♪ ♪♪ nothing brings the pack together like a trip to great wolf lodge. now open in northern california. ♪ ♪ good morning i'm phillip mena >> so grlad to have you with us, i'm frances rivera results continue to roll in, voters making their voices heard about who should control congress 218 seats are needed to control

majority in the house. it is projectes projected repubs wrepublicanedded republicans could win 220 seats. we are still waiting for georgia's senate race. neither warnock nor walker have met the 50% required >> i may be a little tired for now. but whether it's later tonight or tomorrow or four weeks from now, we will hear from the people of georgia. >> so i want to tell you all, if you can hang in, hang in there a little bit longer. just hang in there a little bit longer because something good, it takes a while for it to get better >> nbc news has projected that

democrat john fetterman has won in pennsylvania, defeating dr. mehmet oz in a very closely-watched race that seat is a gain for the democrats. >> this campaign has always been about fighting for everyone who's ever been got knocked down that ever got back up. [cheers and applause >> meanwhile in ohio, nbc projects that j.d. vance will win that seat. >> we're also watching arizona where the race between mark kelly and blake masters is too close to call. >> and in nevada, the race between adam laxalt and cath catherine masto is too close to call >> and nbc news projects a win

for monica de la cruz, the first hispanic woman to represent the 15th district of texas >> and now to a ground breaker for the democrats as becca balint is to be the first woman and lgbtq person to represent the state. and alexandria ocasio-cortez holding her seat in congress nbc news is projecting her reelection to the 14th district opposite tina forte. and also keeping her job, marjorie taylor greene is poised for re-election in georgia's 14th district over the democratic challenger, marcus flowers. >> in florida, republicans flipping an open seat in the seventh district as cory mills is expected to win over karen green. and a flip for the democrats in illinois, with nikki budsinski winning that 13th district >> joining us is jonathan allen

and professor of law and political science at stanford, nate prasilli. >> the big surprise is that miami dade was turned red for the first time ever. what is the significance of that to you >> a huge significance miami dade a huge population county, extremely diverse county, not just the cuban-american community but people from all over the world there. and this is a representation of republicans really making some gap gains in the state of florida. it is not really purple state anymore. huge win for desantis, he looks

very strong. election deniers not doing well on the ballot. >> and he's already having attacks against desantis former president trump with that date, expected to announce another run for the white house. that announcement will no doubt include his continued claims of the stolen 2020 election do you think that it will undercut those claims of a rigged system? >> i think people have fully baked in this notion of election fraud into their thinking politically. so whether it's the 30% of the population and 70%, maybe of the republican party that now believes in these claims of election fraud, i don't think there's anything that's going to change that. in some ways, the losses today by the republican party or the unfulfilled expectation may fuel some more of those conspiracy theories we'll see what happens for

example in arizona and elsewhere. but i think that what will be interesting is to see whether other republican leaders try to dissuade their, you know, fellow travelers from going in this direction, because so many people who had adopted the big lie didn't end up winning this time >> yeah, and seeing how far president trump or former president trump will be pushing it in the week to come >> jonathan, let's say for a moment that the republicans do take over the house again. what will their legislative agenda look like in 2023 >> that's a great question there will be a mix. they will put bills out there to implement what was not done in the past, even though they won't go anywhere. it's not so much the legislative agenda, it's going to be the investigative agenda, whether you're talking about investigations into hunter biden or impeachment investigation into joe biden we're going to have to see, with

biden doing better in this midterm than a lot of people expected and republicans with a very small margin in the house how far they go, but expect to at least get significant investigation. >> throw in january 6 abelong wt that thank you for your perspective >> let's turn to utah where mike lee is projected to beat independent evan mcmullin. nbc's gary grumbalk who joins us from salt lake city has been covering this. gary, good morning what is the latest on the ground in utah. >> reporter: good morning, guys. likely, it was an expected win, this is utahs it wasn't as easy as the mike lee campaign thought it would be there's really two reasons for that one, evan mcmullin, his opponent

is ain'tn independent. he was pulling from moderate republicans. they're really upset with mike lee about his actions before, during and after january 6 as it relates to election denialism and his trying to overthrow the results of the 2020 election this has been an incredibly expensive race, actually the most expensive political race in utah history millions of dollars coming from