The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey, Lawrence.

Hey, Jen. You know, I think many of us were expecting some sort of interpretation necessary about last night's results.

I mean, you know, yet during, say, yesterday afternoon, like, you know, maybe it'd be a win here, a loss there, and it'd be a mixed bag of data to try to figure

out what was the real outcome. But boy, you just couldn't have had a clearer result last night.

You're so right. And I know you were talking about the sunset last night, just about how,

if New Jersey was a loss, Virginia was a win, or how do you explain it?

How do you not overinterpret, not underinterpret it?

And it was just an absolute shalacking of Republicans last night and a real referendum on Trump.

There's just no question about it.

Yeah, and of course, Donald Trump denies that as, of course, he would.

Of course he would.

Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Jen.

Thanks, Lauren.

Thank you.

Well, last night, Donald Trump went from being a lame duck to being a humiliated duck.

When voters from coast to coast turned out to vote against Donald Trump and his candidates and his policies in every place

and in every way that they could.

Donald Trump's explanation today for the Republican wipeout last night is that Donald Trump was not on the ballot.

That's what he says.

The conservative Wall Street Journal

editorial board has written a reply to that under the headline, Trump really was on the

ballot. The journal editorial says Mr. Trump was on the ballot, not literally, but nonetheless,

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