Hi, this is Sarah in Atlanta, Georgia. This is Heather from San Diego, California.

Hi, this is Marshall and Tess and we're calling from Bel Air, Maryland.

This is Jessica from Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I just voted at the local synagogue.

We just took our eight-day old baby on her first outing to vote in the midterm elections.

I'm running late to work because I just voted in the 2018 midterm election.

This podcast was recorded at 110 a.m. on Wednesday, November 7th.

Things may have changed by the time you're hearing this.

Okay, here's the show.

That was really nice. All that democracy and action and maybe the exhaustion,

I almost teared up just now.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

In a midterm election that was considered a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency,

Republicans have retained control of the Senate and Democrats have won control of the House.

A Democratic Congress will work for solutions that bring us together because we have all had enough

of division.

I'm Tamar Keath, I cover the White House.

I'm a Smakhalla political reporter.

I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.

And I'm Domenico Montenegro political editor.

All right, so let's just call it a split decision.

Maybe.

Well, I mean, it is split in the sense that

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