Election Night : What We've Seen So Far

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The balance of power will take time to sort out, but here are some firsts you can talk about around the water cooler Wednesday: Vermont becomes the final state to elect a woman to Congress, Florida is sending the first member of Gen Z to the House and Massachusetts has elected the nation's first openly lesbian governor.

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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Susan Davis, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.5	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:07.5	I cover the White House and it is now 10.08 pm on election night.
0:12.8	That is Eastern time.
0:14.3	And we don't have a full picture yet.
0:16.5	And we won't for some time.
0:18.4	But already it has been a night of firsts.
0:21.1	Vermont has finally elected a woman to Congress.
0:24.2	The last state in the Union to break that barrier, Becca Ballant is headed to the House.
0:29.6	Arkansas elected former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders governor,
0:34.4	making her the state's first female governor in Massachusetts.
0:37.8	More a healy became the first woman elected governor in that state.
0:41.7	And also the nation's first openly lesbian governor.
0:45.5	Maryland elected Democrat West more as its next governor.
0:49.8	He's the state's first black governor and only the third African-American to become a
0:53.9	governor nationwide.
0:55.9	Florida is sending the first Gen Z lawmaker to Congress.
1:00.2	Maxwell Frost, he's a Democrat.
1:02.4	We're going to take a quick break and when we get back, you will hear from two people who
1:07.4	you know quite well.
1:13.9	And we're back and I'm going to pull in two key members of our pod squad for a quick
1:18.6	chat about what we know so far.
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