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🗓️ 6 November 2019
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0:00.0 | Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned |
0:05.9 | after the show for a message from the American Investment Council. And I'm Jake Sherman. Democrats |
0:11.1 | captured control of the Virginia House of Delegates at State Senate the first time they've controlled |
0:15.8 | the entire government in a generation, according to the Washington Post. The New York Times, |
0:20.7 | Jonathan Martin, notes this is the first time since 1993. |
0:24.4 | The Democrats control both chambers in the legislature and the governor's office, allowing |
0:28.3 | them to redraw the state's legislative boundaries after next year's census. |
0:33.2 | Democrats appear to have toppled the unpopular sitting governor of Kentucky one day |
0:36.9 | after a visit |
0:37.5 | from Donald Trump. Andy Bashir leads Matt Bevin by more than 5,000 votes, according to our own |
0:43.0 | Steve Shepard, who's in Lexington for us. Republicans, though, had success throughout the rest |
0:47.2 | of the state. Mitch McConnell's former legal counsel, Daniel Cameron, was elected attorney |
0:51.6 | general, the first black man to be elected to that office. |
0:55.1 | Pennsylvania estate key to Trump's reelection prospects is turning toward Democrats in a historic |
1:00.4 | fashion. |
1:01.7 | The Philadelphia Inquirer broke down the results, writing that the political forces that |
1:06.3 | shaped last year's midterm elections showed no signs of abating Tuesday, as voters turned on Republicans |
1:12.8 | and establishment Democrats alike in races from Philadelphia and Scranton to the suburbs |
1:18.0 | of Delaware and Chester counties. Democrats also made inroads at the local level. In Delaware |
1:23.7 | County, a Republican stronghold since the Civil War. Democrats now hold all five seats |
1:29.2 | on the county council. How does this all affect Donald Trump's political fortunes? Do Republicans |
1:34.5 | take a look at last night's electoral results and rethink whether they want to stick with the president |
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