>> have a great day. >> it's an election alert and the republicans have won control of the u.s. senate. also they won a bunch of statehouses. they had a very good night. they did indeed catch a wave. >> and keep control of the house. if you're just waking up, we've got all the numbers for you because many of you were sleeping when the numbers were coming in in the middle of the night. >> the senate has gone to the republicans, and sore if a with two races yet to be determined at least -- you've got alaska still up in the air, virginia still up in the air and a run-off in december. but here's the balance of power as it looks. 52-45. right there you've got to wonder what is going on in the white house, as expected what happens so often, the sixth year of a two-term president, they usually take a pounding and the president's party has certainly taken a pounding. >> so mitch mcconnell

will be the majority leader there in the senate. meanwhile over in the house, john boehner has expanded his majority. look at that right now there is a 218 majority is what you needed and the republicans have an historic 242 republicans. >> at about 25 seats even though not everything is in. let's look at how these states win state by state. it is fascinate to go see. most people are waiting to see how north carolina would go. we heard new hampshire-north carolina. even though i don't think he led in any policies, thom tillis prevailed. >> iowa l joni ernst beating bruce braley. she says she is going to washington to make them squeal. >> in kansas they were squealing, republicans were because it looked like greg orman was going to pull out a squeaker but the incumbent pat roberts won by 11 points last nate.

we should point out in kansas sam brownback who it was felt would lose, sam brownback actually won. >> in georgia everyone said there is going to be a run-off, too close to call. it wasn't too close to call. the president's unpopularity in georgia was too much for michelle nunn to overcome so david perdue comes out on top 53 to 45. he needed 50% to avoid a run-off. >> let's look at cory gardner beating mark udall 50% to 45. that is huge. this is a state that went purple, then all of a sudden he comes out of nowhere fo take that senate seat. >> a harvard alum by the name of tom cotton seived seived -- served this nation in the military a landslide win in the great state of arkansas over mark pryor who is the incumbent and he is today waking up looking for work. >> here's one of the first

to come in hast night and was not even close mitch mcconnell takes kentucky. >> she was the one that refused to say who she voted for in the past as you remember. >> alison lundergan grimes 56 to 41. >> in michigan, terry land beat gary peters. gary peters shown ahead by 55 to 41. >> let's look in montana the republican taking the lead by a good bit, 58% to 40%. >> that was not a surprise. in new hampshire it went from jeanne shaheen's untouchable to my goodness, a dead heat. in the end the governor with deep roots in new hampshire ends up prevailing by 4 points 52-48. scott brown held out for awhile but in the end did give his concession speech. >> the conventional wisdom was north carolina would wind up going to the

incumbent but as it turned out thom tillis upset kay hagan who spent the entire election cycle trying to distance herself from barack obama. ultimately it did not win and the republican did. here's thom tillis. >> when we stop accepting this idea that that people want to be provided for by government, the problem with that is the only way government can provide you with something is to take it away from someone else. there is only one thing government can give you that doesn't come at the expense of anyone else and that's freedom. i know my communications people are going thom tillis is completely off script because i'm not reading the teleprompter. i'll leave that up to president obama. >> throwing a shot in the victory speech. north carolina only 39% approval for the president. at the last minute kay hagan cut a spot with the president. in retrospect maybe she

wants to have that back. there is something hanging in the balance at this hour. >> take a look at alaska. still up in the air at this point. these are the two individuals running against each other. you have mark begich and then you have dan sullivan. dan sullivan is ahead here but the final numbers are not in. still not called at this time. >> sullivan with a substantial lead. in a very classy way is saying even though i've got the lead and it looks insurmountable, i will not give a victory speech unlike what happened in virginia where mark warner has. look at this, 49-48 warner on top of gillespie. even if he ends up losing this, this has to be the stunner of the night. >> let's go down to the parishes of louisiana whereas you can see neither of the top two candidates finish at 50%. that's what you need it avoid a run-off. they are headed to a run-off on december 6. >> mary landrieu has already called in a series

of debates. i'm not sure in a two party head to head race there has been a poll where landrieu has come out on top but she is a fighter and has been successful before. >> meanwhile, in addition to keep the house, gaining control of the u.s. senate, republicans also won in a number of key states. she's beloved by the democratic party but wendy davis lost big to the attorney general greg abbott. >> she ran his wheelchair ads and obviously it did not help her there. >> it's still very much a red state. greg abbott prevails. in massachusetts martha coakley has to be stunned this morning. that liberal state has turned to a republican to replace deval patrick. in a squeaker baker prevails in massachusetts. >> one of the number one targets in the united states governor-wise, the democrats with scott walker, they wanted to knock him off. they thought mary burke was the woman to do it.

sorry, mary, scott walker a win today in wisconsin. in maryland, as you can see, this is stunning, larry hogan -- keep in mind the president of the united states about ten days ago went to stump for anthony brown at the event where people were walking out. larry hogan wins a very blue state of maryland. >> let's look at florida. this was a big race. it was charlie crist versus rick scott. rick scott beat him just barely beat out charlie crist, the republican turned democrat down there. voters rejecting the use of medical marijuana in that state. we'll be talking about that later. >> they needed 60 to pass it. governor rick scott trailing by three points as late as friday finds a way to win by one point in florida using $13 million of his own monday. >> in the land of lincoln, illinois, the home state of the president of the united states, a republican by the name of bruce rauner beat pat quinn, the incumbent as you can see right there, it was a substantial win.

and in maine, as you can see as well, paul le page tea party favorite also won over the democrat. >> in maryland, larry hogan is one of these governors that governor christie has to be proud of, that he helped pull out a victory in maryland. here's larry hogan last night. >> tonight marylanders held our leaders accountable for eight years of failed economic policy. tonight we have sent a loud and clear message to annapolis that they heard all across the country. >> all across the country. keep in mind when you went to vote yesterday, there were a number of exit pollers there with clip boards to ask you questions about who did you vote for and why did you vote that way. the president of the united states says that the election yesterday was not a referendum on his policies but according to the exit polls let's go ahead. are you satisfied or

dissatisfied with the obama administration. right now when you put dissatisfied with angry about 60% of the country right now is angry at the president. that probably has to do with why america had a wave yesterday. >> then when asked how you think things are going in our country today, 65% said seriously off on the wrong track. 31% said generally going in the right direction. >> let's see if this new situation can get us on the right track. okay here's the other question: which one of these four issues is the most important facing the country. even though the economic numbers look better the people don't feel it. 45% say it is the number-one issue, the economy. second is health care, 25%. 14%, illegal immigration. look at the picture of those kids coming across the border. 13% say foreign policy. if obamacare was so successful, so embraced health care would have been a winner for democrats, but it's not and it wasn't. >> in fact, the obamacare topic was the number-one thing that republicans ran

advertisements on during the month of october and it was very effective for them. once again, if you're just waking up, the big news is we were wondering whether or not the republicans would control the u.s. senate. they do. they control the house as well. and they also took a number of statehouses as well. the cover of the new york post this morning shows midterm tsunami. g.o.p. runs to take control of the u.s. senate. stripped the emperor has no clothes. what's curious about last night's event at the white house was the president did not issue a statement of congratulations to the incoming majority leader. he did call for a meeting on friday with all the honchos from d.c. maybe then he'll say congratulations. >> it was the second-most election, expensive election ever with $3.67 billion spent to get what we have right now. will everyone work together? first indication will be friday. the president will see what he's going to do in the lame duck session. we'll be discussing that over the next 2 hours and

50 minutes. >> $100 million spent in the state of north carolina alone, the most expensive election in the country. >> the winner, thom tillis will be on later. >> next pot on the ballot in florida. what happened there? did it pass. we'll break down the ballot issues from pot to guns to minimum wage. we'll break down the latest results for you. >> we have a lot of pot videos. >> there is one thing that never happened in the history of politics until last night. a woman won the senate seat in west virginia. she'll join us live next. she had a good night. she's having a great morning. ♪ ♪ what makes thermacare different? two words: it heals. how? with heat. unlike creams and rubs that mask the pain, thermacare has patented heat cells that penetrate deep to increase circulation and accelerate healing. let's review: heat, plus relief, plus healing, equals thermacare. the proof that it heals is you.

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>> for the first time in the history of west virginia, we are sending a woman to the united states senate. we are one of the first states to send a message to president obama tonight that his policies were on the ballot today, and it can be heard loud and clear in the white house, i believe, that this president's agenda just isn't working for west virginia. >> joining us now is west virginia's new senator-elect, shelley moore capito. she is not only the state's first female senator. she is west virginia's

first republican senator in nearly 60 years. congratulations to you. this is just exciting news. female to female obviously it lacks like you're proving that the war on woman is dead. what's your reaction to that? >> well, thank you. it's such an honor to be elected. i feel really privileged that west virginia is sending a woman to the senate. and for all those young west virginia girls and young women, i hope this is just the beginning of a trend. >> what was going through your mind last night? i was watching. your numbers were some of the first to come through early in the night. what was going through your head and what were folks saying? >> well, i mean we did not leave any stone unturned. we worked day and night hard all throughout the state and basically said we need a stronger voice in the senate for west virginia. i mentioned that the president's policies just are not working here. our coal miners are losing their jobs. it resonated all throughout the state.

and the only way to change that was to change the united states senate which we did. >> why do you think west virginia wanted a female in office and for the first time in a very long time a republican? >> well, i think that west virginians are looking beyond their party labels, as we've been a very democrat state up until last night and i think that the policies of the democrat party certainly on the national level and actually our statehouse for the first time since 1928 went republican last night. and i just think that people realize that they've got to listen to what's in their best interest, what's going to keep them working where their opportunities are. i think that's why we as republicans won. as far as being a woman, it's really not about -- it's more about the policies than whether, it's a male or female. but i think that west virginians, you know we love being sort of trend setters, and i think having a female republican elected to the senate is a trend

that we're very proud of. >> you've made some great remarks last night about bipartisanship, working well with the democrats. you really want to focus on that. i imagine in your state that's very important especially because traditionally your state does vote democratically. i know this are some bipartisan meetings coming up. what do you want to see done in washington to unite the two parties? >> well, i think that as i was traveling the state one of the things that isn't talked about enough was this absolute gridlock, the inability to do anything particularly at the united states senate level. i'm coming from the house where we passed numerous bills, hundreds of bills to try to reshape health care, create jobs work on taxes, all the things that people talk about every day in their normal routines. and so i think that that's shared across party lines. nobody wants to see the flag of partisanship waved that leads to this gridlock

and inability to get things done. there's lots of common ground and i'm ready to work in a bipartisan way across the aisle. i've done it my entire career. i'm certain -- we have a split delegation now and i'm certain we'll be able to do that. >> you and joni ernst she also won first female senator to represent iowa going to washington as well. nowadays it's ms. smith going to washington. congratulations to you. we look forward to following you over the next few years. >> thanks so much. >> now get some sleep hopefully. take care. coming up, it was one of the closest and most expensive governor races in the country but florida republican governor rick scott came out on top and we're going live to tampa next. virginia was supposed to go blue but one republican saw a hole and is now pushing that race to the brink. coming up next, we're going to be breaking down your midterm election highlights. ♪ ♪

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for the first time in eight years the g.o.p. controls the senate majority at this hour and it could grow. what should republicans do next with the newfound control? here to discuss republican pollster john mclaughlin who is glowing and a fox news contributor who is not quite yet. first off first impression? >> my first impression was for the republicans it turned out to be far better than expected. >> think about the house. think about the governorships. >> right. it's very good because we're waiting for a tsunami and it finally came around.

the first impression is very good in terms of we've got a certain agenda that broadens our base. things that people aren't talking about is we did better with minority voters. a lot of republicans got double digits with the house. with laints we -- latinas we were getting a third of the votes. >> what do you conclude? >> you don't think i'm glowing, brian? >> you look wonderful but not as much as you did two years ago. >> i don't think there's much news here. this is a typical result for a second term midterm election for a president. we knew this was coming. are you ready for some gridlock? that's what's going to happen. we'll see some vetoes, we'll see the president protecting his legacy. what i absolutely thought was interesting last night was looking at scott brown he is actually making -- he was the first person to lose to two women in two u.s. senate races.

>> looking at the glass half full. let's look at the exit polls. do you approve or disapprove of the way president obama is handling the job. 44% approval, 54% disapproval, it was actually 39 in north carolina. >> two weeks ago based on a national survey in october that we had to drive the vote to disapprove the president. they voted 83 to 15 for the republicans. it was on our company website, mclaughlin on-line. you can go on and see t. that was the republican plan to run against the president. >> jehmu, do you think things in this country are number one, dissatisfied angry? dissatisfied enthusiastic. dissatisfied number one. angry 54%. off on the wrok track 65% going on the right track, 31%. >> what happened to obamacare in this election? remember when republicans were going to run on it and

it was going to be the number-one issue. >> they would have -- would you name a democratic candidate who ran on obamacare? we're out of time. >> i say republicans ran away from it. they didn't run on exreelg it. and you had -- they didn't run on repealing it. you had republicans so like against women and reproductive rights. they were, come on. there was a shift in message there. i'm trying. i'm wearing my morning black. >> an a for effort. the biggest surprise of the day, do we agree on what happened in virginia as the biggest surprise? too close to call at this hour. >> ed gillespie was the biggest surprise. we were waiting in georgia had a sweep and didn't have a run-off. and then in virginia, barbara comstock who won, big numbers. we saw polls where gillespie was in the margin of error with mark warner and we thought he could

win. spoit there's about 12,000 votes, 1%. >> virginia is very honest. >> i actually thought alison lundergan grimes was going to do a lot better. i thought it was going to be a much closer race in kentucky. but for sure virginia is a surprise. recount, are you ready for that? >> i didn't think it was right for warner to come out and say i won when clearly he hasn't. it's going to be an interesting two years. maybe we can get something done. >> it's going to be a devastating two years. i'm ready for hillary. >> that's the first story on "politico," believe it or not, not the election results. i'll meet you back here soon, same outfits. three minutes before the bottom of the hour. straight ahead, did you go to bed before midnight? then you missed a big win for republicans in iowa. >> we are heading to washington, and we are

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stage, needed 51. the republicans picked up 7. and don't be surprise if maine senator angus king who says he's willing to caucus with the republicans goes that way so that 52 could get bigger. >> now all of a sudden they say 7, 8 9. we don't know what's happening with alaska don't know what's happening with georgia. >> here's the house balance of power. 242 seats go to the republicans. 174 to the democrats. obviously republicans have the majority there. >> as bob beckel said last night, the margin is so great right now, john boehner is now free from the tea party. if you look at the numbers and look at the candidates. we picked the change in the house is about 25 seats. >> so there are republicans running both of the chambers and then you've got a democrat down the street. let's start in north carolina. >> that's exactly right. north carolina, this is the most expensive race, $100

million spent in this state alone. republican thom tillis taking the win beating kay hagan. that was closely monitored because as you can see it was very close. >> in my home state of kansas it looked like for the longest time greg orman was going to beat the incumbent pat roberts but in the end it wasn't really that close. in kansas sam brownback was probably going to lose. as it turned out he won as well. republican wave in kansas. >> in iowa i thought we were talking about a run-off but in the end david perdue who seemed to be having a real struggle with michelle nunn, in the end it was 53 to 45 percent. it was not close. in >> look at colorado, mark udall versus cory gardner, the republican there taking the win, 50% of the vote, mark udall got 45%. >> in the state of iowa, she had probably the best ad of the election cycle,

joni ernst as you can see walloped bruce braley as some referred to him by a substantial margin. she accepted this job happily last night in iowa. here's joni ernst. >> in washington, politicians are more interested in talking than doing. they ignore problems hoping they'll go away. but you know what? our problems aren't just going to go away on their own, but we can overcome them. because this is the greatest nation in the history of mankind and there is nothing we can't achieve. we are going to do this. but to get there, it starts with new leadership.

>> and they've got some in the senate. mitch mcconnell will be the new senate majority leader. the outgoing majority leader, harry reid, said last night, he tweeted out you know what? i guess the message from the voters is i guess they want us to work together. duh! >> i think to work at all might be a key word to come out of that. in iowa, it's fascinating. that's where president obama -- and he's 100% right, that's where the miracle of his candidacy took root. he beat hillary clinton to place third this. the first story in "politico" is waiting for hillary. if hillary is supposed to learn something from that is you weren't too popular in iowa to begin with and president obama was. now he's not and there is a republican senator there. >> joni ernst the first female to represent iowa in the senate as well. so it's a big deal for women. >> also a great day for veterans. somebody else in the, in one of those chambers who

has fought for this country. >> meanwhile after the people voted, there were exit pollers out there. let's look at some of the data. down in north carolina, do you feel -- this is the question they asked the folks. kay hagan, does she agree with president obama too often? a majority of people said she agrees with the president too much and ultimately she did lose by a majority. i guess they were effective, thom tillis was in tying her to the president. >> if you could also look and say bill clinton had a lot of push back from democrats, george bush had push back from republicans. when you have no push back from the president and the president is unpopular, it is hard to say i'm my own person. really? your vote doesn't reflect that. >> look at georgia. some of the exit polls this were interesting especially this one. this was independent. who did you vote for? and 59% of the independents voted for the republican, for david perdue. 36% voted for michelle

nunn. for the independent you got 5%. >> if there is a fastest growing party in this country, it is the independent vote and party. and i think the republicans clearly did a good job targeting them. >> yeah when you look at that last thing right there, that was a landslide for david perdue. in the last few years race relations have become what? well, as you can see right there, a plurality of you say they've gotten worse. 38%. only about one in five say things have gotten better, whereas four in ten say it is about the same. hearken back to juan williams when he said ads don't vote for the republicans, the streets will be like trayvon martin. don't vote for the republican, there will be more shootings like ferguson. it is tough being a black and woman in the south. took an entire region and labeled it to get votes. in the end you didn't get enough to win. that number is only going to grow. >> remember the fliers --

you're reminding me of the flyers in georgia. the democratic party handed those out saying if you don't vote democrat we could turn out like ferguson. >> 23 minutes before the top of the hour. >> florida had one of the closest and costliest races in the country. in the end the incumbent republican rick scott beat democrat charlie crist. the final result 48 to 47. >> live in tampa where scott becomes the second republican governor in state hift to win ree-- in state history to win reelection. tell us about t. >> it was a bitter fight. the two sides forked more than $150 million into the race mostly on television ads. in his victory speech rick scott stressed job creation. >> texas likes to brag about being number one in job creation, but we are on

their heels and we will become number one. >> at the start of the race scott was seen as a vulnerable republican governor but he was able to portray his opponent charlie crist, a onetime republican now running as a democrat as a flip-floper. scott takes strong control in the statehouse before presidential elections in 2016. >> speaking of presidential election two years from right now, one of the exit polls that we did, among republicans do you think chris christie would make a good president? 69% said yes, chris christie would be a good president. 79% said jeb bush would make a great president. and the winner on the republican side was rick perry with 84%. meanwhile, on the other side when they asked democrats do you think hillary clinton would make a good president? 83% said yes. so actually rick perry beat

hillary clinton in the exit poll. >> hard to believe that's what we're talking about now. 2016. >> it starts today. meanwhile, coming up on the postgame show for the election, democrats used tactics like this to try to sway voters like you. >> be very very honest with you, the south has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. >> so were voters across the country swayed by race? colonel allen west has a lot to say about that and he's joining us next. >> your second amendment rights are at risk now in several states. where it's going to be a lot harder to buy a gun. >> and easier for pot. ♪ ♪

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some major state initiatives on the ballot had a lot of people voting yesterday that had national ramifications. here to break down how the brand-new results, we've got redstate.org fox news contributor eric ericsson. good morning. i'm sure you're smiling because most of your candidates won last night. let's talk about other issues that drove people to the polls. they might not have had a competitive senate race but in a bunch of states they were voting on marijuana. in the state of florida, it failed. it passed in oregon. >> yeah. it did. interestingly enough steve, a lot of these initiatives were put on the ballot by democrats trying to incentivize younger voters and other democrat-leaning voters to get to the polls. take, for example, medical marijuana or the minimum wage, it drove voters to the polls. they in many cases voted for them but then still voted against the democrat.

it strategically didn't help democrats like they thought. >> let's break them down. in the great state of alaska apparently right now this is a slight edge to passing marijuana there. >> it's probably going to pass there. it passed in oregon. >> it did pass in oregon and in washington, d.c. it passed as well. you just touched on the minimum wage. the president has been saying you've got to raise it to $10.10 per hour, but different states had different results. in alaska it looks like it's probably going to pass. in arkansas it passed. in illinois it passed. nebraska, it passed. and in south dakota, passed. did that drive democrats to the polls in those states? >> you know, it doesn't appear to have made a difference to the democrats there. in fact, in arkansas you had tom cotton who won pretty handedly come out in favor of the minimum wage. in other states there were still a lot of republican opposition but it didn't matter. >> meanwhile, a lot of conservatives worried about taxes. in the state of nevada as you can see right there, it failed, the education tax did.

in illinois, it passed. of course it did. in georgia, it passed, and it passed in massachusetts as well. what's curious though, is if it passed in massachusetts, we did wind up with a republican who won the statehouse. so what does that tell you? >> the massachusetts, georgia, tennessee initiatives were all about keeping taxes low and stopping automatic increases in taxes. illinois was a vote for a tax increase but only on millionaires. the people weren't voting on a tax increase object themselves but on others. in nevada where voters were given a chance to impose taxes on themselves, that failed. >> the fourth topic that sent a lot of people to the polls yesterday gun rights. they did pass in washington state where people will have to go through a tougher background check. and in alabama they passed as well. what do you make of that? >> this is going to be a trend for gun control advocates in the future. they're going to bypass congress where nothing seems to get done and go to states. they're going to have good success in states like

washington oregon, california that are more liberal. they're going to fail miserably in southern and more conservative states. alabama put it in their constitution that the right to bear arms is a fundamental right. >> just generally, though aren't there hundreds of gun control laws on the books right now as it is? >> there are. nationally there are. and in locals around the country this are. but they want more background checks in the states. advocates do. >> before we leave, since you've got the website redstate.org, what is your headline today after the tsunami for the republicans? >> big headline: reporters got it wrong. so did the pollsters. but the biggest headline, steve, is it turns out the democrats don't have a coalition. it is only barack obama's. they didn't come out for the democrats. just for him. >> all right, eric ericsson jing us today. thank you very much. coming up did eric holder

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very, very honest with you in the south, has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. it's not always been a good place for women to be able to present ourselves. it's more of a conservative place. >> mary landrieu and other democrats tried playing that race card and their campaigns came to an end. which republican tim scott winning big in south carolina,

beating joyce dickerson 61-37 and a huge night for republicans across the country. what message did voters send to democrats about their race card strategy? >> mary landrieu didn't get 50%. joining us now to look at the results, allen west. you're in florida. you're in the south. the race card work for democrats when they brought up ferguson trayvon martin and when they brought up the overall complexion of the south? >> no, it didn't work very well. as you know, i was born and raised in georgia and over the weekend, i was in north carolina and georgia helping out some candidates. north carolina, you had the despicable flyer that showed the images of a lynching and trying to say a vote for thom tillis would bring a lynching possibility by way of impeachment to president obama. and the ferguson flyer was sent out by combat go democrat party. that was seen as offensive and a

last-ditch desperate effort by the democrats. i think it really did become fire. >> i want to show you this exit poll and get your reaction. as far as race in america what, do people think about it? do they think it's gotten worse in the last few years? 38% are saying yes. 20% saying it's gotten better. and 40% saying about the same. what's your reaction? >> it has indeed gotten worse because we have this sense of identity politics. every time there is some criticism of the president's policies people are trying to put him into a corner and say you're racist. eric holder called out race card. you continue to see and hear such as al sharpton use the race mantra and that's not what it's about. it's about the effectiveness of policies and about leadership and we don't see this country headed in the right direction. it has nothing to do with skin color. as a matter of fact, dr. king talked about a country where he hoped that we would be judged by the content our character not by the color of our skin. it seems the democrats and the

obama administration wants to go back to the skin. >> congressman cliburn said it, too, three days ago, same thing only to the tenth hour. do you think it was helpful or hurtful for eric holder to immediately put out election monitors to make sure things are on the up and up at those republican -- that republicans don't ask for i.d. in various places? >> i think that eric holder has shown himself to be an obstructionist toward the processes and procedures for voter integrity. look, you can't get on an airline without showing a voter i.d., so i guess he should put monitoring at every airport in united states. >> cotton and ernst picking up two seats. how did issues like the v.a. scandal, isis factor into last night's vote? >> when you look at those people who have been willing to give that -- those who served our

military, there is a high regard and their leadership capability and their ability to get in and washing very hard. you're probably going to see dan sullivan be successful in alaska. zelden was successful in new york. it's the qualities they bring to the table and with the issues we see that helps as well. >> the terrorist attack in canada, the ax attack in new york led to this poll. are you concerned about a terrorist attack in the u.s. 71%, very to somewhat worried. not worried, 28%. how much did that play in this? >> i think it has a lot to do with it. you can look at that as a mild october surprise, with the incidents that occurred in canada and followed up by what you saw in new york city. then we had an ax attack in washington d.c., the assailant was not successful. i don't know if he's been caught yet. but those things are starting to really get into the psyche of the american people.

you understand we have a homegrown jihaddist problem in our country. >> the officer who got the ax in the head is expected to make a full recovery. it will be a long road the assailant. we'll be talking to you again to find out where we go from here because you do have that washington background. thanks so much. >> thank you. we still have a huge show for you straight ahead. we're talking about the shift of power in america with new jersey governor chris christie. remember, he was in charge of getting republicans in those state houses. and thom tillis fresh off a win in north carolina and many more. so do not go away. ♪ ♪ it's a day full of promise. and often, that day arrives by train. big day today? even bigger one tomorrow. csx. how tomorrow moves.

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>> as we speak for the first time in eight years, the gop is taking control of the senate, taking control for the remainder of president obama's time in office. >> yep. and one of the biggest stories of the night is a huge win for republican governors across the country. we're talk talking about some of the biggest weaponners. governor chris christie, laura ingraham, who worked late last night, and karl rove who is out of dry erasers. >> so while it was a great night for the republicans, the president has already said, you know, the map was stacked against me. it was just a bunch of red states who were voting blah, blah blah. the big thing is this morning that the republicans have woken up and they are in control of the u.s. senate. right now as you can see, the balance is they picked up at least seven although there is word that maine senator king may be willing to caucus with republicans. joe manchin, maybe it's time for him to flip parties. >> you still have a couple in the balance, including alaska

and virginia. we'll get into that shortly. look in the house, a pick up of 25 seats. so that means that john boehner could feel more secure about his republican majority. there is many things he brought up and he always thought to himself, i can't pass anything unless it's got the majority of republican votes. he could actually do that now because he's got a pretty much of a massive balance in his direction. >> remember it was in 2010 that the president lost control of the house and he said, i took a shellacking. he lost control of the u.s. senate. i wonder what he's going to say today. >> that's why he's having a bipartisan meeting on friday. we need to start working together. >> well, he should say that. the big question is will he? >> the "new york times" does not make you feel optimistic about that he's willing to. we'll tell but that shortly. let's go to the individual races in iowa. for a while we thought this was going possible the bellwether and it was. the morning register says there will be a 7-point win for joni ernst.

52-44. >> in kansas, you have roberts winning the republican there over orphan 53 to 42%. >> in the peach state of georgia, supposed to be a nail biter and there is a real good possibility we wouldn't have a winner because there you have to have at least 50%. you know what? david perdue. michelle nunn lost by eight points. jimmy carter's grandson running for governor, he lost as well. >> in colorado, there is a star to emerge amongst the new class of republican senators, it might be cory gardner. he worked hard and went into an area which was turning blue. he turned it red. he ends up with a five-point victory. he had that ad that says i like mark udall. it worked. >> in arkansas, mark pryor running against tom cotton. cotton picking up the win 57%. getting quite the majority there. the republican harvard alumni

also was in the military. he was a captain in the army. >> still in his 30s. >> allison lundergan grimes, looked like she might give mitch mcconnell a run for the money, but as you can see, he won by at least 15 points last night. his was one of the early declarations of winning. it looks like he will be the new senate majority leader. >> one of the many people that hillary clinton went to bat for and lost. now let's switch to montana, considered one of the races in the republicans' pockets going in. 18-point lead for steve danes. >> then there is new hampshire where scott brown did not win this race against jeanine shaheen. she picked up 52% of the vote. >> the conventional wisdom with democrats yesterday was that kay hagan would win reelection, but by the time it was all done, count the votes. as you can see, thom tillis, the republican, won by two points. understandably, he was very excited last night.

>> but we stopped accepting this idea that people want to be provided for by government. the problem with that is the only way government can provide you with something is to take it away from someone else. there is ohm one thing government can give you that doesn't come at the expense of anyone else and that's freedom. i know my communications people are going thom tillis is completely off script because i'm not reading the teleprompter. i'll leave that up to president obama. >> that's where the democratic convention was and everyone was saying, that's one of the states like georgia. maybe even texas, that could be turning blue. that changing color is on hold. thom tillis is going to be joining us. the speaker of the state house will be joining us live shortly. >> there are some states that have not yet been called, including alaska where you have mark begich running against dan sullivan. it's just still too close. >> lot of rural areas.

73% reporting. >> and dan sullivan from the bush administration. and virginia look at this. if there was a stunner, even if it ends the way it is right now, it's this, ed gillespie was down as much as 22 and leading most of the night. he probably is within the margin of error to ask for a recount. we'll see. senator mark warner came out and said hey i won. >> down in louisiana, they are going to be going back to do some voting about a month from right now because there is going to be a runoff because neither the top two candidates got 50%. remember, there is another republican in there that got over a dozen points. so the conventional wisdom is if he plays his cards right bill cassidy will probably win. >> when you talk about a democratic star, it was wendy davis. she gave that filibuster speech. very comfortable on the stage. people thought this could be a time to get a democratic

governor in texas. not even close. greg abbott gets nod. >> we move to tell you about the state houses that republicans took. and take a look up in massachusetts, also known as taxachusetts. the republican beats martha coakley to be the next governor of the great state of massachusetts. that's a shocker. >> a is a shocker. let's look at wisconsin where scott walker held his seat there. his third successful election in just four years. it was an easy win over burks. she spent 5 million of her own dollars. >> what's interesting is that governor christie, who is hardly rga, had a little tension with governor walker and he's saying hey, can you spend time in my state. i could use the help. governor christie will be joining us later. they later made amends across the aisle and scott walker with a convincing win. this is his third win in about two minutes. so he will now be a front runner

in 2016. let's switch to maryland. anthony brown asked the president to show up and help him out. it did not work for the lieutenant governor. he's not the governor of that state. a republican, larry hogan is, with 54% of the vote. >> that is shocking, as is the next one. in illinois a reliablably blue state, rauner, the businessman, beats pat quinn, the incumbent. >> then let's look at maine, the welfare state paula page winning there. republican getting 48% of the vote. and against the democrat who got 44%. >> he's a conservative of conservatives and does he prevail again. he keeps that job. in florida arguably the most interesting in the country charlie crist says as a democrat, i cannot get my job back 'cause rick scott got more votes. he wins by just one percentage vote. i understand that scott wrote a $13 million check to himself to make sure he wasn't outspent.

here is rick scott. >> work is not done until every family like the one i grew up in struggled to make ends meet can get a great job, raise a family, and have the shot at the dream of america that everybody should have, whatever country you come from whatever family whatever zip code, you're here to get the dream of america in the great state of florida. >> so he gets to keep his parking spot there at the capitol in florida. meanwhile, why exactly did you vote for the people you voted for? we had some exit pollers out there taking the pulse of the country. how much was it a referendum on the president of the united states? take a look at this. which comes closest to your feelings about this president's add? 33% say you're dissatisfied. 27% say you're angry. so you add that up that's 60% of the country says they're dissatisfied or angry, that's not good. >> how about this exit poll? do you think things in the country today are well, seriously off track?

65% said yes. 31% said going in the right direction. >> and last question, which one of these four issues is the most important? the economy by a long shot. health care second. 14%. illegal immigration. and 13% foreign policy. the word is if there is something that's going to go by the board, it would be immigration. tax reform could be up first. >> you know what? last night was kind of a beach boys election because the republicans caught a wave and this morning they're sitting on top of the world. it's ten minutes after the top of the hour. coming up on this wednesday, the experts said it would end in a runoff. but businessman david perdue in georgia picked up the republican win for senate there. what happened? that senator-elect live next. and the other shocker the states who elected republican governors. new jersey governor chris christie will join us leave with what it means for america and 2016 for him and for others. ♪ ♪

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you've got to hold me accountable. you've got to hold our elected officials accountable, all of them. i just want to tell you right now that with your help and god's will, we will change the direction of our country. >> wow. forget the runoff. david perdue winning the georgia senate seat, keeping it in control of republicans. this despite him never getting 50% of the vote. it ended in preelection polls. how did he pull it off? why don't we ask him. david perdue, how does that sound, mr. perdue? >> i'm still getting used to it. it's been a big night, but the last 18 months has been very gratifying. we started a year and a half ago with a simple message that we felt like the country was in a crisis, was headed in the wrong direction. and the people of georgia responded to that. that message is still resonating right now. i think that's the message that came out of the election results last night in georgia. >> we know that saxby chambliss soon to be predecessor needed a runoff and it often happens in georgia. but david, in the end, do you

believe this was won in the last week? do you believe the polls were off? did people change their mind? what happened? >> no. our pollster had this number pegged all along. we lost a little traction midway in the general election, but we got up on tv again got our message going and once message kept resonating out there, people responded to it. we could feel that. we just finished a ten-day tour around the state and we just heard this response coming back to us overwhelmingly. so that's really what i think turned the tide here. >> your reaction to the flyers that went out from, i understand, the democratic party of georgia that had warning the black community if you allow david perdue to become our senator, that we can visit another -- we could have a ferguson in our streets. do you think that was over the line? >> well, i do. i said that publicly. it's disappointing, but it's what we've come to expect in politics.

we've got to change that. we disenfranchised a lot of people who have become cynical about the process. what i told everybody last night, i congratulated my opponent, michelle nunn she ran a tough race. i congratulated her supporters and i asked them to help us because we all want to see america change direction for the people of georgia and for the people of our country. i just asked them to join us. >> and obviously they did. so you are a businessman. your family knows politics. you're new to this and you used a lot of your own money in this campaign. what can you bring to washington? because a lot of business guys and women get frustrated in washington. >> well, i had that conversation with senator ron johnson of wisconsin a year and a half ago. he was in georgia two weeks ago and we continue that dialogue. i hope to bring a fresh perspective there from a working person's point of view. some of these unintended consequences that come out of some of these regulations and some of these laws really puts our businesses at competitive disadvantages with the rest of the world. that's what i hope to bring to

the senate and things like corporate tax rate repatriation tax, overregulation, and finally we want to get this energy resource unlocked here in the united states. >> what committee do you hope to be on? >> i've talked to senator -- couple senators up there. i'd love to be on the agriculture committee and also the armed services committee 'cause both of those are very important committees to the state of georgia. >> all right. congratulations. i know it's a big day for you and your family after a lot of hard work. david perdue u.s. senate-elect from georgia, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> now get some rest. still ahead was this election a referendum on president obama? laura ingraham here to weigh in. and what was the real reason attorney general eric holder sent monitors to the polls? to keep an eye on republicans perhaps? a former justice department official has some interesting information next. ♪ ♪

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yesterday did you notice somebody keeping an eye on you? >> well, poll watchers were there in place thanks to attorney general eric holder and perhaps liberal billionaire george soros. joining us to explain all of this former federal election commission official and senior legal fellow with the heritage foundation. thank you for joining us to talk about this. gorge soros has backed this information, common cause, and now they're out at polling sites in 16 different states, or at least were yesterday to make sure everything is going smoothly. but my question for you is why and how is this even possible that a democratic organization can monitor republicans and

democrats? >> well, they can only officially be in polling places if, under the local state law, a candidate or the political party has appointed them as a poll watcher. otherwise they shouldn't be in the poll. common cause has been involved in litigation case after case against states trying to stop voter i.d. laws trying to stop proof of citizenship for registration requirements. so they aren't interested in election integrity or making sure that we have a fair election. >> so i know it's too early to tell right now, but if they had a beef with anything that went on in any of the precincts that they observed, it could be as simple as somebody saying, do you have any i.d.? would you like to show me the i.d.? next thing you know, they're going to fill out a form and they're going to put it on the huffington post and people are going to be huffing and puffing about it right? >> yeah. i would expect them to exaggerate anything they see because again, that's what they've done in the lawsuits they have filed, most of which by the way, they have lost.

>> i know in the past there have been problems with some of these people that are watching the polls and making sure we're doing what we're supposed to do. can we trust they will treat us all fairly and that they will be bipartisan when doing this? what does history show? >> no. the democratic poll watchers are there to make sure that the democratic party wins. there have been many instances in the past where they have taken actions which bordered on interfering with the voting process. that's different from the justice department observers who holder also sent out to i think about 18 states yesterday. >> he did send them out. big question is, why? >> well, it's not unusual for the justice department to send out observers. but in the past, that has been done when they've received substantive complaints that there is some kind of problem expected discrimination. the justice department didn't release any information on

whether they had actually gotten any complaints from those 18 states, and they picked on states like georgia, which have voter i.d. laws in place, which as you know, eric holder opposes. >> we do not have those laws in place here in new york. when i voted yesterday, i didn't have to show an i.d all i had to do was tell them my name. so i could have sent my husband to go vote for me. >> in fact, that happened last year. the new york department of investigation said more than 60 undercover people in to see if they could get the ballot for somebody else and all but i think two cases they were handed those ballots. >> so given the fact that in a number of races the democrats lost, would you look for these two groups to come up with a whole litany of problems in those races coming up shortly? >> oh, sure. they're going to try to use that as evidence in the various lawsuits they have filed. i don't think they're going to be successful. but they're going to make a lot of noise about it. >> thank you for joining us today. >> thanks for having me.

coming up on this wednesday, it might be the biggest upset nobody saw coming. republican governors sweep the nation in some of the bluest states. what does that mean for america in 2016? new jersey governor chris christie, head of the republican governors association, is on his way in the studio. he's next on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪

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>> republicans got those -- they needed six, they got seven so far. and like you were saying, we're still waiting on some of the other race to come through. >> in the house of representatives, john boehner has more people in his column as you can see right now. he only needed two. he has 242. he's doing okay. as is mitch mcconnell, the presumed new majority leader of the u.s. senate. speak of the senate a lot of wins last night. >> especially in north carolina. this is what everyone was looking at to see if thom tillis, who had not won in any -- been on top in any of the polls who prevail over kay hagan and the answer is yes by two. >> iowa, joni ernst republican there, first female senator to represent the state of iowa beating bruce braley. >> in my home state of kansas, pat roberts had kind of a sleepy campaign until it got woke up by greg orman who suddenly was ahead in the polls. the real poll that mattered was yesterday. pat roberts won by a lot. >> let's look at georgia now because we don't have to wait

'til january to get a winner. david perdue went over the threshold, therefore, he's the next senator from georgia to replace saxby chambliss. >> another shocker overnight was how many republican governors won their races. let's go to texas. greg abbott winning 59% of the votes there, beating wendy davis. >> in the great state of wisconsin, scott walker, the number one target of democrats, they wanted to make sure that he didn't get a checkmark next to his name mary burke spent a bunch her dough and yet scott walker got a check next to his name. congratulations. >> according to a source close to governor christie who ran the rga, this was the race that worried him the most. governor scott at one point winner of charlie crist who used to have that job. overall, how did republicans pull this off and what message does this send to the gop in 2016? joining us is governor chris christie, who was tasked with the job of getting -- keeping governors in office and putting the republicans in there, governor by any standard, you

had a huge night last night. >> republican governors had a huge night last night and you think about it, we were the exact opposite of the senate map. we were defending two-thirds of seats last night. nine of the seats we were defending, the president won eight of those. we won eight of those nine races last night. so our governors did great. our candidates did very well. think about this, we wake up this morning with republican governors in massachusetts in illinois in arkansas and in maryland. >> look at that map right there. there seems to be more red than blue. of course, your favorite color is red. >> yes, a lot more red than blue. and i love that map this morning of the looks absolutely fabulous. >> i was going to say, how do you explain what happened in massachusetts and maryland? >> i think it's a repudiation of big spending, big taxing policies by governor o'malley and duval pat trick. in massachusetts, people don't want it. they saw where there were republican governors that they were delivering results. that's what people want more

than anything else. that's why the governors have done so well as compared to washington. >> the next two years are very important. of course, leading into the presidential race in 2016. what can we expect for republicans to do over the next two years? >> i think you'll see republican governors continue to do what they've done over the last four. that's why rick snyder got reelected in michigan. scott walker in wisconsin. paula page in maine. 'cause we do our jobs. we make sure we get the job done. we don't have a lot of bickering and arguing and rancor. we get our job done. i think that's what you'll see from governors over the next two years. >> we'll ask to you provide color on some of these exit polls. here it is. the question feelings about president obama and how it relates to the governors races and senate races. 33% are dissatisfied. 27% are angry. 29% are satisfied. 11% enthusiastic. how did numbers like that play into the tactics and success that you had last night? >> i got to tell you i think the president had less to do with what we did last night. >> really? >> yes. that's at the federal level.

>> you mean we as in governors? >> we as in governors. i think what governors did last night was to show on their own individual records that they could do a great job and people returned them to office. i heard all the labor unions who spent $150 million on governors races. 150 million. they said they were going to get rid of rick scott snyder spent $17 million last night. he didn't get rid of rick scott. they didn't get rid of scott walker or rick snyder. they also said they were going to get rid of them. what it means is when republican governors do their job, they get reelected. >> currently we'veour leader, is a democrat, barak obama, and so everything seems to reflect back on him. one of the other exit questions was do you think things in this country are seriously off track? 65% said yes. 31% said generally going in the right direction. but when you have two-thirds of the country saying we are in the ditch and we need to get somebody else driving or point us in the right direction, that's good for your side. >> of course it is. and it's a reflection of the

president's lack of leadership. his lack of leadership abroad, his lack of leadership at home. that's what it's a reflection of. the biggest emotion i saw, i went to 37 states was anxiety. i had one woman in florida say to me, governor, what's happened to our country? we used to control events. now events control us. that is directly reflective of the absolute vapid leadership of the president of the united states. >> you thought ebola was the nail in the coffin. the way the president handled the ebola situation really defined for you everything we didn't want in a leader. >> what we decided to do in new jersey was take a common sense approach. if you are exposed if you're a healthcare worker and directly exposed to an ebola patient it's not too much to ask to you quarantine for 21 days to make sure we don't spread the disease. >> especially if you had a fever. >> of course. and the military is now doing that. they don't even get exposed in the main to ebola patients. so the president has just got

this one wrong. the governors are feeling again -- fill ago vacuum of leadership and the governors are filling it. we're proud of new jersey to lead. we're proud that seven or eight states joined our lead and the department of defense in implementing the new jersey policy, not the white house policy. >> when you look at the power in this country, you have now the republicans in charge of the house and the senate and a bunch of the state houses as well. yet the president of the united states says, it wasn't a repudiation. the map worked better for them. this friday he's going to be sitting down with all the leaders from both sides, both chambers. the conventional wisdom is he's probably not going to budge. but if he's smart, he would. he would try to get something done in the next two years because americans don't want gridlock. we want something done. >> that's right. that's why the governors did so well. the president needs to step up and finally lead. and work in compromise with these folks in the congress. and we've seen this in the governors place at the mansions

all over the country. our governors have done the right thing. they've compromised where they needed to. but they stood by their principles. they've gotten things done. and by the way, there are 32 republican governors in america out of 50. i don't know what the president calls that. by the way, remember, the only places the president campaigned in the last week were for democratic gubernatorial candidates and except for tom wilson pennsylvania, none of them won. >> right. >> hillary clinton lost 17 elections in the place she and her husband came to focus on. that might be interesting. also overseas, you might think what does that have to do with the governor? you had an attack in new jersey which was an islamic extremist and we had an ax attack on a cop. so what's happening over there and what the president does for the next two years is going to affect us over here. >> sure. governors have to provide that kind of leadership in their states. their citizens look to their governors, especially when you have a vacuum of leadership in

the white house. >> let's look now to 2016. i can't believe we're already talking about this. we just finished the mid terms. but now with the headlines in some of the newspapers, who is going to run in 2016 what are your predictions? >> don't know. it's a very hard decision for anybody to make the decision to run for president. i think we should all take a deep breath. >> we can't really. >> i know it's very tight right now, but i think we should all take a deep breath and -- it's a very serious decision for anybody to make to run for president of the united states. people should do that deliberately. and then make whatever decision they think is best for themselves, their family and our country. >> the exit pollers yesterday did ask republicans and democrats who they liked for president. we've got the results right here. who do you think would be a good president? rick perry of texas, governor there. 84% said yes. jeb bush former governor of florida, 79%. rand paul got 77%. chris christie, would he make a good president? 69% say yes, you would. what do you make of that? >> i'm going to be taking all 69% of those people out to

dinner. wonderful. listen, polls two years away from a race that i'm not even in really don't mean a whole lot to me except i would like to be nice to those 69% of the people. they're good folks. >> rand paul did a bunch of interviews this weekend, one of which they played a clip of you telling that guy to sit down and shut up on the beach after saying it's been two years since sandy and look here we are in the rehab situation. he said i'm not sure how that plays nationwide. what's your reaction? >> it doesn't matter tomorrow. i am who i am. i'm not going to change. if someone does that kind of thing publicly, they're going to get what they give. and that's what people in my state and across this country have gotten to learn about me. that's who i am. i'm going to be direct and honest and blunt about how i feel about things. i think people will judge me up or down based on that but i don't worry about the kind of punditry analysis. it doesn't matter to me. >> we know you've had a great night last night a great morning today. he's the governor of my state of new jersey.

do i talk to you about the pothole in front of my house? >> yes. >> we should have told him we changed the side of the room where the couch was. >> no one called no one wrote. moved the couch. got a new couch. >> it's fancy. >> that means you need to come in more often. >> listen, absolutely. >> thank you. it got some of the biggest applause of the night. >> i know my communications people are going thom tillis is completely off script because i'm not reading the teleprompter. i'll leave that up to president obama. >> thom tillis pulling off the upset in north carolina. the senator-elect is going to join us next. ♪ ♪

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it's the senate race that came down to the wire. this morning thom tillis officially the winner of the north carolina senate race, beating his opponent kay hagan 49-47%. >> my name is thom tillis and i'm the next united states senator from the state of north carolina. we're going to continue the tradition that we've done here in north carolina. we're going to go there and expect more out of our leaders and fulfill our promises and we're going to make this country great again. >> kay hagan tried distancing herself from the president, but generally sided with him on all the big issues. so what does this say about how

the voters feel toward washington? here to react fresh off his victory, senator-elect thom tillis. good morning to you. congratulations. >> good morning. >> i watch tv. according to the pundits, you weren't supposed to win. what did you do? >> well, we actually stayed on strategy. we, for the last three weeks we felt like it was well within reach. what really did it was our volunteers, the phone calls, knocking on doors, really the ground game here i think we proved we could match up against the democrats. i'm very proud of what they all did. >> speaking of phone calls, you got a call last night from kay hagan. what did she say? >> she was very gracious. they weren't tarred in this race. senator hagan and i if you looked at all the ads you would think we're bad people. it wasn't about us being good or bad, it was about different visions for america. she was gracious and i wish the best for her and her family. >> ultimately what probably did her in with the number of voters is the fact that, according to the exit polling, too often she

sided or agreed with the president of the united states. the president has terrible poll numbers right now and do you see a connection, while she tries to run away from him, the people of north carolina realize, wait a minute. she voted with him all along. >> that's right. i think the president laid the groundwork for this election to be a referendum on his policies. he said his policies every single one were on the ballot, and hopefully this will be a message and i humbly request the president get with the new leadership in congress and start getting things done. >> the conventional wisdom, though, is that since now there are republicans in charge of the senate and the house, maybe the president should take them on and not compromise. however, you're going there. you want to get something done. you don't want two years of gridlock, do you? >> not at all. hopefully we'll use some unconventional wisdom and get people together and take a look at the things that the house

have done. there are a number of bills that have come from the house that went had harry reid's desk that i think represent bipartisan opportunities to get the nation back on track. and i hope that the president respectfully respects that the president will take heed and really work with us to get things done. >> one of the things in the campaign that the democrats tried to pull against you was they said thom tillis is bad for women. they were playing the war on women card against you. yet according to the exit polling with north carolina's white female voters you won 56%. she got 39%. is it official? does the war on women no longer work? >> well, i think that the democrats should take notice that they're tired -- the voters are tired of the same arguments. what they want is the job to be healed and the economy. they want our safety and security to be reestablished. those are the things that most voters want to focus on.

we need to disspends with these old politics as usual and go back to the issues that most voters will vote on. >> absolutely. congratulations once again. you've been fighting this fight for a number of months now. so when you're done with the tv interviews today what's the first thing you're going to do to relax? >> i'm going to go back up to my home on lake norman and spend some time with my wife and my family. they're all in town from all parts of the u.s. and just take a break. >> have a little party. thom tillis who just won the party from north carolina, thank you for joining us live today. good luck to you. >> thank you. 12 minutes now before the top of the hour. coming up, here is a topic we haven't talked about yet this morning. immigration. so how did that play out in last night's elections? laura ingraham live in the studio. good morning. she's doing the wag baby. ♪ ♪

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republicans just steam rolling democrats last night to take control of the u.s. senate. the big reason? the president's failed policies. here is just one of the fox news exit polls. 33% are dissatisfied with this administration. 27% are angry. and only 29% are satisfied. 11% enthusiastic. joining us now, radio talk show host and fox news contributor, laura ingraham. you were here late last night. what do you make of what happened? >> total, complete repudiation of the obama agenda. no doubt about it. >> he doesn't think so. >> of course he doesn't.

i think he was so upset he pledge to do play only nine holes of golf. one of the things that happened this summer, sometimes images capture the sentiment of the people. when the president was -- he's in martha's vineyard, presidents take vacations. president bush did as well. but we had that big crisis at the border and that jumped to the number one concern and i think reuters gallup, people freaking out for a bunch of reasons. the president is golfing having fun, he's at the beach. malia ask sasha is having fun. there is a disconnect. no drama obama turned into underperforming, out of touch, disconnected obama. the appeal and the charm of his personality has long since dissipated. >> because people want to get stuff done. and up with of the questions about the exit polls was which of these four issues most important facing you? the number one as you can see, run away is the economy. people need jobs. health care is number two. illegal immigration -- >> wait a second. it's not getting free

contraception and ferguson? oh, that's a shock. look, the politics of racial fair mongering gender division so forth, we're just swamped by the reality of what's happening in america. >> that's great for the country. forget about the party. >> it's cleansing. >> you don't want to vote for that guy or woman because they only like rich people. they only like white people. they don't like these people. that goes nowhere. >> and the republicans have to grapple with that. obama is not on the ticket in two years. the republicans are going to face a democrat who runs a very populous campaign. they are going to go to the sweet spot of the american middle class. when i say that, i mean what are their concerns? for 15 to 18 years, i believe, they haven't seen their wages go up. yet obama goes out there to detroit the other day, we're turning the corner in this economy. things are looking up. it's like, baghdad bob. saddam is winning the war? baghdad barak. things are going great. don't worry. we're turning the corner. most people do not feel that the country is going in the right

direction. the title of my next book should be titled "hell in a hand basket" 'cause that's the way most people feel the way our country is going. >> one source says the white house is going to do executive amnesty before christmas. >> i believe it and here is the challenge for repubcans. i hear a lot of talk about the need for republicans to capitulate be gracious. of course be gracious. but in victory to capitulate after this wholesale shellacking is literally the definition of insanity. you won in 2010 and you won this time around because republicans basically stayed unified on a few key issues. strengthen the borders keystone and obamacare and bringing jobs back. they look unified and they win. now to go into these inner city neighborhoods, sell the gospel of conservatism, grow it. do not capitulate. the same people who are calling for capitulate were not expecting this wave. we're saying that chris christie the guy you just had

on, was finished. chris christie has a big win in this election. watch him closely. he raised over $100 million or more for republicans. he came become after that bridgegate scandal and he showed a little bit of that righteous indignation the other day on ebola. the experts oh he's too rough around the edges. watch what happens with christie. he has that type of righteous indignation and a little bit of anger that the voters have. he has to temper it a little bit, but this was a big big win for chris christie. >> wasn't this an audition for the next two years for republicans? you want to get the white house? do a good job. >> i think so. christie made the point governors are getting it done. we almost won in my home state of connecticut. came very close at one point last night, it was seven votes. in liberal maryland, in illinois where the -- >> massachusetts! >> coakley out in massachusetts. for anyone today to be on television or radio saying this is not a repudiation of liberalism should get into a different line of work.

and for can "house of -- i they we should look at the titles the death of conservatism, they were all wrong. it was wishful thinking. here comes the new america. we're going to wake up and get stronger. >> she got all this from three lines of notes. >> laura ingraham doing your radio show in an hour from now. thank you very much. straight ahead, karl rove says republicans need to learn from that. he's on his way in. plus joe trippi, larry sabato and some of the night's biggest winners all join us live in a special edition of "fox & friends" live from the election central headquarters. ♪ ♪ the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand, comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™

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gop now in charge for the remainder of president obama's term. >> i'm sure he's thrilled about that. another story, huge wins for republican governors all across the country. more on that in a moment. first, a closer look at the new balance of power in the u.s. congress. remember they needed to pick up six and the republicans picked up seven. right now they're leading. they got 52 and it looks like the guy from maine could actually start caucusing with them, even though he's independent. that could get bigger. >> balance of power in the hands of the republicans for the house as well. 242 house members are republicans now, or will be. democrats, 174. >> let's back up and talk a little bit about some of the big winners in the u.s. senate. >> let's go down south to north carolina. thom tillis beating kay hagan. that was a big race. >> let's switch over to iowa now. joni ernst was leading in most of the polls. she ends up winning by eight points. very impressive there and a big

win for the veteran. >> it looked like the veteran pat roberts was going to lose in kansas to greg orman. but when the voting was done and the counting was done, greg orman lost by a wide margin. >> and then let's go to georgia where republicans are avoiding a big runoff there because perdue won. the republican there won by a lot, beating nunn. >> cory gardner and sold the republicans on his candidacy and said don't run anybody against me 'cause i can win. he was right. he wins in colorado. >> and what happened to the clinton magic in arkansas? they went to campaign for mark pryor, but tom cotton, the republican, won and won big last night. >> and then in montana, steve daines wins beating curtis, 58% to 40%. >> that was in the republican column before election day. new hampshire wasn't and it remains out of their reach. scott brown falls by four points to jeanine shaheen who keeps

that slot. >> and final in the senate, as you can see there mark begich and the dan sullivan race too close to call as is the case in the commonwealth of virginia. >> where ed gillespie is running against mark warner. >> that's the huge surprise of the night. >> and it looks as if in louisiana, if you wanted to know who won neither won. you're going to get to vote again about a month from now. they're going to have a runoff. >> let's switch to governors now. in that governor race, greg abbott to the surprise of a few, 60% of the vote and defeats wendy davis. >> charlie baker, the republican, wins in taxashussetts. >> it was on paper to be a great fight and a slug match into the final moment. instead scott walker walks away with a five-point win. he is now in prime spot to be a leading candidate for 2016. >> even though she spent 5 million of her own bucks on that race. then let's go to maryland where larry hogan, a republican there,

beating anthony brown. he took 54% to 45%. >> a protege of the president and was lieutenant governor. >> and he was trailing throughout the campaign. rick scott won in the end down in florida. folks in the sunshine state are wake up knowing rick scott will be the governor there for a couple more years. >> pat quinn had a great idea, raise tacks and jack up your deficit and bruce rauner says i have a better idea, let me have the job. he becomes the next governor of illinois. the republican wins. >> let's go to maine. paula page wins 48% of the vote republican there. beating his opponent who got 44%. >> and the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell defeating democrat allison lundergan grimes. so what was behind last night's big win? let's talk to fox news contributors and campaign cowboys karl rove and joe trippi. carl not wearing his cowboy hat

this morning. >> but a smile. >> you can only ask. >> one at a time. >> which was not our idea. we want to be clear that was chris wallace has idea. >> your headline from last night? n it was a wave. what happened was democrats were fierce about trying to make it a local election against their opponents. republicans wanted to make it nationalize it make it about obama, make it about changing policies. and democrats kept that race close. kept it localized enough that even going into last week it was tight and then the dam broke the national momentum of the thing just broke. you look at hogan in maryland, i mean, winning that seat. you look at winning the governorship there. you look at virginia, i don't think ed gillespie will pull that one out. but the fact that that thing closed nine points in one week.

>> warner spent $16.4 million and gillespie sent 6.8. warner was leading by 9.7 and the race is less than half a point. >> how do you slain that? >> i think what happened is at the end we had this chunk of undecided voters who said you know what? we're at the point where we got to make a decision and we're going to vote for change. we're going to vote for change in our state change in america. this is being given by -- driven by barak obama's policy, liberal policies. when you have somemething like larry hogan in maryland whose message was we're taxed too much and it's costing us jobs in this state, it resonated and here is a guy whose dad was a county executive many many, many years ago, but is a businessman and he, bang pulls this off in an extraordinary way. you see this everywhere across the country. >> in maryland, joe, you were talking before a lot of republicans moved to pennsylvania. >> this is a one party state essentially where this happened.

it does happen occasionally in maryland. but it shows you the wave that came across. >> we started, you were talking about the races in the senate and house. alaska, i feel very good about dan sullivan, he's well ahead in that state. look at louisiana. it's going to a runoff. but you add the votes of the three republicans together and it is 56%. >> you mentioned money. i was reading some statistics about what was spent on this race. $4 billion for mid terms. this isn't even a presidential election. it's unprecedented. one state, north carolina spending 100 million. some of them spending 500 of their own bucks. >> kay hagan had $22.9 million in her war chest. thom tillis won after he spent $9 million. and look, there are the outside groups. i'm involved as a volunteer with american crossroads. it was our largest single expenditure. >> you mentioned thom tillis, we

had him on the program 45 minutes ago. here is what he had to say about people went to vote against barak obama in north carolina. >> the president laid the groundwork for this election to be a referendum on his policies. he said his policies every single one were on the ballot and hopefully this will be a message and i humbly request that the president get with the new leadership in congress and start getting things done. >> will he get that message, that thom tillis just said? >> i don't think -- look, i just think a lot of stories this morning about the president not going to pivot. >> that was the first story in politico. >> i'm not sure that's his style or the way he's going to handle this. we'll see. he is calling that meeting that he called in the middle of the day yesterday. but look -- >> they're meeting on friday. >> sorry yeah. but i just think that this is a message that the party needs to get, that this wasn't just about -- went into this thing saying republicans are crazy.

you can't vote for them. essentially what the message was at the national level. doesn't work. >> it also helped tillis being a little humble in this. it wasn't just in north carolina the message of obama. it was also that we had high quality candidates like this guy. thom tillis is an extraordinary leader. he was elected the speaker of the house of north carolina as a sophomore legislator, the beginning of his second term. he passed 11 major pieces of legislation involving education reform ethics, vetoed by a democratic governor and overrode every one of the democratic governor by getting between a quarter and 40% of the house democrats to override their own democratic governor's vetoes. >> speaking of governor, we had chris christie right there on that part of the curvy couch moments ago and we put up the map, showed him how many red states there are now. he had this to say. >> we were defending two-thirds of the seats last night and nine of the seats we were defending the president won those states

eight of those, that won those nine. we won eight of those nine races last night. our governors did great. our candidates did very well. think about this, we wake up this morning with republican governors in massachusetts, in illinois in arkansas, and in maryland. >> all right. you started to -- >> that's sort of the big story that got missed last night 'cause everybody was so focused on the senate. the gains in the governor mansions, gains in the house just show again the breadth of how big a wave it was in terms of democrats -- >> joe, it shouldn't be surprising. a majority of people in the country feel that we're going to hell in a hand basket. >> i saw that. >> it's the failure of the democrats to offer a vision, to say at the state level, we want to go in a different direction. and a lot of credit goes to chris christie. he has done a magnificent job as the head of the republican governors association, raising

$100 million to help get his compatriots back in. >> go get some sleep. >> great job. >> you did an excellent job last night. >> were you up? >> i was. >> it's well past your bedtime. >> i told my wife i was going to bed, but i was watching tv. good job. >> thank you. coming up on this wednesday by taking the senate, did republicans also just take control of the federal courts as well? this is a big deal that could affect every american no matter where you live. we're going to talk about that. democrats used the ferguson protests to get african-americans to the polls. so did it work? the proof is in the numbers. we're going to analyze those numbers with the first african-american ever elected to the senate in south carolina. tim scott next. and there they are on the cowboy hats. happy trails, joe and karl. ♪ ♪

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52-45, did republicans also just take control of the federal courts as well? kind of in a way. this is a big deal that could affect every american no matter where you live.

joining us right knew, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson jr. >> you're right. it's a huge huge matter of importance to alt american people 'cause this could spell end of the president's plan to pack the federal courts with really liberal federal judges and even supreme court justices going forward. so we know that the president has appointed and the senate has confirmed about 280 federal judges. and they've been more liberal than any group at any time, really in the past. the components are a huge number of minority appointments. more than president bush before him, more women, and much more liberal. we expect about 90 appointments during the rest of the president's term. and under the constitution, the senate must confirm those federal judiciary appointees, including the circuit courts of appeals which in 2008, 12 or 13

were controlled by the republicans. now nine of the 13 controlled by the democrats. so it's very important for the next three and four decades about how justice is done in this country. >> because even though the republicans have had control of the house for a couple of years the house didn't weigh in on the judicial appointments. just the senate with harry reid in charge, everybody the president wants, boom rubber stamp. >> absolutely. what will happen now is we will see less liberal less progressive candidates put forward by the president for appointment to the federal judiciary, if he wants those folks to be appointed. so there will be a softening in terms of the hard liberal edge of some of the appointees in the federal court. >> something else that the u.s. senate has to weigh in on. they've got to give consent to the president's picks for his cabinet. >> yes. >> we know eric holder, the top law man, has already said, i'm leaving. i'm getting out of town. >> right. >> okay. if it were held the senate by

democrats, you could imagine that the president could pick as far left a guy as he wanted to. >> if they can get it done before january 1 then maybe they can do that. but that's where the american people come into play. the american people are not going to put up with the she shenanigans by democrats or republicans, does it defy the will of the people and common sense? so people are going to be look at both parties, democrats and the president and republicans who is going to be the adult in the room? who is going to act in a responsible way? who is going to act in a way consistent with the constitution and with first principles going forward? federal courts are one of the great important institutions in our country. civil lawsuits in terms of diversity jurisdiction. people from different states suing each other criminal prosecutions, 100,000 a year. it is the bulwark of our democracy in many ways.

but under president obama more and more of these judges have been extremely liberal. >> i don't know that anybody really thought about it or articulate that had until this morning. real quickly before you go so the president famously has done these executive actions where he just says, i figured a way to do it. going forward though, now with the republicans in charge of the house and senate, if they don't like something, they could cut off the money. >> absolutely, that's true. is that really going to happen? i don't know. i do expect and i think you're 100% right, we will see more and more executive actions. what we'd like to see and a lot of americans would like to see based upon the wave we saw last night is will the president come to the middle? will he come to the center? will he say yes, we need a keystone pipeline? yes, we need trade reform and economic development that doesn't cost the american taxpayers a lot of money. will that happen or will he u to the left and say, i have my

legacy, i'm not backing off and i want to tee this up for my successor. depends how he acts. >> no kidding. time will tell. we should know more on friday. peter johnson with angles you haven't thought about yet but should. coming up on this wednesday democrats tried to use the race card to explain their party's problems. remember this? >> very honest with you, the south has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. >> so that's what happens in the south? how do you explain this the first african-american just elected to the senate from south carolina, tim scott. he's going to join us live with reaction. ♪ ♪

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mary landrieu and other democrats tried to a degree playing the race card as their campaigns came to an end. remember this? >> to be very very honest with you, the south has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. it's not always been a good place for women to be able to present ourselves. it's more of a conservative place. >> that was four days ago to try to maybe solidify the vote. with republican tim scott winning big in south carolina, beating joyce dickerson 61% to 37%, a huge night for republicans across the country do the voters send a message to democrats about their race card strategy and the reality? joining us now, south carolina senator-elect, senator tim scott. congratulations. you were appointed to that position. now you have six years after being elected to that position.

how does it feel? >> thank you very much. it certainly is an exciting day for me. i only have two years, because it's a special election. so i have to do this again in 2016. i think what we've seen in the south over the last 50 years is perhaps the most progress made on race anywhere in the country has been made in southern states where voters now vote for people that think like them have the same values as they do no matter what they look like. this is really good news for all of us who are born and bred in the south. >> including me. i'm from south carolina. really proud of you this morning. i want to get reaction to this poll. race relations in our country, 20% say it's gotten better. 40% say it's about the same. 38% say worse. what are your thoughts? >> i probably tilt towards a little worse than it was several years ago. over the last couple of years, what i've seen happen, and it's unfortunately happening by our own peers when i was a high school kid i heard so often, you're just not black enough.

i'm not even sure what that was supposed to mean. but simply said too many kids today are facing a choice of dumbing down in order to fit in. i would say to them don't fit in. a lot of single moms go to work every single day wondering if their efforts are in vain. i would say to the single moms they are not. so the issue of race and the issue of poverty comes center stage and too often we see our friends on the left using this issue of race as a calling card not for the human condition, but for political gain. this is a major problem in our country and it is creating a rift in our nation that is unnecessary when so many people in so many places are doing the right thing. we should celebrate the progress that we've made. >> surely. a lot of people thought with the election of barak obama as our president, things were going to get better. but they have invariably gotten a little worse.

one of the other exit questions was, about your trust in the federal government to do what's right. 60% say the federal government only does the right thing sometimes. what does that say to you about the frustration of people who went to vote yesterday? >> i think once again it speaks to the fact that too many times politicians spend all their time figuring out which issue polls better, what's right for political positioning. the fact of the matter is the average person in the country wants a government that gets out of their way and allows them to fail or succeed based on their best efforts. we need that again. if we were focusing on the issues that the american people say are most popular and most important issues like putting the keystone pipeline on the president's desk let him decide whether he's going to veto it or not. think about having a budget. every single family in the country has a budget and with

the senate, went more than five years almost without a budget. these common sense approaches to governing and to living is at home all over america, here in south carolina, the fact of the matter is they want that in dc, too. >> so more history was made as a former mayor, mia love in utah. what do you think that means for the african-american community? >> i think there is going to be members of the black community who take a step back and say wow. mia love becomes the first african-american female to serve in congress in the history of the country. will heard in texas becomes another african-american serving. lieutenant governor, boyd rutherford elected. that's one of the reasons why i started the conversation by simple lie saying this, don't fit in. be you. do the natural thing. don't do the normal thing. do the natural thing. if it's in your heart to be inconsistent with what they say

is the status quo break it. >> right. we have in sports, rgiii got accuse of not being black enough. russell wilson is not black enough and charles barkley spoke similar. the president did himself in the white house. >> and we should all be speaking out because there shouldn't be a single stereo typical definition of what it means to be black enough. we should all be looking first and foremost how much of an american are you? that's where we should start the conversation and debate. in this country, even though i did -- had a difficult time in high school, this country and south carolina gave may second chance. if you will do all that you can do, help will come your way. if you won't do it, then help is going to be a little far off. >> i know -- >> defining yourself -- >> i know you're a big role model to so many people in south carolina. keep it up. you're making us all proud. thanks. >> thank you. >> congratulations. coming up, carolina blue going red. >> the only way government can

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you're waking up happy this morning because the republican party has grabbed control of the u.s. senate. looks like mitch mcconnell will be in charge. harry reid not so happy today. >> i wonder if he'll be a minority leader. the headlines in the huggington post is ouch. just a huge night along with the governorships. some of the battle ground states that i think are noteworthy that might be been in the balance, north carolina, kay hagan winning in about every poll. lost the ultimate poll. the final tally by two. thom tillis is senator-elect. >> now look at iowa. joany beating bruce braley by 52%. first woman senator for the state of iowa. >> she wasn't even supposed to win the primary. >> greg orman was on our program yesterday saying vote for him. kansas did not. in a majority way pat roberts won. >> in georgia, it was not sam nunn's daughter that prevailed.

it was david perdue. there will be no runoff. he joined us earlier as obviously quite happy. >> and then in the state of colorado cory gardner picking up 50% of the vote there. just enough to win the republican senate seat. >> there you go. meanwhile, we did have pollsters out asking you questions about things that you felt strongly about. one of them was about this isis and everything going on, right now 71% of you are very or somewhat worried about it. we had colonel allen west on the program earlier and he can see why you're worried. >> i think it has a lot to do with it. you can look at that as a mild october surprise with the incidents that occurred in canada and then followed up by what you saw in new york city and then of course we had an ax attack in washington, d.c the assailant was not successful. i don't know if he's been caught yet. but those things are starting to really get into the psyche of the american people. you understand we have a home

grown jihaddist program in our country. >> that brings to another question, as you can see, we're very concerned about another terrorist attack in this country, about 71%, as you know. there is some ballot measures noteworthy to share with you. in florida, they said medical marijuana, what do you think? they didn't get the 60% needed. so therefore, it failed. >> it passed in oregon and washington state. >> recreational use, right? >> that's right. a slight edge in alaska. last check 52.1% to 47.9%. >> meanwhile, let's talk about gun rights. voters went to the polls in washington and alabama and they passed in both states. which will require tougher background checks when it comes to buying a gun. meanwhile, it was the most expensive senate race in u.s. history. despite unprecedented spending against him, republican thom tillis won a narrow victory over incumbent senator democrat kay hagan. final result 49-47.

wjzy reporter is live in charlotte this morning with the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: yeah, good morning. just a couple hours ago i spoke with thom tillis. i saw him behind me out front of the omni hotel, when i talked to him, his helping was clear. time to take back washington and put the country back on track. to do so, it took what's being called the most expensive u.s. senate race in history. we're talking about a price tag of over $100 million. the deciding factor was right around 100,000 votes. that's what it took to edge tillis over democratic incumbent kay hagan whom he thanked for her service. here is how tillis plans to shake things up. >> hopefully we'll use unconventional wisdom and get people together and take a look at the things that the house has done of the there are a number of bills that have come from the house and went to harry reid's desk that i think represent bipartisan opportunities to get the nation back on track.

>> reporter: and tillis says that after a round of public appearances, he's going to spend much needed time with family. back to you guys. >> all right. thank you very much for the live report. also in north carolina, it was a referendum on president obama. >> fox news poll shows about half of the voters in that state say that senator kay hagan agrees with the president too often. >> and a majority of north carolinaians voters say they have anything feelings about the obama administration. let's listen. >> i know my communications people are going thom tillis is completely off script because i'm not reading the teleprompter. i'll leave that up to president obama. >> kay hagan didn't want anything to do with president obama. but then -- >> until the last day. >> he did a radio spot in her favor. >> the exit polls showed the people in north carolina felt she was agreeing way too much with him and ultimately she this

morning look for a new job. >> remember, that was the site of the democratic national committee. believe me, that was very blue. and i think democrats have to say, wait a second. we now have lost the entire south. when you think about it. north carolina is not ready to flip. they thought texas would flip. that didn't happen. they thought georgia would flip. that didn't happen. all the demographic experts have to recalculate i guess their calculus. >> now the ball is in the republicans' court. what are they going to do over the next two years? stay tuned. in the meantime, speaking of coming up, larry sabato looked into his crystal ball yesterday. he predicted the exact number of seats the republicans would take in the senate. so how did he get it right? he's going to be here next with some of his winners and some losers and larry's got big surprises. talking about surprises, a lot of people were shocked that georgia went to the republicans last night. but not our own maria bartiromo. she said all you had to do is look at the unemployment numbers. >> why didn't we think of that?

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the state of the economy the number one concern among american voters with 45% way above health care, immigration and foreign policy. joining us now from our sister network, fox business is maria bartiromo. so good to see you. >> hi, guys. >> big night last night. so let's talk about this. the republicans are saying they went to the polls because that is their number one concern. >> it is. yeah. because even though we're seeing the data improve, we are seeing the data improve, we know that, people are not feeling it. it's not translating into their life their local community, because wages are down. they see this uncertainty in terms of what's around the corner.

and it's no secret that when you look at the most hotly contested states, that's where the highest unemployment rate was. georgia, 7.9% unemployment in georgia. and that's actually underestimating things because we know that these numbers do not capture everybody who is actually participating or not participating really in job hunting. >> yet when it came to the economy, the big term was minimum wage. who is going to raise it? four states had it on the ballot. one went up, one went down. if you want minimum wage to go up, that's one thing. but what about my wages going up that aren't minimum wage jobs? >> that's right. i think this issue is going to stay front and center as a result of the success we've seen in terms of raising the minimum wage. now, it's clear from last night's election the most important issues when you really want the granularity of it, it's jobs and wages. wages are down over the last five years. if you look at household income household income is up slightly, but that's only because that takes into account two income families. so that's taking into account either couples or partners that are actually both working. >> two of those states were

republican states that voted to raise the minimum wage. so republicans going to have to get on board with this issue? >> probably. i do think this is going to be a recurring issue that people want to see that minimum wage come up. you can understand because people are looking at their wages stagnant. they have not moved and in many cases they're down. i think that's going to be an issue that republicans have to deal with in the next couple of years. >> we're going to put up a map because we love graphics and show just how many states republicans now have governors. as you can see the red is the republicans. what's interesting as well is just the fact that a number of states voted to increase taxes last night as well. so going forward, you get kind of a mixed message. the people in those red states probably would like to see taxes go down. but at the same time, other states going up. >> i think it's all about this -- i think that's why even though the unemployment numbers have been improving and we know they have been improving because of the data, people are not feeling it because of the wage issue. so you are going to see a mixed

message in the heart of the republican party in terms of what to do about that. we're focused on jobs in the opening bell this morning and we're going to look at where specifically are the jobs in the country as well as in the -- >> where? >> we're seeing a loft job creation in technology and job creation in health care. we're all living longer, technology has changed the game in terms of us monitoring everything in our body. so we're specifically looking at where are the jobs? we all need health care. >> there is one governor we have not spoken enough about and who had a huge win yesterday, in ohio, governor kasich who is in on balancing the budget with president clinton and now done a great thing in ohio. i can't wait to see what you have to say or when you go on your show shortly. >> thank you. >> that's right. don't miss opening bell on the "fox business" network. to find it in your area, go to foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. >> it's on 106 in a lot of

areas. >> i can see you in the monitor in the hall, so i'm competing. >> thanks. meanwhile, dr. larry sabato looked into his crystal ball yesterday and predicted the exact number of seats republicans would pick up in the senate. how did he get it right? he's next. we'll ask him. first, someone wake bill hemmer -- he's up! all right. he worked all night, did a great job on the bill board. >> yes. >> nice to see you. good morning night it was. who called this thing, right? big show the morning after the election. the president is going to speak today. what's his message going to be? we're already hearing about there is no pivot plan at the white house. we'll put that question to senator rand paul and steve danes, senator out of montana. what you need to understand about what last night means and why it happened. great line - up for you a couple minutes away when martha and i see you on "america's newsroom," top of the hour

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he looked into his crystal ball and projected a 53-47 margin for the senate republicans. right now the balance of power is 52-43 with louisiana headed for a runoff and then alaska and virginia just too close to call. >> absolutely. joining us now is the man who made that prediction himself dr. larry sabato from the university of virginia. he joins us. we can't wipe out virginia yet. but you know virginia best. why was everyone so wrong about the chances of ed gillespie winning? >> i want an investigation of the polls in virginia. they were completely wrong. just as they were in georgia. they were also way off in illinois. i could go on and on. boy, is that an industry that needs some housecleaning. virginia is a good example. i don't know whether it was a combination of overconfidence by

the warner people. i think certainly a smart campaign by ed gillespie who came very close to being a u.s. senator and now has set himself up to run for governor perhaps in 2017, or another major office. so all elections have consequences beyond the actual day. that's a good example. >> dr. sabato, who were the biggest winners, in your opinion, last night? >> i would start with mitch mcconnell. mcconnell is thrown brick bath after brick bath by media as well as democrats. i'm particularly proud of my crystal ball team because we were the only ones in this business who never had that race a toss-up or even leaning to mccontinental. we always had it likely mcconnell and he won in a landslide. i'm amazed at how people will ignore the fundamentals in a deeply red state with president obama and 31%. how they could ever think

mcconnell would lose a race like that. >> it is strange. let's go to iowa. >> joni ernst, i think she will be a big star. she was a big winner, first woman from iowa, republicans need more prominent women in high office and she's got personality to burn. so i think there is going to be a lot of attention on her. >> as we talk about 2016, you can't do that without talking about iowa. let's go to the midterm losers. senator kay hagan leading in most poll, tied in a couple. thom tillis beats her by two. >> here is a good example of a loser who really ran a great campaign and the republicans in north carolina agree with that. she was ahead right until the very end. timing really is everything in politics and other enterprises we can think of. but i think particularly in politics. she was so close and yet it fell apart right in the last week. and she was the democratic party's fire wall. she and shaheen up in new

hampshire, she managed to win, but not hagan. >> what about colorado? you have democrat mark udall and he loses the senate race to cory gardner. >> cory gardner will be another star for the republicans. the fact that he could dispense with udall as handily as he did in a state that voted for president obama handily twice that has been turning blue? well, it's back to being purplish again. and he can take a lot of the credit for it. so udall is gone. >> it will be interesting to see if virginia if colorado and north carolina end up being battle grounds again. let's talk about the biggest surprises. david perdue substantial win. no runoff necessary, thank you. over michelle nunn. pat roberts says forget about the polls. i win. i win, i win against the not so independent greg orphan. your thoughts? >> yes. i think we talked about that once before. kansas is deeply red and in the end, in the last instant when

those undecided voters most of them republicans are casting a ballot, they weren't going to toss out a senator with seniority and somebody who was going to vote against president obama for an unknown who might have sat with the republicans or might have sat with the democrats, but probably would have provided more votes for president obama's programs. >> if sullivan delivers alaska, you'll be right on the money. close enough is fine. congratulations to you and your guys and your crystal ball. >> thanks so much. >> thank you all so much. appreciate it. >> steve? >> on the cover of the new york post today, it shows the president of the united states midterm tsunami stripped. the emperor has no clothes. we posted this to facebook and your comments are rolling in. we'll share some of them right after a brief timeout. ♪ ♪

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doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. >> welcome back. a post on "the new york post" cover on your stripped. that's the president wearing the crown. republicans take control of the u.s. senate. we got a lot of your responses. gary said quote, i haven't felt this good, he wrote in, in six years, he said on facebook. >> mary said, put away the pen and hang up the phone, mr. president. we don't want what you're selling. >> terry said, this is what happens when you don't play well with others. don't blow the chance to turn the country around. by the way, here is some celebrity reactions to the midterm elections. stacy dash tweeting this: those races, sexist republicans just elected mia love to congress.

oh wait. >> and made history with t. our friend, donald trump, who appears on this program on mondays wrote on twitter. ful. really bad night for president obama. now the republicans have to get together and get the job done. that could have been from larry the cable guy. get er done. >> then there is dean cane, superman. he writes, this very good night but sorry for california. we reelected brown. bummer. i voted kashkari. >> he gets a fourth term and by the way, i heard donald trump announced his new apprentice cast and could geraldo rivera -- including geraldo rivera. >> fantastic. thank you for joining us today. see you tomorrow. >> thank you guys. 9:00 in new york and republicans pulled off a historic majority in the house and senate and the g.o.p. with a net gain of 17 in the senate putting their margin at 52-45. a couple of races too close to

call. thanks in part to key victories. north carolina took it away from the democrats. colorado turned that state from blue to red. and in iowa turning a longtime democratic seat republican, so good morning after long night last night we are big people tonight, we have a desk.