Hey, everyone listening to our podcast. This is Ari Melburgh. I want to share two very important things with you.

They might be the most important political developments of the week or the year. Contrary to what Donald Trump and some other people have said, this was a huge blue wave, the largest gain in the House for Democrats in 40 years since Nixon.

And there's a lot of repercussions to that that we're still

only unpacking this weekend. So up next, you're going to hear my full breakdown of that,

and then my discussion with the one and only Lawrence O'Donnell about what the blue wave means

for America.

Now to my special report on this blue wave that just hit America. It is large. It is a broad

mandate for Democrats and a rejection of Trump. Broader than many D.C. pundits appear to realize,

and this matters because the actual public support can shape what happens next. There was only one

national race last night for the House where Americans in every state voted. The Senate, not a national

race. Most of its members are not up for reelection. The states that did vote on senators

have about 75 percent of the population. You see there, and overall, did you know that more

people in those races backed Democrats by 15 points overall? It's the smaller states that went

Republican that get the same number

of senators under our Constitution. Now then in the race that I mentioned, where every American

can vote, the House, Dems winning decisively at this hour a 6% edge over Republicans. Now,

when past presidents have lost the House, they admit it. If you look at race by race, it was close.

The cumulative effect, however, was not too close.

It was a thumping. I said that the elections were close, the cumulative effect.

It's a thumping.

Yeah, it's a thumping.

I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shalacking like I did

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