A Landslide Victory for Democrats

We just took back Texas. [cheering]. >> So, South Carolina, I think we just made. some history. [cheering]. >> Thank you so much, Maine. [music]. Working people did it. >> Iowa, we have proven that the impossible. was possible. >> From the New York Times, [music] I'm. Michael Bubaro. This is the Daily. On Tuesday night, [music] the blue wave.

that polls predicted and the president's. unpopularity foreshadowed landed [music]. with extraordinary force across the. United States as Democrats flipped. control of both the House and the. Senate. My name. is Abdul Rahman Muhammad. [cheering]. and I am so proud and honored to stand.

here as your senator elect from the. great state of Michigan. Today, chief political analysts Nate. Conn [music]. and national political correspondents. Lisa Lair and Shane Goldmacher take us. inside a historic shift in power [music]. and a new era of American politics. In. sweeping and decisive victories, [cheering]. the American people have rebuked the.

depravity, corruption, and incompetence. of the failed lame duck President Donald. J. Trump. [cheering]. >> It's [music] Wednesday, November 4th. >> Good morning. >> We're counting this as morning. I mean, it's 1. It's 1:00 a.m. >> It's early. It is early. >> We're doing great. Wednesday morning. Oh, I thought we would be I thought we'd. be taping this at 3:00 in the morning. >> Yeah, me too. >> Yeah. >> This night required no later than 1:00.

a.m. an hour an hour. So big and so. decisive and so quick was the result. Uh, should we get started? >> Let's. >> All right. Nate, >> Michael, >> Lisa, thank you. >> Hi, >> Nate. Fill in the blank for me. Tonight. was what? >> A tsunami. >> A blue tsunami. >> A blue tsunami. It's the largest victory. in the national popular vote since at. least 1976. >> in a midterm.

>> In any congressional election. >> Mhm. >> The Democrats will win at least 54 seats. in the Senate, including at least five. seats that the president won by double. digits in the last election. No party. has managed to flip so many seats that. are so safely in the other side's hands. And as far back as I looked, and I went. back to 1974, I could have gone further, but that seemed far enough to me. >> So, this is big, >> Lisa. Tonight was what? >> Tonight was a prairie fire that just.

swept the nation. A wildfire. I I'm just. over the water analogies. >> Yeah, Nate Nate tortured it on Tuesdays. daily. >> Nate went on a long journey with it. And. I think we'll go to fire now. I can go. on fire. >> Yeah. Okay. I think but I also think the. water doesn't capture the level of anger. of Americans over all these prices and. gas prices and housing prices and. everything else. And so it felt like. >> a democratic wildfire. >> A democratic wildfire. Yeah. >> Shane, tonight was for you.

>> I think it was a punishment. I think. that you see the kind of thorowness that. Nate is describing and it becomes less. about the individual Democratic. candidates or even the Democratic party. This is a reaction and a rejection of. President Trump and his approach and his. party's complete bended knee to his. approach for the last two years. >> In summary, a big old spanking. punishment. >> Yeah. Okay. I want to talk about where.

and how this tsunami, wildfire, punishment unfolded throughout the night. because there was quite a dramatic. chronology and arc to it. Nate, when did. you realize what was happening on. Tuesday night? >> Well, it was clear Democrats were. overperforming immediately, even in. states like Florida. >> where a Democratic socialist was neck. andneck throughout the night with a. Republican in a really red state. >> That's right. But Florida's been close. before. polls showed that Florida could.

be close. The thing that told me that we. weren't just going to have a big blue. wave, but a tsunami or a wildfire, was. not too long after that, at maybe 7:20, when in South Carolina, a state that was. certainly thought to be competitive, but. very few people really believed would be. likely to flip Democratic when the early. vote was just plainly better for. Democrat Annie Andrews, then she needed. to win. the Senate candidate, >> the Senate candidate, Democrat Annie. Andrews. And that meant that we were.

looking at Democrats not merely winning. the states that we had been talking. about for the last few months, like Ohio. and even Texas or Kansas, but another. tier beyond that like South Carolina. And not just. >> the outer limits of Trump plus 10 plus. 15 red states that once were nearly. conceivable, >> nearly 20 in South Carolina's case. >> Trump was plus 20 in South Carolina. >> I don't think he was plus 20, but he was. close. Maybe 18. And here a Democratic. >> and was going to win. >> and didn't just prevail but prevailed.

with room to spare. She won by nearly. five points. >> That is extraordinary. And on the topic. of a repudiation of Donald Trump, the. Republican candidate Darlene Graham who. was essentially anointed by Donald Trump. to replace her brother Lindsey Graham. Her greatest sin in this election is. that she was anointed by the president. and that is not what the country was. looking to support. >> Right. Usually in a red state like South. Carolina, Trump as kingmaker is the. beginning and the end of the. conversation. In this case, that wasn't.

the story at all. It seemed to backfire. And that was the case, right, Shane? In. many of these key Senate races where the. Republicans lost and the Democrats. prevailed. I mean, the bad news for me. as a political junkie and a political. reporter who loves to dive into like how. the races were run and what were the. decisions and it there's just one story. here and it's a story of the country. rejecting Trump and Republicans and it's.

pretty simple and that's how you end up. losing in Texas by potentially close to. double digits. It's how you lose by the. remarkable margin that Nate's talking. about in South Carolina. It's how you. get a new senator from Kansas for the. first time in nearly a hundred years and. you. >> a Democratic. >> Democratic senator in Kansas and it's. how you oust probably the most enduring. moderate Republican in Maine. >> Let me have you just focus for a moment. longer on Texas Shane because for the. longest time on this show we debated how.

real the possibility was that James. Terrier could actually pull off a. victory there. And he not only pulled. off a victory, he pulled off a victory. whose scale is a little bit hard to. comprehend. >> Yeah. You see in the regional shifts. there a complete reversal of things that. we've talked about, which is the Latino. shift toward Trump. It went back to the. Democrats and even more. You see him. winning in a way that yeah was basically. unfathomable. And yes, we've talked that.

his opponent, Ken Paxton, was a. particularly weak Republican candidate, the state attorney general, who has. faced a series of scandals. But what you. also see is that it wasn't just Terriica. winning, but the Democratic candidate. for governor, Gina Hinosa, who beat a. fixture of Texas politics. Greg Abbott, who's been governor for more than a. decade, is out of power. And so. Democrats don't just have a Senate seat, they control the governor's office. >> Yeah. And I think that what those.

results show us is how much broader this. is than any individual candidate. The. scale of the wins shows you that this is. not about Paxton and it's not about. Roger Marshall who wasn't a particularly. >> strong candidate in Kansas. You know, it's not about any individual. Republican. It is just this wholesale. repudiation. >> I mean, Texas redrrew its congressional. districts specifically to elect more. Republicans and specifically all along. the border. The entire Texas border with. Mexico is going to be represented by.

Democrats, including one who won one of. those districts that was just a reach. that no one expected them to even be. competing in. [snorts] And there it has. a new Congress member who's a Democrat. Let me just put some math forward for. the listener at this hour. Nate, Democrats have won how many Senate. seats? And then I want to turn Shane and. Lisa over to where things stand in the. House before we then talk about some of. the governor's races around the country. too. Senate Nate, >> the Democrats have 54 seats at this.

hour. They won North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, and I think. that gets me to the number I need, but I. might be remembering another one. >> Not quite called yet, but trending. >> and um. >> and Alaska, check back with us in two. months. >> Yeah, Alaska. We'll find out in out in a. while. And it's also worth noting we may. find out in a while about Mississippi at. this hour. >> where the race is essentially tied and. where in the past provisional ballots.

have leaned Democratic. >> and therefore I think I could make an. argument that the Democrat could. realistically flip that state as well. which could give the Democrats if. everything went their way from here 56. seats in the Senate. >> which would represent flipping picking. up how many seats? >> That's a lot for me to count at this. hour. Michael [laughter]. they've flipped seven. They have flipped. seven. They could get up to 9. >> A huge number. Shane, in the House, just. bring us at 1:38 a.m. up to date where.

we are with Democratic control of the. House. >> Because podcasts are a visual medium, I. have a blue Sharpie that I circle all of. the House districts as they get called. And you will notice. >> a lot of blue circles. >> There are basically no red circles. anywhere on any of the competitive. races. And so the Democrats have won the. House majority. They have surpassed the. 218 seats that they need and they are on. their way to potentially historically. large majorities, probably the largest.

since the beginning of the Obama era, >> which took two successive waves to get. to. >> Nate may have more up-to-date numbers on. the scale of the national popular vote, but there isn't a competitive House race. right now where the Democrats are. losing. Mhm. >> I can think of one for this. Main two. has been on my radar. But when we. entered this room, >> the Democrats were favored in our. estimates to win the national vote by 13. points. So again, that's the largest margin.

since at least 1976. The highest in recent memory was when. the Democrats won by 10 in 2008 in the. House vote. So this is a real notch up. from anything that we've seen in in my. lifetime. >> I want to understand what happened to. Republican voters, as best you all can. tell. Did they stay home or did they. turn around and vote for Democrats in. the huge numbers that we think they. might have? >> The answer is both. It's clear from the. states where we have great data like. Florida and New Jersey and Nevada, the. Democrats had a much better turnout than.

any election in those states in recent. memory. And it's also clear from the. same states and other states that many. people who are registered as Republicans. and voted for Donald Trump voted for the. Democratic candidate. Stepping back for. a second, this is a total collapse of. the Republican coalition. There is no. Republican coalition tonight. >> There was an old Republican coalition. that had the support of affluent college. graduates and white collar suburbs that. they traded away to the Democrats a. decade ago in exchange for support among.

working-class voters and younger voters. and non-white voters. And that. coalition, that new Trump coalition, not. only abandoned them, it's even more. democratic than it's ever been before. I. would guess the Democrats won 70 plus%. of young voters. Wow. >> There is nothing left for the. Republicans and that's how you get a. wipeout across the map. >> I want to talk about Iowa. I understand. it's not the prettiest bell at the ball. like Texas, but it to me it is so. interesting of those kinds of changing. coalition politics. In Iowa, you had.

Democrats win the governor's mansion, the Senate seat, and flip three of the. four congressional seats. >> Why did that happen? Well, guess what? There's a lot of in Iowa, as you know. I. know you've spent. >> farmers who voted for Trump. >> Farmers who voted for Trump repeatedly, three times over, right? And those. farmers were just their bottom line was. hurt again and again. They're hurt by. the increase in diesel prices. They're. hurt by the tariffs, which make the. equipment more expensive. The feed is. more expensive because of the war in. Iran. The fertilizer is more expensive.

>> because of the tariffs. >> Because of the tariffs. And there is. just such a direct connection between. President Trump's policies and the fall. of his coalition. And you know, I don't. know that you always see that, right? We. always talk about presidents don't. control macroeconomic trends, but they. get credit or they're blamed for the. economy. In this case, actually, President Trump did create the. atmosphere on economic conditions that. turned his voters against him. And so. it's not only that the Republican. coalition, as Nate rightfully points.

out, doesn't exist in these elections. It's that Trump, the guy who created. this new Republican party, >> tore it apart. >> through his policies, he is personally. responsible for tearing it apart. That. is really a remarkable political story. And you know, >> it's an accomplishment to have ever put. it together. It's in its own way. perversely as much an accomplishment to. have disassembled. >> And it's of course like the President. Trump always does things in oporadic. scale, right? He puts together. >> doesn't do anything small. He doesn't do. a thing small. And yet again, this is a. thing he has not done small.

>> I mean, I think if Texas is ground zero. of this year's defeat for Republicans, I. also think Iowa is really interesting. because it is where they're going to. start their next nominating process. So, the next Republican presidential. candidate is going to need to win a. caucus in that state where the Democrats. just won all these things. And. >> yeah, let's stipulate. In Iowa, Democrats improbably, given the events of the last decade, won. a Senate seat and the governor's office. Am I missing anything?

>> Three. They flipped three congressional. seats. >> Three congressional seats. Yeah. >> And so this is where the Trump success. was in 2016. This was the big white. working class push toward Trump all. along the Mississippi River. And now all. these people have swung all the way back. as Nate just described. And so the the. Republican party is actually going to go. to that place and be like, "Okay, where. do we go from here?" where they just. lost everything. >> It seems worth spending a quick moment, I think, on some of the governor's races. we saw around the country. Lisa and. Shane, which one of those races stand.

out to you? Well, of course, the race in. Ohio between Amy Actton and VC Ramaswami. captured a lot of attention as I know. you we've talked about on this show with. the ad, >> including her mother, >> including her aranged mother. Um, and. she is up by right now by six points, a. margin that could grow. There's a couple. more points of voters that have to be. counted. in Iowa, Rob Sand, who was this. Democratic star from the moment he. announced. He was a Democrat who.

attempted to run this postpartisan. campaign that a lot of other candidates. sort of emulated. >> And Rob Sand has won. >> Rob Sand has won by looks like 10 points. or so. And then the other big win is of. course in Texas where Gina Hinahosa. bested Greg Abbott who as Shane pointed. out is really a bastion of that state's. Republican party. You know, it was. interesting because a in a lot of these. places there had been a lot of. discussion on ticket splitters. >> This was the idea that in Texas you. could vote for James Helerico as a.

Democratic candidate for Senate, but. then you still might vote for Greg. Abbott as governor, >> right? And we really didn't see that. We. just saw Democrats winning. So that. again is just another thing that speaks. to like the scale of the wins. I think. the most interesting governor's race. outside of Texas is in Georgia where. Kesha Lance Bottoms is about to become. the first black woman in American. history to ever be a governor and she. did it by a wide margin. The. conversation in political circles had. been, oh, can John Oaf's win drag her.

over the line? She's winning comfortably. in what had been a perennial swing state. for Democrats. And it really raises the. question of is Georgia changing at this. moment because that just hasn't happened. before. He's winning by easily into the. double digits and she's winning. comfortably. This is going to. dramatically change like Texas a state's. entire complexion. >> Mhm. >> We may be getting a little bit of ahead. of ourselves here, but it is worth. noting that. >> the Democrats did really well in a lot.

of potential sunb belt battleground. states like North Carolina, Georgia, and. Texas. Many of their weakest. performances were in more traditional. northern white battleground states like. Minnesota or Michigan or Maine. And I'm. not saying they did badly in those. states tonight. And there are candidate. factors to consider as well. But it's. worth stepping back for a second and. imagining what someone would have said. 10 years ago if I told them that the. Democrats were going to do a lot better. in Texas than Michigan and North. Carolina and Georgia than Maine and. Minnesota. There is something happening.

here in the Sunb Belt and it may be. where the Democratic Party's next. opportunity is as we look at the. wreckage of the Trump coalition at this. low point in Trump's presidency. [music]. [music]. We'll be right back. Lisa, you wanted to respond to something.

Nate said right before the break. Nate, correct me if I'm wrong. It seemed to be. that in the Northeast and the upper. Midwest, some of the Democratic. candidates leads and even their. victories were not as big as a place. like the Sunb Belt. And I wonder if it's. because the candidates running in the. Northeast, the upper Midwest, the. Democrats tended to be more progressive. Yeah, I think Nate was talking about the. difference between how candidates fared.

in the Sunbell and sort of these. northern states, Minnesota, Michigan, and Maine. And I think it is worth. pointing out that those are states where. Democrats ran self-proclaimed. progressives, candidates who saw. themselves on the more left flank of the. party. And the candidates who ran in. places like Kansas and Texas and Iowa. saw themselves as postpartisan. That. they tried to put distance between. themselves and the Democratic national. brand. They cast themselves as. centrists, as people who want to work. across the aisle. So, you have two.

different brands of Democrat really who. won tonight. And I think uh part of what. you're seeing is a big Democratic tent, which is of course what Democrats have. wanted and talked about wanting since. they. >> not led tests letting lots of different. kinds of Democrats run for the places. where they're running. >> But sometimes big tents can cause big. intraarty fights underneath them. So, I. think we'll see a continuation of this. debate that Democrats have been having. at this point for many years over what. the direction of their party should be. in a midterm. It's enough to just run.

against a unpopular president. Presidential campaigns are contests. about the future of the country and. Democrats will need a vision, a shared. vision to put forward in those races and. we'll see them fight it out over what. that should be over. >> the big Democratic victory you're saying. basically doesn't necessarily resolve. any of the big internal questions and. battles. >> inside the party. I think that there is. a north and south realignment happening. and you can really see it tonight that. the Democratic party's ceiling is lower.

in the old industrial Midwest in Ohio. where shared Brown had been a popular. Democrat forever and is retaking a seat. in the Senate is not performing as. strongly as some of these Democratic. candidates in the South. So there seems. to be a higher ceiling where John Oaf is. in Georgia than where the Democrats seem. to be able to reach in that upper. Midwest area. And I think that tells you. a little bit of where the party's future. could be. So I wonder if the results.

that we're talking about here would in. any way tip the scales. when it comes to this debate about. progressives, democratic, socialists in. favor of the centrists or if that's just. like not the right conclusion to draw. given the scale of Democrat. text. messages tonight would suggest that. everybody is declaring victory, right? The the the left is saying we almost got. a Democratic socialist in Florida, right? And the centrist are saying, >> "Look at all the actual people who won. all of these hard braces." So,

everybody's declaring victory and. everybody has just enough to hang their. hat on an election like this where. again, the election was not about the. Democrats. The election, that's right, >> was about the Republicans. >> The contrarian take here is that no one. should feel good about themselves. They're just benefiting from the least. popular president since 1946. [laughter]. And this is still a discredited party. that voters don't trust us all the time. >> And there's plenty of indicators of that. in our own polling, right, where you see. that Trump is unpopular. Trump is. unpopular. And Democrats have improved. their numbers on a lot of issues, most.

centrally like who is trusted to handle. the economy, which is very important. always and particularly important in. this election. But when voters are asked. questions about, you know, how much they. trust the Democratic party, is it too. far the left, too far the right, they're. still pretty mixed on it. Yes, voters. are voting, casting their ballots for. Democratic candidates. Are they flocking. to the National Democratic Party? I'm. not sure we can draw that. I know we. can't draw that conclusion quite yet. But one thing that happened tonight that. if you're a Democrat seems like a very.

important and hopeful sign is that a new. generation of especially senator Alex. a senator James Telerico a senator John. Oaf a senator Abdul Elsed on and on that. has come up in the Trump era they're so. digitally native they're so ubiquitous. in the way that they campaign this is a. future of the Democratic party that no. one was even thinking about five, six.

years ago. >> Yeah. I mean, now I think Democrats have. a a wealth of people who could run for. president. It's going to be a packed. race. They have a very very stocked. bench of candidates. And in some ways, it feels to me like the beginning of a. new political era. If you sort of look. at 2006, which was another great. resurgent midterm year for Democrats, ushered in this era of Obama, which. remade that party. The backlash to that. ushered in Trump and the MAGA movement. which remade Republicans and now it. feels as if we're at the end of that.

20-year cycle and we're at a point where. both parties are going to be looking. forward to something new. Democrats have. these new emerging stars. Republicans. have to figure out who they are at the. beginnings of what could be a postTrump. moment. Although we all always hesitate. to say that anything is ever post Trump, it does feel now like. >> he's a lame duck president. Republicans. are going to have to find a way forward. to keep what's left of their coalition. together. So, I do wonder if we're sort. of at the beginnings of something new.

for both parties and for the country's. politics. >> Where does this all leave the. president's party, the president's. movement? What is the state of MAGA this. morning? >> What is the Republican party this. morning? You know, the Republican party. was destroyed by Donald Trump in 2016. It was reassembled around himself and. now he's the least popular political. figure heading into a midterm since 1946. and his party just suffered the worst. drubbing in a half century. Where do we. stand right now at all? >> Yeah, I think about how much we.

discussed the depth of the hole that the. Democratic party found itself in after. 2024. And even in that hole, everybody. knew they had one big bright light, which was this coming midterm election. The Republican party today doesn't have. that bright light. They have a wide open. presidential primary without a clear. leader and it's harder to rebuild at. that moment than it is when you can just. unite around stopping Trump. Perhaps. especially when the president still has.

a tremendous amount of clout within his. party. In our last poll, a majority of. Republicans still said they wanted to. see the Republican party continue in the. Trump direction, even though twothirds. of the country very much wants the. Republican party to do something. completely different. So, Donald Trump. is still a huge limiting factor on the. ability of the Republican party to go in. a new direction in the next two years. >> Nate, what you just described, this nub. of what's left of the president's. support is what I think we've long. understood to be a cult of personality. The coalition that you all at this table.

have said basically disintegrated. tonight was what he borrowed and put. together beyond that nub. And it was. based on policies and promises. And on. Tuesday night, a lot of voters of both. parties felt that those promises were. not kept. Those policies hurt them. And. they moved away from him. But there. still is at the core this group that. won't move away from him. That probably. keeps the rest of the party from being.

able to move away from him, too. Or no, that seems to be the central question. >> The Republican party is in a really. tough spot. Donald Trump destroyed it as. we knew it and he remains the center of. gravity. Everyone is stuck in orbit. around him even though it now feels like. a political black hole for them that. they can't escape from even though. they'd love to. I I think that the. president has clearly lost basically the. entire periphery of his coalition. all. of the young and non-white voters who. put him over the top in 2024, many of.

the white working-class voters that put. him over the top in 2020 2016, and even. some of the moderate Republicans who. maybe backed Nikki Haley and long before. Mitt Romney who have been consistent. Republicans all along and reduced him. just to this core of MAGA super fans and. the most consistent Republicans who. would never consider voting for the. Democratic party. And the core problem. is that may still be a majority of the. Republican primary electorate even. I. mean, >> the ones picking the candidates who run. as Republicans. >> Think about this year. You could not win.

a Republican primary this year without. President Trump and then you could not. win a general election with him. >> Mhm. That's a big old conundrum. >> That's the trap. Friends, it is 2:10. a.m. and as a final question to all. three of you, I want you to talk about. your big questions this morning as we. enter a new political landscape, maybe. even a new political era in which the. United States House Representatives, United States Senate are comfortably.

controlled by Democrats in the final two. years of President Trump's second and. final term. What are the big questions. you have in your head as we look forward. to the next few months and the next two. years, Shane? >> I mean, I want to know about JD Vance. >> Oh, that's good. >> I think that nobody encapsulates that. Trump trap more. >> He is the sitting vice president, the. front runner to be the next nominee. And. yet, there is probably no one who can.

maneuver less away from Donald Trump. than JD Vance. And how does he navigate this moment. >> in the coming months. >> if he campaigns as most people presume. he will? >> Kla Harris taught us a valuable lesson. about what happens when you are the. closely aligned figure to an unpopular. or declining political figure and the. president you're under. >> I think one of the big questions is what. does the Democratic party become? I. think for a decade they have organized. themselves in opposition to Trump. He's.

been the biggest energizer for their. voters and that's been like a central. organizing principle of being a. Democrat. And now for all the reasons we. said, Trump is going to be declining in. power, declining as an organizing force. in our politics. And that leaves. Democrats trying to figure out with all. these winds, what does their party stand. for? And what is their coalition? And. who do they become in an era where Trump. is no longer the dominant force? If they.

can answer that question in a way that. enough Americans like, they have a shot. at the White House. And if they cannot. answer that question, it's going to be. really hard to win in 2028. >> Those were two great answers. And I on. one for Democrats and one for. Republicans. Let me offer Let me offer. then the backdrop that maybe they'll. both play off against as they try and. chart their future. I'm interested to. learn whether any Democrat offers a. fundamentally different answer to what. the nation's problems are. We have an argument from Democratic.

socialists that says the party basically. needs to move to the left. And we have a. bunch of mainstream establishment. Democrats who in some ways represent a. continuation of the same Democratic. message that we've heard in various. forms since Obama. And when I think back. to the to the last time a party was. really discredited after 2008, the. Republicans really struggled to come up. with something different. They kind of. just tried to rerun being a Reagan. Romney Republican in 2012. And it took.

Donald Trump coming up with a totally. different theory of what the nation's. problem was to break up this old system. that had been kind of discredited. >> And I don't know whether a Democrat is. going to come up with that in 2028, much. as no one came up with it for the. Republicans in 2012. But I think as we. enter this new era of American politics, someone's going to come up with that new. theory and new message and new policies. that will try and address whatever it is. that's going to define American politics. in the years ahead.

[music]. >> And you think it could happen in this. moment? >> Things are changing. And when things. change, that's when politicians and. politics have the opportunity to change. in response. [music]. Well, Nate and Shane and Lisa, thank you for being here at this really, really late hour, early hour, depending. on which way you see it. Appreciate your. time. >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you. [music].

>> I'm here with Erica Green. >> Hello, Mr. >> Hi. On Tuesday night, my colleagues, White House correspondents Erica Green. and Tyler [music] Pager, spoke with. President Trump by phone from the White. House as the president was still. processing his party's [music] sweeping. losses in the midterm election. >> I'm just looking at these results as I'm. talking about. [music]. I see that Darlene lost. Well, >> including the defeat of the Republican. Senate candidate in South Carolina,

Darlene Graham. [music]. >> That's amazing. How do you think Lindsay. would have done if he ran? Trump conceded that higher gas prices. from the war he launched against Iran. had upset voters. [music]. >> They don't mind the Iran, but they. probably weren't happy. They weren't. happy with the outrage. [music] So, you. know, it's one of those things. But, >> but he insisted that had he himself been. on the ballot. Republicans would have. performed far better in the election. >> Everybody's saying the same thing. I. wasn't on the ballot. Two years ago,

when I'm on the ballot, we won all of. these states by a lot. Erica pushed Trump on one of the biggest. questions hanging over the midterms. >> I just wanted to make sure [music] uh. you are prepared to accept the results. of the election. You've talked a lot. about. No, I think I think the results were. were uh fine from you mean from the. standpoint of [music] of cheating? It's. >> despite the president's long history of. denying electoral losses, Trump said.

that he would accept [music] Tuesday's. results. But I am absolutely. willing to accept those result. [music]. >> And he said he was prepared to work with. the new Democratic majorities in [music]. both the House and the Senate even if. they sought his testimony for. congressional investigations [music]. into his administration. >> We'll work with the Democrats. and we'll, [music] you know, look. forward to working with them. We'll. probably work something out.

>> Thank you, Mr. President, for your time. >> Have a good time. Bye. >> Bye-bye. >> We'll be right back. [music]. Here's what else you need to know. Today, in a potentially major change to. US [music] foreign policy, President. Trump said that the bulk of American aid. to Israel, about [music] $4 billion,

would be cut off at the end of this. year. In an election day interview with. Fox News, Trump described his motivation. for the change as taking [music] away a. powerful talking point from the left. wing of the Democratic party, including. Senator Elect [music] Abdul Elsad of. Michigan. >> Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them because they don't. need it. And because [music] why should. we uh suffer the slings from [music] uh.

lunatics like an El Sayat when they. don't need it? It's a bad it's a bad. talking point. [music]. >> In the aftermath of the October 7th. attacks and Israel's response in Gaza, both Democratic [music] lawmakers and. candidates have become increasingly. critical of US military aid to Israel. >> [music]. >> Trump said that the decision to cut off. the aid was made with the consent of. Israel's leadership, but the [music]. announcement appeared to catch some. Israeli officials by surprise.

[music] Today's episode was produced by. Anna Foley, Stella Tan, and Jessica. Chung. It was edited by Rachel Quester, and Devon Taylor [music] with help from. Paige Cowat. contains music by Alicia. Etub and Dan Powell and was engineered. by Alyssa Moxley and Chris Wood. Our. theme [music] music is by Wonderly. Special thanks to Tyler Pager and Erica. Green. [music].

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