we thank you for making this show possible. we hope you set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity. don't forget the news any time, all the time, every time. fox news.com, hannity.com, and in the meantime, let not your heart be because laura has got it. she's taking it from here. she's got a killer show. >> laura: yeah, you bet. you bet. by the way, i was thinking about this, sean, you and i have been around the block on ups and downs of politics before. but since 2015, right, when trump announced that he was running, think about how things have changed from that point. at that point, no one thought republicans would have a big surge of hispanics. we have that. a lot of people were pro china. that's changing. a lot of good stuff has happened. there's a lot of trend lines positive for republicans. we're going to get into the lie and the lessons learned. but people have to remember where we came from and where we are now.

and progress isn't sometimes overnight or in a straight line. so we'll getting to all of that. >> sean: things are turning out a lot better than maybe people thought last night. we'll wait for the races to come back. i'm pretty optimistic about them all. have a great show. >> laura: all right, sean. i enjoyed yours. i'm laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. let's getting right to it. big takeaways, that's the focus of tonight's "angle." so, sean alluded to this, they're breathing a sigh of relief at the white house. even as democrats almost certainly will lose the house. and they could even b lose the senate. little attention is being paid to the astonishing fact that democrats do not intend to do anything differently in the next two years. this is with 75% from fox news

voter analysis saying they think the countril right now is on the wrong track. despite that, the white house thinks their policies don't need changing. because biden has created what they're calling stable, sustainable growth. >> what do the next two years do you intend to do differently to change people's opinion of the direction of the country, particularly as you contemplate a run for president in 2024. >> nothing. the major piece of legislation we passed -- some of it bipartisan, takes time to be recognized. it takes time to get it moving. >> laura: this is typical of the democrats. they win, they think they win. then they over-read their mandate. well, yeah, republicans should have won more senate seats. and, flipped more house seats. but, still, the number one issue worrying voters, including african-american voters, is inflation. which he was asked about today. >> there was a study conducted of black voters who said

inflation was the number one issue. what can you promise concretely in the next two years, that will help turn the pocketbook for the better in the midst of staving off a recession. >> what i can't do is i can't guarantee that we're going to be able to get rid of inflation. but i do think we can. we've already got down the price of gasoline, about $1.20 a gallon across the board. the oil companies are really doing the nation a real disservice. >> laura: oh, gosh, all right. so, biden's repeating that same line. oh, you're just not seeing the great effects of my policies yet? he's saying it takes time. blaming the oil companies, really? even cnn wasn't buying. >> when he was asked, would you change anything? he said no. now, you have up 5% of the country saying that we're head in the wrong direction.

he said he just wouldn't do anything different because, of course, our achievements take a long time to be recognized. that's insulting people. >> laura: that is insulting. and even david axelrod seemed a little less than enthused. >> he's proud of what he did. he wants to talk about it. this is an opportunity to tell a story about the country. to be big and tell a story about the country. it was a missed opportunity. >> a fair number of people who didn't have a favorable opinion of his performance in office who voted for democrats because it was about something larger. and it was also about the alternative. >> laura: biden's message today featured all of the usual slights of hand, juz as in 2020 when he campaigned then on uniting the country, remember that? only to go on and brand the country as systemically racist and trash trump supporters as semifascist. today, he raised the goal of uniting america again only to make false claims about

republican leadership and, of course, to push gun control. >> the circumstances. well, i support the proposals put forward by senators johnson and the senator down in florida to cut or make fundamental changes in social security and medicare. that's not on the table. i will not do that. i'm going to ban assault weapons. they're going to try like the devil. >> laura: biden's obviously learned nothing. and now, "the new york times" is projecting that "the new york times" will end up with 50 seats in the senate and narrowly capture the house majority. so, they're taking the house, even if not by the numbers obviously they hoped for. that will do a lot to rein in the craziest radicalism of the biden administration, we all get it, the gop is very disappointed. so, an it this point, we have to think about what lessons we can take away from the election. first and foremost, the red wave did sweep through florida and it

was even more impressive than advertised. desantis by 20 points, rubio by a massive double digit margin, knocking off val democratings that the democrats pegged as a future star. >> after four years, the people have delivered their verdict -- freedom is here to stay. i believe the survival of the american experiment requires a revival of true american principles. florida has proved that it can be turn. we offer -- we offer a ray of hope that better days still lie ahead. >> laura: so, he won miami dade and palm beach county, which is a feat few thought was possible even a year ago. so, he, rubio, rick scott, they built a strong and very broad governing coalition in florida, including with latino voters, who continue to move toward the

gop this cycle. now, this is the future of the republican party. second point, the 50-state strategy continues to be the best hope for the gop going forward. now, we just don't have enough power right now to stop the hard left. and we can't get more power by staying home and running up big margins in close states. that's not going to work. but lee zeldin, think about this, given no chance for most of the year, he came within five points of beating hochul. that was the best showing for any new york republican in 20 years. now, as i predicted last night, that performance, five-point margin helped republicans flip four democrat seats in the house. this sent aoc in to app lexty today. real progress in liberal strong holds keeps the republican party in growth mode. that's the message. in liberal oregon, christine drazen is down 3% from radical leftist tina kotek in the

governor's race there. obviously, there's more work that needs to be done. but from oregon to new york and of course in florida, we made big progress. since we know democrat policies are only going to drive crime and the cost of living higher in all of these states in the next few years, republican prospects and recruiting should just continue to improve in all of the states. third, there is no reason to believe that a more establishment approach would have done better in most of the senate races. now, while many trump-backed candidates did lose, mcconnell's favorite candidate in colorado, joe o'dae got annihilated. and think about this, mike lee, he fought off romney's candidate in utah, the trump hater edwin mcmuffen. murkowski is behind in alaska but j.d. vance won in ohio. fourth, the runoff in georgia could well decide who controls

the senate and whether biden gets another supreme court nominee. so, anyone who thinks of himself or herself as a major player in the gop should be planning to go down there and win this election. it's far more important than pointing fingers about who won and who lost last night. the democrats align on this today -- the democrats' line on this today in georgia was pathetic. >> i keep looking at fwa fwa right now. it's shocking to me that herschel walker, who can barely put two sentences together sometimes says things that don't make sense, asserts it with bravado, tells lies, is rude to people, is doing so well. >> laura: whoa, she's talking about herschel walker can't put two sentences together? this is the party of biden and now john fetterman. we can drop that line, thank you very much. we blew georgia, that runoff last time by splitting the party there. we cannot let that happen again. herschel walker needs to win this.

now, while the late broke really appears to have broken toward republicans, you can see in the exit polls and the vote count for election day, the democrats appeared to have done very well. at getting a lot of votes before election day. so, look, if everyone had voted yesterday, we might have seen the red wave that was being picked up in some of the polls. but we don't have election day anymore. it's more like election month. and that means that going forward, the gop cannot count from on this coming from behind strategy in states like new york or virginia or michigan or even pennsylvania. the democrats are going to be ready to start turning out their voters on the first day of early voting. okay? and republicans going forward are going to have to do the same. they did in this in miami dade county. that was fantastic. we got a lot of republicans voting early in miami day. but the old turnout models just don't work anymore, they just don't. also, you need to be in the

lead, frankly, on labor day going forward. the gop should act as if -- basically election day comes five weeks early. they should just pretepid b that it does. because if they're five points behind in late september, the democrats are going to bank a huge amount of votes against them. even if some of the folks change their mind later, it's going to be too late. going to 2024, the republicans are going to be looking for candidates who are focused on winning. not just making a point or settling a score. so, to really change it it, we're going to have to win and we have to win over voters, outside of our traditional base. that means young people too. that's got to be the goal for the next presidential election. the populous movement is about ideas. it's not about any one person if the voters conclude that you're putting your own ego or your own grudges ahead of what's good for the country, they're going to look elsewhere, period.

which brings us to the next takeaway. >> one more thing, we're gone and no longer discussing a primary for joe biden. that's the other thing. he is absolutely going to be the democratic nominee for president and everyone is just done talking about it. >> laura: well, yesterday's results will likely silence talk of replacing biden on the ticket. >> i hope jill and i get a little time to actually sneak away for a week around -- between christmas and thanksgiving. my guess will be early next year we make that judgment. but, my plan to do it now. >> two-thirds of americans in exit polls say they don't think you should run for re-election. what is your message to them? how does that factor to your final decision about whether or not to run for re-election. >> it doesn't. >> what's your message to them? to the two-thirds -- >> watch me. >> laura: now, another democrats are feeling guoed, but this man

is still unpopular. and he's also clueless -- so clueless, he thinks he has a mandate from last night for boone dogs. >> someone in -- up in scranton, pennsylvania, the congressman got elected. he said, can you hell us make sure we're able to have high-speed rail service from scranton to new york. new york city? i said, yeah, we can. we can. first of all, it will make it a lot easier take a lot of vehicles off of the road. we have more money in the pot now. >> laura: i heard that and almost fell off of the chair. biden admitted in this speech that he can't guarantee that he can solve inflation -- the number one issue for voters. but because some new congressman calls him about a high-speed rail in scranton, he's like, no problem, we'll get that done. i mean, come on. now, last night's results notwithstanding, voters reported they still do trust republicans more on the issues they care

about the most. and if the democrats continue to preside over the type of economic and crime problems that we've seen over the last year, even early voting will not be enough to save them the next time. and that's the angle. joining me now is molly hemingway, fox news contributor and editor in chief for the federalist and scott mckay, contributing editor at american spectator and the author of the revivalist manifesto. molly, now with the caveat we're still waiting on a number of big races, what's your takeaway from last night? >> i think things will improve for republicans in nevada and arizona. but, we really did see given all of the enthusiasm in the country that republican leadership really failed republican voters. republican voters were excited. the -- the ground was very fertile for a big republican victory. joe biden's approval was in the toilet. 75% of the country thinks we're going in the wrong direction.

just objectively speaking, things are bad in the country, whether it's the southern border or crime or foreign policy, inflation. and that republican leaders could not turn that into a big victory for republicans is really an indictment for how they're running things. i could not agree more with your opening where you talk about the importance of understanding that elections are not run anymore like they were in the 1980s. there is now extensive period of voting where people who are smart are running get out the vote operations every day, hauling in ballots every day. republicans keep on thinking that election day is a single day and they think if they get everybody excited for that last day that that will be sufficient. that's not sufficient. there needs to be an effective ground game that is on republican leadership and there's only so much that everybody else can do with their enthusiasm and everything else. >> laura: scotted, on the issue of these governors like hochul and whitmer on all pro lockdown

governors, obviously extremely left wing, how did they survive? >> in michigan, prop 3, an abortion bill. it got all of the abortion people out to vote for gretchen whitmer and turned abortion in an issue in michigan when tudorx news. weather alert. um ashley strohmeyer live in new york. conditions are deteriorating in florida, where hurricane nicole just made landfall. the cat one storm, already causing severe flooding in some areas. it's also knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes were gonna go back to fox news and multimedia journalist brandy campbell. she is changing. provide live in vero beach, florida brandy. i talk to you just a little bit ago. what's changed since i spoke to you last looks pretty calm. good for you for right now. yes exactly. well, some folks in florida are feeling the wind

and the rain from this storm. we are in the eye right now for another 30 to 45 minutes. so at this time, i'm starting to see bugs start to come out. there is ghost crabs walking around. i can actually see the moon. so right now, folks here riviera beach are doing good. the national hurricane center actually announced landfall officially at three am with max or sustained winds at 75 mph. so this is officially the second hurricane to hit florida in november on the east coast since 1935 and that was the yankee hurricane, so we're making history in a sense for this late late storm or late year storm, so history in the making not very intense but still impactful to the people here in florida, ashley right. and as far as the reports of damage have you heard of any damage reports other than the flooding of the neighborhoods that we were speaking about earlier? so i haven't heard

many reports, obviously, because it's so late three a.m. and i know in the morning that's when they're really going to come flooding in for us. the main thing we heard about is erosion, especially along this beach. there is some of the boardwalks that have been impacted with the sand washing out, and i've actually seen a lot of the would really floating about in the ocean behind us. and someone did mention to me. they saw a few power lines that were a little low. okay so as far as power outages and those reports are what are you hearing on the ground? well around us in this area. we haven't really seen any power outages for the folks in this immediate area around us still looking into that to get some actual numbers on how many people are out of power in this area, invariable beach, right? and of course, when the sun starts to come up and you get you'll get a better look at what happened. okay, brandy. we appreciate it. stay safe out

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>> i want to send a message to the millions of latinos who are watching me at home tonight -- regardless of how you voted, este es tu partino. we're the party that wants hispanics to prosper, not depend on the government. we are the party that

understands that his pan ins do not worship government. we worship god. >> laura: that was congresswoman el elect monica day la cruz who made history by becoming the first republican to win texas's 15th district, ever. there are races like that all over the country. iowa's third district, republican zak nunn flipped the seat defeating sydney axney. described as a painful loss for the democrats by "the new york times." democrats have been viewing the result as a huge victory. they're likely to lose the house and control over major committees and losing rising stars in the process. joining us is congresswoman-elect monica day la cruz and in iowa, congressman elect, zach nunn. congratulations on your victories. you ran fantastic campaigns. monica, we're going to start with you. why did you succeed? some didn't succeed, republicans who wanted

to flip seats, but you did. in turning your district from democrat to now solidly republican in this turnout. >> well, i think that our success started in the 2020 election when we ran for the first time and swung this district 18 point. it was historic because i was running by to -- excuse me, i was running against an incumbent. we never stopped running. since 2020. and i think that the name recognition helped. the fact that we did so well, we scared the incumbent out of the district. and made it abopen seat was extremely beneficial for us to get our message out to the voters. and at the end of the day, it came down to two things -- no. 1, the biden administration's disastrous economic policy, coupled with the border -- the

open borders that he has caused in his administration. that is affecting our border patrol agents. and i believe that those three things helped us push our campaign across the line. this 2022 election. >> laura: wow, it's very exciting. and in iowa, well, this is fascinating. because iowa has been a stalwart on two things number one, getting government off your back. no. 2, they were great on handling covid. and, zach, how did you do it. how did you continue the success that your governor obviously saw in getting re-elected. >> laura, it's been fantastic, here in iowa like texas and florida, congratulations to monica on her incredible victory there. we experience iowa, a perpetual purple state had clear choices. what works in government, kim reynolds. guys from the heartland, we wake

up early, but we're not woke. thate are sounded with folks who want to see their kids back in the classroom, see community and cops working together. we want to be able to start our economy. we're one of the first ones that open back up. states like iowa, i'm a state senator and combat veteran have seen iowa one of the best states recover from covid. we would like to take these things from playbook out to washington, d.c. and show them how local and state governments have done this effectively whereas the tax and spend agenda of both president biden and nancy pelosi and cindy axne the former incumbent we beat last night had taken to the government would be the only solution we're going to offer to iowians and they showed. no, not on our watch. trust iowians and americans and they can be successful. >> i was so thrilled to see that. she was pegged as a big rising star far the party. it was a close race. very close.

you knocked her off. >> yeah, pretty close. >> it's good to be able to beat incumbents. it can change the course. >> laura: i want to ask both of you after we play this sound bite from a sage commentator on msnbc about america first conservatism, trump endorsed both of you, watch. >> trumpism is deeply entrenched in the republican party. to do it solely to election denials is a mistake. desantis is putting migrants on buses and planes. the miami herald said this should be a disqualifier for election and florida voters came out. yes, he may not be carrying water on the big lie. but there's still so much of trumpism that he's bringing to his campaign. >> laura: the breathless commentary. isn't it just pragmatic conservatism, the one in florida winning in texas, the one in

iowa. monica, we'll start with you. is it prague mattism and populism? >> look, at the end of the day, the voters are saying they want common sense legislation. they want things that are going to help them be prosperous, be able to afford to put food on the table. look, as a single mom myself, i know that single moms out there, in all of american familiar areallies are struggling. they're worried about thanks giving coming up and how they can afford a turkey. we're talking about basics at this point. and i believe that common sense and the biden administration hitting people in the wallet, that's what drove people towards conservative candidates such as myself. >> zach, do you agree with that? >> yeah, yeah. it's a solid point here. we're a family of four. two foster kids in the middle of an election campaign. we saw the impact it had on the child care side.

i talked to my kid's preschoolteacher and she said she bought a pizza and filled her car up with gas. it was the most expensive date night she had with her husband since her honeymoon. these are real impacts on people. you don't have to be a farmer to fill up with diesel this fall to show how much the impact reduces your ability to be a successful business, successful farmer of just your family to get through the week. this did resonate at the ballot box. we didn't see any solutions being offered by the leadership on the democrat side. i will compliment the republican leadership for coming up with a commitment to america on tangibles that the new congress can work day one to start delivering. >> monica, zach, congratulations to both of you. we'll be watching you closely when we get to washington. >> laura: everyone running for public office should avoid if they wish to win. the unseen factor that tipped

these midterm elections.

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unseen segment where we expose the forces that shaped the midterms. ray, you have some lessons for those seeking public office in the future. >> you know, these midterms were instructive, laura. there was much to learn from the candidates who didn't make it. first rule, don't try singing at a campaign event if you can't sing. this is don bolduc -- ♪ country roads take me home to the place i belong ♪ ♪ west virginia mountain mama take me home country roads ♪

>> oh, boy. may i recommend the masked singer for him. unless you're auditioning for dancing with the wannabe stars which could be career options for the next two candidates, don't dance in public like stacey or beto. ♪ thick in hips come get in my car the long haired star, the thick in the hips, come get in my car. ♪ >> i didn't know -- >> qualifying for office, laura. how does that prove your leadevership ability? i ask y you?>> laura: remember, obama could sing. when he sang al green, he has a good voice. but -- >> he won the office by that point, though. >> laura: that's true. >> he wasn't campaigning. >> this is still what they're

deciding. >> the most vexing moment of the night came out of pennsylvania that brought you john fetterman. you know something is wrong when a man who's been dead for a month is elected state representative. tony deluca died last month. he was re-elected last night. you can't make this up. after fetterman, laura, everything is on the table. >> laura: okay, that is terrifying. ray, why do you think the red wave failed to materialize? >> laura, what did i say? i got nasty emails and tweets in the last few months. i said over and over, let's go brandon is not a governing agenda. you need a clear actionable series of policies that you can defend and advance. give the votersoming to aspire to. the gop didn't do that. they have that commitment to america, but, laura, i will read two quick goals -- economy that's strong, a future built on

freedom. those are not policy action items. those are just hopes. it's not enough to -- there's not enough meat there on the bone. laura, when you peal back the polling data, it was young voters that gave the democrats the advantage. of all of the age groups, it was genz who delivered for the democrats. i'm not making this up. they mostly live with their parents. they voted 6 % of them for democrats, that's plus 28 points for the democratic party. and may have blunted the red wave that came from other groups. >> laura: i think a lot of the younger people, you know, the lockdown wasn't maybe so bad, right? for them? they got to -- >> hmm. >> laura: got to order uber eats and catch up on the netflix and get their checks. >> the democrats were also very deliberate in their pitch to young people. they offered them drugs, recreational drugs, abortion,

paid off student loans. so, they were, again, actionable policies that they were promising to advance and climate change. and the gop did not get in the mud and wrestle over any of these issues trying to win the young people over. that was a mistake. despite the setback of losing at least one house of congress, biden was back at being the old biden apt his press conference tonight, laura. >> i've been given a list of ten people i'm supposed to call on. you're supposed to ask one question, whether or not, what would happen if, in fact, i think the context is that whether or not they're pulling back from fallujah. and the -- i mean the -- the city of kurson being a -- a -- by -- biden's being extremist. >> oh, laura.

clarity should be the mandate, i think, coming out of these midterms. >> laura: this is what i'm saying, the msnbc gal was like, wow herschel walker cannot string two sentences together. has she listened to biden, fetterman? come on. he's socrates compared to the other two. come on. of. >> remarkable. >> laura: where are you going next, the book tour that never ends. >> birmingham, alabama on tuesday. new orleans, saturday. raymond.com. the wisemen of christmas continues. >> laura: new batches of votes are being dropped in the senate races in nevada and arizona. what's going to happen in the gop leadership races.

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will matter more than ever in managing a smaller than expected majority. congressman jim banks wasted non time. he threw his ad in to the whip race this morning. >> congressman jim banks thi jos us now. congressman, does a slimmer marginnow. affect these leadership elections? because i know tom emmer from minnesota, he he's interested'r in the leadership position that so sayinfter. some areg th saying that mccart could be vulnerable. com i saw some commentments froms fo the freedom caucus tonight. your reaction to thi knos, he ed the results from last night? >> well, laura , at the end of the day, the american people gave us the majority. it might be a very slim major majority, but they gave us ait majority to fight back againstmd the radical left, not to givee a in to the demands of the radical left and theck radical democrats, but to fight back against them over 80% ofliv americans believe thatthat joe bide jn is doing a bad jobtn and america is on the wrong track and they want us to do

something about it. s whthy i threw my hat in the ring to be the whip and a part of republican leadership to make sure that we do what wel been better lag to do. i actually believe the outcome would have been betterst last night if the voters trusted republicans, but they've givendt republican majorities before and we let them down. so i so, f over the next two years we do what we say we're going to do and hold democratsble an accountable and stop the radical biden agenda the, tn i believe the voters will give us an even bigger majority ive n 2020 four in the white houseg to with it. >> well, congressman, according to the washington compost, whm emmer, as i mentioned, is also running for whip, told t reporters that he agreed with aw lawmakerho who told him that tht the smaller gop majority will have to seek bipartisan consensus to pass legislatio cn so he's pushing toward whatds joe biden said today about, you know, we have to work together, even as biden was then going

to insult republicans in his. speech. so what's your reaction to this comment? >> well, s my hope that i the republican majorityajorit will work with republicans to pasy k s our agenda to get to two hundred and eighteen plus votes to pass8 plus the agn that we promised the american people and the commitment to america and the other promiseserica an that we made al the way. and the whip will play a veryl y big role in doing that with republican votes, not with democrat votes. again, don't give in to theha radical left. do wha askt the voters ask us t ,stand up to them instead.majory and the whip, the majority leader, the speaker ofdo. the house, that that's what the voters are trusting us to do. we can't let them down. >> laura: we can't let them down. an >> well, congressman, do you think tom is too much like an a establishment guy to to get this excitement going and the caucus that does exist? well, again, i'm laura. laura, e i've thrown my hat in the ring because i believe that the leadership matters and the republican conferenc matterse ae have to have a leadership team that's ready to roll upll u our sleeves and ready to go andn

push advance this agenda. not just the policy agenda, buta the over the vigorous oversighte agenda of the bidenminist administration that we have not jut seenra. with jim jordan in charge ofot o the judiciary committee, a lot of other committee chairmen who are ready to go to toigatio provide oversighnstafghan and investigations of what happened. and in afghanistan, holding big tech holdibig accountable, inv china for the origins of covid-19. we hav we a loell.t of oversight to do as well. it takesn strong republican leadership to get it done., i tend to be at thatyou' tablerg as well. n, g you're being very diplomatic. congressman, it's good to seeoo you tonight. t. thank you. now, while we await results inse arizona, nevada and the senate, races there that will prove vital for the gop majority, it's important to note whyd this these are so crucial beyond a cycle. now of this. thirty three senate seats up for election in 2020 four. twenty three are held by democrats. here now is tom bevan,er and p co-founder and president of

realclear po clear politics. tom , so i'm we're already talking about twenty , i twenty four . but this is going to be quite something, is it not? and another opportunity for republicans to get this right. >> you the map in 2020 fouri thn is actually very good for republicans. i think they're just they're defendin dg very few seats. i think the top democratic top target on that list for democrats was was rick scott, who barely won his, wh race oust bill nelson. but given what happened in florida last nightappene , theyy want to rethink that strategy. and then you go down the list, braun in indiana, marsha blackburn and tennessee, these ara, marshe safe seats.s. josh holly in missouri, these are seats that republicans could easily hold on to. ted cruz is going to draw a loto of attention and especiallyesid during a presidential year, hees was in a fairl iy close race lat time around against beto o'rourke. so i suspect cruz will broure o. but the democrats are defendingt an awful lot of territorery inro

states that the republicans have a shot at arizona. kyrsten, cinema is going to be up. you've got manchin in west virginia. you've got tammy baldwin and wisconsin, and you've got debbie stabenow in michigan. so there's a there's a lot of targets on the table for republicans in 2020 four. >> now, tom , there are some interesting insights abouts the independent exit polling last night.last night. >> what did you see there?ee well, i mean, it's just that's probably to me, the most s stunning thing about thosetu ext polls is that democrats won independents by two points. if you look back at midterm elections, independents have traditionally sided with the party, the out party, the inuo. the party that's seeking change, not for the status quo. i mean, by 10, 12 , 15 , 20 points. if you look back at 20 , 10 , 20 , fourteen, twenty , eighteen. so thia s is a this is a strang, development from last night. and it looks like republicans turned out, but it looks like t while they they turned out, e re

they lost the independent vote in a lot of these really cl se house races around the country. >> and obviously it's playingwe at the senate level as well. and to what do>> you laura attr that? 'm not i'm not sure. i mean, it looks like it looks like independent voters, while they tol d pollsters and i thinkt it was true even from the exithe polls, that the economy waser oe their number one issue. they did not hold bidenponsib responsible foler for the econow and for inflation in the same way that they did with otherg tf issues. >> allay tims toe will be unpacg for days to come.last v and we'll seote what happensthas with the last vote count. thanks so much.bright now, when we come back , a bright spot from last night's election resultsults you might e heard about the last bite. >> we'll tell you next. >> hello, i'm former arkansas governor mike huckabee. did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to very serious health problems? i know it's scary. you can't fall asleep. you're tossing and turning all night. you can't get the sleep you need to stay healthy unless you

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