. >> senate democrats held a closed our meeting to choose their leaders reelecting chuck schumer as minority leader, dick durbin minority whip, patty murray as the assistant leader they spoke to capitol hill reporters. senator schumer: ok. i'm joined by our leadership team and dirk durbin and mike warner is part of it. here is dick durbin. mike warner will be here shortly. first, i want to thank all of my colleagues for the support they have shown me, the confidence they have shown me. but we're really a team. we have worked together as a team for the last two years, and we'll continue to do that. i love every member of my caucus. i truly do. they're all great people, different views, different backgrounds, but everyone works hard to see other people's points of view and that's why we have been able to come together, because of the unity. the unity in our caucus has been our strength, and it will continue stronger than ever in the 116th congress. when we stood here two years ago, we faced a daunting electoral map. the worst in decades. and we faced difficult questions about how best to serve

where do senate democrats go from here? going to be relentlessly focused on the issues that matter to the people. first and foremost, lower health care costs, provide better, stronger coverage, from prescription drugs to premiums. we democrats are going to continue to press our republican colleagues for better, more comprehensive health care rather than send costs skyward and help the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry. we democrats believe in a real infrastructure bill with real direct and robust federal investments that will rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges, expand high-speed internet, access in rural areas, and put millions -- 10 million americans to work in good-paying jobs, including fields like clean energy, along the way. we need to clean up washington in a real way. rather than paying lip service to the idea of draining the swamp, which is all republicans have done, they paid lip service and made it worse, led by president trump making it worse, we are going to fight hard to clean the swamp.

our bill contains president's full request of the border, the president and the senate democrats will come to agreement. david: he is working on his beard. this is president trump, tells politico he would be willing to shut down the federal government, unless congress authorized a 5 billion dollar to fund his long promise wall. , is a partial government shut down before holidays worth the economic risk. we ask congressman lee zeldin. 5 billion over two years. in washington terms is chump change, for most of us it is a lot of money. are democrats playing har hardbl because they want a shut down? >> i don't think they want to give president's victory, the right thing is as we're seeing in our southern border, we need to invest the funding, the border second is were. it is also about things that come across the border, the drug epidemic, and trafficking and sex traffics and human traffics, and arms that come across, it is not just people but also things, we have a vulnerability with our border, we should protect it, and invest in it who cares, if senate democrats are doing a political ca

senate. you talk about nancy pelosi and the democrats. you caution them against presidential harassment. do you think she'll stick to that? >> in the late '90s we had control of the house and senate. we impeached bill clinton. his approval went up and ours went down. so my suggestion to the new democratic majority in the house is the business of presidential harassment might not work out for you too well. >> dana: nancy pelosi talked about healthcare. take a listen. >> voters have delivered a resounding verdict against congressional republicans attacks on medicare, medicade and the affordable care act and people with preexisting conditions and districts everywhere in america. they went in a new direction. >> dana: for something the republicans can do to try to get back on track on health care so americans think they have a plan? >> first of all, there aren't any republican attacks on medicare or social security. that's all democratic fantasy that they spin -- >> dana: every cycle. >> with regard to health care, it's not working well. this is obama care. it's not working well. american peo

senate seats in the democrats favor so indeed about you don't say which side to take us through that in tucson arizona of course the voting results. all the key contested races coming in from kentucky it's between republican candidate and democratic candidate amy mcgrath is also a former marine fighter pilot as you can see on your screen the current percentages are fifty point nine amy mcgrath forty seven point nine votes in kentucky's sixth congressional district let's get more on base from john hendren he's in indianapolis in the neighboring states of indiana the home state of the vice president mike pence a great deal of interest in those states in the midwest they were crucial during the presidential election and they are just as crucial now. that's right so how the midwest is where john trump's won a lot of his votes in twenty six teen in we were looking for a blue wave in over and over again we have not found it here at a democratic wave that had been widely predicted at least not in the midwest that race you just

senate. democrats were hoping that they would have a miracle in states like north dakota, but it hasn't happened. only one of these competitive states has gone the democrats' way, and that's west virginia, wolf and jake. >> it's very interesting, jake. the republicans already have guaranteed 49 seats. they need only one more to get to 50. that's the magic number for them because the vice president would break any tie. they're very close, but they presumably could increase their majority. right now it's 51-49. >> that's right. we haven't even called florida yet. let's take a look at the balance of power here in the senate. 38 democrats, 49 republicans. 13 seats remain right now in terms of how many are outstanding. seven seats remain. let's look. we have called menendez in new jersey and manchin in west virginia. they will be re-elected. on the republican side, tennessee stays in the republican column with marcia backburn's victory. indiana with joe donnelly losing. north dakota with heidi heitkamp losi

schumer: one of the things democrats proposed in both the house and senate was reducing some of the huge tax breaks that went to the wealthiest and corporations and putting it into infrastructure. that is something i hope the president would consider. >> democrats campaigned on a $15 minimum wage. we have not heard more about that. now that you have a house, is there any way to try to negotiate? sen. schumer: we want better jobs at better pay and we will look at different ways to get there. ok? >> question on health care. just now, leader pelosi said in a press conference that she was calling on the trump administration to withdraw their support of the texas lawsuit against the affordable care act as an act of good faith. sen. schumer: i would join her on that. >> would you call in your republican counterparts? sen. schumer: yes. they say one thing that they , want to keep pre-existing conditions. on the other hand, they support a lawsuit that would get rid of them. you can't have it both ways. either come clean and you don't want to protect pre-existing conditions or dropped the darn la

a long and fraught process that starts in the house and ends in the senate democrats have history on their side as the president's party usually suffers in the midterms whether that trend stays true won't be clear until ballots are in. now we can take this over to washington to talk about this election that is being closely watched the world i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington. good evening to you why is there so much interest in an election that really doesn't involve picking a new u.s. president. well you're right donald trump is not even on the ballot himself but he made this an election about himself he's really fighting fiercely for approval off the american voters and he's not shying back form from a very divisive and extreme rhetoric that we've been witnessing here in the last days and weeks passed because what's at stake here simply and that's what we've just seen in the report is control over two chambres off american congress and that's the house of representatives as well as the senate and the winner the winning party will be able to shape american politics i

polling indicates the most danger for sitting democratic senators in north dakota, indiana, missouri,nd florida and the democratic candidate in all of those places are trying to hold their seat by promoting their support for obamacare. >> peter ducey live in miami. thank you. >> as you can see, a lot of races are really tight and president trump is headed to indiana where former president obama was there today firing up the crowd, hoping to boost support for joan donnelly. mike is live in plymouth. what did president obama have to say out there? >> former president was very polarizing. he told the pack convention center in gary indiana filled with democrats that republicans are robbing them blind and they need to get off the couch. never has there vote and more important. >> in today's indiana, you get to vote in what i believe will be the most important election of our lifetimes. >> president trump agrees that the senate race here in indiana is very important, that's why his last-minute barnstorming tour includes two stops in the hoosier state. he stopped friday night in indianapolis

could be a must win for the democrats to take the senate. we'll go to arizona where democrat cinema is facing mark mccallvy to -- mcsally to replace retiring senator jeff flake. he'll hop across the river in the state of new jersey for. democratic senator bob menendez is fighting to hang on. lots of big races to watch. we're at the important spots across the nation. it's all coming up from the fox news desk on this election eve. liberty mutual accident forgiveness means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> shepard: with only rises in majority in the u.s. senate, handful tight races could decide whether republicans lose control. here are the toss up senate races. arizona, florida, indiana, missouri and nevada. should democrats manage to hold on to all of their senate seats, they would need to flip two more to take control. let's start in flori

a long and fraught process that starts in the house and ends in the senate democrats have history on their side as the president's party usually suffers in the midterms whether that trend stays true won't be clear until ballots are in. the u.s. capitol my colleague. from washington good evening to you all over so why is there so much interest in an election that doesn't involve picking a new u.s. president. well you're right donald trump is not even on the ballot himself but he made this an election all about him and he's basically fighting for approval of his america first policies his policies of protectionism tariffs the tax cuts and also withdrawals from international agreements that we've seen in recent months so what's here at stake is the control of chambres of american congress as we've just heard in your report. on the house of representatives as well as the senate now if the republicans were to defend their. year which they currently hold that would not only mean an approval of donald trump's politics of recent of the last two years but it would also empower him to carry on

and the democrats do in house but republicans are favored in the senate democrats still in the house. that's how that looks now at the stage and what we can tell, bret and martha, what is the trump effect here? what is the effect of the lake camping. i remember vividly because the covered the white house at the time bill clinton campaign he went after it in 1994 to say that congress for his party and he campaigned as vigorously as the president has and was off or not. here we were on election night having watched the president campaign so hard and getting these crowds that he boasted about and we said they knew the crowd size is not an indicator but boy, were we wrong. we don't really know. we may be in a new time and this man may have a full we can't quite measure by the usual metrics. martha: that is the question. what is the trump effect. in 2016 we all sat in his room and watched something that was so remarkable take place in so here we are two years later with the pent up energy of people who have been resisting this president and people who have bee

senate. right now 36 democrats. 42 republicans. we still have 22 senate seats that remain out, and, of course, 23 you look at the number in the upper right, 51 is the number of seats that democrats could need to have at the end of the night. the end of whenever we're counting in order to gain control of the u.s. senate. >> thanks very much. let's take a closer look. joe manchin in west virginia gets reelected. the president went there to try to defeat him. >> this is one of the races the president made personal. he's been to rallies. it had been more than any other state. he always says joe manchin says he's with me but never votes with me. went down there to help patrick morrissey, but manchin is the ultimate survivor. he was the democratic governor. michael dukakis carryed this state. it's become one of the red states in america where president trump is off the charts. president trump won this state two years ago by 42 points. that's a close race. closer than manchin likes it, but to win there is a big deal. >> that's a big win fo

many democratic voters believe the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate republican leader had a warning for democrats drawn from republicans own experience i remember when we tried in the late ninety's we impeach president clinton his numbers one often are going down and we underperform in the national election so the democrats on the house will have to decide just how much presidential harassments they think is good strategy i'm not so sure it will work for them. when it's sworn in early next year the new congress will include more women than any in history among them will be the first female muslim representatives including russia to t.m. who is also the first palestinian american ever elected a black and latino women one including alexandria cortez who will be the youngest person in the house and the first ever native american women will take their seats in the senate some races are still too close to call and may be headed for recounts but republican control of that body is a certainty there's not very much common ground between the parties on major i

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this one that senator blumenthal and the other democratic senators have filed so far seems like it mightlenge and that will really matter whether or not trump nominates a successor sooner rather than later, in which case this all might be short circuited. >> the conversation about nancy pelosi's future was happening before the midterms took place. there have been many democrats pushing back on her bid to be speaker of the house. if they don't want her to be in that role and no one has stepped up to formally challenge nancy pelosi, what are they angling for? what's the game plan here for those democrats? >> you wonder if some of those democrats like seth molten up in massachusetts may be angling for some sort of run for other office, or if they have some sort of other motivation. right now, given the increasing majority that the democrats seem to be having, because we keep having these races that are being called in favor of democrats, it's hard to see nancy pelosi not getting the votes needed on the floor. she is something of a master vote counter, particularly with no clear plan b. so i

indiana, democratic senator joe donnelly is in a tough fight again. will be a good night for democrats or not so much. wolf and jake? >> thank you, dana. they believe it's doable. >> they have narrowed, many of them to the democrats advantage. there are two that they can pick up that seem certainly possible and especially nav adda. one doesn't know. that's a lot of territory. democrats have the advantage in the house of 97. they have the exact opposite problem in the senate. they are playing defense. david chalian? >> more exit polls for you. we asked voters today and also have interviewed early voters in addition to talking to voters at polling stations today what their issue is. take a look at this. health care is the dominant issue, by a lot. 41%. then it's down to 23% who say immigration, 21% say economy. there's that whole debate if the president should have been talking up the economy or not and 11% say gun policy. here is what is going to be more welcomed news for the president and the folks in the white house. take a look at the condition of th

senate, remember, 25 democrats, they will be in the senate. 42 republicans in the senate, but 33 seats tonight remain outstanding. we're watching those 33 states so carefully. remember, democrats must pick up two republican seats, not lose any of their own, in order to become the majority in the united states senate. dana, we're watching indiana, oh so closely right now. the democrats need to hold on to this seat. >> they sure do, and it is one of the classic senate races of this election day because it's going to tell the story of not only whether they can hold this seat but whether there's any chance the democrats could take control of the senate and it's all playing out on trump turf, indiana is exhibit a of that. right now, the republican challenger, mike braun, is ahead, pretty well ahead, more than 60%. joe donnelley, the democratic incumbent, is behind a little more than 35%. just 4% of the vote in and as i toss it back to you wolf and jake, i will tell you that a democratic source in indiana cautions that a lot of the vote that they're seeing is republican braun country. they'r

democrats. they're pretty deep into red territory. in the senate it's the reverse. the gop, 6 in 7 chance of holding on. democrats are playing defense in areas they hold. the terrain there is extremely red. if polls are right, you'd have a split outcome. >> polls have a wide margin of error. rick, our political director, this race is hard to model with the turnout? >> eight points is exactly where democrats need to be, right on the cusp of where they need to be to have a good shot of taking the majority. if you narrow it down to the batt battleground districts, democrats are depending on groups that don't typically turn out in midterm elections. bottom line, george, they need them to vote. we're talking about younger voters, nonwhite voters. they're telling pollsters they're going to vote in unprecedented numbers. but th >> nate, let's educate folks on probability. going into the 2016 election, the house.ast was actually lowe break down statistically what that means. >> so what our forecast accounts for polls being wrong. how much uncertainty there is in the forecast

i mean, i know you're defending a lot of seats, sort of like the senate democrats. how would you define a good night for the gop? >> on the governors' map, it is sort of the reverse of what it is in the senate. there's currently 36 governors' races, 26 of which republicans hold the seat. so it's easy to say this is a little bit more of an uphill battle for us than it has been historically with that many seats. that being said, we feel good about the position we're in, but we're not blind to the fact this is a president's first midterm when we have this many seats up, like i said, 26 of the 36, we knew we had our work cut out for us. that's why at rga we've worked hard, raised a record amount of money this cycle and making certain we're putting that money to good use here in the last three weeks of the campaign. >> you know, it's interesting when you look at the great lakes region in general, that part of the midwest, it seems to me that that's going to -- it's possible you'll have democratic governors in pretty much all of the states that touch a great lake if things

have democratic senators. but the republicans slowly and patiently made their inroads over a number of decades in some cases before they finally started to lock down republican seats in states that democrats have since almost forgotten about until this time when democrats went back to georgia and texas and places like mississippi and alabama and said, we're going to fight here, we're going to compete. >> and what is interesting about this is some old school politics in terms of the racial divide, and it's about whether or not democrats can succeed in states when the path to succeeding is about ensuring that african-americans are not only motivated to vote but they're allowed to vote. in the deep south that's hugely an issue in terms of the partisan divide but also an issue whether they can persuade to show they've actually got a fighting chance. and every time a mike espy gets close or a doug jones wins or a beto o'rourke gets close, that makes that argument that much easier. >> and it's a very good thing for e

joining me right now, democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. 's the man in charge of getting democrats elected to the senate. thanks for coming in. >> great to be with you. >> since you have all of no time on your hands, i appreciate it. what do you think of mccaskill's race right now? >> look, claire mccaskill has been fighting for the people of missouri. and as the person who did the lead-in mentioned, that's been her north star. that means if president trump has an idea that's good for the people of missouri, claire mccaskill has been there. if he has an idea that is bad for the people of missouri, she'll fight him. one of the big issues, of course, that we have been fighting on is the issue of protecting people who have pre-existing health conditions. and josh hawley, her opponent, who is the attorney general there, helped file that texas lawsuit which would take away protections for people with pre-existing conditions. so those are the kind of issues front and center in missouri. but claire mccaskill, she's about missouri, not about party.

joining me now, maryland senator chris van hollen who leads the democrats effort to take back control of the senate. senator, the snow is going to be a tough year for democrats defending 26 seats this year in the midterms while republicans will have nine senate seats up and 10 senate democrats are running in the states president trump won in 2016. many by 20 or 30 points. realistically, don't republicans have a better chance of not only holding the joy by adding to it than you do flipping the senate? >> you're absolutely right. this is the toughest political map anyone party has faced in 60 years and if you have asked people a year and and a half ago where we would be, you would not even be asking the question about whether or not we have a path to senate democratic majority. the answer is, it is a very narrow path as you indicate. but the fact that we are as competitive as we are, is a real testament to our senators and candidates who have always said the north star standing up for the people of their state. that is the first and foremost priority. that is what they've been doing. >>

if you look at what senate democrats said that week, they just jumped on those comments at debates and campaign ads. they said, look, this is why you need to vote democratic candidates in, so we can protect these programs pip also found interesting, martha mcsally in arizona acknowledged that she's been getting her, quote, butt kicked on -- when it comes to the health care issue. so it's really put republican candidates on defense zplp a. >> and it is just remarkable for all of us, jeff was there, who were covering the obama administration in 2009 and 2010, when he and his party were just getting their butts kicked on health care and specifically on obamacare. it's remarkable how this issue has turned and in some ways, this is the sort of end result of a long game that the republicans played themselves. they vowed that they were going to repeal and replace. remember, that was their whole mantra in 2016. and they have tried to do it. they haven't been entirely successful, but the voters are answering the question of, is that what they wanted? >> and if democrats are going to pull off wh

senate race is still too close to call. republican matt rosendale has a slightly over democrat john tester. a, we are waiting to find out who will be the state's first female senator. martha mc sally has the edge at the moment but we have to wait a couple days to find out who will win and finally in nevada a win for the democrats, jackie rosen defeated incumbent republican senator dean heller late last night but some of those races are too close to call. jillian: breaking that all down. rob: donald trump takes republicans to victory in key battleground states flipping four seats read in the senate but democrats now own the house. jillian: the biggest midterm take aways, republican strategist david mcintosh. thank you for your time. we wants to get right in here. let's look at this scorecard, 59 candidates donald trump rallied for. looking at updated numbers 33 of those candidates won, 14 candidates lost, 12 have not been called. those are pretty good numbers. >> donald trump really won last night in these elections. you see that happening even in the close calls in montana where everybody th

across america in deeply conservative texas a surprisingly strong showing for democratic rule seeking election to the senate conversation with just a few weeks ago democrats felt fairly sure of recapturing both the senate and the house but polls suggest the race is now wide open. well it is completely wide open to talk about that with me in the studio as head of the transatlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations good morning thanks for being with us winning these midterms are getting far more attention here in europe than midterms in the u.s. usually do what's what's behind that i think it's because we're so puzzled by donald trump is and how he acts the very disruptive policies the pressure on allies in europe. the possible damage he does to the political system in the u.s. so we're wondering how he can survive this kind of a different approach of policy his own policy style partly erratic partly in a certain way to to. improve the position of america in the world as he says without possibly doing it so it's interesting for us and we wonder whether checks and balances work wheth

senate are controlled by different parties the democrats gained control of the house of representatives while the senate remains solidly republican with the republicans actually increasing their leadership and their role in the senate gaining a few seats it's not exactly clear how many they gained but they did clearly make some gains last night in their control of the senate now both sides seem to be congratulating themselves seeing this as a victory the democrats are rejoicing that they seem to have taken control of the house of representatives the republicans including president trump are celebrating the fact that they've solidified their control of the senate let's take a look at some of the aftermath of last night's vote to see if that restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the challenge. of america spoke. and took back the house of representatives. so tonight is a night to celebrate how far our movement has come. in the relief of the. law several others have announced the senate going into republican control that's a huge moment a huge victory for the president to fill

alex, mississippi has not elected a democrat to the senate 1982. what are the chances that mike espy may change that? >> it's a very long shot still. there was an earlier round of this race where there was a third republican in the race that split the republican vote. that's why we're in this runoff election. i think that last 10% will be the hardest for him to get. he's hoping for a doug jones situation against roy moore in alabama where moderate whites are turned off by the racialized comments that cindy hyde smith has made. mississippi is both the last state in the country to still use the confederate flag on their state flag and has the largest portion of african-americans. about 37%. he'll need a good portion of white to push to his way too. >> hyde smith said this about -- >> when i hear that. she had her head down and she was reading it. my mother told me when you apologize to someone you look them in the eye and you tell them that you're sorry and that you offended them and you try to make reparations if you can. so i can't judge her sincer

schumer: one of the things democrats proposed in both the house and senate was reducing some of the huge tax breaks that went to the wealthiest and corporations and corporations in putting that into infrastructure. hopethat is something i the president will consider. >> democrats campaigned on a $15 minimum wage. we have not heard more about that. >> we want better jobs and better pay and we will look at different ways to get there. nancy pelosi said she was calling on the trump administration to with draw their support for the texas lawsuit against the affordable care act. join her in i would that. >> your republican counterparts? mr. schumer: they say one thing, that they want to keep pre-existing conditions. on the other hand, they support a lawsuit that would get rid of them. either come clean and admit you won't protect pre-existing conditions or drop the lawsuit. onwhat are your views working with new republican senators? mr. schumer: i will work with anyone i can to move the country forward but we are not going to sacrifice our principles for that. an

do you think there is any way the senate -- the democrats could take the senate? any possible way? is: as chris van hollen said on fox news sunday, there is a narrow path. but this has always been a really tough year for the democrats. the democrats are defending 26 seats. republicans are defending only nine. just do the odds there. the chances that democrats are going to lose are much greater than the republicans will. i have to laugh a little bit at the idea that, well, if the election ends up being split, that the white house is going to spin it as trump is the savior of the senate. no, he will have lost the house. there is no way they will be able to spin it as anything other than that. he has done a good job. he is mobilizing the base. i think he has done very well in a lot of these close senate races. he may actually add to his majority. you could argue the senate is more important to him than the house because of the fact that you get your nominations for cabinet positions, for the court, exclusively through the senate. if he loses the house, it's going to have been a bad nig

how confident are you feeling today about the senate, about democrats in the senate compared to how confident you were feeling eight years ago about democrats in the house? >> well, jake, i've said from day one in the senate races that this is a very difficult road for senate democrats, certainly to get a majority. in fact, the story of this race is the fact that we're so competitive right now in the states that trump won big and that you and i are not even talking about the midwestern states that trump won -- pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, michigan. those are not on anybody's big board tonight. so we're going to be battling it out. this is a very difficult path. this is the toughest political map that democrats have faced in 60 years. so that's just a sort of realistic view. now, fact of the matter is turnout has been good in the early vote, and turnout is good around the country. let's wait and see, but this is a very tough road for democrats to get to a majority in the senate. in fact, i think the real story is the fact we're fighting it out at the point we are. >> we just did a reporter h

democrat senate candidate phil bredesen laying the groundwork for a potential loss against marsha blackburn. the former governor rejecting tactics used by fellow democrats against brett kavanaugh and slamming his own party leadership. >> i didn't think the kavanaugh thing was handled properly. i thought the way in which the information about dr. ford was delayed until the end did not read well at all in a lot of the country. i wish they had handled it differently. i think it hurt the brand. if i lose, i think it will just be because, you know, the national democratic brand is a problem in general for me. >> juan: what we have here, dana, phil bredesen, very popular governor in tennessee, saying that in a national election, he thinks the democrats and i'm using his language, have drifted from their corporate how do you see it? >> dana: he's being honest. might not be the message democrats on the left want to hear. if you look at candidate recruitment, phil bredesen, to be willing to run statewide in tennessee, and experienced governor, well-liked but in a state where president trump won by 1

party has maintained control of the senate democratic incumbents running and protract states have been defeated by the republicans out of their current one seat majority the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives for the first time in eight years this means they will have the opportunity to block president agenda over the next two years and voter turnout has been much higher than normal and midterm elections and could be the highest in our generation anything waited in line for hours to cast their ballot. had a heinous spend discussing the impact from the midterm verdict on foreign policy earlier she was joined by bret ruin a former obama white house official and republican strategist franco. the midterm elections are usually all about foreign policy in two thousand and eighteen is really no exception but it is still a factor we've heard many voters say they are voting in order to put a check on u.s. president donald trump and that could have huge consequences for his foreign policy priorities so really take a look at that a little bit of a deeper dive joined righ

including and the deep blue state of massachusetts republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents and these are tremendously talented hard working people that did this indiana north dakota florida. missouri we also won two open senate seats in tennessee i want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great job in tennessee marsha and in utah. and arizona is looking very good a really very good he's done a terrific job there was a tough race and she's done a fantastic. and each of these open seats democrats recruited very strong candidates with substantial fundraising and media support we were getting bombarded with money on the other side. in the house republicans dramatically out performed historical precedents and overcame a historic number of retirements the most house republican retirements in eighty eight years. forty three house republicans retired now i will say this that in many cases they were chairman of committees and they left because they weren't chairman because the republicans have a rule for six years and what that does is wonderful in one way i

positions and they could impeach a long and fraught process that starts in the house and ends in the senate democrats have history on their side as the president's party usually suffers in the midterms whether that trend stays true won't be clear until ballots. democrats do have history on their side this time would a shift in the balance of power in washington would that be something positive for the transatlantic world. i think it would be because it would prove that american democracy is able to. actually confront those those attacks that the president is now running and he's trying to undermine every institution he's trying to. go around the norms that would tie him down he's been deviling the media he's demonizing the political opponent and we need to come back to a situation where the respect for the political opponent is the software of democracy and it doesn't look like this as of now but it needs the democrats to come back strong and to find a new narrative for their own view that the there are you know of the predictions that if the democrats do take the house not even the senate but if the

in the high profile texas senate race incumbent republican ted cruz narrowly defeated his democratic opponent representative beto or rourke this was an election about hope and about the future and the people of texas rendered a verdict that we want to future with more jobs and more security and more freedom . the takeover of the house is a rebuke to president donald trump who held dozens of rallies and explicitly made the midterms into a referendum on his leadership he campaigned furiously in the final days relentlessly stoking fear of a column of bedraggled migrants slowly making their way through mexico to the u.s. border if you want more caravans if you want more crime vote democrat tomorrow that may actually have hurt republican incumbents in more moderate suburban house districts because exit polling showed the most important issue to most voters was health care democrats campaigned heavily on preserving and shoring up the affordable care act turnout was extremely high for a mid term election long lines formed in states from coast to coast often extending blocks from polling sta

that's as republicans are maintaining control of the senate. democrats of course did regain control of the u.s. house. just a short time ago texas senator ted cruz was talking about he is a victory over democrat beto o'rourke. he is suggesting he prevailed over hollywood influence. >> we saw an assault that was unprecedented. we saw $100 million race with hollywood coming in and against the state with the national media coming in and against the state, but all the money in the world was no match for the good people of texas and the hard- working men and women across our state. >> reporter: speaking of hollywood, look at this beyonce she posted this picture to instagram, just before the polls closed in texas sporting a better for senate hat. he lost but beto o'rourke thanked beyonci for her support on twitter. stomach something tells me we have not heard the last of beto o'rourke. considering the coverage on balance of power in congress. >>> we want to go to washington. alexandra, a lot of change in washington tonight. what is your take away in terms of t

answers abn t what might hapt there >> well, once again, we have got senate race bus in this case, there is one endangered democrat, a tester of montana,t bu two senate races, democrats most hope to capture are in the west in arizona, that is an open seat, and dean heller's seat in ineffective -- and so if soehow the democrats who are endangered back east ld on to their seats that will decide who takes the senate and finally, can't ignore californi because the some half a dozen house seats, just like in the northeast, moderatend conservative republicans in districts hillary clinton carriea and if that blue wve isn't strong enough to have taken the housing by then,ia califoill tell us whether or not the democrats or republicans hold the housere >> thompson:ou, any surprises you think might pop up on tuesday? >> there is one specific one, up in alaska, don young, the at thrge house heb from alaska has been representinstate for 46 years and there are rumblings he may be in trouble. that would really send some shock waves through capitol hill. more broadly, there is some indication that millennials who e always assume