reelection. over the last few days, her republican challenger, adam laxalt had seen his lead shrivel until she overtook him earlier this evening. i minutes ago, president biden commented on all of this while overseas in cambodia. >> i think the republican party is going to have to decide who they are. >> and in arizona, new vote tallies tonight are wrapping up the drama in the governor's race. democrat katie hobbs leads republican kari lake but the race is still too early to call. david is over at the magic wall. make breakdown what made tonight possible for senate democrats . >> take a look where we are, democrats, these are races we have called, okay? democrats have 50, republicans have 49, and we only have one race outstanding on the map, that's in georgia for the december 6th runoff.

democrats have it, how did we get here? democrats needed to hold their own, they were in the majority, they had 50 other mission- critical was hold what they've got, guess it would be nice to expand that but hold what we've got. so, how they got here, was that maggie hassan soundly defeated don bolduc in new hampshire, that was the first one of their vulnerable incumbents to get called, okay? then, then, in another key contest, john fetterman in pennsylvania, defeats dr. oz, this is a pickup for the democrats, so now they have a little cushion that if indeed one of their incumbents fall, they are still going to be able to be in the majority that we were lingering on arizona and nevada for quite a long time, mark kelly last night, was projected to win the senate race to feeding lake masters in arizona. and that brings us to tonight's

drama in nevada. >> help us understand, while you are there, how nevada went blue? >> well, so remember, it was blue, catherine cortez masto was the incumbent here. you see how close this race is, we still have a bunch of vote out. he was ahead of -- she's going to the united states senate, first of all, up here and washoe county, earlier this week, adam laxalt was winning this county, it was red, in the first day after the election or so, and then, it flipped blue as more votes came in. you see 50.3% in this county 46.9%, so a little more than a 3% point margin and what has been a bit of a battleground county in nevada politics. but it was down here in clark county, in the las vegas area,

that delivered catherine cortez masto her victory today. we were waiting for those 22,000 votes from clark county, the largest county, the population center, las vegas, three quarters of nevadans in the state live in clark county, and joe biden will this county by more than nine percentage points just two years ago against donald trump when he won the state. so when we got those votes in and we saw that catherine cortez masto won 60% of them, if not more, she put herself in position to be projected the winner because it was such a large vote share and whatever else is going to come in, we determined there was no way that adam laxalt was going to be able to catch up . >> very important development indeed. thank you very much. don't go too far away. republicans lackluster performance is igniting backlash against the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell right now.

the house roof republican leader kevin mccarthy is taking hits from the conservative freedom caucus at the same time. our political panel is here to discuss what's going on. listen to this. >> election day, are voters didn't show up. it's a complete disappointment. i think we've got to reflect now, what didn't happen. i didn't think we had enough of a positive message. we said everything about how bad the biden agenda was, it's back, the democrats are radical but we have to have a plan on what we stand for. >> what you think? >> he of course was in charge, so it should have been i didn't have a message, i wasn't able to turn voters out. voters did show up, i mean, it was a fairly favorable electric, in terms of the percentage of older voters, white voters, which typically vote republican, they just didn't do what they needed to do

in terms of connecting with those voters, and making sure that they had a message that delivered to them, so that they would have faith in the republican party. listen, there's going to be all sorts of recriminations, rick scott was somebody that went into this thinking that he could use this as a platform to run for president, he did put out a message around what the republicans would do, but it was used against republicans. it was about possibly cutting medicare and social security, and you saw joe biden use that against republicans, so we will see what happens, going forward but i think you will see a lot of finger-pointing. you go back a week ago or so, and rick scott and mitch mcconnell were arguing about who's going to be able to take the credit for taking the senate back. >> did the republicans squander some of their chances --

>> yes . >> yes . >> they were focused on attacking biden and the democrats? >> they didn't have a message. and gloria keeps talking about this, candidate quality matters. i mean, look at a candidate like blake masters, he's a venture capitalist and i'm sure voters are like well okay, sort of who are you and why are you here in some ways, again, somebody who did have a record of public service, and you saw that in race after race, dr. oz, not really a record of public service, he was on tv and he quit his show and now he wants to run for senator. so i think that became an issue for republicans in the senate. >> and voters were hearing, what is your plan to fight inflation in 25 words or less, what is it, yes, you want to curb immigration at the border, okay, good idea. how exactly are you going to do

that? and instead what they heard from a lot of republicans is, democrats are bad, the election was rigged, and you don't like joe biden, so therefore, you will like our candidates which, really didn't transfer at all. >> i think it's worth to go back to this idea of that building blocks to the next election. again, really the magical number as we all know in the united states senate is 60 votes. that way, you can prevent any kind of a filibuster from happening. if you look ahead to the next election, democrats are in trouble, they have 11 more seats that are on the ballot, 21 seats they have to defend, republicans only have to defend 10. they look like they are in safe seats. if you look at the political landscape at this point, too, let's look at some of the states where the races are going to happen. this is a chance where we will see kari lake, assuming she loses, her and blake masters could try to challenge each other to see who will take on

sinema next year. you can see mehmet oz try and take on bob casey, the names we've seen in this election, i don't think they are necessarily going away. i do think it shows the republican party at this crossroad about which candidates they are going to choose, certainly, into the next election. >> who am i to say who they are going to pick. but if you look at it right now, it's interesting. it's going to be an interesting chess game heading into the next election. >> as you know, the former president, donald trump, he is going to make what he calls a major, a special announcement on tuesday, presumably, whether or not he will run for president again of the united states. do you think that is going to change as a result of what happened today? >> who can predict what donald trump is going to do? last week i spoke with somebody

who's close to donald trump that advised him, and this is, before any of this, who advised him that not only should you put this off, but it was after we knew there was going to be a georgia runoff, not only should you put it off but you should put it off until january, when people are you know, not so sick of politics and you will have a stage to yourself and you don't want to really get involved in the whole political circus of the georgia runoff, et cetera, a lot of people gave the former president that advice, then he put out the statement saying, the special announcement on tuesday. you've got to presume that he is likely to announce for the presidency but given what occurred tonight, you know, i don't know if that changes his calculation. i don't know if somebody gets to him and says what's the rush . >> we know that the announcement should have happened, it's taking place in a different political context than it initially would have. that much we know to be true.

so, it'll be received in this new context of, a pretty significant rebuke from the voters of the trump wing of the republican party. a lot of it's candidates, hand- picked, in these critical battleground races, they did not emerge victorious. and the clear, clear rejection in race after race after race, and district and state after state, of this election denialism, that's the donald trump reason for being right now. that's his entire, you know, it's his entire thrust of what he believes the parties should organize itself around. talking about blake masters, that video, i thought it was one of the most amazing things, the documentary, with blake masters after his debate performance in arizona, it's on

tape talking to donald trump and donald trump was telling him, do not go soft. do not go week on election denialism. i heard you do that on the debate, be more like kari lake, no matter what they asked her she says, the election was rigged. be more like her. in both of those continents they end up on the losing side. blake masters lost his race, so i'm not sure that being more like kari lake was the right advice from donald trump. and we seen this example after example and that is the context that donald trump may launch a third bid. >> the other context is the conservative class turning against him, you notice, the front pages of the new york post have them on the cover, i think the name was trumpty dumpty. you see folks on fox may be saying, maybe it's not a great idea if donald trump runs, certainly he should delay his announcement. his former press secretary even said that. that's a new dynamic for donald

trump to have to deal with this conservative chattering class who have wrapped their arms around him and boosted his candidacy and kept him a favorite of voters. >> and one more piece of contest contact is ron desantis, of course, and in donald trump's backyard, ron desantis went by 20 points everybody is looking at him like ascendant, and suddenly donald trump is old news, and i'm sure that's just killing them, so what does he do, i mean, he can't stand being out of the limelight, he wants to get it back and in his own mind, he thinks this is the way to do it. i don't have any clue . >> you know who i have a lot of sympathy for? temp of the timothy trump, she's getting married at mar-a- lago, you can only imagine what her father is like right now. this is the most important day of her life and you have her father whose having one of the many worst days of his life, i

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the lead in the nevada senate race. it's election night in america continue. more political experts joining us to discuss the late breaking results . what are you hearing from your fellow democrats about what has happened? >> they are excited, they are thankful for the grassroots on the ground that did so much work, doorknocking, talking to voters, and they're looking forward actually to georgia as well, because they think they can still win that seat and expand our margins and obviously they are not giving up hope for the house. they know that it's probably unlikely but they're still encouraged by the dams holding the house. i think they also feel relieved because it feels like the agenda that they work so hard to elect joe biden within 2020 paid off, because he was able

to deliver on some of the promises, and they are excited. they feel really good and are looking forward to the georgia runoff. >> as far as that is concerned, kristin, does this give us any tea leaves into the georgia runoff, what has happened tonight? >> will certainly, democrats are going to be feeling a little more up beat and possibly a little more energized. if this had been a race where georgia was going to decide control of the senate, there's a chance you could have republicans fired up for one last shot at trying to make out the red wave materialize but at least something to try to flip the chamber. i did a focus group for the new york times a couple of weeks ago and in my group i had to voters who said they were voting for brian kemp for governor, they like the job he had done but they just couldn't vote for herschel walker. i said if it goes to a runoff and control of the senate is being decided in georgia, would

you then turn out and could you see yourself voting for walker and they said, i guess we could hold our nose and make that vote, if control of the senate was up for grabs. i don't know if those folks wind up going out and making that vote, if this is not as high-stakes as it would have been had nevada not gone the way it went. >> scott jennings, you just heard president biden say, he's on overseas trip, he said that republicans will have to decide who they are . as he republican party need to do some serious soul-searching right now to mark >> absolutely. any time an election doesn't go as well as you thought it was going to go, you have to analyze why that is. one of the clear pieces of analysis that everyone agrees on is we don't have a lot of appeal to independent voters right now. and that's a problem. independent voters didn' t care

for biden, didn't think his policies were working. a lot of anxiety about the direction of the country and yet they stuck with democrats, so the soul-searching that should go on is what kind of candidates can appeal to independent voters, and what kind of policies to be put forward as a republican party to appeal to those voters. they will still be there in 2024. we've got a favorable math in the senate, we have a chance to take back the white house but you look at the states that were in play in this midterm, those same states, we will see them all on the presidential map one more time in 2024. those voters will still be there. what can the party do to take advantage of a group of people who aren't sure the democrats have the right ideas but also weren't sure they wanted to let republicans grab the steering well. that's the mission. >> hilary rosen, election deniers, major election deniers, took big losses up and down the ticket. this current election. what does this say about the state of our democracy? >> well, i think that it means that we are going to have a presidential election that might actually, you know, depend on the results of the voters. and that is where we should be,

and that's a good thing. i think the political consultant and me would love to see donald trump announce for president next week and have a big republican food fight and have them all you know, complaining about each other for the next year and with trump right front and center on this but i'm not sure that's the best thing for the country. i think that where we found ourselves as democrats is, we want to have a supreme court that respects are individual lives, our liberties, our families. we want a congress that is responsive to the needs of working people, and you know, that is essentially meaning that we want a governing from the center. and i think both parties will struggle without a little bit as we go into the next phase of the election process because,

governing from the center is what most voters want but it's also, it's not the natural place for political parties to go. >> democrats are having a great night, obviously, how will they maintain this momentum through the georgia runoff? >> well, i think they have to continue to speak to their base . i would not run away from the issue of abortion. i would continue to talk about how democrats have delivered over the last two years, and if they widen their margin in the senate, they will continue to do it. i would talk about voting rights, you know, georgia is kind of the epicenter around voter suppression but also, the history of john lewis, the late

great john lewis and the voting rights act that was a bipartisan piece of legislation that was stalled in the senate. i think you talk about the economy. if you do that, i think you build your coalition with young people, asian americans, the lgbtq community and then, i would talk about herschel walker, he's a terrible candidate, he has a known record, whatsoever and really upload the quality candidate that raphael warnock is, not just for georgia but for our country. >> do you think this is going to be a lopsided election coming up on december 6th in georgia? >> i think that every vote, voters are going to turn out on both sides. i have always felt that raphael warnock would pull it out. i think as having the senate actually does encourage democratic voters, and i think that to kristin's point, that some republicans may stay home because herschel walker is a disaster. but i don't think we can take it for granted and just assume that because the senate, controlling the senate doesn't hang on georgia, that it's a shoe in for or not. we need to get our grassroots activated and delivered georgia for democrats. >> yeah, you need to motivate voters, really, that's the

problem with a runoff, you need to motivate the run voters to get back to the polls . the last time we had a runoff in georgia actually, you know, the senate was at stake there. the senate isn't at stake, so democrats are going to have to have a proactive reason why that extra seat, right why raphael warnock has to come back and you know, i'm not sure that we don't want to hold our nose and have herschel walker as the only reason, we are going to have to have a positive agenda that brings people back to the polls. >> let me get scott and kristin to weigh in. go ahead, scott. >> i think one of the big things for republicans here is the senate is not on the line, so, there was some republican voters that obviously didn't love herschel walker but voted for him anyway and then there were voters who voted for brian camp and either scripted or voted for someone else, those are the core voters that we have to get to win a runoff, so

to do that, brian camp, the most popular voter in georgia, have agreed to lend his team and all this infrastructure to the republican effort to do that, so automatically, i think you're going to have an upgraded voter turnout operation with brian camp and his people at the top of it. so that's a good thing. i think this question of whether the senate is on the line or not is an interesting one in terms of motivation. but with brian camp running the show and has people running the show, just what i'm hearing is that gives them a lot of confidence that the best possible technicians are on the case in georgia. >> to put some numbers on that, you know, brian camp wound about 2 million votes in georgia, that's 200,000 votes that did not materialize for walker.

now one thing to remember, is your average voter is not necessarily really thinking through gosh, chuck schumer, what's the difference between him having 50+ the vice president or 51, so trying to make it this really complicated argument about the nuances of senate power, i think will be difficult but i think that saying, look if you got brian camp was able to come out there and be a force, it's important for us to make the statement, there are still sort of ways republicans can win. maybe that's one way that republicans, by tapping into whatever brian kemp did by tacking into that, i would try and make that for them in a runoff. >> can i say one thing, about that? the grassroots effort that was built over the last 10 years, because of stacy abrams cannot be ignored. i know she did not win her governor's race but her role that played in flipping both senate seats and the electoral

votes to joe biden in 2020, it's still there and it'll be activated in full force. >> guys, thanks to all of you, thanks very much. once again, cnn is projecting that democrats will keep control of the united states senate but there's still one senate seat up for grabs, a closer look at what all this means for the georgia ound cleai . runoff. ingtearcia's we will continue that conversation, nexteth with dent. the ability to take on the world. i feel so much better, and i think that that is the key. (vo) verizon small business days are back. and there's never been a better time to switch. get our best offers of the year on business internet. help your business stay ahead with the reliable connection your business deserves. book your appointment today. and switch to the network america relies on. verizon.

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tonight the governor's race in arizona is still too early to call. >> the account continues in maricopa county, 85,000 votes released here in the county, still more votes to be counted, and still, no clear answer on the governor's race here in the state of arizona. republican kari lake did manage to close the gap just a bit on democrat katie hobbs, who remains the leader. if you look at the numbers, the margin has shrunken just a tad, but not enough to determine if there is a clear winner at this point, but the lake campaign, releasing a little information about what it's like inside their campaign headquarters, saying that they believe these numbers offer a glimmer of hope , the campaign saying, there is 100% a path, and because the vote is still going on, that

there is so much we do not know at this stage. but, we do know, cnn has projected a winner in the u.s. senate race in arizona. mark kelly, the senator, will maintain his seat. the race was called in his favor by cnn, today, thanking his supporters who backed his race. >> you are all the reason that we are successful. and also want to thank our states election officials. honorable republicans and democrats, who are doing the important work of making sure that arizonans votes and voices are heard, that their votes are counted, as quickly and transparently as possible. >> blake masters has not conceded but indicated in a

tweet, he would be open to it after every legal vote is counted. so how many votes remain? maricopa county tells us there's up to 195,000 votes remaining, the anticipation is on sunday evening, another release of votes of about 80,000 here in this county. >> david is with me at the magic wall right now, more on the situation in arizona, what's going on in the governor's race. >> you see, this is the leave that katie hobbs has, 50.7% to 49.3%, you just heard her saying about the outstanding vote, we think there are about 290 are so outstanding votes statewide, two thirds of that outstanding quote comes from here in maricopa county, the phoenix area, by far, the largest population center. remember this is also a battleground, joe biden won it by two percentage points over donald trump, when he won the state by 11,000 votes or so. you see here, 52% for hobbs

inside maricopa county to roughly 48% for kari lake. so when we get that 85,000 additional votes for maricopa tomorrow, we should watch carefully to see, is kari lake hitting her target, is she getting 55% of the vote, or is she getting more like 48% of the vote, which is what she has now in maricopa, but if that's what she's taking them, it won't be enough to overtake katie hobbs, there is clearly still a path but as each vote count comes in, that path diminishes, if indeed she doesn't up her performance in maricopa and start getting around 55% of the vote, to start digging into that 34,000 vote lead . >> still too early for us to make the projection. let's go from arizona to georgia right now. taking a closer look at the georgia senatorial runoff on december six. >> these are the uncalled races, there's only one, georgia, december 6th is when

that will happen in a runoff. this is where things were in the original round, you see this warnock, walker, 48.5% of the vote, this was a lead for warnock but what number is missing? 50% +1, that's why we are going to a runoff. neither candidate hit that mark. so what's going to be critical is to see now that the state is not going to be all about party control, now that this is not what we were all waiting for to learn which party will control the senate, we know the democrats will. will this contest be as fully engaged between the two parties? will voters come out in the motivated fashion to come if you're on the democratic side, to get to 51, you want to keep adding, on the republican side, to prevent democrats from getting to 51. so, obviously, this is going to go on for the next three weeks . millions and millions of dollars of advertising,

campaign surrogates flying into the state and this will be, can the democrats add some gravy, can they get to 51, avoid the power-sharing, avoid evenly split committees and can chuck schumer have an actual larger majority after this campaign season. >> cheese all over, got .1%, can you blame them for the fact that raphael warnock was just shy of 50% plus one? >> he clearly, people voted for him, that otherwise may have voted for one of the other two candidates and push them closer but i think it's a tough argument to make. some people may not have chosen to vote in the race but they found chase all of her appealing so yes, he may have kept them under 50, but it's unclear exactly where his votes would have gone. >> let's talk about the house

of representatives. there are still votes out there that have to be decided. >> let's take a look at the house. these are uncalled races. in fact let me do this first. this is where we currently are, 211 republicans, 204 democrats, you need 218. so, republicans ar e seven seats away from the majority, democrats, are 14 feet away. so what's left? we have 20 seats currently uncalled across the map, what are they red and blue? the red ones are where a republican is currently weeding, the blue ones are where the democrat is currently leading. so guess what? 10 races, with democrats leading, 10 with republicans but remember, they need 14, republicans need seven. so the fact that they need 10, they could lose three of the races they are leading in and republicans could still have the majority. what is clear is that what all of these races settle, if it is

indeed that republican or democrat majority, it's going to be an extraordinarily narrow majority but we can call the house because we have not mathematically eliminated the chance that democrats could potentially, potentially, get those 14 seeds, and end up in the majority. once we are able to call these races, get one of th e parties to 218, that's what we will know who will control the house . >> any idea when we will be able to know the results? >> so many of these races are in california and to show you, if you click into these districts, in this very close race in the 13th district, we only have 46% of the vote in. if you look down here in the california 22 district, guess he's currently ahead, only an estimate of 49% -- >> several days. >> thank you very much.

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the united states senate, that's after the incumbent senator catherine cortez masto defeated adam laxalt. adam laxalt was a prominent election denier who led challenges to the 2020 election results in his day. our political panels are here to discuss, gloria, a reminder that in some races across the country, democratic tax, they actually ran ads to boost some of these republican election deniers, thinking they would be more vulnerable in a general election to a democratic candidate, did it pay off? >> they were right, in new hampshire, don bolduc, for example, but generally, i don't think stunts are great like that if you want to display the results, you can see oh sure, but i think in elections, you ought to spend your money on the candidates that you really want to support. i don't know if they will end up doing that again but in hindsight, they are going to say, see, we did it, and it worked. >> what do you think?

>> look, this is why people hate politics because we compare it to sports and there's winners and losers and any which way to win. the fact of the matter is, you've got to win, and i think as much as people might get angry at it, you've got to win, right, so people can be moral, people can be highbrow about it but at the end of the day, the democrats will be in a better place . >> there's no room for morality and politics. >> well, it was a morally bankrupt decision to take but, it is one that paid off, not just in new hampshire, in the maryland governor's race, in the michigan house race where peter meyer, one of the 10 republicans who voted to impeach trump, then ousted in a republican primary, democrats helped boost that primary candidate, and they were right, it was easier to beat him that it was going to be to beat

peter meyer and they did so. it paid off as a political tactic. i don't think, it should never get good reviews if your party and your president is closing out the campaign on the need to protect democracy, and you are spending dollars on election deniers, that's a discordant note. >> and it could have backfired. democrats are lucky fat their scheme to do this, did end up paying off, you see the results across the map in a number of races, but listen, it was also ultimately republican voters who were drawn to these different candidates, because they were trump candidates, they were election deniers but again, this is another way that democrats were savvy this go around, in picking their spots and spending money in these different races, and assessing correctly, that voters wanted sort of moderate candidates. they didn't want election deniers, they didn't want extreme maga candidates.

>> is we are trying to sit here tonight and dive deep into what is really happening inside the republicans mind right now, we only have to wait a few days because down in florida on tuesday, the republican governors association is going to meet and you don't hear a lot about it, but it's an incredibly powerful organization that corporate interests are very much invested into, and you are going to have all of these governors including doug ducey from arizona is the cochair, coming together to try and figure out what went wrong and i think we will get some answers . >> speaking of tuesday in florida, do you think democrats win in the senate contest, do you think they'll have an impact on donald trump's so- called, special announcement he will make on tuesday? >> as of yesterday, he was all in but you've got to wonder, who is trying to get to, to

tell them to back off. >> everybody is, folks in his inner circle, jason miller, even tried to counsel him to not do this, not to suck up all the oxygen in the room, and possibly way down walker's chances in december, to win the senate race. listen, donald trump is donald trump. he wants everybody to tune in on tuesday to see what he says, maybe it'll be bait, maybe he will announce, i don't know what he could announce -- >> i think sort of the bazaar results of this election may be that donald trump is seen as weekend politically inside the republican party, therefore, more republicans saying, i'm not afraid to challenge him for the nomination, and more and more choose to take the plunge, and get into the race. i think larry hogan recently said that he was on a like a boat all by himself, and now it's like a very crowded boat of folks that are getting on

board to try and challenge him, and a crowded republican presidential field could benefit donald trump because of the way that the republican party apportions delegates, it's a winner take all system, so if there are 10 people splitting the vote, if donald trump still has 25 to 30% support inside the party, he can win contests. >> one of my sources, the source speaks with donald trump regularly, reminded me that he never does anything that he thinks will make him look weak. so if he were to back out of a presidential announcement because ron desantis won by 20 points and republicans are mad at him because they lost the senate that he would look weak, so, maybe we will have a new presidential candidate. >> excellent analysis frfrom everybody. thank you very very muchch, for joining me tonight. we will take a quick break and bebe right back.

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he's the first member of generation z to be elected to the united states congress. frost is taking the seat vacated by val demings, who lost a senate run against senator marco rubio. congressman frost is joining us now. congratulations on your win. thank you for joining us. let's take a closer look at the latest numbers from the orlando-based district you won in. you beat the republican candidate by double digits. so, congressman-elect, how did you do that? >> well, thank you so much for having me on. you know, for me, it's two things. number one, it's the message, and two, how we got the message our. our message was about love and common shared values, that people want to have health care, people want to live in a country free of gun violence, that people want safe and legal access to abortion. and then on getting out the message, i'm an organizer, i've been organizing for the past decade and move we have to meet

people where they're at. yes, tv and mail and all that, but also, social media, knocking on doors, making sure we meet people where they're at, even if they're not a prime voter. that's how we were able to win. >> so, what will be your main priorities, congressman-elect, for the upcoming term? >> well, there's many things, the first thing, which isn't as exciting, is our district office. we just had two hurricanes here in central florida. it's important for me that we're able to provide for people, making sure that government is working for people at the local level. on the national level, there's many different things. protecting our democracy is incredibly important. ensuring that, yes, voting is a right, but an accessible right that people are able to go vote. ending gun violence. i'm a survivor of gun violence myself. we live in a country where the leading cause of death for children is guns. and so, there's a lot of work we need to do there, as well.

the last thing, i'd say, is the economy. we have to make sure we bring up wa wages, that every person in our country has access to health care and the ability to be healthy and not pick between prescriptions and represent. so, these are all the things we need to work on in the next congress. >> will you work with republican members across the aisle to get things done? >> yes. 100%, i will. and, you know, i think what we're seeing here and we'll see how the house shakes up, is that this congress is looking like whether or not republicans take the majority or it, it will be a slim majority either way. that means people are going to have to work together to ensure we are providing for folks. be i but democrats, we have a mandate in this country to fight for the future we believe in, a future where everybody has health care, where people live free of gun silence and i believe there's a bipartisan way to get there, but it's important that we stick to our values and rally the american people around that. >> i know you've said congress

needs different perspectives. your words. do the democrats need younger people in its ranks and in its leadership, for that matter? >> yeah, i mean, we know that gen z and millennials make up a third of this country, but nowhere near a third of government. so, i do believe we need younger people in government. i do believe getting younger people involved in the decision-making process. and a huge way of doing that in the general sense is electing young people to congress. i'm not one of these people that believes we need to just only have young people, we need to have a diversity of opinion, but right now, we're lacking that. >> congressman-elect maxwell frost, congratulations on your win and look forward to having many more conversations with you down the road. appreciate it very much. >> of course, thank you for having me on. >> and to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer reporting. join me every monday through friday weekdays, 6:00 p.m.

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