Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next?
Deconstructed
The Intercept
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | CNN can now project that Democrats will win the majority in the US House of Representatives. |
| 0:07.0 | Thanks to you tomorrow will be a new day in America. |
| 0:11.0 | When you look at what's going on here tonight, this is not a blue wave. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Maddie Hussin. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, the most important, most historic, most consequential midterm elections of our lives are over. |
| 0:30.0 | And today on the show we're going to be unpacking the results and what it all means with my good friend Chris Hayes of MSNBC. |
| 0:36.0 | I think people wanted some sort of magic carpet ride night and that did not happen. |
| 0:40.0 | With progressive icon and Democratic Congresswoman from California, Barbara Lee. |
| 0:44.0 | I think this is a major, major victory for the American people. |
| 0:48.0 | And after a historic night for female candidates with the national co-chair of the women's march, Tommy Kamalari. |
| 0:54.0 | There are mixed emotions, people are not sure exactly what to feel. |
| 0:58.0 | But first, if you're a normal, sane person who didn't stay up all night watching cable, do you want the good news or the bad news? |
| 1:06.0 | Let's start with the bad news. This guy is headed back to the United States Senate. |
| 1:11.0 | God bless Texas! |
| 1:14.0 | Yep, the zodiac killer himself or the man Donald Trump calls Lion Ted was reelected in Texas, defeating Democratic party golden boy Beto O'Rourke, who presumably is now getting ready to launch his 2020 presidential campaign. |
| 1:30.0 | Cruz beat O'Rourke in traditionally rock solid Republican Texas by just 3%. |
| 1:36.0 | And did so with the support of 59% of white women in the Lone Star state. |
| 1:42.0 | Once again, thank you white women. |
| 1:45.0 | More bad news from Florida. This guy is the new governor of the Sunshine State. |
| 1:50.0 | The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda. |
| 1:56.0 | Yes, friend of white nationalists Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me who produced a campaign video of him with his kid building a wall with toy blocks, I kid you not. |
| 2:06.0 | He prevented liberal hero and progressive populist Andrew Gilliam from becoming the first black governor in Florida's history and winning by a mere percentage point. |
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