for voters and agents this week made another massive drug bust. bill melugin back on the southern border in eagle pass, texas. good morning there. >> good morning to you. that's right. one of the biggest fentanyl busts we've ever seen and happened in arizona. look at the photo here. the cbp port of entry officers stop an 18 wheeler coming through. inside they find being smuggled 776,000 fentanyl pills, 289 pounds of meth and 55 pounds of heroin. enormous bust. look at the video we shot earlier this morning here in the eagle pass area. nor mannedly texas, a large group of 200 illegal immigrants. mostly cubans, columbians, this sector has had more than 50,000 illegal crossings since the new fiscal year october 1st. look at the video. we joined the texas game wardens

on the rio grande out there patrolling as part of operation lone star. two minutes of being on the water we come across the group crossing illegally into eagle pass. a group of cubans forming a human chain. they go into the u.s. they told me they plan to go to florida. miami and tampa bay in particular. back out here live border patrol in yuma, arizona sporting an agent down there was assaulted by an illegal immigrant who had an active warrant for murder out of mexico. >> dana: voting is over and several key races are still too close to call with control of the house and senate still hanging in the balance. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino >> i'm bill hemmer. lee ross is the producer out of l.a. in las vegas at democratic headquarters saying the great unknown in the senate race right now in nevada is the mail

ballots. how many are left to be counted. history tells us they break for the dems, are there enough to overcome the lead that laxalt has? he says both sides are expressing confidence but both nervous. as i go to the map here, dana. most of this vote in las vegas clark county. a lot of it is in. 20% outstanding. you have other red counties favoring laxalt. i think it is a jump ball. laxalt is holding onto the lead. >> dana: he certainly is. >> bill: the red wave republicans were predicting looking like a ripple. high tide? >> dana: maybe, highish. >> bill: democrats performing better than expected with votes still being counted we're waiting for final results to learn who takes control. team fox coverage all over the map. mark meredith in ohio. jack flock in pennsylvania. alexis mcadams in new york. >> dana: all-star lineup with analysis, james freeman.

larry kudlow, jim mass in ing and martha maccallum. >> bill: the house and senate stand, there it is. mike emanuel chasing down the races in the battle for ultimate control. >> on the senate side it is a 48/48 balance of power so far with four races determining which party will be in charge. to be determined. arizona, republican blake masters versus incumbent mark kelly. kelly appears to be leading but too close to call so far. then there is georgia. push can challenger walker hoping to defeat incumbent democrat warnock. the winner needs 50% or there will be a runoff. nevada laxalt hoping to defeat catherine cortez masto. potential gop pickup but too close to call so far. then there is wisconsin. republican senator ron johnson is leading democrat mandela

barnes but also very close. senate democratic leader chuck schumer is telling supporters what he intends to do if democrats control power. >> we want to protect a woman's right to choose. [cheers and applause] >> we want to protect the right to mary those who you love by passing the marriage equality acts. we want to fight to protect our democracy by securing the right to vote. >> on the house side of the capitol where republicans were hoping for a red wave our count is 200 seats to the gop. 218 is the magic number to hold the majority. leader kevin mccarthy held a take back the house he sflent washington last night. at 2:00 a.m. eastern with races still to be called mccarthy spoke to supporters. >> let me tell you, you are out late. when you wake up tomorrow we'll be in the majority and nancy

pelosi will be in the minority. [cheers and applause] >> house speaker nancy pelosi praised her democratic members and candidates for strongly outperforming expectations. >> bill: thanks mike emanuel live in washington. we turn to ohio now. fox news projects that j.d. vance has defeated congressman tim ryan. not a pickup. republicans holding that seat after the retirement of rob portman. mark meredith live in franklin county, columbus, ohio with more today. good morning. >> good morning to you. as you know, today ohio republicans are celebrating the news that they will be able to keep senator portman's seat in gop control. as for vance, the businessman and author heading to washington within a matter of weeks. it came after a long, bruising campaign. remember how contentious the primary was and had to beat out so many other candidates and he continued to see success

partially due to campaigning with the ohio republican ticket and support of trump. when vance was on the stage declaring victory last night he vowed to focus on the issues, not partisan fights. >> whether you voted for me or not if you are watching on tv, the thing that i promise to do is go to the united states senate and fight every single day for the people of ohio. >> vance's opponent congressman tim ryan tried hard to paint vance as an extremist but chose to criticism the democratic party claiming they were out of touch on the issues that matter most. in his concession speech last night he appeared to lecture both vans and the country. >> i am concerned that this country as we move forward it may get worse before it gets better. when i called j.d. to concede, i told him, i said you have got to

take care of the working class people in this country. because the working class people have been forgotten. >> also want to mention ohio republican governor mike dewin easily won re-election. he talked a lot about jobs. his opponent making the race specifically about abortion. watching another race down south in the first district near cincinnati where we saw steve schwab ott lose. ohio republicans happy with what they saw last night. it is trending in their favor as they move forward. >> dana: perhaps the biggest republican winner of the night was florida governor ron desantis handily defeated congressman charlie crist with a much wider margin than expected. the governor last night during his victory speech. >> florida is -- we not only won

election, we have rewritten the political map. [cheers and applause] >> dana: does the win thrust him into the spotlight for a possible 2024 presidential run? joining us is james freeman. assistant editor of the "wall street journal." charl acrist's attacks against desantis why do you want this guy to be your governor? he wants to run for president of the united states. that didn't matter because if you look at the numbers, he had a 64% approval rating. our call for number four in florida. the voters said we like him and we want him for another term. >> you learned these are the most enthusiastic supporters bauers they want to see him run for president. he put a lot of points on the board and succeeded. some people might have thought the speech was a little boastful but he has a lot of achievements to boast about and very formidable and crazy at this

point not to run in 2024. >> bill: call for one and then number two. "new york post" cover says de-future. pretty good, right? okay. "wall street journal" writes the desantis florida tsunami. mr. desantis is thought to have presidential ambititions. the victory speech sounded like it. national campaign is a much larger challenge than running a state like florida. clever wording there. >> on behalf of my colleagues he closed his speech last night saying i fought the good fight. i, i, i. a little too much maybe. he is not overstating it when he talks about first of all rewriting the political map. winning miami-dade county and

palm beach county. it used to be a swing state. what gets conservative voters so excited is he has done it with a strong, confident, tough message of we are going to be free here economically. you go back to covid. he talked last night about facts, not fear. there were so many times in 2020 and 2021 america needed more politicians embracing facts rather than fear when it came to covid. i think that is the case that is going to be very helpful to him if he wants to run again in two years. >> dana: what would the timing of that be? >> of an announcement? >> dana: i don't know. a decision if he and his family decide they want to throw themselves into the ring they would have a challenger in the former president, donald trump. if he decides to do that i guess it would be in the next six or receiveens months. >> probably very soon we would know. he has to start raising money soon and work on the communication. it is going to be a somewhat

delicate mission here. he has to say -- i don't think he can say to trump voters if the former president runs again trump wasn't actually that great. he didn't really achieve that much. he has to say noted there were important achievements on taxes, judges, regulation but i'm the guy now who can build a much broader coalition. that's what he can show from florida. there are a lot more gettable voters for me than donald trump and you can trust me to hang tough on conservative principles. >> bill: want to emphasize this point. approval rating in florida is at 64%. this is 2022 in american politics. you find me a politician who can match that number in america now. governor, senator, president, hard to find if at all. >> for some people this is a shock because if you've been reading certain publications, some based in the city you think he is a very divisive,

polarizing figure. the people of florida and the figures say he is a unifying figure. maybe an argument than the better option for trump than republican forties. he picks his battles. he fights hard but strategic and he manages to beat disney. he managed to beat the press when it came to covid. so i think he is a formidable guy. if he was boasting a bit too much last night he does have -- >> dana: i don't think republicans voters don't mind boasting. i don't think that's a problem. but i picked up on it, too. it is good to see you, james. >> bill: fetterman wins in pennsylvania now. oz has conceded. they talked about 30 minutes ago. live in the keystone state. >> dana: counting the votes in battleground arizona. the race for governor still too close to call as is the battle for a hotly contested senate seat between mark kelly and

blake masters. the latest numbers coming up. >> bill: republicans laying out an energy agenda if they take control of the house giving americans what would be much-needed relief perhaps at the pump. >> climate change socialism has been a dismal failure. yet the president is out there calling for an end to coal, an end to all drilling.

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>> bill: another update now. maloney a democrat from new york runs the democrat congressional campaign committee. he will have a press conference in 42 minutes not in his home state of new york but in washington, d.c. and we'll have mike lawlor, his challenger as a republican, in that new york district hudson river valley, new york 17 lawlor is coming up in a couple of moments to join

dana and me. stand by. might have a call on that coming up soon. >> dana: some high profile races undecided in arizona where election officials say they won't have all the votes counted until friday. so in the race for governor democrat katie hobbs, arizona secretary of state holding a very slight lead over republican kari lake. senate race incumbent democrat mark kelly is fighting to hold onto his seat against blake masters. senior correspondent alicia acuna is in phoenix this morning. what do you know today, alicia? >> good morning, dana. we're awaiting results from hundreds of thousands of ballots that are going to come in from both pima and maricopa counties, the state's most pop you laos. people who voted in person yesterday and those who also took their mail inballots and turned it in. we have to wait for those. right now no one is declaring victory. last night democrat senator mark kelly greeted his supporters and

encouraged everyone to hang in there. >> this has been a tough election no matter how the rest of the results shake out, our government will remain closely divided with a lot more work to do. that can feel daunting but that's democracy. >> we did not hear from republican blake masters last night. heading into election day he and kelly were neck-and-neck in polling. we'll have to see how the count plays out. in the governor's race we were at the republican watch party as it became clear there won't be a result. here is kari lake. >> we had a big day today and don't let those cheaters and crooks think anything different. if we have to fight through the b.s. and garbage we'll fight through the b.s. and the garbage. >> last night republicans filed an emergency lawsuit against

maricopa county elections division after 27% of the voting locations had tabulation machines that weren't working properly. the g.o.p. said some voters ended up not voting as a result. the judge in the case disagreed with that and denied the motion to extend voting hours. on the democrat side katie hobbs acknowledged getting this could take a while. >> we need to be patient and wait for every vote to be counted. because every single vote matters. and every single vote counts equally. >> dana, folks will want to stick around. later on this morning we anticipate an additional 300,000 ballot counts from maricopa county. things could be changing. >> dana: it could change a lot. thank you. >> bill: thank you. from arizona republicans saying that emergency policy will be among their top priorities if they take control of the house. house minority whip steve

scalise slamming president biden thus far. >> he was okay with drilling when he begged russia and saudi arabia to drill for oil. he doesn't want america to do it. we do it better than anywhere else in the world. we'll bring bills through the natural resources committee to open it back up again. you need a president willing to sign them. we need to give president biden that opportunity. will you sign or veto that bill? he needs to be put in that position. >> bill: larry kudlow host of the kudlow report. just kudlow. no report needed on fox business. good morning. mark penn was on with us last hour, okay? and he said these results, if he were joe biden and ron klain interpreting these in the west wing today would be an affirmation of their policies and no change in policies. that would seem to include, perhaps, an energy policy. where do you think that goes, if anywhere? >> it's very speculative, okay? the house is going to be

republican. the senate we will see. i don't think you can conclude from your own reporting, both of you last night we were all up not as late as you but we were up late last night. so i think what steve scalise said is very interesting. first of all it's very important to take the handcuffs off the oil and gas business, let's drill, let's permit, let's pipeline. we need to supply more barrels per day. we're still 3 million barrels per day short of where we should be. this translates into lower supplies. in fact, shortages of home heating oil, shortages of diesel, and in some cases shortages of natural gas. this is all to help heat america during the wintertime. so this is a problem. prices are way too high. high prices financed vladimir putin's war in ukraine, etc. , etc. the goal here, i think, has to be take the handcuffs off, turn the spigots on.

now in terms of how the bidens play this out we'll have to say. he made it very clear he doesn't want to drill. he wants to end coal. he does not have the authority to end coal plants, want to put that in there. there will be a battle. the house will put up bills, okay? whether deals can be made or what the senate composition will look like, i don't know. it is hard to say this morning. but again, we have a problem here. we have a recessionary economy, we have an inflationary economy. one of the key points to solving that would be to turn the spigots back on and end the war against fossil fuels. there is other stuff. stop the spending, which the house will do. no tax hikes, which the republican house will do. so those are good things. stop the bad stuff. getting good stuff, i don't know? you guys tell me. dana, what do you think? bill, what do you think? it will be divided government?

>> dana: gridlock is not necessarily a bad thing. see how the markets react. they have factored that in so the big spending bills are not going to be in place. i do think the presidentall election starts this afternoon when you hear from president biden. we'll see what he says there. i want to put up a couple of numbers, larry. condition of the nation's economy was in the fox news voter analysis. not so good or poor. look at that number, right? 78%. yet, larry, independents they usually go for the out party in a first mid-term of a presidential term, didn't this time. they split evenly and allowed democrats to hold on. some of the races were very, very close. a lot of them held on and the red wave didn't materialize. why do you think? >> well, listen, of course i have to agree the numbers are the numbers. the cavalry was coming. it suffered some casualties.

i think it became a regiment and suffered more casualties and down to a platoon. the platoon was able to take the house. that's the way i'm reading it right now. whether they got across the street to the senate remains to be seen. but look, biden gets very low marks on the economy, all right? that's not going to change. i'm not an optimist on the economy. i'm not being political i'm saying look at the housing prices coming down, the whole housing sector is poor, manufacturing is stalling, real wages have fallen for 18 or 19 consecutive months. the inflation rate is still holding at close to 8% on the cpi and the federal reserve is going to be tightening every month and shrinking the money supply. so you are setting up for 2023, you are setting up a very difficult let's call it a s stagflation economy.

you would think the president would want to work with the house and senate to produce pro-growth legislation. unfortunately we haven't seen that yet. that would be the optimal. part of that pro-growth legislation would surely be to turn on the spigots, get supplies out there. >> bill: you make sense but i don't know if you'll get your wish under the administration. thanks for getting up with us today. >> dana: thanks for being on last night. >> the platoon is coming. [laughter] >> dana: you might be the first one to have said that. republican congressman lee zeldin fell short in unseat governor kathy hochul. a live report ahead. pennsylvania senate debate appears not to have hurt democrat john fetterman's chances of winning. he defeated dr. oz flipping the

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>> bill: battleground pennsylvania, dr. mehmet oz calling john fetterman earlier today conceding the race. jeff flock is in the state capital of harrisburg. how goes it, jeff? >> good morning. dana mentioned that debate that took place between oz and fetterman. worth noting before that debate fetterman had been far ahead in the race. he ended up holding on to win. pictures of him last night greeting his voters in his characteristic hoodie and jeans tattooed arms he will be quite a figure on the floor of the u.s. senate. i don't know if you are allowed to wear a hoodie on the floor of the senate. the campaign was as much as how john fetterman looked as what he had to say. here is what he had to say last

night. >> for every job ever lost and every factory closed and every person that works hard but never can get ahead, i'm proud of what we ran on. standing up to corporate greed. [cheers and applause] making more things right here in america and right here in pennsylvania. >> some people think that the gubernatorial race, the one that had the republican against shapiro the democrat may have dragged down the oz campaign. the republican was drubbed in the race and ticked off people and saying how he could take over voting machines and opposed to abortions with no exceptions in any case. we spent a lot of time in the last several weeks talking to voters in pennsylvania. make no mistake. the number one issue for them is still the economy. even people that don't like how joe biden has handled the

economy, voted for fetterman. it came down to the fact when it comes to the economy, a guy in a hoodie and blue jeans with tattoos on his arms has more of a sympathetic feel than a guy educated at an ivy league school with a lot of money who moved into the state just a few months ago. >> bill: quit a stunner coming off that debate. nice to see you in harrisburg, pennsylvania. >> dana: jim mass ena, you know politics as well as anybody else. get your overall take about the election results. even democrats were thinking that the night wasn't going to go that well for them and there were blind quotes pre-blaming the biden administration and others and it turns out they did pretty well. >> lots of dems are saying it was much better than we could have expected. surprising, once again the polls were wrong for the fourth cycle. they missed this wave of

democratic women voting. the big winner was democracy. we had massive turnout all over the place. very interesting and important. the other thing is people criticized biden for steering into the democracy argument and it worked with his base. you look at these races and they have massive turnout from both parties. you would expect it from the republicans, not the democrats. we'll have the largest mid-term election turnout in the history of the country. >> bill: people are waking up saying what in the world happened? our thoughts are spinning between our ears right now. let me try and do this for you, okay? florida was a win for the republicans agreed. >> agree. >> ohio was a win for republicans. governor and senate. a couple house races we can debate. new york state was a win for republicans when you consider the house races that will in all likelihood flip at the end of

the day, agreed on that? >> dana: -- >> the governor's race notwithstanding. >> bill: the point in the upper midwest not only to pennsylvania and we can say was a clear win for the democratic party. >> first time since 1966 democrats held that. >> bill: now i'm in wisconsin. as of now this is a win for republicans because ron johnson is hanging on. dana, if you remember we were talking to -- >> dana: not the governor's race, though. >> bill: evers won that. was it a month ago when kevin mccarthy said wisconsin is the new ohio? i don't believe it was his quote. wisconsin was that close. now we go to michigan. this was a race where several races in that state. republicans poured a ton of money in there and they lost congressional district seven to slotkin and they just lost eight

to kildee. they thought they could flip both of them. >> they lost the house, senate and security. >> bill: there was a state referendum on abortion. is that what we are led to believe is the decider in these? >> absolutely and why you saw the big unknown wave of democratic women voting. michigan unbelievable house flipped, state senate flips. six months ago you would have written whitmer off. she wins handily. five states had abortion referendums including montana. all of them passed. abortion is becoming the issue that's driving turnout. last night exit polls you guys talked about it earlier. democrats win independents in a non-presidential year. no poll saw that coming because the women went crazy. >> bill: kentucky you had a referendum to make it illegal and defeated in a red state like

kentucky. >> dana: do you think in 2024 you'll see any state that didn't have a referendum put it on the ballot to help democratic turnout. >> if i'm involved absolutely. you have to now. it's state by state and good politics. third it is proof this is going to be the defining issue in the presidential election. >> dana: how would you fix polling? >> fire all of them and stop doing it. stop doing it. it has been wrong over and over again. >> dana: stop paying attention to it? >> stop covering it. >> bill: look at the live look. ron desantis is about to speak but not about last night but the tropical storm bluing off the eastern shores of florida. this is the guy testing the line. jim, thank you. to florida live we go in a moment. fox news hasn't yet called this house race in new york. new york 17. the republican challenger mike

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>> bill: moments ago fox news confirms the sean patrick maloney the helped of the democratic congressional campaign committee has just phoned mike lawler the republican of new york 17th congressional district and conceded that race to the republican. mike lawler will be our guest in a matter of moments. >> dana: incredible outcome. went after the king and got him. incumbent democrat kathy hochul of new york has won new york's governor's race against challenger lee zeldin. the first woman elected governor of the empire state. that's true. alexis mcadams has been following all these new york races. good morning, alexis. >> good morning, dana. a historic night for governor kathy hochul. congressman lee zeldin says it is not over yet. the latest numbers that we have right now this morning. governor kathy hochul with more than 52% of the vote and lee

zeldin with 47%. 93% of the ballots have been counted. although it was a democratic victory last night the race was closer than expected in deep blue new york and why it was in the spotlight in the first place. hochul took to the stage to thank supporters focusing on moving forward in her first full term as governor. >> i am not here to make history. i am here to make a difference. [cheers and applause] >> and because of all of you, we'll keep making progress breaking down barriers and glass ceilings and helping new yorkers achieve the greatness it is capable of. >> but over at the zeldin watch party in new york city where i was last night the party-like atmosphere continued. hochul was in the lead the republican congressman was closing the gap on the incumbent for weeks hammering home crime and economy as his top issues. zeldin did not concede saying he

will wait for all of the votes to be counted. >> so what is going to happen is that over the course of these next couple of hours you are going to see the race continue to get closer and closer and closer and closer. [cheers and applause] this includes, by the way, on long island you will see a massive victory coming out of long island. >> zeldin will wait for those votes out on long island and suffolk county. they had some tactical difficulties. the close race helps other candidates who were republican here in new york. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: control of the senate still up for grabs now even after democrats flip the seat in pennsylvania. what will happen in georgia? wisconsin? nevada?

arizona? martha maccallum has some answers. >> dana: you have all the answers, go ahead. >> etcyes, i have all the answe. the way back machine in georgia coming back to a question of georgia will put us back to 2020. you know, we were talking in the break. i went to bed last night going what happened? how do you make sense of all these different things? actually our polling, fox news voter analysis was pretty strong last night when you go back through it and look at what the information that we got from voters as they came out of the booth and people who were voting prior to that. but i think that it solidified the fact the country is dug in in most parts of the country, right? where are the variables? they are in georgia, arizona, right? you are right back to where you were in the last presidential election.

florida was sort of this kind of amazing anomaly to watch last night. you have to wonder, i look at new york and lee zeldin and i said this last night did all of his voters move to florida during covid? and that may have prevented him to get what he needed in the new york city. but when you have people who are so dug in on both sides, you can't move them all at once. it is an incremental, slow process of people deciding to change their minds about certain things and we live in incredibly uncertain times. change is hard. when you walk into the voting booth i am sticking with the governor that i have. i think there are a lot of questions about candidate quality that we talked about a lot last night. a major re-evaluation. and i think the issue of abortion was the sleeper issue in this race. i always wondered as we followed

this how can it be possible that an issue that has had money poured into it for my entire lifetime and groups who dedicated their lives to lobbying on either side of this abortion issue, how could it be possible that the supreme court overturns it and it has barely an effect on election, right? so either i thought all of those millions of dollars were for nothing, the american people are okay with the decision ultimately or not and that's what we found. i think the voter turnout effort on that part was very deep underground that really percolated last night. i also think when you saw some of the split ticket decisions people said i will keep that right and we saw the referendums in a number of states and saw what happened in kentucky. people did want a more strict version of the kentucky law. i think it had a real impact. >> dana: the youth vote was up in places like wisconsin and michigan in particular. jessica tarlov said they had

same-day registration. university of michigan had lines around the blocks to be patient and one of the issues they voted on. zblie was on a call the other day with a republican strategist we left that issue to the side and decided not to talk about it. it was a mistake. they needed to articulate the difference between the supreme court decision and how now every state gets to decide what their rules are. we see them upheld across the country when the opportunities starting in kansas months ago. and they just chose not to talk about it and didn't feel like it could move their voters and it was probably a mistake. >> bill: great job last night. you and bret. i don't know where you'll be in four hours. you will know. >> we'll see you on "the story." >> bill: ron desantis is talking about the storm. that's done. we'll let you know what happened there. >> to be continued.

>> dana: campaign chair maloney has called our next guest and conceded the race in new york congressional race 17. a flip for the republicans. republican mike lawler will join us next. it's called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home's value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. here's more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash! take out an average of $60,000 to pay down your high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage, personal loans, and car loans, and lower your payments by $600 every month. best of all, there are absolutely no upfront out-of-pocket costs with this loan. and even if you have credit concerns, give us a call. the va has granted newday automatic authority to make our own approval decisions. when lenders say no to a veteran, newday can say yes.

>> dana: new york congressman elect republican mike lawler joins us now just done something quite remarkable and flipped a seat from blue to red. it wasn't just any seat. he has beaten the head of the democratic congressional campaign committee, a very difficult thing. hasn't happened in 42 years. mike lawler joins us now. you heard from sean maloney. tell us about that and your win. >> thanks, dana and bill for having me. yes, the congressman just called me a few minutes ago and was very gracious in conceding to me. look, this was a hard-fought

campaign. over $20 million spent in attack ads on both sides. ultimately this election was never about me. it was about the voters of my district and the future of their families. and right now we're dealing with record inflation, surging crime, skyrocketing energy prices, and people wanted change. they wanted a restoration of balance and common sense and i believe throughout this campaign we stayed laser focused on those issues. and my plans to tackle them. i feel gratified by the results but i am really looking forward to the opportunity to serve come january 3rdrd. >> bill: congratulations on your trip to washington, which will be forthcoming. however, back on the voters and back on the issues. in that district this was redrawn by the courts and patrick maloney was running in a district where 3/4 of the people

live and vote there had never had his name on the ballot before. do you think that made a difference? >> absolutely. when the new map came out by the court-appointed special master i took one look at it and knew that i could win it. 42% of the district is rockland county. born and raised there and lived there my entire life. family here over 100 years. i won that county by over ten points. that made the difference here in this race especially, you know, westchester looks like i may lose it by 15. westchester has certainly become more democratic over the last five years. so got a lot of work to do over there to make inroads over the next two years and i look forward to doing that. but i really understood when these maps came out and sean maloney decided to run in the 17th there was a great opportunity here.

he only represents 25% of the new district and i represent 20% in the state assembly. so he didn't have that built in advantage of incumbency. >> dana: an honor to call you congressman elect. thank you for being on our show. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. >> dana: lots more to come throughout the day as we get more results. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. there is no sugar coating it. mid-term elections were less of a wave and more of a trend for republicans. and democrats would love for people to just stay on that focus on it. the fact is the gop performed and is still on the verge of taking control of the u.s. house of representatives. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." let's check in. as of now, the dozens of house seats, those races remain in play. democrats claiming 174