GOP Sees Limit To Trump's Popularity
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We’re starting to get a fuller picture of what the incoming Congress is going to look like under President-elect Donald Trump. Republicans have clinched a majority in the Senate and seem poised to take the House, too. But on the whole, it’s a less rosy picture for the party than Trump’s win suggests. Republican Senate candidates drastically underperformed the incoming president. Over in the House, the GOP isn’t expected to make any significant gains on its existing narrow majority. Burgess Everett, Congressional bureau chief for Semafor, explains why Trump’s big win didn’t translate to more down-ballot success.
And in headlines: California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a special legislative session to “Trump-proof” state law, Trump’s White House starts to take shape, and Target stores removed ‘Wicked’ dolls from shelves amid a packaging error that included the address of a porn website.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 11th. |
| 0:03.5 | Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.6 | the show that is not happy to hear that more than 40 monkeys |
| 0:10.6 | escaped a research facility in South Carolina. |
| 0:13.3 | Look, I have some very simple rules. |
| 0:16.5 | No caves and no cave diving. |
| 0:18.6 | No climbing Everest and no cave diving. No climbing Everest. And no monkeys. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, the Biden administration will continue to send aid to Ukraine. |
| 0:31.1 | And trans people are not to blame for the Democrats' loss. |
| 0:34.4 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:35.8 | We're starting to get a fuller picture of what the incoming Congress is going to look like under |
| 0:39.8 | President-elect Donald Trump. Republicans have clinched a majority in the Senate and seem |
| 0:43.9 | poised to take the House, too, as of our recording time, which is bad. But look under the hood |
| 0:49.4 | of those Republican majorities, and things start to get a little weird. Over the weekend, Nevada Democratic |
| 0:55.4 | Senator Jackie Rosen officially won her race for re-election. She edged out Republican Sam Brown by a little |
| 1:01.3 | more than a point. Rosen spoke to her supporters Saturday after she was declared the winner. |
| 1:06.2 | So it might have taken a few long days, a few long days, but Nevada voices have been heard. |
| 1:12.3 | And, you know, my opponent spent more than 75 million bucks, 75 million bucks against me to flip the seat. |
| 1:19.7 | They spent tens of millions trying to tear me down, trying to tear us down, trying to lie about my record, |
| 1:25.6 | and turn me into something that I am not. But Nevada saw the truth. |
| 1:31.9 | There's only one Senate race left to call in Arizona, but there too, Democratic Congressman Ruben |
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