How split-ticket voters could decide control of Congress
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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| 0:16.0 | Split ticket voters, those are people who vote for candidates from different parties, are increasingly rare in modern American politics, but as Lisa Desjardan explains, those that cross the aisle on their ballots this November may decide which party controls the U.S. Senate next year. |
| 0:27.0 | We can't work all the time. We have to do something to take our mind off things. In Annapolis, Maryland, Colin Paskel is still learning the ropes of sailing. |
| 0:32.0 | Picking it up after retiring from a 20 year career in the |
| 0:36.7 | Army. Sailing is incredible because it's one of the few times that you can have |
| 0:41.6 | motion without noise. motion without noise. |
| 0:43.7 | Motion without noise, it's not a big leap to see that as a political metaphor as well. |
| 0:50.0 | By disposition, I would like all of us to move forward with less yelling. |
| 0:57.0 | He's charting another new course this November, splitting his ticket between Democrat |
| 1:02.2 | Kamala Harris for president and for Senate the first |
| 1:05.6 | Republican ever to win his vote. I'm a registered Democrat I've been a Democrat my |
| 1:10.8 | entire life and I'm voting for Larry Hogan who's the |
| 1:14.3 | Maryland Republican candidate for Senate. Why? I really do think we're at our best |
| 1:18.8 | when the center left and the center right are pulling on each other a little bit and we find a workable |
| 1:23.5 | solution in the middle. Larry Hogan is a dream recruit for Republicans, a popular |
| 1:29.1 | moderate and former two-time governor in a blue state, part of a GOP on offense. Senate Republicans |
| 1:36.0 | need to pick up two Senate seats to take over the chamber outright and just |
| 1:40.5 | one to create a 50-50 tie which would break in favor of the party that wins the White House. |
| 1:46.2 | They have a good map. Of the 34 Senate seats on the ballot, |
| 1:50.0 | Democrats are defending a whopping 23 of them. |
| 1:53.5 | One of those, West Virginia, is expected to flip to Republicans. |
| 1:57.6 | And seven other Democratic seats across the country |
| 2:00.7 | could go either way, meaning Democrats have no room for error no |
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