We The People 2026: MS NOW's special midterm elections coverage - Part 2

[BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] Looking back now, I'm sorry, we're talking, that's awesome. >> What were you guys talking about? >> I thought you were talking about food, which got me very, very, very good. >> We are eating. >> We're eating with two hairs over there, we're eating candy, so we are all sugary. >> Michael has these gummy bears, so you can stop. >> Let me just, let me just travel with you people. I think it's the Biden-American, it's not Republicans versus Democrats. Our urban versus rural or young versus old, it's savory versus sweet. >> [LAUGH] >> I'm really close to the sweet thing, which is actually the measma of sugar coming off you guys. >> [LAUGH] >> Actually, like kind of giving me- >> I'm happy to share. >> No, we have got cups of sweets for you guys. >> Of course, field. >> Well, energetics, corruption. >> [LAUGH] >> That's the real crime of the show. >> I feel like they're, yeah, I feel the same one. >> Yeah, we're gonna work on our comeback. But we were talking when you were supposed to be angry. >> I'm sorry. >> Can we talk about Alabama 2? >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> This is, we just took good district, I don't even, I'm running, like Christopher Hayes, I'm running out of words to express how unusual this is. >> 86% in the second district in Alabama. Shemari figures the incumbent was most definitely going to, was expected to lose this because of redistricting. Let me show you what this looks like with the redistricting, all right? This is a 5742 under redistricting. There was not that much hope that Shemari figures was gonna work this out. Right now he's got 86% of the vote in, it's 55 to 44. Let's see what, what Red Marcus needs, Red Marcus needs 82% of the remaining vote to win this. That looks highly, highly unlikely. So this is, this goes on Chris Hayes list of, of Jerry Manderwatch didn't work again. >> I need to cut you off for a second. We have an important call to make in an important United States Senate race. >> The Associated Press has called the race in South Carolina. The Democrat, Annie Andrews, has defeated the Republican candidate, Darling Graham, in South Carolina. And South Carolina's United States Senate seat, recently vacated by the death of longstanding Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham will go to the Democratic Party. Annie Andrews has won that seat. This is something that, we've talked a lot about things like, imagine 12 months ago, John Ossoff winning this early in the night. Imagine 12 months ago, the Texas Senate race being this holly contested. Imagine three weeks ago talking about a South Carolina United States Senate race going to the Democrat. And not going to the Democrat in three weeks, but going to the Democrat tonight. This is a live shot of Annie Andrews headquarters in South Carolina. We will go live there momentarily as soon as we can get somebody to a microphone who can conceivably hear from us. But Chris Hayes, I just like to get your reaction here. >> It's seismic. It's inconceivable. I am reminded of the tweet from the late Lindsey Graham that resurfaces all the time. During the 2016 election in the primary, we said, if we nominate Donald Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. And he traveled a very different journey after that about his relationship to Donald Trump. And here is his sister running for this seat solely because of Donald Trump saying that she should be the nominee. Losing a state that Donald Trump won by 16 points two years ago in just an inconceivable turn of events, not a special election. That is a six year term. Annie Andrews, pediatrician, a woman who worked in a children's hospital where she told me the other night on election eve is the best place a person can work to understand what's going on in a society as a children's hospital and that line really stuck with me. She is going to be the US senator for the state of South Carolina for six years. The only thing I can compare this to is that Scott Brown election after Ted Kennedy passed away and he won that special election, which was not a full six year term. But was like, wait, Ted Kennedy is going to a rep, this is the inverse of that, but not a special election. Let's remember. That was a special election that happened on a random day in the middle of winter. This is a six year term in the middle of a midterm in a high turnout race with everyone paying attention. Not some small weird subset that's fired up in the state of South Carolina, which as long as this country been around, would be one of the most conservative states in this union. Electing Annie Andrews, pediatrician to the US Senate for six years. It's an unbelievable turn of event. And it signifies a reckoning for the Democratic Party and for the Republican Party with black voters in the South. Thanks to the United States Supreme Court, we can unwire the achievements of the Civil Rights Act. We can unwire the achievements of the Voting Rights Act. We can take away every majority black congressional district in the old Confederacy and nobody's going to have anything to say about it because we got permission in the Donald Trump era to do that. Well, black voters are going to say something about that. And black democratic base voters in states like South Carolina and states like Georgia and states like Mississippi and states like Alabama are going to have something to say about it and they are not going to be put at the back of this. And it is, it's just, it is unbelievably inspiring to me. And a complete and total miscalculation, I'm very curious and will be curious. The conversation between the Senator-elect and Tim Scott on that very point. And she raises this issue with the voters and the country about how the civil rights and the voting rights of African American community that helped elect her, how now and do we respond to that? Yeah. And I think that's going to be an important takeaway tonight, given what happened in Georgia and given what's happening, what happened here. And elsewhere across the country where the African American vote has sort of weighed in on its voices and there's still some to come. And African American candidates will now occupy governorships, the United States Senate seats, etc. Yeah. And the entire plan was, as Rachel said, to undermine democracy in America. We saw that vitally in the insurrection, but we also saw it piece by piece with all these moves. We'll just gerrymandered whatever we want. What are you going to do about it? We're going to intimidate at the voting booth. Well, it was the voting rights act that the Supreme Court relied on and supported and actually saying, no, you can't go out in the Friday ruling that they didn't turn over turn and do voter intimidation, right? That protected it. We didn't see ICE agents at the polls today, but partly because of the fight. And then when you look at the rich and important tradition of black people, primarily the Democratic Party in the modern era. Sometimes elsewhere, but primarily within the instrument of the Democratic Party, fighting back and using the peaceful power of the vote. So sometimes when we talk about democracy, it almost sounds abstract. Yeah. It's not abstract tonight. It's a huge change, it's a seaway, and then you say what Trump brainwashed or convinced some cowardly people to do in the Republican Party was think you always have to run on Trump. That was the plan in South Carolina, it turns out this year running on Trump and the deep South doesn't work. That's right. Well, the thing about, oh, I'm sorry, go. You go, you go. Running on democracy being abstract, that was true until he came back, right? It was sort of mushy until he came back and then did undemocratic things like pardoned violent insurrectionists who've been convicted by juries of their peers who had nothing to do with Donald Trump's perceived deep state to shred voting rights, to take the immunity decision by the Supreme Court as a free pass to carry out crimes in full view. I mean, democracy was abstract until 24 months ago when Donald Trump made it abundantly clear what destroyed democracy looked like, and the rebuke is as much about that as anything else. We have a couple of calls to make, and these are both flips. Talking about corruption, here's the story of corruption. In Pennsylvania, eight, the Congressional District there, the mayor of Sprint in Pennsylvania is Paige Cognetti, she is a Democrat. She is going to flip the seat currently held by Republican Congressman Rob Bresnahan. Again, this is the eighth Congressional District in Pennsylvania. She is the mayor of Sprint and the last mayor of Sprint and is still in prison for what he did when he was mayor of Sprint and Paige Cognetti came in to Sprint and to say we have a corruption problem that is non-partisan in this corner of Pennsylvania, and I am here as a technocratic, good government, clean government, anti-corruption Democrat, and I'm going to get it done in Sprint and she's wildly popular as the Sprint and mayor and she will now be the new member of Congress, ousting freshman, Republican Congressman and amateur ghost hunter, Rob Bresnahan. We also have another call in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District. Again, another flip, Scott Perry, who as Sally said earlier this hour is the most election denialist of all the next election denialists in the House of Representatives, eight unindicted co-conspirator in the insurrection case Scott Perry has just lost to see. He has lost his seat to Democrat longtime local news anchor, Janelle Stelson, with 97 percent of the vote in Scott Perry. Absolutely got his handed to him. This is not him losing narrowly. This is losing his seat by a mile. And he will be replaced in Pennsylvania just as it's at least two other Republican incumbent members of Congress will be as well. Page Cognetti is someone I worked with in the Obama administration. She has experience in the Treasury Department. And I say this because this is the makeup of who's going to be in the house and people who are coming to it with different kinds of experience. And in the Senate too. And she is a technocrat. And I think that's going to be very valuable. Also she had the greatest campaign motto. Do you remember what it was? Page against the machine. Back in the day. Back in the day. I wish she certainly could take that motto to Congress too. But she'll be a really, really interesting edition. I'm so so, you know what's really interesting though. This is a continuation of a narrative that began 18 or so months ago. Because what is telling? And you said it just now, Rachel, that the Democrats in this instance are winning by a mile. They're they're winning these seats in most cases by double digits, which is what was the narrative coming into this cycle. And the special elections in the 37 out of 38 special elections that they won at the beginning of the cycle, they were cleaning clock something. Yes. And so that, that says as much about where we are now than anything else because it's a continuation of that story. Not only is the country saying we don't want me more of that, but they're making it very clear about how much they don't want it. You got you also got this, you know, the structural conditions of the country and candidate quality and sort of when they come together. I mean, we just showed that the Iowa governor, it's 50% of the vote in Rob Sand in Iowa is up 15 points. Yeah. He's up 50 now, 50% in. But like Rob Sand's a good candidate and he's standing for election at night where people are tick the heck off about Republican incumbents. We have a big election alert for you. This is a governor's race very closely watched for all sorts of reasons. And the Ohio governor's race, the Associated Press has called Democrat Amy Acton has defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswami to become the next governor of Ohio. This is a flip. Republican Mike DeWine is the current incumbent governor of Ohio. He will be replaced by Democrat Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswami will go back to wherever Vivek Ramaswami goes when he's not on television. He distinguished himself in this campaign with some of the most, I think, morally egregious. I would even describe it as morally reckless campaigning that we've ever seen. Yeah, I think in American politics at any level and we've seen some pretty dirty pool in American politics. But even in the absence of the Epstein era and what we know about the Epstein class, as they say, to have sided effectively with the mother of Amy Acton who stood by her then husband when he was criminally charged with having raped then 12-year-old Amy Acton and to have made an ad about that. Essentially siding with those accused of rape against a child in this case, it was something that resonated across the country in a way that I actually don't think we had very many political words for. It was a wave of revulsion that I think everybody who it hit was touched by except for Vivek Ramaswami, JD Vance and Donald Trump, who were the three political figures who defended it and encouraged it. And I don't know how Donald Trump and JD Vance feel about these election results tonight, but Vivek Ramaswami will not be elected to anything tonight. I remember as I'm sure we all did when I first saw that ad and I was so horrified by it, but the political cynic in me thought, what if people across Ohio just see this ad and don't know the story? And what if this helps Vivek? This was my initial reaction, which I'm just acknowledging right now. I was obviously very wrong. The reaction has actually been so heartwarmingly encouraging to me about humanity and society, but I also said something about Amy Acton too. I talked to her last week and we all tried not to get emotional and we're talking people, but sometimes it's hard. And I asked her just about, we were talking about the ad and she said basically, I looked at my mother and I was worried that they were taking advantage of her. And I was worried how she was doing. And if that doesn't tell you about the empathy, like pulsing through the veins of the person who's going to be the governor of Ohio, I really don't know what does. And yeah, well, she also, I mean, the role she played in that state as the public health director during COVID, you know, or two things. One, that state did some of the best COVID response of any state, particularly of Republican states A and B, just a reminder of how quickly politics changes and how you can't take two dots and draw a line. If you told me that the democratic head of the public health response to COVID was going to win Ohio statewide in the wake of all the school closing backlash and all the messages we got about how people were so sick of all you people telling us what to do and where we can go and how to get facts. She's going to get her Ohio where the biggest bio line is that she was the public health director running the COVID response because there are still moral moments in politics. So often politics feels like this tactical endless fight and that exhaust people. And as we all know, turns off good people and how many nights have we sat at this desk and talked about where is the bottom and are people outraged and didn't this do it. But of course, people are busy living their lives trying to make ends meet, especially in this kind of economy. But when things get painful enough, people look up and say, wait, who's in charge? Are these our leaders in what way are any of these people? What Rachel just described in Ohio? And obviously the Vice President and President of the United States, co-signing that with all known facts because either they like to say nothing matters because everything's a joke, right? This wasn't a joke to the people involved. It's clearly not a joke to the people in Ohio tonight. There are moral moments and I don't think every politician and every local race runs on them. But we've had quite a few already this cycle and it seems that what we're watching tonight we're well-passed like a raincoat and a little precipitation and you know, we'll all leave it to the people who make the calls about when they call it tsunami. But there is water and precipitation in rain and people are saying apparently a lot of folks in the country woke up and want their moral moment. >> We have one election alert for you in Ohio 15. This is a race that I was watching because I think this Democratic candidate is very, very talented. His name is Don Leonard and Don Leonard, the Democrat, has just flipped a seat in Ohio 15. Republican congressman, Republican incumbent Mike Kerry. This is a seat that Trump won by roughly 10 points in 2024. Democrat Don Leonard has just flipped it. And again, it does not look close. Remarkable outcome there in Ohio district 15. Now I have perhaps bigger news for you. We have not a call but a change in characterization in a Senate race in the Texas Senate race with 64 percent of the vote in Texas. MS now now characterizes this race. We previously characterized it as lean Democrat. It is now likely Democrat. That just reflects there's no call here yet. But that is increased confidence that this is trending in Democrats directions. You see James Talleriko there with a 20 point lead with 64 percent of the vote in. Let's go to Peter Alexander who's in the We The People studio. Which of the water levels continue to rise right now. It looks like Texas may be a part of this Democratic swamp. Let's get to the ground. Alicia Menendez is there in our MS now. Members lounge. I'll be loud, Alicia, because I can hear the cheering as they see the same boards right now. How are people reacting to Talleriko now likely dem. It's leading toward likely dem that he wins the Senate seat. Peter Alexander say hello to all of my newest friends in Houston, Texas. They are very excited tonight. Every time one of those races change, you hear a big squeal inside this room, but they are bracing themselves. I want you to walk with me because I want to introduce you to someone that I have been talking with. Ron, a little bit of a delay. That person heals Jacob Soberoff could never. Where is my friends? Hello. Look what she brought with her for tonight. Our MS now. Bingo card. How's that card looking? It's looking like it's a blue wave. Carol, you are a school teacher here in Texas. What would it mean for you for Talleriko and Inohosa to win tonight? Oh my goodness. It would mean better schools for our kids higher pay for our teachers getting rid of star. Just paying us what we're entitled to because we're already doing the work. We're already helping our kids. We just need a little bit of help to fully fund our schools. We have watched all of these other races get called and my friends here in Texas. They are waiting for the Talleriko race. They are waiting for the Inohosa race. I know Peter. We'll see you very shortly on the other side. Alicia, those folks have been very patient, not just for us to come visit them, but for a Democrat to win the Senate seat, not since Lloyd Benson, it's happened there. We'll see what happens. We're not there yet. Thank you. Let's get to MS now. It's Chris Jansing. Alicia is at the Michigan Democrats headquarters right now. This is another close one, Abdul Al-Sayed, of course, looking to defeat. to retain the Democratic seat, what are you seeing? >> A lot of excitement here, a lot of dance party, as the announcements are made about control of the house, about all the flips that are happening, but I've been in touch with Democratic Party officials and campaign officials all across the state. They give me three reasons that they're optimistic. Number one, huge turnout on college campuses, University of Michigan, Michigan state. The polls had to stay open because there were so many people in line. And of course, it was young people that fueled Abdul-El-Sahead's win in the primary, second reason, overperformance in majority, black districts. And now I just heard from another state official saying, as everybody is cheering, that we're here, that's why, that the Supreme Court candidates here won. So they feel their early signs are good, but then the same party chair came out, Peter, and said, I quote, paste yourself. >> Those folks better paste themselves because there may be a lot more celebrating in Michigan for the Democrats if things continue this direction. Chris Janssen, thank you. We'll see you along the way. Rachel, this is something else. We still got Kansas, we're keeping eyes on Texas, is not done yet. Michigan, as we just noted, we got a long way to go, but this thing is looking, it's looking increasingly exciting for a lot of the Democrats that we've seen around the country. That's right, and the House races, as we continue to watch them flip one by one, each one of those is a Shakespearean drama in its own right, and its own universe of import and significance. And so there's a ton still to get to, Peter, thank you very much. As we're coming up on the top of the hour, which has got about 30 seconds here, can we check in on Tennessee Governor? >> Yeah, Tennessee Governor, let's take a quick look at that, in Tennessee, you've got Marshall Blackburn with 86% and very, very close, got a 25,000 vote lead. What Jerry Green needs is 48% of the outstanding vote to win, it's still possible. I want to show you one quick thing in Tennessee, though, with one second left to do this, Justin Pearson. This was not supposed to be anything like this, Justin Pearson was redistricted, it wasn't his district, but this was very Mandarin, this was Steve Cohen's old district, guaranteed to not have a Democrat win with 83% and Justin Pearson is in the lead. >> Wow, percent of the vote in Tennessee District 9, all right. It is 11 o'clock on the east coast right now, that means we have poll closings up and down the west coast, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state. As we look to those poll closings to see if we have additional calls, we will continue to update you through the course of the night, both in terms of Senate and in terms of Governor's races as we've got done, but let's start first in California, in the Governor's race. I believe, yes, we do, we have an election alert, we have, excuse me, in the Oregon Senate race, we have a winner. The Associated Press has called the Oregon Senate race for Democratic incumbent Senator Jeff Markley, he has defeated his Republican challenger David Brock Smith. Now, I believe we also have a call to make in the California Governor's race. We do. The Associated Press has made this call, the winner of the California Governor's race. This is a historic win. California's new governor will be Democrat Javier Bacerra. He has defeated Republican Steve Hilton. The polls in this case gave us not much mystery, prospects that Javier Bacerra would win seemed quite sure because of that polling, but this is nevertheless an historic and historic achievement for California Democrats and for California Latinos. California with the huge Latino population in that state, there has never been a Latino governor of California, and tonight there will be. Let's go to Rosa Flores, who is at Gina Inohosa's Election Night Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Rosa, what have you got for us? What are you hearing from the Inohosa campaign tonight in Texas? Rachel, what we're hearing from a source from the Gina Inohosa campaign is that Governor Greg Abbott has called Gina Inohosa to concede. That is what we're hearing from a source here in the campaign. You're hearing the crowd go wild right now because of another Texas race that MSNOW has not called yet, and as a matter of fact, the crowd does not know what I am reporting to you right now. Is that indeed, Governor Greg Abbott has called Gina Inohosa to concede this campaign. Now Rachel, you have to just take in that moment for a second. I have been talking to a lot of Gina Inohosa supporters here in this room, and I can tell you that they have been anxious, they have been at the verge of tears. There is just so much emotion in this room because they know what this means. They know that a Gina Inohosa win in this state is historic. This would make her the first Latina, the first Mexican-American governor of the state of Texas, and this would send -- and that is indeed what the crowd here is celebrating. I just want to walk around and try to talk to some people. She got their reaction. Hi, ladies. I'm live on MSNOW. How are you feeling right now? Tell me what's going through your mind right now. Can you -- can you believe the moment that you're living right now? You're from the Rio Grande Valley? Yeah, and her dad is by her journey. And I called him today, and I can -- I'm so excited so we just need to pray. She's from the Rio Grande Valley. Just like Gina Inohosa. Thank you so much for sharing. You can hear that the crowd is yelling Gina Inohosa, Gina Inohosa. Hi, awesome. All right, Rachel, I'll send it back to you. Rosa, we will be back to you and protect your hearing. We will be back to you. But we have an important call to make here from the studio. We have an election alert in a very important center race. The Associated Press has called it in the Texas Senate race. Democrat James Tolerico has defeated Republican Ken Paxton. This is a flip of a U.S. Senate race. This was the Senate seat that was held by John Kornin. John Kornin did not want to retire. He was essentially forced out of this seat after Donald Trump, president of the United States, decided that he would prefer Ken Paxton to John Kornin as the candidate to defend this seat. And James Tolerico, the Democrat, has now wiped the floor with Ken Paxton and has won this seat for the Democratic Party. Now you are taking this information in along with what we just heard from Rosa Flores at Gina Inohosa campaign headquarters in Texas, in Austin, Texas. Again, what we just heard from Rosa, and I just want to be clear about this. We have not called the Texas governor's race. Rosa gave us reporting here on our air that Greg Abbott had called, according to one source, had called to concede the governor's race to Gina Inohosa. That is a single source report. That is something that Rosa Flores has reported on our air, but that is not the same as us calling that race. We are, however, calling the race. The Associated Press has declared the winner in the Texas Senate race, which is James Tolerico. Jen. I mean, I just wanted to say something about Gina Inohosa. She ran an incredible race and was an undervalued, underdog through the course of this campaign. I know we have not called the race. We have not called the race. And we are watching the race. But before we move on to James Tolerico, I just wanted to say, I mean, she grew up near the border. She got into politics and this is such a beautiful story because of her kids and her schools. And she wanted to be on the school board. She's just a beautiful American story. And I know we haven't called it yet, but I didn't want the moment to pass us by and run over her race. I'm just going to break the wall here a little bit and just say to the control room, because if I start typing events are going to overtake me. We just had Rosa Flores report that concession call from Greg Abbott to Gina Inohosa. On the basis of a single source and she said that on our air. Now okay, that's what I was asking for. Our control room confirms to me that we have two sources on that story, which makes it officially as far as we are concerned, reportable, which means that what you just heard from Rosa Flores in that Gina Inohosa race is now reportable that according to two sources, Greg Abbott, the sitting incumbent Republican governor of Texas has called Democrat Gina Inohosa to concede that race. But again, we have not called that race. formally. But let's stay very close to the ground in Texas. Shall we? Let's go to Alicia Menendez, who's at our watch party at the rooftop cinema club in Houston. Alicia, what do you know and what are you seeing? Rachel, I have never heard Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. So many times in one room in my entire life. I know that we have not called you in the host I get, but this crowd is enormously excited about James Tallerico. This state has elected a Democratic candidate for US Senate. What does that mean to you? I can't even describe how exciting that is for me. I came here to witness something historic and I did. I can't believe it. I just I'm so happy. There have been so many elections where Democrats have been promised the possibility of flipping this state blue. The fact that we are finally here emotional for a lot of people in this room. How are you feeling as you learn this? I am so excited. It is time for a change. I felt the change coming and I I almost can't believe it's happened, but I'm delighted. You know, there are a lot of people who said that Texas was fools gold that said it was the state that cried blue. There's a lot of organizing that has happened in this state to get to this moment. What is the message that Texas is sending the country? We don't want corruption. We want decent people in office that care about all the people, not just the top half percent and healthcare matters. Education matters. Our future matters for the entire country and we're moving forward. All right, we're going to continue to watch and see what happens in the governor's race here, but Rachel back to you. Alicia Menendez for us in Texas. Alicia, thank you. Let's stick in Texas. Let's go to Jacob Soberoff. He is at James Talleriko's election night headquarters in Austin, Texas, where everybody there at this point, Jacob knows that he won, yeah? It is Rachel. It is an unbelievable moment to be here inside the Long Center. Let me just give you the lay of the land to show you what's happening inside here right now. Behind me, you can see people who have assembled. I heard them cheering backstage when they heard the news. These are people who are going to be standing behind James Talleriko in just a minute. This is a 2,400 seat capacity performing arts center in the center of Austin, Texas. Take a look. It's just filling in right now. Everyone had been outside at that party. I was coming to you from earlier tonight and I honestly think that people are still processing the news in here. You can see people actually looking up to me and asking me, is it really true? Did this really happen? As a colleague of ours said to me, this is the elusive white whale of Texas politics. In many ways, I remember in 2018 when Chris Hayes was standing inside that ballpark, covering Beto or Rourke, and so many people in Texas Democratic politics thought perhaps that there was a chance. And of course, it didn't happen. Not even in the wake of the family separation policy that Donald Trump carried out, primarily at the center here, that galvanized the nation, that led to a big Democratic surgeon 2018. But it did not result in the Senate flipping here in the state of Texas. And now, according to our projections, James Talleriko is the winner of the Senate race here. He has been in Austin, Texas over the course of the last two days. He spoke to a crowd last night at the studs auditorium outside with Gina Enahosa. And the fact that both of them have won, I'll just say it again. It is something I think that this crowd in this auditorium at this minute is still processing. I think so many of them did not believe that this day would come. I saw both Secretary Castro and Congressman Castro outside the twin brothers. And both of them said we've been waiting for this day for 40 years. We've been waiting for this day for 40 years. We cannot believe it. And they better believe it because he's about to come out here and address this crowd. And we're waiting for it. We'll bring it to you as soon as it happens. We're going to try to get to that as soon as it happens in Jacob. I'm sorry to cut you short, but I have another important election alert in another United States Senate race. The AP has now called the Ohio Senate race. Democrat Sherrod Brown has won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, defeating incumbent Republican Senator John Hustead. John Hustead has lost his seat and Sherrod Brown will be returning to the United States Senate. This is another flip in the United States Senate. This is just turning out to be a remarkable night for Democrats. This means that there thus far have been four Democratic flips in the U.S. Senate, seat in South Carolina, formerly held by Lindsey Graham, the seat in Ohio, formerly held by John Hustead. The seat in North Carolina formerly held by Tom Tillis, the seat in Texas, formerly held by John Cornyn. All of those seats will go to Democratic United States Senators. Now, we still have 14 uncalled seats, but right now at this hour, Democrats stand at 49 U.S. Senate seats. We have another call for you. This is an important governor's race. We go to the Midwest to Iowa. The governor's race in Iowa is won by Democrat Rob Sand. This is a flip in the Iowa governor's race in Iowa. Rob Sand, with 76% of the vote in, has defeated his Republican challenger. Rob Sand, an immense, immense Democratic talent from the state of Iowa. He's currently a statewide office holder in the state. He's the state auditor. He ran essentially an impeccable campaign for governor. We are still waiting on results in the Iowa Senate race, but at the top of the ticket, the Iowa governor's race, that will be held by Democrat Rob Sand. This is the governor's standings at this hour. 13 Democratic governor's wins tonight. Three for the Republicans. Can we, can we just talk about what we're seeing here? I mean, I can't. The Texas, look at those Texas numbers. Now, we don't want them all in, but like on, that's they're getting, this is not an equal, you know, 11,000 vote margin or a 20,000 vote margin. This is not a, this is a total shlacking that is happening in Texas. We're looking at the possibility, I think, of one of the state legislative houses flipping, which is also being conceivable. This state has been run as a one-party state for a generation for 30 years. All politics that have happened in Texas have been factional disputes within the Texas Republican party. That has been the main axis of conflict in Texas politics for an entire generation. There's been all this talk about the white whale of blue Texas to mix my color metaphors. And I think, you know, James Celeriko might win that state by 7, 8, or 9 points when all is said and done. That's not, it's not close. They they're getting their clocks cleaned. You think about Texas too. It's the first state that passes the vigilante abortion enforcement, right, where neighbors can accuse women and upper drivers who drive them. It's the first state, you know, to sort of be a site of an epic tragedy and youvaldy and the governor basically says, well, we'll do stuff on mental health, to not even go through any charade on gun violence. It's a place where the ice raids have been the source of some of the most compelling print journalism about towns ripped apart from the early days of Trump's second term. And it's a place where the guy was so corrupt that Republicans broke with him. And to me, it's about where this line is. Like, this is this is some Republicans saying, like, I will not be made a fool of. I mean, Joe Rogan endorsed Celeriko or embraced him. I don't know what the word is over a year ago when he said, why don't you run for president? We need a good person to do it. It was sort of the first pin in the much belly-hued first that was the manusphere. And this is just the culmination or the cumulative, you know, whatever words we're using, middle finger, to all those excesses and all those abuses. And huge loss for the tech billionaires too. Oh my God. Ohio and Texas is where Elon Musk put all the money on the table and that money has been defeated by better candidates than that money. When you think about Texas voters tonight, you have to be well over 50 years old. To remember, a Democrat being elected to the Senate from Texas or a Democrat being elected governor in Texas, Lloyd Benson, the last Senate election 1988, and Richard's the last governor election 1990. So if you're if you were 12 years old, then maybe you remember it, now you're 50, but that's how long it is. And South Carolina, similar, it's 28 years ago, Ernest Holling's the last time I want to, but what's important about these names I'm mentioning is what you're seeing tonight in this voting pattern is we are actually returning to the early 1990s in the United States Senate and in American politics. When Bill Clinton became president in 1993, he had a Senate with Democrats in Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, the Tennessee, both decoders on and on. And oh, by the way, there were Republican senators in New York, Rhode Island, places like that. And what that meant was that the country was was not automatically going for one party or the other. Republican senators could still get elected in Massachusetts. Republican governors could still get elected in Massachusetts. since then as Mitt Ronde did. And so this is actually a return to what America was politically. And we may be seeing by the time this is all cleared, just an amazing distribution of Democrats around this country. - I have a call to make, I'm sorry to interrupt. The Associated Press has called the race in Texas in the governor's race. - Wow. - The Associated Press declares that Gina Enohosa will be the next Democratic governor of the state of Texas. I'm saying it's so loud so you can hear it over the crackling of the burning piles of hundreds of millions of dollars. Set a light by Elon Musk to ensure that Gina Enohosa and James Talleriko would not achieve what they achieved tonight. But Gina Enohosa has defeated incumbent Republican governor Greg Abbott in Texas. As James Talleriko has defeated Ken Paxton for that United States Senate seat. - I mean, it is just remarkable. And actually I need to give you another update. This is not a call, but we have an update in the characterization in the Senate race in Iowa. In the Senate race in Iowa, again, we are not making a call at this point, but MS now can now characterize this race as leaning Democrat. Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate in the Iowa Senate race. Right now leading Ashley Hinson, the Republican candidate for this Iowa Senate race. This is Joni Ernst Senate's race in Senate seat in Iowa currently held by a Republican Ashley Hinson, a very able Republican candidate. She's not a Ken Paxton. She's personally knows how to speak. Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate. This is now a lean Democratic race with 85% of the vote in. And this is not a new characterization, but I will also just tell you, now some to put up on screen, the Kansas Senate characterization. Again, this is not a new characterization. This has been true for some time now, but with 89% of the vote in, the Kansas Senate race is also, this is also characterized as a lean Democratic race. Democrat Adam Hamilton, you see there leading, Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. I believe we do have a projected winner in the Alabama Senate race. Alabama's Republican candidate Barry Moore is projected to win the Alabama Senate race. There's no surprise there. He was up against Democratic candidate Everett West. And so the Alabama Senate race, this is the race that is being, sorry, this is the seat that is being vacated by Tommy Tuberville making a run for Alabama governor tonight. But here's where we stand with the Senate at this hour. Again, 49 Democratic seats filled. That includes four seats flipped from the Republicans with 13 seats yet to be called. - Can I just say, we're gonna go to Polaroid at the White House in just a second, but you know, that's exactly what we're saying. As we're processing what we're seeing, I just wanna, as we're making meaning of tonight, yes, people are concerned about affordability and prices being high. Democrats hammered home that message. The results are not commensurate with just frustration with inflation and prices. They just are not. There is more that we are seeing when we are winning Texas by these margins, it is not just that prices are high. People are, that is number one. The rot that is coming from the top of the country is very, very, very clearly on voters minds in every demographic, in every geography, in every region of the country, in every corner. - Let's go to Polaroid. MS now Chief White House reporter, Polaroid, is at the White House with some of the response that we're hearing tonight from Washington. Paula, thanks very much for being with us. What are you hearing tonight? - Of course, well, Rachel, the president just told The New York Times that he will accept the result of tonight's election. I will note though, he made those remarks before the results have all come in. Now, look for days, officials here have been bracing for losses, but we're told they're really surprised by the margins when officials calling it a quote worst case scenario. All through the night, the mood here has been pretty downcast. When top Trump advisor told me earlier, he wasn't even sure he was gonna attend the president's election night watch party. Now, the president and the White House have tried to distance Trump from these results, suggesting this is all because he wasn't on the ballot. Even though he's been asking people to pretend he was on the ballot, they also said other problems with candidate quality, despite the fact that Trump personally selected the GOP's Senate candidates in key states, like South Carolina, North Carolina, and of course, most notably in Texas. We know from our polling that Trump was top of mind of four voters. Rachel, I also know here, officials at the White House, what is really top of mind for them right now is what the fallout will be from this election. What does this mean for Susie Wiles? A lot of officials believe she is the last person standing between the current situation and Stephen Miller becoming the second most powerful person in the White House. So that's where a lot of the folks, the sources that I've been speaking with, that's where their attention is turned right now, the fallout over the next few days. - Let me just ask you to clarify what you just said about Susie Wiles and Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller's position is not seen as at risk, but Susie Wiles is, and part of the calculus there is, can she keep Stephen Miller from amassing even more power? - Exactly. Many of the sources that I've told there is a concern that if there were to be massive losses, that there could be a shakeup, that Susie Wiles did have some bumps in her tenure over the summer, her standing was uncertain. There were concerns that she might leave. Our reporting does not indicate for sure that she will, but there was a concern if she does, that Stephen Miller might become chief of staff, and he would have sort of higher, fire, not total power, but certainly a say in what President Trump does, and in speaking with sources, multiple sources over the past several days, that is what has been top of mind for them. Not how to convert key voters in Michigan or Texas, but what will happen inside the administration over the next few days as they braced for those losses? - The phrase pit of vipers springs to mind, but I'm not sure, I'm not sure why. Pallery for us at the White House tonight, Paula, thank you. And please keep us surprised. As you learn more tonight, as your reporting develops, please let us know, we'll get you back on the air as soon as you got anything for us, thank you. We thank you for spending election night with us here on MSN. We have so much more still to come. At this hour on this night of what is very clearly a blue wave, we are waiting on news from the Senate race in May. We are waiting on news from the Senate race in Michigan. Kansas, Nebraska, Alaska, we're polls have not yet closed. We have so much still to get to so many house races. Again, each of which is a sheer in drama of its own, a whole world of political drama unto itself. Our conference continues with so much left to unfold as we go to break here. Here's a little bit of what Keisha Lance Bottoms had to say to her supporters. Oh wait, no, I'm not told we can't go to break. We have another call. I'm sorry, we are about to go to break. But we have an election alert for you in a Senate race in Kansas. Wow, I just, I can't quite believe it. The Associated Press has called the race in Kansas, the United States Senate seat in Kansas. Wow, we'll be one tonight by Democrat Adam Hamilton. This is a remarkable result. This is an incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall losing his seat to Democrat Adam Hamilton in Kansas as Jen Saki noted earlier this, this hour. Kansas hasn't sent a Democrat to the United States Senate since 1932. But this puts Democrats at 50. This puts Democrats at having flipped five seats already with more results yet to come tonight. We had thought, I think heading into tonight, and you've been watching a lot of MS now in recent weeks, that we'd spend the whole night talking about Michigan. But we've spent the whole night talking about-- The night is young, my friend. We spent the whole night talking about just about everything else. And yeah, we're still waiting on Michigan, and we're still waiting on Maine, and we're still waiting on Alaska. And lots of other things still to come in. But Democrats have flipped five Senate seats, and they're heard 50 seats in the Senate minimum, and they have found the House of Representatives. It's just a remarkable night. I know this is out of order, and this is not the way I'm supposed to do this. But please, can we play that Keisha Lance Bottoms? Clip, I'd love to hear what she said to her supporters earlier tonight. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the newly elected Democratic governor of the state of Georgia. Watch. So Georgia, I've said over the past few days, if I were your woman. Well, now I am your woman, and here's what I will do. I will never, ever, ever stop loving you. In big and small ways, you've shown that no amount of money will end well. May the post be in the back room! (audience cheering) - Also come the power of the people. (audience cheering) - Keisha Lance-Bottoms is the newly elected Democratic governor of the state of Georgia. All right, we are going to take a quick break unless somebody jumps in again and stops me from doing it. - Oh. - We're gonna take a very quick break. We still have Michigan Senate. We still have a lot to get to. Sally, don't make meaningful eye contact with me. We are going to take a break. Go to commercial right now, we'll be right back. - We have to stop at some point. - Oh do we? - People have to get it. People have to pee. - All right. - We'll be right back. (audience laughing) - It is just after 11.30 p.m. East Coast time and we can make a new call. This is an important governor's race in the Midwest. The Associated Press has now called the race in Wisconsin for governor. Democrat David Crowley has won the governorship in Wisconsin. He has defeated Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany. This was a rollercoaster for Democrats. It was a rising primary. David Crowley consolidating support. This was something that they went through a lot of drama early on in the Wisconsin's governor's race. And then he just ran an excellent campaign. He is the third black governor elected tonight. Westmore in Maryland, Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia and Mr. Crowley now in Wisconsin. Plus Republican Byron Donalds in Florida. There are four, excuse me, four African-American governors elected tonight and absolutely historic night along those lines. All right, Ali, we're gonna put you through some paces. Will you please talk to us about the Michigan Center? >> Yeah, Michigan counts its votes the way I prepare for exams, not with any sense of urgency. We are 35% in right now. It's moving really, really slowly. And of Michigan counting its votes slowly Wayne County, which is the most populous county by a long shot in Michigan, is only 8% in right now. So it's hard to glean because in these counties that have very little vote in, Abdul Said is doing very well. The area is right around Detroit. But in the counties that have counted more votes, there aren't that many of them. Mike Rogers is actually fairing well. So it's very hard to glean what has to happen here. At the moment, Mike Rogers to win this, only needs 50% of the outstanding vote. Again, very, very possible. It's very close. Take a look at the governor's race though. 34% in just a little bit more. Jocelyn Benson has a slightly healthier lead against John James. Again, Jocelyn Benson identified with a leadership of that state, which fought back against an effort to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election as Secretary of State. John James is a guy who can't tell you who won the 2020 election. So there's a little bit of that at play that isn't as play with Mike Rogers. But boy, that's a whole topic that will have a lot of time to talk about Mike Rogers in the campaign. He's been running. What else you want to see? >> Let's talk about other governor's races. >> Okay, I want to just, Kansas governor. >> Oh, no, sorry. >> I just want to get you to Pennsylvania for a second, because we've been following these house races, these flips, right? There's three of the four that they wanted to flip. Three are flipped, and the Democrat Bob Harvey is winning for now with 73% in the fourth one. Part of this is about the juggernaut that Josh Shapiro is tonight, right? So they're all eyes on 20, 28 candidates. Josh Shapiro is a guy. John Ossof is a guy people are talking about. Look at that. 60% to Stacey Garrity's 38.6, and Stacey Garrity's a much better candidate than he ran against the last time around. All right, you wanted to talk about Kansas governor. >> Kansas governor, let's take a look at that. Cindy Holscher, 91% in very, very tight race. This one's tight. She's got a 20, and a half thousand vote lead for Time Masterson to win. Yeah, it's an uphill battle because there's not that much left in terms of outstanding vote. This is going to be a little tough for him, especially given the news that you just had about the Kansas Senate. At the moment, Cindy Holscher is in the lead. Let's take a look at Arizona governor. This is an interesting story. 67%. >> Halley? >> Yeah, I'm sorry. We're a really big one. We have a projection to make. We have a call to make in a Senate race in the Senate race in Iowa. The Associated Press has called the Senate race in Iowa. The Democrat Josh Turek will win the Iowa Senate race. This is Joni Ernst's Senate seat right now. She is a Republican. That means it is a flip. Josh Turek has defeated Ashley Hinson in the Iowa Senate race, and what this means is not just that Josh Turek will take a U.S. Senate seat. In Washington, it means that the Democratic Party will control the United States Senate. We earlier this evening projected that the Democratic Party will take control of the United States House. With this win in Iowa, we can now project that Democrats hold 51 seats. And that means that the Democratic Party will control the Senate. For the party that is not the president's party to take one House of Congress in a presidential midterm is not at all uncommon. It is exceedingly exquisitely rare for the opposition party to take two houses of Congress in the midterms. As we've been talking about tonight, it has happened three times since World War II. It happened in 1946, and it happened in 1994, and it happened in 2006. Now it has happened again. The Democratic Party has taken full control of the legislative branch of government with this win in Iowa. And Ali, we will get back to what you were talking about there just a moment ago, and that's a really big deal. But I just need to get reaction to Lawrence. I'd like to get your reaction. So this means the Trump reign of terror is over. The Trump reign of terror in Washington, in which he controlled Mike Johnson's every breath and every thought, and everything that happened in the United States Senate controlled by Republicans. That's completely over now. Mike Johnson's out of a job. He's available to be the next White House Chief of Staff if you need him. This changes everything. This means that Donald Trump could not get a Supreme Court justice confirmed if a vacancy occurs in the remainder of his presidency. This means that there's absolutely nothing Donald Trump can do about the budget of the United States of America without the Democrats in the House and the Democrats in the Senate. The governing of the country has now just shifted out of the White House. He's left with his executive orders, most of which from this point on will be wildly illegal and will be dragged into court immediately. This is as powerless a presidency as we will have seen in our lifetimes, from this point forward. >> It also means nominees. There's no more Pete Hegseth like figures who are going to be confirmed through the Senate. Justice is, the Supreme Court justice is, but any nominees to the cabinet. >> Right. >> Over. If someone leaves the cabinet, it's going to be an acting for as long as the acting can serve, because none of the Trump kind of choices could ever be confirmed now in the United States Senate. >> I just want to take a moment and just look at my party and the eye and go, this is what you have wrought. You decided to follow one man instead of the American people. A year ago on my show, I said the Senate would fall Democrats would take the Senate. Why? Because I know my peeps. And I know if they followed one person and did not go with what the people at that time were telling them that this was the only outcome available to your very important point. And I don't think it should be lost on people. One house, okay, that'll flip, okay, we get it, right? Depends on the cycle could have been the Senate. But for both, that is a repudiation by the American people of profound importance. I have been following Texas since I was a state party chairman in 2000. At that time, I came back to Maryland and had a conversation with some politicals that said, folks had better watch Texas because there's something on the ground. This is 2000 that's going to take time, but the Democrats are beginning to figure out a few things. Tonight, I'm here to tell you, 2028, the state of Texas is a battleground state. And the reality for Republicans is, you can win Ohio, baby. You can win Michigan. You can win Arizona. You can win Nevada. You don't win Texas. There's not a number in the electoral college that can get you the White House. It's a great area. You've lost the governorship, you've lost the Senate, you've lost the people. And so, welcome to New America. >> Let me also say on that Texas issue, we're going to have a United States census in 2030. And the way population shifts are happening in this country right now, Texas is likely to get a big boost in terms of the number of congressional districts it has and a big boost in the number of electoral votes that it has after the 2030 census. And if the Democratic Party is winning statewide in Texas now, what we thought of as the electoral college map, the electoral college landscape, if Texas moves in the electoral college, the whole country is a different landscape. >> Very much. national policy. politics is a totally different ballgame, and as exciting as it is to see, for Democrats to see Gina and O'Hosa and to see James Talleriko winning in Texas tonight, had especially Talleriko not been able to win tonight in essentially ideal conditions with a president who is less popular than Tony Alfoncus, with a candidate who is like, who's Tony. With a candidate he was running against, who nobody can look out without seeing his mug shot. With a candidate in the form of James Talleriko, who is crafted from birth to be a nonpartisan appealing seminarian type centrist candidate with progressive credentials. I mean, had Democrats not been able to pull off a statewide win tonight in the most ideal circumstances, I would have been talking about 2030 in the Electoral College as something that was going to be a very different scenario for the Democrats ever having the chance of winning the presidency again. But this puts the Electoral College in a totally different light heading into 2028 and especially 2032. I just want to say one other thing about Texas and about the general thing that you just said. There's a lot of implications. One of them is I was really upset by the grossness and the cruelty of the closing message of Republicans in Michigan about the things they said about Adolacy Ed, but also the attack on trans folks that has just become so toxic and so common and so cruel and so ceaseless. And it was every ad, every ad, you watch it for some day football game. And it was these people are the reason. This is the problem. This is the thing you have to think about and they jumped hundreds of millions of dollars. And I saw Republicans, hardcore Republicans, when asked man on the street interviews, what are you voting for? I want to get, you know, boys out of girl sports. That's the no. And to see the repudiation of that, that approach specifically when that pollution was pumped into the discourse with hundreds of millions of dollars like that people were like, I don't care about that. And I reject that. And that there's like some salvaging of decency for people that are neighbors and our friends and our loved ones who are a tiny minority of this population who somehow have become the ritualized scapegoat for an entire political party that spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make everyone fear and hate them. I'm just very, very grateful that that did not work. Well, the other piece of that though is that the the age of looking for, you know, former politicos to say something and waiting for them to do is over, right? Like this all started when the people of Minneapolis and the people of Chicago took those streets and they were way ahead of politicians, of cultural leaders, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morella followed, but this is a completely citizen driven revolt. And whatever we've used, repudiation, rebuke, this is now a revolt and it had nothing to do with any former presidents, with any leaders, with any, the CEOs are all in liquid Donald Trump. The Democratic law firms are all working for Boris Epstein at the Fricking Commerce Department. This is nothing to do with elites. This is nothing to do with anyone in power. This is nothing to do with corporate, there are no good companies in terms of fighting for democracy. They want to come on any of our shows that I'm aware of. This is the people in this country, Democrats, Republicans, independents, saying these are neighbors, seeing ICE saying these are my kids, baseball teammates, these, this is just the American people saying, this is not at all what I wanted. And I don't think people have to answer to or defer to people with prominent places in society because they did nothing. They did not. They did not. Every one of those institutions, particularly the law firms, that decided that they would go along with the Boris Epstein. And I'm lying too. Exactly. Guess what? You're going to have to actually answer for what you're going to be. You're going to have to have your own conflicts of interest on the kinds of deals that you made with the administration. Well, the companies that helped him destroy the East Wing. I mean, I think chunks of the East Wing will be sold off like pieces of the Berlin Wall. Because there's this memento of corruption and of like, when everyone lost their freaking mind, when we have-- Every company that took part in that is going to have to pay for it. Yep. And where does Elon Musk move to now? He moved out of town. He moved out of California. But he's going to have to find a place before Mars. He moved out of California because he hated Democratic governance of California. He's going to hold out for a while, but-- and also, what does it mean to all these tech billionaires who just got defeated tonight and what they wanted and what they did with their money and how their money was beaten by candidates instead of just money? Democrats tonight have flipped at least five U.S. Senate seats. They have obtained control of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate and we are still waiting on Senate results from Kansas and Michigan and Maine and Alaska, let's throw Mississippi in there. We got a--excuse me, not from Kansas. From Michigan, Maine, Alaska, Mississippi, we've got a lot still to come. When we come back, we are going to check in on some very close races for Senate and more, including a bunch of those gubernatorial races that I rudely interrupted Allie about a moment ago, stay with us on MSNOW as our coverage of this very big blue weight continues. We here in South Carolina sent a clear message that this Senate seat does not belong to one family, one party, or to Washington, D.C., and I know that the work ahead won't be easy, but after 18 months and 46 counties and everything we've been through together, I've never been more certain of one thing. South Carolina's best days are still ahead of us. Democrats have one control of the House and Democrats have one control of the Senate. What remains to be determined are the margins and the number of governors races, some very interesting House races still outstanding, including a lot of big names. Let's start with the Nebraska Senate race, Allie. What do you got for us there? Allie, Nebraska. >> Oh, I'm sorry, Nebraska. I was just getting some information about New York 17, at which I'm asking my team to confirm right now. Nebraska Senate right now, 53% is in, so we have a lot to count here. Dan Osborne, the independent who is backed by Democrats, is in the lead at the moment by 7,000 votes, but this is tricky because there's enough vote outstanding in large population centers. Very hard to tell how this goes in Nebraska, right? Dan Osborne has said until now that he's not caucusing with, he's caucusing with everybody. He sort of changed that tune in the last few days and says he's not caucusing with anybody. So it sort of becomes interesting. He's got that populist thing, but not really a Democratic thing. For Pete Ricketts to win right now, he just needs 48% of the outstanding vote. The way this is going is quite possible. It's a slight underperformance by Pete Ricketts at the moment, so if we've one had to make a decision right now, you'd probably favor Dan Osborne for this. But we don't have to make a decision right now, so we're going to watch that very closely. The governor's race there, Lynn Walls, again, 53%, so it's the same 53% that's in. She's leading Jim Pillen, but it's less than one percentage point. So Nebraska's going to be one that we watch for the next few hours. Let me take you to Colorado for a second and just show you a couple of interesting house races that are going on right now. This is Lauren Boberts' old district, Dwayne Romero is in the lead right now with 71% in Jeff Heard. The incumbent is behind, but he only needs 50% of the outstanding votes to win. So I'm going to watch this very closely and there's still a good chance that he pulls it out. This is Lauren Boberts' new district, 77% in there. Eileen Laubacher has got 49.7, this half a point separating these two to Lauren Boberts. Again, just 7,260 votes, but when you look at the outstanding vote and you see the centers that they're coming from, there's actually enough for her to make this work if it works. She just needs 52% of the outstanding vote to win. Again, very interesting that both of these are not working out as easily and as smoothly for the Republican members, but I'm going to wait a little while before we make any determinations about the racing call around. Can I ask you about saying in Colorado, about five and eight? Yeah. Five is incumbent Republican Congressman Jeff Crank. Yep. This is a Trump plus nine district and the Democrat there is Jessica Killan. That's correct. So take a look at how this went. I'm going to give you both the 2022, 2024 presidential, where Trump won with 53.2, Jeff Crank outperformed him at 54.7. Right now, he's running at 45.2 with 70% of the vote in right now in order for him to win. This is a little trick here because he's getting 45.2% of the vote and he needs 56% of the outstanding vote that hasn't been counted, remember, in a country in a state that does a lot of voting by mail and in advance. So this is not looking fantastic for Jeff Crank at the moment. And the other one you wanted to talk about was eight. Yeah. Yeah. Seven eight events. Seven five percent in Mani Routinel has been called as the winner here, Mani Routinel, really leaning into this whole affordability cost of living thing. This is a guy whose parents had their house foreclosed on and he was one of those people you read about who sold plasma to make ends meet. So he's really, really resonating with constituents who say cost of living is a big deal. Mani Routinel has won there and I've been looking at this one. for a little while because it's been taking time to get the vote in. And as you can see, there's still stuff missing here, but this is Texas 15. This is the Bobby Polito race, 71% in. Look at that. Bobby Polito, it's 67% over Monica Delacruz, who's got 32.9%. Again, look at that. Monica Delacruz has to get 92% of the outstanding vote in order to preserve her seat here. Clearly we have to count some more vote because this, if you were choosing to be one of these two right now, you'd rather be Bobby Polito. Another one that I'm looking at very closely right now, we're just keeping an eye on it because this was meant to give you a sense of how much of a sweep this would be. All of Eastern Pennsylvania and Southeastern Pennsylvania has gone blue with the exception of this one that we're still waiting on, 78% in. This is Brian Fitzpatrick, right? He's the guy who wants to pay himself as the most moderate or a moderate Republican who is prepared to separate from Trump from time to time. That isn't really true. And Bob Harvey has been out there telling people it's not really true. Bob Harvey is a commissioner in Bucks County, and he, where you can see, he's got a tighter lead. It's tighter in Bucks County, 52.7. This is Montgomery County. It's a northeastern part of Montgomery County, a little bit more liberal. He's got a much healthier lead there. But we're watching this closely because, again, to the Josh Shapiro point, if his co-tails are big enough, the Democrats can do a clean sweep of Southeastern and Eastern Pennsylvania. >> Can we go to Iowa while we're talking about House districts? I have some congressional districts I want to ask you about in Iowa. They are conveniently numbered one, two, and three. >> Let's do it. All right. One, Christina Bohannon. This is third time might be the charm for her. This is literally the third time she's run against Marionette Miller-Mix. But the spreads in these have been kind of crazy, it was 20,000 one year, it was 799 votes. This is my major argument for why everybody has to go out and vote because you don't know if your district is actually going to be close. So right now it's a 32,000 vote lead. That's a bigger lead than this district has seen in the last three elections, 84% in Christina Bohannon is in the lead. Marionette Miller-Mix needs 78% of the outstanding votes to catch up. That's going to be a little tough for her to do. Let's go to two. This is Lindsey James versus John Mitchell. This is actually very close to being done. 93% in, I think the only issue is that less than, it's a 10% margin at the moment. So it's 5% margin, but she's winning by only 16,000 votes. I think everybody's just crossing their- >> That's a Trump plus 10 district. >> Well, that's a good point to make. Let's just look at what this looked like before. This was exactly Trump plus 10. Now for the moment with 93% in, it's a Democrat plus 5 district. And then you wanted to take a look at three. This is a very interesting race, Saratron Garriott running almost 10 full points ahead of Zack None with 90% of the vote in. Again, this is just a matter of seeing where these votes are and how much is needed because look at this. Zack None would need 92% of the estimated remaining vote in order to win this. 98% of the vote in Polk County, which is where Saratron Garriott was going to do the best is already in. Let's take a look at Madison County. It's missing at the moment, but that's likely to favor Saratron Garriott. So at this point, these are looking, these three are looking like fairly safe bets for Democrats. But for reasons of getting this right, the data nerds back there are saying, hold on for a minute until we've counted a few minutes. >> I am going to continue nerding out with you unless you tell me to stop it. >> No, please. >> You invoked New York 17. >> Yeah, let's do it. >> Mike Lawler, Republican incumbent, one of the most endangered and high-profile Republican Republicans. >> I'm going to tell my team if they have information to give me based on what Armand and Ren were telling me a few minutes ago, please give it to me while I'm talking to you. 57% of the vote is in. Now, typically this is a tight race, so one wouldn't call this with 57% of the vote in. But Kate Connelly is a real sort of significant challenger to Mike Lawler. Again, Mike Lawler, like Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania 1, sells himself as an independent. He's not really all that trumpy and Kate Connelly likes to point out that you're actually trumpier than you want to be, right? People are starting to pull themselves away from Donald Trump, may not be working for Mike Lawler all that well. The issue in this district, by the way, is it's, Westchester County is split between New York 16 and New York 17. Westchester had a big voting problem today and 250,000 votes were affected. They had to put, people had to put their votes into like an emergency bag that was going to get counted later. So this is taking a little extra time to count. >> Allie, I can add one piece of information to this, just we have reporting that my Lawler has contacted Kate Connelly. >> That's what I've been hearing. >> And reportedly conceded to her. >> Yes. >> But again, as you see, the Associated Press has not made it. >> I've heard that too, and I only want to check because it's an unusual, there's enough of a cushion here that I'm kind of puzzled that he would actually do that if that's true, because he only needs 53% of the outstanding vote. He has shown a propensity to be able to win in this district, the only one, by the way, in this part of New York. I mean, literally, all the way through to Southern Manhattan, you get to Staten Island or the far parts of Long Island, this is all blue. So Mike Lawler has shown an ability to withstand this. We'll confirm that information and come back to you if we learn that Mike Lawler has actually conceded this race, or that the Associated Press calls it for Kate Connelly. >> Allie, I have an election alert to do. When I come back on the other side of this, I want to ask you about main Senate. So I'll give you advance notice on that. But I do have to tell you that we do have a call in a very interesting house phrase. This is in Nebraska. In Nebraska's second congressional district, Democrat Denise Powell has been named the winner by the Associated Press. This is a flip. This is a Republican held seat. But Denise Powell has defeated Republican Brinker Harding. This was the seat held by retiring Republican incumbent Congressman Don Bacon. One Bacon seat will now be held by Democrat Denise Powell in Nebraska. Very, very interesting. All right, let's talk about some of these outstanding Senate races. We've got outstanding Senate races in Maine, Alaska, Mississippi, Michigan. Let's talk about Maine. >> All right, let's think about Maine because it's got 10 million towns, very Northeastern United States. It's very hard to figure out all these little places that go all the way up to the Canadian border where both Susan Collins and Troy Jackson are from. This is what you have to think about in Maine, right? These are the population centers that you have to think about. And I was talking to Troy Jackson the other day, he was talking about the fact that they would have to do well in these counties. So almost the closer to you get to the shore, the more popular they are. There's a lot of vote outstanding in certain places. So Augusta, for instance, I don't think we've got that. Let me just, let me get out to there. We don't have it. So we can't really tell you. Lewiston, for instance, Troy Jackson, 99% in Troy Jackson's got 53% there, 53% in Auburn. If you go down to Portland, Troy Jackson has got 84.4. So let's take a look at what this looks like compared to Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is running 80% in Portland, Troy Jackson's running ahead of that. That's the population center here. So again, it's because there are so many little places in Maine, but what you're seeing on the map here, if you look at this, look at all the blue in this area. This is what is going to matter to Troy Jackson. So when you look at the statewide numbers, 59% in, it is awfully close. It's awfully close. So it is quite possible that Susan Collins can pull this out, but she'd need 53% of the estimated remaining votes. And in places like this, once you get up here, there may be a lot of white squares around, but they don't have a lot of people in them. The further you get closer to the Canadian border, the population centers are smaller. So this is looking like a bit of an uphill battle at the moment for Susan Collins. But it is, it is far too early to tell because it's only 60% of the vote in right now. >> Let me just ask before we come back to you, Ali, on a couple of the other outstanding center races here at the table, are you guys hearing any intel in terms of democratic operatives or in terms of pollsters or in terms of anything else in terms of what's happening in Maine? The main center race, obviously, we're watching that very, very, very slowly come in and we see that it's very, very close, are you guys getting any intel? >> No. >> Yeah, we can work on it, though. >> Okay. >> I mean, people are watching what we're watching, it's cautiously optimistic, but more due to national trends and things that they see that we don't see. >> Okay. >> Ali, can I come back to you on the Senate on Mississippi? >> And I just have one other piece of information on this. The issue in New York 17 is that the outstanding vote in, let's go to the House. The outstanding vote in Mike Lawler's district is this Westchester stuff that hasn't been fully counted and he knows that that is overwhelmingly democratic. So his internal math seems to be that they can't make up that number. Sorry about that, Rachel. Where'd you want to go? >> Mississippi Senate, please. >> Mississippi Senate, let's do that. Okay. This is interesting. 91% of the vote is in and they are very, very close. Scott Colom is 100% not a name that most people knew, right? The phone's not here right now, but some others have been talking about this for a long time. People have made the argument if the Democrats have put a little bit more money and people have gotten to know Scott Colom. He definitely, from a candidate quality perspective, knocks people socks off compared to Cindy Hyde Smith. But it's close. It's hard for him to make this up. There are pockets of vote, including here in the upper part of the state. There are bits of vote all over that he can get. There are only 85,000 votes outstanding and he would need to capture 57% of the outstanding vote in order to win Mississippi. That's not all that likely. But again, we're talking about Mississippi. We're actually talking about the fact that Mississippi might be in play or maybe it's in play next time for Scott Colom and Cindy Hyde Smith really didn't have to. She's not a good campaigner. She is the one who said you can switch your proteins if you're protein. is too expensive, like she just discovered that idea as opposed to people who actually struggle with paying for this stuff. So this is very telling even if Cindy Heidsmith ends up keeping her seat. It's not done because if 91% in, I think a few of you have made this point that we're talking about states that should have been called pretty much close to the close and they're still in play. >> Let me ask you, Ali, as long as we're still doing, let's go, stay in the deep south. We had checked in earlier on a house-racing Alabama, Chamari figures. >> Yes, this is a remarkable story, a really remarkable story. >> Absolutely remarkable story. >> Let's show you, let's show you what the jury man, he's winning, he's won. Let me show you what this was supposed to, this jury manor was supposed to create this spread, 57 to 42. That's what was supposed to happen because they took the base of his district away from him. He runs, and he wins. This is the message, and by the way, this is happening through the south of people who are just mad about redistricting, about Calais, about this whole, this pressure that has been put, this downward pressure that has been applied to voters, and in particular black voters. Nicole said this the other day, that if you push voters too far down, they will push back up. And what you are looking at in Alabama right now, in the second district, is voters pushing back up. This is remarkable that Chamari figures has won this tonight. That is incredible. I have one other house race to ask you by Ali, and then I'm going to want to talk minutes so to Senate. But the house race I want to talk about first is in Ohio, Ohio 7. >> All right, let's go to Ohio, let's go to-- >> Max Miller. >> Seven, yes. So this one, for most thinking people in a normal world, you wouldn't think is the surprise, right? In a normal world, Max Miller wouldn't be running. He'd have stepped out of the race after his father-in-law, Bernie Moreno, and his ex-wife, and a whole lot of people said, you know, crazy stuff is happening. This was, of course, before the Obama Swami came up with that ridiculous ad. So there's some bad apples running in Ohio politics. And Max Miller was one of those bad apples. Brian Poindexter is pulling this off, 74% of the vote is in. What does Max Miller have to do? Let's see where the vote is outstanding. All right, Kyahoga County, that's what it is. It's 81,000 votes that are still outstanding there. So it becomes Poindexter, like Democrats tonight, got the overwhelming percentage of the advance vote. Look at that. He's also got the majority of the day of vote. So again, this becomes challenging, but the only reason this isn't called is because it's 57%. It's 67, 77. We'd probably see something here with Max Miller. This isn't even close at this point. >> All right, I need to interrupt you. I was going to just ask you about the Minnesota Senate, but we have a call in the Minnesota Senate. The Associated Press has called the Minnesota Senate race. The winner of the Minnesota Senate race is Democrat Peggy Flanagan. Peggy Flanagan is Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She will now be the Democratic United States Senator for Minnesota, defeating Republican Michelle Tafoya. What this means is that the Democrats minimum number of seats in the United States Senate have just hit 52, which means John Federman has just receded to the relevance in terms of his political affiliation and his possibility that he might switch to the Republicans in order to throw control of the Senate. John Federman doing that would not affect control of the Senate if he chose to do it. Democrats have at least 52 seats in the United States Senate with Peggy Flanagan taking the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. We have an additional call in Minnesota in the governor's race. The Associated Press has called this race Democrat Amy Klobuchar will be the new Democratic governor of Minnesota. This is the governor ship being vacated by Tim Walls. Amy Klobuchar giving up her seat in the United States Senate in order to become the governor of Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, defeating Republican Lisa Demuth in Minnesota. She will be that state's next governor. Democrats securing 18 governorships tonight to Republicans five. Democrats just hit 52 in the Senate y'all. That's pretty good. Yeah, huge. Huge. We are still waiting on Michigan. We are still waiting on Maine. We are still waiting on Alaska where some polls are still open. We are still waiting on Mississippi, although we saw a difficult math there for Scott Colombe in Mississippi. What do you got for us? We have just moved Maine into lean Democrat. This has just happened now. This is an MSNOW decision based on this that I was telling you about the where the vote has come in and where the vote is still outstanding. You can see. That is our characterization. We now characterize the Maine U.S. Senate race as lean Democrat. That is correct. Minnesota, of course, the interesting thing here, Peggy Flanagan becoming the first native of a wet American woman elected to the United States Center. So that continues to be an interesting race to watch. So there is very little left, but if you start to look at how we, you know, this is it. We are waiting for Alaska. We are going to wait, by the way, for a while for Michigan. That's okay. We are waiting for Nebraska to see what happens in the Senate there and we are waiting on Maine. I called it that in blue, but that is not actually blue. This is hell of a knight. Can we look at the -- do you mind if I do that? No, go ahead. The main thing that is kind of a big deal. I have from the Jackson campaign that Susan Collins has called him to concede the race. So let's just hold on. Let's just underscore that for a second. You've been in contact directly with the Troy Jackson campaign and they're telling you a single source in the campaign. But it's been approved through our standards process. I should note. Thank you. That she has called to concede in that race. Wow. There it is. That's a very, very big deal. And this is not our call of the race in Maine. The Associated Press has not called the race in Maine. We are characterizing the race in Maine as lean Democratic, but it is approved within our network standards and based on Jen Psaki's reporting with the Troy Jackson campaign. That Susan Collins has conceded that she will not be returning to the United States Senate and that Troy Jackson will be taking that Senate seat.