![]() 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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