Republicans make shocking gains in the Senate Democrats win the House, and election 2020 begins today.

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slash Ben. Okay. So, last night was an exciting night.

As the night started, it looked like Republicans were going to defy all expectations of political

gravity. By the time the night was over, it looked sort of like we had predicted here on the show

yesterday. I suggested on the show yesterday that Democrats win 35 seats. Turns out they won 34.

It looks like they're going to win 34 in the House. And I predicted that Republicans were going to pick up anywhere from two to four seats in the Senate, which they did. It looks like they picked up three in the Senate right now, maybe four by the time all of this is said and done. Now, this has led to a lot of puzzlement. How is it that Republicans could lose the House but pick up seats in the Senate? Well, because the map was uniquely bad for Democrats this time around in the Senate. But Republicans did overperform, and yes, President Trump had something to do with that. President Trump visited a bunch of battleground states in hotly contested Senate races and every place he visited, the candidate won. President Trump has a unique gift for getting the base revved up, and particularly in close Senate elections, that does matter.

So he does have coattails when it comes to getting the base out. He does have reverse coattails,

however, when it comes to House races. Virtually every purple seat that was contested,

every seat in a suburban district that Republicans held went to

Democrats last night. That is deeply troubling for Republicans. So there's good news for Democrats,

there's good news for Republicans, there's bad news for Democrats, and there's bad news for Republicans.

The good news for Republicans first. The good news is that the kind of beloved star-making candidacies, Beto O'Rourke in Andrew Gillum in Florida, Bayo-O-Rourke being the Senate candidate in Texas. Those came to an end last night. All of that came to a crashing hall. Beto-Rourke spent more money than God has and still lost his race. It was shockingly close. It was a three-point race that he lost in Texas. I think a lot of that

has to do with the deeply flawed candidacy of Senator Ted Cruz, who has sort of mortally wounded himself in a lot of ways since 2016. But with all of that said, Beto O'Rourke did go down in flames after spending one bajillion dollars. That is an actual number. One bajillion dollars was spent by Beta O'Rourke. He went down anyway. He was basically like the Joker in Dark Night. He just went around saying that it's not the money that matters.

It's the point. It's the point.

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