Election Day, Facebook Pop-Ups & Idris Elba - Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, November 6th, 2018!
Today, we're talking all things Election Day: stats, predictions, TV ads and free rides.
Plus: record retirement savings, Facebook pop-up stores and the Spice Girls.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes.'
Today's episode is brought to you by The Neat Company. Go to www.Neat.com/newsworthy to take advantage of your 30-day FREE trial.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:05.8 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:07.9 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:10.5 | Today we're talking all things election day stats predictions TV ads and free rides plus |
| 0:16.4 | record retirement savings and Facebook pop-up stores those stories and many more in |
| 0:21.2 | less than 10 minutes I'm Erica Mandy. Today is Tuesday, |
| 0:24.4 | November 6th. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:29.4 | Today is election day, the time to go to the polls and make sure your voice is heard. |
| 0:35.0 | Although plenty of people have already taken part in early voting. |
| 0:38.0 | NBC News reports more than 35 million votes were counted as of yesterday, which is many more than the early |
| 0:44.3 | votes in the 2014 midterms, and research has shown record enthusiasm for this |
| 0:49.3 | year's midterm elections. All 435 House races are on the ballot. |
| 0:53.9 | In the Senate, 35 seats are at stake, |
| 0:56.2 | and really control of Congress is at stake this year. |
| 0:59.3 | We can speculate all we want about those results, |
| 1:01.5 | but of course no one really knows what will happen |
| 1:03.8 | until more results start coming in later tonight. That said I will tell you the |
| 1:07.3 | prediction from most experts right now is that in Congress Democrats may be able to |
| 1:11.7 | take control of the US House of Representatives with a narrow majority, and Republicans will probably keep control of the Senate. |
| 1:19.0 | Remember, the Senate does things like confirm Supreme Court justices and other nominees, but both the House and Senate |
| 1:24.7 | have to agree before any new bill or laws passed and sent to the President's desk. |
| 1:29.1 | So some analysts say, we could see Congress kind of stuck, unable to agree on some things if the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Erica Mandy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Erica Mandy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

