABLISHMENT
00:07:05CANDIDATE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.
00:07:10TRUMP-ENDORSED FLIP OH OVER THE GOVERNOR.
00:07:17HE BECAME DEATHLY POSE -- DAVE
00:07:27FLIPPO'S WORST NIGHTMARE. HE VOTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE IN THE RACE.
00:07:31SHE IS GETTING ABOUT 5% OF THE VOTE.
00:07:36>> 6%.
00:07:40MAYBE IT DIDN'T MATTER. MIGHT HAVE WON THE MAJORITY ANYWAY.
00:07:47THE FACT THEY TAKE THESE REPUBLICAN VOTERS CLEARLY HURTING.
00:07:50>> LET'S HEAD TO ARIZONA IN ONE
00:07:57OF THOSE MASSIVE RURAL DISTRICTS.
00:07:59>> WE HAVE A VERY CLOSE RACE,
00:08:03JUST 86 VOTES SEPARATE THE
00:08:06DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
00:08:09>> 80% OF THE VOTES IN.
00:08:19IN THAT SAME DISTRICT, SAME
00:08:21CANDIDATES, ELI CRANE WON BY NINE POINTS.
00:08:28NOW WINNING BY 0.1%.
00:08:32A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE NAVAJO
00:08:34NATION WHICH HAS A HEALTHY PRESENCE.
00:08:38IT WILL BE A PICK UP IF IT HOLDS.
00:08:42TALK ABOUT THE SIX DISTRICT OF ARIZONA.
00:08:43>> A TUCSON BASED DISTRICT.
00:08:51ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN RISING
00:08:52STARS IN THE STATE, A FORMER AID
00:08:55WHO LED THE STATE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
00:08:58HE WON A VERY CLOSE ELECTION IN
00:09:032020 TWO, A CLOSE ELECTION IN 2024 AGAINST THE SAME OPPONENT.
00:09:08PREVIOUSLY NOMINATED A LIBERAL WHITE COLLEGE PROFESSOR TO RUN
00:09:12AGAINST.
00:09:14THIS TIME THEY RAN A MARINE
00:09:18DRILL INSTRUCTOR, SHE IS WINNING
00:09:22BY ABOUT EIGHT POINTS WITH 80% OF THE VOTE IN.
00:09:27GIVEN HOW THE NIGHT IS GOING FOR DEMOCRATS I WOULDN'T BE
00:09:30SURPRISED IF SHE GETS THE CALL.
00:09:32>> WHAT IS GOING ON IN ARIZONA,
00:09:35IS IT THE FIRST DISTRICT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT?
00:09:37>> THIS IS SCOTTSDALE, A
00:09:41WEALTHY, HIGHLY EDUCATED SEAT.
00:09:44OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS,
00:09:48CONGRESSMAN DAVE SCHWEIKERT, HE GOT MENTIONED IN THE SAME BREATH.
00:09:54EVEN WHEN THEIR DISTRICTS WERE
00:09:56VOTING, THEY FOUND A WAY TO HOLD ON.
00:10:01>> EVEN AS SUSAN COLLINS HEADS
00:10:06TO DEFEAT, SHE HAS EARNED HER
00:10:08PLACE WITH THE JOE MANCHIN'S AND
00:10:12THE JON TESTER'S.
00:10:14DAVE SCHWEIKERT BY LEAVING THIS
00:10:17SEAT OPEN HAS CREATED THE
00:10:20CONDITIONS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE WHO VIEWERS MIGHT KNOW
00:10:25BETTER.
00:10:26THE FORMER NFL PLAYER KICKER,
00:10:30PLAYED FOR THE CARDINALS, AS WELL AS ANOTHER -- A NUMBER OF OTHER TEAMS.
00:10:37ONE OF SEVERAL DEMOCRATIC DOCTORS.
00:10:39FROM THE GRAND CANYON STATE.
00:10:42LET'S CHECK ON THINGS IN THE CENTENNIAL STATE.
00:10:45THE TWO DISTRICTS OF THE OTHER'' LINE.
00:10:49LET'S START WITH LAUREN BOEBERT'S DISTRICT.
00:10:50>> SHE CURRENTLY TRAILS EILEEN
00:10:54LA BACHER BY ABOUT 5000 VOTES.
00:10:59A LOT LEFT TO COUNT.
00:11:01THIS IS THE MOST REPUBLICAN DISTRICT IN THE STATE.
00:11:05IT IS A TESTAMENT TO HOW UNPOPULAR LAUREN BOEBERT IS THAT
00:11:09SHE IS TRAILING EVEN IN HER OLD
00:11:11DISTRICT, COLORADO THREE, THE
00:11:14REPUBLICAN IS CLEARING --
00:11:18CLINGING TO A NARROW LEAD.
00:11:20IT IS SEVERAL POINTS LESS REPUBLICAN.
00:11:23IF ANY REPUBLICAN IS GOING TO
00:11:24SURVIVE THE BLOODBATH, IT'S
00:11:28GOING TO BE JEFF HURD OVER LOW IN BOEBERT -- LAUREN BOEBERT.
00:11:33PHIL WEISER UP 27 POINTS OVER VICTOR MARX.
00:11:3977% OF THE VOTING. THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT.
00:11:47IN ABSOLUTE COLLAPSE FOR REPUBLICANS AT THE TOP.
00:11:51>> IN THE MOUNTAIN WEST, WE WILL KEEP TAKING TOURS AROUND THE STATE.
00:11:57HOST: HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT OVER
00:12:00THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. CHUCK SCHUMER IS EXPECTED TO
00:12:02MAKE SOME COMMENTS AT AROUND
00:12:0611:00 -- AROUND 11:00 LEFT. WE ARE EXPECTED TO HEAR FROM THE
00:12:10HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES WHEN IT COMES TO LAST
00:12:14NIGHT'S ELECTION. WE MAY HEAR DIRECTLY FROM SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON.
00:12:18THERE IS REPORTING OUT SAYING
00:12:22SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAID HE'S NOT RUNNING FOR HOUSE GOP
00:12:26LEADER.
00:12:28ABBY TURNER FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL JOINS US, WELCOME BACK.
00:12:31GUEST: THANK YOU.
00:12:33HOST: IF THAT DOES COME TRUE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
00:12:37GUEST: REPUBLICANS LOSE A POSITION.
00:12:41THEY LOSE THE SPEAKERSHIP HERE.
00:12:43THE MAJORITY LEADER WILL BECOME THE MINORITY LEADER. THAT IS STEVE SCALISE.
00:12:48I'M NOT SURPRISED JOHNSON IS SAYING HE'S NOT GOING TO GO FOR THIS POSITION.
00:12:54MAYBE IF DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE
00:12:58WON A COUPLE OF SEATS. THEY COULD'VE HAD AN ARGUMENT.
00:13:01DEMOCRATS ARE LOOKING UPWARDS OF 250 SEATS.
00:13:06I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD HAVE MUCH SUPPORT AT ALL AMONG THE
00:13:08REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
00:13:11JIM JORDAN IS GOING TO RUN FOR THE MINORITY LEADER.
00:13:15WHAT YOU WILL SEE FROM STILLEY'S IF HE IS EXPECTED TO GET IN.
00:13:20THE ARGUMENT THEY WILL HAVE TO MAKE IS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:13:24THIS LOSS AND WHAT IS THE PATHWAY FORWARD HERE?
00:13:29HE HAS THE INVESTIGATIVE EXPERIENCE TO KIND OF PUSH BACK
00:13:32AGAINST SOME OF THE DEMOCRATIC
00:13:37INVESTIGATIONS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. INQUIRIES, ALL OF THAT.
00:13:43I'M NOT SURPRISED JOHNSON IS MAKING THIS. I WILL BE EXCITED TO SEE IF HE
00:13:48SPEAKS TODAY OR NOT. I THINK THERE WILL BE A MAJOR
00:13:53SHAKEUP BECAUSE THINGS WENT SO DRASTICALLY WRONG.
00:13:58THE RESULT WE SAW LAST NIGHT INTO THIS MORNING WAS THE PIE-IN-THE-SKY FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:14:04THIS WAS THE OUTCOME THEY WANTED. THAT CAME TO FRUITION.
00:14:08HOST: TO GOVERNOR'S RACE IS TO
00:14:12FOCUS ON. TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BOTH OF THOSE RACES?
00:14:17GUEST: KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS IS
00:14:21THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED GOVERNOR IN U.S. HISTORY.
00:14:25BYRON DONALDS IS THE REPUBLICAN NARROWLY ELECTED HERE.
00:14:28WE SAW A RECORD NUMBER OF BLACK
00:14:32GOVERNORS ELECTED LAST NIGHT. YOU HAD DAVID CROWLEY IN
00:14:35WISCONSIN. A LOT OF FIRSTS LAST NIGHT.
00:14:37HOST: WHEN IT COMES TO KEISHA
00:14:42LANCE BOTTOMS, A COMPETITOR WITH A LOT OF MONEY.
00:14:46WHAT BROUGHT HER OVER DO YOU THINK?
00:14:47GUEST: BEFORE LAST NIGHT I THINK
00:14:51THERE WAS A LOT OF CONVERSATION THAT SHE WILL NEED SENATOR JON OSSOFF TO HELP HER CROSS THE
00:14:55FINISH LINE.
00:14:58WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT, SHE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT ALL BY HERSELF.
00:15:03RICK JACKSON PUT UP OVER $200 MILLION ON THE AIRWAVE.
00:15:08AT SOME POINT IT BECOMES OVERSATURATED.
00:15:12AS I THINK I WAS LOOKING AT THE
00:15:14RESULTS THIS MORNING FOR A LOT
00:15:17OF THESE GOVERNORS RACES THAT RAN CLOSELY.
00:15:20WHAT WE SEE IS GOVERNORS RACES
00:15:23THAT ARE INSULATED FROM NATIONAL HEADWINDS.
00:15:25HOST: BYRON DONALDS, STATE THAT
00:15:30HE WON NARROWLY, HE WAS A FORMER REPUBLICAN NOW.
00:15:35WHAT WENT IN HIS FAVOR?
00:15:40GUEST: GET A TON OF MONEY HERE IN FLORIDA.
00:15:45EVEN AS WE SAW FLORIDA AND EVERY OTHER STATE SWING TOWARDS
00:15:50DEMOCRATS, IT IS A HEAVY REPUBLICAN STATE HERE.
00:15:53JOLLY I THINK COULD HAVE BENEFITED FROM SOME NATURAL RESOURCES.
00:15:57HE WAS MAKING THAT PLEA.
00:16:00SAYING IF I HAD MORE MONEY I COULD PULL THIS OFF.
00:16:04HOST: ABBY TURNER WILL JOIN US
00:16:10AND KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING WHEN IT COMES TO INFORMATION.
00:16:16LET'S HEAR FROM FRESNO CALIFORNIA.
00:16:19CALLER: I WOULD LIKE TO START
00:16:23WITH I AM THRILLED WITH THE BLUE WAVE.
00:16:26WE ARE TRULY SHOWING THAT WE ARE
00:16:30A PARTY. LOOKING AT THE RESULTS, THERE IS
00:16:35PROOF OF THAT.
00:16:37I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ETHICS AND
00:16:40ACCOUNTABILITY GOT BACK INTO
00:16:45CONGRESS. I KNOW THAT WHEN I WORKED FOR
00:16:47THE GOVERNMENT WE WERE CLEARLY
00:16:49VERSED ON ETHICS.
00:16:57CYBERSECURITY, MY POSITION WAS
00:17:01ONE THAT WAS TARGETED BY DOGE
00:17:05AND LED TO MY DECISION TO RETIRE EARLY.
00:17:10SHOUT OUT TO ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. WE ARE SOME OF THE HARDEST
00:17:14WORKING PEOPLE.
00:17:17IN TERMS OF OUR NEW CONGRESS I
00:17:21WOULD LIKE TO SEE AGAIN
00:17:24ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS IN
00:17:29REGARDS TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
00:17:31FIND YOUR IDENTITY.
00:17:37THAT WAS POSSIBLE THROUGH A HOSTILE TAKEOVER.
00:17:45IF YOU ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO
00:17:46SUPPORT YOU, YOU ARE NO LONGER
00:17:50THE GOP. I THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH
00:17:54THIS IS YOU ARE THE PARTY OF DO
00:17:58AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO.
00:18:01LOSING SUPPORT, YOU ARE TO BLAME
00:18:06FOR THAT.
00:18:09WHAT WE ARE SHOWING IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WE ARE A
00:18:11PARTY THAT IS WELCOMING NEW
00:18:13IDEAS OF DIVERSITY AND WE ARE
00:18:18WILLING TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAT
00:18:21ARE NEEDED TO MOVE OUR COUNTRY FORWARD.
00:18:26I AM THRILLED WITH THE OUTCOME.
00:18:27HOST: THANK YOU VERY MUST --
00:18:32MUCH. OF COURSE WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY
00:18:35OUT ON THE SENATE.
00:18:37WHEN YOU GO TO GOVERNORS RACES, DO THOSE ISSUES PLAY OUT THERE AS WELL?
00:18:42GUEST: COVERING STATES I HAVE
00:18:47ALWAYS SAID GOVERNORS RACES ARE INSULATED.
00:18:51I THINK SOME OF THE FRUSTRATIONS
00:18:53VOTERS HAVE WITH REPUBLICANS ARE BEING OVER INTO THESE GOVERNORS RACES AS WELL.
00:19:00TRUMP STILL PLAYS VERY HEAVILY HERE.
00:19:03YOU NEED TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT TO WIN A PRIMARY.
00:19:06TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT DIDN'T ALWAYS HELP YOU IN A GENERAL ELECTION.
00:19:11I THINK TO THE CALLER'S POINT
00:19:14ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FIGURING OUT WHO THEY ARE.
00:19:20HOW MUCH WEIGHT DOES MAG I HAVE
00:19:23-- MAGA HAVE IN THIS PARTY?
00:19:26HOST: THE REPORT THAT STEVE
00:19:30SCALISE IS RUNNING FOR MINORITY LEADER.
00:19:32GUEST: NO SURPRISE.
00:19:35HE HOLDS A MINORITY LEADER SPOT. I'M NOT REALLY SURE HOW THIS
00:19:40WILL PLAY OUT YET.
00:19:41WE WILL SEE WHO ELSE LOSES.
00:19:47THE OTHER REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS
00:19:48ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK, IT WILL
00:19:54BE BETTER TO UNDERSTAND WHERE CERTAIN MEMBERS ARE GOING.
00:19:58THERE IS NOT A LOT OF TIME FOR THESE MEMBERS.
00:20:02HOST: TALK ABOUT STATE
00:20:05LEGISLATORS, WHAT WE SEE HAPPEN?
00:20:07GUEST: DEMOCRAT SECURED TRIFECTA
00:20:10IS IN A NUMBER OF STATES.
00:20:12LAST NIGHT DEMOCRATIC SECURED
00:20:16TRIFECTA'S IN MICHIGAN,
00:20:19MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA IS STILL TEETERING.
00:20:23DEMOCRATS COULD HAVE A TRIFECTA THERE.
00:20:25BOTH HOUSES OF THE STATE LEGISLATOR.
00:20:32IT HAS ALSO CLAIMED VICTORY IN
00:20:35THE GEORGIA HOUSE, NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE.
00:20:39VERY BIG NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:20:43JUST TO TAKE A STEP BACK. REPUBLICANS MADE A VERY BIG
00:20:47INVESTMENT.
00:20:51DEMOCRATS HAVE STRUGGLED TO BUILD BACKGROUND AFTER THIS.
00:20:57HOST: LET'S HEAR FROM ZACH
00:21:01JOINING US FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
00:21:04CALLER: MORNING, HOW ARE YOU GUYS?
00:21:12BEING A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN, IT
00:21:15WAS A VERY HOPEFUL FEELING IN
00:21:19WHERE OUR REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS FALLEN THUS FAR.
00:21:23HOPEFULLY WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.
00:21:28MY POINT WOULD BE NOW THAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND CHUCK
00:21:32SCHUMER ARE ESSENTIALLY IN CHARGE NOW, I'M WONDERING IF
00:21:35THEIR FEET WILL BE HELD TO THE FIRE WHEN IT COMES TO THE MONEY
00:21:40THEY HAVE ACCEPTED REPRESENTING FOREIGN INTEREST.
00:21:44I KNOW A LOT OF THE DEMOCRATS I
00:21:46SEE AND I LIVE NEXT TO HAVE A LOT OF THE SAME QUESTIONS AND
00:21:50THEY ARE VERY NERVOUS AS TO WHERE THEIR ALLEGIANCES LIVE.
00:21:54IS IT AMERICA OR IS IT FOREIGN INTEREST?
00:22:02MY SECOND POINT HAD TO DO WITH
00:22:04THE CLEAR BIAS OF NOTRE DAME AND
00:22:08HOW THEY DON'T LIKE NOTRE DAME AND THEY ARE PUSHING THE SEC ON THEIR NETWORKS.
00:22:12GUEST: I THINK ESPECIALLY IN THE
00:22:17HOUSE HAKEEM JEFFRIES WILL FACE A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM PROGRESSIVES.
00:22:20IT IS MITIGATED BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJORITY THEY HAVE.
00:22:26LARGE-SCALE DONATIONS, MONEY
00:22:30FROM PLACES LIKE AIPAC, ALL OF THAT.
00:22:34THEY PUT PRESSURE ON JEFFRIES AND SCHUMER.
00:22:39IT CHANGES AND WHERE DEMOCRATS STAND ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
00:22:44HOST: TO WHAT DEGREE DO YOU FIND
00:22:47THE MONEY ABOUT AIPAC HAS BECOME A STORYLINE ABOUT THE CYCLE?
00:22:50GUEST: YOU LOOK AT A PLACE LIKE
00:22:54MICHIGAN, THIS EMERGED OUT OF THE SENATE RACE.
00:22:58REPRESENTATIVE HALEY STEVENS.
00:23:01THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE
00:23:04LARGE-SCALE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT
00:23:07IS COMING IN FROM CERTAIN INTERESTS HERE.
00:23:10THIS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A TOPIC.
00:23:15THEY ARE SCALING BACK AS WELL. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE ROLE THAT THEY PLAY.
00:23:22HOST: YOU TALKED ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES ON THE
00:23:26STATE LEVEL, THE ISSUES THEY
00:23:30BROUGHT TO THE TABLE IS IN A FIGHT OR IMPRESSION AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS OVERALL?
00:23:35WHAT FACTORS DO YOU THINK LED TO VICTORIES?
00:23:39GUEST: IT COMES DOWN TO STATE FACTORS.
00:23:42IOWA IS A STATE THAT IS TRENDING
00:23:46TOWARDS GOVERNOR-ELECT. HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT TRUMP AT
00:23:50ALL.
00:23:54THE RISING CANCER RATES.
00:23:58OBVIOUSLY WHEN VOTERS WENT OUT TO THE POLLS YESTERDAY THEY WERE
00:24:02THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE IMPLICATIONS.
00:24:07DIESEL PRICES.
00:24:11YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE IN
00:24:14MY COMMUNITY THAT HAVE CANCER.
00:24:18GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES, THEY
00:24:22ARE BENEFITING FROM THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT.
00:24:24TO REALLY SEAL THE DEAL YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THESE HYPER LOCAL ISSUES.
00:24:29HOST: ROY JOINS US FROM KANSAS,
00:24:33INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:24:36CALLER: I JUST WANT TO MAKE A
00:24:40COMMENT LAST WEEK ON WASHINGTON
00:24:47JOURNAL A LADY CALLED IN A
00:24:51STRONG TRUMP SUPPORTER AND SHE
00:24:51GUARANTEED THAT THE REPUBLICANS
00:24:57WOULD CONTINUE TO HOLD THE HOUSE AND SENATE AFTER THE ELECTION.
00:25:02I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT LADY IS THINKING ABOUT TODAY.
00:25:08A GENTLEMAN CALLED IN FROM TENNESSEE SAYING NOT LONG AFTER
00:25:11THAT LADY WAS ON, SHE SAID
00:25:14DONALD TRUMP IS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER.
00:25:22I CAN IMAGINE HE IS HAPPY WITH THE TURNOUT.
00:25:26I'M HOPEFUL FOR AMERICA.
00:25:30THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:25:32HOST: ABBY TURNER, WHAT IS THE
00:25:37NEW GOVERNOR-ELECT OF MICHIGAN THINKING TODAY?
00:25:42GUEST: I THINK SHE'S FEELING
00:25:46PRETTY GOOD. AFTER MIKE DUGGAN GOT OUT OF THIS RACE, DEMOCRATS WERE HAVING
00:25:49AN AMAZING DAY.
00:25:53IT HAPPENS DIFFERENTLY THAN IT DOES IN A PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.
00:25:57YOU HAVE A MORE EDUCATED ELECTOR
00:26:01AND IT TURNS OUT. JOCELYN BENSON KNEW THIS WAS GOING HER WAY.
00:26:05WASN'T GOING TO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
00:26:08THAT IS THE THIRD TIME JOHN JAMES HAS LOST STATE IN MICHIGAN.
00:26:12HOST: DID YOU REPEAT THINGS FROM
00:26:15THE PREVIOUS TWO TIMES?
00:26:18WAS IT JUST OVERALL UPSET OR DISSATISFACTION WITH DONALD TRUMP?
00:26:22GUEST: HE FOCUSED TOO MUCH ON
00:26:26DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.
00:26:29HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN WAS TRYING TO
00:26:30TIE JOCELYN BENSON TO MAMDANI,
00:26:34ABDUL EL-SAYED.
00:26:39THEY WERE UNDERSTANDING THE GOVERNORS RACE, THE SENATE RACE.
00:26:46THAT ARGUMENT REALLY FELL THROUGH.
00:26:48HOST: WHAT FACTORS LED TO AMY
00:26:52ACTON'S VICTORY IN OHIO?
00:26:54GUEST: THE AD THAT CAME OUT FROM
00:26:58VIVEK RAMASWAMY, WE WERE SEEING BEFORE THAT THAT HE WAS NOT
00:27:02DOING GOOD. IT WAS HARD FOR HIM TO SELL HIS
00:27:05CHARACTER TO VOTERS ON A TIME OF HIGH CLASS.
00:27:13LOWERING TAXES, ADDRESSING HIGH COSTS.
00:27:16I THINK THAT IS REALLY HARD FOR THOSE TO CONTEND WITH.
00:27:20HOST: SPEAKING OF OHIO, THAT IS
00:27:24WHERE OUR NEXT CALLER IS FROM.
00:27:27CALLER: GOOD MORNING, THANK YOU.
00:27:32THE FIRST IS THAT I'M SO PROUD
00:27:36OF AMERICA.
00:27:38I HAVE BEEN SO HOPELESS SINCE
00:27:41THE DAY TRUMP GOT BACK INTO OFFICE.
00:27:45I'M SITTING ON THE COUCH.
00:27:48I FEEL LIKE FLOATING AWAY.
00:27:55I WANTED TO CALL BECAUSE THIS WHOLE THING IS ABOUT TRUMP DOING
00:28:00THESE RALLIES. VOTE LIKE I AM ON THE BALLOT.
00:28:06I BELIEVE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DID.
00:28:09WE VOTED ON TRUMP BEING ON THE BALLOT.
00:28:13I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE I'M SEEING THAT WERE
00:28:18ELECTED IN AREAS.
00:28:23I'M SORRY I'M GETTING WORDLESS. FRESH FACES.
00:28:27THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN THAT WON IN TEXAS.
00:28:30I'M SORRY I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME.
00:28:34HE IS A CHRISTIAN MAN.
00:28:36WHEN I HEARD HIM SPEAK OVER THE
00:28:41LAST COUPLE WEEKS, I CALLED HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES.
00:28:46A TRUE CHRISTIAN, IF YOU WANT TO
00:28:53KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BIBLE AND
00:28:57LOVE EVERYBODY ELSE THE SAME.
00:29:02YOU ARE REPRESENTING ME.
00:29:07TRULY, I HAVE HEARD PRESIDENT
00:29:09TRUMP SAY THE WORD.
00:29:13IT MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP.
00:29:17I'M EXCITED, FRESH FACES.
00:29:21BE AN INDIGENOUS LADY THAT GOT ELECTED.
00:29:26WE NEED THOSE PEOPLE TO
00:29:32REPRESENT EVERYBODY. HOST: PUT A LOT OUT THERE FOR
00:29:36THE GUESTS, WE WILL LET HER RESPOND.
00:29:37GUEST: SHE TOUCHED ON DEMOCRATS
00:29:42RUNNING CANDIDATES OF FAITH. THIS IS SOMETHING THEY HAVE
00:29:46STRUGGLED TO CONTEND WITH AND REPUBLICANS HAVE LEANED INTO FAITH. WE SAW A FEW DEMOCRATS.
00:29:53WE HAD STATE REPRESENTATIVE LINDSAY JAMES, SHE IS A CHAPLAIN.
00:30:01DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO LEAN MORE INTO TALKING ABOUT THEIR FAITH ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
00:30:07HOST: ABBY TURNER WILL CONTINUE
00:30:11ON WITH US. BEFORE WE GO TO AN UPDATE ON
00:30:13SOME RACES THERE, INTERNATIONALLY THIS WAS BEING
00:30:17WATCHED BY MANY ACROSS THE WORLD.
00:30:24YOU CAN SEE THE DEMOCRATIC WAVE IN CONGRESS.
00:30:27HISTORIC VICTORIES.
00:30:30THAT IS PART OF LAMONT'S COVERAGE.
00:30:34THEY GO WITH BLUE WAVE IN THE HOUSE IN THE SENATE.
00:30:39OUT OF LONDON, THE TIMES THEY
00:30:41ARE, TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT.
00:30:44WHITE HOUSE INSISTS HE WILL IT ACCEPT THE RESULT AS VOTERS BACK HIS OPPONENT.
00:30:50THE BLUE WAVE IS SLOWLY MAKING ITS WAY TO BERLIN.
00:30:54IT CHANGES THE LAW INCLUDING FOR THE CHANCELLOR THERE AND RIO DE
00:30:59JANEIRO, IT IS A SETBACK FOR TRUMP.
00:31:04THEY SPEND SCRUTINY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
00:31:07THIS FOCUSING ON THE MINUTE -- MICHIGAN SENATE RACE.
00:31:11IT IS NO BARRIER TO WINNING BATTLEGROUND STATES.
00:31:15SOME OF THE COVERAGE INTERNATIONALLY.
00:31:20SAYING TODAY THE DECLINING POWER AND HEGEMONY OF THE UNITED
00:31:23STATES SUFFERED A REVERSIBLE
00:31:26FALL. IT'S HARD MILITARY POWER AND ITS INTERNATIONAL SOFT POWER.
00:31:31GOING ON TO SAY THE PROCESS OF THE U.S. COLLAPSE HAS
00:31:35ACCELERATED. THAT IS SOME OF THE
00:31:39INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO OUR ELECTION YESTERDAY.
00:31:42WE HAVE BEEN GIVING YOU A DETAILED REACTION TO WHAT
00:31:44HAPPENED YESTERDAY COURTESY OF OUR DASHBOARD GOING BACK NOW.
00:31:51>> A LOT OF TALK BEFORE THE
00:31:55ELECTION. JACOB AND I HAVE BEEN GOING
00:31:59THROUGH THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE FOR THE MAIN SENATE RACES.
00:32:03>> INCLUDING MAINE.
00:32:08>> I WILL THROW A LOT OF NUMBERS
00:32:12OUT AND THEN I WILL LET YOU COOK.
00:32:16TROY JACKSON, THE FINAL POLLING NUMBERS HAD HIM AHEAD BY FIVE.
00:32:19COME DOWN TO NEW HAMPSHIRE,
00:32:23CHRIS PAPPAS, THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE HAD HIM AHEAD BY NINE.
00:32:29ROY COOPER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
00:32:31FINAL POLLING AVERAGE, PLUS 12,
00:32:33HE WINS BY CLOSE TO 2019.
00:32:42TO GEORGIA, JON OSSOFF WAS PLUS
00:32:4610, HE WINS BY PLUS 18.
00:32:49OHIO, IT WAS SHERROD BROWN BY PLUS THREE.
00:32:52JAMES TALARICO, FOR IN THE FINAL
00:32:55POLLING AVERAGE, HE WINS BY PLUS 12.
00:32:59WE DO IOWA, JOSH DEREK WAS UP BY ONE.
00:33:06ADAM HAMILTON WAS UP IN THE FINAL POLLING AVERAGE, HE WINS
00:33:09BY PLUS FIVE.
00:33:13WHERE THE POLLS GOOD? WERE THEY ACCURATE?
00:33:15>> NEXT -- EL-SAYED PLUS
00:33:24SIX IN THE FINAL POLLS.
00:33:26>> THERE IS AN INTERESTING TREND
00:33:33, THE POLLS HAD A DECENT NIGHT.
00:33:36THE MARGIN WAS FAIRLY CLOSE.
00:33:39THE DIFFERENCE, OHIO, IOWA, EVEN
00:33:45KANSAS, THEY WERE A POINT OR TWO
00:33:47OFF AS WE EXPECT THEM TO BE ALL
00:33:50IN THE DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION. ROUGHLY DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT
00:33:55HERE. IT IS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
00:33:59WHERE WE SAW THE POLLS UNDER SHOE DEMOCRATS.
00:34:02>> OFF BY EIGHT IN TEXAS AND OFF
00:34:06BY EIGHT AGAIN IN GEORGIA. WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE POLLING
00:34:10IN THAT ONE.
00:34:12>> NOBODY WAS BOTHERING OUTSIDE
00:34:16OF A FEW PARTISAN POLLSTERS. NORTH CAROLINA WE HAVE PLENTY OF
00:34:21POLLING AND IT UNDERSHOT DEMOCRATS THERE CONSIDERABLY.
00:34:26TO ME, WE HAVE TO DIG IN DEEP TO THESE NUMBERS.
00:34:30RIGHT OFF THE TOP I THINK THE
00:34:33COMPOSITION OF THE ELECTORATE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, BARELY
00:34:37DIFFERENT THAN WHAT POLLSTERS WERE ANTICIPATING. A FAIR AMOUNT OF PERSUASION.
00:34:45POTENTIALLY VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT.
00:34:48IT HELPS BUT IT DOESN'T GET YOU ALL THE WAY THERE.
00:34:51THERE ARE TRUMP VOTERS WHO VOTED FOR SCOTT COLON IN THAT RACE.
00:34:58>> IT WAS UNDER POLLING DEMOCRATS, ARE YOU FEELING GOOD
00:35:01IF YOU ARE OUT THERE IN ALASKA WAITING FOR THE FINAL QUARTER OF
00:35:05THE BOAT TO COME IN?
00:35:07>> I'VE TEXTED WITH THE FEW
00:35:11SOURCES IN ALASKA AS WE WAIT FOR THOSE FINAL VOTES TO COME IN.
00:35:17ALASKA IS DIFFERENT THAN THE LOWER 48.
00:35:20I THINK IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO
00:35:24READ TOO MUCH INTO THE TEA LEAVES HERE.
00:35:29NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT POLITICAL
00:35:32WORLDS. THE FACT REMAINS THAT EVERY ONE
00:35:36OF THESE RACES, DEMOCRATS BEAT
00:35:38THEIR OPPONENT ESSENTIALLY EVERY SINGLE TIME.
00:35:42IF YOU ARE MARY PELTOLA AND YOU ARE LEADING NARROWLY IN THE
00:35:47POLLS, AT WORST IT MAKES YOU FEEL NEUTRAL, AT BEST IT MAKES
00:35:51YOU FEEL GOOD.
00:35:52>> AS YOU LOOK AT THE 2020, THE
00:35:58POLLS STILL A BIG FACTOR IN HOW YOU DO YOUR RACE?
00:36:02>> POLLS ARE THE WORST FORM OF
00:36:07POLITICAL ANALYSIS EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHER ONES. THEY ARE STILL THE BEST TOOL THAT WE HAVE.
00:36:12DIRECTIONALLY THEY WERE CORRECT.
00:36:15DEMOCRATS WIN MANY RACES WHERE THEY WERE TRAILING IN THE POLLING?
00:36:18THEY WERE LEAVING IN THOSE
00:36:20STATES THAT YOU READ OFF.
00:36:27AT LEAST ON THE SENATE SIDE.
00:36:28>> IT WAS SIX AT THE END, SHE
00:36:33ENDS UP WINNING BY PLUS THREE.
00:36:35>> THE DEMOCRATIC OVER PERFORMANCE FROM THE POLLING.
00:36:38NOT SOMETHING SO DRASTIC.
00:36:45IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW POLLSTERS RECAPITULATE AFTER
00:36:48THIS ELECTION CYCLE.
00:36:55MISSING OUT ON TRUMP VOTERS. GRASA WE WILL FIND OUT AS THEY
00:36:58WERE BEING OVERLY CONSERVATIVE WITH THEIR SAMPLING, WITH THEIR
00:37:03ASSUMPTIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED THEY WOULD UNDER SHOE THE REPUBLICAN SUPPORTING.
00:37:09THEY RESULTED IN A PRETTY UNIFORM OVER PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE BOARD.
00:37:12>> THAT'S YOUR DEEP DIVE INTO THE POLLS.
00:37:17HOST: THANK YOU.
00:37:20THIS IS COMING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ABOUT
00:37:24ISSUES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO VOTERS THIS TIME AROUND WHEN IT
00:37:26COMES TO THE WAR. 43% SAYING IT WAS THE MOST
00:37:30IMPORTANT ISSUE VERSUS 28% OF REPUBLICANS.
00:37:3515% OF DEMOCRATS SAYING IT IS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR THEM.
00:37:39REPUBLICANS ON HEALTH CARE, SAYING THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE.
00:37:46SOMETHING YOU WORRIED ABOUT OVER THE WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS, THE ECONOMY.
00:37:51SAYING THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE VERSUS REPUBLICANS.
00:37:56PEOPLE ASKED ABOUT IF AMERICA'S BEST DAYS WERE BEHIND THEM.
00:38:0159% OF THOSE VOTERS SAID YES,
00:38:04THAT IS THE CASE.
00:38:09THOSE FIRST-TIME VOTERS PARTICIPATING, WHO DID THEY VOTE FOR? WHO DID THEY SUPPORT IN THE
00:38:13GENERAL SENSE?
00:38:1662% SUPPORTING A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE VERSUS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
00:38:21LEADING UP TO IT WE HEARD ABOUT JOB APPROVAL.
00:38:26CONGRESS OVERALL AND HOW THAT FACTORS INTO THINGS.
00:38:2912% GAVE CONGRESS THAT RATING OF APPROVAL.
00:38:35THE PRESIDENT'S JOB DISAPPROVAL
00:38:40RATINGS DIRECTLY BY SITUATION WHEN IT COMES TO VERY SATISFIED
00:38:45WITH FINANCIAL SITUATIONS.
00:38:50NOT SATISFIED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATIONS, 71%.
00:38:55A LOT OF DATA, DOES THAT MAKE IT
00:38:57DOWN TO THE GOVERNORS RACES, DO THOSE ISSUES RESONATE THERE?
00:39:01GUEST: FEELINGS ABOUT THE
00:39:04ECONOMY WERE PROBABLY SOME OF THE BIGGEST DRIVERS.
00:39:07THEY LOOKED TOWARDS THE PRESIDENCY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
00:39:12THEY ARE THE PEOPLE THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR TAXES VERY QUICKLY.
00:39:17THEY COULD TAKE AWAY A GROCERY
00:39:20TAX, WHEN I TALK TO STATE
00:39:22LEGISLATORS THEMSELVES, THEY
00:39:26WERE HEARING A LOT OF FRUSTRATION WITH WASHINGTON AND CHANNELING THAT TO LOOKING TO
00:39:30THEIR STATE LEGISLATORS FOR HOPE.
00:39:32HOST: WHERE THEIR CANDIDATES I
00:39:36REALLY CAPITALIZED ON THAT SENTIMENT OR DISSATISFACTION?
00:39:39GUEST: I THINK ALL OF THE
00:39:42DEMOCRATS HAD A HARD-LINE FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY.
00:39:46ONE THING I WILL FOCUS ON IS KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS.
00:39:50THIS IS A STATE THAT THEY HAVE A
00:39:54VERY STRAINED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM .
00:39:57NOT ONLY WAS SHE FOCUSING ON THE ECONOMY BUT SIGN THAT INTO
00:40:00HEALTH CARE. SHE WAS ABLE TO DRAW THAT
00:40:04CONTRAST WITH A BILLIONAIRE
00:40:06HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE. BRIAN JOINS US FROM SOUTH
00:40:10CAROLINA. GO AHEAD.
00:40:11CALLER: I APPRECIATE THE TIME
00:40:15YOU HAVE GIVEN ME HERE.
00:40:20I AM NOT DEMOCRAT, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN.
00:40:25I AM ONE OF THE NATIONAL
00:40:27ADVOCATES FOR REDUCING TOXIC
00:40:29WATER AND HELP REPRESENT FAMILY
00:40:33MEMBERS AFFECTED.
00:40:35DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
00:40:39CAMPAIGN RALLY IN NORTH CAROLINA
00:40:42HE MENTIONED THAT IF THE
00:40:44REPUBLICANS WIN, SETTLEMENTS
00:40:49WOULD BE MADE. IF YOU LOST THERE WOULD BE NO SETTLEMENTS.
00:40:52FOR ME, USING VETERANS AND THEIR
00:40:57FAMILIES AS POLITICAL PONDS IS
00:41:01TOTALLY WRONG.
00:41:04WITH WHAT IS GOING ON LESS THAN
00:41:082% OF THE VETERANS FAMILIES OF
00:41:13THE 470,000 CLAIMS HAVE BEEN SETTLED IN FOUR YEARS.
00:41:18THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 73 YEARS.
00:41:22BOTH PARTIES HAVE DONE WHAT
00:41:26COULD'VE BEEN MORE FOR THE VETERANS IN CONGRESS.
00:41:32THIS SUBJECT ABOUT PRESIDENT
00:41:34TRUMP AND VETERANS AS PAWNS.
00:41:39HOST: WE HAVE YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:41:45THE ROLE VETERANS PLAY THIS TIME AROUND. WE HAD ON THE HOUSE AND SENATE
00:41:48OR THINGS WITH GOVERNORS AND STATE LEGISLATORS.
00:41:52GUEST: THERE WAS JUST SOME OF
00:41:56THIS SATISFIED -- DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WAR IN IRAN NOT BEING DECLARED A WAR.
00:42:03I THINK THERE IS SOME
00:42:06FRUSTRATION AMONG VETERANS, PEOPLE BEING DEPLOYED TO THIS
00:42:09AREA. THE EARLY 2000'S.
00:42:13I SAW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS ON
00:42:17THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. GRAHAM PLATNER WAS SOMEBODY THAT WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS
00:42:22WAS MY EXPERIENCE AND THIS IS WHAT I'M SEEING NOW WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
00:42:27HOST: ALAN WILSON, THE
00:42:32REPUBLICAN, ONE OF THE FEW AFTER LAST NIGHT.
00:42:36TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE.
00:42:40>> IT WAS A LOT CLOSER THAN
00:42:44EXPECTED BECAUSE OF THE SENATE RACE. JERMAINE JOHNSON IS THE
00:42:48DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR. WILSON WAS OK.
00:42:56I THINK THIS WAS ONE OF THE TWO
00:42:57STATES SO FAR WHERE WE HAVE RESULTS SPLITTING THEIR TICKET
00:43:02BETWEEN GOVERNOR AND SENATE.
00:43:06I THINK BASED ON THE POLLING WE WERE EXPECTING TO SEE A LOT MORE
00:43:09SPLIT TICKETS WITH GEORGIA,
00:43:12TEXAS, IOWA, WHAT WE SEE HERE IS
00:43:15VOTERS FELT THE SAME WAY THEY DID ABOUT THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
00:43:19HOST: ONE MILLION PLUS VOTES FOR
00:43:23ALAN WILSON OUT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
00:43:26AS WE TOLD YOU EARLIER, SENATE
00:43:31MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER EXPECTED TO ADDRESS THE CAMPAIGN
00:43:34COMMITTEE SCHEDULED FOR 11:00.
00:43:37WHEN THAT HAPPENS WE WILL TAKE YOU TO IT.
00:43:40AND THEN LATER ON ABOUT NOON THE
00:43:44HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES EXPECTED TO MAKE COMMENTS AS WELL.
00:43:48MARIA IS IN VIRGINIA, INDEPENDENT LINE. HELLO.
00:43:50CALLER: HELLO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
00:43:54COVERAGE LAST NIGHT, THAT WAS AMAZING.
00:44:00I AM A TRUE INDEPENDENT. I AM PURPLE AND I HAVE ALWAYS
00:44:03VOTED FOR WHO I THINK WILL
00:44:06REPRESENT ME AND THE PEOPLE OF MY COMMUNITY THE BEST THAT THEY WILL DO.
00:44:12WHEN TRUMP WON THIS ELECTION, I
00:44:16ASSUMED THAT WHEN HE WAS DOING OVERREACH OF THE EXECUTIVE
00:44:20POWERS THAT THE SENATE
00:44:24LEADERSHIP, THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WOULD PUT -- WOULD
00:44:28STAND IN LINE TO DO THE BALANCE OF POWER.
00:44:32THIS COUNTRY IS A BALANCE OF POWER MADE FOR THE PEOPLE.
00:44:37I AM SO GLAD THAT THE PEOPLE
00:44:42STOOD UP. WHEN THE RICH CONTROL THE
00:44:46COUNTRY, DEMOCRACY IS DEAD. I WAS SCARED AND NOW I HAVE HOPE.
00:44:50FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME I VOTED ALL BLUE.
00:44:54I NEVER VOTED THE PARTY LINE IN MY LIFE.
00:44:56HOST: MARIA IN VIRGINIA SAYING
00:45:01SHE VOTED ALL BLUE IN TEXAS.
00:45:03A LOT OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR ALL
00:45:08BLUE.
00:45:08GINA HE AND A HOST OF -- GINA
00:45:13TAKING HIS FOURTH RUN FOR
00:45:19GRANTED HERE. DEMOCRATS WERE A LITTLE WORRIED
00:45:22TO INVEST IN TEXAS.
00:45:28EVEN IF THEY THREW 10 OR $15 MILLION IT MIGHT NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
00:45:32THE KEY TO WINNING THIS RACE WAS
00:45:35TALKING ABOUT THE BILLIONAIRES, TALKING ABOUT BIG TECH.
00:45:39SHE RAN MULTIPLE ADS. SHE REALLY TAPPED INTO SOME OF
00:45:43THOSE VOTER SENTIMENT ACROSS BIG
00:45:45TECH, AI, SOME OF THE POWERS
00:45:49HABIT COZIED UP TO DURING HIS TERM.
00:45:55I HAVEN'T CHECKED SINCE THIS MORNING BUT THEY WERE CLAIMING
00:45:57VICTORY THAT THEY HAVE FLIPPED THE TEXAS STATE HOUSE, THAT
00:46:01WOULD BE HUGE. THAT IS THE SAME LEGISLATURE THAT REDREW TEXAS MAPS.
00:46:08I THINK THE REDISTRICTING THAT
00:46:09KICKED OFF WAS VERY MUCH ON
00:46:13DEMOCRATS MINDS.
00:46:14IF ATTIC KEPT THE GOVERNORSHIP,
00:46:18THEY KEPT THE STATE HOUSE AND SENATE THEY COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN BEFORE 2028.
00:46:22THE TEXAS STATE HOUSE, IF THEY
00:46:25DO FLIP IT, THAT VERY MUCH HAS
00:46:29TO DO WITH SOME OF VOTER BACKLASH.
00:46:34HOST: WE SHOWED YOU AND DISCUSS
00:46:37THE GOVERNOR RACE IN OHIO WITH
00:46:41AMY ACTON AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY, LET'S LISTEN TO A PORTION OF THEIR SPEECHES.
00:46:45>> THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN
00:46:49A MOVEMENT BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
00:46:54THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY OHIOAN WHO
00:47:01HAS LONGED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AGAIN.
00:47:08WHO SOLVE PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF
00:47:08MAKING THEM.
00:47:12WHO DO NOT MISTAKE KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS.
00:47:19BECAUSE OF YOUR HARD WORK OHIO
00:47:23HAS CHOSEN UNITY AND INDECENCY.
00:47:29OVER DIVISION AND HATE.
00:47:38THE HEALING BEGINS TODAY.
00:47:46WE MUST NEVER GIVE UP ON ONE ANOTHER.
00:47:52THIS WAS A TOUGH RACE. THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER.
00:48:00I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING VERY
00:48:03CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.
00:48:06I WILL BE A GOVERNOR FOR ALL OHIOANS.
00:48:09>> AS YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN IT
00:48:15IS A TOUGH AND CHALLENGING NIGHT FOR REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
00:48:21A TOUGH NIGHT FOR US HERE IN OHIO.
00:48:24EARLIER THIS EVENING, I HAD AN
00:48:27OPPORTUNITY TO CALL DR. ACTON TO
00:48:29CONGRATULATE HER ON HER VICTORY
00:48:33IN THIS RACE. I WISH HER WELL TO LEAD THIS
00:48:37STATE TO HOPEFULLY GREATER HEIGHTS IN THE FUTURE.
00:48:41IT WAS A TOUGH RACE.
00:48:43IT WAS BITTER AT TIMES IN BOTH
00:48:47DIRECTIONS.
00:48:49THE TIME TOMORROW IS TO HOPEFULLY HAVE HER LEADERSHIP
00:48:52BRING THE STATE TOGETHER.
00:48:56I HAVE HOPE AND CONFIDENCE THAT
00:48:58SHE WILL DO WHAT IS REQUIRED TO BRING OHIO TOGETHER, TO BRING
00:49:03OUR VOTERS AND CITIZENS TOGETHER TO LEAD OHIO TO THE BEST PLACE
00:49:07POSSIBLE. WE ARE ROOTING FOR THE SUCCESS
00:49:10OF THE STATE, YOUR SUCCESS.
00:49:13THAT MEANS ALL OF US SHOULD BE
00:49:15ROOTING FOR THE SUCCESS OF HER ADMINISTRATION.
00:49:20WE ARE HOPEFUL FOR OHIO TO ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS.
00:49:24HOST: AS ALWAYS YOU COULD FIND
00:49:28THESE SPEECHES ON OUR WEBSITE
00:49:31AND CONTINUE WATCHING ON C-SPAN.ORG.
00:49:34LET'S GO TO ILLINOIS, DEMOCRATS LINE.
00:49:41CALLER: WE CANNOT FORGET WE HAVE
00:49:46AN ELECTION IN 2028 COMING UP.
00:49:49AS MUCH AS DEMOCRATS HAVE POWER,
00:49:56THEY ALSO DON'T. THEY NEED TO COMMUNICATE THAT.
00:49:58I'M FROM A POLITICAL SCIENCE
00:50:04BACKGROUND.
00:50:04I UNDERSTAND THAT ALL --
00:50:08EVERYBODY DOESN'T KNOW, THEY
00:50:12CAN'T DO EVERYTHING IN TWO YEARS.
00:50:15THE DEMOCRATIC MESSAGING IF THEY
00:50:18ARE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL NEEDS
00:50:21TO BE ON WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT CONTROL.
00:50:29GUEST: I THINK YOU WILL SEE A
00:50:33LOT OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, WASHINGTON MAY BE STALLED.
00:50:38GOVERNORS, THIS IS A MESSAGE
00:50:41DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAMMER HOME.
00:50:44THE GOVERNORSHIPS, SOME OF THE
00:50:48OTHER SWING STATES HAVE PUT TEXAS ON THE MAP.
00:50:52IF DEMOCRATS COULD RUN GOVERNORS
00:50:58LIKE SCHAPIRO, PRITZKER.
00:51:01THEY COULD TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THEY'RE GOVERNOR HAS DONE FOR THEM.
00:51:05I WAS TALKING TO SOME
00:51:07STRATEGISTS THE REPUBLICANS COME
00:51:11IN, IN 2028.
00:51:20THIS WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CYCLE, ONE OF THE TOP
00:51:24OPPORTUNITIES FOR REPUBLICANS.
00:51:28KARI LAKE, NOT THE BEST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN 2022.
00:51:32BIG SWING ON LATINO VOTERS FOR TRUMP AS WELL.
00:51:36THOSE LATINO VOTERS SWUNG BACK.
00:51:39A VERY CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF CONGRESS UP AGAINST HOBBS HERE.
00:51:43HE WAS THE RIGHT PROFILE FOR ARIZONA THIS YEAR.
00:51:47HOST: SPEAKING OF GIVING HIS
00:51:52THOUGHTS TO 2028, GOVERNOR
00:51:54DESANTIS FROM FLORIDA MAKING HIS OWN THOUGHTS FROM LAST NIGHT.
00:51:57I WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:52:01>> LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT
00:52:05HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. THIS IS CLOSE TO AN EXTINCTION
00:52:08LEVEL EVENT FOR REPUBLICANS IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AS WE
00:52:12HAVE SEEN PROBABLY IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.
00:52:17WHEN EVERYONE AND OFFERS LEAVES
00:52:21FOR EITHER A TERM LIMIT OR GOT VOTED OUT.
00:52:27ONLY ONE STATE WILL HAVE REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF THE STATE.
00:52:33IF YOU LOOK AT OUR CHIEF RIVAL
00:52:36AND IN A HEALTHY SENSE, OVER MY
00:52:40LIFETIME, TEXAS HAS BEEN THE CROWN JEWEL OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS.
00:52:49THE LEADER FOR REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES, WHEN YOU GO THE GENERATION.
00:52:58THEY LOSE A VERY PUBLICIZED U.S. SENATE RACE, THEY LOST EVERYTHING.
00:53:04THE GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL,
00:53:08THEY LOST FOUR SUPREME COURT
00:53:09JUSTICES ON THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT.
00:53:13THEY MAY EVEN LOSE THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE IN ONE HOUSE OR EVEN BOTH.
00:53:19NOT JUST FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD
00:53:25REVERBERATE. THE REPUBLICAN DOESN'T HAVE
00:53:29TEXAS AS AN ANCHOR, WE WILL NOT
00:53:32BE VIABLE NATIONALLY GOING FORWARD.
00:53:39IT WAS VERY CLEAR, WE WERE RUNNING THE HEADWINDS.
00:53:44I SAID A VICTORY WOULD BE MINIMIZING THE LOSSES GIVING THE CLIMATE.
00:53:56WE KNEW THEY COULD BE WORSE.
00:53:59I DON'T THINK WE THOUGHT IT COULD BE QUITE THIS BAD.
00:54:03THE DEMOCRATS WILL LIKELY GO
00:54:06INTO JANUARY WITH 56 SENATE
00:54:07SEATS AND AS MUCH AS 250 EIGHT
00:54:11U.S. HOUSE SEATS. WHAT THAT DOES, NOT ONLY WILL
00:54:15THAT TOTALLY CHANGE THE DYNAMIC OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS TO THE
00:54:19DETRIMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.
00:54:22THIS WILL LAST FAR BEYOND TWO YEARS.
00:54:27YOU ARE NOT AS REPUBLICANS GOING
00:54:31TO BE ABLE TO RETAKE THE SENATE
00:54:35JUST TWO YEARS FROM NOW.
00:54:38PROBABLY NOT VIABLE TO TAKE THAT BACK AS WELL.
00:54:42THIS IS REALLY GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT TWO YEARS, FOUR YEARS,
00:54:45SIX YEARS.
00:54:51UNIFIED CONTROL IN WASHINGTON
00:54:53AGAIN LIKE WE ENJOYED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.
00:54:57JUST THINK WHAT THIS MEANS
00:54:59HAVING 56 SENATORS. THAT MEANS NO SUPREME COURT
00:55:03JUSTICE WILL BE CONFIRMED UNDER
00:55:06PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENS IN THE NEXT SIX WEEKS.
00:55:15THERE WILL BE ABLE TO BE CONFIRMED.
00:55:17THAT WOULD LIKELY BE TRUE FOR THE FOUR YEARS AFTER THAT.
00:55:22HOST: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THOSE WORDS?
00:55:26GUEST: I WILL LOOK AT THIS THROUGH THE 2028 LENS.
00:55:30WHAT I'M HEARING IS HE SAYING TEXAS IS NOT THIS REPUBLICAN
00:55:34STRONGHOLD ANYMORE.
00:55:37FLORIDA MAYBE DIDN'T DO SO GREAT ON THEIR GERRYMANDERED HOUSE
00:55:41SEATS BUT THEY WEATHERED THE STORM STATEWIDE. THEY KEPT THE SENATE SEAT HERE.
00:55:47IN THE POLITICAL REALITY WE ARE IN.
00:55:53VERY BIG, VERY ELECTORAL COLLEGE HEAVY STATES LEANING REPUBLICAN
00:55:56AND SAY FLORIDA SEEMS TO BE THE MORE REPUBLICAN STATE NOW.
00:55:59HOST: ABBY TURNER IS JOINING US.
00:56:03WE ARE EXPECTING COMMENTS FROM SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER.
00:56:08WHEN HE GETS TO THE MICROPHONE
00:56:11WE WILL TAKE THAT LIVE FOR YOU,
00:56:13DALLAS, TEXAS, JUMP ON IN.
00:56:18CALLER: I'M FROM DALLAS, NORTH
00:56:21CAROLINA.
00:56:25I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, I AM A
00:56:27REAL DIEHARD REPUBLICAN.
00:56:30SKY WASN'T FOLLOWING.
00:56:36IT IS KIND OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE.
00:56:42I CAN'T SEE WHY PEOPLE IN NORTH
00:56:47CAROLINA VOTED ROY COOPER FOR GOVERNOR.
00:56:49WHAT HE DID WITH THE HURRICANES
00:56:51IN NORTH CAROLINA, I DON'T
00:56:55BELIEVE HE WILL DO ANYMORE.
00:57:00PEDRO, I'M NOT LOOKING TO HELP
00:57:02OUT BUT I THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
00:57:05HOST: MIKE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA
00:57:10WITH COMMENTS FOR ROY COOPER. GUEST: ROY COOPER SEEMS TO BE AN
00:57:14ANOMALY.
00:57:16I DON'T THINK HE HAS EVER LOST
00:57:20AN ELECTION.
00:57:21HE HAS WON TIME AFTER TIME BY VERY LARGE MARGINS.
00:57:28HE IS EXTREMELY POPULAR. HE PUT THIS SENATE SEAT BED VERY
00:57:31EARLY ON IN THIS CYCLE.
00:57:36REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO CHALLENGE THIS.
00:57:39I THINK HE'S IN A PRETTY SOLID SPOT FOR NOW.
00:57:44HOST: JEFFREY IS FROM OHIO. WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM CHUCK
00:57:47SCHUMER IN A LITTLE BIT. CALLER: IF LAST NIGHTS ELECTION
00:57:53RESULTS WERE A REPUDIATION OF
00:57:56PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POLICIES AND HIS PRESIDENCY, HOW DO I
00:58:00UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE TERMS
00:58:01THAT HE HAS BEEN TWICE ELECTED
00:58:05PRESIDENT. IN HIS OWN MIND HE HAS BEEN ELECTED THREE TIMES.
00:58:09IS IT A MATTER OF DESPERATION BY
00:58:12VOTERS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER THAT
00:58:14EXPLAIN HIS ELECTIONS AND ALSO
00:58:18LAST NIGHTS ELECTION RESULTS? THAT IS IT.
00:58:21CALLER: IT'S IT --
00:58:24GUEST: IT'S A DESPERATION FROM VOTERS.
00:58:29DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING WE DID ALL
00:58:30OF THESE THINGS FOR THE ECONOMY.
00:58:33PEOPLE WERE NOT FEELING LIKE THAT.
00:58:37TRUMP HAS A UNIQUE ABILITY TO TURN OUT VOTERS WHEN HE'S ON THE
00:58:41BALLOT AND HE COULD TURN OUT NEW TRUMP VOTERS.
00:58:45WE SOUGHT LATINO VOTERS, BLACK
00:58:49VOTERS, WE HAVE THIS GROUP.
00:58:52HE HAS THE ABILITY TO DO IT. ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS WE
00:58:55HAVE SEEN IS 2024 HE WAS
00:59:00PROMISING TO FIX THE ECONOMY AND WOULD NOT START NEW WARS, LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
00:59:05HOST: DO YOU THINK LAST NIGHT
00:59:08HURTS THE BRAND AND THE ABILITY TO RISE ABOVE?
00:59:10GUEST: I WAS SHOCKED AT HOW SOMBER HE WAS LAST NIGHT WHEN HE
00:59:14CALLED INTO SOME OF THE SHOWS.
00:59:16I WILL WORK WITH DEMOCRATS ON SOME THINGS.
00:59:20HE SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT THE RESULTS. THERE'S A RECKONING OF WHAT
00:59:24PLACE DOES MAGA HAVE?
00:59:29THEY DOMINATE PRIMARIES AND SOME OF THESE CANDIDATES STRUGGLE
00:59:33WITH THE GENERAL ELECTORATE. WHO DOES THE PARTY RECRUIT POP
00:59:37UP? WHO THE REPUBLICANS AS A BASE WANT AS THEIR NOMINEE?
00:59:40HOST: WE HAVE NOT SEEN MUCH
00:59:44MOVEMENT ON THE FRONTS. JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THE SENATE
00:59:47NOW AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES,
00:59:5054 SEEDS GAINED AFTER LAST NIGHTS ELECTION.
00:59:53ON THE HOUSE IT IS 200 28 SEATS
00:59:56WITH 20 FIVE PICKUPS. ONE 39 HELD FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:00:00THIS AND OTHER THINGS AS PART OF
01:00:02OUR COVERAGE OF ELECTION 2026.
01:00:0620 HOURS OF COVERAGE. WE ARE ON THE TAIL END OF THAT NOW.
01:00:09STAY WITH US AS WE
01:00:14>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL COMES TO
01:00:20PRIME LIVE. >> BUBBLEHEADED COVERAGE.
01:00:22>> TRUST YOU COMPLETELY -- THE
01:00:28MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE.
01:00:28>> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS.
01:00:32>> THE CONVERSATION WILL COME TO PRIMETIME.
01:00:35>> THE MOST UNBIASED OUT THERE.
01:00:38ANNOUNCER: STARTING MONDAY AT 9 P.M. EASTERN.
01:00:42ANNOUNCER: MORE OF C-SPAN
01:00:46ONGOING COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
01:00:50VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS, THE
01:00:53RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
01:00:57SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
01:00:59THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS,
01:01:03CANDIDATE REACTIONS AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH.
01:01:06CAMPAIGN 2026, YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION NIGHT.
01:01:10HOST: 19 HOURS WE'VE COMMITTED
01:01:14TO COVERAGE OF CAMPAIGN 2026.
01:01:19IN THIS FINAL HOUR, ANALYSIS AND
01:01:22PENDING COMMENTS FROM CHUCK
01:01:26SCHUMER, AS WELL AS HAKEEM JEFFRIES.
01:01:30PART OF THE NEWS OF THE DAY, THE
01:01:32BALANCE OF POWER FOR NEXT YEAR, DEMOCRATS HOLDING THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
01:01:37THE MARGINS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
01:01:38TWO SENATE RACES STILL PLAYING.
01:01:43MANY HOUSE RACES PLAYING OUT. YOU CAN BE PART OF THE
01:01:47CONVERSATION. STAY WITH US. (202)-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
01:01:51(202)-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS. (202)-748-8002 FOR INDEPENDENTS. YOU CAN TEXT US AT (202)-748-8003.
01:02:01AS WE WAIT FOR SENATOR SCHUMER,
01:02:06WE GO BACK TO THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD.
01:02:09>> WE WERE DOING A TOUR OF THE
01:02:14CLOSEST RACES IN THE COUNTRY.
01:02:16THE CLOSEST IS A STATEWIDE RACE
01:02:20IN THE MAGNOLIA STATE, MISSISSIPPI.
01:02:25JACOB, 43 VOTES SEPARATE LOSS
01:02:28AND VICTORY HERE.
01:02:31JACOB: 43 VOTES FOR SCOTT COLOM.
01:02:37CINDY HYDE-SMITH HAS SOWN THE
01:02:42SEEDS OF HER OWN DESTRUCTION,
01:02:45SHE BRAGGED ABOUT HOW SHE
01:02:46STOPPED COLOM'S CAREER RISE.
01:02:51>> THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS HE GOT IN THE RACE.
01:02:54>> HERE WE ARE, WE STILL HAVE A
01:02:59BIT LEFT ACCOUNT.
01:03:01COLOM'S CAMPAIGN SAID THEY ARE
01:03:07TRACKING ADDITIONAL PROVISIONAL BALLOTS THAT COULD COME IN OVER THE NEXT FIVE DAYS.
01:03:10>> WHAT'S THE RECOUNT PROCEDURE.
01:03:13>> THIS IS THE THING, NO RUNOFF
01:03:17OR RECOUNT IN MISSISSIPPI. A LOT OF OTHER STATES HAVE
01:03:22RUNOFFS BUT NOT MISSISSIPPI.
01:03:25NO PROVISION IN STATE LAW ALLOWS FOR A RECOUNT UNLESS ON A JUDGE'S ORDERS.
01:03:30JOHN: UNLESS A JUDGE DECIDES TO ORDER A RECOUNT/
01:03:34JACOB: CORRECT.
01:03:39JOHN: THIS STATEWIDE RACE MAKES
01:03:43SOME OF THESE OTHER RACES LOOK LIKE A BLOWOUT.
01:03:45TWICE THE AMOUNT OF VOTES
01:03:48SEPARATING THE CANDIDATES IN
01:03:52ARIZONA'S 2ND. 86 VOTES.
01:03:56JACOB: NAILBITER OF A HOUSE RACE.
01:04:00NEZ, FORMER OF THE NAVAJO
01:04:04NATION, IN A REMATCH AGAINST
01:04:07CRANE, SHARK TANK AND NAVY VETERAN, HIS COMPANY BOTTLE
01:04:12BREACH, RIGHT NOW HE MIGHT BE
01:04:14CRACKING OPERA BOTTLE --
01:04:18CRACKING OPEN A BOTTLE BECAUSE HE IS TRAILING.
01:04:19JOHN: COLORADO, THIS IS A
01:04:27SEPARATION OF 1200 VOTES.
01:04:28JACOB: WE'VE GONE FROM MINUSCULE TO A BLOWOUT.
01:04:32.4% SEPARATING THEM IN THE
01:04:38COLORADO THIRD. JOHN: THE VOLUNTEER STATE, TENNESSEE.
01:04:43SCOTT DESJARLAIS'S EFFORTS TO
01:04:45STAY IN THE HOUSE, HE'S IN ONE OF THE CLOSEST RACES IN THE
01:04:49COUNTRY AT THIS HOUR. HE'S BEHIND BY 280 VOTES.
01:04:53JACOB: THE MOST SHOCKING ON THE HOUSE SIDE.
01:04:58VICTORIA BRODERICK AHEAD OF
01:05:01SCOTT, 280 VOTES, .2% BY THE
01:05:05MARGIN.
01:05:05JOHN: OVER TO NORTH CAROLINA,
01:05:09THE FIFTH DISTRICT.
01:05:13LESS THAN 100 VOTES.
01:05:14JACOB: NAILBITER IN THE TAR
01:05:18HEEL, COVERED ON THE PRECIPICE
01:05:21OF OUSTING HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE
01:05:24CHAIRWOMAN VIRGINIA FOXX, A
01:05:28SENIOR REPUBLICAN IN THAT CHAMBER POTENTIALLY GOING FOR DEFEAT.
01:05:30JOHN: THESE RED DISTRICTS, AND
01:05:34WHAT WAS EXPECTED A SAFE PART OF THE STATE FOR REPUBLICANS, LET'S
01:05:38START IN THE THIRD DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
01:05:41JACOB: THIS IS THE DISTRICT THEY
01:05:44MADE LESS REPUBLICAN TO MAKE THE FIRST DISTRICT TO THE NORTH LESS
01:05:49DEMOCRATIC. JOHN: THEY DIDN'T WIN THE FIRST
01:05:52DISTRICT AND NOW THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE THIRD.
01:05:54JACOB: 233 VOTES BETWEEN MURPHY
01:05:58AND SMITH, THIS IS CLOSE.
01:05:59JOHN: ONE MORE BEFORE WE LEAVE
01:06:03NORTH CAROLINA, CRAZY HOW MUCH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THEM.
01:06:07LESS THAN 2500 VOTES IN THE SEVENTH.
01:06:09JACOB: I NAILBITER FOR DAVID ROUSER.
01:06:14TO PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, 14
01:06:18DISTRICTS IN NORTH CAROLINA, DEMOCRATS LEADING IN 10 AND THEN
01:06:22THOSE TWO DISTRICTS IN THE EAST WHERE REPUBLICANS ARE CLINGING TO TINY LEADS.
01:06:27IN THE OTHER TWO SEATS, IT'S NOT
01:06:30AS IF REPUBLICANS ARE BLOWING THE DOORS OFF. ONE POINT LEAD IN THE 10TH DISTRICT.
01:06:35IN THE EIGHTH, A TWO POINT LEAD.
01:06:38MARK HARRIS IS A BIG WINNER
01:06:41TONIGHT WITH A 1.8% MARGIN.
01:06:44JOHN: A STATE THAT REPUBLICANS
01:06:48GERRYMANDERED AND THEY COULD END UP WITH TWO OF THE 14 DISTRICTS IN THE STATE?
01:06:52JACOB: THEY GERRYMANDERED IT AHEAD OF 2024.
01:06:56THEY GOT ANOTHER SHOT.
01:06:59UPDATED INFO 2026 THEY REDREW AGAIN AND THEY STILL MAY HAVE
01:07:02STRETCHED THEMSELVES TOO THIN.
01:07:05ROY COOPER 18 POINT VICTORY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET CAUSING THEM HEARTBURN.
01:07:09JOHN: ONE MORE RACE, LESS THAN
01:07:14HALF A PERCENTAGE POINT SEPARATING THE CANDIDATES, IN
01:07:17THE NORTHERN MAINE DISTRICT,
01:07:20THAT RURAL AREA UP THERE, IT IS LESS THAN 800 VOTES.
01:07:23JACOB: WE ARE WAITING FOR A LOT
01:07:26OF THE VOTE LEFT, 15% BEING COUNT SLOWLY.
01:07:31FORMER STATE AUDITOR MATT DUNLAP IN THE LEAD AGAINST FORMER GOVERNOR PAULA PAGE.
01:07:35THE PAGE -- LEPAGE, EACH TIME HE
01:07:42HAS CARRIED THE SECOND DISTRICT.
01:07:44HE HAS WON IT IN ALL THREE
01:07:50PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
01:07:55DUNLAP IT BE INSULT TO INJURY. JOHN: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
01:08:00NIGHT, DEMOCRATS NEEDED THREE
01:08:02SEATS TO TAKE THE HOUSE, THEY ARE CURRENTLY AT 25 PICKUPS.
01:08:07WHAT COULD THIS NUMBER GET TO? 50?
01:08:10JACOB: THAT MIGHT BE A STRETCH.
01:08:14PERFECTLY POSSIBLE DEMOCRATS GET
01:08:1640 OR 41 PICKUPS IN THE HOUSE.
01:08:21THAT WOULD PUT THEM AT 256.
01:08:2641 SEATS WOULD BE 256, THEIR
01:08:28BIGGEST MAJORITY SINCE 2008,
01:08:32THAT BROUGHT US BARACK OBAMA. JOHN: A COMFORTABLE MAJORITY IN
01:08:36THE HOUSE. HOST: APPRECIATE IT.
01:08:41EXPECTING COMMENTS FROM CHUCK
01:08:44SCHUMER, MOMENTS FROM NOW.
01:08:46JD VANCE PUTTING OUT A LONG TWEET ABOUT LAST NIGHT.
01:08:51HERE'S PART OF THE ASSESSMENT.
01:08:57SAYING THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR, THE PRESIDENT SAID SO
01:09:00HIMSELF LAST NIGHT. P ARGUES IT WAS WORTH IT.
01:09:06AGREE OR DISAGREE, THAT IS AT
01:09:09LEAST HONEST BUT EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST.
01:09:13ANY HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THEIR.
01:09:16I REMEMBER, TAKE THAT ENERGY
01:09:24INTO ELECTING REPUBLICANS.
01:09:26TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE PISSED, LET'S
01:09:31GET BACK TO SAVING OUR COUNTRY.
01:09:32GUEST: IT SOUNDS LIKE HE IS ACCEPTING BLAME.
01:09:37WE REALIZE WHAT WE DID IS NOT RIGHT TO FOCUS ON.
01:09:40LET'S GET TOGETHER AHEAD OF 2028.
01:09:42FURTHER DOWN, HE HAS A LIST,
01:09:47FOCUS ON ENDING THE WAR, INFLATION, AMERICA FIRST.
01:09:52YOU CAN EXPECT THAT FROM A CAMPAIGN.
01:09:54HOST: UNDERCURRENT. GUEST: THESE ARE THINGS HE WILL
01:09:58BE FOCUSING ON AS HE LAUNCHES A PRESIDENTIAL BID.
01:10:03HOST: WE'VE HEARD FROM PRESIDENT
01:10:07TRUMP LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. WE ARE HEARING FROM YOU.
01:10:11WE ARE EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM CHUCK SCHUMER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
01:10:15WE WILL KEEP YOU TUNED IN.
01:10:19CAMPAIGN 2026.
01:10:22WISCONSIN, DEMOCRATS, JEAN JUMP ON IN.
01:10:25CALLER: I LOST MY VOICE.
01:10:30I'VE BEEN AT THE BREWERS PARADE.
01:10:33THE BREWERS ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE WHERE MONEY DOESN'T BY WINNING.
01:10:39SUCH AN AMAZING DIVERSE TEAM. PLAYERS FROM VENEZUELA.
01:10:43IT'S A NICE ANALOGY. I'M EXCITED.
01:10:49WE JUST GOT BACK FROM OSLO, NORWAY.
01:10:54I'M SICKENED BY THE PRESIDENT'S COMMENT THAT THE COUNTRY IS TERRIBLE.
01:10:58SHOUT OUT TO NORWAY. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. OSLO.
01:11:03IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE THERE
01:11:05BECAUSE -- HE CAN'T TAKE THE
01:11:12MEDAL.
01:11:14THEY SAID IT TOOK TWO REGIMES TO GET RID OF DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA.
01:11:19WE ARE SO EXCITED WE STOPPED THIS DISMANTLING.
01:11:24THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA. SO EXCITED ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA,
01:11:27TEXAS.
01:11:28IN WISCONSIN, WE ARE IN THE
01:11:32WESTERN SUBURBS MAKING PROGRESS, MAKING SURE PEOPLE COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK'S.
01:11:37SCOTT FITZGERALD IS THE NEXT ONE.
01:11:40HE HIDES A HALF A MILE FROM OUR HOME AND WE NEVER SEE HIM.
01:11:44SO MUCH CREDIT, REBECCA.
01:11:48ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT TO VOTE, IT IS CHANGING AMERICA.
01:11:52WE WERE AT A CONCERT LAST NIGHT. EVERYONE AROUND US WAS WATCHING C-SPAN.
01:11:59IT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT THE 30 YEAR OLD AND YOUNGER CROWD. SO PROUD OF THEM.
01:12:03LET'S KEEP GOING, KEEP THIS MOMENTUM.
01:12:08IT'S MORE ABOUT SMART POLITICS.
01:12:11I BELIEVE IN A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SMART POLITICS.
01:12:16PEOPLE KNOW WHY THEY VOTE FOR SOMEONE.
01:12:17IN THIS COUNTY, ASK PEOPLE, WHY
01:12:23THEY ARE VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP, WELL IT IS KIND OF OCCULT THING.
01:12:27THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY. I HOPE WE CAN CHANGE THAT. LOOKS LIKE WE ARE.
01:12:31HOST: THE YOUNGER VOTER,
01:12:36GOVERNORS RACES, THEIR INFLUENCES?
01:12:38GUEST: YOUNGER VOTERS WERE
01:12:42ENFRANCHISED IN TEXAS.
01:12:42WE SAW THAT WITH JAMES TALARICO.
01:12:47THEY WERE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
01:12:51MICHIGAN, ABDUL EL-SAYED,
01:12:55UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ALL THOSE PLACES.
01:12:58YOUNG VOTERS WERE ENERGIZED.
01:13:00A POLL EARLIER SAID 60 SOME NEW
01:13:03VOTERS WENT FOR DEMOCRATS THERE.
01:13:06THAT PROBABLY INCLUDES YOUNG
01:13:0818-YEAR-OLD VOTERS, COLLEGE STUDENTS.
01:13:11HOST: DAVID GROLEY
01:13:18DEFEATING TIFFANY. GUEST: THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN
01:13:21EASIER FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:13:25TOM TIFFANY, VERY CONSERVATIVE,
01:13:28RAN A VERY SMART CAMPAIGN.
01:13:32WASN'T TOUTING HIS TRUMP ENDORSEMENT MUCH ON THE AIRWAVES.
01:13:35FOLKSY GRANDPA VIBE, LIKE HE
01:13:38WOULD SIT WITH AT THANKSGIVING AND CHAT WITH.
01:13:41DEMOCRATS SAID THAT IS THE CHARACTER WE ARE HAVING TO RUN
01:13:46AGAINST BUT IT IS SHEER ENVIRONMENT.
01:13:47HOST: ROBERTA, CALIFORNIA,
01:13:51REPUBLICAN. GOOD MORNING. CALLER: HEY.
01:13:55KIND OF IRONIC. LIVING CALIFORNIA.
01:14:01IF WE THINK CALIFORNIA IS THE WAY WE WANT TO BE, DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
01:14:05EVERYTHING IS MORE EXPENSIVE.
01:14:07WE HAVE EVERY PROBLEM SOCIALLY
01:14:10WRONG FROM HOMELESSNESS TO
01:14:12MENTAL ILLNESS TO A GOVERNOR WHO
01:14:16IS CRAZY, WHOSE WIFE IS CRAZIER.
01:14:20LET ME ASK YOU, ALL THESE
01:14:23DEMOCRATS WHEN OUTVOTED -- WENT
01:14:26OUT AND VOTED BECAUSE OF WHAT?
01:14:29I HAVEN'T HEARD THE NAME SOROS AT ALL.
01:14:33HE HAS BEEN BUYING DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS FOR YEARS.
01:14:36WE ARE ALL SITTING HERE ACTING LIKE HE DIDN'T BUY THIS ONE.
01:14:40ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FROM CHINA PUT
01:14:43IN BILLIONS AND BILLIONS INTO OUR ELECTIONS.
01:14:46EVERYONE IS ACTING LIKE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OUT HERE --
01:14:50EITHER THEY DON'T KNOW OR THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
01:14:52I WILL TELL YOU, C-SPAN, YOU NOW
01:14:58HAVE OWNERSHIP BY ABC.
01:15:03WE SHOULD START TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT. HOST: THERE IS NO PART OWNERSHIP BY ABC.
01:15:07CALLER: YOU KNOW WHAT? LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
01:15:12EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IT COMES UP ON C-SPAN. ABC.
01:15:17HOST: WE ARE AN ENTITY UNTO OURSELVES.
01:15:20WE SOMETIMES RELY ON OTHER THINGS LIKE VIDEO FEEDS BUT WE
01:15:24ARE A NETWORK UNTO OURSELVES. CALLER: EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU ASKED FOR MONEY.
01:15:27HOST: SURE WE DO. WE HAVE EXPANDED THE FUNDING STREAM.
01:15:31CALLER: YOU ASKED FOR PRIVATE MONEY. HOST: WE DO.
01:15:35CALLER: YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THAT YOURSELF?
01:15:37HOST: I AM FULLY AWARE.
01:15:40I WILL LEAVE YOU THERE BECAUSE I
01:15:43WILL CLARIFY AGAIN, WE HAVE TO
01:15:45ASK FOR PRIVATE DONATIONS, IF THEY WISH TO SUPPORT THIS
01:15:50NETWORK, IT IS PART OF THE EXPANDING EFFORT WE ARE MAKING
01:15:53IN TERMS OF OUR MAJORITY OF SUPPORT FROM THE CABLE INDUSTRY,
01:15:57AND WE ARE EXPANDING OUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR CALLING AND LISTENING.
01:16:02TWO MINUTES AGO WE GOT THE WARNING FROM SENATOR SCHUMER.
01:16:07WE ARE EXPECTING TO GO TO THAT IN A MOMENT.
01:16:09ABBY TURNER, LOOKING AHEAD,
01:16:12GOING FROM HERE, WHAT ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO?
01:16:19NOW THAT THESE CHANGES MAY HAVE BEEN MADE?
01:16:21GUEST: GOING AHEAD, I WANT TO
01:16:25SEEK AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS DELIVER ON THIS?
01:16:27EARLY ON IN THE CYCLE, THERE WAS
01:16:30CONCERN AFFORDABILITY WAS
01:16:33BECOMING THE DEMOCRACY BUZZWORD FOR 2024.
01:16:36FIGHTING AGAINST TRUMP, THERE
01:16:40WAS CONCERN IF WE THREW OUT WORD AFFORDABILITY EVERYWHERE, IT WOULD LOSE IMPACT ON VOTERS.
01:16:46AS THE CYCLE PROGRESSED I HEARD LESS ABOUT THAT, I HEARD SPECIFICS.
01:16:50THE BIG TEST IS IF GOVERNORS CAN
01:16:52DELIVER ON THESE, ESPECIALLY IN
01:16:55STATES WHERE THEY HAVE TO COMPROMISE WITH GOP LEGISLATORS LIKE GEORGIA AND IOWA.
01:16:59HOST: HEALTH CARE BEING A MAJOR
01:17:04ISSUE, THE PROGRESSIVES WILL BE A CHALLENGE AS WELL.
01:17:06GUEST: THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE SEEN.
01:17:11THERE ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES AT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
01:17:15NOT AS BIG OF A CONVERSATION IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSE AND SENATE BUT IN PLACES LIKE NEW
01:17:19YORK, BLUE STATES ARE SEEING THE RISE OF THIS AS WELL.
01:17:22HOST: MARYLAND, INDEPENDENT-MINDED.
01:17:25CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO AND
01:17:30GUEST. I'M LOOKING BIGGER PICTURE.
01:17:34IT'S GOOD THE DEMOCRATS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED.
01:17:40DON'T COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS BEFORE THEY HATCH.
01:17:46IN GOD WE TRUST.
01:17:50IF I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THINGS --
01:17:53HOST: LET ME PAUSE YOU THERE. SENATOR SCHUMER.
01:18:02SEN. SCHUMER: LET ME BEGIN BY
01:18:05PLAGIARIZING FRANKIE VALLEY. OH WHAT A NIGHT.
01:18:10AGAINST ALL ODDS.
01:18:12DEMOCRATS WON THE SENATE AND WE
01:18:15HAVE FIVE WORDS FOR THE PEOPLE. RELIEF IS ON THE WAY.
01:18:232025 I SAID WE COULD WIN BACK THE SENATE AFTER HE LOST THE
01:18:27PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE, PEOPLE ROLLED THEIR EYES.
01:18:32WE NEVER WAVERED.
01:18:36NOW WE HAVE WON THE SENATE. WHAT CHANGED?
01:18:41FIRST AND FOREMOST, OUR
01:18:44COALITION MOVED AS ONE BODY
01:18:47HOUSE AND SENATE TO DEFINE THE
01:18:51ISSUES AMERICANS CARED MOST ABOUT. WE TALKED TO AMERICANS.
01:18:55WHAT'S ON YOUR MINDS? NUMBER ONE, COST.
01:19:00THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
01:19:03HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO RAISE A
01:19:06FAMILY AND DO THE THINGS YOU WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU TO HAVE
01:19:10A GOOD LIFE AND YOUR KIDS WOULD HAVE A GOOD LIFE.
01:19:15SECOND, TRUMP'S CORRUPTION.
01:19:17THEY KNOW HE WAS THE
01:19:23MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT EVER BUY A LOT AND PEOPLE HATED IT.
01:19:26WE WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
01:19:29NUMBER ONE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNEW WE WERE ON THEIR SIDE ON
01:19:32THE ISSUES. THE SECOND THING WE DID, WE
01:19:36INCLUDED GREAT CANDIDATES WHO KNEW HOW TO TAILOR THEIR MESSAGE TO THE STATES.
01:19:42EVERY CANDIDATE WE RECRUITED,
01:19:45WHENEVER I TALKED TO THEM, THE
01:19:48NUMBER ONE THING THAT MOTIVATED THEM WAS PATRIOTISM.
01:19:50EACH ONE OF THEM COULD HAVE
01:19:53GOTTEN A DIFFERENT JOB, PROBABLY
01:19:55PAID MORE, TAKEN LESS TIME.
01:20:00THEY BELIEVED IN THEIR STATES, IN THEIR COUNTRY.
01:20:04AS THEY CAMPAIGNED, THE PEOPLE SAW THAT.
01:20:09THESE WERE GOOD PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARED.
01:20:12WE HAVE AN AMAZING CROP OF NEW SENATORS.
01:20:16THAT'S GREAT.
01:20:20WHAT WE HAVE NOW SEEN, THIS IS
01:20:24IMPORTANT, IS A GENERATIONAL
01:20:25REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP THAT'S
01:20:29GOING TO CHANGE AMERICA NOT ONLY NOW BUT INTO THE FUTURE.
01:20:34WHEN YOU HAVE DEMOCRATIC
01:20:36SENATORS INTENT ON WORKING THEIR STATES AND SHOWING PEOPLE OF
01:20:39THEIR STATE WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE
01:20:42REALLY ABOUT, WHETHER IOWA,
01:20:46SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, IT WILL
01:20:50MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THIS AGAIN IS A GENERATIONAL
01:20:56REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP THAT
01:20:59HAS HUGE CONSEQUENCES FOR HISTORY.
01:21:04WELL, IN TERMS OF THE MAJORITY
01:21:08-- IT'S NOW 54, COULD GO UP TO
01:21:1355, 56 -- WITH THIS MAJORITY,
01:21:22AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN DEMOCRATS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE OURSELVES WORTHY OF THEIR TRUST.
01:21:26THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB, MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING THE
01:21:32ELECTION -- DOING THINGS.
01:21:34NOT ONLY HAVE WE LISTENED TO YOU AND WE ARE LISTENING BUT WE WILL
01:21:38DO THINGS TO MAKE YOUR LIVES BETTER. MANY FOLKS WHO VOTED FOR US
01:21:43YESTERDAY ARE STILL SKEPTICAL. THAT'S OK.
01:21:45THESE VOTERS DIDN'T GIVE US THE MAJORITY SO WE CAN DO WHATEVER
01:21:49WE WANT. THEY ENTRUSTED US WITH THE
01:21:51MAJORITY TO DO WHAT THEY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT.
01:21:56REPUBLICANS RECEIVED THAT OPPORTUNITY TO YEARS AGO AND
01:21:59SQUANDERED IT.
01:22:04GOP MISREAD AMERICANS DEMAND FOR CHANGE AS A MANDATE TO DO
01:22:08TRUMP'S SELF-SERVING BIDDING.
01:22:12TRUMP SPENT HALF HIS TIME TALKING ABOUT THINGS RELEVANT TO
01:22:15THEIR LIVES, ANNOYING -- THE
01:22:20REFLECTING POOL, THE NEW WALL --
01:22:26MOST OF THE TIME, HE DID THINGS THAT HURT THEM.
01:22:32RAISED THEIR HEALTH CARE COSTS,
01:22:34ELECTRICITY BILLS, GASOLINE AND DIESEL COSTS.
01:22:40REPUBLICAN EYES WERE SO GLUED TO
01:22:43TRUMP'S SOCIAL FEED, THEY MISSED
01:22:47THE TRUTH STARING THEM DEAD IN THE FACE.
01:22:50AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR COUNTRY IS GOING RIGHT NOW.
01:22:56NOW REPUBLICANS HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO KEEP LISTENING TO THE
01:23:02NONSENSE COMING OUT OF 1600
01:23:03PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE OR START
01:23:07ACTING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IF THEY CONTINUE TO EMBRACE
01:23:12TRUMP, THEY WILL BE FOLLOWING
01:23:14HIM RIGHT OVER THE CLIFF AS THIS
01:23:17ELECTION HAS SHOWN AND IT WILL GET EVEN WORSE FOR THEM.
01:23:21WHAT IS OUR ASSIGNMENT?
01:23:24FIRST, AMERICANS WANT WASHINGTON TO BRING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING.
01:23:28THE ANGUISH AMERICAN FAMILIES
01:23:30FEEL AS THEY ASK THEMSELVES DO I PAY FOR GAS TO DRIVE TO WORK OR
01:23:34GROCERIES TO FEED THE KIDS?
01:23:35HEALTH CARE OR ELECTRICITY TO
01:23:40KEEP MY FAMILY WARM THIS WINTER?
01:23:44SECOND, AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT.
01:23:47THEY KNOW TRUMP IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
01:23:51NO AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE TO MAKE
01:23:54TRADE-OFFS AT THE SUPERMARKET WHILE TRUMP IS MAKING INSIDER TRADES ON THE STOCK MARKET.
01:24:01AMERICANS ARE CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT ACCOMMODATION.
01:24:06THIRD, THEY WANT TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
01:24:11WE HAVE SEEN TOO MANY AMERICANS DIE ON OUR STREETS AND IN A
01:24:15UNIFORM OVERSEAS BECAUSE OF TRUMP POSSE READ A JUDGMENT.
01:24:18THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IN IRAN.
01:24:22HE'S NEVER MADE IT CLEAR, HE CHANGES HIS MIND MINUTE TO
01:24:26MINUTE. THIS WAR MUST END, IT MUST END.
01:24:31MAKE NO MISTAKE, WHENEVER TRUMP
01:24:34DEFIES THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR THE LAW, WE WILL
01:24:37LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM
01:24:41TO COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
01:24:44THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S SUPPLICANT SENATE ARE OVER.
01:24:48I WILL HAVE MORE TO SAY IN THE COMING DAYS ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS
01:24:52PULLED OFF THIS VICTORY, HOW OUR MAJORITY PLANS TO DELIVER FOR
01:24:55THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:24:58BUT, I WOULD LIKE TO CONCLUDE ON
01:25:00THIS NOTE, IF THERE IS ONE
01:25:04HOPEFUL OPTIMISTIC TAKE AWAY, WE SHOULD REMEMBER, FROM THIS
01:25:08ELECTION, OUR DEMOCRACY RUNS DEEP. VERY DEEP.
01:25:14OUR FOUNDERS CREATED THIS AMAZING DOCUMENT, THE CONSTITUTION.
01:25:17THEY ENVISIONED COEQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.
01:25:22BUT THEY SAID WAS AMBITION WAS MADE TO COUNTERACT AMBITION.
01:25:27WHEN AMBITION TURNS TO BLIND LOYALTY, THERE IS ONE LESS FIREWALL.
01:25:32THEY THOUGHT THE LEGISLATURE
01:25:36WOULD CHECK A KING LIKE PRESIDENT. THIS SENATE HAS FAILED.
01:25:42THERE WAS ONE LESS FIREWALL.
01:25:44IN OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND
01:25:47BALANCES WHERE POWER DERIVES FROM THE CONSENT OF THE
01:25:52GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE STRONGEST LEVER
01:25:54AMERICANS HAVE TO COUNTER A WANT TO BE KING.
01:26:01SO LONG AS AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO USE IT. YESTERDAY AMERICA DID.
01:26:06EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES, THESE TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN
01:26:10AMONG THEM, AMERICANS HAVE NEVER
01:26:12LOST FAITH THEY CAN CHANGE THIS COUNTRY WITH THEIR VOTE.
01:26:18THE ONUS IS NOW ON US TO PROVE THEM RIGHT.
01:26:22YES. NO NO NO.
01:26:26NOPE NOPE NOPE.
01:26:28>> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THE
01:26:31PRESIDENT YET ABOUT HOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE THAT FIREWALL?
01:26:35SEN. SCHUMER: NOT YET. >> HOW ARE DEMOCRATS GOING TO
01:26:38END THE WAR WITH IRAN? SEN. SCHUMER: WE ARE GOING TO
01:26:43END THE WAR. WE HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY WHO HAVE JOINED US.
01:26:49THE FOUNDING FATHERS HAD THE POWER OF THE PURSE AS ONE OF THE
01:26:53WAYS OF DETERRING A PRESIDENT
01:26:56WHO DOES WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. YES?
01:26:58>> YOU TOOK A LOT OF CRITICISM IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
01:27:05WAS THIS A VINDICATION FOR YOU AND YOUR VISION FOR THE SENATE?
01:27:08SEN. SCHUMER: THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
01:27:13THIS IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, WHAT
01:27:16THEY WANT AND NEED AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP THEM, PLAIN AND
01:27:20SIMPLE. YES? IGOR.
01:27:24NO. IGOR? >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:27:29SEN. SCHUMER: EVERYONE WILL MAKE
01:27:33THEIR OWN INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF PETE HEGSETH. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:27:38IS THIS GOING TO BE A BLANKET HOLD? [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:27:41SEN. SCHUMER:: WE WANT JUDICIAL
01:27:45NOMINEES LIKE WE SHOWED IN 2023.
01:27:53WHO OBEY THE LAW AND HAVE FIDELITY TO THE RULE OF LAW.
01:27:55TOO MANY OF TRUMP'S NOMINEES DID
01:27:59NOT HAVE THAT AT ALL. YES. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:28:04-- ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER -- [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:28:07-- WOULD YOU SUPPORT -- [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:28:10SEN. SCHUMER: THE FIRST THING WE
01:28:13ARE GOING TO DO IS REDUCE
01:28:16PEOPLE'S COSTS, WORK THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS SO IT DOES.
01:28:19THANK YOU. [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:28:24SEN. SCHUMER: HE ASKED CAN I WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT OK.
01:28:30WE ARE GOING TO WORK HARD TO
01:28:32DRIVE COSTS DOWN WITH THE PRESIDENT OR WITHOUT HIM.
01:28:37PERIOD. >> [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:28:41HOST: SENATE MINORITY LEADER
01:28:46CHUCK SCHUMER COMMENTING ON YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS, EXPECTED
01:28:48TO BECOME THE MAJORITY LEADER WHEN THE 120TH CONGRESS COMES IN.
01:28:52GUEST: A LOT OF THINGS STOOD OUT.
01:28:56VOTERS GAVE US TRUST BUT WE HAVEN'T EARNED IT.
01:28:59HOST: HE'S COMING BACK. SEN. SCHUMER: [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:29:05ASK YOUR QUESTION. >> YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A
01:29:10DIFFERENT CONFERENCE WITH A LOT OF SENATORS FROM RED STATES.
01:29:15IS THIS A REPUDIATION OF THE LEFT? HOW DOES THIS CHANGE HOW YOU GOVERN?
01:29:19SEN. SCHUMER: IF YOU LISTENED TO
01:29:21OUR CANDIDATES, WHETHER
01:29:24PROGRESSIVE OR MODERATE, AND WE
01:29:27HAD SOME OF EACH BECAUSE WE ARE A BIG TENT, THEY WERE SAYING THE SAME THINGS.
01:29:31THIS MORNING, CORY BOOKER,
01:29:35BEFORE I WENT ON MORNING JOE,
01:29:38ADAM HAMILTON, WHAT THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO DO WAS REMARKABLY
01:29:41SIMILAR. REDUCE COSTS AND AND THE CORRUPTION.
01:29:46EACH CANDIDATE'S, SOON TO BE
01:29:49SENATORS, SAID IT IN A WAY THAT FIT THEIR STATE.
01:29:54IT'S DIFFERENT IN MAINE, IN KANSAS.
01:29:58IT WAS THE SAME MESSAGE.
01:30:00WE WILL BE UNITED AS A CAUCUS FOCUSING ON THE ISSUES.
01:30:04WHAT WHAT WHAT?
01:30:04>> WHAT ABOUT INVESTIGATIONS,
01:30:09THE BALANCE BETWEEN INVESTIGATIONS AND POLICY? SEN. SCHUMER: THERE WERE SUCH
01:30:13RAMPANT CORRUPTION, THERE HAS TO
01:30:17BE INVESTIGATIONS BUT WE WILL NOT TAKE OUR EYE OFF THE BALL.
01:30:18NUMBER ONE, REDUCING COSTS AND ENDING CORRUPTION.
01:30:22>> [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:30:24SEN. SCHUMER: WE HAVE A
01:30:28BIPARTISAN GROUP WORKING ON
01:30:31PERMITTING REFORM, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL COME UP WITH --
01:30:35[INDISCERNIBLE]
01:30:39>> HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THOSE
01:30:43CANDIDATES WHO WON WHO SAID THEY WOULDN'T VOTE FOR YOU?
01:30:45SEN. SCHUMER: TO REPEAT THE
01:30:48ANSWER, THE ISSUE IS NOT ME.
01:30:53I WILL BE REELECTED AS MAJORITY LEADER.
01:30:57THE ISSUE IS FOCUSING ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WANT. [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:31:07HOST: I BELIEVE HE HAS DONE THIS TIME AROUND.
01:31:12TAKEAWAYS FROM THE EXTENDED VERSION? GUEST: REDUCE COSTS.
01:31:18TAMP DOWN CORRUPTION.
01:31:22IT'S GOING TO BE HARD FOR DEMOCRATS. TRUMP WILL BE STANDING IN THE
01:31:26WAY WITH THE VETO.
01:31:32INTERESTING NEXT FEW MONTHS TO SEE HOW DEMOCRATS APPROACH THE BALANCE.
01:31:38THEY HAVE TO REDUCE COSTS, STRIKE THE BALANCE WITH INVESTIGATIONS.
01:31:43IN THE FINAL FEW WEEKS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, DEMOCRATS WERE
01:31:46WARY TO TALK ABOUT CORRUPTION,
01:31:49TYING IT BACK TO DEMOCRACY, SORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
01:31:53TRUMP FAMILY, THROUGH THE COST-OF-LIVING ISSUE.
01:31:56WHAT THIS FAMILY IS DOING IS THE REASON WHY COSTS ARE SO HIGH FOR YOU.
01:32:00I COULD SEE A WAY WHERE THEY
01:32:03COULD WEASEL THAT IN, START TO
01:32:05DO INVESTIGATIONS SCHUMER TALKED ABOUT AND SAY THIS IS HOW WE ARE ADDRESSING THE ISSUE.
01:32:10IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY TO GET ANYTHING ACROSS THE LINE.
01:32:12HOST: YOU ARE WATCHING
01:32:19CONTINUING COVERAGE OF ELECTION
01:32:212026, THE MIDTERMS, PART OF 20
01:32:24HOURS OF COVERAGE HERE AND YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG ON OUR WEBSITE, OUR APP.
01:32:29YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN INFORMATION PERTAINING TO WHERE POWER STANDS.
01:32:33THE HOUSE AND SENATE WILL BE CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS NEXT
01:32:37YEAR. WE ARE WAITING FOR HAKEEM
01:32:40JEFFRIES TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THE
01:32:42HOUSE SIDE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST
01:32:46NIGHT AND WHAT IT MEANS GOING FORWARD.
01:32:47WHEN HE APPEARS, WE WILL TAKE THOSE COMMENTS LIVE IN TALK TO YOU.
01:32:53MARYLAND, GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR THOUGHT?
01:32:55CALLER: IN GOD WE TRUST.
01:33:00I THINK THIS COMES FROM THE TOP. WE NEED A BUDGET.
01:33:04GET A BUDGET. TOP TO BOTTOM.
01:33:12DON'T OVERSPEND.
01:33:15LET'S GET THIS DEBT IN FOCUS,
01:33:19FIND OUT HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH THE BUDGET AND THIS DEBT.
01:33:24THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT MONEY
01:33:26SPENDING AND THAT OTHER STUFF.
01:33:29BEFORE NOW, BEFORE THE DEMOCRATS
01:33:32GOT IN, AND WERE IN BEFORE, OK?
01:33:38THE UNEXPECTED, WE DEAL WITH A
01:33:41LOT OF ISSUES NOT FORESEEN.
01:33:44THIS CLIMATE CHANGE, AI STUFF, A
01:33:48BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF COMING DOWN THE PIKE.
01:33:54WE NEED TO PUT OUR MINDS WITH A MINDSET TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS AS WELL.
01:33:59JUST LIKE MR. SCHUMER SAID, I'M
01:34:00AGREEING WITH HIM, WE NEED TO
01:34:03BRING THE PEOPLE IN PERSPECTIVE
01:34:06ON HOW THEY ARE GOING TO CHANGE
01:34:11THIS.
01:34:14LET'S GET WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO
01:34:15DO FOR US, LET US GET IT
01:34:19TOGETHER, TOGETHER. HOST: WHETHER CHUCK SCHUMER OR
01:34:22THE STATE LEVEL, CAMPAIGNING IS ONE THING AND GOVERNING IS
01:34:26HARDER WHEN YOU'VE MADE PROMISES. GUEST: SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. [LAUGHTER]
01:34:31THE SENATE AND HOUSE HAVE TO DO THIS.
01:34:37GOVERNORS WHO DON'T HAVE A TRIFECTA WILL HAVE TO SET A REALITY CHECK WITH THEIR
01:34:41CONSTITUENTS. THESE ARE MY PROMISES, THESE ARE
01:34:44THE FACTORS I'M UP AGAINST.
01:34:46TRUMP'S VETO, A GOP STATE
01:34:50LEGISLATOR HERE. AT THE STATE LEVEL, THERE ARE
01:34:53EXECUTIVE ACTIONS GOVERNORS SAID THEY WANT TO TAKE.
01:34:57A LOT HAVE SAID THEY WANT TO CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON DATA
01:35:01CENTERS. A LOT OF THESE ISSUES THEY CAN
01:35:05DO IN STATES BUT A LOT OF THE
01:35:07AFFORDABILITY STUFF HAS TO BE DONE BY A STATE LEGISLATURE.
01:35:11HOST: MATT, VIRGINIA, DEMOCRAT.
01:35:14CALLER: THANK YOU.
01:35:23ORIGINALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC AGENDA.
01:35:25YOU MENTIONED JD VANCE'S POST.
01:35:32THEY HAVE GIVEN THE DEMOCRATS A
01:35:33GOOD OPPORTUNITY, ONE OF THE
01:35:36THINGS I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT --
01:35:39HOW ARE THE DEMOCRATS GOING TO DELIVER ON THE PROMISES TO LOWER COSTS?
01:35:44IT'S ALWAYS EASIER TO BE AGAINST SOMETHING THAN FOR SOMETHING.
01:35:47JD VANCE'S PRIMARILY MENTIONING
01:35:53THEY LOST BECAUSE OF ONE REASON AND THAT WAS THE WAR.
01:35:57HE SAID THAT IS ONE OF HIS PRIORITIES.
01:35:59IF I AM DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP, THE FIRST THING I DO IS PUT
01:36:04SOMETHING WHETHER A WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OR A VOTE FRONT AND CENTER.
01:36:09MENTIONED THAT THE VICE
01:36:10PRESIDENT AGREES, THAT THE WAR
01:36:13NEEDS TO END AND TIE THAT IN IN
01:36:14TERMS OF ENDING THE WAR AND HOW
01:36:17THAT COULD THEREBY LOWER PRICES FOR AMERICANS. PUT THAT FRONT AND CENTER.
01:36:25PUT THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICANS,
01:36:28DEMOCRATS ON RECORD AS HAVING TO VOTE RIGHT THERE.
01:36:33IT WOULD GIVE THEM SOMETHING
01:36:37TANGIBLE TO SHOW IF THEY COULD PASS THAT AND IT PUTS THE BALL
01:36:40-- THE SENATE COULD PASS THAT
01:36:44HOPEFULLY WITH THEIR NEW MAJORITY AS WELL. THEN YOU WOULD REALLY MAKE IT
01:36:48DIFFICULT FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
01:36:50VETO SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHEN HIS OWN VICE PRESIDENT IS
01:36:54TALKING ABOUT THAT. TRUMP HIMSELF ALLUDED TO THE
01:36:59WAR, THAT THAT WAS AN ISSUE.
01:37:04THAT IS SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON. HOST: THANK YOU.
01:37:08GUEST: OUR CALLER MIGHT BE
01:37:11HAVING A SNEAK PEEK AT CHUCK SCHUMER'S PLAYBOOK.
01:37:14THIS WOULD BE AN INTERESTING MANEUVER.
01:37:18POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF CUTTING OFF FUNDING FOR THE WAR. POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.
01:37:24TRUMP THINKS ABOUT HIMSELF A LOT.
01:37:26HE ALSO WANTS TO MAKE SURE REPUBLICANS HAVE A CHANCE AT WINNING 2028.
01:37:31HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH DO I WANT TO END THE WAR OR JEOPARDIZE JD VANCE?
01:37:36VERY BAD LOOK FOR VANCE IF HE
01:37:38HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SAYING THE REASON WHY COSTS ARE HIGH IS
01:37:41THE WAR AND WE WANT TO END IT AND YOUR OWN PRESIDENT WILL NOT
01:37:45SIGN THIS TO END IT.
01:37:48IT WOULD BE A PRECARIOUS POSITION FOR JD VANCE TO BE IN.
01:37:51TRUMP WILL HAVE TO WAY THAT.
01:37:53HOST: JOINING US FOR THE RIDE,
01:37:56IT WILL BE A PRECARIOUS
01:37:59SITUATION IF I DON'T GO BACK TO THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD
01:38:02PARTICULARLY FOR TAXES.
01:38:03JOHN: WHEN LAST WE TALKED, WE
01:38:10TALKED ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN GERRYMANDER IN 2024, THEN A
01:38:13SECOND SHOT IN NORTH CAROLINA AND HOW THAT CHANGED IT.
01:38:17THIS IS THE 2024 DISTRICTS IN NORTH CAROLINA, YOU CAN SEE HOW
01:38:22MUCH BLUER IT IS IN 2026. THE LONE STAR STATE.
01:38:26VERY HIGH-PROFILE REDISTRICTING.
01:38:30DID IT BACKFIRE?
01:38:32DID TEXAS NORTH CAROLINA ITSELF?
01:38:36JACOB: THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO
01:38:39HAVE NORTH CAROLINAD ITSELF.
01:38:43THEY GOT DANGEROUSLY CLOSE.
01:38:46THAT IS NOT TO SAY TEXAS HAS GONE WELL FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:38:49THEY LOST EVERY STATEWIDE RACE
01:38:51AND THEY WILL PROBABLY LOSE A
01:38:53HOUSE DISTRICT, DESPITE THE FACT
01:38:56THEY REDREW THE MAP TO PICK UP AS MANY AS FIVE SEATS.
01:38:59JOHN: NOT A GREAT NIGHT FOR REPUBLICANS.
01:39:02WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO HOLD ON?
01:39:04JACOB: LET'S LOOK AT HOUSTON.
01:39:10COUPLE DISTRICTS, THE SECOND DISTRICT, THIS CAME ONLINE LATE.
01:39:15CLOSED POLLING. THE OPEN DAN CRENSHAW SEAT.
01:39:19TOTH AHEAD OF FINNIE BY TWO
01:39:24POINTS.
01:39:25JOHN: NEXT DOOR IS THE 38TH READ
01:39:28JACOB: BONCK WILL BE THE NEXT
01:39:34REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN HERE.
01:39:36THEY REDREW THIS IN 2022 TO BE SOLID REPUBLICAN.
01:39:39THEN THEY LOST THE GOP PRIMARY. THREE POINT VICTORY IN A
01:39:43DISTRICT THAT WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP BY 21 POINTS TWO YEARS AGO.
01:39:47JOHN: THE DISTRICTS THAT TOUCH
01:39:53SUBURBAN DALLAS, THE FIFTH.
01:39:54JACOB: TEXAS FIVE, TRUMP PLUS 22
01:40:00SEAT, NOT ON ANYONE'S RADAR.
01:40:03LOOKING FOR THE UNCALLED RACE,
01:40:06GOOD AND AHEAD BY JUST 7000 VOTES, A MARGIN OF 3%.
01:40:10JOHN: ONE OF THOSE DISTRICTS
01:40:12THAT TOUCHES WHAT BECAME A BLUE
01:40:14PART OF THE STATE LAST NIGHT, THE 27TH.
01:40:17JACOB: MICHAEL CLOUD, ANOTHER
01:40:21TRUMP PLUS 21 SEAT, HE'S UP BY
01:40:24JUST TWO AND A HALF POINTS, ANOTHER UNCALLED RACE.
01:40:26JOHN: WHY NOT GO BACK TO DALLAS?
01:40:29JACOB: JACE YARBOROUGH AHEAD BY
01:40:33THREE POINTS OF DAN BARRIOS,
01:40:36ANOTHER RACE THAT REPUBLICANS STARTED SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY
01:40:39ON IN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, THE CLUB FOR GROWTH SPENT SEVERAL MILLIONS.
01:40:44THE STORY OF WHY TEXAS REPUBLICANS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE
01:40:48TO HOLD ON IS BECAUSE THEIR CANDIDATES HAD SO MUCH MONEY AS WELL AS THE PARTISANSHIP.
01:40:54TEXAS 32, A TRUMP PLUS 18 DISTRICT.
01:40:59REPUBLICANS WILL DROP A SEAT AND LOSE THE NINTH IN HOUSTON.
01:41:03COUPLE POINTS WORSE FOR THEM AND THEY COULD HAVE LOST ANOTHER SIX
01:41:08DISTRICTS, BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE DOWN THERE, BACK TO HOUSTON, THE
01:41:12NAILS SEAT, USED TO BE TROY
01:41:16NEHLS, NOW IT IS HIS IDENTICAL
01:41:19TWIN BROTHER TREVOR NELS, RUNNING FOR THIS. HE'S UP BY THREE POINTS.
01:41:25UNINSPIRING REPUBLICAN VICTORIES IN SIX DISTRICTS THAT VOTED FOR
01:41:29TRUMP BY A MARGIN OF 18 POINTS OR MORE.
01:41:31THAT IS THE STORY OF TEXAS,
01:41:34STRUGGLING TO HOLD ONTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTS OF THE STATE.
01:41:37JOHN: THAT IS TEXAS.
01:41:40WE HAVE BEEN TELLING STORIES THROUGHOUT THE MORNING OF ALL THESE STATES.
01:41:44HOST: THANKS.
01:41:48SEAN, COLORADO, REPUBLICAN LINE. THANKS FOR WAITING.
01:41:53CALLER: NO WORRIES. WHAT'S UP PEDRO?
01:41:58SAD DAY FOR AMERICA. YOU ARE LIKE KIDS ON CHRISTMAS.
01:42:03THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT PUSHED THE DEMOCRATS OVER THE LINE.
01:42:0870 IS A MEMBERS IN, ABDUL, OMAR
01:42:13WINNING EVEN THOUGH SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER AND STOLE MILLIONS AND SHE STILL WINS.
01:42:17THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OBAMA
01:42:21IMPORTS THOUSANDS OF SOMALIANS AND WE HAVE MAIL-IN VOTING.
01:42:24I WAS AT LINE IN THE POLLS IN COLORADO.
01:42:26I SWEAR TO GOD, THEY CALLED IT
01:42:311% AND PEOPLE WERE STILL IN LINE.
01:42:34THEY CALLED THE COLORADO ELECTION. THESE BLUE CITIES ARE STEALING
01:42:38STATES. ONE STATE AFTER ANOTHER, THEY STEAL IT.
01:42:43THE MAIL-IN VOTING GOES ON FOR MONTHS AND WEEKS.
01:42:46I HAVE A HOME IN EUROPE. FLORIDA IS A GREAT STATE.
01:42:51EUROPE IS DESTROYED. THESE KIDS, CHARLIE KIRK WAS RIGHT.
01:42:56THESE KIDS ARE INDOCTRINATED. POLITICS ARE DESTROYING THEIR MINDS.
01:43:00SAD DAY FOR AMERICA.
01:43:01HOST: DAVID, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, INDEPENDENT.
01:43:05CALLER: THANK YOU.
01:43:10ABOLISH AND PROSECUTE I.C.E.,
01:43:17ZIONISM IS RACIST AND GENOCIDAL.
01:43:18THE ELECTION LAST NIGHT WAS A
01:43:21VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS.
01:43:26THEY DO NOT PROPOSE AN OPPOSITION PARTY TO THE FASCIST
01:43:29RISING IN AMERICA.
01:43:33CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES NEED TO GO. THEY LACK LEADERSHIP.
01:43:37THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN THERE TO BE THE ANTI-TRUMP.
01:43:39THEY ABSOLUTELY ARE LIFTING US
01:43:43UP TO LET US GO AGAIN AND I
01:43:44FULLY SUPPORT ABSOLUTELY A LARGE
01:43:50SOCIALIST WORKING PARTY MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
01:43:52WE NEED TO OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION. THE RESULTS OF LAST NIGHTS
01:43:58ELECTION, MERELY WE DON'T LIKE WHAT TRUMP IS DOING.
01:44:01BOTH PARTIES HAVE ABSOLUTELY BEEN LETTING US DOWN.
01:44:05THE FOUNDING FATHERS, EVEN
01:44:08THOUGH THEY WERE SLAVE OWNERS AND ABHORRENT PEOPLE, TOLD US
01:44:13THAT THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM MAKES US NATIONALISTIC, TO FOCUS ON IDOLATRY.
01:44:18WE NEED A THIRD PARTY SYSTEM, RANK CHOICE VOTING MOVING FORWARD.
01:44:23WE NEED TO CELEBRATE THE WIN BUT THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ACROSS
01:44:27THE NATION NEED TO NOT JUST
01:44:30STAND AGAINST I.C.E., USE THEIR
01:44:37POLICE FORCES TO OPPOSE THEM PHYSICALLY.
01:44:38WE HAVE MAST FIGURES MOVING THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND KILLING US.
01:44:42HOST: DAVID IN CHICAGO WASN'T
01:44:47THE FIRST WANT TO MENTION ON THE
01:44:47DEMOCRATIC SIDE THAT THE LEADERS
01:44:51SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES HAVE TO GO. WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT HAPPENING?
01:44:55GUEST: THEY ARE BOTH SAFE TO
01:44:58HAVE THEIR RESPECTIVE
01:45:02POSITIONS. WE SAW CANDIDATES ON BOTH SIDES SAYING THEY WOULD NOT BACK THEN
01:45:07BUT THEIR MARGINS ARE COMFORTABLE.
01:45:11JEFFRIES, IF HE HAD A DOZEN OR
01:45:13SO MARGIN OVER THE REPUBLICANS,
01:45:16MIGHT HAVE BEEN TESTY WITH THESE PROGRESSIVE DSA CANDIDATES.
01:45:20WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING UPWARDS OF
01:45:22250, THAT NULLIFIES THIS WING OF THE PARTY IN OPPOSING HIM FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP.
01:45:27HOST: RUDY, CALIFORNIA, HAKEEM
01:45:31JEFFRIES WAITING, DEMOCRAT LINE.
01:45:34CALLER: HOW YOU DOING PEDRO AND
01:45:38ABIGAIL? I HAVE A GRANDDAUGHTER, I CALLER ABBY.
01:45:43SENATOR SCHUMER HAS THE RIGHT IDEA.
01:45:47DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH
01:45:50IMPEACHMENT OR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS.
01:45:54THEY DON'T PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE
01:45:56OR GAS IN THE CAR, TAKE CARE OF HEALTH CARE AND CHILDCARE.
01:45:59FOR ME, THE DEMOCRATS BETTER
01:46:05RECOGNIZE IMPEACHMENT AND THAT STUFF IS NOT GOING TO DO THEM
01:46:10GOOD. THANK YOU.
01:46:12HOST: HOW LONG DO HONEYMOON
01:46:15PERIODS LAST IN THESE
01:46:19SITUATIONS?
01:46:20GUEST: NOT LONG AND NOT WHEN
01:46:24PRICES ARE THIS HIGH.
01:46:26VOTERS WANT TO SEE DEMOCRATS IN POWER. THEY WANT TO SEE PRICES LOWERED.
01:46:30THERE IS SKEPTICISM OVER TRUMP
01:46:341, LOOKING AT THE MOVES DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER THE
01:46:38ANTI-MAGA.
01:46:40VOTERS WANTED MORE FROM THEM, TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR.
01:46:45THAT IS THE TASK AT HAND FOR DEMOCRATS AHEAD OF 2028.
01:46:51MAYBE THAT TAKES COMPROMISING WITH TRUMP TO GET THINGS ACROSS
01:46:53THE LINE, TO LOWER COSTS AND END THE WAR IN IRAN.
01:46:58IT WILL BE HARD FOR DEMOCRATS TO GET THIS DONE WITH A DIVIDED
01:47:02GOVERNMENT. HOST: MARY, OHIO, REPUBLICAN
01:47:06LINE. CALLER: THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH THE PREVIOUS
01:47:10CALLER, IMPEACHMENT WILL PUT FOOD ON ANYONE STABLE.
01:47:13I AGREE WITH THE CALLER FROM MARYLAND ABOUT THE BUDGET BEING SO IMPORTANT.
01:47:19FIND IT INTERESTING CHUCK SCHUMER REFERENCED THE POWER OF THE PURSE, WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE
01:47:24WAR, BUT 12 TIMES A YEAR BOTH
01:47:28PARTIES REFUSED TO DO THEIR JOB AND THEY AVOID PASSING BUDGET
01:47:32BILLS AND THAT IS THEIR PRIMARY FUNCTION.
01:47:34AS FOR THE BLUE WAVE, I HOPE IT
01:47:37PRODUCES SOMETHING POSITIVE. MAYBE IT WILL FORCE COMPROMISE.
01:47:42I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE ALL THAT LIFE-CHANGING.
01:47:45PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS LIKE CLINTON, OBAMA AND GEORGE BUSH
01:47:50FACED OPPOSITION PARTIES AND THE CONGRESS AND SOMETIMES IT CAN LEAD TO A GRIDLOCK AS WELL.
01:47:55I'M HOPING FOR THE BEST BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING WE
01:47:59WANT CHANGE, WE ARE TIRED OF
01:48:02GRANDSTANDING, OF THE POLITICAL AND DECISION.
01:48:06WE WANT SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR EVERYONE. HOST: A SIMILAR THEME.
01:48:11PEOPLE WANT PEOPLE TO OWN UP TO WHAT THEY PROMISED.
01:48:13GUEST: AS WE HAVE SEEN IN MANY
01:48:16CONGRESS IS A RECENT, FEWER
01:48:19BILLS INTRODUCED IN PAST BUT THEY ARE VERY LARGE BILLS.
01:48:266 MILLION LEGISLATIVE WORDS PER CONGRESS, FEWER NUMBER OF BILLS.
01:48:30WE WILL PROBABLY SEE BIG BUDGET BILLS.
01:48:32HOST: SO-CALLED REGULAR ORDER, I
01:48:36GUESS THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.
01:48:39WHETHER THEY DELIVER ON IT IS ANOTHER THING.
01:48:41CLIFF, THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA, A
01:48:46CLOSE WATCH AREA, INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: HI, GLAD TO BE ABLE TO TALK.
01:48:51I'M IN THE VILLAGES.
01:48:58I'M NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING HOW
01:49:01THE AFFORDABILITY PART CANNOT BE
01:49:05SOMETHING THE DEMOCRATS THAT'S
01:49:07WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IS IN
01:49:11FLORIDA, WE PASSED AMENDMENT THREE, WHICH IS GOING TO LOWER OUR PROPERTY TAXES.
01:49:16THERE'S A LOT OF EFFORTS HERE TO GET RID OF WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE.
01:49:20I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE GAS PART.
01:49:24MOST OF WHAT I COULD SEE, THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING ON IS THE WAR
01:49:28IS BAD AND THAT IS INCREASING OR GAS PRICES.
01:49:32I THINK THEY WERE THE SAME PARTY THAT BLOCKED THE KEYSTONE
01:49:38PIPELINE, THEY HIT OFFSHORE DRILLING, THEY STOPPED ALASKA
01:49:42ENERGY, GRID LINE FIVE AND THEY
01:49:45DRAINED THE OIL RESERVES. I'M WONDERING WHAT THEY REALLY
01:49:50BELIEVE, ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN
01:49:54IS GOING TO DO TO LOWER GAS
01:49:57PRICES, WHEN WE ARE REDUCING THE NUMBER OF REFINERIES?
01:50:01WE ARE NOT PRODUCING, A COUNTRY
01:50:05INDEPENDENT OF OIL AGAIN. WE ARE GOING IN REVERSE.
01:50:07I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY PLAN ON
01:50:12REDUCING COSTS TO THE CONSUMER.
01:50:15HOST: WHEN YOU ARE VOTING FOR
01:50:18GOVERNOR, IF I MAY ASK, WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR?
01:50:22CALLER: HE WAS NOT MY FIRST
01:50:26ELECTION BUT HE ENDED UP BEING A REPUBLICAN.
01:50:31DONALD. HOST: THAT WAS CLIFF.
01:50:38WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY, BYRON DONALDS?
01:50:42GUEST: ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS
01:50:46THAT EMERGED IN THIS WAS HURRICANE INSURANCE.
01:50:49WE SEE MORE HURRICANES. THEY BECOME MORE DISASTROUS YEAR
01:50:53AFTER YEAR. FLORIDIANS ARE HAVING TO DEAL WITH THIS.
01:50:57THAT IS SOMETHING HE MAY HAVE TO TAKE UP AS WELL.
01:50:59HOST: SOME GOVERNORS HAVE TO
01:51:03DEAL WITH BALLOT INITIATIVES, ESPECIALLY VIRGINIA.
01:51:07WHAT DO THOSE TELL US ABOUT THE SENTIMENT PEOPLE HAD?
01:51:10GUEST: I COVERED SOME OF THE
01:51:16ABORTION RELATED BALLOT MEASURES, VIRGINIA, NEVADA,
01:51:20IDAHO, MISSOURI.
01:51:24MISSOURI, THIS MEASURE WOULD REPEAL THE CONSTITUTIONAL
01:51:27AMENDMENT PASSED IN 2024 TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS.
01:51:30THERE WAS A GOP LED EFFORT FROM
01:51:34THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO NULLIFY THAT AND VOTERS REJECTED IT.
01:51:37ABORTION RIGHTS WEREN'T SUCCESSFUL ALL OVER THE BALLOT.
01:51:41IDAHO HAD A MEASURE, IT WAS NOT
01:51:45CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. IT WAS MORE STATUTORY.
01:51:49IT WOULD BE PUT INTO LAW TO ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS BUT
01:51:52VOTERS REJECTED THAT.
01:51:55VIRGINIA AND NEVADA BOTH HAVE THE STATUTORY RIGHT TO ABORTION
01:51:58BUT THEY BOTH ENSHRINED THAT IN THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS LAST NIGHT.
01:52:01HOST: HAKEEM JEFFRIES EXPECTED
01:52:06MOMENTARILY, AT LEAST BY NOON.
01:52:08RICK,, ILLINOIS, REPUBLICAN LINE.
01:52:11CALLER: HOW YOU DOING?
01:52:14JUST HAPPY THE PEOPLE SPOKE TO
01:52:18THE COUNTRY.
01:52:25LET THE REPUBLICANS TAKE A COUPLE YEARS OFF.
01:52:29[INDISCERNIBLE]
01:52:32ALL THIS STUFF GOING ON IN THE WHITE HOUSE --
01:52:35HOST: ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?
01:52:39CALLER: REPUBLICAN.
01:52:42I VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS LAST NIGHT.
01:52:45I WANT CHANGE.
01:52:50[INDISCERNIBLE]
01:52:52I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT I DID VOTE
01:52:56DEMOCRAT BUT I JUST WANT
01:52:59EVERYONE TO KNOW, LET THE PEOPLE
01:53:05DO THEIR JOB THAT GOT IN.
01:53:06HOST: WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR SPECIFICALLY?
01:53:10CALLER: CHANGE, GETTING FOOD ON
01:53:16THE TABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE MONEY.
01:53:19PEOPLE WORKING THREE JOBS A WEEK. IT IS SAD OUT THERE.
01:53:29I SAW WHAT WAS GOING ON THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
01:53:32YOU NEVER HEAR [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:53:39-- IN THE HOUSE BECAUSE EVERY
01:53:41TIME DONALD TRUMP SAID DO IT, THEY DO IT.
01:53:48I SAW HOW EVERYTHING WAS GOING. [INDISCERNIBLE]
01:53:54I DID IT.
01:53:56HOST: OK.
01:53:58CALLER: I'M JUST HAPPY AND I
01:54:02HOPE THEY LET REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS DO THEIR JOBS.
01:54:06HOST: THANK YOU.
01:54:07GUEST: ONE OF THE BEST CASES
01:54:11THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED FOR REPUBLICANS LAST NIGHT IS THERE VOTERS STAYED HOME.
01:54:16THIS IS A REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED DEMOCRATIC.
01:54:19THAT'S THE REASON WE ARE SEEING SUCH A BIG WAVE HERE.
01:54:22THE PROBLEM REPUBLICANS FACED --
01:54:27THEY WANTED TO GET VOTERS TO THE POLLS AND VOTE REPUBLICAN.
01:54:31SOME REPUBLICAN VOTERS WERE SO DISILLUSIONED, THEY WENT OUT AND VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS.
01:54:35HOST: WE WILL LEARN ABOUT
01:54:38TURNOUT IN THE DAYS AHEAD. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE
01:54:42WHAT FACTORS KEPT PEOPLE HOME OR
01:54:45CAUSED THEM TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE. THAT WILL BE AND WHAT YOU COVER?
01:54:49GUEST: SOME STATES, REPUBLICANS
01:54:53HAD TO TURN OUT TO DELIVER DEMOCRATS A VICTORY. IOWA.
01:54:59REPUBLICANS HAVE A HEAVY VOTER REGISTRATION ADVANTAGE HERE.
01:55:04ROB STAND MADE A UNIQUE APPEAL.
01:55:06HE WOULD OPEN RALLIES WITH EVERYONE SINGING AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.
01:55:11EVERYONE WOULD CLAP FOR REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AND
01:55:15INDEPENDENTS. HE WAS ABLE TO WIN THEM OVER BECAUSE OF HIS MESSAGE.
01:55:21CALLERS SAID THEY WERE TIRED OF THE DIVISIVENESS IN THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.
01:55:27SAND IS A DEMOCRAT BECAUSE HE HAS TO BE.
01:55:29HE'S CRITICIZED BOTH PARTIES AND HE DOESN'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE
01:55:33A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM.
01:55:33HOST: ANGELA, ALABAMA, DEMOCRAT.
01:55:37CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
01:55:40FEDERAL EMPLOYEE UNDER DOD.
01:55:45I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME, HER
01:55:50THOUGHTS ABOUT FEDERAL WORKERS TURNING OUT FOR THE ELECTION.
01:55:55LIVE IN ALABAMA.
01:56:02I KNOW SHOMARI FIGURES DID WIN
01:56:06THE GERRYMANDERED DISTRICT.
01:56:12WON MORE STATEHOUSES IN ALABAMA.
01:56:17IF SHE COULD EXPOUND ON THAT. HOST: THANKS.
01:56:19GUEST: STATEHOUSES I'M NOT SURE
01:56:22BUT I KNOW DEMOCRATS HAD A
01:56:26VICTORIOUS WAVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN FLIPPING STATE LEGISLATIVE SEATS.
01:56:28ON FEDERAL WORKERS, WE DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS YET.
01:56:33I DON'T KNOW IF WE COLLECT THOSE DEMOGRAPHICS.
01:56:382025, FEDERAL WORKERS, DOGE
01:56:43PLAYED HEAVILY INTO THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL RACE.
01:56:46MANY WERE DISGRUNTLED.
01:56:50ON SHOMARI FIGURES DISTRICT, THIS IS ONE OF THE STATES
01:56:54REPUBLICANS REDREW AND IT BACKFIRED. THEY SPENT MILLIONS.
01:56:58THEY REDUCED THE BLACK VOTING
01:57:03POPULATION TO AROUND 40% I THINK.
01:57:05THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES
01:57:08REPUBLICANS TRIED AND FAILED TO DRAW A DEMOCRAT OUT.
01:57:12ONE OF THE REASONS DEMOCRATS
01:57:15WERE SO SUCCESSFUL IN SOME OF THESE REDRAWN DISTRICTS WERE
01:57:19BECAUSE THEIR REPRESENTATIVES DIDN'T ALL RETIRE.
01:57:23KATHY CASTOR, SOTO, FIGURES.
01:57:28IT HELPS TO HAVE THE INCUMBENCY ADVANTAGE.
01:57:30HOST: 54 SEATS PICKED UP BY
01:57:33DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE, SEVEN PICKUPS OVERALL.
01:57:37228 IN THE HOUSE, 25 PICKUPS.
01:57:42WHAT ARE THE STORIES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPORTING IN THE DAYS AHEAD?
01:57:45GUEST: I LOVE MY STATES.
01:57:48I'M A LITTLE BIASED.
01:57:50INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THE
01:57:52SURPRISE GAINS DEMOCRATS MADE AT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
01:57:58THEY ARE DECLARING VICTORY IN TEXAS, NORTH CAROLINA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
01:58:03I DON'T KNOW IF AP HAS CALLED ALL THE NUMBERS YET.
01:58:06THERE'S A STORY TO BE TOLD ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS TRIED TO INVEST AT
01:58:10THE STATE LEVEL FOLLOWING REPUBLICANS HAVING SUCH A HEAVY
01:58:15HOLD OVER STATE LEGISLATORS AFTER THEIR 2010 INITIATIVE.
01:58:19HOST: WHAT WAS THE SURPRISE OF THE NIGHT FOR GOVERNORS RACES?
01:58:23GUEST: ABSOLUTELY TEXAS.
01:58:28BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WERE WARY OF SAYING ANYTHING.
01:58:32DEMOCRATS DIDN'T WANT TO PUSH THIS TO THE FOREFRONT.
01:58:36THEY'VE TRIED AND FAILED TO UNSEAT ABBOTT BEFORE. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE TOO
01:58:40HOPEFUL.
01:58:44THERE WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST CAMPAIGNS OF A DEMOCRAT I SAW IN THE FIELD THIS CYCLE.
01:58:49SHE KNEW ABOUT THE ISSUES. SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT DATA
01:58:53CENTERS, CAMERAS AND BIG TECH THAT HAS COME TO TEXAS.
01:58:58THE ROLE OF BILLIONAIRES. SHE WAS ABLE TO TAP INTO THE
01:59:03PSYCHE, THIS GROWING FEAR OF THE ROLE OF BILLIONAIRES AND BIG TECH.
01:59:07HOST: THESE ARE ISSUES PEOPLE
01:59:10CAN RELATE TO RATHER THAN LARGER POLICY ISSUES.
01:59:12GUEST: WHEN I TALKED TO PEOPLE
01:59:16WHO WORK ON THE TECH SIDE AND STRATEGISTS, THEY SAY THE
01:59:20DATACENTER ISSUE WORKS SO WELL BECAUSE YOU SEE THEM IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
01:59:24IT'S A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF
01:59:25THE FEARS AMERICA HAS HAD ABOUT
01:59:29THE GROWING ROLE OF TACK AND BILLIONAIRES.
01:59:32HOST: YOU ARE WATCHING COVERAGE
01:59:34OF ELECTION
01:59:38>> MONDAY AMERICA'S LEADING TELEVISION CALL-IN PROGRAM,
01:59:42C-SPAN'S "WASHINGTON JOURNAL," COMES TO PRIMETIME LIVE.
01:59:45>> MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE. >> I TRUST YOU GUYS COMPLETELY.
01:59:48>> EVERY MORNING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS.
01:59:52>> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS.
01:59:54>> NOW THAT CONVERSATION WILL ALSO COME TO PRIMETIME.
01:59:57>> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED STATION OUT THERE.
02:00:01>> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" PRIMETIME WEEKNIGHTS STARTING
02:00:03MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN.
02:00:06>> NOW MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING
02:00:09COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.
02:00:12VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS.
02:00:15THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND
02:00:19SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
02:00:22WE BRINGING YOU THE LATEST ELECTION DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE
02:00:26REACTIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE
02:00:27RACES TO WATCH.
02:00:31C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 IS YOUR
02:00:32FRONT ROW SEAT TO ELECTION
02:00:36NIGHT. >> WHEN IT COMES TO THE BALANCE OF POWER WE KNOW DEMOCRATS WILL
02:00:39CONTROL THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN THE NEXT CONGRESS.
02:00:41TWO RACES STILL ON THE SENATE SIDE THAT WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE
02:00:45ON OVER THE NEXT DAYS.
02:00:46OUT OF MISSISSIPPI THAT WE HAVE
02:00:50SHOWN YOU BEFORE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS, SCOTT COLOM
02:00:54STILL WITH 48.9% WITH THE VOTES IN.
02:00:58A TIE, EXACTLY, WITH THOSE
02:01:01NUMBERS WITH SENATOR CINDY HYDE-SMITH.
02:01:0496% OF VOTES COUNTED IN THAT AND
02:01:06THAT HAS NOT CHANGED IN THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS. SO WE WILL SEE HOW THAT PLAYS
02:01:10OUT. AND ALSO IN ALASKA, WE MAY NOT KNOW THE RESULTS OF THIS FOR
02:01:13QUITE A WHILE.
02:01:15MARY PELTOLA, 48.2% OF VOTES IN
02:01:18FOR HER AGAINST SENATOR DAN
02:01:20SULLIVAN, 47.9%.
02:01:22IF THAT DOES NOT GO TO 50%, IT
02:01:26WILL BE DETERMINED BY THEIR RANKED CHOICE VOTING SYSTEM, SO
02:01:29THAT COULD BE A WHILE BEFORE THAT IS SETTLED IF THOSE NUMBERS
02:01:33AREN'T SETTLED ON THEMSELVES. SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SHOWING YOU.
02:01:36WE CAN ALWAYS SHOW YOU AND YOU CAN LEARN MORE AS YOU WATCH YOUR
02:01:38SCREEN WHEN IT COMES TO HOW THE
02:01:40BALANCE OF POWER SHAKES OUT
02:01:43CURRENTLY AND WE HAVE BEEN GOING TO IT ALL YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
02:01:46BACK TO OUR DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD TO GIVE YOU THE LATEST
02:01:50INFORMATION. >> BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TODAY,
02:01:52JACOB AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEMOCRACY HUB FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS.
02:01:56WE HAVE WATCHED THIS WHOLE THING DEVELOP.
02:01:59JACOB, I WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO LIST MAYBE YOUR TOP
02:02:02THREE TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS ELECTION CYCLE. JACOB: THANK YOU, JOHN.
02:02:07HERE ARE MY THREE BIG TAKEAWAYS
02:02:09AS WE ARE COMING UP ON THE
02:02:1412-HOUR MARK HERE. NUMBER ONE, TO RIDE THE WAVE,
02:02:16YOU GOT TO HAVE BOATS IN THE WATER.
02:02:19JOHN: EXPLAIN. JACOB: DEMOCRATS HAD A GREAT ENVIRONMENT.
02:02:22THEY HAD A LOT GOING FOR THEM, BUT YOU CAN'T WIN RACES WITHOUT
02:02:26CANDIDATES. WHAT DEMOCRATS DID THIS CYCLE IS
02:02:29DIDN'T LET RACES GO UNOPPOSED. WE TALKED ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA.
02:02:32DEMOCRATS HAD CANDIDATES IN ALL THOSE RACES. OFTENTIMES DEMOCRATS DON'T FIELD
02:02:36CANDIDATES IN ALL OF THE RACES IN NORTH CAROLINA BECAUSE THEY
02:02:40DON'T THINK THEY CAN WIN. THEY DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH THE TIME TO GO THERE BUT THEY
02:02:44FIELDED CANDIDATES IN ALL THESE RACES. THEY'RE GOING TO FLIP AT LEAST
02:02:47FIVE DISTRICTS, POTENTIALLY SIX, MAYBE SEVEN.
02:02:51A WIPEOUT FOR REPUBLICANS HERE AND IT'S BECAUSE DEMOCRATS PUT BOATS IN THE WATER.
02:02:54WE TALKED ABOUT TENNESSEE OVER
02:02:57HERE.
02:02:59TENNESSEE'S FOURTH DISTRICT.
02:03:01THE 280-VOTE EDGE FOR THE
02:03:04DEMOCRAT RIGHT NOW. VICTORIA BRODERICK DECIDED TO
02:03:07RUN AFTER SHE SAW THAT SCOTT HAD NO OTHER OPPONENT ANNOUNCED.
02:03:11SHE HAD LOST TO HIM BY 43
02:03:17POINTS.
02:03:18JOHN: NOT 43 VOTES, 43 POINTS.
02:03:21JACOB: JUST TWO YEARS AGO. SHE GOT BACK UP AND RAN AGAIN
02:03:24AND NOW SHE IS JUST PROBABLY DAYS AWAY FROM BECOMING THE NEXT
02:03:28MEMBER OF CONGRESS. JOHN: FROM 40 POINTS DOWN TO AN
02:03:31OFFICE ON CAPITOL HILL. JACOB: YEAH. OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT
02:03:35MISSISSIPPI AND THE SENATE RACE THERE. PUTTING A BOAT IN THE WATER
02:03:38THERE, THAT'S A BIG BOAT FOR SCOTT COLOM.
02:03:41MAYBE IT'S A YACHT FOR HIM IF HE
02:03:43MANAGES TO PULL THIS ONE OFF.
02:03:46DEMOCRATS FIELDING A LEGITIMATES CANDIDATE THERE WHO COULD COVER
02:03:49ALL OF HIS BASES AND PUT HIMSELF IN A POSITION TO WIN AND MAYBE
02:03:52BE THAT 55TH OR 56TH SEAT.
02:03:57JOHN: 96% IN. HE IS UP BY JUST 43 VOTES. JACOB: EXACTLY.
02:04:01THAT'S TAKEAWAY NUMBER ONE, TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE WAVE YOU
02:04:04HAVE TO HAVE BOATS IN THE WATER. TAKEAWAY TWO, COALITIONS ARE NOT
02:04:08PERMANENT. REPUBLICANS MADE THIS MISTAKE AFTER THE 2024 ELECTION.
02:04:12THEY THOUGHT TRUMP HAD DONE A REALIGNMENTS ON AMERICAN
02:04:15POLITICS. WE SAW THE MASSIVE SWINGS AMONG
02:04:18HISPANIC VOTERS IN SOUTH TEXAS, IN FLORIDA.
02:04:21BUT ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, HISPANIC PRECINCTS AND COUNTIES
02:04:25SWUNG HEAVILY TOWARD REPUBLICANS. WE SAW TRUMP DO BETTER AMONG
02:04:28BLACK VOTERS THAN ANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HAD DONE SINCE RICHARD
02:04:32NIXON. WE SAW TRUMP DO BETTER AMONG
02:04:35YOUNG VOTERS THAN ANY REPUBLICAN HAD DONE IN RECENT MEMORY.
02:04:38I THINK REPUBLICANS THOUGHT THAT
02:04:40THAT WAS HERE TO STAY, AND IT WAS NOT.
02:04:43SO THE BIGGEST SWINGS BACK, WE
02:04:46CAN GO TO TEXAS HERE, TO JUST
02:04:48LOOK IN THOSE SOUTH TEXAS SEATS
02:04:51RIGHT -- I MEAN, THIS IS DEEP
02:04:54BLUE TERRITORY OVER HERE IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY.
02:04:57THESE COUNTIES ARE 90% HISPANIC
02:05:01THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS WINNING JUST TWO YEARS AGO. JOHN: LOOK AT THE SAME CIRCLE
02:05:03AND HOW MUCH MORE RED THERE WAS
02:05:05DOWN THERE TWO YEARS AGO. JACOB: THAT'S THE SENATE.
02:05:09EVEN MORE SO, SO COALITIONS ARE NOT PERMANENT.
02:05:13THIS WAS A MISTAKE REPUBLICANS
02:05:15MADE AFTER THE 24024 RACE. REPUBLICANS TALKED ABOUT TURNING
02:05:18OUT TRUMP VOTERS. TRUMP SAID PRETEND I AM ON THE BALLOT. I THINK A LOT OF TRUMP VOTERS
02:05:22DID TURN OUT. THEY WEREN'T REPUBLICAN VOTERS ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY HAD SOURED
02:05:26ON THE PRESIDENT. SO THAT'S TAKEAWAY NUMBER TWO.
02:05:28DEMOCRATS WOULD BE GOOD TO HEED IT MOVING FORWARD AS WELL.
02:05:32JOHN: AS WE WAIT FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES TO COME OUT, TAKEAWAY NUMBER THREE?
02:05:36JACOB: JUST BECAUSE YOU DRAW A DISTRICT TO BE MORE FAVORABLE TO
02:05:40YOUR PARTY, IT DOES NOT MEAN IT'S GOING TO FLIP.
02:05:43JOHN, IF THE MAP MAKERS COULD DETERMINE WHO WAS GOING TO WIN A
02:05:47DISTRICT, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE BEEN UP HERE WITH YOU AS
02:05:49MUCH AS I ENJOY IT AT 1:00 A.M.
02:05:53YESTERDAY TO COVER THESE RACES. THE VOTERS STILL GET A SAY IN THE MATTER.
02:05:56THAT'S THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT DEMOCRACY IS WE STAND AT THE DEMOCRACY DASHBOARD IN THE
02:06:00DEMOCRACY HUB HERE AT C-SPAN. ULTIMATELY THE VOTERS HAVE THE
02:06:04FINAL SAY AND EVEN IN THESE REDISTRICTED SEATS, WHAT
02:06:07REPUBLICANS HAVE FOUND OUT IS WHEN THE ENVIRONMENT IS TOO
02:06:11DIFFICULT, WHEN THERE ARE FACTORS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL
02:06:15THAT ARE SPIRALING, EVEN SEATS THAT HAVE BEEN REDRAWN LIKE ALL
02:06:19THOSE SEATS WE TALKED ABOUT IN TEXAS, LIKE THOSE IN NORTH CAROLINA, LIKE THOSE SEATS IN
02:06:23FLORIDA, IT DOESN'T GUARANTEE A
02:06:26VICTORY, AND THAT'S TAKEAWAY NUMBER THREE. JOHN: JACOB, IT HAS BEEN A
02:06:30PLEASURE. PEDRO, THAT'S WHY WE LET JACOB COOK WHEN HE IS HERE IN THE
02:06:33DEMOCRACY HUB.
02:06:37HOST: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AT THE HUB. REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.
02:06:41THIS IS JUST COMING IN FROM CBS THIS MORNING.
02:06:45A STORY THERE SAYING THAT
02:06:46PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN ASKING
02:06:51WHETHER DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH SHOULD STAY ON THE JOB
02:06:54FOLLOWING THE REPUBLICANS' CATASTROPHIC LOSS. ACCORDING TO SOURCES,