Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. We are tracking this Democratic sweep,

which began pretty early on Tuesday night, but it's been sinking in now quickly.

Democrats winning double-digit blowouts that cannot be spun away here on planet Earth in reality.

And while Donald Trump has led a party that has at times lied and denied about its own election losses in the past,

sometimes so unlawfully that allies ultimately paid out hundreds of millions of dollars for their

election lies. This sweep that began Tuesday is so clear and decisive that MAGA leaders are not

trying that route. Instead, they're facing the voters rebuke as they sift through the wreckage.

And Republican politicians like Ted Cruz clearly know their party will face this similar

electorate in one year.

And he also knows something very simple.

Winning campaigns tend to address voters' realities,

which right now are very negative on MAGA,

rather than denying those realities.

How are you feeling this morning?

Like, yeah, I can relate.

Look, last night was a disaster.

Last night was a total and complete disaster.

It was an electoral blowout.

The results in New Jersey were disastrous.

The results in Virginia were terrible.

The margins are so large and Republicans lost across the board everywhere in every race. There's

really no good news. You destroyed you destroyed the Republican Party for a generation.

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