What's up guys, it's Ali. Welcome to Relatable. So today is Thursday, November 8th, which means the midterm elections were on November 6th.

If you are anything like me, you stayed up anxiously waiting for the results to come in. I live in Texas, so I was holding my breath for, I don't know, like four hours. Somehow I survived it when I found out, uh, finally that Ted Cruz won.

Guys, I was, whoa, whoa. I thought I don't know what I thought. I thought that this was going to be the end. And I was going to be extremely mad, not just because beta or work one, but also because my prediction would have been wrong.

Alas, I was right. I thought that Ted Cruz would win by a narrow margin. It was a very, very narrow margin. So for all of my fellow Texans out there, breathe a sigh of relief with me that Ted Cruz is still our senator. Now speaking of Texas, speaking of Texas, uh, it is bluer than it probably has ever been. Now it used to be a democratic stronghold about 25 years ago, but it's probably bluer as in like what is blue is solidly blue.

And then also what is blue is more blue than what it was 25 years ago. There's no doubt that the democratic party everywhere is farther left than it used to be. So Texas is in danger. We used to look to Texas as the beacon of conservatism, the beacon of republicanism, a deep red state. That's just not true. There are quite a few other states that are actually redder than Texas. And you want to know why Austin and Houston Austin and Houston are really the two cities there. There are other boarders.

There are other boarders cities too that are very blue, but those are really too heavily populated cities that lean to the left. Part of that is because people from California move here for jobs and technology, especially in Austin and they bring their politics with them. Please don't do that. If you're from California, listening to this podcast, you're probably great. There are a lot of Californians out there that are conservative. I've been to the Bakersfield,

conservative people that I've ever met. They too want nothing to do with San Francisco and LA. Those kind of people, they are welcome to move Texas. We will take you. We will take your kindness. We will take your politics. But those of you who are coming from LA and San Francisco coming to Austin and trying to California, our Texas, I want nothing to do with you. And I don't appreciate it. I do blame them. Partly for what happened. No, I can't blame them for everything because you know what's an interesting statistic is that apparently a greater percentage of people

who voted for Beto or work were born in Texas than the percentage of people born in Texas that voted for Ted Cruz. So apparently more people who voted for Ted Cruz moved Texas. Apparently more people who were born in Texas voted for Beto or work. Interesting. Interesting. I kind of just don't believe that statistic, but apparently it's true. So I can't blame it entirely on Californians, although I do think that they are somewhat to blame. But that is just one race that I was a very

glad to see go our way. As far as statewide elections in Texas, it went well for us in the sense that we we won all of them. Greg Abbott is still our governor. But again, that margin was a little bit narrower than what we would have liked it to be. Now local elections is where we saw things kind of go downhill for Republicans. Some local elections went well. But for example, my house house district where I live state house district it got flipped to a democratic seat. Now the end of

the end of the election was a popular Republican. Got a lot of stuff done very productive and the opposition to him, the candidate that opposed him is legitimately crazy. Disavowed by her own party, I'm sure that most people have no idea who she is. And yet she won why I think partly it was the beta effect, although I don't think that can entirely be attributed to that. But I think some people just said I'm not going to I'm not going to vote Republican. I do think that part of this blue wave or

resistance did trickle down to the local level. Unfortunately, so I'm very sad about my district. There are a few other districts that I know Republicans are extremely sad about in Texas. So we have something to watch out for and conservatives have something to fight for. That is why conservatives, if you live in Texas, stay here. Stay here. Make sure that you keep on voting Republican. Make sure that it does not turn blue. If it turns blue, we're going to have a very difficult time winning.

National elections. So just keep that in mind. Now there are other mid turn things that we are going to get to. We're going to analyze some other races. And of course, the best part of analyzing any kind of thing that happens politically is also analyzing the media's reaction to it. But before I do that, I'm going to tell you about my favorite sleep company, which is bolster sleep. I've told you guys already how much I love their pillow that keeps its shape. Let me tell you also my husband.

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Use promo code Allie, L, L, I, E to get $100 off a mattress or an adjustable bed. You will not regret it. Okay. So the rest of this absolute midterm madness that we saw on Tuesday night.

So Democrats won the House Republicans won the Senate. It was a good night for Republicans. Now of course Democrats think it was a good night for them to and it was. It was. Now it wasn't necessarily a blue wave.

They did a good job. They did a good job in the House. This is not unprecedented. This is not I wouldn't say any sort of tsunami for the left. I wouldn't say that this is a title wave.

But they did a pretty good job in the House. They now have a majority Nancy Pelosi is going to want to be speaker of the House. Of course.

But Republicans should be proud of the games they made in the Senate. We thought they were going to keep the narrow majority.

Maybe you know keep it even and Mike Pence be the tiebreaker, but they actually have more of a majority than what we thought there were some major upsets in the Senate races that actually worked in our favor.

So Republicans had a really good night considering the fact that midterms were seen before this as a referendum on Donald Trump. It almost always is a referendum on the sitting party or the party in power or the sitting president.

And they said that this was going to be it. They tried to weaponize every single event that has happened in order to get the vote to go in the direction of the Democrats.

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