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a.m. eastern. lucky enough to one more day alongside my dear friend chris jansing. this morning, a single seat, two candidates but so very much riding on it. rarely has one nonpresidential contest had such enormous implications. but that's the pressure warnock and herschel walk rer facing right now. >> absolutely. increasingly it does look as though control of the senate could come down to that georgia senate race. buckle up for a long, exhaustive, very expensive 26 days between now and the runoff. all right. look this is the big picture. right now we're waiting on two critical updates from the state that's will tell us for sure if it all comes down to georgia. >> meanwhile, in nevada, we'll hear from the clark county election officials this afternoon. in arizona, we're waiting for a new batch of votes to be released from maricopa county. on the other side of the capital with republicans very closely taking control, house democratic campaigns sean mat rick maloney

who lost his own race told "morning joe" why democrats outperformed history in the house. >> we stood our ground and did it because our president and the speaker delivered an agenda through the house of representatives and the congress that tackled the biggest issues in our country. we're fighting for something. so what does the future look like for president biden and former president trump? here is the big 2024 tease from joe biden. >> our intention is to run again. that's been our intention. regardless of what the outcome of this election was. >> who do you think will be the tougher competitor, ron desantis or former president trump and how is that factoring into your decision? >> it will be fun watching them take on each other. >> today the a.p. reports that they're trying to ask him to

delate launch after the gop performance in mid terms and the georgia runoff. republican and frequent trump critic congressman adam kinsinger showed this in the last hour. >> there's no doubt that donald trump is a drag. but i think the thing we miss in talking about that is why is donald trump even still a thing? >> let's begin this hour with the very latest on this state of the vote count. for that, we turn to steve kornacki at the big board. >> good morning. let's take a look here and dive in. it come could to a georgia runoff. for georgia to end up deciding control of the senate in that december 6 runoff. republicans have to pick up either arizona or nevada. so let's show you where things stand in those two races here. in arizona, the democratic incumbent leads by 93,000 votes. he increased that lead last night. we got more votes out of the two largest counties in arizona.

we're expecting to get and the way they do this, it is once a night in maricopa. they put out big releases of votes. so we're expecting another one tonight. we don't know exactly how many. but we're expecting a lot. there are still some balance -- ballots that were dropped off. the mother load is 265,000 ballots in maricopa county that were dropped off on election day. the question is what do the ballots look like? are they heavily republican or democrat? we have seen them be both in the past. are they similar in between? if you're a democrat, mark kelly has built a bit of a pad here, nearly 100,000 votes.

otherwise, mark kelly could be looking pretty good there. the trouble for democrats in air ashgs the bigger trouble for democrats in arizona by the way, is that governor's race. you can see katie hobbs, the democrat is leading. but her margin is much smaller than mark kelly's. she's running 80,000 votes behind mark kelly. so kari lake very much in this game. a clearer shot than blake masters has in the senate race. so if republicans don't get arizona, then this is where they need to hang on. this is what they need to hold on for a decisive lead in the senate. they're just under 16,000 votes. we still have votes to come about. about 40,000 of them out of the washington county where rebound yoe is. 70,000 or less out of clark

county. that's where las vegas is. now there is some reason to believe that the vote remaining in this county may be big republican friendly and may not be something that cortez can get a lot of votes from. we did get a look at the party affiliation in this county. so really what this comes down to, if cortez is going to erase that lead that they have statewide, they're a very specific kind of ballots dropped off in drop boxes. they've been retrieved from the boxes. they're now going to be counted. it is that mystery i was telling you about in arizona. are they heavily democratic or heavily republican?

if they aren't, laxo will hack on. we'll win this race. we'll flip it for republicans. and if they do flip it for republicans, then it would be georgia on december 6th. walker warnock to decide senate control. >> steve, thank you so much. >> what are we expecting to learn today? >> well, going off what steve just said, it's how many votes are announced to day. this press conference at 2:30 eastern time. and they are processing to day. that's not going to drop until in our time which will be late on the east coast. and you know, over 100,000 votes

possibly. and 57,000 votes. they're around the county. this is a painful process. what happens to the attention on this town. more of that scrutiny gets turned up, right? so if you see that chipping away, that difference, you can expect a lot of people asking questions and wondering why things are taking so long. on that point, i would say that you have two laws here in this state that have made this process take the amount of time that it's taking. first, everyone in the state got a mail in ballot. a lot of people sent their ballots in the mail or dropped them off at the drop boxes. majority of those in this state. and then the other law is that maryland ballots have to be postmarked on election day. they're allowed to come in until saturday. so you still have the votes

coming in as well. >> all right. stephanie gosk, you're going to be there for a while. thank you so much. we appreciate that update. and now hours from now, officials in maricopa county, arizona, are expected to release the results of tens of thousands of ballots that were hand delivered to polling places on tuesday. typically, they closely reflect the trends seen on election day with in person voting. in 2018 this batch of votes that helped senator win. >> joining us is vaughn hilliard. what can you tell us about what we can expect to hear later today? >> right. we can hypothesize where the ballots are going to trend come tonight and tomorrow's drops. if they do go to the republican candidates by a heavy margin as we saw play out in 2020.

>> those ballots are also outstanding. here in maricopa county, we're looking at maybe 100,000 of them. and democrats heavily won. that's why on election night we saw katie hobbs and mark kelly go out to quite extraordinary leads initially. when will we find this out? tonight at around 8:00, 9:00 p.m. eastern is the next major drop here out of maricopa county. in the meanwhile, as we speak, the election workers are continuing to tabulate these ballots. signature verification process. every mail ballot here this is a very heavy mail in state.

they're comparing the signatures on the envelopes compared to the signatures they have in the system to ensure that they're secure and actually were signed by the voters themselves. that is the adjudication process. then that entire batch is tabulated. that's where tonight we're going to see last night. >> thank you so much. with georgia senate race headed to a runoff on december, both parties are pulling out all the stops. tonight ted cruz will join republican candidate herschel walker for a rally. gabe gutierrez joins us from atlanta. good morning. how is the runoff shaping up? it is going to be one expensive

race. . >> yeah, that's right. we're off to the races. yet again. and already both campaigns are starting to fundraise over the next several weeks. and as you said, jose, it's this could get very expensive and many voters we spoke with say that they're not exactly looking forward to a barrage of tv ads they saw during the entire election season expected now to intensify over the next couple weeks. based on tv ad spending from the last runoff, there were two of them the last time in 2020, but we could see upwards of $200 million in tv ads here over the next several weeks. of course, it all depends on what you just heard from arizona and nevada. it could all come down to georgia as you mentioned. so, yes, herschel walker expecting a rally later today with senator ted cruz. the question among many republicans in georgia is what role if any former president trump will play in this runoff over the next couple weeks. republicans are already

fund-raising for herschel walker. but, you know, right now it's anyone's guess if the former president will be involved in the campaign over the next couple of weeks. now governor brian kemp has thrown his weight behind herschel walker. he did so the last couple days. the question is, there voter fatigue here? will enough voters turn out in this runoff next month after already facing, you know, so many months of campaigning. the voters with he spoke with so far are sick of it. but again, it could all come down here in georgia in a few weeks. >> there is a level of exhaustion that extends even beyond that state. thank you so much. i want to bring in our great panel to take a closer look at all of this. former florida congressman, david jolly, "washington post" columnist and nbc political analyst eugene robinson and "new york times" national correspondent lisa layer. great to you have all here.

you've been around a little while. maybe even seen a few runoffs. >> yeah. >> what the heck is that one going to look like? >> you know, we saw some runoffs in georgia just a couple years ago. can you imagine? >> it's incredible if it comes down to georgia again. and so there will be questions everywhere. one big question is i think it's obvious the difference between the vote total that brian kemp got on the republican side and herschel walker got. so clearly there are a lot of republican voters who couldn't bring themselves to vote for herschel walker. so one big question is whether the senate control at stake, will those republicans decide to hold their noses and vote for herschel walker? have he they just made the decision that he's not fit for the senate?

will the base turn out for warnock? very good politician. and georgia is now a certifiable purple state. i mean, it could go either way. it's going to be a nail biter. >> strategically for both candidates, what do they have to do? you know, they ran a very hot and intense campaign. they have a starting edge. >> the let sons of the runoff and brian kemp's race is in statewide georgia races if, georgia democrats can make this race about donald trump, warnock can win this in a walk away. what the herschel walker camp wants to do is put brian kemp on the ground as his ambassadors and emissaries. but then eugene is right. look, we -- there was the ticket splitting, right? you saw brian kemp significantly outperform herschel walker.

if donald trump is central to this race, it is favorable for warnock. >> should the republicans stay home? >> georgia is one state where donald trump is not a good republican brand for whatever reason. he injected himself into the runoffs. we learn tuesday night. so do the voters stay home? perhaps. herschel weaker had headwinds among republicans anyway. if you tie him to trump, maybe they do stay home. i think it's very favorable for warnock if this race becomes about donald trump. >> you were a part of several pieces since the results started coming in, including one about the red wave. but there is one line that particularly struck me. you wrote, the very polarization of the country functioned as a check. as the passions of one side offset the other. kind of speaks to what we were just talking about. but what might that mean for warnock, walker and as we gear up for 2024? >> it means an exceedingly nasty

race. that race is already been very, very nasty. like, so much of it has revolved around whether partisans trust their candidates. i think when you have this fierce polarization and this tightness in the country, it gets really dirty. it gets really nasty. twhep you add the things that the fine gentlemen were talking about which is essentially the unpopularity of the two guys that sort of, i guess, at the top of the ticket in some ways, donald trump still remains the de facto leader of the republican party. maybe that isn't going to hold. that's what we're testing now in post -- are we post midterm? i don't know. half post midterm environment. and biden, president biden got a little save in these mid terms. but we know the polling. we know that a majority of democratic voters don't want the president to run again. so you have this dynamic where

you have the two candidates who the opposing parties really just do not trust. and then you have these guys at the top of the ticket who are sort of disliked within their own party to some measure. and it just all adds up for a ton of money being thrown in there for a really nasty race and heated environment. given our larger political dynamics and the political violence and all of that should make people, you know, nervous. we should be watching it pretty closely. >> democrats made a huge point on abortion. it was central theme of the campaign after the u.s. supreme court. does this issue continue through 2024? is this an issue that democrats see as maybe just one of the primary things that they can insentivize people to come out and vote? >> for sure. democrats see it that way. i don't think it matters how democrats see it. voters see it that way. like what this election showed us is even though we were all hearing from all the strategists

and everybody else, maybe vote -- voters don't care about that. that was not true. voters yale do care about abortion rights. so democrats lean night, it's good for them. republicans sort of skated by that this by muddying the watters this time around. that is harder to do going forward. >> it's not like it's not going to be in the news. frankly, there is all kinds of court cases. >> oh, yeah. >> it will be in the news. two quick points about, i think we still midterm actually. but we're closer to the end to the beginning. and you have to take one good thing. we all worried about political violence on election day. we worry about just, you know, chaos and that didn't happen. these have been orderly elections. they were not huge disputes yet about vote totals. people are conceding and accepting victory in a normal way. so i think we should be happy

about that. the other thing, to david's point, one thing donald trump is not good at is sort of fade weigh into the background. >> really? >> and letting the spotlight be on someone else. and there's a big spotlight on ron desantis right now. so if ron desantis comes in and, you know, trump is not going to want desantis to be seen as the savior of the republican party having saved herschel walker. i don't know what trump will do. he'll do something.

>> it's a fundamental part for the republican party. we'll see if he is weakened. the polarization is still incense. so, you know, the misinformation is still out there. so i think i'm a little more pessimistic than you. >> look, i'm not little mary sunshine over here. i didn't know what was going to happen on election day or night. i didn't know what was going to happen. and what happened so far has not been all bad stuff that i worry about. >> democracy seemed to have worked. >> so far. so good. stay with us. and at least we want to thank you so much for being with us this morning. still ahead, he's just 25 years old and will soon join the club of members of congress many more than twice his age. we talk to the first member of gen-z elected to congress. flores frost. >> but first, if the house flips, republican congressman kevin mccarthy has his sights on

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new details how republicans are preparing for taking back the house. republican gains on tuesday were far less than what the party faithful were hoping for, the gop still has the strong shot. nbc news projecting republicans will gain four seats more than the 218 needed for the majority. and with that would come the

speaker's gavel. >> the likely candidate for speaker is current minority leader kevin mccarthy. he said he has enough support to take the gavel from nancy pelosi. at least one republican is saying not so fast. >> at least one. let's go to nbc's garret haake. a former aide to two past republican speakers is also joining us. david jolly and "washington post" columnist eugene robinson are back us with. kevin mccarthy was asked yesterday whether he has the support to be speaker. here's what he said. >> do you have the votes for both the majority and the speakership? >> yes. >> what about the freedom caucus? have you spoken to president biden today? >> yes. >> how was the call? >> good. >> good. okay. but a senior member of the house caucus arizona's andy bigs questioned why mccarthy speakership was a forgone conclusion. how secure is mccarthy's position? is anyone there that may pose a challenge. give us the lay of the land.

>> mccarthy is still the favorite to take the speaker's gavel if republicans do indeed take the house. it will be because they got that far. he will be able to claim that they won seats in back to back elections. he was minority leader and running the party's strategy. and the bigger reason perhaps where he's the most likely candidate to be speaker is he's the only candidate to be speaker. nobody else put their name forward to challenge him. nobody has a competing vision or path or any other particular beef with mccarthy except perhaps that they could have done better in theory. and so while the house freedom caucus, you know, might pose problems for mccarthy, they want power. they want gavels for their, you know, top members. committee chairmanships and good seats. how long he can stay speaker if he gets it? that is a much bigger question. in fact, have a story to tell

that they took back a majority. >> yeah, if he does become speaker, it may be a razor thin republican majority. he would be able to do any or all of the things that he says he wants to do? >> yes and no. legislating, governing on the house floor will be nearly impossible. democrats are going to vin credible leverage right from the start. so i think the legislative agenda will be pretty slim. but that was probably the case to begin with. what doesn't change a lot is if you just have one more seat than the other guys, you get to control the committees. you get to have oversight. all the investigations they've been talking about i think will be going forward and gerrick is right, this is about power. this is about who is on what committee. who is running the

investigations? i think that's what the caucus members are trying to assert. they want to be the ones calling the shots and frankly weakening the speaker which i think is really bad for the institution. >> david, republicans are projected to have a very thin majority. they suggest that could be a nightmare for mccarthy. >> i actually don't believe what kevin mccarthy is saying right now. gerrick is right. >> about what? >> about the fact that he has the votes. gerrick is right, he is the only candidate. but the way to look at this is it's not whether or not he's being challenged right now. it's whether he can secure 218 of his colleague's votes out of potentially just 220. so then what is he promising them? so marjorie taylor green has to have oversight.

in january on the floor, he needs 218 votes. he does not have that right now. i do not believe kevin mccarthy. now the second question is n. this discussion, if he gets there, can he maintain it? this is where control of the senate really matters. because if democrats keep the senate, kevin mccarthy is the weakest speaker we've seen in a generation. if republicans take the senate, now republicans control the entire weight of the legislative branch and countering and negotiating with the white house. that matters. it's still incredibly difficult. it comes down to budget matters and basically nothing else. gene, she said the civil war in the gop is very real. first of all, why would anybody

want that job as speaker? but what he is really facing? >> well, you know, i think what she's doing is she is laying down a marker. and david is absolutely right. he can, you know, yeah, he is the leader of the party. he would be speaker theoretically. he has to get the 218 votes. each one is much a stand on it. and that is the question. >> there are a the lot of joe manchins in the house. >> exactly. >> there is one obviously we talk b you talked about the races for secretary of state and protecting our democracy. a lot of people are aware of the prominent one in arizona where republican mark fincham is trailing his democratic chaler. but the race is still too close to call. what is your assessment of that race and where the secretaries

of state are landing overall? >> well, obviously very glad to see him win in georgia. i mean that to me was the biggest threat we talk about threats democracy and deniers. the people that actually administer elections. if they're not willing to say an election was honest if they lost, then that's the biggest problem. he was probably the biggest threat. this guy is way off the deep end on this than the fact that arizona voters saw that is really encouraging. so we have some real bright spots in these things. it is something we have to be really diligent about going forward. if someone like that is in charge of counting votes, it all falls apart. i'm sure arizona will be reckonning with this for a long time. kari lake won't take this well and it's important. >> gerrick hak and ben jolly, thank you for joining us. >> nicole hit florida overnight. first, we're going to talk to

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he will be the only lgbtq republican in the house. massachusetts attorney general is now the first openly gay leader in the entire country. also the first woman lekted governor in history. also making history, florida democrat maxwell frost. the 25-year-old will soon become the first gen-z member of congress where the average age of his house colleagues is 58. speaking nancy pelosi is 82. gop leader kevin mccarthy is about to turn 60.

>> frost will be the only voice in congress of a generation that overwhelmingly went democrat thick cycle. voting blue. joining us no you is representative elect maxwell frost of florida, good to see you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> congratulations by the way. that massive youth voter turnout shows how much they could mean to democrats, right in, 2024. so a lot of democrats, maybe they're calling you and asking you, do you want to know what is the secret sauce for getting out young voters? it can't just be your younger self. >> exactly. exactly. i mean it's a few things. first off, it's the messaging and young people are excited about politics that says, you know, you deserve health care. we need to combat the climate crisis. we need to ensure people have the resources they need to live their lives. that's really it. we want people to have resources they need to tap into the opportunity that this country

has. we need to meet folks where they're at. they never get their doors knocked on. it is spoeshl media. it is traditional canvassing. it's all the things all the time reaching out to young folks and building that infrastructure year round and not just throughout election time. >> just recent poll shows that 44% of latino voters never got any information by either political party. you're a community organizer. gun violence inspired you to run. you also said you're a survivor and experienced police abuse firsthand. what did those experiences -- how did those experiences form who you are today? >> for me, i always had the values, but what the experience dozen is they really show you the values playing out in real life. and show you what people are going through. even throughout this campaign, you know, as a candidate i wasn't getting paid. had to uber at night to really pay my bills. i ran out of money just three months into the came pain.

and, look, as a 25-year-old guy, without a family, right, i didn't really need to produce for folks. if i had a family, i would have had to drop out in january. it showed me this is an inaccessible thing. we need to make being a candidate more accessible. these experiences really just show you in practice what we need to do in congress and also across the country and local government to make this country more accessible for everybody. >> the societal and economic situation that you and other gen-z find themselves is very different from what we faced when we were your age. i'm curious if you've been getting calls from other people your age who have seen you do this and think, hey, maybe i can do it too. >> how i can run? can i run for city council? the message is, yes, run for

office f you're running for local office, run for something as a great organization that can help you get started. i encourage people to run for office. and you know as young people, we know what it's like to be young right now. we understand a lot of folks and young folks are in debt not because we lived beyond our means, but because we've been denied the means to live. we're taking a look back and figuring out how can we make sure that people have the resources and means to tap into the opportunity that this country has to offer. right now, not everyone has that. >> and maxwell, you often cite your latino background. what does latino mean to you? >> it means a lot of things. you know, my mom, my grandma just passed away a few weeks ago and my aunt sandra came from cuba in the late 1960s during the freedom flights number money, no english. but, you know, being latino and latino culture for me going to high leah and spending twim my familiar sli all about family. coming together. something i was just saying to

some latino voters the other week is when it's up to us, people have food. right? when it's up to us, people have shelter. when it's up to us, people have that culture and family. so, you know, always encouraging latino voters to put our culture into politics and vote for candidates that are about family and practice health care, housing, all these things for everybody. [ speaking spanish ] >> thank you very much for being with us this morning. we're also following breaking news right now. the latest inflation report is out and it's better than expected z that mean prices will start to go down soon? s will start to go down soon? at chewy, you can save on all the gifts you need for the gifts that keep on giving. smiles! because while they'll never understand this whole situation... they definitely get this. thank goodness. great prices. happy pets. chewy.

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to help you achieve it. so let us focus on the how. just tell us - what's your why? 48 past the hour. both parties are facing reality checks when it comes to outreach to latino voters after mixed results in battleground areas. >> yes, we'll give you examples n florida, latino voters overwhelm lig supported the republican governor and senator. in texas, though, they delivered a mixed bag on key house races in the rio grande valley. and in nevada, results are still up in the air. and they could be the deciding factor for the incumbent democratic senator. >> joining us now msnbc contributor ramos. she is an msnbc contributor and nbc analyst victoria soto, dean at the university of arkansas. democrats are seeing solid

support. what district flipped red electing the first ever republican, the district's first ever latina congresswoman. you're there now in texas district 15. what you are hearing from people there? >> yeah. well, i think you said it right. this was a reality check. there was no red wave. certainly not a red wave fueled by latina voters much republicans are pointing to this specific district in order to prove that they're perhaps continuing the end roads with latina voters. democrats look at this race and not only say that it was an anomaly but also that it's a reflection of what happens when democrats don't spend enough money. right? i think republicans flooded this district with money. they spent over $4 million. and what happens? people like de la cruz dela cr. she centered her campaign around border security, painting this picture that migrants are invading the border and she's even pushed conspiracy theories. i think the big picture, jose,

is, yes, perhaps latinos fueled a red wave in florida. here in the central valley in the rio ground valley, latinos stopped that red wave from happening, but at the same time, republicans made some inroads. two stories can exist at the same time. >> victoria, what's your take what happened along the texas border? what happened there? >> i'm going to add in a couple of more stories here. i think another important context of why democrats were able to hold the ground was that they had the right candidate. let's look at henry cueller's district. he was in the fight of his life against a young democrat. had jessica won, i don't know if henry would have been able to keep that seat. even though it has deep roots, it does have a little bit more of a ideological, conservative

paint than other districts. you had the right candidate in that district and also even though gonzalez was technically a new candidate because it was a new drawn district, he was known more of a centrist democrat. so that made the difference. the republicans were flooding the zone, literally, the democrats played really, really good defense as well. >> and maya flores who was the first mexican-born woman member of congress, her district was changed to be more democrat-leaning. what this does teach folks at the rgv? >> it proved that republicans don't have what they need in order to win the full latino vote and it also proved as a wakeup call for democrats. the rise was a reflection of

what happens when the democratic party takes latino voters for granted. her fall was a reflection of what happens when democrats invest. at the end of the day, democrats ended up investing, jose, more than $7 million in south texas, right? that's a lot of money compared to what they were doing this summer. they won the district by eight points, but it's important to note that in 2018, they won that same district by 20 points. flores is someone who awakened a curiosity into the voters to tap into those conservative values. she wasn't able to answer, what has the republican party done for latino voters. that's where they drew the line. >> we spoke about the possibility of there being kind of a silent abortion voter among latinos. throughout the country, did abortion play a big role among

latino voters? >> nationally we saw it did among the the whole of the electorate. but among latinos, we saw here that they voted with the belief that people should make their own decisions. again, we need to parse out that individually a lot of latinos may be prolife themselves. but for others, they want the ability to have that prochoice option. i think this is very important. the other piece i do want to highlight, which is really quite remarkable, is that we see -- even though it is a republican latina, a third latina from texas go to congress. congress has not seen texas latinas until 2018. this is another remarkable aspect in addition to the partisan piece that we see growing representation of women in congress. >> there's one more sort of big picture question here now that i think a lot of folks are looking

at going forward to 2024. you always want to look at what the takeaways are, right? for a big takeaway, they're looking to florida. they're looking to the latino vote and how it went for the republican incumbent governor, ron desantis and one of the things that analysts argue is he's going to be able to go to the republican party and say, i'm the person who can deliver this across the country in the way that greg abbott couldn't do in the rio grande valley. is it political if you can win latino voters in florida, does that mean you can win them in the rest of the country? >> chris, i'm going to give you a resounding no. we know the latino community is diverse, all right, on many dimensions. but we've always seen over the last several decades that cuban americans and now central americans just vote distinctly many times due to their country of origin, the political atmosphere that they were coming

from. it is really apples and oranges when it comes to latinos in florida and the rest of the country. so i know i'm being a little too strong here in the know. but you can't generalize to that degree. >> you can never generalize and i think it's important that you say that. we got to look a little bit further on exactly how florida turned out at the end because numbers in the beginning can sometimes be misleading. it seems as though desantis got 70% almost of the cuban vote, 55% of the puerto rican vote and 50%-plus of all other latino voters in the state of florida. thank you so much for being with us. and you can catch more of the reporting, extraordinary reporting, on her show "field report", episodes streaming on peacock right now. >> stay with us for another hour of special election coverage. steve kornacki is with us right after this break with the latest numbers. don't go anywhere. s. don't go anywhere.

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good morning, it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific time. i'm chris jansing along with my colleague jose diaz-balart. the big question this hour is can democrats cap off a stunningly strong midterm by hanging on to control of the senate? >> and the answer to that question will hinge on votes