No red wave

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The midterms weren’t a clear victory for Republicans, and it’s still too early to know who’ll control Congress. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	2022 midterms. What happened? Definitely not a Republican way. That's for darn sure.
0:06.0	Republicans expected a route last night because the party in power often gets
0:11.2	shellacked in the midterms. It happened in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and there so
0:18.2	far has been a notable Republican win in Congress. JD Vance now Senator
0:23.2	Electon Ohio. Really, I cannot say thank you enough. I cannot. Also, Herschel Walker
0:28.6	looks to have forced a runoff in Georgia. That's a sort of win. But thus far, the
0:33.5	only flipped seat in the still-up-for-grab Senate went to the Democrats and
0:38.3	John Federman. I'm not really sure really what to say right now. My goodness. And the
0:43.0	House. It will almost certainly break for Republicans, but the maps are not a
0:47.2	wash in red. A lot of incumbents held on. Coming up on today, explained 2022 midterms.
0:53.3	What happened? How far would you go to live longer and live better? Chris
1:03.4	Hemsworth is putting that question to the test in the new Disney Plus original
1:07.2	series Limitless with Chris Hemsworth. Teaming up with the world's leading
1:11.2	longevity experts watches Chris pushes his body and mind to their absolute limits.
1:16.2	Putting his own life on the line to find out how we can all live longer, healthier
1:20.7	lives. From National Geographic, Academy Award nominee Darren Aranovsky and
1:26.0	Utopia Limitless with Chris Hemsworth is streaming November 16th only on
1:30.8	Disney Plus.
1:33.6	Support for today's show comes from Slack. A digital HQ in Slack brings your teams,
1:39.8	partners and tools together in one space. Slack helps companies stay
1:44.0	flexible, accelerate projects and keep teams aligned. So work just works. How
1:50.2	exactly? Organised projects in channels work across time zones with
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