democrats picked up one governorship in pennsylvania. we have reporters live on the ground covering the pivotal races that shaped that republican juggernaut. but first a look at where we stand in the senate. >> voters are seeing red. it means republican and it means they have a significant amount of anger. several states still undeclared. including alaska, that's not about a recount or a runoff, that's just about counting votes ongoing as we speak. when we get the results we'll get them to you. the hotly contested race pits beggish against sullivan. and a nail-biter in virginia, mark werner is claiming victory. his challenger, ed gillespie says no way, not conceding, we want a recount. we'll find out if it goes that way. >> louisiana's recount went

until december 6th. they battled to a draw, neither got 50, between mary landrieu and bill cassidy and rob maness, 14%, where do the votes go on december 6th. history made in iowa, joni ernst becoming the state's first female senator. she succeeds retiring democrat tom harken and over in kansas, cnn projects pat roberts keeps his seat. the polls show a close race with independent greg orman and cory gardner has won the senate race in colorado. cnn projecting that he defeats incumbent senator mark udall. a significant pick-up for republicans. in a state that twice voted for president obama. arkansas, cnn projects tom cotton defeating mark pryor, a

decisive win, despite white house hopes that pryor could keep the seat. the gop keeps the senate seat in georgia, thanks to a surprisingly easy victory for republican david perdue, he beat democrat challenger and georgia political scion michelle nunn in the senate race. it was thought to be a toss-up. it's all about if you get out and vote. new hampshire, cnn projecting democrat jean shaheen will hold on to her seat she was suppose to be in a dead heat against republican scott brown. he was criticized as a carpet bagger for moving to new hampshire to run. that played some kind of role. but jean shaheen had a strong machine in place. >> north carolina was the clincher for republicans, late last night. tom tillis defeated incouple bet democratic senator kay hagan officially giving the gop control of the senate. at that point. now montana has a new republican senator, steve daines defeated

amanda curtis. and senator mitch mcconnell wins re-election in kentucky, defeating allison lundergan grimes to win a sixth term in the senate. with republicans taking control, mcconnell is expected to become the next majority leader. chris? >> the question is how much support will he get among his own. republicans also maintaining control of the house. no surprise there. they did pick up 14 additional seats to extend their majority. we're still looking at some of the calculations, they may have only lost one seat. speaker john boehner beating his rival in ohio's eighth district. boehner is expected to run again as speaker of the house. and history in utah. where republican mia love won the fourth district. she becomes the first african-american female republican ever elected to congress. so there was some notable history as well, allison. >> we don't know the answer in some places. the tight race in alaska is

still up in the air. mark beggish trying to hang onto the seat against challenger dan sullivan. let's go do cnn's drew griffin with the latest from anchorage. what have you got? >> we got word from the director of elections that she's posting the time unofficial results and i'm looking at them right now it shows that dan sullivan, the republican, has got 48.74% of the vote and mark begich, the democratic senator, 45.13. so it looks like based on 100% of the precincts reporting that dan sullivan is going to be the new u.s. senator here. these are unofficial results posted by the secretary of state's office, the division of elections, that's what we have to go on, believe it or not, nobody is still calling the race, i have reached out to both campaigns, we haven't heard back from neither one.

it appears that all the precinct votes have been counted. >> that's hot off the presses. what will make it official? what's the moment that that, those numbers you just read become official? >> i don't know, i'm going to call, get off the phone and call the elections division right now. these are unofficial results, sometimes they wait now a couple of weeks actually before all the mail-in ballots come in you can mail in your ballot, you could have mailed your ballot in today and it might take a week to get in. but the vote count may be beyond that beyond the number of ballots outstanding. so while these are unofficial results this may be close to the final results, we'll get into the nitty-gritty in the next few minutes and try to figure out what is left to count if anything and try to get back to you. >> drew, is that what polls were predicting? that the republican would win in alaska? >> yes, yes. all the polls, there was one very oddball poll that showed the democrat winning by almost

10 points here. that was kind of thrown out. when you threw that out, all the polls, especially recently were showing two, three percent win by dan sullivan. certainly we can see what happened in the rest of the nation. this is basically a republican state. even though most of the people here are not affiliated with the party or undeclared. but also, this was a state and is a state where president obama has a very, very low approval rating. and dan sullivan, the republican, ran a similar campaign that other republican winners have run. which is, i'm going to pin barack obama on my opponent, mark begich. i'm going to tell people that mark begich voted with barack obama and i'm going to ride that right into washington, d.c. and that appears to be what dan sullivan, the former attorney general of the state, has done here in alaska this morning. >> okay, drew griffin with breaking news for us. it appears that the republican has won alaska. just after 2:00 a.m. alaska

time. we thought we might have to wait longer for that. >> it's also relevant. it's all empty behind tom. they have a state official in charge of doing the tabulation calling the race. the question is are the officials up and at it probably are. we'll get the official results soon. two key senate races, one, louisiana, pitted mary landrieu against republican challenger bill cassidy. the winner is yet to be determined. that will happen on december 6th. cnn's suzanne malveaux is live in new orleans. we're talking about third-party candidate, 14% loomed large here. should not be forgotten. >> of course not. the tea party candidate you're talking about the retired air force colonel maness. he's able to determine what's going to happen in the next 32 days. what his supporters do. where they go, if they decide to

sit this one out. because cassidy is not considered conservative enough and perhaps he doesn't get support. but if they decide that they would rather go with cassidy, the republican congressmen, then senator landrieu is in big trouble. what did she do? i talked to her yesterday. she was confident initially in the beginning of the day saying they thought they had the 50 plus one. that didn't end up happening. so she had to pivot to take on a very aggressive a i approach towards congressman cassidy. she challenged him to eight debates and she also made it clear, chris, that this is not a race from this point forward, that she wants to have comparing herself with president obama. >> this race is not about who the president is, who the president was, or who the president will be. or which party controls congress. this race is about the future of

louisiana. >> and congressman cassidy took advantage of it, once again, saying that she votes 97% of the time with the president and that 60% of the voters in louisiana voted for change. alisyn? >> suzanne, thanks so much for that update. we'll get back to you. and georgia's senate race also looked like it was going to be a toss-up. but in the end, it was not. david perdue winning his race against democrat michelle nunn rather handily. cnn's nick valencia is live with more on the race to replace saxby chambliss. >> this is not what people expected to happen. most pollsters didn't think either candidate was going to get the 50% plus 1 vote to win the run-off. but just oofs after the polls closed it became increasingly clear that david perdue, the republican candidate was pulling away and that's what happened. despite her loss, democratic candidate michelle nunn was

upbeat in her concession speech. >> we have exceeded every expectation of what was possible in this race. i want to remind you all that about 15 months ago all of the political pundits said georgia was not in play. and we put georgia in play. >> now republican candidate david perdue said georgia voters made their message very clear, that they're unhappy with barack obama's presidency. he did a good job in his campaign of attaching michelle nunn to president obama. saying that she would basically be a rubber stamp for his agenda. and that eventually hurt her in this, david perdue, the victor in the senate race in georgia. >> thank you. you know we keep saying that it is pretty obvious if you look at the polls and the exits, the voters are unhappy. that's the nicest way to put it. but i think there's also another message which is help us. the voters are saying help us do your job and we got to see that even popular democrats like wendy davis, okay, who stood up in literally took on abortion

rights and exalted for that, she fell in her gubernatorial bid in texas. the question is why, what went wrong here for the democrats especially. and can the gop take advantage of that and actually lead. lead. i know it's a word, a little surprising, let's bring in karen finney, the former communications director for the democratic national committee and carl bernstein cnn political commentator and margaret hoover cnn political commentator. the republicans well earned. why it happened, giving the democrats so far a little bit of a pass. yes, voters wanted change. yes, they were pro republican clearly. but didn't democrats ms. finney do it a little bit to themselves. didn't they run away from their base, run away from their president and take a beating. >> number one, republicans i heard this from every democratic campaign i talked to, republicans did a good job

making it about president obama which put a lot of democrats on defense and they didn't do a good-enough job making it about the issues. and i'll tell you, look at how many states where minimum wage increase passed. that is an obama agenda item. so that tells you something about running away from some of these core issues, was not a good strategy. not being willing to say whether or not you voted for the president. not such a good strategy if you're a democrat. you also saw some of the republicans like a corey gardner totally back away from personhood, part of what helped get him elected. so in terms of the issues, i agree with you that i think democrats should not have run away from some of those core issues. and again they were fighting republicans who did an excellent job making it about and tying them to president obama. >> i hear chris say something a little bit different. you're saying not only should they not run away from the issues, you're saying they should not run away from president obama. >> that's what i'm saying. >> look at the board, look at

the points up on the board. it couldn't have been worse for you. >> what would have happened, they may have lost those races, but if allison lundergan grimes, if she would have said, i voted for obama. >> it's called honesty. >> you embarrass your base when you run away from what you are. >> you embarrass your base when you have a 10-point swing in positions. >> all you had to say was, you cannot win by tethering yourself to a president who has approval ratings of 40-42%. to karen's point, what's interesting to me is that in colorado, you talk about cory gardner and how he articulated his message. the democrats way overplayed their hands by doubling down on the war over women. we've seen in multiple states in this election cycle, it didn't work. the ""denver post"" joked about this you've nix that mark udall had been called mark uterus, he so talked about women's issues to the demise of the issues that mattered to coloradans. they care about wages, they care

about a stagnant economy, they wanted to see other issues talked about and it back-fired for democrats. >> there was no leadership by the candidates. tell me which of these candidates on either side is a real leader in campaigned as a real leader? particularly the senatorial -- >> hold on, hold on. >> i think -- >> why is it that so many -- look, what did obama promise to do? that he was going to end gridlock. what did not he do? he did not end gridlock. i think that's a bottom-line of this election and that's a lot of what the electorate is telling us. woo want the end of gridlock. we want leadership and at the same time, the reality of this country is we are an ideologically divided country. and until we get some leaders who are going to find a way to lead that says, we have got to involve ourselves in problem-solving, we can have great philosophical and even

ideological beliefs. >> isn't that the history of the wins, republicans winning in blue states. that shows they're not ideological. maybe there's a new breed of moderate republican that's reemerging, that's socially conservative. >> charlie baker. >> john kasich won in ohio partly because he supported the president's medicaid expansion. people are saying what are you going to do for me. i spent a lot of time in focus groups this last season and people are so angry. they're so angry at both sides, they just want something to get done. there were some voters said i don't even watch it any more. i have to keep my life going. >> there's a disconnect not only with the politicians, there's a disconnect between voters and the media. when you go around and work an election, which so many of us are blessed to do, they say i don't care what you talk about with the who's going to win and who's going to this guy is mad. i'm dying here, i don't know

what my country is about, we're in a war all of a sudden, you don't even talk about that? i wonder if that will change with the new change in control. they just want things to get done and think that is what you see in the governors' races because the governors can get things done in their states. can you put ballot items on, they can pass. we saw progress that way. >> they're they. who is they? >> talking about the american electorate as a single "they" is a very difficult thing to do. because we have a 30, 35% of the electorate seems to be independent. and then we have huge ideological division among the rest. and how do you bring leadership to bear that gets things done with that equation? >> hold that thought. hold that thought, panel. we owe you one, margaret and mark, we'll be back with you momentarily. but we want to tell you that republican gains also extending to key governors races as we've been talking about. and new york congressman steve

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welcome back do cnn's breaking news coverage of the 2014 mid-term elections. in case you're just waking up. there's been a stunning shift in the balance of power in washington. take a look at the board. republicans picking up at least seven seats to seize control of the senate from democrats. three races are still outstanding, one of them headed to a runoff in louisiana. and the gop now enjoying the largest majority in congress since world war ii. the second world war i should say. chris? >> one of the really interesting things that we saw here is that yes, there's anger at congress. what did it mean at the state level? a lot of state legislator seats have flipped over the last couple of years. and now governors' races, blue strongholds turn red. we begin with a big money battle in florida, where voters re-elected republican rick scott to a second term as governor. very stinging blow to now democrat charlie crist. scott pumped nearly $13 million

of his own money into his campaign in its final days and it helped. in illinois republican bruce rounder defeated incumbent governor pat quinn. in texas another closely watched battle for governor, attorney general greg abbott defeated state senator wendy davis. people had such high hopes for wendy davis about reproductive rights. and now heavily democratic maryland. republican businessman a newcomer larry hogan wins the governor's race, defeating democrat anthony brown. the state's lieutenant governor. okay, another deep blue blow meaning for democrats, massachusetts, republican charlie baker wins the governors race over democrat martha coakley. not easy to do. it comes after eight years of democratic rule in massachusetts. under governor duvall patrick. in wisconsin, republican scott walk certificate a name to watch. easily won re-election to a second term.

double-digit margin over the democrat. this victory keeps him in the mix for a possible presidential run in 2016. why are we talking about? that's where we go next. the loan bright spot for democrats, businessman tom wolf, new governor of pennsylvania, defeats the incumbent republican tom corbett. still has the sandusky investigation hanging over his head. does no the get re-election. making negative history in that state. michaela has a look at some of the ballot referendums that brought voters to the polls. >> i find these interesting, these ballot initiatives, let's start with minimum wage historically a progressive cause embraced by conservatives, conservative-leaning states this election cycle. based on results that have come in so far. this is what cnn can report. we'll start with a few states looking at moving to increase minimum wages. in arkansas, minimum wage will rise from the current $6.25 an hour, to $8.50 by 2017.

south dakota workers will also see their hourly minimum wage rise. its going to increase to $8.50 next year from the current $7.25 an hour. which i point out is the national minimum wage. meanwhile, nebraskaens will see their minimum wage rise to $9 by 2016 from today's $7.25. we should point out that illinois voters approved a rate hike, but that vote is nonbinding, it's purely advisory. now of course we're still watching those votes in alaska to be tallied. and keep you updated on that let's turn to marijuana now, it was on the ballot in a total of four states, oregon appeased legislation activists by approving the measure allowing for recreational use of the drug. the sunshine state of florida, the electorate there voting against a measure that would have allowed marijuana use for medicinal uses. lastly, washington, d.c. also approved recreational use. however, we want to keep an eye on this. it could be blocked by congress.

which has the right to review and knock it down. interesting to see there, alisyn, that in d.c. this issue kind of got mixed with race and civil rights, some 88% of those convicted of marijuana possession were black. even though usage among blacks and whites is the same. interesting to see how things are changing. >> absolutely. that will be a sea change michaela, thanks so much for that. so the republicans have added to their majority. in the house of representatives and they've also gained control of the senate. what does this mean for democrats? for the final two years of the obama administration? and of course looking ahead to 2016? joining us now is congressman steve israel, he's a democrat from new york and the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee who won his own re-election bid last night. congratulations, congressman. >> thank you, thanks very much. >> all right. so congressman, i know other than your personal win, it was a rough night for you and for your democratic colleagues. how do you explain what went

wrong for democrats last night? >> well rough i think it putting is mildly. it was a long, sleepless and ugly night for democrats. we wish that we had a better outcome. but i'm a fan of my beloved new york mets and when you root for the mets, you have to find the one good ning a 10-0 loss. and we had some bright spots, this was a wave election. in 2006 when it was a wave against the republicans, they lost 30 seats in 2010, a wave against us, we lost 63 seats. this wave election we contained the losses to about 15 seats. we still have some races outstanding. and so the wave swept lots of senators, democratic governors, we were able to contain the wave and we did win in some tough red areas. in florida it looks like we may have a win in omaha, nebraska, it looks like we may flip a district in california. that's the good news, the bad news is they won seats, we lost seats, we have to do bet anywhere 2016. >> i recognize that hindsight is 20/20, looking back, so many

democrats rejected president obama on the campaign trail. allison lundergan grimes in kentucky famously refused to say whether or not she had voted for president obama. in hindsight, does that seem now as though it was the wrong strategy for democrats? >> well, frankly, it didn't seem like the right strategy then. people just want to know where you stand on certain things. my view is, if people are going to vote against you because you happen to have cast your vote in a polling place for president obama, chances are they weren't with you to begin with. i think people, they want authenticity. they want transparency. tell people what you're for, what you're against and let them make a judgment. >> so congressman, what do you now as a democrat expect to be able to accomplish in the next two years. >> well i hope that we will accomplish what we've wanted to accomplish in the past six years. i think one of the messages in this election, alisyn is that the middle class has kind of the seething anger. they have uncertainty, instability. and they want washington to

work. they want washington to address their problems with solutions. and i hope we can find middle ground with republicans in sensible ways to strengthen and make the middle class more secure, that's my number one priority. i hope it will be for this new republican majority in the senate and my new colleagues in the republican caucus in the house. >> you talk about the general public and we're trying to keep our finger on the pulse of how the public is feeling this morning. we've been monitoring social media. let me read to you one of the facebook posts that sort of represents how many people are feeling this morning. and this is from tom yanno. he said the president had better learn a new word -- quote compromise. or we'll get nothing done in washington for the next two years. what are the democrats willing to compromise on now? >> well we've already established what we're willing to compromise on. we've talked about a compromise on comprehensive immigration reform. 68 senators from the most conservative to the most progressive in the senate voted

for a comprehensive immigration bill. sent it to the house. not only would republicans not compromise, they wouldn't even let us vote on that bill. so i think that's one example of something that we can get to quickly. there are other things that we can do. we can compromise on ways of making sure that middle class families can refinance their college debt. we can compromise on things like trade and growing our economy. the people want solutions, i think republicans misread results at their own peril. if they believe this was the middle class saying to the republicans, double down, let's have more shut-downs, don't compromise, i think that puts them in a dangerous position. >> the president has announced he'll be holding a meeting this friday, a bipartisan meeting with the house and senate leaders. what will you tell the president about moving forward? >> well first of all, i'm not sure i'll be at that meeting, i'd like to get some sleep before the meeting if i'm invited.

the election is over. no more emails asking for money. no more attack ads from the super pacs. no more negativity. it's time to put politics behind us and find ways of producing for the american people. i'm concerned because ted cruz has already said and rand paul has already said that you know they're going 0 force bills to the president's desk and dare him to sign them or veto them. that's not what the middle class wants. rather than staking out our polar opposite positions, we need to work on finding that middle ground. friday is a good and important start to that process. >> well, from your mouth to congress's ears, congressman steve israel, thanks so much. congratulations on your win. >> thank you. it is time to put politics behind them. said nobody honestly ever. you know the politics is going to continue, obviously, the question is how do they conduct the politics, how do they figure out how to do this. one thing that they're all right about -- people are not happy.

>> he spelled out some things that they should have some agreement on, immigration, college debt. >> college debt is something they can work on. the other two, i don't see how they see a simple path to compromise, it would be nice to see it happen and obviously this message is clear, because you made it clear. you gave the keys to the republicans for the senate for the first time in eight years, we're going to look at the exit polls and see who came out and who didn't and what the polls tell us about how americans feel about the economy, which matters most and how much that may have had an impact on their actual vote.

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mpblt while you've been sleeping the political landscape has take an shift. republicans grabbing control of congress by picking up seven seats in the u.s. senate. races in virginia and it looks like alaska have yet to be made official. the louisiana senate race will remain undecided for a few weeks until a run-off there. chris? >> all right. voters, you know what you said, you said we're not happy. okay that's what we're going to say in the mid-term elections, we're going to shift power and

we want change. how about what it means when it comes to 2016? exit polls suggest voters don't see a lot of reason for optimism. to spell it out, let's bring in tom foreman live from washington, did i get it wrong, tom or right? >> no, you nailed it, chris. i've been looking at the numbers from voters all night long. and look at what jumps out at you here. 42% strongly disapprove of how president obama is handling his job. 42%, now this won't surprise you if you look at the graph. 90% of that is republicans. of course these disapprove of how he's handling his job. somewhat approve of the job, 24% somewhat approve. that's his own party, the democrats. that's a measure of the dissatisfaction out there and the frustration. how is that going to translate into the voting that comes up along the line here. if you look at nationwide, how people feel about congress, look, they really dislike congress. strongly disapprove of what

congress is doing out there. and that's pretty well divided. everybody feels the same way about that. when it comes to voting, what that's going to mean is for hillary clinton, the democrats, they seem really agreeing on the notion that the solution to this is get behind hillary clinton. 66% in iowa, where barack obama got his start say we would like to see hillary clinton become our candidate. nobody else really even close. the same thing if you move on to new hampshire. 64% for hillary clinton. south carolina, 68% for hillary clinton. the republicans, very different what they want to do with their new-found power and how they want to divide it. republicans are all over the map here in our exit polls. christie 12%, huckabee, 19%. paul, 17%, that's in iowa. if you go to new hampshire, all over the map. again, if you go on to south carolina, all over the map. the one thing you may have noticed in all of this, chris, republicans for other, that's the big number out there. so we'll see how it translates.

but the democrats have their course charted to get out of this problem. chris? >> strong, tom, that 28% should loom large. not to take anything from the republicans. but people are still looking for an answer. thank you. we're going to have more on exit polling later in the show. the economy, this won't surprise you was a top issue. we'll take a closer look at what drove voters at the polls. so, with the senate now a sea of red, president obama has invited leaders of both parties to a post-election pow wow on friday. who is going to be there? what's he going to say? what are they going to say to him? so right now if you get the 15 gig plan, we'll double the data and make it 30 gigs for the same price. 30 gigs? wow - that's a lot.

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welcome back to "new day," our special coverage continues. republicans on quite a roll in the mid-term elections. the gop now enjoying its largest majority in congress since world war ii, picking up seven seats in the senate to take control from the democrats. the marijuana lobby also celebrating some big wins, in oregon, alaska and washington, d.c. where voters approved legalizing

marijuana recreationally. medical marijuana, initiative in florida was defeated. quickly we want to update you on other big news from overseas, violence flaring once again at jerusalem's temple mount. police using stun grenades on dozens of palestinian protesters, throwing rocks and fireworks at israeli security forces. one palestinian demonstrator was seriously wounded. we've learned that a van ran over and into some people at a train stop in east jerusalem in what police are labelling a terror attack. a police spokeswoman says the driver was shot and killed after attacking police with a metal bar. cnn has learned the obama administration may consider expanding the military mission in syria to targeting more than just isis. the al qaeda-affiliated al nusra now in the crosshairs of the administration. a senior u.s. official says there's no active plans for air strikes against al nusra targets, however nothing is off the table.

back to our election day coverage. all right michaela, the 2014 mid-term elections, no doubt one of the roughest nights of president obama's tenure. look at some of the senate results. in iowa, polls suggested it was a neck-and-neck battle between republican joni ernst and democrat bruce braley. but it turned out an easy win for the gop in a bruising and expensive campaign. in colorado, the red wave continued with republican cory gardner knock being off incumbent democrat mark udall. that's significant, because colorado twice voted for president obama. now the white house insists these results are not a referendum on the president. but what are they? let's bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, what does the white house say about these results? >> well, it's very interesting, alisyn. because last night the white house was sounding very defiant. they say it was not a referendum about the president, it's all about the map and the math. this morning it's a slightly

different tune. the president is going to hold a news conference this afternoon. the press secretary josh earnest tweeting that. and i talked to a white house official who said the president did try to reach out to the new incoming senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell to congratulate him last night. they did not connect over the phone. but the president did leave a message. according to this official. and this white house official is saying, alisyn, that they get it and when they say they, they mean the president as well. they understand that this was not a good night for the democrats. that they do perhaps need to be thinking about a new path forward under a gop congress. and in fact according to this official, the white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonagh over the last several weeks, the white house heath been telling us about this. but quietly mcdonagh has been reaching out to a variety of interests around washington to start charting that path forward. so the white house was anticipating this somewhat. at the same time, though, this white house official believes and i think they still believe

deep down, that this was about the math. that they were fighting on mitt romney's turf essentially, from back in 2012. and according to this white house official, the president is still determined to take executive action on immigration and that there's no sign at this point of a big shake-up. so i think a change in tone from what we were hearing last night. and we're going to hear more of that this afternoon. >> so if they don't think they're going to be changing anything, then what does a new path forward mean? >> that is a very good question. you know there is sort of a struggle inside this white house, you heard vice president joe biden telling our gloria borger that they do want a compromise. i was hearing from white house officials last night, alisyn who are saying a better question is what does the gop want to do to come to our side of the table. over here at the white house they still feel rather stunned by the fact that they could not get immigration reform out of the house. they still believe that house speaker john boehner is going to have trouble with his caucus and they wonder whether mitch

mcconnell is going to be experiencing the same thing over in the senate. so it's uncharted waters for this president for the first time he's going to be dealing with a full republican congress. he hasn't been there before, alisyn. >> jim acacosta, thanks so much. now to christine romans looking at the exit polls. >> we're finding that the economy was front of everyone's mind coming out of the polling places and talking to the statisticians with the clipboards. the economy, the number one issue, nothing else even comes close. the economy 45% the biggest issue and pretty divided. republicans slightly more likely than democrats to say the economy was their top issue. i want to show thu, what do people think about the economy, not so good or poor, 70% of people polled on their way out of voting said it was not so good or poor. look at that republicans much more likely to vote republican. if you thought it was not so good or poor. quickly, last thing i want to show you here is it getting better? if you thought it was getting better, you are much more likely

to vote democrat. if you thought it was getting worse, you are much more likely to vote republicans. stocks at record highs, corporate profits, record highs, people don't feel it. >> that is interesting. all right, christine, thank you. you may not like to hear it, but there's an obvious question raised by all of this, what does it mean for 2016? did the democrats hurt themselves? the panel takes it on, when we come back. alright guys. the usual. double wings, extra ranch.

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welcome back, republicans are celebrating this morning, a new majority in the senate and a bigger majority in the house. gubernatorial races also going for the gop. swiping several seats from democratic incumbents. including the democratic strongholds in massachusetts and in maryland. there's only been one republican governor since the 1970s. but will those gop gains backfire on them as both parties and voters start to look to 2016? how could that work? let's bring in our panel karen finney, former communications for the democratic national committee, also with us, cnn political commentator michael smirkonish and greg anthony. michael, let me start with you. we're looking forward already at 6:52, to 2016, who is sitting pretty for 2016 now? >> you know, i think that the

nomination process is going to play itself out in the aftermath of the mid-term and it will influence the nomination process. but it's an apples-and-oranges comparison. when you look at the electorate that will come out in two years, as compared to those who came out yesterday. in two years there will be more people of color, younger americans casting ballots, more women casting ballots. but in terms of how it influences the process, i have my eye on jeb bush. because you heard ted cruz say to wolf blitzer last night on cnn, that he's anxious to assert a clamp-down on illegal immigration. that's going to put him at odds with what jeb bush has in mind for the future of the republican party. so the agenda that they come forward with now in that republican-controlled senate might abut some of the other candidates, including jeb bush. and that's one example of the way in which it will influence the process. >> karen, he has his eye on jeb bush. which republicans do you think are now in the strongest position to move ahead to 2016?

>> john kasich is someone who could create a few meetings with some donors and sort of talk about his win last night. certainly scott walker. if he would have lost last night, that would have been i think a symbolic victory for democrats. >> you're talking about ohio and wisconsin. obviously if you're sitting pretty in those states you're setting yourself up well for 2016. >> absolutely. very important states. both of them have a new argument. and even chris christie as head of the republican governors association, they did very well last night. he also, a nice argument to make to donors about why maybe he's somebody they should be taking a look at. >> greg anthony, what do you think about the 2016 chances? >> i think both the panelists are correct in their subjects. i think both will present a strong challenge. how about a guy from a smaller state, brian sandoval. a latino, out of nevada, just won re-election in a landslide. i think he can resonate with the changing demographic we're starting to see evolve throughout america. so i actually think that the gop is in a really good position right now, because the fact that

all of these people are going to have an opportunity and there are many more that we haven't even mentioned, that kind of levels the playing feel and it doesn't allow anybody to be completely knocked down. whereas if you look at it from a democratic standpoint. everyone knows hillary clinton is the odds on favorite. that makes her the target of not only everybody on the right. but everybody who is moderate on the left. that creates a real challenge for her moving forward. especially now that she has a record to run on as being the former secretary of state. >> michael, are banner keeps saying, will this backfire on the gop in 2016. i think what we mean is that if there's no progress if there's still gridlock over the next two years, then democrats can hold that up and say see? republicans, had control of congress and they weren't able to accomplish anything. >> absolutely. it depends, wait in which they now wield power in the senate. they've teed up, they've earned i guess i should say a wonderful opportunity to rebrand themselves from the party of no. but what are they going to do

with that? and alisyn, here's one thing to keep your eye on. how many times will there be a vote in the u.s. senate to appeal obama care? i get it if there's going to be one perfunctory vote in january, you have someone like joni ernst who promised her constituency. but are they going to run it up 10 times, 20 times, 40 times in the senate? that will be a suggestion that it's theatrics and not intended to put forth an agenda that the president would never sign. >> karen, never underestimate the party in power to screw it up. >> absolutely this is an important point. because both parties, their overall sort of feeling that people have about them, very negative. the republicans do have an opportunity to improve their brand. one of the things i think hillary clinton brings into this is, she is a zdemocrat, but shes seen by democrats as maybe this could be the next hope. no disrespect to president obama. but i think for democrats who are licking their wounds today,

they might be thinking ahead to like okay, may we can win the presidential. >> michael, greg, karen, thanks so much for all of your input. a lot of different ways we have to look at the elections last night. the implications, today, tomorrow, 2016 as you keep saying. so let's get right to it. usa, usa, usa! >> time to put all the division behind us and come together. >> the responsibility falls on republicans for us to stand up and lead. >> i will work with anyone in the senate, democrat, republican, independent. >> losing is not fun. this was a tough election. >> this journey, the fight for you, it was worth it. >> this is not the end of anything, this is the beginning. good morning, as you wake up to a special edition of "new day," it is wednesday, november

5th, three minutes before 7:00 in the east. i'm chris cuomo. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. with michaela pereira. and john berman. and angry voters have made their point loud and clear. and the result is a stunning shift in the balance of power in washington. before tonight, democrats enjoyed a 55-45 senate advantage. well this morning, the party is in shambles. republicans picking up at least seven seats to seize control of the chamber. i don't know if that quantifies, shambles, but it's been a shift of power. voters delivering a clear message to governors across the country. here's what america looked like yesterday. and here is what it looks like today. the gop flipping four seats, including traditionally blue strongholds maryland and massachusetts. democrats picked up just one governorship, that was in pennsylvania. >> we also had a republicans picking up seats in the house as well. now we are everywhere here at cnn. that you need to be. all of the states that shaped up

this republican onslaught. first let's take a look at the results from all the big senate contests with, the headlines we kept touting. >> some races are not even decided yet, including alaska. it hasn't officially been announced. but we're told with the vounts countsed so far, republican challenger dan sullivan holds the lead over incumbent mark begich, uncounted votes could change the results. it's not clear by how much. and a nail-biter too close to call this morning in virginia, democratic senator mark warner is claiming victory. but republican challenger ed gillespie has not conceded the senate race, which could be headed for a recount. and a run-off will be needed to settle louisiana's senate race, neither democratic incumbent mary landrieu, nor republican challenger bill cassidy got the magic 50% needed to win outright and their run-off will be held next month. >> third-party strength, rob maness got 14% of the vote.

history-making night in iowa, joni ernst republican becoming the first female senator in the state. easier-than-expected win over democrat bruce braley following a bruising campaign. in kansas, all the talk about who will orman side with, we don't have to worry about it, cnn projects republican senator pat roberts manages to keep his seat pretty easy. got a lot of hype because of independent greg orman and what might happen. forget about it now. republican congressman cory gardner has won the senate race in colorado. cnn projects him defeating incumbent mark udall. a significant pick-up for republicans, a state that voted for president obama twice. >> and in arkansas, cnn projects republican tom cotton defeating democratic incumbent mark pryor. a decisive win for cotton. despite white house hopes that pryor could keep the seat in democratic hands. georgia, another close race, republican david perdue wins the

race to succeed retiring senator saxby chambliss, democrats hoped michelle nunn could flip the seat to their side, but perdue managed to keep it under gop control. a rare glimmer of good news for democrats in new hampshire, cnn is projecting jean shaheen will hold on to her senate seat. her republican challenger, scott brown, has now conceded. >> north carolina, clincher for the republicans, thom tillis, defeating incumbent democratic senator kay hagan. his win put the gop over the top in control of the senate. it's no longer about if, but how many seats will be the advantage in the senate for the republicans. they also flipped montana into their senate column. steve daines won over amanda curtis. and after fighting for his political life, minority leader mitch mcconnell now may be majority leader mitch mcconnell. the kentucky senator easily won

a sixth term in the senate this race was really a testament to why you can't look at the polls. allison lundergan grimes kept calling herself a clinton democrat. refusing to say if she voted for president obama, wound up taking a beating. >> republicans keeping control of the house, gop leaders now expanding their majority by a handful of seats, speaker john boehner beating his rival, tom potter, in ohio's eighth district. boehner is expected to run again as speaker of the house. here was an interesting race, gop congressman michael grimm won his third term, defeating his opponent in new york's district 11. grimm prevailed despite an indictment against him for alleged corruption. and former "american idol" contestant clay aiken will not get to sit in the house, his hopes for a set in congress were dashed by incumbent rene ellmers in north carolina. >> we can say it was a grand night for the grand old party. republicans now have control of both houses of congress and

there are promises to replace stalemate with cooperate it reasons, but is it real? let's bring in cnn's dana bash in washington. >> the metaphor behind you of the capital under reconstruction, let's see how they rebuild it. >> boy, wouldn't that be nice. i'm the eternal optimist and i think that when mitch mcconnell and john boehner and other top republicans who i've spoke within, texted with last night say that they really do want to try to govern in a way they couldn't before, they mean it not just because you know they want the country to be better. i think that you know, everybody had agreed, not before, but their politics trumped that. but because of politics, the republicans i think understand at their core the leaders that if they don't get this right, they're toast. they're toast for 2016. and beyond likely. because they've got to a, show they can govern. and b, try to expand their

party. let me say one thing about mitch mcconnell. and maybe this is telling about how he's going to go forward and when he's determined to do something, he will. you can't believe the polls, he didn't just win in kentucky, it was an absolute rout. 16 points. and let me tell you, he did that not just by kind of easy street at the end. he bought time in nashville, tennessee because he wanted to make sure that those little counties on the border of kentucky went his way. he wanted to do it big. so maybe that certainly is telling as to who he is. and maybe how he will govern as majority leader. >> a very interesting opposite narrative to what we saw with eric cantor, who got blamed for not being home enough. not working it. they said mitch mcconnell was in every one of those counties in kentucky. he worked the ground hard and it paid off for him. turning tone here, allison lundergan grimes wouldn't say who she voted for. that takes us to the democrats and why they lost, dana. i think the biggest help that

the gop got was from the democrats. they ran from their base, they ran from their president. and they probably wound up running themselves out of the majority. your take? >> i've seen this with so many campaigns from the mccain campaign to others, when they lose, the finger-pointing starts and the knives come out and it's already happening. and it is specifically to your point, about allison lundergan grimes and so many other democrats who kept so far away from the president. talking to obama loyalists saying it was a complete mistake, they depressed voting among the base. democrats who really want still like obama and on the flip side, senate strategists say no way, because there are so many independent swing vote who are didn't have a chance with. and it was because of the president. >> but you had to give your base a reason to vote. you embarrass your base, you go home alone. that's what happened. dana bash, thank you very much. the numbers are hot off the press in alaska. the latest votes are being tallied and they show that the challenger, dan sullivan, is in the lead over democratic

incumbent, mark begich. but not all the ballots have been counted. so things could still change. let's get to cnn's drew griffin with the latest live for us from anchorage. what are the latest numbers showing you, drew? >> well we've got 100% of the precincts reporting in. and it is dan sullivan the republican, who has 48.7% of the vote compared with mark begich, the democrat senator, who is trying to hold ton his seat, he has 45.13%. so 100% of the vote in. an unofficial count. why aren't they calling this race? honestly, alisyn. i don't know. last time i talked with the begich campaign, was 2:00 a.m. they said they were waiting for the rural vote. in the last hour the rural vote has come in. what they might be holding out hope for is the write-in ballots, the mail-in ballots, a few of the early vote ballots that may need to be counted. special needs ballots and any kind of question ballots. but there's been no concession.

the sullivan campaign is frustrated with that, i can tell you. but no concession and this race could go on another seven days, that's how long they wait until the mail gets delivered to the elections. >> wow. so we'll see. >> things are slow in alaska. is part of the problem that it's 3:00 a.m. where you are? will we have to wait until sun-up for some sort of definitive answer here? >> no, i mean what really happened is they waited, they stayed up, they waited for all the precincts to report. so the votes that have been cast have been counted. that includes the early voting that's been going on for the last couple of weeks. what we have is the kind of leftover votes, the votes that may still be being transported in the mail. somebody may have mailed something yesterday. or mailed something today. they're going to wait for the ballots to come down and they will, they're supposed to count within seven days after the election. the questionable ballots, i don't know how many there are. dan sullivan's campaign says there's no mathematical way that begich can win.

obviously although they're not communicating with us, the begich campaign thinks there must be some sort of way they can eke this out. we may be waiting days until finally somebody gives up or somebody comes out and says, hey, guess what, i did win. but right now, it likes like a republican win. >> all right. drew, it looks like you will be there for a few more days, standing in that quiet ballroom. so we will be checking in. >> i don't know. >> oh, yes, you will. great work. let's go over to chris. it's definite lay close race in alaska, and that makes it different. we don't want to confuse process for intrigue. things take time. it's a very rural outskirt area with their population. they have a state official on it. we'll get results as soon as they come in and give them to you. in a another hotly contested senate race, kansas, pat roberts emerged victorious, denying the senate chamber another independent. remember all the intrigue that mr. orman had us going through. about who he would side with. we have cnn's kyung lah live in

kansas. who will he be with? now who cares. >> yeah, that was -- well that was the big question, who is he going to side with. and it actually became his achilles heel. that was a big political question here in kansas. and we actually saw it come into play yesterday. there was an unusual comment from vice president joe biden on a radio show, somewhere outside of kansas, the vice president saying that orman was with the dems, well that quickly became a robo call for the republicans. hoping to tip the scales. we don't know if that was the deciding factor. what we can tell you is that senator pat roberts, a long-time incumbent. decades in washington, won by a comfortable margin, 8%. the rise of the independent squashed here in kansas. greg orman telling cnn last night that he doesn't care what the cards say in kansas.

he will not run for political office as a republican or a democrat. he says he remains an independent. alisyn? >> thanks so much, kyung lah for that. we're following two big races for you in colorado. one in the senate and one in the state house. and only one of those is decided this morning. ana cabrera is following the election drama in denver, what's the latest? >> good morning, alisyn. let's start with the senate race, this one ended up being much more decisive earlier than a lot of people had initially predicted. currently the votes still coming in, but cory gardner, the republican, is leading the vote count right now with by about 5% over the incumbent, democrat mark udall. now in his victory speech, just a few hours ago, he talked about a new direction forward. and he said quote tomorrow we go to work to fix a washington that's out of step, out of touch and out of time. and that's really a message that resonated with the voters here in colorado. throughout the campaign. cory gardner stayed very

disciplined in his messaging. he managed to deflect the attacks on some of the polarizing social issues, like women's reproductive rights and he worked hard to portray himself as anti-obama and anti-establishment while successfully tying the incumbent to both. here's why this race is a bigger deal on a national level. not only did this win by gardner help to flip that senate control in the u.s. capital. but it also really was a victory for the republican party looking forward. in that a republican was able to win in a state like colorado. a state with a growing population and with a growing diverse population at that. so you know that the gop is going to be looking at gardner's strategy as it looks forward to the presidential race in 2016. real quick before i let you go. i want to check in on the governors race. right now this is a a real fight for the democrat incumbent john hicken looper. who is only ahead in the sovote

count over bop beaprez. this is all despite the fact that colorado has a 4.7% unemployment rate, one of the best in the nation and hickenlooper has not been able to clinch this victory. so let's discuss further. cnn political commentator, mr. charles bloat and former white house secretary mr. ari fleischer and former white house aide, lisa caputo. people are angry, we get it, they voted out democrats and voted in republicans. the question now is what will it mean? what do you think this means for republicans if we're talking good talk here already, right? >> obstructionism is gone. we must work together. what do you think we see? >> i think it will be interesting to see what somebody

like paul ryan does coming out of the chute. he has an opportunity to be house ways and means chairman, or is he going to try to make a bid in 2016. i think that the republicans have an opportunity to try to work with the white house, the white house has an opportunity to try to work with congress. so they both have do come together in order to get anything done. think there will be some meaningful legislation, immigration reform. there will be a lot of discussion on that. i think as you look ahead, what will be interesting to see is what happens with somebody like a chris christie for example. who i think emerged as a winner last night. >> head of the governors republican association. took seats away from the democrats in the northeast particularly. so i think that you know, a lot of speculation about what this means for 2016. but i think we heard from the public. that they want a change and they want washington to do something. remember, we have a president that they're not happy about. and we have congress they're not happy about. >> we're going to be interviewing chris christie live

in the studio in the next hour. so stick around for that. ari, you were surprised last night by just how well the republicans did. why? >> this is stunning. this is historical. and nobody expected it being this big going into election night. when you look back on it, the breadth and the depth, republicans won by majority that no one anticipated. pat roberts in kansas expected to be a close race, nine points, mitch mcconnell, 16 points. even scott walker, five points and what was supposed to be a razor-thin race and they turned blue states red. they won governorships in massachusetts, maryland, illinois, barack obama's home state. so i didn't expect republicans to have this big a sweep. this is object on a par with 1994 and 1980. only three times since world war ii have won this many seats. they did it under truman in 1946, under ronald ragen in 1980 and in 1994. >> charles blow, do you think the democrats were the biggest

helper to the gop other than voter anger, running away from their base, and running away from their president? >> i think republicans were very savvy in candidates they put up. the way that they coached them and how to respond to questions, you didn't have any of the gaffes you had in previous runs. in state after state, i was kind of moving around the country and the last month, and all you saw was candidates being juxtaposed with the president. what percentage of the time they voted in line with the president. and what really, it was very little on issues. it was very much about this guy is on the ballot and then, last month when the president said that i'm not on the ballot and my policies are on the ballot. that quote immediately shows up in every contested race. so the republicans just did a really good job of running a solid race with better candidates than they had the last time around. >> one caveat. the electorate of 2014 is not

going to look like the electorate of 2016. the republicans have to keep that in mind. it will be far younger and younger vote remembers still voting democratic. republicans need to become the party of ideas. and particularly at the presidential candidate level. they have to be specific and they have to be positive. what is my party for? this sois our test. >> this time out, 37% of the voters who voted, this time around were over 60 years old. that was, that was higher than in the last four cycles. >> not unusual. but this was more pronounced. >> much higher. >> you're going not going to have that next time out. republicans have to switch it up. the map that we see today looks much more like the ideology map of the united states, right? so when you look at congressional control in both the house and the senate, the red zones is where republicans actually for the most part, have an advantage. but democrats hold the advantage

in the population centers and they still, they're still going to hold, they're going to turn the voters out in the presidential election, so they still have the presidential advantage. >> one thing republicans did do and they deserve credit for this. they got it together. they hand-selected candidates. they vetted them. they plotted and they, in a lot of respects, held the extreme right at bay. and if you look at sort of the game-changers, right, you have a new landscape developing for 2016. new battlegrounds, colorado, iowa, they will be states to watch in 2016. they deserve a lot of credit. you look at ed gillespie in virginia, who ran a terrific race, a race i think on ideas. big-tent republican. i think ed gillespie emerges as a winner last night as well. i think also you see and i spoke do a former clinton cabinet official yesterday who really i think nailed it. said voters are looking for

authenticity. i think that really was driven home last night and i think you have to now have a message, you have a president who does have economic accomplishments. but it's not been communicated. i think you're going to try too see them do a better job of that. >> i think it's a faux authenticity. i kind of disagree with that. what i kept see something drummed-up huckster-ish feeling. an earthiness that wasn't real to the candidates themselves. but it was appealing to an anti-washington sentiment. so if i can get the sense that you are more earthy. you farm. you know? in terms of authenticity, it didn't feel authentic. >> it did to the voters. >> we haven't talked about the big man here and that's president obama. he has an extraordinarily small window before he turns into a lame duck and he's got big decisions, he is going to be confrontational, executive orders on immigration or is he going do say we have to work

together to see if we can meet in the middle. >> hold those thoughts, panel, you're going to come back and we do like faux authenticity, the oxymoron of the day. nicely done, charles. vg we're going to be talking with senator rand paul. we're talking about the big shots and how they fared. we have governor chris christie. we have gop congressman greg walden and dave brad who beat majority leader eric cantor. who what do the big names have to say coming out of the big day, we'll tell you. and surprises in races for governor this year, we'll break those down for you, when we return. plus the gop seizing control of the senate overnight if you're just waking up. will this put the rest of president obama's term in jeopardy? ♪ ♪

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is welcome back to cnn's breaking news coverage of the 2004 mid-term elections. some races still undecided. here's what we know. you the voter, you spoke loud and clear yesterday and the message was, republicans win. the gop picked up at least seven seats, seizing control of the senate from the democrats, republicans also picked up over a dozen seats in the house, giving the party the lajest majority in the congress since world war ii. the message was also sent to the states. governors races, including two typically blue states,

massachusetts and maryland, going republican. >> voters also weighing in on major ballot initiatives. voters in washington, d.c. and oregon both approved recreational pot use by adults. according to preliminary numbers. and early numbers also indicate alaska's plan to tax, regulate and legalize marijuana is likely to pass. it falorida voters narly rejectd it and a raising the minimum wage was approved in arkansas, nebraska, south dakota and alaska. and now over to michaela for a look at the top governors races. >> a a lot of folks want to know what's going on in their state there are some real surprises. let's start with florida, a key gubernatorial race. governor rick scott the incumbent, republican, re-elected, facing a tough challenger from former governor

charlie crist. scott spent millions of his own money to hang on to the seat. ill sill now red, republican candidate and venture capitalist brucerauner declaring victory over pat quinn. massachusetts once known as a deep blue state also now with a republican governor, republican health care ceo charlie baker winning the race over democrat and attorney general martha coakley to become the state's first republican governor since mitt romney. to wisconsin now, another term for republican scott walker, perhaps a boost to his 2016 presidential ambitions. bolstered by an easy defeat over his democratic challenger mary burke. he won re-election by double digits. last but certainly not least. a significant pick-up for the democrats in pennsylvania. businessman and former pennsylvania revenue secretary tom wolf, pouring millions of dollars into the campaign ads

and it paid off. he unseats republican incumbent tom corbett. late they are morning, we're going to talk about all of these wins and so much more with new jersey governor chris christie who has been out on the campaign trail in support of republican governors, he of course the chairman of the republican governors association. he'll have all sorts of thoughts, celebrating and some thoughts about where we go from here. pick night for the gop, period. no other way to see it than that the party will in power in both houses of congress. the question is what will they do with the power? joining us is republican congressman greg walden from oregon, he won his race last night, but he won more because he's the chairman of the national republican congressional committee. congratulations to you, congressman. good to have you with us this morning. you have the mandate from the people, what will you do with it? >> govern responsibly. i mean that's what we need to do. there are 300-some bills sitting in the senate that passed with bipartisan votes in the house. 40 of them led by democrats. there's a big basket of ideas,

to make america better. that we need to now pick up, sort through, work with our senate colleagues and the white house, and start solving america's problems. get the country back on track. that's what we need to do. >> we don't know, but let's just assume that the democrats are bitter. and they look across the aisle and they see people who they believe obstructed them and backed them into a corner and are now advantaging that. what is your message to democrats to not do the same to you? >> look, america deserves better. the elections are over. it's time for those who have been elected to go earn their salary. and that means working together to solve the problems. it doesn't mean we're all going to agree on everything. you see a referendum on the president's policies last night. rejected soundly at the polls. so america wants us to go in a different direction. but they do expect us to get our jobs done. i've got bipartisan legislation that's passed. legislation that's passed unanimously, the senate never bothered to take up. i think there's a great opportunity for the country

here. let's put country first. >> fair criticism that the message could be met with skepticism. despite the mandate. people are just angry. you've done a lot of obstructing. you've stopped the president, that's been somewhat of a mantra. shut down the government. why will you be different now? >> let's start with what the house has done. i'll let somebody else speak about the senate. i'm from the house and we performed. we opened up the process, we allowed democrats to have amendments on the floor. something the democratic paef i didn't do under nancy pelosi, they shut it down. sheila jackson lee had more amendments, democrat out of texas had more amendments in the house. >> that should be behind us, why don't we try it differently for once. open it up, get it done. move legislation, make things happen, be positive about it. >> you represent the house and of course you're overseeing the shift there. but this is is a big headline

about the senate and it is about mitch mcconnell coming into leadership there. do you have any concerns about your party being able to get its house in order and whether mitch mccobble will get there? ted cruz is saying he won't back him. it's a legitimate issue. >> i'm not in the senate. i was here to talk about the house races and the biggest majority since the 1920s. >> you can't get anything to the president's desk without both. i'm extending your authority. >> that's correct. we need both, think there's a good working relationship between mitch mcconnell and john boehner who will be the speaker of the house. and i think there's a huge desire among the leaders of both parties and the bulk of those who have been elected in both parties to get big things, get small things done, get the people's business done. give us chance to go to work. we need to prove ourselves and earn it every day.

>> great message to send. no question about that. last point quickly congressman. money is politics. we hear it all the time. not last night. you got outspent by $41 million. you still won. what do you take that to mean? >> i think what it means is, we got data and digital right. we figured out how to run good ground campaigns. elections are decided by those who turned out to vote. we identified them early. worked them often. we had great candidates, put it all together. we ran it like a small business, which is the background i come out of and we got results, that's how you measure things, is do your job, keep focused, get results. we had a great team and great support in the conference for everything we were doing at the nrcc and our staff did an amazing job. as you say, we with did with less money, got more done. think that's what americans want the government to do by the way. >> congressman greg walden, congratulations on your win, i hope you're able to do everything you say you want to do. >> here, here, thank you. we're taking a closer look at just who turned out to vote

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a lot happened while were you sleeping, let's look at the board. the political landscape in america has turned red. republicans have grabbed outright control of the senate. picking up at least seven seats, we're still figuring out how many they will have. some races being outstanding. one will have a runoff is

louisiana, december 6th. let's get over to john berman looking at the exit polls. >> one of the big questions is who voted. and the answer is, well a very different electorate than we saw two years ago. we talk about the gender gap. look at this. last night, 51% of the people who voted were women. 49% were men. let's look at a couple years ago. then it was 53% women, 47% men. more female, but here's the trick here -- two years ago, 55% voted for president obama, 44% mitt romney and 11-point margin for the democrats. compare that to what happened last night. and the margin for the democrats just five points, 11 points two years ago to five points last night. let's talk about race, there's one thing here i want to point out. look at this, latinos made up 8% of the electorate last night. let's compare that to two years ago. when latinos made up 10%. so two years ago, a larger slice

of the electorate. two years ago latinos voted for president obama by a 44% margin. compare that to last night, and again, if lurking at the race last night, the latino vote broke by a 28% margin for the democrats, not bad, but not 44 points. let's look finally at age. this was a much, much older electorate than we saw two years ago. you look here, 13% were younger than the age of 30. 22% older. compare that to two years ago, 19% were under the age of 30. and 16% were over the age of 65. so a much older electorate than we saw two years ago. this is what we saw last night. we already know we will see a different group two years from now. alisyn? >> john, thanks for breaking those down for us. so president obama will hold a news conference today to talk about the election results, but

the white house claims that these are not a referendum on the president. so what is their interpretation of what happened last night? let's ask senior white house correspondent jim acosta. hi, jim. >> i would say that there has been a change in tone. yesterday they were saying that this was not a referendum on the president, they were saying that this was about a bad map that they were fighting on mitt romney's turf. they are still saying that somewhat. i did talk to a white house official earlier although said that they are clear-eyed about these results. they do get it over here at the white house. and when they say they, they mean that to include the president as well. so the president will be holding a news conference this afternoon at the white house. he'll be asked all of these questions, was this a shellacking? he'll have to come up with a new phrase for that. but they are a bit shell-shocked over here about the results last night. i don't think they were anticipating so many democrats to fall. but one thing that they have been preparing for, i'm told by a white house official, is a gop congress, dennis mcdonagh, the

white house chief of staff. has been reaching out around this town over the last several weeks to prepare tore that potential outcome. now that it's here, they feel that they're ready for it the president did reach out to mitch mcconnell last night, the incoming senate majority leader to congratulate him. they did not connect. but the president did leave a message. >> jim acosta. i hope they were prepared for the outcome of the senate shifting hands, the writing was on the wall. >> absolutely. the president's team ran away from him in this race. the question is what do they do about it now. what does it mean for the republicans going forward? they all have their eyes on the prize. that's 2016. we have an expert panel telling you which team may get there first. my motheit's delicious. toffee in the world. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would

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many of you point together dissatisfaction with the obama administration. as the reason. but is it is that simple? cnn political commentator michael smerkonish. and cnn political commentator greg anthony and we have wait for it, cnn political commentator charles blow. we are all qualified to discuss this here, i just said that with your titles, charles, i'll start with you, you're in studio. yes, there's anger. we know it red means republican, and it is also seeing red for the voter. but do you believe that the democrats helped the republican cause last night because of how they ran away from the president? because they seemed to have no cohesive campaign. seemed like failures? >> i don't go as far as you go with that. but i believe that democrats are certainly back on their heels. the president does have a point when he says the map did not favor democrats this time around. you had at least seven democrats up in, up in --

>> red states. >> you'll have the exact opposite in two years. you'll have about seven republicans up in blue states and so you'll go back with a flip here. but they were certainly back on their heels. republicans did run a very tight messaged race. just talk about the fact that this candidate is voting with the president, don't stray, don't flub. and they, they did pretty well with that. so that worked, the president is particularlien popular. 42% approval rating that is the lowest, second lowest since '82. only george bush in 2006 was lower. so they took advantage. and you have a lot of money being spent off-cycle, eating away at the obama brand. both on obama care. also all kinds of ads about impeach now. all of these sort of things. and that was chipping away in the right places at the brand so

that when you came around to election time, could you just hitch the person who was running to obama and the damaged brand and say, these are the same people. >> so michael, charles laid it all out. money, the map and dissatisfaction with president obama. what do you think the biggest factor last night was? >> all of which he said is accurate. but i think that charles leaves something very important off the table. and it's this -- the president has been absolutely gifted in his messaging on two occasions. the '08 cycle and the 2012 cycle. beyond that the messaging during his tenure in the white house has been horrific. they haven't sold their own achievements, if they're going to sell their achievements, then why is someone who is running for the u.s. senate as a democrat going 0 to take on that cause. did anybody in this cycle running under the democratic banner talk about unemployment being at 6%? and where's the dow and consequently where's your 401(k)? and here are the number of americans who have now been

covered by virtue of the affordable care act? instead they put their tail between their legs and ran for cover. and so did he. who was out there fighting that uniform fight? i don't think anybody was. >> so greg anthony, to you, we know all the reasons that the democrats weren't supposed to do well last night. charles laid some of them out. you have a sixth-year presidency. usually you get a seat swap there. but this did seem like more than that, didn't it? >> absolutely. that's the reality. you're hearing a lot of spin from democrats when the reality is, even though the president didn't go out and campaign a ton, he did go to maryland and he did go to illinois, and they both lost the governorship. that's a pretty significant statement against the policies of this president and this administration. and the reality is that people are a little bit fed up. it's going to be a serious challenge for republicans, i always say it experiences your

ability to learn from your mistakes. they'll have to look back at what happened in '94 and they're going to have to come out and govern and lead and reach across to this president and try to get some legislations that people can agree upon. i think there's a lot of opportunities where you're going to see that materialize over the next two years. 200 sit here and say this is purely about an inability of democrats do get their base out. it does a disservice to america. the country elected barack obama twice because they're far more sophisticated as a voting electorate. but that's also a reason they've sent a resounding message to why they didn't support his party and his policies over the course of this last election. and listen, don't think just because democrats didn't get out a lot of their vote, that means they were disinterested. they were also disapproving of what's happened over the last several years. you talk about why they didn't talk about unemployment. a lot of those numbers are skewed. a vast majority of new jobs being created aren't full-time jobs, the middle class has been

really crushed over the last six years. and that's something that has resonated across america. >> greg points out that this is an opportunity for us right now. charles, will either party starting today, seize this opportunity of compromise? >> i think we can all hope. i think the american people -- i disagree with a lot of what was just said. but-day believe that the american people are disenchanted. they want to believe that government can work. and i think that all of us, i mean even, in the political classes, we want to believe that it's not irrepairably broken. there is very little incentive to give your opponent anything that looks like a win. >> there may be a window here for that. and let's go to michael smerkonish for this i've heard you talk about this a lot yes, negativity got them through the mid-term, it will not get them

through the general. they are motivated to show a different side to themselves going into 2016 and the democrats are completely lost. they need to find a way possiite going into 2016. do you see a window? >> i think the republicans need rebranding, this is their chance to turn away those who say you're only the party of no. in order to do that mitch mcconnell and john bain remember going to have to get together. i think they will. in fact, chris, i think they'll get togethera ala newt in the '90s and put proposals in front of the president. if the proposals are the getting rid of obama care, then it's a net loser for them. but if they are things that appear compromising to the american people, then the pressure then shifts to the president so he, too, can be someone who compromises. we'll have to leave it there. let's leave it on the shiny optimism note that we've just

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all right, breaking news, republicans seizing power in the senate, coupled with the house they have their biggest political advantage in 07 years, 7-0 i just said, chris. what does this mean for the president and the rest of his term? we'll hear from him just before 3:00 this afternoon. for now to washington chief national correspondent john king is standing by. john, give us your thoughts. >> the president's tone today i think is critical, because he's waking up in a very different america than he was first elected in. let's let the colors do the talking, before we go through the numbers. this is the house of representatives. look at all that red and i just want to go back in time, this was the house of representatives right after the president was elected, 257 democrats and a majority back in 2009. now again watch this. and it's everywhere, it is everywhere. look at every region of the country, blue up here when the president was elected, blue down here in the southwest, blue here in the southern states, in the midwest, up in new england, now watch all this change, this is

how america has changed in the two owe pa ma mid terms. lot more red. he's dealing with the highest republican majority, somewhere in the ball park of 250 in the house of representatives since world war ii. that's the house perspective. now let's flip over and remind people what happened last night when it comes to the united states senate. we started the night with 55 democrats, that includes two independents and 45 republicans, we've had almost a total flip there in the numbers. here's where we are now. we haven't called the alaska race yet, waiting for absentee ballots. louisiana will be a runoff in early december and the virginia race so close we'll wait until they count the votes there. at the moment we're at 52-45 expectation and let's let them counsel the absentee ballots. the expectation is the republicans will pick up that seat as well and the polls show in our exit polls show in the runoff the republican is favored in the louisiana senate race so most people think we'll have 54 had-45 and mark warner will hold on here but ed gillespie still in convention.

even it plays out 5 -46, the president loses a seat here in north carolina, loses a seat in the midwest, loses a seat out here in the west so regionally, ideologically, the country changed dramatically overnight. the question now is, a, what is the president's tone today, is it conciliatory and let's remember the republicans now control the senate and the house, there's an obligation on them to what will their tone be, where will they compromise and how will they deal with interim differences. we watched this play out with the tea party last year and the house of representatives. it will be leadmajority leader mcconnell. it will be confrontation continue or compromise enter back into the dictionary here? >> if we can't get that ambitious, john, the republicans now are in the position of having to figure out what they asked for, now that they got it. you know, what do they have to do going forward controlling their own party to show who they are and as ari fleischer laid

out, obstructionism and negativity got you this far, won't get to you the next level. >> part of that is the next question what kind of republican party do you want to be, a majority congressional party, a majority house party or do you want to be, remember, if we go back and look at the presidential race, let me come back to the other map, look at a presidential race the republicans won big last night, that does not mean they solve their demographic problems. it does not mean they won over african-american voters because they didn't. it does not mean they won over latino voters, they did perhaps a little bit of progress there but at the presidential level republicans are looking at a map that looks something like, this maybe their situation is a little improved today but they have no huge break-through so do you want to be a presidential party or are you content to be the legislative party in the country, and i know you're going to talk to governor christie and rand paul, two people who are studying this map, trust me, very well and that is the challenge for the party to try to change your own demographics and to build on this victory, not look at it and say see,

we're great. >> we will be talking to governor chris christie about that and so much more. thanks so much for that. governor chris christie says we are great, they'll take a moment to say that, the head of the governors organization for the republicans. there's a lot ofs now look at in this election and we have it for this election and we have it for you, so let's get to it. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is a major projection, the republicans are going to be majority. >> we are headed to washington and we are going to make 'em squeal! >> it looks like it is a good night for america, looks like the senate has changed over to republican hands. >> tonight kentuckians said we can do better as a nation. >> it's really a repudiation of the president's policies, but also hillary clinton. >> the country was counting on us to help deliver a republican majority to the senate, and we

delivered. >> good morning again everyone. and welcome to a special edition of "new day" t is wednesday, november 5th, 8:00 in the east. i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm chris cuomo. we have michaela pereira here as always also. we have the whole team to get through this wave of change so remember the passion the democrats had brought in the president and everybody in washington six years ago that's gone and that has been replaced by the republicans who are now in power. the u.s. senate is a deep, dark red this morning. look at how the balance of power has shifted in just 24 hours. democrats came in, 55-45 advantage, now lost at least seven seats. they're definitely out of control. the question is, how deeply out of control they are, a few races still have to be decided. >> chris, we saw this same story in the house with republicans gaining at least 14 more seats, giving them their largest

congressional majority since world war ii. and in governors races, the gop added at least four seats, also on the ballot for the midterms, recreational marijuana is now legal in washington, d.c., and oregon, with alaska appearing to follow suit but the numbers there are still being tallied. we'll have full coverage of all of the latest developments for you. >> washington, d.c., has legalized marijuana, that means members of congress can legally buy it. would that help the situation? how could it hurt? let's look at key senate races several not yet decided including alaska, we're waiting there, we're told the latest vote count does show challenger dan sullivan with an edge over the democrat incumbent mark begich, not official, not counted, not called. in virginia, democrat senator mark warner claiming victory but republican challenger ed gillespie not conceding. could be headed for a recount. we'll watch that for you. we'll certainly take a runoff to figure out louisiana's hotly

contested senate race, democrat incumbent senator mary landrieu, republican challenger bill cassidy battled to a draw essentially. however, you're not looking at his face right now but third party candidate played a big spoiler here, ron ramos got 14%, tea party candidate who will get those votes december 6th when the runoff is. that will make a difference. joni ernst becomes iowa's first female senator in an easier than expected win over democrat bruce braley. it was a big money battle with the candidates spending nearly $80 million between them on campaign ads including her famous one about castrating hogs. the gop in kansas one of the most hotly contested senate races, republican path roberts defeated the independent challenger greg orman. republican congressman cory gardner won the senate race in

colorado, defeats mark udall. it's a significant pickup for republicans, a state that voted for president obama twice in 2008-2012 so now it switches hands. >> arkansas, the republicans had that on their list, they got it. tom cotton, decisive victory over two-term incumbent mark pryor. the democrats thought they had a chance there, they were wrong. the gop keeps the senate seat in georgia thanks to something went against the polls, easy victory for republican david perdue, beat democratic challenger michelle nunn, famous name in georgia was not enough. it was thought to be a tossup until yesterday. rare glimmer of good news for democrats is in new hampshire, jeanne shaheen will hold onto her senate seat, resisting republican challenger scott brown. close race. >> another big win for the gop in north carolina, tom tillis defeated incumbent democrat kay hagan flipping the key swing

state. montana has a new republican senate as well, steve danes defeated amanda kurst. and minority leader mitch mcconnell could be the next majority leader. the kentucky senator easily won a sixth term in the senator defeating allison grimes. >> that was a big race. we said it was close, mitch mcconnell showed what happens when you pound out kentucky, he was playing it really hard and fair and alison lundergan grimes spoke to the need to the voter to remember who you are. she wouldn't say who she voted for in the last presidential election. he coasted to victory. may have a tougher time becoming majority leader. house republicans also keep control of the house of representatives. never really much in question but they picked up 14 additional seats. i think they only lost one, still a tally to be done there. speaker john boehner beating his rival in ohio's eighth district, boehner is expected to run again

as speaker of the house and you had some history in utah where republican mia love won the fourth district. she becomes the first african-american female republican ever elected to congress. that's got to make everybody happy. >> we have so much to talk about this morning and joining us now is someone who campaigned hard for many of the republican candidates who emerged victorious last night, governor chris christie of new jersey is here with us, also the chairman of the national governors association. great to see you. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> you had a good night. >> we did. republican governors and republican gubernatorial candidates all across the country had a really good night so they had a good night, it was good for me. >> where were you watching and what did you say when you realized that the senate was tipping in favor of the republicans? >> well, i was in 19 states in the last five days. last night i was at home but we had a great night and you know, when tom tillis won in north carolina, joni ernst won in iowa, we knew it was a good night for republicans in the senate. my focus last night was on my governors races and you know,

when you have bruce rounder win in illinois, charlie baker win in massachusetts, and larry hogan win in maryland, that's a really good night for republicans to win in those blue states and as a blue state governor myself, and as a republican, i was particularly gratified. >> what to you attribute that success particularly in the blue states for governors? >> i think that they've seen republican leadership in other states and it's been enormously effective. we had a lot of folks last night who said a lot of republicans, incumbents were going to lose but rick scott won in florida, rick snyder in michigan, scott walker won in withisis with. they like governors who get things done and you saw that across the country. if you're a governor who gets things done, the voters rewarded you. >> do you think it suggests that the country is more right leaning than some pundits would have people believe? >> well, i've always thought that, but i think more importantly there's such anxiety in the country about what's happened in washington, and how things just haven't gotten done,

and i think what they were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe get their job done and don't engage in all this partisan bickering and ugliness but they worked together with their legislatures, whether they're the same party or a different party so the fact is that's what i think is really rewarding. people are so tired of the gridlock anding youiness in washington, they want to see things get done. i think they rewarded republican governors because they've been getting things done. >> so it's the morning after the midterms and you know what that means? time to talk about 2016. >> yes, we don't get to breathe, huh? >> no, we don't. it's time to set our sights forward on 2016. i know you get this question all the time but really what is your timetable for when you're going to decide? >> sometime next year. sometime next year. there's no rush in making this kind of decision. i think there's no reason to rush a decision as important as this. i've said it all along there's three questions i'll ask myself, is it right for me, is it right for my family, is it right for my country, and if i don't

answer yes to all three, i won't run and if i do answer yes to all three, then i will. >> and today, on a day when there's been such victories for republican governors, isn't the answer to all of that yes? >> i didn't even ask the questions yet. >> come on. >> no. >> come on. >> no, chris, i have not. >> i'm liking the kinder, gentler, the pink tie, the nod towards the sensitivity. i've been listening. question see how you build the future of the party. >> right. >> but you're the one who is leading the republican governors. >> yes. >> you have as much credit for what happened there and we know that, you know, success has many fathers, right? >> yep. >> you're certainly going to be one of them. rand paul was out there last night, he was punching hillary in the nose every chance he had, talking about you and what was perceived as bullying somebody at a press conference. it started. so you can't just step to the side. you're going to have to get into the race or the race will come to you. >> says you. >> says me, i'm the media. we will force you to make a decision. >> well you know how it happens when people try to force me to do anything. >> i'm already sitting down.

>> it just doesn't work, and i'll make this decision based on my own timetable and not on anybody else's, because it's just too important a decision, it's life-changing and you don't make that decision overnight. >> we know they're asking you to do that. how do you deal with that? this was important to you to show you could give a message in as many states as possible where governors would be helped by it. it worked. that's got to tell you something about your ability to message. you know that your party is pushing you towards getting more involved in this. how do you say no? >> well, i don't know that you do say no but i haven't said yes and that's a big difference. and i'm flattered. yes, you react to t it's incredibly flattering, chris, to have lots of people ask you to consider running for president of the united states, and i'm incredibly flattered, but this morning what i feel is incredible pride in really great candidates across the country. this is not easy to run statewide anywhere, and to be a republican who runs statewide in

a tough state like illinois or massachusetts or maryland and wins, i'm incredibly proud of those guys. they deserve credit. >> shows there's a window of opportunity for a different kind of leadership. sure, i'm certainly baiting you, i know you so he it come. >> that's okay. >> what's going to be the big foil, can chris christie control himself on the national level. >> why is that? >> because they'll say you can't yell at people like that. >> first of all, why would anybody think what i did last week wasn't controlled? first off. >> by the definition it wasn't controlled. >> i didn't do exactly what i wanted to do? >> but the question is can you be that way at the next level? >> yes. >> and not be seen as a bully? >> yes, yes, be yourself. how about just be yourself. that's what i try to do every day. my mother said to me a long time ago, she said you know, chris, be yourself, and tomorrow you don't have to worry about trying to remember who you pretended to be yesterday, and you know, i'm going to be myself, and if i decide to run for something else, if that's not good enough then it's not good enough. i'm not going to change who i

am, not for anybody. >> that is certainly what new jersey voters embraced about you, they love the jersey style, the no-nonsense style. perhaps we should remind people of what that testy exchange was last week, just to remind people for one second. >> could they possibly have forgotten after how many times it's been played, but sure, one more time, why not? >> just for good measure. >> i was there. i remember. >> queue the tape. >> so listen, you want to have the conversation later, i'm happy to have it, buddy, but until that time, sit down and shut up. [ cheers and applause ] >> you wouldn't do it differently if you had a chance? >> no. >> why? who you are and how you are are two different things. >> chris, listen, what you don't see in the tape that for about 60, 70 seconds before that, he was standing up, he was talking over me. i was trying to work my way through it and give him his time to say what he wanted to say but we had 200 other people there who were there to listen to what

we had to say about sandy relief and sandy recovery. it wasn't fair to those people and after giving him a period of time to express his point of view, which i did, then it was time for him to stop, and if you're a leader, then you tell the guy, stop it. and that's what i did and i wouldn't do it any differently. that's who i am and you know, the fact is, he was there to make a statement. he made his statement. he had time to make his statement. he had plenty of media coverage afterwards. great. i don't begrudge him that, he has a right to say what he wants to say but not to interrupt an event 200 others were ready to hear. if you listened to the crowd afterwards they wanted him to sit down also. >> in new jersey your authenticity and blunt style works really well but do you think it pla is across the country, do you think that voters in iowa would feel the same way about it? >> listen, what i found being in 27 states in the last 11 months is this country's much more alike than it is different, and you know, people always say well, you play here or in the

south, anyplace other than new jersey or new york you won't possibly play. it's wrong. it's just wrong. i got great reaction from people all over this country in the last 11 months and what they say to me most of the time is, we like the way you act like yourself. be direct, give 'em hell. those are the things people say to me and it doesn't matter whether i'm in iowa, pam balaba illinois or arizona, it's the same thing. i think this country is a lot more the same than different. >> sweet strength is what works best across the country, the harshness that sometimes can turn people off. let me ask you something, when you're deliberating, people say it's going to be rand paul, rand paul is going to run also. are you worried about rand paul? >> i don't make that decision based on anybody else because if you try to figure out the politics of this stuff, chris, you're just throwing darts with a blindfold on. that's not the way it works. you need to decide, do you want it, are you ready? is it good for you? is it good for your family? can you help the country, and then the politics takes care of itself or it doesn't.

listen, lots of people run, only one person is going to win, so that means everyone else who decided is going to lose, so you can't make the judgment based on that, and there's not any one particular person that i sit around and think about other than myself and whether i'm ready and i want to do this, and whether it's good for my family or not. that's the way you make the decision. >> governor, let me ask you something, since i have an opportunity since you're sitting here. one of the things i think there will be conversations about as we look ahead to 2016, i'll let you do the pushing on whether you're going to run or not but in terms of the perception of the republican party and the perception that certain people aren't necessarily spoken to within that party, how do you counteract that now, going these two years ahead? >> listen, i don't need to wait. i did it in new jersey. >> so how do we do it on a national level? >> you do what i did in new jersey. we got 51% of the hispanic vote last year. let's remember, a year ago yesterday i won 61% of the vote in new jersey. 51% of the hispanic vote, 23% of

the african-american vote. how do we do it? we worked for four years to include people, to give them a seat at the table, to do more listening than talking, and to make sure that you treated everyone with the type of respect that they need to be treated with, and listen. i don't always agree with any one of those groups on every issue and they don't expect me to. i tell folks in my state all the time you look for a candidate you agree with 100% of the time, go home and look in the mirror, you're it. you're the only person who agrees with yourself 100% of the time. they're looking for to you be yourself and treat them with the respect that would make them want to sit at the table with you. i think that's the the way do you it. >> governor chris christie, great to have you here, congratulations on the successes last night. >> thanks, it's great night for our guys and women. >> thanks for coming on the show. good luck to you going forward. >> you got it. republicans decidedly got a vote of confidence from you. what are they going to do with it? are they going to cooperate with the president? we'll be joined by another name

you're hearing a lot, senator rand paul of kentucky, good morning, senator. good to have you. we were just talking to your friend governor christie here but what this means going forward, how do you see it? >> you know, i think it's all good news. i think last night in kentucky we had a huge victory and particularly in kentucky, iowa, arkansas, this was not only a repudiation of the president, but i think really repudiation of hillary clinton. i've already thought oh, hey, i'll be a clinton democrat, turns out that's not so popular in a lot of states either and trying to separate this into obama democrats and clinton democrats wasn't a successful strategy. >> senator, are you worried about hillary clinton, you bring her up on a day usually you're ignoring the other side, are you worried about hillary? >> not necessarily worried. she has a record and she wants to either separate herself or say she's somehow different than obama, really it turns out that on most policies they're pretty much identical. >> why now? why do it? is this your way of setting

yourself up for 2016? you could have talked about anything you wanted, you had it in your home state playing out in kentucky, you were there with mitch mcconnell, not so much about what the new senate majority will do, not so much about the republican agenda, you went right are her, you created a hashtag. seems obvious what your motivation is. am i missing something? >> the clintons have long been represented as the leaders of the democrat party. she's said to be the front-runner for the nomination for their party so really elections are about who the leadership is in the party and about either accepting or rejecting those leaders, and frankly, i think that yesterday was a repudiation of hillary clinton. think about it. 90% of incumbents win, but over 50% of the candidates that she campaigned for that were incumbents lost, so that really is a message that the public sent both to the clintons, to president obama, and to their policies. >> right, the president probably at the top of that list, though if you're going to go after the head of the democratic party, you're ignoring him in favor of

hillary clinton my suggestion would be you're doing that because you see yourself lining up in a race against him. >> i'm happy to say there's enough blame to go around for the president. i think he has to decide and that decision will happen over the next couple of months is he going to work with us. frankly he's been saying it's his way or the highway and that's what it's been. nothing occurred in the last several years because both he and harry reid decided hey, we're going to do nothing and so i think some of the message also is a message that the american public is tired of gridlock. they're ready to see something happen and i want to be part of that. >> senator, in an election where the democrats i think it's fair to say ran away from their base, ran away from their president, hillary clinton could you argue didn't, she did what a leader should do, went out and stood by what she believes her party is about, fought the good fight and she lost. do you think that the races that she weighed in on would have gone a different way if she weren't there? >> i don't think she was an asset. i think that she, the clintons

for a long time have been perceived as oh, hey, they can help democrats convince people in the south there still be some conservative democrats, but guess what? it doesn't work anymore, even in their home state in arkansas, it didn't work last night. they campaigned heavily in iowa, didn't work in iowa, they campaigned heavily in kentucky. they're supposed to be this clinton cache. the shininess has worn off of that. >> let's talk about who is shining. i'm saying you're shining, senator. are you going to run for president? >> maybe. i haven't decided yet. >> let me ask you something, i understand, i've heard your answer before. here's why i'm cutting before, all due respect, i'm happy to have you on the show. >> you ask the same question you get the same answer. i'm not giving you a different answer. >> we asked governor christie the same thing, it is the most powerful position in the world, for people like you, who say you want to serve through elected office, that's the place that is the shiny jewel that gives you the power to do it. why this indecision?

why run around the country and make all these cases and exhaust yourself on so many levels and then vacillate on going for the crown? why vacillate? >> well it is an important decision, it's an important position, and it will take a while to make the decision. as you know in politics, politics isn't always the friendliest of atmospheres for family, there's a lot that families go through, there's attacks and personal -- it's just a big decision to make, but there's also the decision to make and this depends on the facts on the ground, and that is, are the things that you're talking about, the things you want to do to make the country bigger, better, are they resonating, and is there a chance that they will be successful? i don't have a great desire to do it just on a lark. i would only do it if i thought that we had a real chance at the nomination and at winning so we'll make that decision sometime in the spring. i think i've been more forthright than many. i haven't demured said oh, not me, i'm not thinking of it. we actively said we are think

bei ing about it. we will make the final decision in the spring. >> you grew up in it, put your family in it, someone who grew up in politics. you know what it takes to be in this kind of situation and you certainly are in the crosshairs of everybody who is talking about 2016 positive and negative. if not you, and if you're not going to do it, most would suggest that means you think there's someone better for the job. do you think chris christie would be a better president than you? >> you know, i think there are a lot of good candidates and i think we need moderates in the party. i think it's great there's a big tent and that there will be moderates and people from different regions of the country in our party. i'm not ready really to declare to endorse another republican, but i think having people from different facets of the ideological spectrum in the party is useful and good for the party. >> when are we going to hear you come on "new day" and say, i'm in, i have a tie on today, i'm ready to run? >> do i have to wear a tie to run? that's my real question. >> no, you look good in that, i like the mockneck.

>> we'll make a decision in the spring. it's probably not going to be early next year, it will be in the spring sometime and truly we haven't made the decision and had all the final discussions we have to have, and to decide whether we want to do this or not. >> senator, you got a lot of big decisions to make, you've been given a significant mantle of power by the american people. we look forward to seeing how you use it. thank you for joining us on "new day." >> thank you. >> alisyn? his win clinched the republican's senate majority win overnight. we'll speak with north carolina senator-elect tom tillis about that history-making night. or ta. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra

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pushed the gop into control of the senate. >> well, we were just pleased to see georgia be decided last night and joni ernst and i were getting it done and i'm looking forward to dan sullivan joining the new majority caucus next year. >> so you clinched the majority for the gop, which everyone was excited about in your party, but your race is also known for a more dubious reason, and that is that yours was the most expensive race in north carolina senate history. now, i'm sure from where you sit this morning that seems like money well-spent but voters say that all of the sort of runaway spending for these races sometimes makes them a little disgusted. >> well, us, too. the money that was spent was almost a 2:1 difference between what harry reid spent and what folks who supported me did and

the problem with it is that suddenly you try to cast two candidates as being good or bad. i don't think that was not what really was, this race was about. it was about very different visions for america, and we're glad that we got it done. incidentally it may be the most money spent in any senate race in u.s. history and i'm glad, i'm proud of my volunteers and everybody that withstood that challenge. >> there were a lot of negative ads in your campaign against you, obviously on both sides, it was a negative campaign. your opponent painted you as having cut funding to public schools, saying you sliced and diced the budgets, created chaos in the classrooms. when you get to the senate, will you be dealing with education? will you be trying to cut funding for education? >> well, the only problem with the premise of that, the argument is that we didn't cut spending. we actually have increased spending by $1 billion a year since i've been speaker of the house. we gave one of the highest pay raises in a generation.

that's the negative consequence of how these campaigns were run. we've actually tried to make education a priority, and health care in north carolina a priority. that's what we need to do at the federal level. >> all right, senator-elect thom tillis thanks for taking time for us this morning. congratulations on your win, you can go get some sleep now. >> thank you. >> okay, take care. let's go over to chris. >> it's an interesting developing narrative here, republicans, the democrats, but really what we're seeing is a growing independent streak in voters. we're going to bring on an independent and get their take on what just happened here, a conversation with vermont senator bernie sanders coming up, what does he think about the races, the money spent and 2016, when we come back. ♪

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while most of us were fast asleep, the u.s. senate took on a new shade of red. republicans grabbing control of the chamber by picking up at least seven seats. races remain undecided in alaska at this hour and virginia, where the gop is looking to flip more seats along with louisiana, where a runoff is scheduled for

next month, chris. >> here's what we do know. rough night for democrats, virtual repudiation of the obama white house and many of his policies. so what does it mean for the next two years in washington and beyond? joining us someone who knows, independent senator from vermont, mr. bernie sanders. senator, thank you for joining us. do you see optimism in the results from last night and the chances moving forward? >> well, it depends on what you mean by moving forward. i fear very much that if you take a hard look, chris, at the republican agenda, what they mean by moving forward are more tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations. is that what the american people want? i don't think so. i think you're going to be seeing in the coming months ttempts to cut social security and medicare. i think you're going to see ignoring the reality that we need to raise the minimum wage and do pay equity. i think on many of the key issues that the american people

feel strongly about the growing gap between the very rich and everybody else, i fear that the american people who want change, they want to deal with the collapse of the middle class, they want to deal with jobs leaving america, going to china, i think perhaps they have just voted for some folks whose agenda is very different than what they want and need. >> one of the realities that we saw play in these elections perhaps more than ever money. $41 million, your friends on the left outspent the republicans, still lost. you had some packs putting up money $200,000 you included to races through packs. a lot of money. you don't like it but it's going on all the time more than ever, even you're involved. what do we do about it? >> i'll tell what you we do about it. again, i think the american people have to ask the republicans how they feel about it. chris, my perception is the american people are disgusted with turning on tv and seeing one horrible negative ad after another. and this has a lot to do with the koch brothers and other billionaires spending huge sums of money because of this

disastrous supreme court decision on citizens united. my view, and i work really hard on this, is we should overturn citizens united and you know what i think, move to public funding of elections. this is a major issue the american people across the political spectrum feel strongly about, billionaires should not be able to buy elections. and the other thing that concerns me, chris, very much, is that i haven't seen the numbers yet, but my guess is that about 60% of the american people did not vote yesterday and that means about 80% of young people, 80% of low-income workers. why is that? >> i think you're being generous. i think it's about 30%. >> okay. and chris, let me throw a question to you. >> what have you got? >> what role does the media play in all of this? what role does the media play? does the media allow us to have a serious conversation as to why the middle class is disappearing and why we're seeing a larger and larger gap between the rich

and everybody else, or is the media into sensationalism and polls and political gossip. that's something we should talk about. >> senator, first of all, look, this say long conversation. you know on "new day" we try to spend more time on the issues that matter, why i came here in the first place but there are a lot of shows like this one and garbage in, garbage out. you guys are stuffing the system with money, put out attack ads. you attack money in the system and give money to the system, something almost incorrigible. we can only deal in the media with what you are in politics. >> i don't want to argue. that's fair enough. all that i'm trying to say here, chris, we need a serious discussion about serious issues. >> i'm with you. >> and one of the issues is money in politics, should we overturn citizens you nighted? was that a good supreme court decision? let's have that debate. i think we should. >> right, except -- >> many of my republican colleagues do not. >> we are at the supreme court decides is something you're not going to change politically unless they decided the issue

originally was a political decision. you could run for president in 2016 and say i'm bernie sanders and i'm going to have this dialoguen the bigst stage. are you willing to do that if you care so much, senator? >> am i willing to do that? well, i am taking a hard look to see what kind of support there is around the country for a campaign that would take on the top 1%, a campaign that would fight for a massive jobs program, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and deal with the issue of income and wealth and equality. as you know, chris, this is not a decision made easily. have to think hard about it and talk to people all over the country to determine what kind of support there is for that type of a campaign. >> senator, everybody knows who knows you, knows you care deeply about issues and the consideration needs to be had, whether people want to have it or not. that's leadership. senator, thank you for coming on "new day." >> that's right. >> look forward to having the conversations going forward. >> thank you. >> i still love that vermont accent. i want you to know that.

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waking up now first of all you sleep too late, second of all you missed some night for the republicans, they pushed into the senate ma jo are the in a strong way. i guess you could say did they peak too soon but probably too soon for that question. the election cycle is in 2016, they have to figure out what culture change they may need in washington to be effective now and then. let's discuss. cnn chief political analyst gloria borger, senior political analyst david gergen, cnn political commentator greg anthony, former white house press secretary ari fleischer, hillary clinton press secretary former aide lisa caputo. that's a lot of fire power. alisyn? >> david gergen, the peak too soon question, you think this could be a short term win for the gop? what do you mean? >> listen, they did a lot better than expected last night. they blew the doors off so they have every reason to gloat

today, they recruited better candidates than they did the last couple of rounds out, people a little conservative in the hands of the tea party, which was good for them but as 2016 approaches, you had rand paul and chris christie a few moments ago. as you look ahead you have to realize that there is something called the blue wall. i think that was ron brownstein formulation some years ago, a group of 18 states plus the district of columbia that have voted consistently for democrats for the last six consecutive presidential elections. 18 plus the district of columbia, together they make up 242 electoral votes. that's only 28 short of what you need to win the presidency so the democrats when you look at the country as a whole have some built-in advantages. have some of those strengths eroded over the last two years? absolutely.

millenials are not as favorite toward the president, latinos backed off some. democrats have built-in strengths you have to remember. you can't overread the elections. >> you were/are in the business of making sure that the republicans put out the right message. you just saw rand paul, you just saw chris christie. maybe a couple of governors you have that are strong, wdo they answer the question about 016 as they do. it's such a tired answer. >> no one will ever announce their candidacy on cnn, sorry to say it that way, there's a rollout and you need to do that in a way that appeals to republican primary voters. >> if you want people to believe in you, they know you're playing them. >> when you're running for president you design a rollout of how you'll announce your candidacy. i counseled 12 republicans who would run for president, six sitting governors, one or two former governors, three sitting senators, one former senator and

one doctor. >> and a partridge in a pear tree. >> keep your eye on the governors, those are the strength of the republican party, walker and casey are the two most intriguing. >> only three non-governors have been president in the last century, too. >> it's not just republicans being coy, hillary clinton is also being coy. what happened last night says about hillary clinton moving forward in 2016, if anything? >> david painted an accurate picture. the electoral landscape seems to bode withal for the democrats in recent years. she's going to take her time and make her decision on her own timetable, sore the rest of them. martin o'malley has an interesting choice, active on the ground in iowa we're told and i think you'll see vice president biden's got some decisions to make.

remember he's been out there publicly it week saying this white house is willing to compromise, so he's gone out on a limb. i think that will be interesting to see if this and this president and vice president will compromise, will the republicans compromise? looking ahead to 2016, i think it's wide open for these folks to decide their own timetables. i think hillary clinton will probably come under some pressure on the heels -- >> that's all we ta buck this show, we have a segment named that. >> gloria borger, you sat down with vice president biden this week. >> i did. >> he shared his thoughts on all of this. >> he did. he did say there is a need to compromise, but he said something else, which was kind of stunning to me, which is we have to learn how to communicate better as if in anticipation of what occurred last night was a communications problem. they may have a communications

problem at the white house but that's not what last night was about. last night was not about communicating. last night was about repudiating and when you saw the governorship of the state of maryland or illinois go republican, you have to sort of scratch your head and say, wait a minute, this message from the public was angry. there was a lot of steam there, and what they want as a government, and i'm not saying they're calling for bipartisanship necessarily. what they're calling for is competency, and what that means is getting things done for them, because they don't feel that washington has been working for them, and insofar as hillary clinton looks like an insider from washington, that doesn't really help her. now, if republicans blow it and don't get anything done, and don't act like a governing party that would help hillary clinton. er who is running has to take a

look at what occurred last night and say wait a minute, the message here is that i have to be part of getting things done and the solution rather than being an obstructionist, no matter which party you're in. >> greg anthony, good to have you on the panel, because you've been talking about b this consistency will politics during the course of the year and sthernl electi certainly this election. you don't get caught up in the individual horse races. you get caught into the vibe of where people are and what they need going forward. >> i think that's a great point. two parts. one, we talked about the governorship and the fact that you've had some blue states turn red but also keep an eye out, focus on what happened in colorado and iowa. those are two bellweathers, two states that went blue and red. republicans have the opportunity over the next two years to do what leaders have to do.

you should be reaching across the aisle finding common core ground you can come up with solutions to some problems. people talking about 2016, you better focus on 2015 and '16 before and have some concrete, substantive issues addressed. immigration policy has to be addressed before we get to election. i don't think we can wait that long. the economy, we talk about the low unemployment but the vast majority of the jobs are not full time jobs. the middle class, the shrinking middle class we've seen over the last eight to ten years, that's an issue for democrats and republicans. so i think we need to see those problems starting to be solved, and i think that's what this election was all about. people are tired of the bickering, but like gloria said, they want solutions now. they don't want people who are going to be there just to obstruct. >> here is the calculation for the president. he wants to issue an executive order on immigration. he's been talking about it. if he does that now, does he, is that so in the face to

republicans that he can't get anything done with them later on? i think this has got to be viewed as a whole package here, because they can get something done on corporate tax reform, they can get something done on infrastructure. the question is what will the with the do with his pen on immigration and when will he do that? >> yes, can i -- >> go ahead, david. >> i wanted to learn more about the president's intentions and mitch mcconnell's intentions when they speak this afternoon. there's one bright spot that hasn't gotten much attention, the growing power of women in this coming congress. the center at women's politics at rutgers reported for the first time ever, we'll have 100 women in the house of representatives, that's a three-fold increase over what we've seen in recent years. that's a big change and what we know from history is that the women who have been in congress recently in the house and the senate, especially in the senate

had been more anxious to work across the aisle, so as we talk about the left/right, red/blue, there's gender changes here that may be hopeful for the prospects of governance. >> what david is talking about with the women in congress, you know, it's fascinating to watch and gloria knows this. these women get together for dinners, lunches, bipartisan and figure out ways to do things together. it's a fascinating dynamic. >> they have no place in washington then. they need to leave today. >> actually, maybe the women will change washington. >> we cannot have that. >> the one thing i want to add, one thing we haven't talked about, we heard a lot about the money in these races but the field game, where was the field game in these races? something that democrats have really mastered over the past se several years under obama. we ought to take a look at that and see what's going to lead there to 2016. >> let me go back to the future and what's next for president obama. the worst thing he could do, picking up on your theme about

people want to work together s pass executive orders on immigration. i'm for xre had inive immigration reform, always have been but if the president tries to do this by fiat with executive powers from the oval office he will infuriate much of this country and republicans and he will ruin and poison his next two years. we've been here before. george bush had a similar thing happen to him in 2006 as a former grn he knew we to work with the legislature. they passed energy legislation, daylight savings time that's why it begins as late as it does, pass aid deal to get congressional authorization for the wiretapping that's in place. he was able to work with the democrats. can president obama work with republicans? >> we have to leave it there, sorry about that, gloria. we'll have more interviews, it's great to have your expertise with us this morning. great to see you guys. he knocked eric cantor from his majority leader perch in a primary. now he's officially headed to washington. we'll speak with newly elected virginia congressman dave brat. this is where i met your grandpa.

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he stunned the political world with his primary victory over majority leader eric cantor. it was less dramatic last night for republican dave brat but victorious nonetheless and congressman-elect dave brat joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, alisyn, thanks for having me on. >> congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> you've had a couple of

stunning victories here. first you shocked everybody by beating eric cantor, and am i right last night voters in your district had to cast two ballots for you to win? >> yes, eric graciously stepped down so i had to run for a special election that gets me through the end of the year and then the normal two-year term coming up. lucky enough to win two in one night legally. >> are you some sort of mathematical whiz? i rarely have people had to win as many votes in such a short time frame as you to get to washington. >> yes. no, i just think i live in a unique district. we have james madison up in the northwest and patrick henry, and it just runs in the veins and so people wanted a change and so i have a background in ethics and economics, and i think we articulated a clear vision across the board on obamacare, the debt we're passing on to the kids and securing the border, and i think that message resonated. >> so let's talk about that change that you say voters wanted. it does seem to have been

illustrated last night. what are you planning to change when you get to washington? >> well, i'm a free market economist and so i study adam smith, the founder. we had a 00-year run that made us the envy of the world, and so we need to look very carefully at what that is, what that's made up of. i think the antithesis of that is the top-down central planning that the best example is obamacare, right, so that system was theoretical. now the bill is coming in everybody's mailbox, and so it's moved to the kitchen table, people can't afford the mandate system, their premiums, the $5,000 deductibles, and so now i ran on that securing the border, et cetera, and the folks are finally seeing the reality of bad decision-making and so i think we had the wave last night for all of those reasons. >> and one of the things that we've heard this morning over and over again is that what voters are looking for now is

compromise. do you feel as though you will be able to compromise when you get to washington, d.c., or do you feel as though you have a different mandate? >> no, i mean i've spent my life as a free market economist in academia, so i know how to compromise and i've worked in the general assembly on education issues here in virginia for years. compromise is a good thing but when you have $18 trillion in debt passing on to the kids, i think the compromise has to be in one direction and so i think the american people are agreed on that. and so if you have folks, my opponent and others on the other side of the aisle want the spending to still go up, so for the welfare of this country, we have to compromise, but the numbers have to go down or we're going to have, find ourselves in another financial crisis ala 2007. we can't if in that direction anymore. >> congressman-elect dave brat, we appreciate your time, best of luck to you and we look forward

to so heing what you do when you go the to washington. >> awesome, thanks. >> it's been quite a morning here. >> a lot more to go, a lot of news. >> we have much more election coverage on cnn, it is time for "newsroom" with carol costello. >> thanks a lot, have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. a tidal wave of voter anger washes across the united states, and republican surf that tsunami to some game-changing victories. here's where we stand this morning. republicans gained seven new seats in the senate, at least 14 in the house and restal way the governor's offices in four states. take a look at this, this was the balance of power yesterday. the president's party in power with 53 seats and this is after the election. the gop seizes the senate and now has full control of both houses of congress. here's how the