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Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No-Chit Chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today,

obviously, is the midterms, but we're not going to be talking about the lead-in to the midterms.

We're going to be talking about the midterms themselves.

And actually, a very specific question. A lot of you are Republicans listening to this,

and the question is, did Republican optimism outrun reality that has had Republicans

painted for themselves a too-rosy scenario of what would happen in the so-called red wave

that was supposedly going to happen on midterm night?

There's still votes are still being counted as we speak.

There have not been decisions in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, but it appears, as predicted,

I think the big news from this, the big news, is, as predicted, it appears the Republicans will

take over, control the House of Representatives. We've talked about it a lot. It is a big deal,

even if the Republicans control only one House of Congress.

President Joe Biden's legislative agenda, if he's got one, for the second half of his term,

is dead, is dead. If Kevin McCarthy becomes a Speaker of the House, he's not going to help the

President pass any big legislative priorities. So that's a real change. Now, you can say Republicans

won far fewer seats than many people had predicted. That appears to be the case, yes.

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