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good morning, i'm anderson cooper, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. right now votes are still being counted in critical races across the country while control of congress still up for grabs. the battle for the majority in the house, here is the important number, 218. that is what both republicans and democrats need to have control. republicans leading with 199 seats, that means they only need 19 more to hit the threshold and are already leading in 21 competitive races. democrats have a heavier lift, they need who seats, they are only leading in 24 right now. in the senate we're watching four critical races arizona, nevada, wisconsin. it takes 51 to win an outright majority. we have reporters and correspondents spread out across the country monitoring the closest races. in nevada catherine cortez masto in a toss up with adam laxalt.
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we are still waiting on an estimated 20% of votes to be reported in nevada. rosa flores joins us live from las vegas. still early, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, anderson, both campaigns very optimistic about their chance at winning this seat. as you mentioned, the incumbent st senator catherine cortez masto, an endangered democrat, probably one of the most endangered democrats in the senate, her challenger adam laxalt, they were campaigning until the last second yesterday and tweeting out asking her supporters to get in line to make sure they were in line at 7:00 a.m. pacific to make sure their vote counted. both optimistic, giving this speech, both saying that they could win, both feeling confident about winning. take a listen.
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>> our positive energy got us to where we are today and we are going to make sure that positive energy continues to flow this week. we are going to get this done. >> we're confident that the numbers are there and we're going to win this race, we're going to take back nevada and take back america. >> reporter: and, anderson, this midterm election here in nevada is like no other. in 2020 nevada went into a universal vote mail ballot and what that means is that every registered voter, all 1.8 million unless they opted out got a ballot in the mail. as long as they postmarked their ballot yesterday it could get counted up to saturday and so we don't know how many of those ballots were put in the mail yesterday, anderson, but we know that they are going to be counted, they are going to be counted until saturday and that's how democracy works here in nevada. >> rosa flores, thanks so much. in arizona two trump-backed
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republicans are trailing their democratic opponents, blake masters is behind incumbent mark kelly by at least six points in the race for senate. race for governor is a lot closer. sara sidner is live in phoenix at the maricopa county elections center. when do we expect more results? >> reporter: look, they have approximately 300,000 votes left to be counted and this process takes a long time because here in arizona they are verifying every single signature and we were just told by the maricopa county elections tabulation center that they are about to start that verification process yet again. they have been up all night trying to count all of these ballots that have come in. a lot of this state and a lot of this county, which is the most populous county, votes by mail or votes early and so a lot of the count has happened, about 60% to 70% of the count has already happened, but they do have about 30% to go and that
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includes about those 300,000 ballots, many of those were mailed in, but they received them by tuesday. so that is what's happening just in the building behind me, they are starting that verification process and we will know more very, very, very soon. i do want to mention that you talked about the candidates that are up for election and three of the candidates in these really big races, secretary of state, the governor's race and the senate race, three of the republicans in those races are election deniers and so people are really watching this race and two of them backed by president trump. people are really watching this to see what is going to happen with the republican party and if donald trump had any kind of influence, whether good or bad, the republicans are looking at this and saying if they see that the majority of independents and that is the majority of voters here, if they see that this goes to the democrats they will know that the independents made a decision and decided to go democrat, but we have to wait and see what the count s
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anderson. >> sara sidner, appreciate it. the contentious senate race in georgia could very well be headed for a runoff. incumbent rwarnock is leading herschel walker but by the thinnest of margins. jeff zeleny is live for us in marietta, georgia. the governor's race was called for the incumbent brian kemp. what's the latest on the senate race? >> reporter: well, anderson, understand the difference here between that governor's race and the senate race. it's really essential because governor brian kemp as you said won pretty easily, at least by today's standards, over democrat stacey abrams but herschel walker underperformed, really across the state, but particularly in the suburbs, like here in cobb county, just north of atlanta and other suburbs. so the state of play this morning is both campaigns are preparing for a runoff, that has not officially been called by the secretary of state's office but election officials have been
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bracing for this and preparing for this runoff which would be december 6th. so there's no question that 18,000 votes separate rafael warnock and herschel walker but early this morning as they addressed their supporters they asked for a little more time and patience. take a listen. >> whether it's later tonight or tomorrow or four weeks from now, we will hear from the people of georgia. >> if you can hang in, hang in there a little bit longer. just hang in there a little bit longer because something good it takes a while for it to get better and it's going to get better. >> reporter: so even though there are four more senate races in the country still outstanding, georgia is the only one where there actually can be a rematch because of state election law here requires the whipping candidate to receive 50% of the vote plus 1. even though senator warnock is
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in the lead this is almost certainly going to a runoff, four more weeks of campaigning here, all eyes will be on georgia if control of the senate hangs in the balance, which it appears that it will. >> for all those folks who are sick of political tv ads in georgia, i think they're going to be watching them for a couple more weeks. i want to take a look at wisconsin now where republicans the senator ron johnson is a hair ahead of mandela barnes with 94% of precincts reporting. lucy cav thaoucy cavanaugh is l. >> reporter: possibly a split ticket. it's been a fascinating race to watch. we saw senator ron johnson initially considered as one of his party's most endangered incumbents. he decided to run, mandela barnes the lieutenant governor a democrat challenged him, he was a little ahead in the polls leading up to the election but we saw that lead evaporate.
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now it's down to the wire. 94% of the vote in, johnson edging ahead barnes by nearly 32,000 votes, we are still waiting for some counties to fully complete the numbers, but johnson sort of declaring victory already, cautiously, though. take a look. >> we've looked very closely at the numbers, we feel very confident that there is no way that they can really make up that gap, but i'm not -- i'm not going to, you know, declare victory until all the numbers are in, but i just want to give you guys the sense that this race is over. >> reporter: so we have yet to hear from barnes, he hasn't spoken yet, although we are hearing that johnson may be making a speech in the next hour or two. again, this race has not been formally called but it's not all bad news for the democrats because the incumbent democratic governor tony evers did win, at least according to cnn projections, he also declared
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victory yesterday and that is going to be important at a time when the legislature here in wisconsin is seeking veto-proof super majorities. if johnson does edge ahead and is declared the winner, we could be seeing a split ticket. this is the first time in 24 years that wisconsin has seen a different party win for governor and senate. >> a lot still in play. lucy cavanaugh, thanks so much. i want to show you a map of senate races called so far. right now control of both the senate and house at stake. let's walk over to john berman at the magic wall. john, i mean, wow, what a night. i know you've been up all night covering it. stay awake a little longer. >> terms of the races that are called it's tied 48-48 right now. wisconsin where lucy just was with 94% of the vote in ron johnson is ahead by 31,000 votes. where is the remaining vote? most of it's in milwaukee. milwaukee county here -- just 82 -- 82% is a lot but there's
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some vote remaining in milwaukee and mandela barnes has a very big lead here of more than 230,000 votes so we need to wait and see the rest of the vote to see how much maybe the milwaukee vote will help him chip away at the overall state wide margin. 31,000 it's a lot, would be a tall order for him there. i can show you some of the other states that still haven't been projected yet. you were talking about nevada there. adam laxalt right now with a 22,000 vote lead over catherine cortez masto. what's going to matter is clark county, 84% reporting, all the election day vote has been reported, all that's left is mail, but there could be a lot of mail. a lot of mail. it only has to be postmarked until election day as we just reported. counted until saturday. we don't know how much mail there will be to count. will it be enough for her to make up this gap that she has
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with masto there? in arizona 68% reporting there. maricopa county the most populous county, you can see mark kelly has a lead. we know there are about 300,000 votes left to count, about 100,000 of them were received between friday and tuesday, another 200,000 received in the mail or in-person yesterday. the later they arrive what we learned from the election two years ago the more republican they tend to be. so will that be enough for blake masters to close the gap here? we heard from arizona officials, we will get more of that vote in a little bit later. let's finish up on georgia here. you can see in georgia rafael warnock with 49% of the vote, the key number for him, though, is 50. if no one gets to 50 there will be a runoff which means four weeks more of television advertising as you note. the campaigns are both preparing for that runoff. the secretary of state's office says they expect there to be a runoff there. why does that matter? well, let me show you again where people are ahead here right now in those four states. imagine that georgia here is
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blocked off, that would be 49 for the democrats and 50 for the republicans. so, you know, if we put our hand over georgia they would need that. they would need rafael warnock to win that runoff to give them the 50 votes which would mean that kamala harris would break a tie in the u.s. senate. that's why it could all come down to georgia, however, a lot still depends on nevada and arizona as well. >> what a fascinating -- fascinating morning. john, thanks. we are still waiting for a number of ballots to be counted in arizona and georgia. ana cabrera is at the voting desk. >> let's start with arizona and maricopa count yeah which represents 60% of all registered voters in this state. now, we did hear from the county elections department this morning, they tell us initial results from all 223 sites have now been reported. those are the initial results, but they are not done counting yet. in fact, you heard sara mention as john reiterated and i will triple down on it, 300,000 votes
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left to count in maricopa county. huge population center, traditionally has leaned more republican but we also know there are tens of thousands of early ballots left to count which in part could be democratic. so elections officials in maricopa county shared this video showing behind the scenes the election workers processing the ballots dropped off on election day. i just want to show that work being done because this is the transparency here. we're told this is the signature verification part of the process which takes a lot of manpower to do. election officials say the next results for maricopa county will post tonight and between 95% and 99% of all ballots there will be counted by friday. remember, in 2020 we saw trump gain ground as more votes were counted after election night so we will need to be patient there. let's go to georgia now and i want to put up a tweet from the
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state election official, gabe sterling, he writes, while county officials are still doing the detailed work on counting the votes, we feel it is safe to say there will be a runoff for the u.s. senate here in georgia. that would be on december 6th. again, that's what he is predicting, cnn hasn't called this a runoff race just yet. a quick reminder of the rules in georgia. what leads to a runoff? when no candidate gets over 50% of the vote a runoff will occur and it would be a month or so from now before we know the senate winner there if that was. so we talked so much about the early record voting midterm turnout, we now know all told the state had a voter turnout rate of more than 56% for this election cycle and more than 3.9 million total ballots were cast, anderson. >> i appreciate it. thank you. we will check back with you shortly. stay with us for all the breaking news on the midterm elections, some key house races up for grabs, plus more on what
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control of congress on the line as we await more results in key house races. some surprising story lines ee mrming, in virginia another january 6 committee member is out, democrat elaine luria defeated by the republican -- defeated by republican jen higgins. in new york the democrat in charge of house campaigns in danger of losing his own campaign, congressman sean patrick maloney narrowly trailing his gop challenger. in colorado a hard line pro trump republican on the ropes, congresswoman lauren boebert behind by a few thousand votes. john berman breaks this down for us. what's it looking like? >> looking at the races right
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now you can see of the race that is we've called so far republicans lead in 199, democrats -- or have been called in 199, democrats called in 178. in terms of where they are ahead, in terms of where people are ahead republicans are ahead in 221. this would give them the majority, right? but obviously a much smaller majority than anyone had projected leading in and certainly that kevin mccarthy had hoped for going in. let's look at where some of the uncalled races are and there may be some surprises here. let's look at colorado's. colorado's third congressional district the incumbent is republican lauren boebert, you may know of lauren boebert as an extreme conservative election denying gun loving member of congress there. she's trailing by almost 3,500 votes with 90% reporting right now. there is still more to count but democrats would love to pick up this seat just for the symbolic value. the converse of that is if we go
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to the state of new york where actually democrats here and i will show you a filter here, democrats here are really underperforming what they had hoped. there are ten competitive districts in the state of new york for congress, republicans are leading in eight of the ten competitive districts. two years ago in these same borders eight of these ten were joe biden districts. so it's completely topsy-turvy in terms of what democrats had hoped for there. and in the races that are uncalled you can see they include this district right here, you showed it before, sean patrick maloney the democratic congressional campaign committee chair is down by 3,200 votes, 98% in. to the north of him pat ryan won a special election in a district that was a little different, he is only ahead by 687 votes, 97% in. super close here in new york's 19th, again, we have to wait for more of the vote to come in, super close here in the 22nd. not much vote left, but it could tilt that one way or the other but a disappointing day,
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anderson, for democrats in new york. >> john berman, appreciate it. i want to bring in our panel, former obama white house senior director nare huck, co-founder and editor of chief of the ditch patch john goldberg and cnn political analyst ron bram steen. quite a night. as of now there's democrats avoided certainly the wave, the tsunami, the shellacking, whatever -- >> thumping. >> thumping. did this happen because of biden? despite biden? what does the white house do now? >> the white house is giddy from all reports because they were not expecting that democrats would hold as strong as they are. it's not a clear majority for either party right now, but democrats ran local races and all politics is local whereas on the republican side the trump nominees were trying to apply themselves with trumpism and magaism. democrats imaged to make national issues like inflation
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and abortion local economic issues and they managed to distance themselves from the politics figures and make it highly localized. one of the things we also saw because of that particularly in pennsylvania and in wisconsin was youth voter turnout. in wisconsin 350% more young people voted this year than the last midterm. for fetterman under the age of 45 voters overwhelmingly turned out for fetterman, a candidate who is unapologetically progressive, campaigned on marijuana legalization. so these are issues that have been discussed in politics as progressive but are really becoming mainstream public support issues. >> i mean, there's a lot to discuss. how much of what happened in pennsylvania was oz, you know -- wasn't a long time resident of pennsylvania and not a good candidate. there is a lot of different factors in this. jonah, how do you see it?
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>> on the pennsylvania one in particular probably one of my favorite statistics of the whole night is according to the exit polls pennsylvania voters were far more concerned about the -- believed that being from new jersey was a much bigger problem than having had a stroke and i respect that in pennsylvanians. as a new yorker, i have similar views towards new jersey. look, more broadly speaking i think candidate quality mattered and republicans had a lot of bad candidates, but also the red wave happened, it just happened that guam and florida broke it and the rest of the country went the other way and as a se conservative who doesn't like populism, doesn't like the trumpy term, doesn't like the new right nationalism stuff, i'm fairly ecstatic about all of this. this could not have worked out better for taking the air out of donald trump's balloon. i think ron desantis has his flaws but is now the head of the republican party and that's good news. >> we have a cnn projection.
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a win for pro abortion rights advocates in kentucky, amendment 2 has failed. that would have explicitly put into the state constitution the right to an abortion is not protected. it is the fourth state that has now passed pro abortion rights legislation. back now with the panel. ron? >> obviously there were individual factors in each race and democrats did succeed in many cases in localizing it, but i think there was a national story here as well and that was that the coalition that turned out to oppose trump in 2018 and 2020 largely held together. it eroded some around the edges which is what you would expect with 9% inflation and a majority disapproving of the president's performance, but the basic coalition of young voters, people of color, college educated whites, especially women in all of those categories, in state after state they turned out in bigger numbers and gave democrats bigger margins than either republicans or most media
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analysts expected and they, again, held those swing states by and large for democrats. it is striking, anderson, trrp five states that made joe biden president, five state that flipped from trump, arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, trump pushed through nominees on the republican party in all of those states and it is possible that all of them may lose except potentially kari lake in arizona, potentially herschel walker in georgia and neither of them are guaranteed to win. there is a clear message there that there is not a majority in those states for the definition of the republican party that trump has imprinted, has stamped on the party, but is anybody in the republican party going to be willing to say that? we will see. >> just two days ago or yesterday before votes started to come in there were a lot of democrats who were saying, look, they didn't -- the democrats did not do -- they focused on abo abortion, that was a mistake, that's not going to drive people to the polls, they didn't have
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an economic message that resonated with voters. you were praising young people coming out. a lot of that was abortion on college campuses and places. >> well, i will make a distinction between voters, suburban mothers, women, and pundits and those of us on cable news who were tracking higher polls that equated abortion and inflation separately. abortion is an economic issue for women. bearing a child, delivering the child, paying for child care, all of that has a significant economic cost. taking away the right to choose from a generation that has grown up with that being understood as just a given rallied them. we see that playing out in the states where every ballot measure that would have restricted abortion has been resoundingly rejected. so it's listening to women. listening to generation z and younger people about what they want as they are the rising majority in this country. >> thank you so much. a lot more ahead.
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there are key races that are still too close to call but democrats have managed to avoid
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the crushing red wave that many had feared. for democrats no states were higher than the senate race in pennsylvania. john fetterman defeated oz and flipped the seat from republican hands. jessica dean joins us in pittsburgh. what are you hearing from the fetterman camp? >> reporter: anderson, this morning the fetterman campaign is obviously quite delighted with this outcome. they told me last night they were very confident in what they had done in the last five days. they felt like they had closed out the last five days in the strongest way possible. they actually pointed to that endorsement from oprah winfrey as helping them with suburban women, a target demographic. it played in last night. and then also the rallies with former president obama and president biden. they also really believed that mehmet oz undercut his own message of being a moderate by appearing at that real with president trump and standing on the same stage as him. they felt confident but said we think it's a jump ball. that changed when the numbers started coming in last night. they were specifically watching
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bellwether counties to see if they could outperform president biden in 2020 when he won the commonwealth of pennsylvania and also if they could keep oz's margins down in what's known as the t, essentially draw a t over pennsylvania. that's what started to happen. once they saw erie county coming in and montgomery county which is suburban women, those philly suburbs, that's when they knew they had t they were excited about t as for the gubernatorial race also worth noting josh shapiro beating election denier doug mastriano by a sizable margin here. >> we will check back with you shortly. across the nation high turnout in early and in-person voting. harry enten is at the battleground wall with me here. what were the big drivers? >> i think one of the big questions coming into this election, you know, you spoke about in your panel, it was abortion versus inflation, the idea was essentially that inflation would run away and be the most important issue to voters. they were about equal. inflation at 31%, abortion at
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27%. i think there was also this idea, okay, maybe democrats won't turn out, but take a look at the turnout by the 2020 presidential vote and i think this gives you an understanding that in fact democrats were turning out to vote because it turns out that amongst those who voted in this election what you saw was it was 48% of those who turned out in this election voted for joe biden versus 44% voted for donald trump. that 4 point margin looks similar to what we saw two years ago. democrats were in fact motivated to turn out to vote. i think there's also this question of joe biden, how much was joe biden a drag on democrats? so if we look at the exit poll what you see is joe biden was not a popular guy, his unfavorable rating was at 56%, 41% of voters who voted yesterday said they had a favorable opinion of joe biden nationally. let's look at those who said they had an unfavorable rating how did they vote? they voted overwhelmingly republican, 85% to 14%. keep that in mind when we think about the former president
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donald trump, how much of a motivator was he? well, he was actually more unpopular than joe biden. look at that, a 39% favorable rating to just a 58% unfavorable. 58% unfavorable. that is huge. and look at those who had an unfavorable view of donald trump, how did they vote? they voted overwhelmingly for democratic candidates, 77% to 20%. so it was basically this canceling out where both joe biden and donald trump were disliked and they were pretty much equal in the bhiends of voters and that's why i think democrats held their own yesterday, anderson. >> harry enter, appreciate it. florida governor ron desantis is mulling a 2024 run did his big win give him a perfect launch pad? our panel tackles this one next.
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covered this morning the headline says the future. my colleague alisyn camerota is with our panel of political experts. >> anderson, thank you very much. so let's bring in our panel of cnn political commentators, we have dr. abdul al said, alice stewart, charlie dent and karen finney. great to be with all of us this morning. before we get your biggest takeaways let's talk about this i guess presidential proxy war between desantis and donald trump. your thoughts, charlie. >> well, if donald trump could take one whack right now he would take back his endorsement of ron desantis over adam putnam in the 2018 florida gubernatorial primary where putnam was going to win, very popular ag commissioner, former congressman and trump went in and endorsed desantis. you republican what you show. now desantis has ascended with his overpowering victory and trump is in bad shape. >> i will put money in one thing that donald trump will not take back and that is desanctimonious, the new nickname he has for desantis.
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desantis is doing well in terms of his prospects for 2024 for several reasons, one, he has been a proven leader in florida, financially as well as -- >> and does that translate nationally or is florida its own bio sphere? >> it does translate, this gives him something to tout as he is traveling around the country. he is a proven leader and as well as when the hurricane came through. he is a freight fundraiser and has risen to the status of receiving a nickname from donald trump. we showed a static pot poll a head to head with him him and trump, he is up there with trump. real clear politics has been tracking this for several months. donald trump in the last three months his poll numbers in terms of head to head with desantis have gone down five points and desantis has gone up. that is not the trend that trump wants. >> let me show you exit polls interest last night, these are
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florida voters. want trump to run for president in 2024, no 65% versus yes 33%. want desantis to run for president in 2024 no 53% and yes 45%. that may be because floridians want him to stay as their governor. your thoughts. >> i think if you look, though, across the country what happened last night in terms of americans pushing back on extremism, pushing back on a lot of the rhetoric frankly that we've heard from desantis and candidates like him, he is probably a fantastic primary republican presidential candidate, i do not think that woke message is going to work across the country and i think americans are saying we don't want extremism. >> i also want to pick up on the fact that desantis may have won in florida but donald trump lost around the country. this is a resounding loss for him. he will try to spin it, argue that trump never loses despite the fact that he clearly lost in 2020. you have to look across different ballots, whether you
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are talking about oz in pennsylvania or mastriano or bolduc, there are so many trump endorsed candidates that are -- either have lost or are looking to be a loser. >> did you hear what donald trump said last night about his endorsed candidates? let's just play that quickly about whether or not he won or he lost. >> i think if they win i should get all the credit and if they lose i should not be blamed at a all. >> in vintage donald trump. >> have you learned anything about last night? yes, it was a terrible night for trump but the party really must moderate in tone and in substance. >> is that your biggest take away from last night? >> it is a take away, the abortion issue clearly a big issue, the party needs to moderate on that issue, they are on the wrong side by a big margin especially with the most extreme laws. in tone, this election denial, which republicans did all right last night? people like tom kaine jr. in new
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jersey, very mainstream, very moderate. certainly not crazy. he's a sensible guy. he did well. people like that. but the deniers, the people who are out on the edge, lauren boebert is on the cusp right now, these are the ones who struggled. you need to get back to more mainstream acceptable candidates who do not offend the public. >> karen, quickly your biggest surprise or take away? >> i told you i was going to give you my happy dance. look, reproductive freedom, i am on the board of pro choice america we were tracking this for two years, eight in ten americans support roe v. wade and i think we saw what did the dobbs decision do? it mobilized people to get out and vote, to register frankly. we saw women turning out in very high numbers. look at what happened in that ballot initiative in kentucky where, you know, that went down, where we saw michigan following in suit of kansas. it's about freedom. that's the other thing i think republicans don't understand. it's not just about the medical
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procedure, but you're telling women you have less rights and we just won't stand for that anymore ever again. >> go ahead, alice. >> i was thrilled to see the huge gen z turnout. working with the harvard youth poll they have been tracking this and in the last election gen z got involved because they were really pbig on climate change and other issues. with abortion they got more involved. they appreciated seeing that their involvement makes a difference and they were up d plus 23 with the gen z generation, it's fascinating to see them get engaged, they were voting for climate change, on abortion and even president biden's repaying college debt was a big factor in getting them out. i'm thrilled to see the young generation get out. >> abdul, your biggest take away. >> i want to pick up and say democracy was on the ballot and democracy won. the best way to save democracy is more democracy and that i think should be heartening to a lot of us. you saw split ticket voting, folks were saying i like a little bit of this and that and
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it reminds us we are not as polarized as a lot of the narratives say we are. i also want to say that a lot of the preconceived notions of what the middle looks like, ingot busted. you look at john fetterman who is not supposed to win statewide if a state like pennsylvania who is clearly a progressive, clearly believes in medicare for all and he won and so it says a lot about the way that the narrative might not be right and he think we have to spend a lot more time in the communities with folks who have very nuanced diverse opinions that don't always fit our narratives. >> i appreciate you saying that because i, too, think that people aren't as extreme as they are often depicted and people are cobbling together their own platform. we have so much more to talk about including how the election deniers did. meanwhile, president biden is expected to address midterm election results in some form today after he seemed to avoid the democratic purge that many in his party had feared. we are live at the white house next. talent. but with upwork, there's highly skilled talent
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and welcome back to our special election coverage. we have a key race alert. republican mehmet oz has called john fetterman to concede the race. he flipped the seat from republican hands. cnn has reached out to the oz campaign for comment. the white house waking up this morning with a more optimistic picture of what the next two years in washington could look like. we're expecting to hear from president biden at some point today. cnn's joins us from the white
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house. what's the latest? >> reporter: yep, we just got you back. when we were going to bed last night, we sent cautious optimism from the white house. this is before we knew everything we do now, and waking up this morning, there's a happy buzz in the building behind me, and one adviser telling us that the mood in the building right now is that people feel vindicated, you know, they feel like democrats ended up running on the president's message and that's why they ended up having more successes than a lot of people expected. on the messaging front, they feel vindicated that they did talk about issues like the economy, abortion, protecting democracy, and that last night showed that those issues did end up being an animating force for a lot of voters. one man that they are feeling particularly good about, of course, is john fetterman. he has now handed democrats an important pickup, and this is a candidate that they will highlight because the president did physically campaign with him
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in pennsylvania, so this was a very important sort of validation for them as well. i do want to leave you with a sort of reality check of sorts, though, anderson because biden is going to confront a very different washington, even if democrats were to keep the senate. if they're losing the house to republicans, that means that governing is going to become so much more challenging for this president, and i think it's also just important to keep in mind that some of these democrats that did end up winning in these hot races, they did so by out performing the president. so if we do end up hearing from the president later today, taking this victory lap, he is also going to have a challenge and a burden to convince people that democrats did this with the help of biden and not in spite of him. several key races in critical states too close to call. we'll bring you the latest numbers next.
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it is the top of the hour. i'm anderson cooper. welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. control of congress still in limbo while votes are being counted in key races across the nation. in the house, the magic number for control, 218. republicans need 19 seats to hit the threshold, and they are leading in 21 competitive races. democrats have a tougher road they need 40 seats. only reading in 24. in the senate, four tight races too close to call. nevada, arizona, and wisconsin, democrats and republicans currently hold 48 seats. takes 51, of course, to win an
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outright majority. now, despite the possibility, republicans could win a narrow victory in one or both chambers. the white house feels in their words, vindicated this morning. now feeling confident the democrats have seen one of the best first midterms for an incumbent president in decades. nevada's senate race, 2020 election denier, adam laxalt is leading katherine cortes masto by two points. nevada governor's race, too close to call, with 80% of precincts reporting. clark county where you are, what's going on there? >> reporter: well, you know, anderson, because in this very tight race with razor thin margins, the details matter. i want us to nerd out a little bit about clark county. let me tell you about this. 1.3 million of the registered voters are in clark county in
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nevada. that's more than 70% of all of the voters in the state of nevada, and this county leans democratic. now, the turnout so far is 45%. this is according to clark county official web site. now, we want to break that down for you because these details are important. election day vote, 10.9% of those 45% turnouts. early voting, 14.8%. absentee voting, 19.5%. and here's the break down between senator katherine cortes masto and adam laxalt. katherine cortes masto has 50.97%, and adam laxalt, 46.21%. that means that the democrat here has a less man 5% margin, and again, in clark county, it leans democratic. now, what's important about clark county to know too, as well, and the state of nevada is that in 2020, the state of
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nevada shifted to a universal mail vote, and what that means is that everybody that's registered got a ballot in the mail. unless they opted out. and so the key question is going to be how many people actually put that ballot in the mail yesterday. so long as it is postmarked yesterday, it could be counted until saturday. we don't know how many of those ball lots are out there, but we do know that a lot of times these mail-in ballots lean democratic as well. but the key question will be, will they give katherine cortes masto a lift. >> it's going to be a while. appreciate it. check back with you shortly. in arizona, where democrats are far ahead of two trump-back republicans, blake masters behind mark kelly by 5 points.
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kari lake trailing by a thin margin. 30% of the votes have not been counted. when do we expect more results? >> you're on the money with the numbers right now. we're about 70% counted. there's still about 300,000 votes that have not been counted, and those are people that dropped off of mail-in votes yesterday on election day, and about 90,000 that were dropped off on friday. and so i want to just give you a look. the verification of signatures, which you have to do by law here is happening right now in what we like to call the belly of the vault, which you cannot see. and i'm going to move out of the way here. there are people showing up. we are waiting for people to come up. if you look at the machine, and we'll show you this machine. that machine will start the tabulations in just a bit now. we will start getting more numbers when they get those signature verifications finished, and they start getting the ballots ready to put in that machine.
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so right now you mentioned some of the races that are very tight, and arizona and, get this, has until the end of the month until the 28th to count all the votes officially. that is when they have to have it done by, they believe they will have 99%, 95 to 99% of all the votes counted by this friday. we will hear numbers coming in the next couple of hours to let you know where we're at. right now we're at 70% of the vote counted. anderson. >> they're saying friday they should have the majority of the votes counted. >> absolutely. they are on track for that. they said 95 to 99% rs which will -- which will give you an idea of who won these races, unless it's razor thin. ultimately, officially, they have until the end of the month. they hope to have everything really put together by friday. >> and have we heard anything more today from either the kari lake campaign or katie hobbs'
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campaign. >> kari lake has said there's fraud and there's something going on with the election. there have been problems. there were problems with the printers. there are 223 of them, and those printers can print out 12,000 different ballots. they are linked directly with the voter. some of those printers were problematic. they didn't have dark enough ink. the county said, look, that happened in about 20% of the voting places. they fixed the issue. but they are saying every single vote, no matter what will be counted but she has lobbed on to that and is starting to talk about what she says is an unfair election. katie hobbs is happy with the results. >> sara sidner, cross talk, sorry. appreciate it. we'll check in with you shortly. we have cnn projection.
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democrat laura kelly has ron we recollection for governor in kansas. her republican supported right to take away abortion. let's take a look at the numbers. governorships across the country, with the nevada and arizona results coming in, there's a chance it could be another month until we know which party controls the senate thanks to georgia. let's check with john on the magic wall. >> we called this race for laura kelly. she's an incumbent democratic governor in a republican state. she's leading not even by 2 percentage points but we project she'll win. how republican is it. two years, donald trump won the state by 15 points, yet you have this democratic governor who seems to be doing well. the reason largely for her continued success has to do with johnson county where we see kansas city. she's got big numbers up there. she's able to stretch her lead. interesting to see laura kelly winning there.
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the senate, not in kansas, if we will. let's focus on arizona. we heard sara sidner there. you see mark kelly who's got a lead of 5 points with 69% in. and you can see -- >> that's dropped a little. >> it has dropped a little since we have been on. an 89,000 vote lead. 70% in. that seems like a lot. i don't know. maybe not. 69%. d plus 5. that's right now. let's look back to the presidential race two years ago. and put the clock on. okay. the first votes that came in, when the first votes came in, there were already 72% reporting. joe biden had a 10 point lead. a 72% reporting, his lead was higher than where mark kelly's is in terms of percentage. that was tuesday. wednesday at 5:00 a.m., you can see. joe biden's lead shrinking from 200,000 to 130,000. by wednesday at noon, down to
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93,000 in arizona. by thursday, down to 68,000. you keep going, sunday, down to 18,000. they're still counting. tuesday, down to 14,000. ultimately ended up about 11,000. so this lead that you see right now from mark kelly, and we'll go back to that so you can see, it can shrink. the question is does he have enough pad right now to weather what should be the republican blake masters closing that gap somewhat. let me look at nevada. a little bit of a different situation there. in arizona all the ballots are in that are going to be counted. nevada a very different story. you can see here clark county, again, where the margins are a little bit closer. katherine cortes masto there. only mail-in ballot left to count. we don't know how much will be counted in nevada. it only has to be postmarked by yesterday. it could arrive today, tomorrow, the next day. it has to be counted by saturday. we don't know how much mail ballot is out. we don't know what the
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denominator is there, anderson. >> appreciate it. thanks. democrats have scored a crucial victory in pennsylvania senate race, john fetterman, harry enten, what's your exit polling show with pennsylvania voters. >> the thing we think about pennsylvania, a state that flipped from barack obama to and donald trump and back to joe biden in 2020, and the reason that donald trump did so well for republicans is he did very well among white voters without a college degree who make up the clear plurality of voters. and visiting the areas with a high number of white noncollege educated voters. could he cut into the republican margin. what was the margin among white noncollege educated voters, you'll see, in fact what happened is fetterman lost among white non college educated
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voters. donald trump won among those voters by over 30 points, so it does seem like fetterman cut down on the margin. fetterman had his weaknesses. the idea, of course, that oz didn't live in the state for very long. the exit poll asked, has oz lived in the state long enough to represent it effectively. 42% said he had lived in the state long enough. the clear majority 56 said no. there was the kwover fetterman' health. was he healthy enough to serve following the stroke. unlike the situation with oz where the clear majority didn't side with oz, they did stand with fetterman. now, of course it was also gubernatorial race on the
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ballot. and there was this whole question with doug mastriano. he was an election denier, and went along saying the 2020 election was fraudulently decided. here's what we asked. who do you trust to handle pennsylvania elections, 51% of pennsylvania voters said only josh shapiro, the democratic candidate, and among that 51%, look how they voted. they voted 99%. get this, 99% to 1. so josh shapiro was able to win this race solely on this issue. the fact is that pennsylvania voters believe that josh shapiro can handle elections effectively. it cost mastriano, and he got blown out. the latest out of georgia, senator rafael warnock and gop challenger, herschel walker, so close they could be heading for a runoff, looks likely in wisconsin. ron johnson holding a slim lead against mandela barnes.
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welcome back, we have a cnn projection. we are now able to call three house races in michigan. the democrat hillary sholton has won her race, defeating john gibbs, a pickup for the democrats. the gop incumbent has won reelection, hold thaing that se. and a pickup for the republican party. i want to go to john berman at the magic wall. how does that affect us? >> overall, that brings
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republicans to 201 races called for them. 179 for democrats. they need to get to 218. they're on their way, slowly to getting that number. let's look at some of these races. these three races are different. they're interesting. nebraska's third congressional district is the area around omaha. don bacon is the incumbent republican. he won. people may know this district because of its nickname, obama hawk. barack obama actually won what is largely in this district in 2008, and joe biden won in the past election. it's a district that skews democratic. joe biden won it by six points but incumbent renpublican don bacon has been able to hold on. long island, the new york district we just called right there, if new york wants to cooperate, often it doesn't. this is new york's second, let's go to the third congressional
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district. george santos. this is a democratic leaning district. this is a district that two years ago joe biden would have carried by a lot there two years ago. it's a district leaning eight points or so now, and i want to pull out and show you what i think is the most interesting district of the ones that you just called there. it's michigan's third congressional district. this was a district that was very controversial in the primaries. why? because democrats spent money indirectly propping up john gibbs in the republican primary against the incumbent, peter meyer, a republican who voted to impeach donald trump and also obviously was not in favor of overturning the election in any way. democrats helped get this guy the republican nomination because they thought he would be an easier opponent for hillary
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sholten and they were right. it was held by the republicans before, anderson. >> john berman, thank you so much. wisconsin one of four states where the senate race is too close to call. incumbent ron johnson considered the gop's most vulnerable senator, he's regained momentum and is holding a narrow lead over democrat mandela barnes. lucy kafanov is in milwaukee. are we closer to having results? >> reporter: both of the states two largest counties are now at 100%, in terms of early voting, mail-in ballots as well as same-day voting ballots. both are reliably blue. republican senator ron johnson who has been seeking a third term was edging ahead of lieutenant governor mandela barnes last night sounding pretty optimistic about his chances. take a listen. no sound. well, he basically declared the race over, although he did say
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that it was important to wait for all of the ballots to be counted and here's something interesting. we heard that he was supposed to speak, ron sdjohnson was this morning. that speech has been cancel ld. we have not heard from barnes. that statement was issued by a spokesperson, we knew this race would be incredibly close. we will wait and see what wisconsin voters have decided after all of their voices have been heard. the race for governor, tony evers declaring victory tuesday night. he has won a second term and that means he will have the power to certify the 2024 presidential election in this battleground state. the republicans, what republicans failed to grab a veto proof majority, but again, all eyes on this critical senate race, that has not yet been formally called. >> appreciate it. back with us, and they are a hook. john goldberg and ron br
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brownstein. obviously the white house is feeling good compared to what some were expecting to happen. and a lot of the former presidents hand picked candidates, mehmet oz in particular did not do well. >> and we don't know what's going on in georgia, which is turning into the swing state that florida used to be. h herschel walker and reverend warnock may be seeing a runoff. you will not have a popular republican governor on the ticket. what will that do to herschel walker's chances, does he have to run with trump, is that going to help him or run alone, that might not help him, given he spent a big part of the speech to horse manure, he is that problematic candidate that senator mitch mcconnell was talking about. georgia is also where we can look at what's going on with key
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g demographics. black women and white women, a dramatic difference there. 70% of white women voted republican. 90% of black women voted for democrats. that's going to be the purple state where we can prognosticate about what might happen in 2024. >> the history is that midterms have no predictive value about what happens in the presidential two years later. jimmy carter in '78. george h.w. bush had pretty good midterms, lost reelection. truman in '46. and reagan in '82. obama in 2010, all the miserable midterms and then won reelection, so it really doesn't tell you. the issue, though, is obviously where the economy is going to be in a year. i do think that this does tamp down the conversation in the democratic party about whether biden needs to step aside. if it had been a bad night, that would have been full blast today. as we said before, trump and the republican party, the issue is there were five states that picked the president. trump picked nominees for the
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republican party, and all of those states and most of them, and maybe all of them are going to lose candidates in his image. the republican party was wiped out again in the suburban counties that recoiled from trump, those same counties recoiled from the trump-style candidates. the gop has to ask itself. looking at these results, do you believe that donald trump can win back the states likely to pick the next president. >> there's warning signs for both parties in these results. but parties don't have a great history of learning the lessons of the election or the message that the voters have sent. >> virtually every election victory in almost every race the last 20 years, the winning side has over run the mandate wildly. the trend is to think that they have this huge mandate to swing for the fences but also that we only have x amount of time in power before the other side gets here, so let's do everything on a partisan basis as quickly as
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possible, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, and invites a backlash against them. i expect more of the same. on ron's point about the predictive value about this, it's possible. i'm a conservative. i think joe biden derserves his low popularity. the party could misread this. i don't think joe biden is a particularly competitive candidate for reelection. the idea because he did have these historic midterms, somehow he is poised to run away with a reelection when he won the first time by promising to be a nonpartisan, sort of above the fray return to normalcy guy, that's not his brand for lots of americans now. it's completely different thing. one last data point, j.d. vance in his victory speech thanked 34 people by name. none of them were donald trump. that gives you a sense of where even j.d. vance who owes his victory to donald trump sees the
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party going. >> what is the chance that the white house will look at this and, you know, the president will come out and say, you know what, you know, be humble and come out and say, look, i hear voters concerned about inflation. crime, i get it. and, you know, kind of reaching out to, you know, there's a lot of people that could be reached out to. >> it's part of the changing definition of bipartisan, right? we've seen that on the republican side, the extremists, election denying candidate is losing. but biden and democrats were able to run on issues that are considered pocketbook issues in a way the republicans simply didn't pick up steam this time. that would behoove democrats to focus on social security and medicare. abortion, the significant advertising dollars spent locally focusing on that issue. these are things that are broadly accepted by the american public as popular, but in the
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polarization in congress have somehow become divisive issues, along the lines of right versus left. gun control, another popular issue for the american public. that can be a winning message for democrats. >> biden's approval in the exit poll was still only 44% against anyone other than donald trump, that's probably a losing hand. it's tougher, so clearly he has the need to broaden his coalition. they've got to expect that the economy is going to do a lot of that work. they would not be amiss to take the kind of advice you're suggesting in that question. >> biden promised to be a bridge to the future. this is not a guarantee that biden has to continue in order to get support from democrats. >> good point. we're going to talk much more about the ohio senate win for j.d. vance, what it might mean for 2024. john casey joins me live. work , there has to be someone here making sure everything is safe. secure. consistent. so log in from here. or here. assured that someone is here ready to fix anything.
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whether you voted for me or not, the thing that i promise to do is go to the united states senate and fight every single day for the people of ohio. >> j.d. vance wins ohio senate seat after a tough battle with democratic congressman tim ryan. vance had support for president trump, and got a boost at a rally election eve. did that endorsement make the difference. i want to bring in john kasich. senator elect vance's win was obviously on some level a win
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for former president trump, although j.d. vance did not thank president trump at his acceptance speech. what do you make of vance's win in your state? >> he was helped significantly by mike dewine, who won overwhelmingly. he was 400,000 votes short of dewine. dewine was able to pull him across the line, and that helped him. the other thing that needs to be noted in ohio, i think ohio will change. when i was elected my first term as governor, anderson and democrats controlled all the statewide offices except for one. but after two significant win, the democrat organization just basically collapsed. do i think they can come back, i think they can, and they will. and ryan ran a very good race. it shows you that ohio, even though everybody is trying to say is a red state. they're misreading it. things are changing in this
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state, and right now the republicans are on top. today you're on top, and tomorrow, you're on the bottom. it's just what happens. >> how does this affect things moving forward? i mean, the gop red wave did not materialize as a lot of republicans hoped it would. is it clear to you why that occurred? >> we have to look at turnout, anderson. let's not minimize the fact that republicans have won the house. they are now in control of the united states house, and that probably means that joe biden is going to be moderated. i mean, that's what's really interesting. the progressives that drove the agenda out of the house and took it to biden will no longer be in charge. the republicans will be in charge. i always felt that biden, with one house being republican, hechshe was going to be the biden i expected him to be, more conciliatory, looking for compromise, so my sense is you're going to see a joe biden who's going to be willing to deal more with republicans. and look, everybody is going to kind of claim victory here.
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the republicans are going to say, we won the house. they may win the senate, we don't know. how about that election in georgia, i don't know, that could be who's going to run the senate, but, you know, at the same time, the republicans did not have the smashing victory they thought that they would, and you know, the country, remember, is divided. that's a lot of what we saw last night. >> there's an opportunity for republicans to distance themselves, and for the republican party to finally distance itself from the former president. is that an opportunity they're ready to take? >> you know, i think both parties have to go deep. in other words, i think the democrats to do better have to reject some of the extremism, the woke agenda. on the republican side, they have to reject the maga agenda. the country is basically center right or center left, however you want to define it. and the fact is, yes, republicans now can take a look.
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but look, if you look at the united states house, i think kevin mccarthy is probably going to be committed to donald trump. we have to see how this plays out. trump is still a significant force. now there is an opportunity to assess this. i had predicted when republicans the primary endorsed by trump. it turns out that a number of them have not. it's an opportunity to reassess what trump's role is inside the republican party, and are people willing to stand up rather than caving in on them. and the same is true for biden. biden's agenda is driven by the hard left. i can tell you today, biden is going to feel pretty good and now democrats are saying maybe he ought to run again. it's interesting, isn't it, how 24 hours can change so much. >> nobody knows anything, rela really, it's up to voters to decide, and we're seeing the results. john kasich, it's good to talk to you.
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district. and don davis, a democrat has defeated republican sandy smith. that's a hold for democrats. in pennsylvania, democrat chrissy houlahan has defeated her republican opponent as well. all of these are democrat holds. let's walk over to john berman to see how this affects the balance of power. >> that brings democrats to 182 seats that have been projected for them. republicans have 201. in terms of where republicans are ahead, it's still in 222 seats, republicans in 213. this would give republicans the house, but i will just point out again, not by the margins that they were originally hoping for. i can show you these seats. i think i can dig in here. one we didn't consider competitive, pennsylvania's 7th congressional district here, chrissy houlahan, she's up by 12 and change. this was a democratic district by almost 15 points in the presidential election, so interesting, she's running a little bit worse than joe biden did two years ago, or john fetterman was running largely
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better there. let's go down to north carolina's first congressional district. again, this is considered a democratic hold. don davis winning that. he's up by almost 5 points. joe biden won this district by almost 7 points. underperforming biden a little bit. democrats will be happy to have this in a wave. this is the type of seat you could have seen going to the republicans finally, out to colorado. this is the colorado's 7th congressional district. britney peterson with a comfortable lead of 17% in a district that joe biden won by 14. good for democrats, again, some of these seats might have been in trouble had this been the type of wave that some republicans were hoping for. >> appreciate it. the race for governor in arizona, still too close to call. kari lake raised unfounded doubts about election results after polling places reported printer issues. ana cabrera is at the voter desk with more. >> there are some 300,000 still to be counted in just maricopa
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county alone. the republican candidate for governor kari lake is already raisin raising doubts about the election results. take a listen. >> we're going to monitor the ballots. we have to work in the system we have right now, and as they continue to come in and our numbers go up, up, up, when we win, first line of action is to restore honesty to arizona elections. >> lake, of course, won her gop primary by amplifying trump's lies about the 2020 election. and she referred to yesterday's election as quote groundhog day. we do know some far right voices have been seizing on the fact that counting in maricopa county, which makes up 60% of registered voters in arizona was temporarily delayed because of issues with tabulation devices at 60 of the counties 223 voting locations. not all of them. we learned the problem was with
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printers there, and they weren't printing dark enough on the ballot. officials stressed no voters were turned away. all of those votes that may have been impacted will be counted and maricopa is telling us they expect to have 95 to 99% of all ballots counted by friday. the county is bracing for possible legal action. in addition to lake, the republican candidate for senate, secretary of state and attorney general are election deniers. cnn has not called any of these races yet, anderson. >> thank you so much. it wasn't the decisive early victory the republicans expected. what happens if they take control in washington? more on that ahead. when people needed it most. but there's still work to be done. thank you, claire. this year, we'd like to invite you back to jersey mike's for another special weekend. come in november 19th and 20th, where 20% of all sales will be donated to feeding america, helping families in need. together, we always make a difference.
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at this hour, control of the house is up for grabs with key races too close to call. this is not what top republicans were expecting. when you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority, and nancy pelosi will be in the minority. >> well, that hasn't happened yet. it's safe to say that whatever the final result is, there was no big red wave. so let's discuss with our panel of cnn political commentators. we have with us karen finny and charlie dent. alice stuart and abdul el-sayed.
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great to see you. republicans are still poised to win the house, and that means that they chair the committees. that still means they launch investigations. that still means they have subpoena power. how is that a win for democrats? >> we defied history. i mean, president biden, the biden coalition showed up in terms of the voters. i think we have seen that the biden agenda and the results actually mattered to voters. the fact that we have seen election deniers and, you know, some of the most extreme elements in the republican party get pushed to the side, it shows that, you know, the republican party, it's a ripple. okay. we have a few red drops in the ocean, but they're not going to have the massive power and influence that they thought they were going to have. and i think, again, just biden just really deserves credit. all the groups who work very hard, multicultural, multiracial, multigenerational
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coalitions matter. and joe biden has helped defy history. >> charlie, when you and i were on together on monday night, so before the election began in earnest, you were predicting basically 15 to 25 seat pickup of republicans. it doesn't look at the moment like that's going to happen. and so what did you get wrong, and what does all of this mean for kevin mccarthy's future dreams of speakership? >> i think what a lot of us got wrong. in september, i thought it was going to be a narrow majority. i saw the numbers, and seemed like it was moving in a certain direction. i don't know if i would call this a red ripple at this point. it's almost like they battled toward a tie in the house. the republicans might take the majority. and a slim margin after kevin mccarthy, you have to be real nervous. he needs 218 republican votes to become speaker and he's got a few wildcats there who may not be there to support him, i would have to think that those folks
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are going to use their leverage, and they're going to use it and they're going to torment them, and they're going to have plenty of leverage, and they only need a handful of people to obstruction what he wants to do. >> we have a little bit of new information that we want to report right now. new york congressman, sean patrick ma knloney, chair of th democratic house has conceded his race. a spokesperson has confirmed the concession to cnn. he was head of the dccc, so he lost his race. i want to move on, though, because we were keeping a close eye on the election deniers. that affects all of us in the country. here are the ones who were running for governor who lost. let me put it on the screen. doug mastriano, paul lepage of maine, lee zeldin, of new york.
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scott jenson of minnesota, tim michaels of wisconsin. tudor dixon of michigan. there are a handful that won but on balance, the election deniers did not win. which i think is a comfort to certainly people who believe in facts. >> it's a comfort to people who believe in facts and a signal to people moving forward. i'm glad to see people realize election deniers have no place in politics. what they are doing is they are basically ruining the credibility that people have in our wonderful election system. i never believed there was widespread voter fraud. i never believed we should have gone ahead with january 6th. what voters have said, we have free and fair elections. again, it's most important, the other factor is people look at election deniers as litigating past grievances of donald trump. litigating what he thought he has done wrong in the past, and they spent much of their time on
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the campaign trail litigating past grievances instead of talking about future issues that impact voters and that's where they lost precious time looking at things that don't really impact people, and while they were out there talking about this affects me instead of ye, that's where they lost support? >> they are still some who are running for secretary of state, which of course, you know, oversees elections in some of the state's, alabama, indiana, south dakota and wyoming. and they are projected to win some of these people questioned joe biden. so, i wouldn't say everybody is out of the woods, but i would still say, again, unbalanced, democracy won this round. >> that's right. and think about the state ys yo mentioned. gretchen whitmer won. you look at the state of wisconsin, another important swing state, and they denied the seats to an election denier. and so i think what happened is people stood up and said we value our elections. we value our democracy.
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and we're willing to fight for them. that's big news for american democracy itself. >> thank you very much and stay with us for breaking news on the mid midterms. anderson cooper is going to pick it up right after this break. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com.
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and welcome back. it is top of the hour. i'm anderson cooper. thanks for joining us. votes are being counted in hotly contested races across the united states. the balance of power in washington and the future of president biden's agenda for the next two years. the important number, 218. that is what both republicans and democrats need to grab control of the house. in this moment, republicans increasingly looking to flip the lower chamber, even fewer seats to hit the threshold.
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both democrats and republicans lead the same number of competitive races at 20. but top democratic leaders are expressing optimism this morning about their chances to hold on to the senate. we're watching four tight races too close to call. nevada, arizona, georgia, both democrats and republicans currently hold 48 seats. they need 51 for an outright majority. also this morning we're learning more about the mood at the white house. there's a feeling of vindication after predictions about republican red waves never materialized. the president is expected to speak this afternoon. we'll bring that live. the senate race in nevada, we are waiting on an estimated 20% of votes to be reported. a lot of votes to be counted. senator katherine cortes masto was the most vulnerable, right now she's slightly behind her gop challenger, adam laxalt. he helped former president trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 results in that state. cnn's rosa flores joins us live
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from las vegas. has either campaign spoken this morning? >> you know, they have not, anderson. i've reached out to both of them. i haven't heard back. what i can tell you is that they were tweeting yesterday, both campaigns asking voters to go out to vote to the last minute, telling them that so long as they were in line, their ballot could be counted, they could cast that ballot, and they went before their supporters, rooms filled with their supporters and they both expressed confidence. katherine cortes masto saying that she felt confident, she felt good about the ground game. adam laxalt also saying that he could win and actually overnight he took the lead by a slim margin, but he took the lead, and that's exactly what we're expecting here in nevada for the margins to be razor thin. and that's exactly what we're seeing. now, nevada has gone since 2020 into a universal mail ballot,
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anderson, what that means is everybody gets a ballot, every registered voter and we need to figure out how many are out there, how many people put them in the mail yesterday, because they can be counted until saturday. >> a lot of election workers working long hours in the next couple of days. rosa flores, thank you so much in arizona. slightly different story to talk about. two trump-backed republicans trailing democratic opponents. blake masters behind incumbent and gun safety advocate, mark kelly, the race for governor is a lot closer. senior national correspondent sara sidner is live in phoenix at the maricopa election center. what do we expect? >> reporter: we are at about 70% of the votes that have been counted and as you just mentioned, you've got one tight race, the governor's race, but you have some distance with the democrat in the senate race which could, of course, flip the senate. let me let you see what's happening right now, because in just a few minutes, we are expecting them to start tabulations again.
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those machines are just there. people have shown up. they have been here for about an hour half and a half and we're starting to see some activity with people walking around. why is this taking a bit of time is that here in arizona, they have to verify the signatures, and so they come in, and they verify those. they have been trying to verify about 300,000 signatures on mail-in ballots that showed up on friday and on tuesday. they are getting through those. and as soon as they get those verifications done. they bring the ballots to this area in the tabulation room, and they just start rolling with tabulation. we're waiting for that to happen. it's supposed to happen in the next few minutes. the democrats we have spoken with are extremely excited about what they're seeing. they realize there's still 30% of the vote left to count. so they are waiting to see what happens. the republicans concerned, but we're already hearing from one of the republicans, especially the governor the in governor's race. kari lake already screaming
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there's been fraud, something has gone wrong with the count, and there were problems, anderson, but those problems have been fixed. every over the couvote will be one says a runoff is all but certain and his republican challenger, herschel walker, former football star backed by president trump. a runoff would not be decided for almost a month. cnn's nick valencia is in atlanta with the latest. are both campaigns thinking the runoff is inevitable? >> yeah, that's right, at this point, it seems inevitable, and though we don't know exactly whether or not they are going to officially declare a runoff today, it seems that for the second consecutive election cycle, georgia feels like the center of the political universe, and we did check in with the secretary of state's office. we know there's a small number of ballots left to be counted some including provisional ballots.
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we don't have an exact number. they did tell us last night, though, they are not so quietly preparing for the likelihood of a runoff. meanwhile, the warnock and walker campaigns, they aren't waiting for the official declaration. they are making plans to prepare for campaigning this next month. one of the biggest take aways, an and anderson, from tuesday were the ballot splitters. he outperformed herschel walker by 163,000 votes. that's a lot of votes here, and how that's going fo factor into the runoff on december 6th i'm sure is concerning to republicans even though they're not voicing that just yet publicly. but at least for the next few weeks, georgia is going to continue to see these political ads as we prepare for the likelihood of a december 6th runoff. anderson. >> appreciate it. thank you. wisconsin is another state where the senate race is too close to call this morning. john berman is here at the wall with me. >> ron johnson, the incumbent continues to lead by 31,680 votes with 94% reporting.
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we haven't had any new numbers reported from wisconsin for some time. i can show you, though, the very few places in the state that have, you know, less than 90% reporting. the only counties with less than 90% reporting are these counties here. you can see this is a more republican county, dunn county at 69%, ron johnson leading there. this county, rock county on the border, you can see is more democratic. mandela barnes has there. but the main county where there is outstanding vote, milwaukee, home to the city of milwaukee. mandela barnes has a large lead there, just at 82% reporting, which is why i think cnn hasn't made a projection yet. we want to see how much vote is still left in milwaukee to count and what that vote looks like. will it be enough in milwaukee to close the gap, that 31,000 vote gap? it's a tall order for mandela barnes, we'll see. watch this space. you go out west, it's interesting what we're seeing in nevada and arizona.
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very different depending on the rules in each state. in nevada where adam laxalt leads the incumbent by about 22,000 votes, any ballot that's mailed, as rosa said by yesterday, and arrives before saturday will be counted. we don't know how much vote is left in this state. what we do know is that in clark county, the most populous county by far makes up 75% roughly of the state's vote, katherine cortes masto is ahead by 5 points. all of the ballots remaining to be counted are mail ballots, which tend to skew more democratic. we're waiting for that. arizona, a little bit different. you have mark kelly, the democrat, ahead there, by about 90,000 votes, with 69% reporting. you just heard from sara sidner in maricopa county. this is a county that joe biden won. this by 2 points. this swings back and forth, as a 50/50 county.
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you can see mark kelly ahead there. if you're looking for more signs of where vote is in arizona. as i said, this is the most populous county. the most populous county , blak masters has a lead of almost 9%. and this was a county donald trump won by 17 points. maybe blake masters are underperforming here, we'll see what the last vote looks like. and down here in pima county, the second most populous county in the state, we see mark kelly with a large lead. 56% reporting. if you're a democrat, you're thinking, hey, maybe there's more democratic vote to come in in arizona. finally, we'll just mention quickly, nick valencia was in georgia, the one remaining state we have not called, the issue here as nick pointed out. rafael warnock who's ahead is less than that 50%. if no one gets 50% of the vote plus one, there will be a runoff. there is still some vote
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remaining, but for instance, we heard from officials in gwinnett county already. gwinnett county reporting 91%. you can see rafael warnock with a leap. but what they told us in gwinnett county, they told cnn the election day vote is counted, all the mail-in vote is counted. all that's left is the provisional ballot in the overseas vote. unlikely to change, you can see why the secretary of state's office believe there will be a runoff. we have yet to make that projection. watch this space, because anderson, depending on how this all goes, if you show where everyone's ahead right now, democrats would need to win a runoff in georgia to maintain control of the u.s. senate. >> john, thank you so much. coming up, candidates were not the only thing on the ballot, marijuana, abortion, gun control, the key initiatives voters weighed in on, and denied the 2020 result. we break down where and another january 6th committee member loses their seat. reaction from republican
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high turn out, mail-in ballots, those factors mean we won't know final election results for days, and weeks. ana cabrera is at the voting desk. walk us through the process ahead. >> let's start in arizona, and mar ciano castillo -- maricopa county. all 223 sites in that county have been reported but they're not done counting yet. we're told there are still about 300,000 votes left to count in just maricopa county today, including tens of thousands of
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early ballots. election officials sharing this video and some images of workers processing some of those ballots that were actually dropped off yesterday on election day and were told this is the signature verification part of the process. they say the next results for maricopa county will post tonight, and between 95 and 99% of all ballots will be counted by friday, anderson. we still have a couple of days at least to wait. >> let's talk about nevada now and another state that could decide control of the senate. those results maybe take a while. >> that's right. in nevada, this is the first midterm election where they used universal mail-in voting, meaning every voter was sent a ballot. now, as long as those ballots are postmarked by yesterday, election day, they have until saturday, november 12th, by 5:00 p.m., local time to arrive and be counted. we also know ballots put in the drop boxes in three counties, clark, here, home of las vegas,
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washo, and douglas counties. those ballots weren't counted yesterday. in 2020, we know clark county and washo county went for biden. douglas county went for trump. a lot to lump ook at there. cnn's harry enten is at the battleground wall, what did voters decide? >> hey, anderson, let's talk about abortion first. abortion rights were on the ballot in a lot of different places. let's start in michigan where, yes, a guaranteed constitutional right to abortion easily won with 56% of the vote. let's go to a red state, though, kentucky, where you'll be surprised perhaps to learn that here the no vote, which was, in fact, the pro abortion rights side, gets a little bit confusing, the no vote won with a little bit more than 52% of the vote. let's go to another red state. let's go to montana, and what we see in montana is we haven't called this yet, and this is,
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again, a little bit confusing, the no side is the pro abortion rights side, but it is leading right now with 52.4% of the vote. on marijuana, things were a little bit more split. let's go to a red state, we're going to go to missouri, and what do we see in missouri, here, legalized recreational marijuana won with 53% of the vote. let's go to another red state, south dakota, what do we see there, we saw that recreational marijuana failed there. no one with 53% of the vote. gun rights, the state of oregon, and what do we see in oregon, require permit to buy firearms and ban high capacity magazines, right now we can't call it, and you can see how close it is. when we think about all of these different ballot measures, i think we could sum it up, abortion rights passed overwhelmingly in all states. mari marijuana was split. when it comes to gun rights, the verdict is out! high profile election deniers running for governor came out on the losing end. how do members of the january 6th committee feel about the
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will see that last night, house democrats stood our ground. and we believe november 8th, 2022, will be a signature date in american political history. and we hope the high water mark of some of the anger and the division that we have dealt with this entire cycle, from january 6th on through and we hope for something better for our country. because that's what all americans deserve. we are still working and any fair person and responsible observer should understand that it will take time to understand all of the races and their outcomes.
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i just told you what happened in mine, and we will tell you what happens in each of them fairly and honestly and transparently. >> that's sean patrick maloney, head of the house democrats campaign committee. he had been campaigning around the country in support of democrats in the house, raising money. he lost, has just conceded his own race in the hudson valley in new york, as we pore through the election results today. denied wins in governor's races. in pennsylvania, republican doug mastriano, who tried to overturn president biden's win in the commonwealth, suffered a decisive law. in new york, lee zeldin came up short against kathy hochul. zeldin certified against the election. tudor dixon who claimed the 2020 election was stolen, lost to gretchen whitmer.
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nine gop skeptics lost their elections for governors, and five won. joining me now, congressman kinzinger. you decided against running for reelection, the darren lahood is projected to win. he signed on to the texas amicus brief to overturn the 2020 election results and voted against creating the january 6th committee that you serve on. when you look at results overall, at least as they stand right now, do you think republican leadership is reassessing donald trump's role in the future of the party? sorry, congressman, we have a quick projection i have to tell our viewers about. two term republican ron johnson has defeated mandela barnes to become the senator for wisconsin. this has turned out to be one of the most competitive races. johnson is known for a history of controversial statements
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including misinformation about the covid-19 pandemic and false statements about the january 6th capitol attack. let's take a look at how this impacts the balance of power. this would give republicans 49 to democrats 48 in the senate. lucy kafanov is following the race for wisconsin. lucy. >> that's right, anderson. this was an incredibly close race. the two candidates were neck in neck with johnson just edging slightly ahead of barnes. he was very close to declaring victory last night, effectively calling the race all but over, but waiting, of course for the final counts to come in this morning. johnson, you know, was seen as quite vulnerable in 2016. he had pledged not to run for a third term. he changed his mind in january of this year. m man mandela barnes is a 35-year-old young progressive, the daughter of a teacher and a union worker, the lieutenant governor. he had some popularity among the democratic base. he faced a relentless barrage of
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negative advertising, painting him as being soft on crime. his supporters accused johnson and the republicans of effectively putting on more racist ads but, you know, the two candidates were very very close in this election. we have not yet heard from barnes, and we have not yet heard from ron johnson. it's not all bad news nfor democrats. we did see tony evers declaring victory last night. this is the first time that wisconsin since 1998 is dealing with a split ticket, something that is a rarity in these partisan times. >> appreciate that. i want to check in with john berman at the magic wall, what does it look like there? >> you see ron johnson, still with the 31,000 vote lead. cnn now projects he will win. he's had a lot of close races. he's been elected to a third term in wisconsin. you can see the margin this
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time. let's look back at 2016 there. he won that race by 100,000, also pretty tight, so getting closer, democrats are getting closer but unable to unseat this incumbent that they have wanted to for some time. as you heard from lucy kafanov. the democrats did win the governor's race here. you can see the difference, tony evers won by 84,000 votes. but in the senate race it's ron. >> jon: -- ron johnson. i want to go to battle of control for the u.s. senate now. you can see here, wisconsin is now red. that gives republicans 49 seats. they need 51 to control. we have been telling you about these three races. well, georgia looks like it's going to a runoff. we won't have any answer there. right now, the democrat mark kelly is leading in arizona. and right now, the republican adam laxalt is leading in
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nevada, so that would mean that this state right here, georgia, the runoff will determine control of the u.s. senate. if these two races hold. i'll just show you obviously what happens if nevada, if katherine cortes masto is able to maintain control, and mark kelly in arizona, the runoff wouldn't matter in georgia in terms of control there, and just to state the obvious, if republicans were able to win both nevada and arizona, which is still possible, anything is possible out there, they would control the u.s. senate without the runoff in georgia, which looks like it will take place, ande anderson, one month from now. >> appreciate it. thanks, we're going to take a short break. when we come back, we'll talk to congressman adam kinzinger, on what all of this means for the race for 2024 and whether the party will start to distance itself finally from the former president. eep in the family... ...or passing down the family business...
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welcome back to our special election coverage, back with republican congressman adam kinzinger. so congressman, it's unclear obviously who will ultimately win control of congress. what is clear is that there was no red wave. do you think republican leaders are reassessing the role that
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donald trump has in the future of the party? because it seems like this is an opportunity, if they are ever going to do that, this is an opportunity to do that? >> well, i hope so. i was here on january 7th basically thinking that this was the time to reassess whether or not donald trump was the future of the party. i think, you know, the question that remains is, so donald trump is going to throw kevin mccarthy under the bus. i'm just like, put that down in red right now, and under line it, the maga base is going to throw this on kevin mccarthy. the question is does the rest of the republicans have the courage to stand up to trump or do they acquiesce to him. we know he's not going to take the blame for this, at least in his own mind. this is certainly a rejection of the maga base. it's also a huge message that candidate quality matters and i think in wisconsin, this is a message to democrats, i think a moderate democrat would have crushed ron johnson in wisconsin because he's one of the more disliked republican senators. close race, but i think a
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moderate could have done that. >> governor ron desantis obviously won big in florida, getting a lot of latino votes. do you think, i mean, do you see him as the future of the republican party? >> yeah, well, i don't. but i think, you know, certainly he's probably in the lead right now kind of in a bit of a front runner status. again, i think what we're going to see over the next week is how does donald trump pivot from this, because he's certainly not going to take his loss. he's going to try to throw desantis under the bus and go after mccarthy. if he's able to do that successfully, and he has over the last few times, ron desantis is going to have a short-lived victory here. it's important, ron desantis winning big was huge, and congratulations to him, it's not necessarily a message that we saw last night that the rest of the country wants necessarily ron desantis type, i guess, leadership i'll call it. i think he has a real
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opportunity to take the republican nomination to win the presidency, but it's not going to be kind of this in your face thing that we've seen from donald trump. this is what we saw last night. >> there's really a warning to the white house as well in these votes. i mean, we've heard, you know, heard from the white house saying there's a sense of vindication, i think was the word that one source in the white house used. how do you view how the white house should handle what happened moving forward? i mean, what is the lesson for the white house, what is the lesson for the republicans? >> yeah, i think there's no doubt last night was way better than what the white house expected. it's way better than what history ever points to, and i think they should feel good about what happened last night. you know, look, for all the hits that people, you know, hit joe biden with, i mean, he's had a lot of victories, and last night was one of those. but i think the reality is you still have -- this cannot be a lesson to democrats that we don't have to address inflation, we don't have to address crime, we don't have to talk about the border. that's not the case.
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i think a lot of these candidates won despite that still being a big issue. and looking forward to 2024, that's going to be important. now, what will be interesting, anderson, is if there's just a very very slim republican majority in the house of representatives, this is like way out of left field, but there is a possibility, then, if you can get two republicans, for instance, to vote for a certain candidate and get the democrats to vote for a moderate republican type speaker, you could have a really interesting speaker of the house race. i'm not predicting it, i'm throwing that in people's ears. if it's that type, we could do something pretty unusual on that. >> one of your colleaguings, fellow military veteran, elaine luria expected to lose her election bid in virginia, i wonder what your reaction to that is, obviously the same thing happened to congresswoman liz cheney in her primary this summer. >> yeah, i mean, elaine will be the best to tell if the january 6th committee had an impact on that. i'll say this about her, look, it's, you know, she's a fellow
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veteran. it's been great working with her. she's somebody that genuinely cares for her country. we, you know, ran one of the last hearings together, and i'm sad for the country that she lost. at the same time, look, she stood up for the right thing. very few people ever get an opportunity to actually stand up for the right thing. even fewer actually do it. she gets to look in the mirror, and i'll tell you, there's no victory, no loss, no anything that i think can compare to either the shame of having to look in the mirror and know you went along with lies or the pride of being able to look in the mirror and say jou stood alone. i think she can take that pride home. >> assuming the former president announces he's going to run, there is reporting he might announce that next week, what happens then in the republican party? i mean, what are the ripple effects of that immediately? >> this is the million dollar question. there is a small possibility that if he makes that announcement somebody like a ron
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desantis or even mike pence or whatever could jump in and you could have a real battle, you know, for the soul of the party. it's just, again, though, there is such a -- the base is so rabid for donald trump, the maga base, at least, that i don't think it's going to take long for him to be able to kind of perry the attack, put it on mccarthy, put it on anybody but himself and once again cow toe some of these people, quote unquote leaders that don't know how to lead, back to i'm in the donald trump camp because they don't want to lose their primary. keep in mind, even though it was a bad night for republicans, you're still going to have a lot of election deniers coming to the house of representatives right now, even people that are borderline open white supremacists, this will be interesting. i'm very interested, by the way in the lauren boebert race, nobody saw that one being as close as it is, and she very well may lose in colorado. >> congressman adam kinzinger, appreciate your time. thank you so much. we have several cnn
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hillary shot. hil president biden says the white house is feeling a sense of vindication because democrats seem to have dodged the crushing red wave many fears skp. fears over inflation and recession. democrat john fetterman defeated mehmet oz, flipped the seat from republican hands, that means democrats may be able to hold on to the senate. they're expected to lose the house but with smaller margins than predicted. let's turn it over to alisyn camerota. we have dr. abdul el-sayed, c charlie dent, and karyn finny. does last night's results, better for democrats than expected, does that embolden
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president biden and a second term. do you think that increases his inclination to run again? >> i want to say two things about that. i want to compare this to historical record. you have not seen a president's party perform this well in their first midterms in recent history. you can go back all the way to reagan, right, and you still don't see this kind of performance. but i will tell you what will definitely vindicate the president's potential decision to run which will be the big announcement that potentially donald trump potentially could make that he's been teasing. i think if donald trump decides to run, i think that will pull joe biden back into this race. i will say this, barring the narrative that we had about the midterms coming into this midterm election, you got a lot of momentum for the president, whether it was a number of legislative victories, whether it was the sort of climbing up of his approval rating, so i'm really interested to see what happens in the coming weeks about people start to feel about president biden. >> didn't feel like momentum for president biden going into the
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midterms, but i hear your data points. >> going into the midterm there was not a lot of momentum behind biden. he had approval ratings in the low 40s. as we learned in exit polls, asking head to head him and trump, he was ahead of trump in terms of who people would want. the key question, among democrats, would they want to see joe biden run again, and a majority of them said yes, they would. so if he has the support of the party, then i could see him giving that more of a consideration. on the flip side, donald trump is bleeding support from the republican party. as these numbers came in last night, i'm getting texts and messages from key republican donors saying donald trump is an anchor on this party. it is time to turn the page. he has lost the house and the senate and we're losing key races, and key republican donors, and these are not trump haters. these are trump allies that are saying it's time for republicans to move on, and move on to someone who is not an election
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denier, not looking at the past, and they're also putting pressure on the rnc to make sure that we put donald trump in the rear view mirror. >> karen, here's the exit poll on how all respondents, both parties said about do you want president biden to run for president again in 2024. yes, 30%, no, 67%, as a democrat. what do you want to see? >> i want him to do whatever he wants to do, and i think he earned that. right? i think we need to shut down all of the -- within my own party, hand wringing about joe biden, legislative accomplishments, breaking with history, let the man do his job and stay out of it. like stop second guessing, right. as we said before, the biden coalition showed up, and that is a huge if we can keep those voters engaged, that's momentum going into 2024 no matter who our nominee is. >> our report something that the white house is feeling vindicated today about their
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closing argument, which was democracy and it seems like people, many people did vote on the future of democracy. >> yeah, they should take a little victory lap. when you win, you know, you're right, so he can make that case because it appears a lot of election deniers lost their races or are losing their races right now so he should feel good about that and on the abortion issue, i always felt that was going to have a mitigating impact on democratic losses but democracy, abortion certainly played a role in this and he should take the victory lap. on whether he wants to be president again implicit was that it would be a transitional figure to the next generation. >> a lot of people felt that but he didn't explicitly say that. >> i said it was implicit. >> important to remember a win is a win, you know, we would certainly have loved to win by 15 or 20 points but i'll take a
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win. >> meaning even if it's smaller. >> that's going to, i think, for both sides, that should tell -- nobody really got a mandate. democracy maybe got a mandate and what was interesting during this election, you didn't see any republicans running on their bipartisan accomplishments. lots of democrats did. so i hope part of the message we all take away, i know this is going to sound a bit naive, i'll say it anyway, actually the people want you to work together to get something done for them because it's about them, not you. >> most people do. not the loudest people but most people, it turns out, most americans do. abortion was actually on the ballot in these states and abortion rights won on the ballot. so michigan, california, vermont and kentucky voted to keep abortion rights in their state constitutions, i think it's too early to call montana, but also i think this is interesting in terms of the exit polling,
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inflation was at 31%. this is of total respondents, abortion, 22. more than pre-election polling suggested in terms of a motivating factor. >> the internal research that i've been looking at for two years has shown that was what was going to happen and i'm so proud that our party stood firm against all the naysayers especially those in my own party who were, you know, saying it's not going to be just about abortion. no candidate just ran on abortion, but they understood that women understand this is a fundamental freedom to decide your life, your future, so, and, again, i think it's a reminder to us about polls and really making sure that we are asking the right questions of -- when we do polling. >> karen, to your point, abortion isn't even just about abortion. abortion is about the economy, it is about health care. abortion is about fundamental rights and who gets to decide
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them. the fact it is such a cross-cutting issue, abortion has a mandate and i also want to comment, this is a pretty big smackdown for the supreme court and i'm interested to see how court politics start to change, right, because you have the court make a major change to american life and then the voters came out and said, huh-uh. not in our states so i'm interested to see how democrats in particular start to pivot around court politics in a way that we have not in a past. >> i'm interested to see if republicans as they get back control, if they will go back to try to see some type of federal legislation on abortion. i think that is a mistake. i fought really, really hard for many years on overturning roe v. wade, but the caveat was to put this back in the power of the states and i think states should be the ones to make this decision. >> do you think senator lindsey graham backs off on his plan for a 15-week abortion ban? >> i hope so. >> is there a message they will take from this or press ahead jo. >> the key thing make sure there
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are some limits. there are some democrats that have very few limits on it and the key is to make sure there are some limits. we do not need to go back to a federal ban or a national ban on this and keep it in the hands of the states but i'm impressed with the gen-z vote coming out in full force. they were a big factor in abortion being a key issue because it strongly impacts them and realize i can go to the polls and i can make a difference. >> republicans have to figure out that at least in my polling when i ran about 30% of republicans self-identified as wanting to keep abortion legal under most circumstances. republicans are losing voters over this. a lot of republicans voted in kansas in order to keep abortion legal. republicans will have to figure out how to moderate on this issue because this -- these bans with no exceptions are clearly, they are not popular politically. you have to win elections. they're killing themselves. >> guy, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for watching all of these returns come in and
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