in texas, the former labor organizer and austin city councilmember greg casar is running in a districtthat stretches from san antonio to austin. in illinois, democrat delia ramirez is running in the newly redrawn 3rd district house. she is a progressive state representative and the daughter of guatemalan immigrants. and in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, summer lee, a member of the democratic socialists of america, is running on the democratic ticket to replace the retiring longtime congressman democrat mike doyle. the race has confused many voters because lee's republican opponent has the same name as the democratic lawmaker who is retiring, mike doyle. and his latest ad doesn't say he is republican that says "a name you can trust." aipac, the american israel public affairs committee, has spent millions of dollars trying trying to defeat summer lee. the group's political action committee, the united democracy project, spent close to $3 million during the primary against lee and has now spent over $680,000 during the general election on television ads and mailings to attack her. over the wee

greg casar, the youngest member of the austin city council. but you also have greg abbott, who won his reelection, the texas governor. then you have ron desantis in florida who easily won his reelection. they have sent asylum seekers to cities, chicago, in a defiant show of anti-immigrant zeal. ron desantis, possibly a presidential candidate in 2024. your comments about how you feel it is most important to represent immigrants in this country today? delia: the fear mongering and scapegoating of immigrants is not a new thing. you will see this every election cycle. all of a sudden you hear about caravans. this case we are hearing about venezuelans coming through the border. you have seen people traffic immigrants across the country, put them on planes. this could not have been more painful to see. i met a three-year-old who had already learned that she would need to have an alias because she was afraid her family would be deported. we are a country of diversity. if we say we welcome all people, that is a superpower, a beautiful nation that stand

district but it's also about replacing folks getting more progressives in the liberal areas and greg casarilling with progressive members, like alexandria ocasio-cortez. let's talk about ballot measures, abortion was on the ballot in a number of issues. going to kentucky, no was the no constitutional right, no was the proabortion rights side. in kentucky, the proabortion right side winning by nearly 5 percentage points so even in kentucky if abortion rights are winning there, you know the country is on the side of abortion rights. republicans have been running on immigration, a hard line on immigration. we asked in the exit poll, immigrants do they do more to help or hurt the country? according to the exit poll, majority of americans said they do more to help than hurt the country. which gives you two issues, abortion and immigration, maybe folks are more liberal than we give them credit for . >> joining us with the democrats, bakari sell ers and paul baggara. good evening. >> good morning. >> good morning. seven straight hours i need sleep. the election is behind us, the results are still

to come to the podium as soon as the person before them is finished, and that is the incredible greg casar from texas. [applause] rep. casar: good morning. it means that right-wing republicans thought we would be talking about today was upper red wave, but instead, the news, very clearly from this election, is that progressive ideas at work for working people won and we will have more true progressives in the u.s. congress than at any other point in modern history. that is the news of the selection. it was the work of the progressive caucus and folks like representative jayapal fighting for reproductive rights that help desk than the day. we would never have gotten a president moving forward on things like student debt cancellation if it was not for the strong advocacy of folks like congresswoman omar, the whip of the progressive caucus. those ideas excited and brought forward young voters, inspired people that were at disillusioned with the political process, and won as so many of these seats. again we were told time and time again on the news that it was good to be a bad year for democra