not to worry, poppy is here. >> we didn't get rid of her yet. >> she's just not sitting here. she's going to be along in a second. there she is. it's thursday, november 10th. welcome everyone to "cnn this morning." and we've got a lot to get to this morning. two days out from the election and control of congress still up in the air with races in three states too close to call right now, republicans are two seats short of taking back the senate, a runoff election in georgia next month could ultimately decide the control of the chamber in the house, republicans secured 209 seats, nine short of the magic number 218 needed for control. >> that means the red wave most republicans had been banking on turned out to be a ripple. it was a rough night for election deniers as well. something that left president biden reenergized as he came out in front of the press yesterday.

>> it was a good day i think for democracy. i think it was a good day for america. here's what we do know. while the press and the pundits are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen. >> all right. but we are still waiting to see what happens in the really close races. we have poppy at the magic wall to tell us what is happening. >> i'm not touching the magic wall, i don't know how to use it. but we have magic berman who is. let's start in the senate, what are we looking at. >> i do require being called magic berman. >> that's your nickname. >> three senate races still uncalled at this point. georgia is going to a runoff. the two we're focused on is nevada and arizona. things changed a little bit overnight in the two contests. in arizona you can see adam laxalt, trying to up seat catherine cortez masto, his lead is smaller this morning than it was when you went to bed last night. why? they counted some more mail vote in clark county right here and

in washoe county right here. and that closed that lead down to 15,000 about 110,000 mail votes left to count -- >> in clark? >> in the state overall. >> okay. >> and if the margins for those are what we saw last night, catherine cortez masto could, could potentially take the lead. arizona now. i want to spend some time here. this changed overnight. mark kelly the incumbent leads by 95,000. which is a greater lead than it was last night. if you went to sleep yesterday, this is what you saw. you saw mark kelly ahead by 89,000 but then votes released from maricopa county and pima county, his lead grew to 95,000. i'm going to tell you this, you have to take my word for it, there's about 560,000 at least, 560,000 votes at least left to count. largely from maricopa county

here and pima county down here. what these votes look like we're not sure. two years ago that vote, that batch was a little more republican. so blake masters has a chance here to close this gap and maybe overtake it. i did some math. if he manages to win 60% of the remaining vote, if, that's a tall order but not impossible, that would net him a total of 112,000 votes. okay. >> okay. >> which is more than 95,000. so his target is right around 58%. it's a high bar, not impossible. so this race not over. and just to remind people, if democrats take both these seats then the runoff in georgia won't matter in terms of determining control. like wise for republicans. if one party can win either of these seats georgia doesn't matter for control. >> i think also a question about masters is does he get all the

traditional republican votes, the different republican candidate would get. but let's move to the house and 64 votes as a difference here in one of the races. >> that race is colorado's third congressional district where lauren boebert, the controversial election denying conservative, she's trailing by 64 votes. this race is tied. you know, we don't know everything we'd like to know about where the votes remain at this point. we know one place, which is pueblo county, brianna keilar was on the phone with them overnight and told at least 2,000 votes remaining to be counted. and you see that adam frisch, the democrat leads here. so this is skewing a little bit democratic. in the last presidential election this was a d plus about two district. maybe he can expand the narrow lead. >> was this not supposed to be

close? >> it wasn't on our list of competitive races. this is one of the races outside the scope here. but she's very controversial. he ran a very tight race, tough race, a conservative democrat, he's done well in the district. we need to get a better sense of where the votes are left. i can show you one thing. 95% reporting overall. if i take this down to -- that shows 90%. the only counties that don't have 90% reporting we think are pueblo and this county here, otaro county a republican county but not many votes there. >> it's a special skill i don't have. we're glad we have you magic berman. >> thank you. can i apologize to kaitlan. i said bad things about alabama. >> you were way too rough on her. we can talk about the vikings 7-1 if you wanted to. >> she triggered me by the patriots comments. but i like alabama. >> we worked for seven straight hours we're cranky.

>> berman knows it's personal when berman talks about alabama football because he knows how deeply emotionally invested i am in it. >> don't do it again to my girl. >> it's a trigger response when you say anything about the patriots. >> i'm burning my sweater, it's fine. >> thank you, magic berman. next hour we're going to talk to the head of the arizona county about when we can expect the next results from that county, from maricopa county, which is what we were talking about. >> i hate when mommy and daddy fight, but we'll move on. president biden optimistic at a post midterm conference. mj lee joins us this morning from the white house. good morning to you, what is the president saying and the folks around him? >> reporter: don, as you know a number of president biden's predecessors after their first midterms have had to after the next day show real humility and

promise a dramatic course correction for the country. this is clearly not the position that the president found himself in yesterday as he offered a road map for the next two years and also fielded some questions about his own political future. >> my intention is i'm going to run again but i'm a great respecter of fate and this is a family decision. >> president biden looking ahead to a possible re-election bid in 2024 after a better than expected results for democrats in tuesday's midterm elections. >> it was a good day i think for democracy. >> biden taking a victory lap during a rare press conference on wednesday. >> while the press and the pundits are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen. democrats had a strong night. and we lost fewer seats in the house of representatives than any democratic president's first midterm election in the last 40 years. >> the president touting his administration's accomplishments during its first two years but

also conceding that many americans are still worried about the economy. >> the voters were also clear that they're still frustrated. i get it. i understand it's been a really tough few years in this country for so many people. >> reporter: biden vowing he will not change course on his agenda and saying if republicans do take control of congress he plans to hold firm on a number of issues. >> under no circumstances will i support the proposal put forward by senators johnson and the senator from down in florida to cut or make fundamental changes in social security medicare. that's not on the table. i will not do that. i will veto any attempt to pass a national ban on abortion. >> reporter: with the balance of power still uncertain in both the house and the senate, biden speaking by phone wednesday evening with house minority leader kevin mccarthy who was hoping to be the next speaker. the white house saying it is

prepared for a possible investigation into biden's administration and his family. and even ready for impeachment efforts. >> i think the american people will look at all of that for what it is. it's almost comedy. but, you know, look, i can't control what they're going to do. >> i think one reason republicans faded at the end of this campaign is they stopped talking about what they could do for families and started talking about what they were going to do to the president's family. >> reporter: after this huge week for president biden on the domestic front, tonight he travels abroad in part to attend the g20 summit in indonesia. he said yesterday the foreign leaders are often asking him, joe, when are things going to get back to normal in the united states. he said that's part of the reason if donald trump does decide to run again he wants to make sure he isn't re-elected president one more time. >> thank you very much. appreciate that. as trump is facing unusual

blame from many in his party after the midterms. his former vice president mike pence is using it as an i told you so moment. "the wall street journal" just established an excerpt from his coming book detailing the final days and what happened behind the scenes on january 6th. five days after the attack when trump called pence a coward, trump said pence asked how he was doing. and pence reminded him he was with his family when he was inside the capitol as if it was being attacked. trump acted as if he just learned about that. trump asked if he was scared. pence answered no, not scared, angry. >> hang mike pence. >> mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states, and we will never, ever forget! >> of course, remember trump never called pence that day to check on him. an aide later testified trump

approved of the hang mike pence chants. pence writes, quote, president trump retweeted an absecure article eluding to the theory i could alter the election on january 6th. i showed my wife and rolled my eyes. they were talking about a lawsuit aimed at forcing pence to overturn the election. but pence said he told trump he did oppose the suit. trump responded, quote, you're too honest. hundreds of thousands are going to hate your guts. people are going to think you're stupid. pence goes on to write that he challenged trump's attorney, j john eastman two days before january 6th happened saying eastman didn't believe his own advice. pence writes, i turned to the president and said do you hear

that, even your own lawyer doesn't think i have authority to return electoral votes. and then pence said i had a feeling january 6th, 2021 was going to be a very long day. of course we all know what happened next. pence was rushed to safety as rioters broke in looking for him. pence told secret service at the time, i'm not leaving, i'm not giving those people the sight of a 16-car motorcade speeding from the capitol. pence writes i heard footsteps and angry chanting, making our way to the basement took a few extra minutes because i insisted we walk not run. an assistant to pence showed him what trump tweeted in the middle of the attack, saying mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done. pence writes he ignored the tweet and got back to work. eight days later, pence said he stopped by the oval office and the night before trump had,

quote, denounced the violence at the capitol, pence congratulated him on his address and trump said i knew you'd like it. pence writes he seemed discouraged so i reminded him i was praying for him. trump's response, don't bother. pence's book comes out on tuesday, the same day trump promised to make an announcement at mar-a-lago. pence has also agreed to participate in a cnn town hall on tuesday. so jeff did youunkin joins us. you said it's clear the center of gravity in the republican party is in the state of florida and i don't mean mar-a-lago. >> sure. it's the elephant in the room. ron desantis crushes in the state of florida, builds an incredible coalition that can be -- if he can replicate it nationwide would be very

formidable. so i think if you're a republican in america today and you're looking to have a dinner and looking for a speaker, it's not donald trump, you want ron desantis to come. my point is, it's shifted to tallahassee from mar-a-lago. ron desantis is de-future as the new york post wrote. >> de-future? >> yes. >> why isn't it mike pence? >> i think, look, i like the vice president, he's a good man, nice man, honorable man, that day he stood in the breach -- >> so you're saying there's a chance. >> exactly. there's always a chance. that's the beautiful part about elections. democracy was on the ballot this time and won. we have a huge election, tons of people voting. democrats are concerned about the myriad of bad things that could happen and they didn't. that's the great part. >> my point is mike pence has the book coming out, doing the

thing here on cnn, but then you pivot it right to ron desantis. no one is talking about mike. >> there's going to be a lot of people running for president. as we saw last time, a giant field, 16, 17 people. no one thought donald trump was going to be the nominee when that started. lieutenant governor can tell you when he ran, i'm sure a lot of people, may have been, may not have been the favorite. >> i thought your interview with kaitlan yesterday was the interview of the day yesterday. i think what you said was important for america to hear, many republicans to hear, and you talked about not maybe a pivot but a turn and pivot. and i wonder if mike pence is enough of a pivot for the party. yes, he's writing it now, saying it now, and he did stood up for the constitution that day, it's important but he also stood up by the president's side and didn't say things through so many moments during the presidency. >> there's no way to deny donald trump got fired tuesday night.

the search committee has brought a few names to the top of the list and ron desantis is one of them. i think ron desantis is being rewarded for a new thought process with republicans and solid leadership. brian kemp beat the brakes off stacey abrams because he put leadership on display through the pandemic. in georgia i think we watch this play out the next four weeks. my advice if anyone in the herschel walker wanted to listen, make phone calls, tell donald trump to stay out of georgia the next three week. secondly call brian kemp and ask for help and apologize for not indorsing him in the primary. and third call ron desantis and ask him to come to georgia. that would be a winning recipe for herschel walker. >> he's smart. >> mike pence wasn't in any of those three recommendations. >> i think, look, just my opinion, i think mike pence has a difficult, you know, hole to

thread because he's going to have to explain the four years of being alongside donald trump. there's a process there that is an angry and vile process that we have to move past. i think republicans are now in a window of opportunity. if we don't actually get stuff done. if we just complain about immigration, health care, complain about all of these issues but don't actually do something then we have problems. then 2024 becomes blurred and it doesn't become an easy target. the first 100 days of our congress, if it's a donald trump, you know, wish list, we have problems. if we go to work for the actual average american getting worried about getting laid off in the next two hours we have a chance to move the needle. >> brian kemp stood up to donald trump and said the election was not stolen. he stood up to donald trump. mike pence did not do that. he did stand up for the constitution. but he's going to have a lot to answer to when it comes to what happened with donald trump and why he didn't stand up. >> there's this -- i don't know

what's the right term for it, maybe a trump drag factor. everybody tightly associated with donald trump, we watched it play out over the country. in georgia, the drag factor is tangible. eight or nine points between brian kemp and herschel walker. we've seen it. the trump drag factor is real and getting worse. >> i just double checked myself, pence backed kemp while trump was backing purdue in that race. pence was behind kemp at the time. when you talk to the republicans. i think the question is, we, the royal we, talk about trump when something happens as if it's over, his grip on the party is completely gone, that's not true if you look at the primaries. sit just bad headlines that trump will survive ultimately? >> i don't know. it's different than the past. people are saying why not a january 6th -- i can't tell you. it's like, you know, it is until

it isn't. that's how this president, how he's operated. this just feels different. people like -- they don't like losing ben shapiro is on social media saying look we have to re-evaluate. candace owens, trump loyalists. >> can we pull up "the washington journal." the post one thing but to see "the washington journal" write the republican party's biggest loser. >> but there are so many people in pennsylvania, florida, kentucky, iowa, ride or die trumpers, and they're not going to leave this guy. president trump has a loyal base of probably right around 30% in the republican party that aren't going anywhere. until maybe somebody else gives them an alternative or option. and nobody has stepped up yet. so president trump is going to announce the next coming week, governor desantis hasn't announced. vice president pence hasn't announced. so there's nobody else in the

mix. >> you're talking about ben shapiro and candace owens but those aren't the people deciding elections. they may be the loudest voices of maga folks but not the folks going to the polls. >> to your point, friends of mine in western pennsylvania, they're ride or die trumpers. i send them information, here's what happened, do you believe the president lost? yeah. he lost. i would have liked him to win. let me explain how he lost. no, you're wrong. even on election day, they're giving me anecdotes about people sent extra ballots. i run them down, fact check them, try to help them but you can't persuade them. >> you think he'll announce? >> yeah i think former president is going to run for a variety of reasons? >> do you think he should run? >> it's america, everyone gets a chance to run. >> that's not an answer. >> a lot of republicans getting

in. we'll wait to see that. jeff dunkin david urban, thank you. >> thank you both. let's talk about the nevada senate and governors' races still too close to call. thousands of mail-in ballots came in overnight. but still a ways to go. we'll have a live report from clark county next. plus it's tropical storm nicole, down in florida as the state braces for high winds and flooding. hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that.

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♪ so this morning the nevada senate race is still too close to call. democratic senator catherine cortez masto is facing a strong challenge for republican adam laxalt which could tilt the balance of power in the chamber. rosa flores is live for us in las vegas for cnn this morning. good morning and what's the latest on the ground? >> reporter: don, good morning. the headline here overnight is that the tight u.s. senate race here in the state of nevada just

got tighter. republican adam laxalt was ahead by 2.7%. now that is 2.44% against his opponent democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto. all this as we learned that there are tens of thousands of ballots that haven't been processed, not part of the results yet, just here in clark county where i am, the most populus county home to vegas. i want to break down where the ballots are and where they came from so we get an idea of what we're talking about. this is according to the clark county registrar he said 12,700 mail ballots were picked up at the usps wednesday alone, there were 300 drop boxes on election day that were only picked up, not counted, only secured by police, they're working on those as well, don.

and then you have ballots that need to be cured, voters have until monday to do that and 5,555 provisional ballots. so when there is a race with a margin that is this razor thin. you and i know that every single vote counts and it's not just the u.s. senate race here in the state of nevada. it's also the governor's race. so we're going to be here and following everything to make sure all the votes are counted. >> i know you will. rosa flores, thank you very much. bringing the energy at 4:26 in the morning out there, rosa. the governor's race is arizona is still too close to call. katie hobbs leads kari lake by 13,000 votes this morning, a quarter of all ballots still have not been tallied. let's talk about this with ruby kramer who's not only been on the campaign trail with kari lake interviewed her a number of times and wrote the best, most

insightful profile of her. >> thank you. >> high praise. >> kaitlan and i were talking a lot about it. you eve been in touch with her campaign since tuesday. >> yes. >> what are they saying. >> tuesday night radio silence. the margin was so wide that people in the room were supposed to be celebrating this red wave blowout victory were feeling spooked by late tuesday, wednesday. the word i got back inside her campaign was they feel amazing. and it was sort of back to that very brash, very confident posture we've come to know from kari lake basically at all points. >> one thing, of course, that we've all been talking about here is what the results are going to look like. but also the questions of whether or not she's going to dispute them. she's been raising some unfounded concerns around about it. what's your sense how closely you followed her around, her

husband around, the way they tick, what do you think could happen there? >> one thing to understand about kari lake and it's something we've seen from the moment she got in the race, is that election denialism is fundamental to the campaign apparatus that she has built. it's fundamental in an operational sense in what she talks about on the campaign. it's also fundamental styl stylistically so it's the vehicle she's able to express loyalty to donald trump. the vehicle she's able to stage the confrontations she has with the press. as you know, she picks fights with reporters at every opportunity, video tapes them, puts them online and gins up this following on social media. so it's a vehicle to create online support. so it's worth asking does kari lake the campaign, candidate exist without this fundamental election denialism thing it was there from the beginning.

that's on my mind now we wait to see what happens in the race. if she loses does she concede. i think republicans in the state don't know her to be a candidate who would do that. if she wins, i think back to her republican primary election this summer. where she won that race, took a while but she won. when she came out in front of cameras the next day to announce her victory, she said we won because we outvoted the fraud. so it's always been part of her story and i think it will be there no matter what. >> does she exist without the invention -- she invents enemies, looks for moments, it's about a spectacle and stunts. so without that does she exist? she's managed to co-op the people of arizona into believing something that she's not. it's invented, right? it's an act. >> it's very well executed performance art.

>> right. >> and i think the question of whether or not she -- >> you're so smart. you are exactly right. go on. >> whether or not she actually believes it. a lot of republicans have looked at this race from the beginning that she sort of emerged and took on a well funded primary opponent won that race when nobody thought she could. one question they were asking, is this genuine, does she believe this stuff, think all reporters are part of a corrupt and immoral system. i think no matter what that question is irrelevant. because whether or not she believes it, that is how she will govern. >> and it's working for her. >> it's a lesson she learned from president trump. a former pro-choice democrat that remade himself in the imagimage of an icon. >> thank you. meanwhile, hurricane nicole is downgraded to a tropical storm. florida is still bracing, more

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strong winds and surging waves along florida's east coast as hurricane nicole made landfall overnight the system has weakened to a tropical storm but we are still seeing effects of it. so we have leyla santiago live. what conditions are you seeing. we're seeing you're in a lot of wind but what are you seeing on the ground. >> we've move further south. let me show you what i'm seeing now. straight to the traffic lights can you see power is out and the wind is still moving the traffic lights, moving the trees, so wind gusts still very powerful. still moving "street signs." and i want to show you behind me this is closed off because that's a downed power line which

is what officials will be looking today as they do damage assessment. let's take a walk, see what the beach looks like here in the atlantic. you can see water still remains aggressive coming in, still pounding the beach area here. listen, something that's interesting to note is the timing here on two fronts. one the hour. we're coming up on -- well, it is 7:30. in about an hour you're going to see high tide, which officials tell me is a major concern because while storm surge may be down, water levels remain high and we could see high levels with high tide coming in. the idea this is over by any means is far from the case right now. and again, i cannot let this go without pointing out that we are just six weeks out of hurricane ian. so this coastline is going to be very different given they were vulnerable because of toacoasta erosion after hurricane ian be

now nicole continues to pound the region. >> so many of the dunes had been wiped out from that storm. what are the officials saying they're watching and are their concern this morning? >> i spoke to them in the last 10, 15 minutes. their big concern right now is making sure everyone stays home. not having people come out and about because this is not over yet. we're still seeing the impacts of, as i mentioned, beach erosion further north. dozens of buildings deemed unsafe correlated to that beach erosion. structures teetering on the edge. we're seeing impacts with the airports, flights. more than 1,200 flights cancelled because of tropical storm nicole this morning. so officials in bra revard coun and throughout florida making a big deal about this not being

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was a good night for progressives in particular. turn now to our senior data report harry data inton. so where do progressives score these wins? >> across the country but zoom in on a few races to start. pennsylvania, the senate race there, john fetterman defeating mehmet oz who went after fetterman with his record on crime. he ran as a progressive candidate in the 2016, wasn't successful. got through the primary this time around and nearly a 4 point margin. they may go over 4 points when the wins are there. and going to a congressional race around the pittsburgh area. we see summer lee a lot of last minutes doubts, this is a democratic district, she was the progressive, look at that result. a clear win there, double digit win. turns out the last minute

bed-wetting didn't affect things. she won easily. going down to texas. this is a district right around austin and it's a very progressive district but it's also about replacing folks getting more progressives in the liberal areas and greg casar, 45 points, easy win there. this is filling with progressive members, like alexandria ocasio-cortez. let's talk about ballot measures, abortion was on the ballot in a number of issues. going to kentucky, no was the no constitutional right, no was the proabortion rights side. in kentucky, the proabortion right side winning by nearly 5 percentage points so even in kentucky if abortion rights are winning there, you know the country is on the side of abortion rights.

republicans have been running on immigration, a hard line on immigration. we asked in the exit poll, immigrants do they do more to help or hurt the country? according to the exit poll, majority of americans said they do more to help than hurt the country. which gives you two issues, abortion and immigration, maybe folks are more liberal than we give them credit for . >> joining us with the democrats, bakari sell ers and paul baggara. good evening. >> good morning. >> good morning. seven straight hours i need sleep. the election is behind us, the results are still ahead of us. can we move this forward? it doesn't feel -- it does almost feel like a second term pivot for this president, even though it is a midterm, right. and i think he can learn from what happened with bill clinton. seeing president biden speaking

to reporters yesterday and saying, look, i want to work with everybody. now what? now what? >> now he has to. we still don't know. this is what's amazing. whether the house and the senate are going to be his party or the opposite. or a split. it's amazing. that's a win for the democrats. every single midterm this century we have flipped the house, senate or both. this is a time of great churn. they are not churning. biden does have things on the right track. said that yesterday and i think he surprised zeke miller when he asked him that question, yes, i like what i'm doing. democrats responded to that. you're right. a lot of progressives won, a lot of moderate democrats won, too. abigail spanberger, a lot of good moderates won too. the democrats are united, i'm not used to that. you go to thanksgiving dinner at

your democratic uncle's house than your republican aunt's house. >> is it an inflection point? >> i have to push back on a lot of people who say how is he going to govern with a republican majority in the house and then an evenly divided senate. you forget all of his major accomplishments you had covid relief, you had infrastructure, you had the inflation reduction act, those were all bipartisan. >> even the gun bill. >> this is not something new to him. this does not mean that government is going to slog to some type of halt. because this president has actually said some things that many of us looked side eyed at him about. the first was that republicans were going to break their maga fever. everyone was like they crazy, this ain't going to happen. now they're talking about divorcing donald trump. he said he could get congress and d.c. back to bipartisanship. and all of his major accomplishments have been bipartisan. so, you know, when asked what is he going to change? i think the correct answer is nothing. the country responded in a way

they haven't responded to any president in history. >> all the criticism the president got, is he too old, trying too hard with the bipartisanship. this is a senate and congress that years ago he worked with and it's not the same anymore. but he's getting stuff done. >> and i think we have to -- and democrats around the country, one of the things that's fascinating is you have someone who's 80 years old and what he was able to do yesterday with young voters. we haven't specifically dug into the numbers yet because votes are coming in still, we know voters between the ages of 18 and 35 came out in extraordinary numbers. what they did not come out for was donald trump's republican party. >> look at two steps that president biden took recently, student loans and marijuana usage. the big steps coming from the white house, those were two things aimed at appealing to young voters. the white house, a reason he did it before the midterms. when he was asked about running in 2024, i feel the calculus

changed overnight, even from some democrats, he's not ready to say he's running. what do you make of that? >> it's a tiny crack in the door but he's running. he hasn't said it to me. but i think he's running. i notice the first lady was sitting at that press conference and he looked at her, we're going to go away and have a family meeting. why wouldn't he? i know he's old and a lot of people, blah, blah. but he has done more in two years than a guy half his age could do in four. so like the kids say in supports, score >> that's a good question, though. why wouldn't he? >> i'm a biden guy. i like what he's doing. we have seen a lot of emerging new stars. >> we have to remember that in 2020 joe biden won an

abbreviated campaign because of covid. he wasn't in every diner in iowa. he didn't have to go to every sec tuesday state. the campaign is a monster in itself. i'm not saying he can't do it. the question he has to answer is does he want to go through that. he's going to get primaried. >> you think he's going to get primaried? >> did hillary clinton get primaried? >> she wasn't an incumbent president. >> there's going to be somebody. this is not bill clinton's or barack obama's democratic party anymore. i wish it was. there are a lot of us who are going to support joe biden. >> but who would primary him? >> i feel firm in the belief he'll get primaried from the left. the problem is you have to deal with that in a democratic primary. you have to run the race, you

have to do the debates and that takes a toll on you to bring up my larger theme. >> how significant, paul, do you think it is that independents broke for democrats in a mid term like this? >> it's a change election. it happened. >> i don't think people are talking about that enough and how incredible it is. >> it's unbelievable. there's only two messages in politics ever, just like in life. stay the course or time for a change. that's kind of it. that's it. this is a third option. it's like enough -- as we catholics say, enough with the craziness. and i think for the first time ever we're seeing a brake pedal against a party that's out of power. now justice alito had a lot of that, the supreme court did take away the woman's right to choose. >> paul says he's seeing a united democratic party for the first time in a while. are democrats feeling like walking a little taller, a

little prouder? >> no doubt. one of the things we're beginning to do is share our story. people ask the question what are some of the highlights that you saw from tuesday night? you know, news stations around the country are gloating over what ron desantis did in florida, i'm like wait, wait, did you see big gretch? she is a superstar and she won a swing state so let's actually talk about her with the same energy that we put behind ron desantis. look at kamala harris. she went around the country in the last three months in places that were extremely tight and we pulled out those races. we have young people doing great things. hodge in arizona running a very close race right now. and i have to give a shout out to my guy this morning, wes moore. >> i knew that's where you were going. >> did you see wes moore get up on the stage and he gave that little -- as the kids say, paul, you're a little closer to the

kids than i am but he is him. he is a superstar, he's someone who is going to govern very well in maryland. yes, we're walking taller because the country responded. >> the president needs to know if he decides to retire, he's got a lot of rising stars. these are really impressive people coming up, not just the 17 who ran against him last time, a lot of new talent. >> let me do this for the twitter, biden 2024. >> this morning the races in arizona still too close to call. we'll speak live with an election official in maricopa county. and he beat the democrat in charge of getting other democrats elected, something that has not happened in 40 years. we'll talk to new congressman, republican mike waller. we'll tell you how he did it. >> he came back? >> yeah! popular.

hello and good morning, everyone. look how much energy we have on this thursday, november 10th. excited to be here? >> so excited. >> over by the magic wall. >> hurry up and wait. that is what's happening right now. that is the post-election theme for the 2020 mid terms. the balance of power remains undecided in the senate with votes still being counted in nevada, arizona and georgia is preparing for a runoff. >> the house is still up in the air this morning. republicans need nine more seats to take control but the red wave they were hoping for was more like a ripple, but not here in new york. this is fascinating. we're going to speak with the republican who managed to knock off a democratic candidate chief

in a deep blue state. >> and coming off not the way they expected yesterday to face the press after the mid-term elections. he said he's ready to compromise with the republicans but he' still has that veto pen. >> the american people made it clear they don't want every day going forward being a constant negative battle. >> we'll talk to amy cklobuchar when she joins us this morning. >> this is where things stand in the house, 209 for republicans, 191 for the democrats. there are 35 -- 35 races that remain uncalled. of these republicans would need