![]() He will need almost every Republican vote to win and he's already facing a threat from the MAGA faction. SCOTT: In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is already announcing his bid for speaker. UNKNOWN MALE: He will almost certainly become the rallying point for everybody in the Republican Party who wants to move beyond President Trump. A potential competitor Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who had a decisive win on Tuesday. SCOTT: Former President Donald Trump is still expected to announce his candidacy for 2024 this week. SCOTT: President Biden last night saying that's exactly what led Democrats to victory.īIDEN: I think it's a reflection of the quality of our candidates. MITCH MCCONNELL, SENATE MINORITY LEADER: Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. ![]() SCOTT: His influence on the Party, a worry some Republicans shared months before Election Day. UNKNOWN MALE: I think Trump’s kind of a drag on our ticket. SCOTT: And the Republican Party now facing a reckoning after at least 30 of President Trump’s handpicked candidates lost. Republicans are already planning to investigate his administration, even his family, and halt his domestic agenda. SCOTT: Biden faces a tough road if Democrats lose the House. The House of Representatives still up for grabs for both parties, without a clear outcome, President Biden promising to work across the aisle but that will be a challenge with the potentially divided Congress.īIDEN: In this election season, the American people made it clear, they don't want every day going forward to be a constant political battle. SCOTT: Democrats at 50 Senate seats after two other key victories, flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate seat blue with John Fetterman and keeping Mark Kelly in Arizona. UNKNOWN MALE: There was no red wave, Democrats had a blue wave of accomplishment. The last batch of mail-in ballots handing Cortez Masto her win. In Nevada, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto fending off Trump-endorsed Adam Laxalt. SCOTT (voiceover): After five days of waiting, Democrats triumphant, holding their Senate majority, outperforming expectations and defying history. Democrats with some unexpected and decisive wins in a consequential midterm election. RACHEL SCOTT, ABC NEWS CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: George, good morning.Īnd this is far from the red wave that Republicans were hoping for in a year where the president's party faced low approval ratings and record-high inflation. In the words of Dan Balz, the dean of American Political Reporters, this election was an incremental earthquake.Ĭongressional Correspondent Rachel Scott starts us off. ![]() Who will be Speaker of the House is anyone's guess.Īmerica's voters rejected radical change, repudiated election lies, and delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump. ![]() Republicans are reeling, the red wave emphatically denied, even if they take the House, the majority will be tenuous. ![]()
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