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you've endorsed more than 330 candidates this election cycle. tonight, win or lose, the results for republicans how much of that will be because of donald trump? >> well, i think if they win i should get all the credit and if they lose i should not be blamed at all. but it'll probably be just the opposite. >> i'm confused. wait. former president donald trump demanding credit only when things go well for republicans. does he -- i guess he really think that is republican leaders that follow him and followers are really stupid. that answer is i'll only take the credit if they win. actually, it's on you that there were a lot of losses. i know he doesn't watch. >> again, hi donald.
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it's on you. it was on you 17, 18, 19, 20 and now 22. you should, actually, you have all the trophies for those tournaments you cheated in you put in your office. you should make plaques. you would have -- if you had banners for all the elections you lost and hung them in your office it would look like the garden where the celtics played with all the championships up there. like really. he's really -- he's really incredible. he is the boston celtics of losing. >> desantis did well. >> all the people who bent the knee to donald trump. not all. we're watching arizona and when along with the election lie. many knowing better paid the price last night. a lot of the governor's lost. a couple of cases in the large aer point about donald trump. we talked about it earlier. state of pennsylvania.
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toomey says i'm out. they run him out. he probably would have run reelection. trump brings in dr. oz. hand picked guy who lives in new jersey losing to john fetterman last night. in michigan shulton, a race that hasn't been won by democrats since 1974 because donald trump ran john giks. you have a conspiracy theorist and he loses. two examples of many, many the impact of donald trump was felt and not in a good way from republicans. >> let's just talk about dr. oz. lives in jersey. votes in turkey. come on. are you kidding me? these people are all over the place. i'm not sure where he lives.
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you look at what happened last night. you and i have known donald a long time. he use to like to go to fights with you, right? we knew him when he worked at nbc. now he's trying to tell my republican friends, he's trying to tell my conservative friends this guy doesn't like you. he talked bad about conservatives when the doors are closed. he always plays to the crowd. he's never liked conservatives. he always related more to nancy pelosi and hillary clinton. he loved hillary clinton. he loved bill clinton. he related to democrats but the republicans turned their party over to him. all he has done is lose election after election. when are they going to wake up and understand if this guy were an inside plant from the dnc he
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couldn't have hurt their party more? >> i think donald trump has done for the democrats who no one could have done for the democrats. he's a gift that keeps on giving. last night was another gift. when you look at the fact that we said that the congress is up for grabs it was supposed to be a grab fest for the republicans. now they barely may take the majority of the house, barely. they could really end up with not getting anything through they want. and maybe tied for the senate. that is not what was supposed to happen. what made it happen was donald trump. he's going pick out people that would do what he wants. dr. oz, when i was in philly i
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said the last oz i heard of what the wizard of oz. he didn't end up too well either. we're looking at a man so me nigh kal in his ego he ship wrecked the party. he may not like me saying it but the big winner last night was joe biden who said was going to bring the party down. saying he had low poll numbers. he was all in the negatives. joe biden went and campaigned in pennsylvania, he went to new york and all over the place. they won where he went. we are now the morning after looking at desantis kicked your behind, donald, in florida where you live. joe biden revived from the political grave you thought he was in. good morning donald. i hope you have a good day. >> for those of you just waking up on the west coast who want to
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get caught up on key senate races. let's take a look. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman defeated his trump backed opponent dr. mehmet oz flipping a key seat previously held by republican. in ohio jd vance defeated tim ryan keeping that seat in republican hands. ryan con sooeded to advance and ryan made a gracious concession speech last night. in florida senator rubio secured a third term after defeating handily democrat demings. rubio trailed in fundraising consistently but ahead in the polls and proved in the vote last night. a number of races too close to call including in georgia where democratic incumbent warnock leads his opponent herschel walker by the margin of about 18,000 votes. most observers think that's headed to a run off which would
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take place december 6. wisconsin senate race also too close to call right now. republican incumbent johnson leading his democratic opponent lieutenant governor barnes by about 31,000 votes there. also too early to call, the senate race in arizona. the democratic senator mark kelly is currently leading his republican opponent blake masters by about six points there. it's going to be a couple of days as these vote dumps come in a little bit at a time. also, too early to call the senate race in nevada. right now republican adam laxalt has about a three point lead over the incumbent catherine cortez masto. john ralston the long time guru of politics says the vote fay or thes the democrat. >> he said he thinks there's about a hundred thousand mail in votes from clark county. if they come in two to one it's
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enough to put the democrat over the top. >> which would be huge. then that democrats control the senator regardless of georgia. >> then in december people in georgia can worry about what they should be worried about. the sec championship game instead of the senate race because democrats will already control the senate. >> a rematch with the vols there. tuesday night a big night. starting with the republicans as we've been discussing today. ron desantis cruised to victory over crist. putting together an impressive coalition. crist the former governor facing head winds for the start looking to unseat one of the front runnerer, potentially for the 2024 republican nomination. >> it takes florida off the map. florida is not a swing state anymore. spend your money in states where you can win. the desantis victory was complete. by the way, he didn't win
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against an unknown. he ran against a guy who was a popular governor there! won by 19 points but that doesn't tell the story in miami-dade flipping that and rolling through the latino note in an impressive way. in georgia brian kemp defeated abrams. and in texas greg abbott fended off a challenge from progressive democrat bet o'rourke. as for the democrats whitmer won her bid defeating dixon by a healthy margin. >> a huge race with 2024 implications there. >> she wins pretty comfortably there. >> a very trumpy opponent. >> another hand picked candidate. a race many thought could be a bell weather for republicans. new york's hochul defeated
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republican congressman zeldin. hanging onto governor's seat there. in wisconsin evers won over election denier tim michels. democrats pick up a win the josh shapiro again mastriano. and democrat wes moore becoming the states first black governor and third in the nation. defeating the trump endorsed dan cox by more than 20 points flipping from red to blue in a state dominated by democrats. two key contests too early to call. with with 80% of precincts reporting nevada incumbent governor trails the republican lombardo by five points. one of the most closely watches governor's races of the year. arizona democrat katie hobbs
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leading republican kari lake by two points with 68% of precincts reporting. we have democratic stat jazz and cohost of the war room politics james car vel former aid to the george w. bush e lease jordan and simone sanders. joe we hear applause but a lot of the applause is not democrat versus republican. it's voter versus election denier. or voters saying no to trump and no to insurrections and no to crazy. yes, we need our rights back. >> you know the thing is, again, we've talked about how important it is to have political athletes to have good candidates. candidate quality counts. donald trump really undermined the republican party but having the issues on your side. we talk when the issues come up
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on guns. 90% of americans support ewe ver sal background checks. republicans are still held hostage by the 5% who don't want safer street, safer communities. you can go down ever gun issues where they are radically out of step with the rest of america. but they listen to radical extremists. they didn't listen to the majority of nra members. abortion last night only 9% of americans said they supported a ban on all abortions no exceptions. 9%. republicans, a lot of state legislatures across america are with the 91% banning all abortion, no exceptions, tutor dixon saying a 14-year-old girl by her uncle. no exceptions. i love the focus groups because
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what i found in focus groups we had 16 in a focus group and blue collar voters were talking about trump. one woman goes, he's one of us. hold on. she said he's one of us. that was a moment. i said wait a second. something is happening here. this year it was when you were talking to voters and you're talking to trump voters. they bought in to ever conspiracy theory. they bought in to every stolen election narrative. you go down the line they were saying things that made you go, oh my gosh. going onset while we were watching that was extreme. then you ask that one guy, it was really all in on the conspiracy theories. what do you think about roe v. wade overturned? he says that's none of my business.
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i'm a man. why would you ask me that question? that's a moment you go wait. this cuts across all demographics. we saw it last night. >> you look at the issues that did cut across demographics, abortion and economy. fears about rising crimes? but then what didn't was election denial and january 6 conspiracy theories. americans did not seeing the capitol stormed on january 6. we saw that in how the election played out. there was such a stark divide between apoll jazzes for what happened at a the capitol and decent americans who might lay republican but they are not okay with that. they are not okay with seeing an election disregarded. a free and fair election. >> democracy was the animating issue. where are we going to haul in all the strategists and pun dits
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that said abortion isn't a kitchen table issue. >> simone, talk about how young voters came out. they said young voters were not going to come out. black voters were not going to come out. when you look at it, i mean, stacy abrams didn't win but set the stage. there wouldn't be an warnock if it wasn't for say brams. >> in 2016 across the country there have been 24 million new voters in georgia this year 2.5 million people voted early. look what happened in college towns across the country. whether we're talking about detroit, whether we're talking about in milwaukee, madison. the lines were long. there were polling places in early vote locations on the college campuses. young people showed up. in wisconsin they were up over 300%. you can't tell me young people were pag attention and they were not keyed in. >> i was looking. i get text from john.
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>> he knows the young people. >> he's like joe, young people comming out. and then last night he said make sure you don't just make this about 2022. talk about how young voters started coming out in 2018. they get more engaged in 2020. then last night 2022. here we go. 2022. it's amazing and arizona ticket splitting 18-44 hobbs plus 21% kelly plus 34%. if democrats win in arizona it's because of young voters. >> it is in a midterm election. we have to pray for older people to come out in the midterm election. young people came out in a midterm election which goes to her point. january 6, all of this. people were waiting to make a statement and they made it. extremists lost yesterday.
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the deniers. the ones that did january 6. the ones that a said trump was still president. they lost yesterday. now the democrats can't relax because we hope that we keep the senate tied. there's work to do. don't pop the champagne bottle l and get drunk. we have work to do. clearly we are still in the fight and now we've got to take this evens keel kind of night and make it advance. people showed up and saved the country last night. now we've got to go forward. >> for people watching saying why are democrats popping a little bit of champagne this morning? they are still going to lose the house. republicans have promised impeachment hear aings and everything else. when you look at historical trends in the last three midterm cycles the in party lost 41 seat, 13 seats and 63 seats. >> it could be worse. >> yeah. being the party in power 8% inflation. a president with 43% approval ratings they should, by any standard, have lost a bunch of
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seats. if you look at the projection right now they are going to be down about five seats. there's some play in that number but it's not nearly, nearly what democrats or, frankly, republicans who are frustrated this morning. if you listen to ted cruz and graham going what happened last night? democrats have reason to be happy despite they will lose the house. the margin will be slim. now they have hopes not just to tie the senate but think if nevada and arizona go they way and win the run off in georgia they pick up a seat in the senate. >> by the way, successful two-term presidents that win massive landslides. ronald ray gone got wiped out in '82 and '86. barack obama lost 63 seats after the win in 2008.
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then in 14 lost 13 in the house and lost 9 in the senate. trump lost 40. james carvel you know very well bill clinton won. >> is he going to trigger you. >> what are you doing? come on. >> this is a day to come together. >> we should unify. >> he says no. but james, you know, this is just the ebb and flow of politics. bill clinton wins big in '92. idiots like me get elected in '94. obama wins massively in '08. the tea party wins in '10. could you explain to people who don't know politics as well as you how historic last night was.
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>> i'm going try. if you put everything in the computer we should have lost 57 seats. the reason is donald trump. he brought people out to vote against this. he had an a affect. heouttrumped inflation and crime. he out trumped the normal cycle of the first off year election with an incumbent president. when political historians unearth this they are going to find more we missed this morning and the best news i heard this morning was john ralston. if john tells me that i'm going dye my eggs. >> what? >> i'm from the gulf coast i got to interpret. james said if john ralston tells me it's easter i'm going to die my eggs. go ahead. >> i want one person i think the
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democratic candidate is a cycle. my nomination is josh shapiro. he got involved in a republican primary, made sure he had mastriano. he did not run away from the crime issue. i would make the argument and a you could make the argument he had a large part with fetterman winning the senate race. the differential was so big you can't do it. i barely know him but i think he's the candidate of the cycle. >> something that's unimaginable now and that is a 51-49 democratic senate if things keep breaking the way they are breaking. if that happens, well, not only will joe manchin be relieved but so will the democratic caucus. i want to talk about these historic times. what happened last night reminds me of a race that a lot of
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people have forgotten. it was the alabama special election in '17. i was told there's no way a democrat is going to win in alabama. then as the votes came in suddenly they started talking about the black belt in alabama across the center of the state. suddenly we hear the turnout in the black belt in an off year special election, which we all know. nobody comes out for those. actually, black voters came out at a higher rate than they did in the second obama election. >> they elected doug jones in that election. >> they elected doug jones. you look what happened in 2020 when we were sitting there looking. it was black women in milwaukee. it was black women in elaine county. it was black women in georgia.
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the very women who have the most reason to be cynical about america going, hold my beer. >> we got it. we're going to do our part. >> hold my beer. we've got to say democracy. and the irony of that but we have it again. >> black women vote. i would also note that black men when we look at the numbers from this midterm election black men will have shown up. black men voted in a hire number for abrams than her campaign and strategists in georgia thought would happen. yes. black men. it wasn't black voters that didn't break for abrams. it's clear. there's something else going on. it's not black voters voting out and coming out for barnes in wisconsin. >> we've been hearing black men and hispanic men and certainly in 20 and 18 were breaking more republican. >> i think it's true black men
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and hispanic men were more of an independent voter that required much intentional targeting and persuasion. i think black voters and latino voters base voters of the democratic party should be treated as persuadable voters. abrams in georgia, look in milwaukee. they treated black voters as persuadable voters. look what happened in texas. we haven't talked about maya she's suppose the face of the red wave. she lost. >> again, all we heard. hispanic voters are breaking republican. hispanic voters are getting trumpy. the new york times has this amazing graphic and they show texas and they show the border of texas, which was getting redder and redder. i will tell you it looks as blue as mount desert island maine. it's blue this year. something happened.
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i think, like you said, democrats may have stopped taking people of color for granted for once. >> i think that they did. i think that some of us that kept prodding them got them to understand you need to talk to black men. you need to deal with hispanics and they started doing that. i think that she's absolutely right. black men were poll down here but voted up here because, first of all, i was in georgia. i didn't take or participate in partisan stuff but i did g-o-t-v. i don't know a black man in the world that was not born of a black woman. what are you talking about? and when you start talking frankly to them and start talking to latinos about a their issues, all they want to know is who is on my side? the democrats started addressing that and they came out. people are not as stupid as people think. you can't call me names like
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trump did. you identify with trump and then say because these guys are ignoring you come with me. no, you are not in my or in for my interests. i think that vote surprised them last night and that's a vote democrats need to keep working to make sure they don't ignore and take for granted. if you don't take people for granted they won't take you for granted. >> another interesting parallel you were talking about 2017. that was the key to it. but, the guy on toer side of that race, roy moore. it reminds me of races, not specifically but generally in terms of extremism. voters said i'll go along with some stuff but i have a line and i'm not doing that. they did that last night. they pulled back things they felt were getting away. are we going have people in power who didn't respect the outcome of elections and cast doubts over everything that happens in our country and dwell on conspiracy theories. they got hammered last night,
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those candidates, at the governor's level and house race. we talked about lauren in colorado. that isn't called yet. she's trailing. >> she could lose. >> she's one of the faces of the marjory taylor green group. a rejection of extremism last night. >> joe, i need to say this. it's very important we understand a lot of the winners on the democratic side were the ones that were not the extreme. this was a bad night for extremists on the democratic side. those that did talk about crime. those that did talk about how to advance but protect voting rights and over things. the wes moores are the ones who won last night. the warnock going in to the run off if he doesn't win. what we have to deal with is extremists on both sides lost last night. >> josh shapiro said i understand you're worried about
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inflation this is what i'm going to do. you're worried about crime. this is what we're going to do. now let's talk about protecting democracy. he did all three and it made a difference. i'm curious, so, our former party. they wake up this morning -- >> we were having such a nice morning. >> no. really at what point do they do what parties usually do and go we got hammered. in '84 the democrats got hammered. then they got hammered in '88. then they said, you know what? let's see if we go to the middle. >> that's a party that couldn't get behind being unified about paul pelosi. >> imagine what a hang over they muff. the trump hang over from not rejecting him post january 6. the guy sicks a mob on them. people were saying hang mike pence. for a couple of day as everyone
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is upset. maybe the republicans are going to do something then they just go back. think about all the candidate as who would not have been on the ballots. republican would have had maybe five more senate seats yet today couldn't do it. they couldn't break away. now after this, after ron desantis crushes charlie crist in the florida governor's race. they have a new star and let's see what happens in the primaries. >> can i say something about florida. miami-dade county is der election of duty for democrats. that's suppose to be a place democrats do well. there is no infrastructure my folks in florida tell me and it is an infrastructure issue. crist in my opinion was never going to win. he was not the best candidate to put up but you have to invest. you will win where you invest and do the work. democrats nationally did not do the work in florida. my former people.
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they have to have a conversation about that. >> that's important. willy, i want to go back to yesterday morning and go back every republican strategist you talk to said we look really good in washington state we're going surprise you there. new hampshire we look good. write down new hampshire and colorado. looking good. these people that they all said were going to lose. michael bennett is coming up. i feel sorry for michael. he got his running outfit on. he's walk out his front door and somebody says you already won. really? >> he could have jogged the way you do with munchkins in his hands. washington murray wins by 14 points. >> republicans thought they were going to win. >> new hampshire hassan wins by
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ten point and bennett wins by 12 points. democratic incumbent michael bennett projected by nbc news to defeat republican challenger o'dea. bennett took to the stage to celebrate the win and reject the former president's vision for america. >> we have to give people a sense of economic opportunity again. this is what i talked about on the trail in red parts of the state and blue parts of the state. and that's because when people lose a sense of opportunity for themselves and their families that's when inevitably, in human history, somebody shows up and says i alone can fix it. you don't need a democracy. you don't need the rule of law. you should expect your public sector and private sector to be hopelessly corrupt. hopelessly bankrupt. that is the dark vision donald trump ran for president on.
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that is the dark vision he won on and tonight colorado is rejecting that vision. >> and rejected it handily. senator bennett join us now. good morning. good to see you. >> getting a big round of applause. >> it's great to see you. >> let's talk about your race. interesting opponent in joe o'dea who tried to distance himself from former president trump on issues like same-sex marriage and abortion rights and the 2020 election conspiracies. he was attack aed last night after you won handily by president trump for not going ie along more with the election conspiracy. what was at the center of your race, what decided this and how did you win by so much? >> i think what was the center of the race was rejection of 40 years of washington consensus of trickle down economics that colorado wants to reject. we have one of the most dynamic economies in america but people
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are killing themselves and can't afford housing or health care or hire education or early childhood education. we have the worth income inequality in a century. we're the richest country in the world but have the third highest rate of childhood poverty. even before inflation we were dealing with here they were in an economy that was really raging against them. they knew that my opponent wanted to go to washington to make the trump tax cuts permanent. they knew i wanted to go to washington to reverse the trump tax cuts for the wealthy and to pass my two bills to give working people the biggest tax cuts they have had in generations. that is a huge distinction in the race and what i ran on from the first moment that i started to run for reelection until the speech you played last night. >> senator congratulations on your win. i'm curious to the reverend's
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point. what's the work ahead for the democratic party when it comes to trying to unify the country and fight disinformation, conspiracy hear to ree, extremism and the cruelty we're seeing coming from republican leaders who still follow donald trump? >> i think first of all, i believe last night nationally what we saw was incredible rejection of donald trump and rejection of chaos and endorsement of progress. we have made over the last two years very significant progress. certainly in the time i've been there more progress. bipartisan infrastructure drill, bipartisan reform bill, bipartisan gun bill, bipartisan veteran as bill, bipartisan first bill to bring back industry from southeast asia and important energy and climate and health care bill democrats pass aed on their own. i think, at least people in
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colorado and i would say across the country, want to see that kind of progress in their exercise in self-government. not chaos that trump represented. i think democrats need to stand for creating an economy that when it grows it grows for everybody not just for people at the very top. i think if we do that we're going to be able to win race that is are hard to win and be able to create an enduring majority. it's amazing that we are as close as we are in wisconsin. it's amazing we won in pennsylvania. incredible we could hold onto the majority. all that would have been easier if we reversed the trump tax cuts, 52% of which went to the top 5% of americans and extended tax cuts i written with sharon brown and others. it goes to our democracy. as i said last night when people lose a sense of opportunity for themselves and their families
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that's when somebody shows up and says, i alone can fix it. you don't need a democracy. i think the way we overcome conspiracy hear to rees is bringing up a party. the republicans have given up on both. they stood with trickle down economics. they've given up on freedom because their policies and politics resulted in this country stripped of the first fundamental constitutional right. the first fundamental constitutional freedom since reconstruction. >> democratic senator michael bennett. congratulations. thank you so much. >> thank you. good to see you. >> great to see you, too. these conspiracy theories. tackically i think one of the dumbest things republicans have
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done, and they've done so many dumb things. tactically making candidates mistrust early voting and a mailing. when i ran four times i rolled up massive margins with early vote. with the absentee votes like that's what republicans use to do. james, i was crazy enough i would knock on doors every day and then i would go home at night and i had a list of absentee voters. i matched up the phone numbers. if they were on a base in germany i would get on the phone at 10:00 at night my time saying this is the congressman. let me tell you a couple of stories. i didn't do that. i said i know you don't get to talk to your politicians. i want to know what's important to you? we just ran up massive margins. now the republicans have seeded that ground to democrats and it's killing them politically.
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>> i'm glad you're not a republican anymore because you're the candidate i wouldn't want to run against. my friend said i endorsed the president in 2020. what you find out is everything is in a cycle. president aprooefl, direction of the country, this and that and forget candidates really matter. i think that's one of the lessons of last night. candidates really matter. it's not just something that a has a predictable result that you can put in a computer and spit out a result. a result we got last night was stunning if you talked about it earlier putting it in historical context. it seemed like a tighter race but this is like appalachian state and michigan. but it was some uncomprehensible
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upset. it's hard to imagine. >> it really is. >> james, simone, thank you for being on. take that sweatshirt off. >> quickly. let's finish really quickly. we've talked about tim ryan. you talked about stacey aa bram. i want to talk a about how she revolutionized politics in georgia. it's so interesting harry reed used to be a guy that had the state wired. he's one of the few guys you could say what's going to happen and he could tell you. those sort of politicians don't exist anymore. about two days before voting ended in georgia called and said how is georgia going to end up? stacey abrams when it was looking bad for biden. she said he's going to win by
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ten thousand to eleven thousand votes. i said that's a little too specific. two or three days later biden won by ten, eleven. i said i've never seen anybody with a state wired like abrams. she lost. we understand that but talk about how she put georgia on the map for democrats. >> the infrastructure the new georgia project led by stacey abrams built is the infrastructure along with the investments from the democratic national committee. if you talk to jamie harrisson they gave real money in this cycle. the work abrams did is the reason it will be in play for the cycles to come. so sometimes you do not get to reap the immediate benefits for yourself of the work that you do. i think that is a story that black women all across this country know all too well.
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people better stand up and give stacey abrams her due. >> that's right. thank you. >> i lost my preacher. i'll talk to my preacher. moses, he led the yous to the promise land but didn't get there himself. >> he didn't get there himself but god took care of moses. god said i will bury moses. leave moses alone. stacey will get her due. any time you see warnock and biden in washington you're looking at the work of stacey abrams. still ahead. it was a big night for the governor of florida. he wins in miami-dade and palm beach counties have some now asking did ron desanity just become the 2024 republican front runner? a live report from florida.
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also ahead we head out west to arizona where the closely watched senate and governor's races are still too early to call. nbcvaugh hilliard will join us. a member of the george w. bush member of the white house is after the red wave turns out to be a ripple. wall street is reacting to the midterms and the markets are not liking the uncertainty as control of congress is still unclear this morning. cnbc joins us with more on that next on "morning joe." with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan, i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now, i'm managing my diabetes better, and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7.
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we have the worst inflation in four decades. the worst collapse in rages in 40 years. the worst crime rave since the
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1990s. the worst border crisis in u.s. history. joe biden the least popular president since truman and there wasn't a red wave. that's an indictment of the republican party. that is a searing indictment of message to the voters. they looked at all that and said, and looked at the republican alternative and said no thanks. the republican party needs to do a really deep introspection look in the mirror. this is a disaster. he's a former speech writer for president george w. bush, also a columnist at the washington post. a conservatives conservative and that was a scathing assessment of the republican party last night following the midterms heard on knock news. i'm sure you heard a lot on knock news last night. there were people going in thinking it was going to be a big republican tidal wave. for a good reason like james
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said you put this in a computer and it's going to spit out a 50-60 seat win for republicans instead they don't know. you said on fox news online. >> when desantis was rolling up the coverage the message work. ron desantis spoke truth and everything. then all of a sudden when the other results came in the te nor changed and things don't happen by accident. on trump blasted across media spectrum over the republican midterm loss biggest loser tonight. let's go to a couple l of our reporters. and lee is in florida and vaughn is in arizona. alley, what did you see last night? >> if you're a republican and you're looking for a bright spot, which i think many of the republicans i'm talking to in
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washington really are. where i am in florida is probably where you would look. the computer models were right here. this is what democrats were preparing for and solidify case of a deep red state republicans have been working toward for years. you know the state so well. the fact miami-dade county goes red. donald trump is watching palm beach county won by desantis. all of that is notable not just for right now as you see desantis consolidating power but going forward for the 2024 presidential map. the fact this is state democrats nationally have an infrastructure that atrophied. it's clear they didn't want to do investing in this. it was them realizing the realities and demographics of the state. look the dmat senate campaign committee and governor's committee spent ten times less this cycle than the 2018 cycle.
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look at the front pages. the post had their headline as defuture for desantis tells you what you need to know to hear about republican politics in 2024 going forward. >> nbc, a huge win for ron desantis. let's go to arizona where vaughn hilliard is live in phoenix. you've been covering this race months and months. you know every twist and turn. too early for the senate and governor's race but how is it looking for candidates? >> everybody is rubbing their eyes on both sides of these campaigns. folks, there's a lot of shoulder shrugging. blake masters down by several points points against mark kelly. and then you look at the governor's race, and overnight kari lake closed had gap significantly against katie hobbs. this is a situation that is
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reminiscent of 2020 in which joe biden initially had a huge lead and ultimately he chipped away, chipped away, chipped away, lost by just 10,500 votes here. now the big question here, ballots that the folks behind me at the tabulation center will begin processing today are those late mail ballots which they will process. back in 2018, kyrsten sinema dominated the results here. but then in 2020, donald trump won about 54% here. and so the big question is what does this batch look like in 2022. does katie hobbs have a chance to hold on, does blake masters have a chance to overcome mark kelly. a lot of question marks. >> thank you so much. and andrew ross sorkin is with us. great to see you. you've been talking to ceos and business owners. they think this is the best case scenario process.
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>> my phone has been blowing up because they believe that trump has been taken off the table in terms of what happens in '24. when you think about stability and the idea of confidence in the marketplace, that is what they want. at the same time, we will get some form of divided government it appears. they also -- it is like a goldilocks scenario. the way ceo and investment community think about the world, you think about '24 desantis, does he move more populist, that speech last night or does it move back. it appears if you believer the numbers and where we are, that things are coming closer to the center. that is where business and the economy cells. >> and desantis people don't remember pre-covid, desantis was a moderate governor, had approval ratings in the 60s. actually reached out to democrats on environmental issues. >> so the question is do you
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think that he stays in the position that he has been in the last 12 months or does he switch. and i think that there is a sense that he may switch. and that is good for the way at least the world of business thinks about things. >> andrew, thank you so much. and coming up next, jewel is back for another live performance and she will be joined by a very special guest. we'll be right back. guest we'll be right back. unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. (limu squawks) yes! limu, you're a natural. we're not counting that. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪
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♪♪ ♪ many times they climb from the bottomless pit, but my head was by the all mighty, we struggled in the generation triumphantly ♪ won't you help me sing another song of freedom because all i ever had redemption song ♪ redemption song ♪ ♪ and from mental slavery,
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ourselves can free our minds, have no fear for atomic energy, none of that can top the tide ♪ ♪ how long shall we get our profits while we stand aside and look ♪ ♪ some say it is just a part of it we've got to fulfill the book ♪ ♪ won't you help me sing another song of freedom because all i ever had redemption song, redemption song, redemption song ♪ [ applause ] >> that is so beautiful. thank you. >> that was beautiful. thank you so much.
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appreciate it. jewel, thank you so much. and thank you guys so much for being here. this has been special. and you're still awake, that is amazing. >> all four hours. >> we pump oxygen in like a vegas casino so they can't go to sleep. and that song rang true talking about freedom. last night was a big night where a whole lot of americans said we need to pull ourselves back to where we need to be. >> and by the way, it is so important to remind everybody what david said, democrats are a minority. dm democrats can't do it by themselves. it was democrats, it was independents and some republicans who said we choose freedom. >> and we'll all take the mental health challenge. your organization? >> the not alone challenge. not alone challenge.org. check it out. >> and that does it