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Welcome to the political scene.

I'm Tyler Foggett, a senior editor at The New Yorker.

One of the writers I work with at

the magazine is Eric Latch, who writes about New York politics. On election night, I was in the office.

Results were coming in from all over the country, and I noticed that many of my colleagues,

especially the ones covering swing states like Pennsylvania, were shocked to see that the red

wave that we had all been hearing about

didn't come. But then there was Eric. Every piece he wrote on election night in the morning after

was about how New York, one of the most liberal states in the country, was seeing a bunch of Democratic

candidates lose. So far, Republicans have taken 10 of New York's 26 congressional districts, flipping four seats away from the Democrats.

The significance of this number can't be overstated in an election where Republicans only needed to flip five seats nationwide in order to take control of the House of Representatives.

Eric is here today to explain how this happened. Hey, Eric. You make me sound so dour.

So it's Thursday morning.

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