riding the wave of voter discontent republicans picked up at least seven new senate seats, tack back control of the senate for the first time in eight years. republicans also expanded their majority in the house. giving them a near historic margin. and at the state level, republicans gained at least four races for governors including in president obama's home state of illinois. we have a very busy hour of analysis and reports from some of the key states. we're going to also go to the white house where president obama is expected to discuss the election results at 2:50 p.m. eastern. he's expected to hold a news conference then. we're going to start with two of the most watched senate races of the evening, and we're going to go right now and i'm being told -- this is just happening as we speak right now. the mitch mcconnell -- he swatted away the challenge from

al son lundergan grimes. in north carolina tom tillis defeated kay hagan. it shows president obama factored heavily in both races 95% of tillis supporters said oppose the president was a reason for their vote. and in kentucky a similar picture. 94 percent of mcconnell voters said they disapproved of president obama's job performance. msnbc's tremaine lee is in gree gree greens north carolina. was it all about president obama last night? >> republicans locally as well as nationally, as we know, wanted to make it a referendum on president obama and they kind of succeeded in doing that. as you mentioned earlier, pro tillis voters 91% say they were voting against president obama. now while locally voters said they wanted to push back against some of the act tom tillis took

in terms of voter id laws and war on women. ultimately it came down to president obama with millions of dollars being spent by conservatives on ads linking kay hagan to president obama. clearly it had some impact. >> and perry, let's talk kentucky. allison lundergan grimes wouldn't say she voted for president obama. that was on the mind, you think, of many voters there? >> i don't think that particular issue was on the mind of voters. what happened was she wouldn't say who she voted for because she knew obama's numbers were so unpopular. so low it was a big problem for her. her challenge was being associated with obama who was deeply unpopular here. she never got through it. obamacare has been successful in kentucky. it did not help on the ground here. a lot of people i talk to took obamacare still don't like barack obama and voted against

grimes. >> let's talk about that a little bit. i've been wondering and i've been talking about this for some weeks now whether politically it was smart for these democratic candidates to turn their back on the president. one thing is to say i disagree with a lot of his policies. i think he's doing this right or this wrong. to turn your back on the president, i don't think had any political plus sides. but, perry, talk to me about the main issues were last night that gave the senators such a large margin of victory. >> there are two big issues here. first, the general dislike of obama. if you watched on tv here, ever ad was allison grimes might support president obama. just like barack obama's face on the ads. i know, he's not an issue but he was here. the second is coal is a big industry here. mcconnell successfully attacked grimes and said obama and the epa are looking it attack the coal industry. the data suggests it's not true. the coal industry is declining

for a lot of reasons that had little to do with policy . there are 120 counties in kentucky, obama won four in 2012, miss grimes won ten of them. she lost 110 counties. most of them the eastern and western rural parts of the state. >> thank you so much for both of you for being with me this morning. appreciate your time. and i want to go now to msnbc steve corp. knack key. extraordinary on the giant ipad thing. what a pleasure to see you. we have viewers waking up to the shift. lay out the agnat me of the wave. >> there's a couple of components. i can tell you a few of them. one is, from the state of kansas we can look at pat roberts, the republican incumbent was re-elected last night.

the won was a little bit of a surprise but the margin he won was a shock. pat roberts won in kansas last night by 11 points. it was supposed to be like the closest senate race in the country. supposed to be down to the wire and unrepredictable. the reason he was able to win that much is how badly republican voters wanted a republican senate. how badly they wanted to get rid of harry reid. so many republicans were campaigning against. how badly they didn't want president obama's party to be controlling the senate. that's the entire message that pat roberts ran on in kansas. you may not think much of me. i may not be perfect. he said that in some of his ads. greg orman is saying he's an independent. if you elect him, go to washington, and give president obama's control of the senate. in the end if you look at the map in kansas greg orman basically won where president obama won which is very small part of kansas and he lost wherever else. they succeeded with their base in making it about republicans

get a republican senate. >> and, steve, talk about another state there was a larger margin of victory for the republicans than many expected. colorado. >> a couple of different things happened in colorado. mark udall the incumbent democrat losing that race to cory gardener. there was big republican turn out. we're talking about that enth e enthusiasm to get the senate. the big counties where republicans do well where colorado springs where the air force academy is, the family, the socially successful group is. it turned out big for cory gardener. the other interesting story is in pueblo connecticut. it has been traditionally, certainly the last time the democrats were in a tough senate race pueblo county is where they got big votes. there's a heavy latino population there. the last competitive senate election there. the democrats won pueblo county by 12 point by. last night cory gardener carried

it. pueblo county saved democrats in 2010 and buried them last night. you can look at a combination of things. maybe latino voters weren't as motivated to vote. we had the issue of immigration that the president decided to postpone until after the election. i think that decision will be called into question. there was success in terms of outreach on gardener's campaign. can we reach out? can we do better with them going forward? colorado, this was one of the states the testing ground for that. could gardener improve in that showing? you look at the big county pueblo county, he did last nigh night. >> we're going to be bearing down on colorado and the reasons there was such a low voter turn out by the latino community to

the democrats. time magazine released a cover of the latest edition showing mitch mcconnell on the front. he said there will be no government shut downs, no full repeal of obamacare. is it possible we could see some kind of breakthrough on the gridlock? >> it's tough to see after what we've been seeing for the last two years. here is one thing that is interesting about where we sort of end up last night. the republican wave, and this was a wave, this was, you know, the parameters of this were a lot bigger and i think anybody was expecting. the senate majority is bigger than most people thought it could be. the other side is the house majority is the republicans will have after this is probably somewhere around 250 seat naps is going to be put them at their highest level since world war ii. and what democrats were thinking heading into this election last night was, hey, if we lose the senate by one vote, if republicans are maybe a 51 seats we look at the map in 2016 there's a lot of juicy targets there for democrats in 2016.

we'll take the senate back in 2016. if we can contain the losses in the house we'll be within striking distance in 2016. what they were saying before last night was the idea of you have hillary clinton at the top of the ticket, you get wave going for the democrats and they can get back everything in 2016. what the result now tell us after last night that probably isn't going to happen. the republicans reached a high enough level in the house with even some kind of a wave in 2016 are probably not losing the house. they're in a good position in the house right now. there's a lot sort of discussion that is going to have to take place in the republican party. the democrats now have to deal with the idea of, hey, republican house and republican senate going to be here for awhile, maybe. >> steve, with no ipad and no sleep. you are just extraordinary, my friend! thank you so much for being with me. let's go to the white house where president obama woke up this morning to a new reality. an all-republican congress in the final two years of his

presidency. nbc chris jansing joins us live. what a pleasure to see you. we're not expecting to hear from the president until later this afternoon, right? >> yeah. a little before 3:00 eastern time. and aids new it was come. they new a defeat was coming for democrats. most the democrats i've talked to say they didn't expect it to be this bad. the phrase white house officials are using he is clear eyed. expected to do some outreach. he did last night. he called up republicans and democrats who won in the house, senate, and gubernatorial races and he's got a meeting set up for a leadership on friday. but there's some tough rowing ahead. they're focussing on some of the things they think they have in common. there is a space where there can be some policy agreement, infrastructure is one area, and maybe that would be finance with some sort of corporate tax reform. they're looking at the results from last night. look at the red states that improved a higher minimum wage. both sides talking about the economy. we know that is still upper most in the minds of voters.

that's an area where they may be able to move forward. it the key is going to be what about the executive order. even the democrats i talked to this morning are weary of the president moving forward on that. they know that's kind of toxic thing for republicans. it there's any hope for them to make progress over the next couple of years and let's be clear about this. the president probably has a smaller window. they're focussed on the next couple of months right now. the executive actions whether it's on immigration or anything else is going to be very tough. it's one thing to sound conciliatory and invite people to the white house and whether he takes the executive actions and what the details will be will be telling about how it moves forward. >> thank you so much. on the other hand the president has been clear he's going take some executive order for the end of the year. thank you, chris. a pleasure to see you. the latino vote. all eyes watching what way it

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the latino vote matters. it's something we talk about freaki frequently on the broadcast. it was felt more than ever at mark udall's campaign headquarters last night. and the three democratic senators might regret their view. that support has fallen from about 7 in 10 in 2010 and 2012 to just 57% approving today. let's break this down more. matt, i want to start with you. you said on monday colorado was the one to watch. what happened there udall and the 14% of latinos that voted there. he was up but down 17 points compared to what the president received. >> that's exactly right. i think it was a big surprise.

udall did well with latinos. we estimated about 71%. obama was at the 87% level in 2012. you had steve talking earlier about how some of the latino counties might have had lower voter turn out and less support for the democrats. we've been saying all along that we're seeing decreases in enthusiasm for the democrats in the cycle this year. >> and when there is that lack of enthusiasm, it makes a difference in, well, close race and not so close races as well. >> yeah absolutely. and colorado is particular. the hickenlooper race was a little bit closer. i think it's one where you would had higher latino turn out you would have seen a turn out there. we've seen it in a number of states florida, north carolina, candidates didn't lean in enough and do the proper latino outreach to mobilize and outreach to inspire them to come out and vote.

>> north carolina kay hagan is asking against executive action. is she feeling the pain? >> i think so. in our election eve polling of all the states we covered kay hagan got the lowest share of latino vote of any of the democratic nominees we polled on. i think the reason for that is pretty clear. she had an uneven and sometimes negative voting record on immigration reform. at the same time, she urged the president to delay executive action. never the less, immigration was listed as the most important issue for more latino voters in north carolina than any other issue. it's not surprising there was not a lot of enthusiasm for her. she still has a majority of the latino vote. that's not surprising. it's far below where the president would fold two years ago. she definitely left some votes on the table. >> and matt, what about kansas. a state that has some huge growth among latinos that is often overlooked. >> absolutely. kansas is a state that is a 10%

latino population. it's a newer electorate. it's not clear if the candidates in kansas davis and orman how sophisticated was their latino reach campaign. where are they resonating. kansas was heavily immigrant and immigration ranked as number one issue as latino voters there. you look at something like the davis campaign against brownback. a close election there. i think they're probably wishing they had done better wilatino mobilezation. >> let's talk about governor's races. let's go to texas. >> wendy davis didn't perform as the democrats hoped she would perform. our numbers suggest that governor elect abbott got only about 32% of the vote, but we hear numbers coming from the exit polls suggesting it was over 40. that's just erroneous and has to do with the exit poll method yol yolgs. it's clear he tried to reach into the latino population using

his hispanic mother-in-law. but wendy davis didn't mobilize sufficient turn out. for the democrats who want to turn texas, it's clear they have another five to ten years of investment in registering voters, and getting them turned out engaged in the political process. >> and, gentlemen, i want your thoughts on this. we were talking to chris jansing to the pressure to the president to act on immigration. what happens to democrats the possibility of president acting on immigration or maybe delaying the action. >> we think there's no question that the president set his own time table for action not only during this year but before the end of the year. we have to question back in june when the president first said i'm going act. we have to question latinos what happens if he doesn't answer. and over 50% said it would make them frustrated with the democratic party less likely to vote. in order to reverse the trends he needs to do something on the issue. it's a looming issue. very important to latinos.

>> do you think that how large he goes, i mean, for example, congressman gutierrez expects the president to go big. does it matter what the executive order includes? >> my thoughts on this if he does a half measure it's going to be a lose-lose for him. he'll get the republican blow back that everyone would expect. he won't please the latino constituency that was undermobilized in 2014 and who the democrats need to have in 2016. he should go big or go home. if he goes home they're doubling down on the strategy and could lose for them in 2016. there's no question for me politically he should have acted before the election and he absolutely should act before the end of the year if the democrats want to be on the path to rebuilding the enthusiasm they once held. >> gary and mark, thank you gentlemen for being with me. it's a pleasure to see you. coming up the voters have

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100 women. that's a record number of female senators and representatives now heading back to capitol hill as of last night. big night for women lawmakers but what about women voters? let's take a look at the numbers. over half supporting the democrat nationwide in house races last night but turn out among women is down as it usually is in midterm elections compared to presidential elections. that's where the real news lies. a trend puts democrats a the dig

advantage in midterms. this year women tilt eed slight more republican favoring democrats 52% to 47%. in 2012 women voted 55% democrat. joining me now to talk about the women vote one-half of the cycle crystal and abby join me from new york city and 100% of the reid report joining me from georgia. thank you. crystal, what does it mean for the democrats and key women candidates lost senate races but there was some bright spots. >> there weren't many but the only bright spot we can hang on to is jeanne shaheen in new hampshire. rachel mad dough referred to this. the first person to lose to two female candidates for the senate. that's an encouraging win. i think if you look over all though democrats didn't do a good job appealing broadly to

women as they didn't do a good job of appealing broadly to the electorate. they thought they could use the microtargeting and go after women on particular issues without having an overarching narrative of what your going to do for the country. and while a lot of women care about choices and think there's a vital issue there's a range of issue women are concerned about out of reproductive rights. >> you're in a state where a woman lost for her race to the senate. >> you know jose, i think the real story on the female electorate, this year, enevery year it's about married versus single women and white versus nonwhite women. i've give you a quick stat. in georgia michelle nunn won women as expected 53% of women went for her. 45% went for her opponent. when you look at white women, perdue won white women.

michelle nunn won nonwhite women 92-7. the real gap is nonwhite women are right now the female electorate for the democratic party. and single women are the core part of the white female electorate for the democratic party. you don't get out enough single white women and minority women you lose. the african-american women's vote came up strong. latino women not so strong. single white women not so strong. that was the key to michelle nunn's defeat. >> let's talk about joni ernst. what does she do for republicans? the senate. >> it was a big night for republicans obviously because they took the senate. it was a historical night for a number of races. one including utah. the fourth district where mia is the first african-american woman to ever make it to congress. that's a big, big step for republicans.

joni ernst -- haitian american. joni ernst is an interesting one. she's someone as many people saw as a version of sarah palin. she was able to broaden her appeal. she's the first woman to win the sena senate in iowa. i think what she was able to do was speak to the voters. they felt like she was one of them. she talked about spending and what the race came down to is people are so frustrated with washington that they're frustrated with government. they feel like government has failed them and they took it out on democrats. that was huge help for many republicans across the board. >> and crystal, so much is to be made of hillary clinton getting out the female vote over the next couple of years. what do you think she can learn from last night? >> i think you have to have a clear agenda and you have to be bold in what you stand for. all of these democrats across the south who try to temper their positions allison lundergan grimes, mark pryor, even michelle nunn. it doesn't do enough to get your

folks out if you're saying you don't support the democratic president. if you won't take stance on issues democrats support. you have to have a clear agenda. as you were pointing out earlier, when you look at progressive issues on the ballot and also in terms behalf people said they care about in exit polls, the progressive agenda is very popular. but many of these candidates really fail to make the case for what the democratic vision of this country is and how we're going to ultimately get there. i think hillary clinton has a lot to learn from that. because her inclination is try to find that center place to triangular as her husband made that phrase famous. i think she has to do more than that to be successful in 2016. >> i'll talk more about florida in a minute. how did scott pull it off, you think? >> and that was very close race. if you look at the final results, the governor's race underperformed some of the other statewide race which is is something that happened before. rick scott is not popular. again, if the democratic party understands their base and who

they are, at the 11th hour they had barack obama on black radio, for instance, trying to get out the last minute black vote. where did they fall short? browaround county. it's the stronghold for democratic voters. if you are a democratic party that cannot tell a checkbook electorate, which is women, that the unemployment rate is cut in half, the lowest unemployment rate in the country is white women. if you can't make the case for the economic progress you can't stand behind him, i hate to tell you but the strongest electorate for democrats is black women. they strongly support the president. not standing with your own president and policies not a good look when it's a base election. all base not cross over. >> thank you so much for being with me. mia will be on with andrea mitchell today at noon. she's not only the first african-american woman to win but haitian-american. make sure you catch the reid

report fulled by the full cycle team at 3:00 eastern today. no picture summed up the florida's governor race than this tweeted out by the new york times. ch charlie crist's fan being put away. >> good to see you. >> thought it might be a long night, week, and months. it ended up pretty quick. >> right. rick scott did a great job of relative to his 2010 margins. getting the conservative vote out and charlie crist, to joy's point, did it relatively bad job at getting his base out. this is not a new story for florida democrats. >> scott won by a larger margin than he won last night. >> in raw votes, yeah. about 70,000 margin in 2010. it was 61 or 62 something like that. 1.2 percentage points. >> what were the keys to winning? >> for scott? >> yeah.

>> i think he campaigned as he was. unapp gettic conservative. he did moderate some of the things that he stood for in 2010. he did rehearse himself on immigration issues, for instance. however when we look at charlie crist, you really have to take into account the fact that he really kind of struggled with obama at the end. it looked like he was an obama democrat. and i really believe as joy does if obama came down it would have been a net positive to turn out the base. in the end you have to blame the democratic party in florida. not the party structure itself but the voters. they just don't pay attention. they don't show up and vote in midterm elections after four straight losses by midterm candidates by gubernatorial candidates in florida for the democratic party you have to wonder it's not just the candidates. it's probably also the voters. >> the voter that consistently vote during the periods? >> it was a very white, old electorate. we heard lot last year and after the 2012 elections about the gop

was on the verge of demographic collapse. it was the party of white people. in florida that's very true. if you have an electorate of nonhispanic white people, essential you're going win if you're the party of nonhispanic white people. there are cuban-americans that came out in force. exit polls suggest otherwise but to your earlier guest's point. i'm not sure about the methodology. >> bill clinton did campaign with charlie crist the night before the campaign and he failed to woo voters or a large problem with the voting? >> i think it's that. it's probably a little bit of too little too late in the end. osceola county, which is near orlando, it has a heavy puerto rican-hispanic community. >> traditionally would vote democratic. >> they under performed. they're the counter weight to the conservative republican cubans of miami. you have the puerto ricans of south florida.

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combat veteran to serve as a senator. luke russ earth joins me from des moines. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm good. i'm wondering what happens in iowa. how will hillary clinton, for example, play in a joni ernst iowa? >> well, that's an interesting question, jose. i think hillary clinton will probably come here if she does run for president, which most likely with light opposition. what does the gop primary look like in iowa? how combative is it? remember it's a state that has not looked too favorably upon pragmatic moderate the. santorum won the state the last time around. if you're a pragmatic moderate say in the jeb bush or the christie vote. i say they're mod elevate compared to where the rest of the republican party has gone. an endorsement from someone like joni ernst will go a long way. when she goes to washington, i think she'll be the crown jewel of the class.

i say that if you look at what republicans who won in 2010. you saw the scott walker, chris christie, and marco rubio. she's be the rubio spear. at lot of rubio's salespeople worked for her on the campaign. when she goes to washington does she go down if she has a little bit of celebrity does she go down and follow chuck grassley sort of a more tempered republican senator or does she go to ted cruz route? she's had some extreme position on some issues. i expect she'll moderate herself. it will give her the most power moving forward in 2016 and gives her the most king maker status if she chooses to do that. i think she will because she's got some smart people around her. >> yeah. this new class, as you talk about, has some politically stand out figures like gardener, for example, in colorado. you covered dhocapitol hill. should our viewers expect a kind ler, gentler, more comprising congress with the new balance of

power? >> that's the million dollar question. what i will say is that john boehner, house speaker, mitch mcconnell the new majority leader presumably, they're cognizant of having some legacy that is not strict opposition to president obama. i folk one republican operative before i came on the show today and they said, look, barack obama in theory, has a chance to be bill clinton part two meaning question get some work done. the problem is you know as well as i do there's about 35 members in the house that say no to everyone. they'll be more emboldened after this election. the issue of health care. what happens on that? that is still very combative. at lot of people want to see it repealed pasted through the senate and the issue of immigration. if president obama moves forward on the executive action that could muddy the waters the next two years. something to look at. >> luke, a pleasure to see you. thank you. and this morning republicans are celebrating democrats are

regrouping and both parties are looking forward. voters last night sent off the earth shaking power shift. the gop has the control of the senate and house for the first time in eight years. how will it work with the white house? and how can progressives keep the gop in check now that the 2016 conversation is officially on? joining me now is neera tanden. here is a question, you know, the stock market 17,000, gas prices are down, unemployment is down. why didn't democrats connect with voters on the economy? >> look, i think the real -- you talked about the real challenge in the show on issues, minimum wage ballot initiatives succeeded, sick days, paid sick leave. they succeeded on the ballot. democratic candidate did not fare very well at all yesterday. i think the real challenge is

that democrats have not put issues on the table to really attract people. your right the broad numbers are better, the country is moving in a better direction. people are still struggline ini wages are still stagnant and costs are going up at the same time. there's a squeeze. you see increasingly republicans and democrats aware of this squeeze i think for 2016 democrats and republicans are going have to put forward bold ideas to solve them. >> and let's talk a little bit about 2016. exit polls show your old boss, hillary clinton, trailing a republican candidate. break this down for us. how can a potential hillary clinton for president campaign overcome these numbers and the dissatisfaction with the democratic party we saw in many states last night. >> look, i don't think we should take exit polls as a snapshot as the electorate in 2016 will be very different. and the messages people have to

deliver for candidates in 2016 will be different. we'll be having a truly national race in every state. one of the things that i found so disheartening about the last several months and iowa is a great example, is republicans who had been talking about immigration reform as a party two years ago were campaigning strongly against immigration reform. joni ernst is a perfect example of a candidate who ran anti-immigrant ads, scot browne did it. various senate candidates have done it. i believe it's up to the democratic party and activists who care about immigration reform to hold republicans as well as democrats accountable for their words and deeds. >> yeah, i think there was some candidates on the democratic party, the ones that lost, that also weren't very clear on their position on immigration. you know, three of them asking the president to delay his executive orders on immigration

until after the election. >> that's a great point. why were we talking about deferred action instead of comprehensive immigration reform? the house republicans didn't pass it. activists were attacking democrats. i agree the president should have acted. we need a comprehensive solution. i think it's incumbent as we move into the next phase into 2016 that democrats and republicans are held accountable for a comprehensive bill. and if they're not they're not going to be for that and the republican primary seems a little bit hard for them to do, i hope activists will hold both parties available. and coming up our five things and you will want to be first in line for this one. we'll be right back. in a race,

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both in ideology. americans almost always find a pioneer. here are our five things. first in line. number one mia love the first african-american female republican and the first haitian-american to be elected to congress. it's a trifecta of firsts out of the state the utah. number two no such luck for scott browne. becoming the first came to lose a senate race not to one but two different female opponents. number three, this is a dubious first pat quinn, the first governor from a president's home state to lose re-election since 1892. number four, latino first in west virginia. republican allen mooney beat out democrat nick casey and heading to washington. number five, this one for the ages, the youthful first that just 30 years old. the youngest woman ever to be i

elected to congress. she was born in 1984. i have jeans older than that. after a night of, well, coverage like last night, i hope the first thing for me is a. that so i can get my voice back. but that wraps up this hour on msnbc. thank you for the privilege of your time. tamron hall continues our coverage next. she'll be speaking with chris van hall about the gop sweep and minimum wage increases wins in several red states. and new details about a woman's chilling abduction in pennsylvania. i'll see you here tomorrow. ♪ [ male announcer ] this man has an accomplished research and analytical group at his disposal. ♪ but even more impressive is how he puts it to work for his clients. ♪ morning. morning. thanks for meeting so early. oh, it's not a big deal at all. come on in.

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the president will hold a news conference at 2:50 eastern time in the east room of the white house. that in the face of headlines like this one. republicans will hold a majority of at least 52 seats in the senate. they need to pick up six seats to gain control. they picked up at least seven with two races still to be decided including in alaska. also the race in louisiana where mary landrieu and her republican challenger bill cassidy now face a one off on december 6th. mark your calendar. republicans also gained at least 13 seats in the house. they hold more house seats than at any time in more than 80