Democracy Won The Midterms

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The results are in (mostly) and the red wave didn’t happen! Democracy appears to have prevailed when we most doubted it! JVL, Sarah and Tim breakdown the midterms, giving their thoughts on the results and predictions for the undecided races.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to the next level. I'm J. L. here with my best friend Sarah
0:10.8	Longwell and Tim Miller of the Bulwark happy after election day Tim
0:15.8	why are you waving your hands at me are you is this a stop are you calling time out
0:19.9	with with no I'm saying hate all my friends. I'm just running on fumes, you know, I've just been
0:27.8	spending all this time together with the oathkeepers and Steve Bannon and the freaks in Arizona and I'm just happy to be here with all of you.
0:36.7	I'm drinking from their tears and you know, so I'm just waving in jubulation and I'm going to mispronounce a lot of
0:45.3	words I'm going to mispronounce a lot of words that's okay we're recording on
0:48.6	Wednesday November 9th in the morning we all three of us coming off with just a couple
0:53.7	hours of sleep staying up late watching election returns. Sarah, do you want to
0:57.9	give us a quick rundown of the state of play? Yeah, so basically really good solid night over performance for
1:05.2	democracy. Democracy overperformed. You.
1:08.8	USA.
1:10.8	I guys look I just want to say at the jump I think we will get into some of the
1:15.9	particulars of our analysis but I would say an aggregate if you've been listening to us you got a
1:19.9	pretty good sense of like I think unlike a lot of the sort of cable news
1:25.4	chat I think we were on a bunch of this stuff thought Evers would pull would would
1:30.0	pull it out and he did in Wisconsin that's a very important swing state it will be
1:33.7	contested you know going forward it looks like Ron Johnson's probably gonna pull it
1:37.9	out but like more narrowly than we thought and then Whitmer just crushed in Michigan and took and in doing so
1:46.3	also brought along Jocelyn Benson the Secretary of State thereby just
1:50.3	totally destroyed both Tudor Dixon and this insane person Christina Karamo just totally
1:53.6	destroyed both Tudor Dixon and this insane person Christina Karamo.
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