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I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1a podcast. And today we bring you our election roundup.

Let's get into it. For weeks, Republicans have predicted a red wave with wash over the US this

midterm cycle. While it's Wednesday and the land is pretty dry, control of Congress is still up in

the air with both the Senate and the House too close to call. But many Democratic incumbents outperformed

expectations. The party even flipped a GOP seat in Pennsylvania where Democrat John Fetterman beat

Republican opponent Donald Trump endorsement at Oz. I never expected that we were going to turn

these red counties blue. But we did what we needed to do. And we had that conversation across

every one of those counties. And tonight, that's why I'll be the next US Senator from Pennsylvania.

We check in on that race in Pennsylvania as well as Michigan, Florida, and others later on.

And a reminder that NPR uses the Associated Press for called races. So we're going with the wins

they've projected here to help us out. Reed Wilson. He's the editor in chief at Puribus News.

That's a national outlet following state politics. Reed, welcome back to 1a. Hope you had a few

hours of sleep. Just a few. How are you, Jen? Do it okay. Let's get some top line reaction.

So Republicans and even some Democrats were expecting a midterm shallacking. And that's not what

happened. As I said, control of both the House and the Senate are still up in the air. But where are

things leaning right now? Well, right now it looks like Democrats are on track to have at least

49 seats in the US Senate. They could have as many as 51, depending on a couple of races in Nevada,

where an incumbent Democrat trails by a narrow margin with a ton of ballots left to be counted.

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