C-SPAN Election Results Reaction & Analysis

0:02 THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS, CANDIDATE REACTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACES TO WATCH. >> AMERICA HAS SPOKEN. WELCOME. CONTROL OF BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL CHANGE HANDS FROM REPUBLICANS TO DEMOCRATS COME JANUARY FOLLOWING A BLUE WAVE THAT SWEPT ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON ELECTION DAY. TONIGHT WE GET YOUR REACTION TO YESTERDAY'S HISTORIC MIDTERM CYCLE, MAKING THE FINAL TWO YEARS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S AGENDA AN UPHILL BATTLE. COMING UP, MORE ELECTION ANALYSIS, RESULTS AND YOU'LL HEAR FROM THE NEW CLASS OF ADAPTS COMING TO WASHINGTON. AS POLITICO PUT IT TODAY,

0:48 DEMOCRATS ARE JUBILANT AND MAKING PLANS FOR A CONGRESSIONAL TAKE OTHER. THE NORTHWESTERN POLITICAL MAP IS TOTALLY REDRAWN. WHATEVER IS A CITY TRANSFORMED. WE'LL GET YOUR REACTION TO THE MIDTERMS, WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO VOTE THIS MIDTERM SECTION. WHO'D YOU VOTE FOR AND WHY AND YOUR RESULTS ON ALL OF THE RESULTS. DEMOCRATS 202-7488000. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. FROM WASHINGTON, JOINING US AT THE TABLE, KIRK BADO. NATIONAL JOURNALIST, THE HOTLINE EDITOR IN CHIEF, ERIN COVEY,

1:35 COOK POLITICAL REPORTS U.S. HOUSE EDITOR. WELCOME BACK. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. KIRK: THANK YOU. I THINK MY BED IS STILL SET UP IN THE GREEN ROOM IN THE OTHER ROOM. >> IN THE SENATE, 54 DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING THE TWO INDEPENDENTS THAT CAUCUS WITH THE PARTY AND 44 REPUBLICANS. THAT IS WHERE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE U.S. SENATE STANDS RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF RACES THAT YET TO BE CALLED. MOVING ON TO THE HOUSE YES WE WERE ALSO WAITING FOR QUITE A FEW RACES TO BE CALLED. YOU HAVE 237 DEMOCRATS AND 147 REPUBLICANS. ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW IS THE TOTAL VOTE ACROSS THE COUNTRY

2:21 WITH 90% OF THE VOTE IN FOR THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 55% VOTED FOR A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE VERSUS 43.5%. KIRK BADO, WE CALLED IT A WAVE. POLLSTERS THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A WAVE. IS THAT ACCURATE, THOUGH, FOR WHAT HAPPENED? KIRK: I THINK THIS IS MORE ABOUT A. SENATOR CRUZ: HERE AND WE'RE STILL NOT DONE. 51 RACES YET TO BE CALLED. DEMOCRATS ALREADY HAVE THAT MAGIC NUMBER OF 218. THE QUESTION IS NOT IF DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO GET THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE. THE QUESTION IS HOW BIG IS IT GOING TO BE? A.P. HAS 237 RIGHT NOW. WHAT'S IN CEILING GOING TO BE?

3:07 AS BIG AS THE 2008 BLUE WAVE AFTER OBAMA'S FIRST ELECTION WHERE THEY HAD 257? WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHEN THE DUST FINALLY SETTLES. >> ERIN, WHAT'S YOUR THINKING? ERIN: THIS WAS A GENERATIONAL WIPEOUT FOR THE G.O.P. AT THIS POINT I THINK DEMOCRATS ARE ON PACE TO HIT OR SURPASS THE HIGH WATERMARK, OF THE 21ST CENTURY. WHICH IS 257 SEATS. A LOT OF THE OUTSTANDING SEATS ARE QUITE CLOSE. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE QUITE A FEW RECOUNTS IN SOME OF THOSE PLACE THAT IS DRAG OUT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. >> AND THE QUESTION TONIGHT IS WHY. C-SPAN HAS LOOKED AT THE DATA.

3:59 NORK DID A 5-STATE SURVEY AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THEY ASKED NATIONWIDE BUZZ THE PRESIDENT'S JOB APPROVAL/DISAPPROVAL AND FOR THOSE WHO SAID THEY WERE VERY SATISFIED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION, 51% STILL DISAPPROVED OF THE PRESIDENT'S HANDLING OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE THIS COUNTRY. WHEN THEY SAID THEY WERE SOMEWHAT AS MUCHED WITH THE FINANCIAL SITUATION, 60%. KIRK, WAS IN ELECTION BEHIND THE ECONOMY? KIRK: IT WAS. THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY. WHETHER IT WAS THE ECONOMY

4:45 THROUGH TARIFFS, WHETHER IT WAS THROUGH THE WAR IN IRAN THAT RAISED FUEL PRICES. AMERICANS WERE DISSATISFIED AND TOOK IT OUT AT THE BOX OFFERS. ERIN: EXIT POLLS SHOW THAT HAD 2/3 OF AMERICANS BLAMED THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES FOR THEIR ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND THAT IS WHY WE SAW HIS COALITION OF VOTERS COMPLETELY COLLAPSE. WHETHER WITH HISPANIC VOTERS, YOUNG MAN, INDEPENDENTS, EVEN A LOT OF WORKING CLASS VOTERS THAT HE BROUGHT INTO THE FOLD IN 2016. THOSE VOTERS ALL SWUNG LEFT BY DRAMATIC MARGINS LAST NIGHT. KIRK: ALL HISPANIC VOTERS SWUNG

5:33 BY ABOUT 28 POINT TOWARD DEMOCRATS FROM WHERE THEY WERE IN 2024. THIS IS A SWINGY GROUP OF VOTERS RIGHT NOW. THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK HARD IF THEY WANT TO MAKE THIS MAJORITY THEY HAVE NOT A RENTAL BUT A MORE ENDURING ONE. >> DEMOCRATS HAVE SEIZED THE REINS OF POWER AND THEY ARE GIDDY. EARLIER TODAY WE HEARD FROM CHUCK SCHUMER OF NEW YORK ALONG WITH HIS PARTNER IN THE HOUSE, HAKEEM JEFFRIES, DEMOCRAT OF NEW YORK. >> MIKE JOHNSON WAS CORRECT. THE POLLS WERE WRONG. IT WASN'T SIMPLY A BLUE WAVE, IT WAS AN AMERICAN. SENATOR CRUZ. HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE DECISIVELY

6:21 TAKEN BACK CONTROL OF THE CONGRESS. WE WILL WIN AT LEAST 255 SEATS, IF NOT MORE ONCE EVER VOTE THAT BE TALLIED. IT'S AN HISTORIC MAJORITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN BACK CONTROL OF THE SENATE. DEMOCRATS HAVE WON GOVERNORSHIPS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE'VE SLIPPED LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS IN THE NORTH, IN THE SOUTH, IN THE EAST, IN THE WEST AND IN THE MIDWEST. IT WAS A GREAT VICTORY. FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. >> OH, WHAT A NIGHT. AGAINST ALL ODDS. DEMOCRATS HAVE WON THE SENATE

7:07 AND WE HAVE FIVE WORDS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- RELIEF IS ON THE WAY. IN 2025 WHEN I SAID WE COULD WIN BACK THE SENATE AFTER WE'D LOST THE PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE, PEOPLE ROLLED THEIR EYES. BUT WE NEVER WAVERED AND NOW WE'VE WON THE SENATE. SO WHAT WE HAVE NOW SEEN, AND THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT -- IS A GENERATIONAL REMAKE OF THE SENATE MAP THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE AMERICA NOT ONLY NOW BUT ON INTO THE FUTURE. >> ERIN COVEY, A GENERATIONAL

7:53 REMAKE. WHAT DOES HE MEAN? >> THIS PUTS DEMOCRATS IN A POSITION WHERE THEY'RE PROBABLY THE FAVORITES TO HOLD THE SENATE IN 2028 AND THE SENATE MAP STRUCTURALLY FAVORS REPUBLICANS AND THAT'S WHY GOING INTO THIS CYCLE WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A HERCULEAN TASK FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE BAKE THE SENATE MAJORITY AND DUE TO THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THEY'RE IN POSITION TO HOLD AS MANY AS 256 SEATS DEPENDING ON NEBRASKA AND ACTIONS. >> POLITAL OBSERVERS NEED TO AGREE. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT. BLOWOUT VERSUS MANDATE.

8:39 KIRK: SOMETHING THAT VACATIONINGS IN BOTH PARTIES HAVE STRUGGLED WITH. THE HOUSE IS, SINCE THE EIGHT YEARS OF THE BLUE WAVE IN 2018, THE MARGIN OF THE HOUSE HAS GOTTEN MARIOER AND NARROWER. KEVIN MCCARTHY, MIKE JOHNSON. THEY'VE ALL BEEN DEALING WITH MAJORITY THAT ARE ABOUT 125 SEATS OR LESS. THAT'S FOOT GOING TO BE THE HOUSE HERE. ACCURATE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALREADY FLIPPED I BELIEVE 19 SEATS. THE PROBLEM WITH PAST CONGRESS IS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN THOSE VERY NARROW MAJORITIES AND TRIED TO DO REALLY BIG, FOR PARTISAN THINGS WITH IT. BUT THIS ONE, THIS IS A REAL REPUDIATION OF TRUMP AND

9:24 REPUBLICANS. >> SO DO THEY HAVE AN F.D.R. MANDATE AND COULD WE SEE MEDICARE FOR ALL PUSHED IN THIS CONGRESS? KIRK: I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE WHITE HOUSE TO DO THAT. TO ERIN'S POINT, THE SENATE MAJORITY, THEY'RE IN GREAT POSITION NOT JUST TO DEFEND THIS GREAT MAJORITY THEY HAVE BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE RACES UP FOR GRABS IN 202, NOT TO GET TOO FAR AHEAD OF OURSELVES, BUT THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO PICK UP NORTH CAROLINA. THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PICK UP SEATS IN WISCONSIN. WHAT'S TO STOP THEM FROM COMPETING IN SOUTH CAROLINA AGAINST TIM SCOTT AFTER THEY JUST FLIPPED ONE WITH ANNIE ANDREWS OR INDIANA AGAINST TODD YOUNG? IT'S A TARGET-RICH ENVIRONMENT

10:10 OUT THERE FOR DEMOCRATS. >> WELL, DEMOCRATS SAY THAT THEY WILL FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY. THAT THE FIRST 100 DAYS IS THEIR AGENDA AND THEY SAY THIS ELECTION WAS ABOUT THE ECONOMY. THE WHITE HOUSE FELT DIFFERENTLY. THE VICE PRESIDENT POSTED ON TODAY THIS, THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO LAST NIGHT. IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IT WAS WORTH IT, THAT LOSING THE SENATE FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT. THEN DO SO.

10:59 EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST AND ANY HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THERE. A SURPRISINGLY BLUNT EXPLANATION FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT. ERIN: YES, A BIG PART OF THE REASON THE WAR WITH IRAN WAS SO UNPOPULAR WAS THAT IT INCREASED GAS AND DIESEL PRICES AND AMERICANS SAW THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING SPENT ON THIS CONFLICT VERSUS THE AMOUNT BEING SPENT TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION. I THINK THOSE TWO ISSUES GO HAND IN AND. GRETA: PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY DID NOT HOLD A CONVERSATION WITH REPORTERS ABOUT THE ELECTION. HE INSTEAD HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT HIS BALLROOM.

11:44 HOWEVER, HE WAS ASKED AND HE ANSWERED ABOUT C.D. VANCE'S ANSWER. >> DID YOU KNOW THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO PUT OUT THAT X MESSAGE TALKING ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE WAR AND HOW IT IMPACTED IT? PRESIDENT TRUMP: I KNEW THE WAR WAS GOING TO IMPACT IT. WHETHER IT DID OR NOT, IRAN CAN'T HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. >> YES, BUT THE VICE PRESIDENT POSTED A LENGTHY POST ABOUT HOW THE WAR AFFECTED THE OUTCOME LAST NIGHT. PRESIDENT TRUMP: I KNOW HOW HE FEELS. I THOUGHT IT WAS FINE. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD. I KNEW THAT WHEN I WENT IN AND WE STOPPED THEM FROM HAVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON AND THEY WILL

12:29 NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. >> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO HIM ABOUT IT? PRESIDENT TRUMP: WE'VE SPOKEN ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YOU DON'T KNOW WHO'S TALKING ABOUT RUNNING. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING. MAYBE A LOT OF PEOPLE RUNNING, MAYBE NOBODY'S GOING TO RUN. MAYBE HE WON'T RUN, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GOING TO RUN BUT I CAN TELL YOU AS FAR AS THAT WAR IS CONCERNED, I WOULD HAVE DONE NOTHING DIFFERENT. WE'VE BROKEN THEIR MILITARY. THEIR NAVY AND AIR FORCE IS GONE. GRETA: IF THIS ELECTION WAS ABOUT THE WAR, THE PRESIDENT SAID HE WOULD NOT HAVE DONE EVERYTHING DIFFERENT. WE WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION.

13:15 EVELYN IN WASHINGTON, D.C., YOU'RE UP FIRST. GOOD EVENING. CALLER: HELLO. GRETA: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT DEMOCRATS TAKING CONTROL OF WASHINGTON? CALLER: I THINK IT'S GREAT AND I'M SO NAIL THAT A THEY HEARD US, THEY HEARD OUR PLEAS, THAT WE WERE UNDER SO MUCH STRESS. WITH PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS. THE LIES THAT THEY SAY THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE PLOYED. ASK ONE PERSON WHO DOESN'T HAVE A JOB HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A JOB. HE HAS LIED THE WHOLE TIME. GRETA: BEN IN TEXAS, A REPUBLICAN CALLER. BEN, GO AHEAD. CALLER: HELLO, THANKS FOR TAKING

14:00 MY CALL. THAT WAS A REALLY, REALLY ROUGH NIGHT FOR THE REPUBLICANS. KEN PAXTON IS A SCRUB. THEY NEVER REALLY SHOULD HAVE LET HIM OUT OF THE PRIMARY. I DON'T KNOW IF CORNYN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE GUY BUT PAXTON REALLY WASN'T THE GUY. GRETA: BEN, WHY DO YOU THINK HE WON IN REPUBLICAN TERRITORY LIKE TEXAS? CALLER: WELL, I MEAN -- BECAUSE TRUMP ENDORSED HIM IN THE PRIMARY AND I GUESS IN DOING SO HE REALLY KIND OF FUMBLED DECADES OF ENI MENTAL BAINES FOR THE PARTY. HOST: BUT WHY DO YOU THINK TEXAN VOTERS CHOSE JAMES TALARICO OVER

14:48 KEN PACKS TO BE? WAS IT THE ECONOMY? CALLER: YEAH, EVEN HERE IN TEXAS, GAS IS CLOSE TO $4. DEGREES SYSTEM THERE ARE 5 OR $6. FOOD PRICES ARE HIGH. I DIDN'T EXPECT ABBOTT TO LOSE HIS JOB BUT I DO KIND OF THINK HE DESERVED IT. HOST: SAYING HE'S SURPRISED GREG ABBOTT DIDN'T GET A FOURTH TERM AS GOVERNOR BUT HE BELIEVED HE DESERVED IT. KIRK: VOTERS ARE FED UP THIS ELECTION PSYCH. FED UP WITH THE WHY PRICE OF GAS AND FUEL AND THEY'RE TAKING OUT ON THE PARTY IN POWER.

15:34 TEXAS REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD A SUPER MAJORITY AND STRANGLEHOLD ON TEXAS FOR DECADES AND THEY WERE FED UP WITH IT. YOU SAW IT IN IOWA AS WELL AS WITH DEMOCRATS MAKING GAINS THERE. SAME AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. REPUBLICANS HAD BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS. NOT ANYMORE. HOST: JOHN IS IN NEW JERSEY, A DEMOCRAT. WELCOME TO THE CONVERSATION. CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THIS WAS NOT SO MUCH A VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS, IT WAS DEFINITELY A VOTE AGAINST TRUMP. AND IF DEMOCRATS REALLY NEED TO BE CAREFUL THAT THEY DON'T MESS THIS UP OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS BECAUSE THEY COULD REALLY HURT THEIR CHANCES FOR THE WHITE

16:20 HOUSE IN 2028. HOST: AND JOHN, HOW COULD THEY MESS IT UP? CALLER: I MEAN, IF THEY DON'T BRING DOWN THE AFFORDABILITY, THE GAS PRICES, THE WAR LIKE -- YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY THERE NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BUT THEY NEED TO NOT MAKE THAT THEIR MAIN FOCUS. HOST: ALL RIGHT. SO JOB, DO YOU BELIEVE IMPEACHMENT AND ANY SORT OF ATTEMPT AT IMPEACHING PRESIDENT TRUMP. SHOULD THAT BE OFF THE TABLE FOR DEMOCRATS? >> OFF THE TABLE BUT IT

17:06 SHOULDN'T BE THEIR MAIN FOCUS. HOST: PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ASKED ABOUT DEMOCRATS POSSIBLY TRYING TO IMPEACH HIM. HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. >> IMPEACHMENT AT ALL? PRESIDENT TRUMP: NO. NO. >> ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT IT? PRESIDENT TRUMP: NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. I THINK IT WOULD DESTROY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF THEY DID THAT. IMPEACH YET FOR NO REASON, FOR WHAT, HAVING A SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY? HOST: THE PRESIDENT SAYING THEY WOULD DESTROY THE PARTY IF THEY GO AFTER IMPEACHMENT THIS TIME AROUND. ERIN: I DON'T THINK THAT HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE INTERESTED IN PURSUING THAT AT THIS POINT. THEY'RE MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN

17:52 TACKLING THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS. IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE AREN'T GOING TO BE A LOT OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP CABINET AND THAT COULD SUCK UP QUITE A BIT OF MEDIA OXYGEN. KIRK: I THINK YOU'LL HAVE SOME MEMBERS BANGING THE DRUM ON IMPEACHING TRUMP, JUST LIKE YOU DO IN EVERY CONGRESS, MEMBERS PLAYING UP TO THE BASE BUT WITH THE SIZE OF THIS MAJORITY, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES, BASICALLY THE SPEAKER IN WAITING, IS GOING TO BE TIED UP IN ASKING "VOGUE" MOVE ON THAT IMPEACHMENT. HOST: THERE WILL BE NEW FACES HERE IN WASHINGTON IN THE NATION'S CAPITOL AND SOME SENATOR, INCUMBENTS WHO HAVE

18:39 BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT. LOOK AT THE DEFEATED INCUMBENTS FROM LAST NIGHT. SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS, VYING FOR HER SIXTH TERM, 73 YEARS OLD. SHE LOST AGAINST DEMOCRAT TROY -- JON HUSTED LOST HIS CHANCE TO SERVEOUT THE REMAINDER OF THOSE TWO TERMS. SHERROD BROWN WHO LOST TWO YEARS AGO, HE'S COMING BACK TO WASHINGTON AND ROGER MARSHALL, KANSAS REPUBLICAN WENT DOWN LAST NIGHT AGAINST DEMOCRAT ADAM HAMILTON AND SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM WHO HAD STEPPED IN TO FILL THE SEAT OF HER LATE BROTHER LINDSEY GRAHAM, SHE LOST

19:26 AS WELL LAST NIGHT. ERIN, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT -- SOME ARE OBVIOUSLY SHORT-TERMER AND THEN YOU HAVE THE LIKES OF SUSAN COLLINS, WHO'S BEEN IN THE SENATE SINCE SHE WAS IN HER 40'S. ERIN: YOU HAVE A REAL RANGE IN CANDIDATE QUALITY ON THAT LIST. SUSAN COLLINS, OF COURSE, WHO WITHSTOOD THE TOUCH NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF 2020 AND WON RE-ELECTION BY A SEVEN-POINT MARGIN AND ROGER MARSHALL WHO HAD LONG BEEN DERIDED BY REPUBLICANS AS AN INCUMBENT WHO WAS NOT DOING NOW TO KEEP HIS SEAT. THIS ELECTION WAS ULTIMATELY MORE ABOUT ALL OF THESE FOLKS AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL RECORDS. IT WAS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT AND

20:12 HIS POLICIES AND THE FACT THAT EVEN THEY BELIEVE SUSAN COLLINS, A MODERATE, HADN'T DONE ENOUGH TO PUSH BACK AND DISTANCE HERSELF FROM THE CANDIDATES. KIRK: WE'RE SEEING A REAL TRANSFORMATION IN CONGRESS. WE HAD DOZENS OF OPEN SEATS IN THESE SAFER AREAS AS WELL, OVER 70 OR SO BETWEEN THE REQUIREMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS PLUS MEMBERS WHO GOT PRIMARY BEFORE ANY VOTES WERE CAST IN NOVEMBER. WE COULD HAVE A CONGRESS WHERE THERE'S ABOUT 110, 120 NEW MEMBERS. THIS COULD BE A WHOLE NEW WASHINGTON HERE. HOST: LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE PICKUPS MADE BY DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. SENATE.

20:57 WE'LL START WITH THE STATE OF IOWA WHERE THE DEMOCRAT JOSH TUREK WAS CHALLENGING REPUBLICAN ASHLEY HINSON. JONI, ERNST DECIDED TO RETIRE RATHER THAN RUN FOR RE-ELECTION. 99% OF THE VOTE IS IN AND JOSH TUREK HAS 50.5% OF THE VOTE. HOW DID JOSH TUREK DO IT. KIRK: LIKE TEXANS, THIS IS AN AREA COMPLETELY CONTROLLED BY THE REPUBLICANS, THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION AS WELL AND REPUBLICANS CONTROLLING ALL FEDERAL OFFICES IN IOWA. THIS IS A REAL AREA OF THE

21:43 COUNTRY AS WELL WHERE TRUMP'S POLICIES REALLY HIT HARD IN RUMOR AMERICA. THE TARIFFS, THE TRADE WITH SOY BEANS AND THE TRADE WITH CHINA. A PLACE WHERE THE RISING COST OF FUEL NOT JUST ON REGULAR UNLEADED BUT DIESEL FUEL FOR THE FARMING EQUIPMENT WAS BASICALLY AN EXTRA TAX ON FARMERS. ASHLEY HINSON WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BETTER STATEWIDE CANDIDATES REPUBLICANS PUT UP. BUT IN A. SENATOR CRUZ: HERE, SHE GOT WASHED AWAY AND JOSH TUREK, WHO WAS ONE OF THE CANDIDATES THAT CHUCK SCHUMER AND DEMOCRATS WERE ENCOURAGING TO RUN GOT ACROSS THE LINE IN A PRETTY CONVINCING FASHION. HOST: LOOK AT WHAT NORK FOUND.

22:32 WHEN THEY SURVEYED INDEPENDENT VOTERS IN IOWA, THEY FAVORED THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE 55 TO THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE 36%. INDEPENDENTS, DO THEY DECIDE LOUISIANA TECHS? ERIN: CERTAINLY. THE OTHER MAINLY FACTOR THAT REALLY HELPED TUREK WAS HE HAD A VERY POPULAR CANDIDATE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET. SAND. HE REALLY WAS ABLE TO GIN UP DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM. I THINK A LOT OF THOSE INDEPENDENT VOTERS TEND TO SWAY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. THERE ARE NOT THAT MANY FOLKS WHO ARE TRULY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARTY BUT THOSE WHO WERE

23:18 WERE UNIVERSALLY FRUSTRATED WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. I THINK HIS APPROVAL RATING WAS IN THE 20'S LAST I CHECKED. THIS WAS A GROUP OF VOTERS THAT VOTED FOR HIM THIS 2024 BUT IN 2026 REPUBLICANS LOST THEM RESOUNDINGLY. HOST: THE STATE OF KANSAS WITH ALMOST 100% OF THE VOTE IN. THIS IS WHERE ADAM HAMILTON'S LEAD STANDS RIGHT NOW. 51% TO THE INCUMBENT SENATOR ROGER MARSHALL'S 46%. ADAM HAMILTON, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, DESCRIBE HIS CANDIDACY AND HOW HE WAS ABLE TO WIN OVER VOTERS? KIRK: HE'S RIGHT OUT OF CENTRAL

24:04 CASTING FOR KANSAS. HE'S A PASTOR AT A BIG CHURCH OUT THERE. THE EVANGELICAL SECTOR IS HUGE IN. HE KNEW HOW TO STUMP, TALK ONE-ON-ONE WITH VOTERS. HE WAS ABLE TO RAISE A BUNCH OF MONEY, CATCH ROGER MARSHALL SLEEPING HERE WHO WAS NOT A GREAT CANDIDATE, NOT READY FOR A COMPETITIVE RACE AND ADAM HAMILTON'S SUCCESSFUL RACE IS GOING TO MAYBE HELP DEMOCRATS KEEP THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION AS WELL. WE HAVEN'T HAD A PARTY WIN THREE TERMS IN A ROW IN KANSAS IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION I BELIEVE SINCE THE 1960'S OR SO. THIS OF SO THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE LONG-TIME RECORDS THAT

24:50 COULD GET SWEPT AWAY IN THIS BLUE. SENATOR CRUZ. HOST: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. THE INDEPENDENT VOTER FAVORED THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE BY 73% TO 20% FOR THE REPUBLICAN. KIRK: IT'S PRETTY REMARKABLE AND, AGAIN, IT'S THE PERFECT STORM FOR DEMOCRATS. THEY HAD THAT GREAT DEMOCRAT, AGAIN, SOMEONE TAILOR-MADE WITH A CANDIDATE CANNOT REALLY STRUGGLING IN ROGER MARSHALL. THERE WAS A STORY FROM THE "NEW YORK TIMES" THAT DETAILED HIM, WHEN HE WAS A DOCTOR, GOING AFTER HIS PATIENTS FOR DEBT. I THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST

25:36 EFFECTIVE ADS OF THE SIGNINGLE AND I THINK THAT STORY IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL PIECE OF JOURNALISM OF THIS CYCLE. HOST: DEMOCRATS WERE ALSO ABLE TO PICK OFF SUSAN COLLINS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, WITH 91% OF THE VOTE IN. DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON HAS THE CHECK MARK NEXT TO HIS NAME AND YOU CAN SEE THERE, THE MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR TROY JACKSON AND AS THEY CONTINUE TO COUNT VOTES IN MAINE. THEY'RE NOT ALL IN. THAT COULD CHANGE WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, ERIN. ERIN: MAINE IS A STUFF TOUGH STATE TO POLL. DEMOCRATS FELT PRETTY BULLISH ON TROY JACKSON'S CHANCES EVEN

26:21 THOUGH OBVIOUSLY THERE HAS BEEN HAD BEEN A LOT OF TURMOIL ON THEIR SIDE TO THE TICKET DUE TO THE DROPOUT OF GRAHAM PLATNER AT THE LAST SECOND. THE REPLACEMENT OPTION OF TROY JACKSON. HE HAD VERY LITTLE TIME TO PUT TOGETHER THE MONEY TO RUN A CAMPAIGN BUT IN THE END THIS ENVIRONMENT WAS TOO MUCH FOR SUSAN COLLINS TO SURVIVE. HOST: IT WAS A TOUGH RACE RIGHT UP TO ELECTION DAY. LOOK AT INDEPENDENT VOTE IN MAINE. IT WAS SPLIT BETWEEN THOSE TWO CANDIDATES AND 14% FAVORED ANOTHER CANDIDATE. KIRK: EXACTLY AND SUSAN COLLINS HAS WON THESE TOUCH RACES TIME AND TIME AGAIN. SIX YEARS AGO SHE SURVIVE THAT

27:07 HAD CLOSE CALL. SHE OUTSPENT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. INSTEAD, WE HAVE THE OPPOSITE POWER HERE. I THINK WAS WE ARE FAVOR/ON FAVES WERE SOME OF THE LOWEST IN HER 30 YEARS IN THE SENATE AND THIS RED UNDERTOW DRAGGED HER DOWN. HOST: AND THOM TILLIS, THE REPUBLICAN, DECIDED NOT TO RUN AGAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA. ROY COOPER, A VERY POPULAR GOVERNOR, HASN'T LOST STATEWIDE AND HE WAS THE VICTOR AGAIN LAST

27:54 NIGHT. ALMOST 100% OF THE VOTE IN AND HE HAD A PRETTY SIZABLE WIN LAST NIGHT. ERIN: HE DID. DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD TROUBLE WINNING STATEWIDE RACES LATELY IN NORTH CAROLINA. SO IT WAS A BLOWOUT IN A PURPLE STATE. SOME REPUBLICAN SOURCES WERE WORRIED THAT COOPER WAS GOING TO DO EVEN BETTER THAN JOSH STEIN DID TWO-ON-TWO YEARS AGO AND I WAS SKEPTICAL BUT DUE TO THE LACK OF REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASM IN THE STATE -- REPUBLICANS HAPPENED COMPLETELY PULLED OUT OF THIS RACE AND ABANDONED IT WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION DAY SO THERE WAS NO REAL EFFORT TO TURN OUT THE REPUBLICAN VOTE SO THAT HAD A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON

28:42 REPUBLICANS' ABILITY TO HOLD ON TO THE HOUSE. LOOKS LIKE THEY MAY END UP WITH ONLY FOUR OUT OF 40 REPUBLICAN SEATS WHICH IS REMARKABLE. KIRK: LAST YEAR REPUBLICANS TRIED TO REDRAW THE STATE IN THEIR FAVOR. INSTEAD IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BACKFIRE ON HEM. HOST: THE INDEPENDENT VOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA SEEMS TO TRACK WITH THAT MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR ROY COOPER. THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ROY CR 72% OVER FORMER RNC CHAIR MICHAEL WHATLEY, 21%. MOVING ON TO THE BUCKEYE STATE, WHERE IT WAS A DEAD HEAT BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT. IN OHIO, WITH 98% OF THE VOTE

29:29 IN, SHERROD BROWN IS GOING TO RETURN TO THE SENATE FOR A THIRD TERM, WITH 50% TO SENATOR JON HUSTED'S 45.2%. JON HUSTED, FORMER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM OHIO, WAS TAPPED TO REPLACE JD VANCE IN THE SENATE. SHERROD BROWN WON THIS RACE, NOW HE HAS TO RUN AGAIN IN TWO YEARS WHEN JD VANCE'S TERM IS UP IN 2028. KIRK: OHIO VOTERS ARE GOING TO LOVE SEEING SHERROD BROWN'S FACE ON A LOT OF ADS FOR THE OHIO STATE-MICHIGAN GAME FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. THIS STATE WAS ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE RACES, SECOND ONLY TO TEXAS. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

30:15 INVESTED. THIS STATE HAD A WEAK TICKET FOR REPUBLICANS, BETWEEN JON HUSTED, WHO WAS APPOINTED, AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY, THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE, WHO WAS RUNNING A FLAILING CAMPAIGN. THIS IS NOT A TICKET THAT INSPIRED CONFIDENCE IN WASHINGTON, AND OBVIOUSLY NOT TO VOTERS IN OHIO. HOST: THE INDEPENDENT VOTE, THIS IS HOW IT BROKE DOWN, FROM THE NEW WORK CIVIC HEALTH AND ELECTIONS PROJECT. THEY FOUND OF THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS THEY SURVEYED, THEY FAVORED SHERROD BROWN 53% OVER JON HUSTED, 23%. ANOTHER 24% OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS SAID THEY WANTED TO CHOOSE ANOTHER CANDIDATE, THAT THEY HAD VOTED FOR ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

31:00 I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA, BECAUSE THIS WAS A SURPRISE TO MANY PEOPLE, THAT SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM COULD NOT PULL OUT A VICTORY. INSTEAD, DEMOCRAT ANNIE ANDREWS IS COMING TO WASHINGTON. YOU HAVE ALMOST 100% OF THE VOTE AND THAT IS HER MARGIN OF VICTORY. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT VOTE IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AGAIN FROM THAT SURVEY THEY DID WHERE THEY WENT STATE-BY-STATE AROUND THE COUNTRY AND SURVEYED LIKE 7500 PEOPLE IN EACH STATE. WH THEY TALKED TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THEY FAVORED ANNIE ANDREWS 64% TO DARLINE GRAHAM'S 26%. ERIN: THIS IS A STATE THAT'S

31:48 TOUGH FOR A DEMOCRAT TO WIN EVEN IN A BLUE WAVE CYCLE, SO THE FACT THAT ANDREWS WAS ABLE TO PULL UP A VICTORY IS IMPRESSIVE. THIS IS A STATE THAT VOTED FOR TRUMP BY 18 POINTS IN 2024, SO IT'S REDDER THAN SOME OTHER RED STATES. BUT DARLINE GRAHAM WAS APPOINTED SHORTLY AFTER HER BROTHER'S PASSING. SHE WAS STRUGGLING TO PUT TOGETHER A CAMPAIGN AND PROVED TO VOTERS SHE COULD SERVE IN THE SENATE AND WAS READY FOR THAT JOB. SHE ALSO HAD A TOUGH PRIMARY AND HAD A LOT OF WEAKNESS IN THE REGION OF THE STATE THAT HER PRIMARY OPPONENT HAD COME FROM, AND ANDREWS WAS ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. HOST: DEMOCRATS PICKED UP SEVEN SEEDS IN THE SENATE LAST NIGHT. THEY NEEDED FOUR AND WENT WELL

32:34 BEYOND THAT WITH SEVEN. THEY COULD SEE A COUPLE MORE. WE WILL GET TO THE RACES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN CALLED YET. THEIR SEVENTH PICK UP THAT WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT YET WAS IN THE LONE STAR STATE. JAMES TALARICO MAKING HISTORY, AS OTHER DEMOCRATS DID IN THE STATE. ALMOST 100% OF THE VOTE IN. HE BEAT BACK A CHALLENGE BY KEN PAXTON BY A PRETTY SIZABLE MARGIN. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE LATINO VOTERS FROM THAT NORC 50 VOTE SURVEY. IN 2024, THE LATINO VOTER FAVORED THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE PRETTY EVENLY, AND ANOTHER 31% DID NOT VOTE. LOOK AT THE 2026 COLUMN ON THE RIGHT.

33:21 65% OF THE LATINO VOTER BASE FAVORED JAMES TALARICO LAST NIGHT, VERSUS 32% FOR KEN PAXTON. ERIN: THIS WAS A MASSIVE SWING FOR LATINO VOTERS AND POWERED TALARICO'S VICTORY, WHICH ENABLED DEMOCRATS TO SWEEP EVERY STATEWIDE OFFICE, WHICH WAS THE REAL SHOCKER. THEY ALSO FLIPPED THE STATE HOUSE, AND THE STATE SENATE IS MUCH CLOSER THAN IT WAS. I THINK TALARICO'S PERFORMANCE BOTH BUILT ON SOME GAINS DEMOCRATS HAD BEEN MAKING IN THE SUBURBS OF THE FOUR BIG METRO AREAS, BUT THE FACT HE WAS ABLE TO SWING BACK A LOTTO LATINO VOTERS WHO HAD SWUNG HEAVILY TOWARDS TRUMP IN 2024 WAS THE KEY TO HIS VICTORY. HOST: JAMES TALARICO HEADING TO

34:08 THE CAPITAL. HE WILL BE SWORN IN FOR THE 120TH CONGRESS IN JANUARY, SERVING ALONGSIDE CONSERVATIVE SENATOR TED CRUZ FROM TEXAS. JAMES TALARICO ADDRESSED HIS SUPPORTERS LAST NIGHT. HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. >> EVERY CORRUPT DEFENDER OF THIS BROKEN POLITICAL SYSTEM IN THIS STATE, IN THIS COUNTRY, POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. [CHEERS] I AM REMINDED OF THAT STORY FROM SCRIPTURE OF A SHEPHERD BOY WHO GOES UP AGAINST A GIANT. FOR 40 DAYS, GOLIATH TEASES AND TAUNTS. ON THE DAY OF THE FIGHT, HE

34:54 SHOWS UP IN FULL ARMOR. HE'S CARRYING SO MANY WEAPONS, HE NEEDS SOMEONE ELSE TO CARRY HIS SHIELD. IN THIS RACE, WE WENT UP AGAINST OUR OWN GOLIATHS. THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD, AND THE ENTIRE WASHINGTON, D.C. ESTABLISHMENT. DAVID WASN'T AS BIG OR AS STRONG AS GOLIATH. HE DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY WEAPONS. BUT HE HAD HOPE, HE HAD FAITH, AND HE HAD A SLINGSHOT. YOU WERE MY SLINGSHOT. [CHEERS] THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS WERE MY

35:40 SLINGSHOT. AND TONIGHT, AND TONIGHT, WE DEFEATED GOLIATH. HOST: SENATOR ELECT JAMES TALARICO IN HIS VICTORY SPEECH LAST NIGHT. HE IS HEADED TO WASHINGTON IN JANUARY. WE WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION TO THIS NEW CLASS OF DEMOCRATS HEADED TO THE NATION'S CAPITAL, AND ALL THE RESULTS FROM CAMPAIGN 2026. WE START WITH KEYSHAWN IN SAVANNAH GEORGIA. CALLER: THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. I'M COMING FROM GEORGIA. YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT A MANDATE.

36:25 WE HAVE A MANDATE IN GEORGIA. NOT JUST OUR GOVERNOR FLIP, NOT JUST IF WE RETAINED THE SEATS, BUT ALL THESE STATEWIDE RACES FLIPPED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND WE NOW HAVE THE STATEHOUSE UNDER DEMOCRATIC CONTROL. YOU GUYS ASKED A LITTLE BIT AGO ABOUT WHAT WOULD NEED TO HAPPEN TO LOOK FORWARD TO 2028 CHANGE. REAL, TANGIBLE CHANGE THAT CAN ACTUALLY SEE WITH OUR EYES. PROGRESS IS BEING MADE. WE WANT TO SEE THAT PROGRESS BEING MADE TOWARD A DIRECTION THAT LEADS TO A POINT OF US HAVING CHEAPER FOOD PRICES AT THE GROCERY STORE, MAYBE BETTER,

37:12 MORE CONTROLLED RENTS, EXPANDED HEALTH CARE. THAT WOULD BE NICE, THAT WOULD BE NEEDED. AS FAR AS THE FEDERAL APPARATUS IS CONCERNED, IF I CAN JUST SAY THIS QUICKLY, WHEN I LISTEN TO HAKEEM JEFFRIES, TO CHUCK SCHUMER, I HEAR VOICES OF A BYGONE ERA. HOST: A COUPLE THINGS TO DIG INTO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. KIRK BADO, I WANT TO BEGIN WITH HIS CALL FOR DEMOCRATS TO GO BIG. HE WANTS TO SEE CHANGE, BUT HOW DIFFICULT IS THAT WHEN ONE PARTY CONTROLS CONGRESS AND THE OTHER IS IN CHARGE OF THE WHITE HOUSE? KIRK: AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE DIFFICULT. TRUMP WAS SAYING LAST NIGHT HE IS WILLING TO WORK SOMETHING OUT WITH THE NEW DEMOCRATIC LEADERS

37:58 IN THE MAJORITY OF CONGRESS. WE WILL SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT. BUT IN GEORGIA, THAT WAS AS CLOSE TO A CLEAN SWEEP AS YOU COULD THINK FOR DEMOCRATS. THEY HAVE AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO ENACT SOME OF THESE POLICIES, TO GO A LITTLE BIT BIGGER, ESPECIALLY AFTER REPUBLICAN CONTROL FOR SO LONG. PLACES IN TEXAS, GEORGIA, IOWA, DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GOVERN IN PLACES THAT THEY HAVEN'T HAD IN SOMETIMES DECADES. HOST: KIRK, HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE NEW FACES IN LEADERSHIP FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HOW LIKELY IS THAT? KIRK: FOR THE UPCOMING CONGRESS, I DON'T THINK AS LIKELY AS HE WOULD LIKE. IT LOOKS LIKE HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS THE SPEAKER IN WAITING, I DON'T

38:43 THINK HE IS GOING TO HAVE ANY ISSUE. CHUCK SCHUMER IS ALSO PRETTY BULLISH ON HIS CHANCES OF RETURNING TO MAJORITY LEADER. IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO KNOCK HIM OFF AFTER HE HAD SUCH A HEAVY HAND RECRUITING THE CANDIDATES THAT HELPED DELIVER THIS HISTORIC MAJORITY FOR DEMOCRATS. HOST: PENNSYLVANIA, LILA. HOW DID YOU VOTE AND WHY? CALLER: I'M REPUBLICAN, AND I VOTED FOR MY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, BECAUSE THEY HAVE AMERICA'S INTEREST AT HEART FIRST. DEMOCRATS SAY THEY WANT TO DO THIS AND THAT AND CHANGE IT. WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING UP DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND SAYING, YOU ARE LETTING THE BORDERS GO WILD WITH ALL THESE ILLEGAL ALIENS?

39:30 AND WHEN THEY HAD CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN SCHOOLS. WHAT THAT DOES IS PIT BLACKS AGAINST WHITES. THEY WERE TELLING CHILDREN THEY COULD BE TRANSGENDER IF THEY DON'T LIKE THEIR SEX. THEY COULD CHANGE THEIR SEX. ALL THAT WAS TERRIBLE. HOST: LILA IS MENTIONING THE ISSUES THAT DOMINATED PART OF THE 2024 CYCLE. WERE THOSE CULTURE WAR ARGUMENTS PART OF THE 2026 ELECTION? ERIN: THEY CERTAINLY WERE, IN THE SENSE THAT REPUBLICANS TRIED TO USE THEM TO PAINT DEMOCRATS RUNNING IN THESE SWING SEATS AS TOO FAR LEFT FOR THEIR DISTRICTS AND THEIR STATES.

40:16 BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT AMERICAN VOTERS WERE SO DRIVEN BY THEIR ECONOMIC INTERESTS, IT DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH OF A DENT AS IT DID IN 2024. HOST: WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CAMPAIGN 2026 AS WE CONTINUE IN PRIME TIME TONIGHT, AND WE ARE ASKING ALL OF YOU TO JOIN US IN THE CONVERSATION. WE HAVE A COUPLE RACES ON THE SENATE SIDE, AS WELL AS MORE THAN A DOZEN HOUSE RACES THAT HAVE YET TO BE CALLED. LET'S CHECK ON THE SENATE RACE IN MISSISSIPPI. KIRK BADO, 96% OF THE VOTE AND SCOTT COLOM, THE DEMOCRAT, IS LEADING OVER REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT CINDY HYDE-SMITH BY A LITTLE OVER 1100 VOTES.

41:01 KIRK: THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY CLOSE. WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT MISSISSIPPI IS THERE IS NO LEGALLY MANDATED RECOUNT. THE COLOM CAMPAIGN IS COUNTING ON EXPANDING THEIR LEAD THROUGH PROVISIONAL BALLOTS, WHICH I BELIEVE NEED TO BE COUNTED BY NEXT TUESDAY. SO SIX MORE DAYS BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A FINAL CALL, BUT THIS WOULD BE AN INCREDIBLE COUP FOR DEMOCRATS TO FLIP THIS SEAT. HOST: WILL WE SEE LEGAL WRANGLING OVER THIS SEAT? ERIN: I IMAGINE WE WILL, AS WE WILL IN ALASKA. THAT'S ALSO GOING TO TAKE A WILD TO CALL, BECAUSE THEY WON'T DO THE RANKED CHOICE VOTING TABULATION UNTIL NOVEMBER 18. IT'S GOING TO BE A WHILE BEFORE

41:47 WE GET RESULTS IN EITHER STATE. HOST: STICKING WITH MISSISSIPPI, THE DEMOCRAT SCOTT COLOM TALK TO REPORTERS TODAY. >> I GOT TO TELL EVERYBODY, I AM HAPPY WITH WHERE WE STAND. I'M CONFIDENT ONCE THE PROCESS LAYS OUT WHERE WE ARE, WHERE THE BALLOTS ARE, WE ARE GOING TO WIN. AND IT'S BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI TURNED OUT IN HISTORIC NUMBERS TO MAKE THIS RACE POSSIBLE IN A MIDTERM ELECTION. WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE PREPARED FOR THIS MOMENT. UNLIKE ALL THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT MIGHT BE SURPRISED, OUR CAMPAIGN, OUR VOLUNTEERS, THE PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI ARE NOT SURPRISED.

42:33 WE HAVE BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS SCENARIO FOR WEEKS. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS. [CHEERS] WE HAVE CAL LAWYERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE AT THE COUNTY MEETINGS IN EACH COUNTY. WE WILL PROTECT THE PROCESS OF THIS ELECTION. WE WILL PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THIS ELECTION. I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT A PLURALITY WINS THIS ELECTION. THERE ARE NO RUNOFFS. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DIRECTION FOR OUR STATE. WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS. WE HAVE ALREADY SHOWED THE COUNTRY THAT MISSISSIPPI MATTERS Y'ALL. HOST: SCOTT COLOM, THE DEMOCRAT IN MISSISSIPPI, SOUNDING CONFIDENT HE WILL BE DECLARED THE WINNER WHEN THIS IS SAID AND DONE. KIRK BETO, I WANT TO SHARE A

43:18 HEADLINE WITH YOU AND OUR VIEWERS FROM SEMAPHORE. HOW ONE GOP SENATOR BLOCKED A NOMINEE AND ENDED UP WITH A REAL OPPONENT. CINDY HYDE-SMITH NOT ONLY OBJECTED TO COLOM'S JUDICIAL NOMINATION IN 2023, BUT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE FEDERAL BENCH FOR LIFE HAD SHE NOT OBJECTED. KIRK: THIS WAS AN INCREDIBLE PERSONAL STORY THAT REALLY FUELED SCOTT'S CAMPAIGN. THIS IS SOMETHING HE TALKED ABOUT IN ADS, ON THE STUMP. THIS MADE HIM A THREE DIMENSIONAL FIGURE INSTEAD OF JUST THE LETTER NEXT TO HIS NAME ON THE BALLOT. IT'S BEEN A VERY POWERFUL CAMPAIGN. HE HAS UP A LITTLE OVER 1000 VOTES AND HE IS IN A REALLY

44:04 STRONG POSITION. HOST: LET'S TALK ABOUT ALASKA, THE LAST FRONTIER. POLLS CLOSE AT 1:00 A.M. THIS MORNING ON WEDNESDAY IN ALASKA. THIS RACE IS STILL TOO CLOSE TO CALL. MARY PELTOLA, THE DEMOCRAT, IS AHEAD BY JUST AROUND 600 VOTES. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ALASKA WITH THE RANKED CHOICE VOTING? EXPLAIN HOW THIS PROCESS WORKS. ERIN: ALASKA IS THE ONLY STATE IN THE COUNTRY THAT USES THIS RANKED CHOICE VOTING SYSTEM, WHERE FOUR CANDIDATES ASCEND FROM THE ALL PARTY PRIMARY INTO THE GENERAL. IF NO ONE GETS A MAJORITY, WHICH IT LOOKS LIKE NONE OF THEM ARE, THEN THE RACE IS CONDUCTED USING RANKED CHOICE VOTING.

44:51 SO VOTERS' SECOND AND THIRD AND FOURTH PREFERENCES ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. ONCE THOSE VOTES ARE ALLOCATED, HE FINAL WINNER IS DETERMINED. HOST: WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING AND WHEN WILL THIS BE CALLED? KIRK: PROBABLY TWO WEEKS. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE MARY PELTOLA IS GOING TO GET THE MAGIC 50 PLUS ONE ON THE FIRST BALLOT TO GET OVER THE LINE BEFORE WE GO INTO RANKED CHOICE VOTING. BUT I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING TO SEE IF SHE HITS HER MARK FROM THE PRIMARY. I BELIEVE SHE GOT ABOUT 45%. SHE EVENTUALLY FINISHED FIRST AFTER THE RANKED CHOICE VOTING. IF SHE HITS THAT MARK IN THIS INITIAL BALLOT, I THINK SHE IS IN A STRONG POSITION. HOST: LET'S GO TO MICHIGAN, AN EXPENSIVE AND HOTLY CONTESTED RACE. DEMOCRATS NEEDED TO HOLD THIS

45:38 SEAT. GARY PETERS, THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR, DECIDED TO RETIRE, AND ABDUL EL-SAYED VERSUS FORMER CONGRESSMAN MIKE ROGERS. ABDUL EL-SAYED WAS ABLE TO WIN LAST NIGHT. HOW WAS HE ABLE TO DO THAT? KIRK: I THINK HE -- IF HE WAS A MORE GENERIC DEMOCRAT, I DON'T THINK THE RACE WOULD HAVE BEEN AS CLOSE AS IT TURNED OUT TO BE. BUT HIS STRENGTH IS NOT BEING GENERIC. HE IS SOMEONE WHO HAS FIRED UP THE PROGRESSIVE BASE IN MICHIGAN , WHO LEANED INTO A MORE PUG MEASURES CAMPAIGN STYLE -- PU GNACIOUS CAMPAIGN STYLE. YOU SAW IT IN HIS ADS AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES, HIS VICTORY SPEECH

46:24 AS WELL. HE SOUNDED LIKE A RUSTLING PROMO, ALMOST LIKE THE ROCK INSTEAD OF SOMEONE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS. HE SAID, IF I'M THE NOMINEE, I'M GOING TO WIN BY SEVEN POINTS. WHAT'S THE MARGIN RIGHT NOW? 52% TO 45%. HOST: AND THE VOTE IS ALMOST IN. LET'S LISTEN TO A BIT OF THAT VICTORY SPEECH. >> TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WATCHED THIS LAST MONTH, TO ALL THE PARENTS WHO STRUGGLED TO EXPLAIN WHY THE PRESIDENT OPENLY MOCKED SOMEONE FOR THEIR NAME OR HOW THEY PRAY, LET THEM KNOW TOMORROW THAT THE BAD GUYS LOST. [CHEERS] LET THEM KNOW -- [CROWD CHANTING "ABDUL"]

47:09 LET THEM KNOW THAT WE, TOGETHER, FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER, WE WON. SO, MIKE, ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT. I KNOW YOU'VE GOT A HOUSE IN FLORIDA AND TWO YACHTS. SEE, YOU CHOSE HATE, AND MICHIGAN SHOWS HOPE. MAY WE NEVER HAVE TO SEE THE LIKES OF YOU IN THIS STATE AGAIN. [CHEERS] JD -- THERE IS THIS DELICIOUS IRONY IN THE FACT THAT YOU ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY OBLIGATED TO

47:54 SWEAR ME IN IN JANUARY. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? WOLVERINE 1, BUCKEYES 0. HOST: ABDUL EL-SAYED IS HEADED TO WASHINGTON, THE SENATOR ELECT FROM MICHIGAN, AND HE GOT THE CROWD FIRED UP AROUND HIM WITH THOSE REMARKS. ERIN: HE CERTAINLY DID. TO KIRK'S POINT, THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW CLOSE IT WAS GOING TO END UP BEING, BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH DISUNITY ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. THAT IS THE TIMES WHEN YOU SEE THE OPPOSING PARTY PULL OFF A VICTORY. EVEN THOUGH HIS PRIMARY OPPONENT

48:40 ENDORSED MIKE ROGERS AHEAD OF THE ELECTION, POLLING SHOWS EL-SAYED HAD BEEN ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE A LOT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEHIND HIM, BLACK VOTERS, EVEN SOME JEWISH VOTERS, SO HE WAS ABLE TO COME OUT WITH A PRETTY RESOUNDING WIN. KIRK: DO YOU THINK IF HALEY STEVENS WOULD HAVE COME OUT WITH THAT ENDORSEMENT OF MIKE ROGERS A WEEK, TWO WEEKS EARLIER, DO YOU THINK IT WOULD HAVE MADE MORE OF A DIFFERENCE? ERIN: I DON'T KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS HAD ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS. IF YOU WERE SOMEONE WHO THAT WOULD HAVE SWAYED YOU, YOU ARE PROBABLY ALREADY VOTING FOR MIKE ROGERS. HOST: WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT VIEWERS HAVE TO SAY. LESLIE, NORTH CAROLINA. CALLER: I DO NOT BELIEVE IT WAS JUST THE WAR THAT AFFECTED THIS BALLOT THIS TIME AROUND.

49:28 IT WAS THE WAR, IT WAS THE ECONOMY. IT WAS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEEING RACISM IN THE STREETS AND BEING CONDONED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS THE PEOPLE SEEING ICE GATHER AMERICAN CITIZENS AND OTHERS AND THROW THEM INTO JAILS BASICALLY. AND IT WAS HEALTH CARE. TRUMP'S BIGGEST MISTAKE IS DISCOUNTING THE YOUNG VOTERS, THE WHITE WOMEN, THE LATINO AND HISPANIC PEOPLE. THIS SHOWS THAT PEOPLE, WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER AND VOTE, WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY. HOST: ALL RIGHT, LESLIE IN NORTH CAROLINA. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND WHO TURNED OUT TO VOTE, ERIN COVEY. ERIN: WE DID SEE A PRETTY

50:14 SIGNIFICANT SHIFT LEFT WITH YOUNG VOTERS. 18 TO 20 NINE-YEAR-OLDS VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS BY 14 POINTS IN 2024. THEY VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS BY 47 POINTS THIS CYCLE. ONE OF THE LARGER SWINGS. ANOTHER DRAMATIC SWING WITH HISPANIC VOTERS, WHO VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS BY NINE POINTS IN 2024. THIS CYCLE, 27 POINTS. THESE WERE GROUPS TRUMP HAD BROUGHT INTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S COALITION IN THE 2024 CYCLE, BUT THEY HAD JOINED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THE PRESIDENT WOULD FIX THE ECONOMY. AFTER TWO YEARS OF HIGHER PRICES DUE TO TARIFFS, DUE TO THE WAR WITH IRAN, THESE VOTERS WERE TURNED AWAY FROM THE GOP. HOST: THE PRESIDENT HAD HIS

51:00 ECONOMIC MESSAGE IN 2024. HE HIT ON IT OVER AND OVER, AND IT RESONATED WITH PEOPLE AFTER FOUR YEARS OF JOE BIDEN. KIRK: IT DID. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE TRUMP 1.0 ECONOMY. REMEMBER THE PANDEMIC? WE WERE ROLLING, BUT THE PANDEMIC DERAILED US. JOE BIDEN RUINED THE ECONOMY. COME BACK TO ME AND WE LOOK AT THE TRUMP 1.0 ECONOMY COMING. THAT NEVER HAPPENED AND THOSE VOTERS LEFT IN DROVES IN 2026. HOST: WHAT DO DEMOCRATS DO NOW? CAN THEY PUSH THE BUTTONS OF POWER AND TRY TO STOP THE WAR, WHICH IF THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL WOULD THEORETICALLY BRING DOWN THE PRICE OF GAS AND OIL. KIRK: THEY CAN START MAKING

51:47 MOVES TO REIN IN THE PRESIDENT'S POWER TO CONDUCT THIS WAR. THEY CAN MAKE MOVES TERRAIN AND THE TARIFF POWER, AND I THINK THAT'S THE TANGIBLE WAY DEMOCRATS CAN GO ABOUT FULFILLING THIS CAMPAIGN PROMISE OF TACKLING THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS, REINING IN THE TARIFFS AND THE PRESIDENT'S ABILITY TO WAGE WAR WITH IRAN. HOST: WILL THE PRESIDENT ON THOSE ISSUES USE THE VETO PEN? ERIN: I WOULD THINK HE WOULD BE INCLINED TO, BUT IT'S HARD TO SAY. I THINK THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WHERE YOU COULD SEE BIPARTISAN PROGRESS PARTICULARLY CORRUPTION, ALSO RANKED AS A TOP ISSUE BY VOTERS. STOCK TRADING, AN ISSUE THAT AFFECTS BOTH PARTIES IN THE SENSE THAT BOTH PARTIES MEMBERS DO THAT FREQUENTLY. CORPORATE PAC SPENDING.

52:34 THESE ARE ISSUES BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WERE RUNNING ON, AND ARE ISSUES WHERE DEMOCRATS COULD CONSOLIDATE SOME OF THE SUPPORT THEY BROUGHT IN, IF THEY MAKE PROGRESS ON THEM. HOST: LEONARD IN ILLINOIS, DEMOCRATIC COLOR. CALLER: THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL. I'M GLAD THE COUNTRY WOKE UP AND REALIZED THAT TRUMP RUINED THE REPUTATION OF OUR NATION AND BECAME HATED BY THE REST OF THE WORLD. THE MEDIA HAS TO DO A BETTER JOB OF INFORMING THE ELECTORATE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A CRIMINAL IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BUILDING MEMORIALS TO HIMSELF AND DESTROYING BELOVED AND SACRED MONUMENTS THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO AND HAVE LOVED AND REVERED FOR DECADES.

53:20 REPUBLICANS HAVE GIVEN IN TO ALL OF THE IDIOCY AND DRIFT THAT ALLOWS HIM TO PUT HIMSELF ABOVE THE LAW, AS HE LINES HIS POCKETS WITH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR HIM AND HIS CRIMINAL FAMILY. HOST: LEONARD, WHAT DO YOU WANT DEMOCRATS TO DO ABOUT THAT? CALLER: WELL, I WANT TO SEE SOME MORE DEMOCRATS LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS JUST

54:05 TAKEN ALL THE GOODNESS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. HOST: LEONARD, DO YOU WANT THEM TO GO AS FAR AS IMPEACHING? CALLER: NO, I DON'T WANT HIM IMPEACH -- HOST: ALL RIGHT, LEONARD IN ILLINOIS. KIRK: THAT ANTICORRUPTION MEASURE LEONARD WAS HITTING ON, WE HAVE SEEN THAT BECOME PREVALENT IN DEMOCRAT ADS IN THE FINAL FEW WEEKS OF THE CAMPAIGN. DEMOCRATS TRIED TO AVOID THAT A YEAR AGO IN THE EARLY CAMPAIGN SEASON, BUT IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS, THEY FOUND THAT TESTED REALLY HIGHLY WITH VOTERS, THAT THEY WERE FED UP WITH WHAT THEY SAW AS CORRUPTION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION AND ALSO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. ONE OF THE POPULAR MESSAGES

54:51 AMONG DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WAS CALLED TO BAN STOCK TRADING FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THAT'S ONE OF THOSE BIPARTISAN THINGS THAT CONGRESS CAN DO TO SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE ARE TRYING TO TACKLE THIS CORRUPTION AND AFFORDABILITY CRISIS. HOST: KAREN, A REPUBLICAN IN MADISON WISCONSIN. CALLER: THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL. AS A REPUBLICAN, I VOTED BASICALLY STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT THIS TIME AROUND. I'M A RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATE. I'VE BEEN VERY FRUSTRATED MOSTLY WITH THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS. EVERYTHING IS EXPENSIVE, AND FOR ME PERSONALLY IT'S BEEN HARD TO FIND JOBS. SO I'VE BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH THAT ESPECIALLY. AND I'M HOPING THAT WITH A

55:38 DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE, WE CAN MAKE SOME REAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS. KIRK: IF YOU VOTED IN 2024, DID YOU VOTE FOR TRUMP IN WISCONSIN? CALLER: I DIDN'T. I WAS NEVER A BIG FAN OF TRUMP. I WISH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD STAYED WITH THE MORE MODERATE MCCAIN STYLE OF POLITICS. BUT THIS LAST TWO YEARS WITH THIS UNPRODUCTIVE LEGISLATURE HAS SOLIDIFIED MY IDEALS OF TRUMP. KIRK: I THINK THAT GOES TO SHOW THAT TRUMP IS REFLECTED IN NOT JUST WHAT GOES ON IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT AT THE STATE LEVEL FOR REPUBLICANS. THAT'S WHAT YOU SAW IN STATE

56:24 LEGISLATURE RACES, THE GOVERNORS RACE, WHERE TOM TIFFANY, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, STRUGGLED TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE PRESIDENT. MIDTERM ELECTIONS ARE A REFERENDUM ON THE PARTY IN POWER. THIS ONE ESPECIALLY WAS A REFERENDUM ON THE MAN IN POWER. ERIN: REPUBLICANS -- DEMOCRATS NOW HAVE A TRIFECTA IN WISCONSIN. THEY FLIPPED BOTH THE STATE HOUSE AND SENATE. THEY ALSO HAVE TRIFECTA IS IN ARIZONA AND NEVADA. NOT TEXAS YET. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE STATE SENATE THERE. DEMOCRATS EXPANDED THEIR POWER AT THE STATE LEVEL IN THE WAY THAT RIVALS THE WAY REPUBLICANS HAD POWER AT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE LEVEL IN 2010. WE WILL SEE HOW THEY USE THAT

57:10 POWER. I'M GOING TO BE WATCHING HOW THAT AFFECTS REDISTRICTING. HOST: IN TEXAS, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT, AND ATTORNEY GENERAL. KIRK: DEMOCRATS ARE WINNING SO MUCH IN TEXAS, THERE IS NO WORRIES THAT YOU ARE SEEING BLUE MIRAGE IN OTHER OFFICES DOWN THERE. HOST: WHERE ELSE ARE WE WATCHING TO SEE HOW DEEP -- OR HOW HIGH THIS BLUE WAVE WENT? ERIN: IN TERMS OF THE OUTSTANDING HOUSE RACES, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF THE VOTE THAT HAS TO BE TABULATED IN CALIFORNIA. THE VAST MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS VOTE BY MAIL THERE, SO THAT WILL TAKE A WHILE. BUT WE WILL SEE HOW FAR LEFT LATINO VOTERS SWUNG. HOST: WE ARE GOING TO TALK MORE

57:55 ABOUT THE HOUSE COMING OUT. WE ARE APPROACHING THE TOP OF THE HOUR. C-SPAN'S CAMPAIGN 2026 PRIMETIME COVERAGE CONTINUES IN 30 SECONDS. >> MONDAY, AMERICA'S LEADING TELEVISION CALL AND PROGRAM, WASHINGTON JOURNAL, COMES TO PRIMETIME. >>, LIVE MOST LEVELHEADED COVERAGE. >> EVERY MORNING FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN TAKING AMERICA'S CALLS. >> THANKS FOR LETTING PEOPLE AIR THEIR THOUGHTS. >> NOW THAT CONVERSATION WILL ALSO COME TO PRIMETIME. >> YOU ARE THE MOST UNBIASED STATION. >> WASHINGTON JOURNAL PRIMETIME, WEEKNIGHTS STARTING MONDAY AT 9:00 P.M. EASTERN. >> NOW, MORE OF C-SPAN'S ONGOING COVERAGE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS.

58:40 VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WENT TO THE POLLS. THE RESULTS WILL DETERMINE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS AND SHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. HOST: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN OUR SECOND HOUR HERE OF C-SPAN'S CONTINUOUS COVERAGE OF CAMPAIGN 2026. WE WANT TO GO THROUGH THE BALANCE OF POWER WHERE IT STANDS RIGHT NOW. DEMOCRATS HAVE SEIZED CONTROL FROM REPUBLICANS HERE IN WASHINGTON. THERE ARE 54 DEMOCRATS FOR THE 120TH CONGRESS, INCLUDING TWO INDEPENDENTS. WE'RE WAITING ON A COUPLE OF OUTSTANDING RACES. REPUBLICANS, THEIR NUMBER IS, AT

59:26 THIS MOMENT, 44 REPUBLICANS IN THE U.S. SENATE. AND IN THE HOUSE WHERE IT STANDS AT THIS HOUR HERE, 237 DEMOCRATS TO 147 REPUBLICANS. AND, AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF RACES THAT HAVE YET TO BE CALLED BECAUSE WHY, TOO CLOSE? KIRK: TOO CLOSE TO CALL AND HOW THE DIFFERENT STATES CONDUCT THEIR ELECTIONS. ONE OF THE INTERESTING AND STRONGEST PARTS OF OUR DEMOCRACY IS THAT EVERY STATE CONDUCTS ITS OWN ELECTIONS. CALIFORNIA, FOR EXAMPLE, MOSTLY VOTE BY MAIL SO THAT TAKES A WHILE TO PROCESS ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY'RE ALLOWED TO RECEIVE BALLOTS UP TO A WEEK LATER TO PROCESS. SO CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.

1:00:12 IT ALWAYS DOES. THERE'S NOTHING UNUSUAL. WITH WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE PROCESS TO PLAY OUT. HOST: ERIN, THE U.S. HOUSE, TOTAL VOTE. NOT INCLUDING THOSE RACES THAT HAVE YET TO BE CALLED BUT OVERWHELMING THE VOTERS CHOSE DEMOCRATS FOR THE U.S. HOUSE. BY ALMOST 12 PERCENTAGE POINTS. ERIN: YEAH, THAT'S A HUGE MARGIN. IT RIVALS THE MARGIN THE DEMOCRATS GOT IN THE HOUSE POPULAR VOTE IN 1974 FOLLOWING THE WATERGATE SCANDAL. THAT IS THE CLOSEST COMPARISON THIS CYCLE. EVEN IN 2008 AND 2006 DEMOCRATS WERE NOT WINNING THE POPULAR

1:00:59 VOTE BY THAT LARGE A MARGIN. HOST: AND WHEN ALL THE VOTES ARE TAB LATED, HOW WILL THAT ENTHUSIASM TRANSLATE TO PICKUPS FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. HOUSE? ERIN: I THINK AT THIS POINT THERE'S A WORLD IN WHICH DEMOCRATS COULD WIN AS MANY AS 258, 259, EVEN 260 SEATS IN THE HOUSE, WHICH, AGAIN, WOULD PURR SASS THEIR HIGH WATERMARK. HOST: HOW MANY SEATS DO THEY HAVE IN THEIR MAJORITY? KIRK: IT'S A VERY GOVERNABLE MAJORITY FOR DEMOCRATS. PAST SPEAKERS, MIKE JOHNSON,

1:01:46 MIKE MCCARTHY HAVE HAD VERY SMALL MAJORITIES. IF WE GET A MAJORITY THAT'S 40 SEATS DEEP, COULD BE 45 SEATS DEEP OVER THAT 18 NUMBER, HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS GOING TO HAVE A VERY EASY TIME OF MANAGING HIS PRIORITIES IN THE NEW CONGRESS. >> AXIOS REPORTED IN SEVEN STATES WHERE REPUBLICANS REDREW THE CONGRESSIONAL MAPS, THE G.O.P. IS ON TRACK TO LOSE EIGHT OF SEATS RATHER THAN 15 THEY HAD HOPED TO GAIN. WHEN IT WAS ALL SAID AND DONE, HOW MANY DID -- IT SOUNDS LIKE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT GOING TO GET

1:02:32 WHAT THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD. ERIN: , NO IN FACT, THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE SEATS AS A RESULT OF REDISTRICTING ALONE ON NET, I THINK, AND THAT'S BECAUSE CALIFORNIA SUCCESSFULLY GERRYMANDERED THEIR OWN HOUSE MAP TO FAVOR DEMOCRATS. DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO PICK UP FIVE SEATS IN CALIFORNIA AND ANOTHER SEAT IN UTAH. THAT GIVES THEM PLUS SIX ON THE REDISTRICTING LEDGER AND FOR REPUBLICANS IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PROBABLY ONLY GOING TO PECK UP THREE SEATS, ONE IN TEXAS, ONE IN TENNESSEE AND ONE IN LOUISIANA. HOST: WE'VE HEARD THE PHRASE DUMMY MADDENNER, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? KIRK: YOU DRAW YOUR LINES TOO

1:03:20 THIN AND IN A YEAR LIKE THAT IT BACKFIRES. I THINK GROUND ZERO FOR THIS IS NORTH CAROLINA. IN NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS REDREW THE MAP TO HAVE THEIR PARTY FAVORED IN 11 OF THE 14 SEATS THERE. INSTEAD WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW IS THEY MIGHT JUST END UP AT MOST WINNING FOUR OF THE 14 SEATS HERE. THIS WAS A DEVASTATING NIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR REPUBLICANS. INCLUDING, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ON TRACK. RICHARD HUDSON, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NRCC, THE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF ELECTING REPUBLICANS IS GOING TO LOSE HIS SEAT. THIS IS THE SECOND MIDTERM SESSION IN A ROLE WHERE THE MIDTERM CHAIRMAN IS GOING TO

1:04:05 LOSE HIS SEAT. HOST: FOR OUR LONG-TIME VIEWERS HERE AT C-SPAN IF HUDSON LOSES HIS SEAT HE'D JOIN THE RANKS OF SPEAKER TOM FOLEY IN 1994 AND CHAIR PRATT RICK MALONE ANY IN 2022 WHERE THERE WERE SO BUSY FOCUSING ON EXPANDING THE MAJORITY, THEY NAILED TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. KIRK: EXACTLY, HE WAS OUT CAMPAIGNING FOR MIKE LAWLER IN NEW YORK. 17. WHO HAS ALSO LOST HIS RACE. HOST: PROVIDENCE, A DEMOCRATIC CALLER. WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR AND WHY?

1:04:53 CALLER: MY VETO WENT TO THE DEMOCRAT BECAUSE I AM A DEMOCRAT. HOST: WHAT VOTED YOU TO VOTE, DARNELL? CALLER: I'VE BEEN VOTING SINCE I WAS 18. THAT'S OVER 50 YEARS. [LAUGHTER] I'M SHOWING MY AGE. MY QUESTION IS I HEARD A LOT OF THINGS THAT THE DEMOCRATS SHOULDN'T BE DOING, THE TOP THREE. I'VE ONE THAT SHOULD BE THERE. NATIONAL SECURITY. C.I.A., N.S.A., F.B.I., I THINK THEY NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT FIRST INSTEAD OF THE DOMESTIC THINGS. HOST: OK. CALLER: BECAUSE ONE THING I DO

1:05:41 KNOW, WHEN TRUMP TOOK ALL THOSE CLASPED DOCUMENTS TO MAR-A-LAGO. THEY HAPPENED A FAR SALE SIGN ORDERED. THAT'S DONALD TRUMP. I HEARD ABOUT HIM A LOT WHEN I LIVED IN NEW YORK IN THE 19 80'S. HOST: CALLING ON DEMOCRATS TO FOCUS ON NATIONAL SECURITY. SHAW IN LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, AN INDIANA. WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU NEXT? CALLER: HI, I'M A MILLENNIAL, A FORMER REPUBLICAN UNTIL 2016 AND RECENTLY I'VE BEEN ALIGNED WITH THE PROGRESSIVES AND I THINK THIS WAS A REALLY GOOD INDICATION OF WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE EXPECTING FROM CONGRESS BUT WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS FOLKS LIKE SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES.

1:06:26 WE VOTED BECAUSE WE EXPECT RESULTS AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN NEW YORK CITY WITH FOLKS LIKE MAYOR MAMDANI. HE'S PROVIDING THOSE RESULTS AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT. WE WANT MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. WE WANT THE CORRUPTION TO BE GONE. WE DON'T WANT STOCK TRADING BY CONGRESS MEMBERS. STUFF THAT A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AGREE ON ANYWAY. WE WANT TO ACTUALLY SEE ACTIONS, NOT JUST HEAR THE PEOPLE MAKING THESE ENDLESS PROMISES AND THEN NOT SEEING ANYTHING DONE ABOUT IT. HOST: ERIN, ARE THOSE DELIVERIES FOR DEMOCRATS? ERIN: POTENTIALLY. THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF CROSS THIS

1:07:12 HAVE PARTY SUPPORT AND TACKLING SOME OF THOSE CORRUPTION ISSUES IS ONE WAY THEY COULD BRING THE PARTY TOGETHER AND ALSO BRING QUITE A FEW REPUBLICANS ON BOARD. BUT OTHER PRIORITIES LIKE MEDICARE FOR ALL, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT IS GOING TO PASS THE HOUSE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT TO HAVE OPPOSITION WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF POLICY ISSUES WHERE PROGRESSIVES AND DEMOCRATS CAN WORK TOGETHER. HOST: DEMOCRATS LIKE TO SAY THEY'RE A BIG-TENT PARTY. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? KIRK: DEMOCRATS MADE SUCH DEEP INROADS INTO TRUMP COUNTRY.

1:07:58 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME MORE PROGRESSIVE ALIGNED D.S.A. MEMBERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA IN THE SAME CAUCUS AS FOLKY THERE MIGHT BE A CANDIDATE FROM TENNESSEE 4, A DISTRICT THAT TRUMP CARRIED BY 24 FORCE. THERE ARE GOING TO BE A LOT OF DIFFERENCES. HOST: PROGRESSIVE VICTORIES ARE NOW TOO LOVED TO DISMISS, THAT HEADLINE IN POLITE COME. ERIN COVEY? ERIN: SURE, AND THE SQUAD IS SET TO PROBABLY MORE THAN DOUBLE IN SIZE AND THE BLUE DOG CAW ISSUES IS ALSO GOING TO DOUBLE IN SIZE AT LEAST SO BOTH OF THOSE ENDS

1:08:43 OF THE PARTY ARE GROWING AND I THINK HOW THEY CHOOSE TO WIELD THAT POWER REMAINS TO BE SEEN BUT IT'S GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING TWO YEARS. HOST: THERE ARE SOME "NEW FACES" THAT WILL BE IN THE U.S. SENATE COME JANUARY AND SOME FIRSTS. JAMES TALARICO, THE FIRST TEXAS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SINCE 1988. YOU HAVE SENATOR-ELECT CHRIS PAPAS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN IN THE SENATE AND IN THE STATE OF KANSAS, THE MODERATE DEMOCRAT THERE, ADAM HAMILTON. HE'S THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SINCE 1932. ABDUL EL-SAYED IN MICHIGAN BECOMES THE FIRST MUSLIM SENATOR AND ANNIE ANDREWS, ELECTED IN

1:09:29 SOUTH CAROLINA, THE FIRST FEMALE SENATOR FROM THE PALMETTO STATE AND THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SINCE 1998. FIRSTS FOR GOVERNORS IN THIS COUNTRY. JEANNA HINOJOSA, THE FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR DEMOCRAT AND FEMALE SINCE 1990. KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS, THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE GOVERNOR IN U.S. HISTORY. DAVID CROWLEY IN WISCONSIN, THE FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR IN THEIR HISTORY. DEB HAALAND, THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICA FEMALE GOVERNOR. XAVIER AND AMY ACTON SO AMY

1:10:18 KLOBUCHAR. FIRST FEMALE GOVERNORS IN THEIR STATE'S HISTORY AND MARSHA BLACKBURN FOR TENNESSEE. A LOT OF FIRSTS FOR LAST NIGHT. KIRK: ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE AS WELL THERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS. IT'S PRETTY REMARKABLE FOR REPRESENTATION HERE HOW MANY DIFFERENT CANDIDATES WON LAST NIGHT. HOST: WHAT DO ALL OF YOU THINK ABOUT THE MAKEUP OF THE 120TH CONGRESS WITH DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL OF WASHINGTON. JOSEPH IN NEW YORK, DEMOCRATIC CALLER. CALLER: GOOD EVENING. I'M A DEMOCRAT BUT PREFERABLY I WOULD CALL THEM -- COME FROM A

1:11:05 FAMILY OF NEW DEAL DEMOCRATS WHO FOCUSED ON WORKING CLASS AND I THINK INSTEAD OF LABORLING BLUE DOG AND THE SQUAD AND THIS AND THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO WIN OVER WORKING CLASS IDEOLOGY AND I'M NO FAN OF CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES. THOSE PEOPLE HAVE TO GO BECAUSE THEY'RE OWN BUILD AIPAC AND CORPORATE DONORS. THE CORPORATE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO SCREW THIS UP IF THEY GET THEIR WAY. HOST: JOSEPH, I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE BECAUSE I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF AIPAC AND THE ROLE THAT DEBATE PLAYED IN THIS CYCLE. ERIN, YOU HAD AIPAC SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THESE

1:11:50 RACES. THERE WAS A RIGOROUS DEBATE IN THESE CONTESTS OVER AID TO ISRAEL AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PALESTINIAN. THE PRESIDENT ON ELECTION DAY SAYS THAT AID TO ISRAEL IS GOING TO END. THIS ISSUE RESONATED. ERIN: YES, YOU'VE SEEN A HUGE SHIFT IN PUBLIC OPINION OVER ISRAEL IN THE PAST THREE YEARS. WE'RE NOW IN A POSITION WHERE A LOT OF THESE DEMOCRATIC ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE OUT OF STEP WITH THEIR BASE AND THEIR VIEW ON ISRAEL. WE SAW AIPAC SPEND QUITE A BIT OF MONEY IN A LOT OF THESE RACES. THEY HAD A PRETTY MIXED RECORD AND NOTABLE THAT AIPAC ITSELF IS NO LONGER GOING TO BEN DORSING

1:12:37 CANDIDATES DIRECTLY. WE'LL STILL SEE SUPER PAC DONORS FUNDED BY THEM IN A LOT OF PLACES BUT THEY ARE NOW A TAXIC NAME IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BASE. KIRK: WE HAD FORMER REPRESENTATIVE TALK TO OUR OWN MARSHA BLACKBURN THIS LAST WEEK AND HE'S ONE OF THE ONES WHO AIPAC TARGETED. HIS WHOLE PLATFORM WAS TALKING ABOUT NEEDING TO PUT MORE CONDITIONS ON OUR MONEY TO ISRAEL AND AIPAC KYLE OUT FOR HIM AND HELPED TORPEDO HIS COMEBACK BID. WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS THAT AIPAC IS STEPPING AWAY. HE SAID IT'S AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

1:13:23 OF THEIR FAILURE, THEIR SORRY PLACE IN THE POLITICAL HIERARCHY. HOST: WHAT HAPPENS IN THE 120TH CONGRESS FOR ISRAEL? THAT NEW ENGLAND TO STOP AIMED SEEMED TO BE RESONATING WITH REPUBLICANS AS WELL. WHY ELSE WOULD THE PRESIDENT MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT? ERIC: TRUMP'S HAIL MARY ON ELECTION DAY KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGING THIS WAS A CONTENTIOUS ISSUE WITH VOTERS BUT WAS COSTING REPUBLICANS. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR THIS CYCLE BUT I THINK YOU'LL SEE THIS PLAY OUT IN 2028 AS WELL WHEN DEMOCRATS START DECLARING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A REAL DIVIDE BETWEEN CANDIDATES.

1:14:08 HOST: REPUBLICANS AS WELL. WE READ EARLIER WHAT C.D. VANCE HAD TO SAY IN THAT STATEMENT ABOUT WHAT CAUSED REPUBLICANS TO LOSE POWER IN THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. IN THAT STATEMENT, THE PART THAT WE DID NOT READ, HE DID TALK ABOUT ISRAEL TIES FOR -- TO REPUBLICANS AND HE, TOO, WAS BLAMING THAT FOR THEIR LOSS. KIRK: HE WAS AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A HUGE ISSUE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN 2028. THERE ARE FACTIONS WITHIN BOTH PARTIES. HOST: AND, AGAIN, C.D. VANCE ON THE MIDTERM LOSSES FOR THE REPUBLICANS HAD THIS TO SAY -- THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR, HE SAID. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO LAST NIGHT.

1:14:53 IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IF IT WAS WORTH IT -- THAT LOSING THE SENATE FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT, THEN DO SO. ARGUE IT WAS WORTHWHILE COST TO PAY. AGREE OR DISAGREE. THAT'S AT LEAST HONEST BUT EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST AND ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THERE. DID THIS SURPRISE THE PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE? KIRK: I DON'T KNOW IF IT DID. HE ACTED SURPRISED. BUT WHAT I THINK IS INTERESTING IS THAT THIS WAR IN AARON IS EMERGING AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR REPUBLICANS WHETHER REALLY, TRUMP'S DISAPPROVAL RATINGS GOT

1:15:41 HIGHER THAN HIS APPROVAL RATINGS HAPPENED WITH WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HIS TARIFFS. HOST: THE PRESIDENT HELD A NEW CONFERENCE ABOUT HIS BALLROOM BUT DID TAKE A QUESTION ABOUT C.D. VANCE'S STATEMENT ABOUT THE WAR. HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. >> DID YOU KNOW THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO POST THAT X MESSAGE TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT THE WASH AND HOW IT IMPACTED IT? PRESIDENT TRUMP: I KNEW THE WAR WAS GOING TO IMPACT IT BUT WHETHER IT IMPACTED IT OR NOT, IRAN CAN'T HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. >> NO, BUT THE VICE PRESIDENT WROTE A VERY LENGTHILY POST ABOUT HOW THE WAR AFFECTED THE

1:16:28 RESULTS LAST NIGHT. PRESIDENT TRUMP: I KNOW HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT. I THINK IT WAS FINE. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD. WE KNEW THAT I KNEW THAT WHEN I WENT IN AND WE STOPPED THEM FROM HAVING A NUCLEAR WEAPON AND THEY WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. >> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO SOUTH VICEPRESIDENT VANCE? PRESIDENT TRUMP: WE'VE SPOKEN ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS. YOU MAY HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE RUNNING, MAYBE HE WON'T RUN. I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GOING TO RUN BUT AS FAR AS THAT WAR IS CONCERNED, I WOULD HAVE DONE NOTHING DIFFERENT. WE'VE TOTALLY BROKEN THEIR

1:17:14 MILITARY, THEIR NAVY IS GONE, THEIR AIR FORCE AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT IS GONE. HOST: THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAR IN IRAN. WAS IT AN ISSUE FOR YOU WHEN YOU VOTED IN THIS MIDTERM CYCLE. DAVE, A REPUBLICAN, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE RESULTS WE'VE SEEN FROM THE 20 6 MIDTERM ELECTION. CALLER: YES, MY FEELINGS ARE THAT PEOPLE NEEDED THE $5,000 AND THE ONES THAT DIDN'T NEED IT DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE POORER PEOPLE THAT NEEDED IT. THAT WAS A GOOD GESTURE BY TRUMP TO OFFER $5,000. HOST: DAVE, DO YOU THINK PEOPLE BELIEVED HIM? THAT THAT WOULD GET THAT $5,000?

1:18:02 CALLER: I THINK MOST PEOPLE DID GENERALLY. HE PAID THE MILITARY RIGHT AWAY. NOBODY WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT. HOST: SOUNDS LIKE DAVE WISHES THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAPPENED KEPT THEIR MAJORITY SO THAT FOLKS WOULD GET THAT $5,000 FROM THE PRESIDENT. ERIN: I THINK THAT WAS NOT A DRIVING ISSUE FOR VOTERS BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS IN THEIR LIVES THAT MAKING THEM A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE ULTIMATELY AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS $5,000 WILL DO MUCH TO ALEAVATE THOSE CONCERNS BUT I THINK A LOT OF VOTERS WERE SKEPTICAL THEY MAY ACTUALLY GET THAT MONEY. HOST: YEAH, AND THE ECONOMY WAS DRIVING A LOT OF VOTERS LAST

1:18:47 NIGHT. ACCORDING TO THE NORTH CIVICS HEALTH AND ELECTIONS PROJECTS THEY DID A 50-STATE VOTER SURVEY AND WHEN THEY ASKED FOLKS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S HANDLING OF JOBS, IF THEY WERE VERY SATISFIED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION, THEY STILL DISAPPROVED OF THE PRESIDENT'S HANDLING BY 51%. IF THEY WERE SOMEWHAT SATISFIED THEY DISAPPROVED OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HANDLING OF JOBS BY 60% AND THOSE SURVEYED THAT WERE NOT STAFFED WITH THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION, 71% DISAPPROVED OF

1:19:33 THE PRESIDENT'S HANDLING OF THE SITUATION AND THEIR JOBS. KIRK: WE SAW ALMOST THE SAME THING WITH JOE BIDEN. THE STOCK MARKET WAS GOOD. THE JOBS LOSSES WERE LOW. HOST: PEOPLE DON'T OPEN UP THEIR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS EVERY SINGLE DAY. KIRK: CORRECT AND TRUMP GOES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND TALKS ABOUT YOUR 401K'S HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER. AT THE SAME TIME THE PRICE OF EGGS AND ALWAYS RISING. HOST: YOU'RE NEXT. CALLER: I AM A CHICANO.

1:20:19 MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND I THINK WHEN WE'RE IN SCHOOL AND WE'RE PLEDGING ATTRACTION THIS COUNTRY, WE END WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL AND IF WE CAN'T FIND LEADERSHIP IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHO CAN'T WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME AND GIVE US BOTH THEN WE CAN'T SETTLE FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES OR SCHUMER OR OTHER DEMOCRATS LIKE CORY BOOKER. WE WENT AND DID OUR PART. US CHICANOS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS, WE VOTED AS IF OUR LEVERS DEPENDED ON IT BECAUSE WE ARE SCARED TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC. I LIVE IN A DEEP, DEEP, RED STATE WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S NO FUTURE OF IT TURNING

1:21:05 BLUE BUT I'M GOING TO STAY HERE. I LOVE WHERE I'M AT BUT WE ARE SCARED TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC. WE NEED ICE REFORM. WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT. WE CANNOT ALLOW THE ESTABLISHMENT TO MANEUVER AWAY FROM THIS AND SAY IT'S ABOUT THE ECONOMY OR THESE OTHER THINGS. WE VOTED AS IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT. HOST: ALL RIGHT, BILLY IN IDAHO. INTERESTING CALL. ERIN: IMMIGRATION WAS A DRIVING ISSUE THIS CYCLE AS WELL PARTICULARLY IN THOSE MAJORITY HISPANIC ISSUES. I SAW A LOT OF ADS FROM BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS TALKING ABOUT ICE. EVEN FROM REPUBLICANS LIKE

1:21:51 COMMON DELL CRUZ IN TEXAS WHO WERE TRYING TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND ITS IMMIGRATION POLICIES. I DO THINK THIS IS A SALIENT ISSUE RIGHT NOW. I DON'T KNOW HOW A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE ARE GOING TO HAND IT WILL IT. I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO WANT TO ABOLISH ICE ALTOGETHER. AND A LOT OF FOLKS WHO SUPPORT A DIFFERENT DEPORTATION POLICY AND A SECURE BORDER. HOST: RIGHT, DEMOCRATS COULD SWING TOO FAR. KIRK: THEY COULD POTENTIALLY BUT THE RESULTS FROM THE HOUSE AND GOVERNORS RACES AS WELL. IN EVERYONE STATE BORDERING THE MEXICAN BORDER DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE GOVERNORSHIP.

1:22:37 IN THE HOUSE DISTRICTS, THEY'VE WON EVERY SINGLE HOUSE DISTRICT AS WELL OR THEY'RE LEADING IN THEM. THESE ARE THE ONES ON THE FRONT LINE OF THIS BORDER CRISIS AND THOSE VOTERS THERE ARE ALL FAVORING DEMOCRATS. HOST: FROM CALIFORNIA, AN INDEPENDENT, WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU. CALLER: THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT I VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS, FOR SARAH JACOB. WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS THEY WANT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO DO TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. TO GO AFTER THE CORRUPTION OF DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ELSES WITH

1:23:23 THE RUSSIANS. I MEAN, THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT IN MY OPINION. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WE NEED OUR ECONOMY TO HELP THE COMMON PERSON. PEOPLE WHO -- FOR EXAMPLE. THEY ARE SUFFERING. THEY'RE CUTTING HEALTH CARE. THEY'RE NOT COVERING WHAT WE NEED AND LAST POINT, I WANT TO SEE SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES OUT. I DON'T TRUST WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THANK YOU. HOST: A COUPLE OF ISSUES TO DIVE INTO THERE. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT LEADERSHIP

1:24:09 BECAUSE WE'RE HEARING FROM CALLERS AND I WONDER IF THE NEW DEMOCRATS THAT ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON ARE GOING TO FEEL COMPELLED TO CHALLENGE THIS IDEA THAT THEY SHOULD STICK WITH THE STATUS QUO OF LEADERSHIP. KIRK: THAT'S GOING TO BE THE BIG, INTERESTING QUESTION. I STILL THINK THAT HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS GOING TO BE ON A PATH TO THE SPEAKERSHIP. I THINK CHUCK SCHUMER MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT TIME. I THINK WHAT MIGHT SAVE HIM AS THE UNANIMOUS VOTING. YOU SAW A LOT OF CANDIDATES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SAYING WE'RE NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR CHUCK SCHUMER OR JEFFRIES AS WELL BUT WE HEARD THE SAME THING IN 2018 AS WELL WHERE THEY SAID THEY

1:24:55 WERE NOT GOING TO VOTE ON PELOSI. RAJ: ROB IN NEW YORK, INDEPENDENT. HI ROB. CALLER: HI. I'M AN INDEPENDENT AND I HAVE THREE QUESTIONS FOR THE PANELISTS. NUMBER ONE, PENNY FLANIGAN WAS

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