So, who won?
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Democrats outperformed expectations in Tuesday’s midterms, but Republicans still look likely to take back the House. We talk to reporters covering Congress and the White House about what to make of the results we have so far, and what to look for next.
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Control of both chambers of Congress remained undecided Wednesday morning after Democrats showed surprising strength in key battleground races on Election Day.
On “Post Reports,” we’re joined by White House reporter Tyler Pager and Liz Goodwin, who covers Congress for The Post. They talk about the key issues in this race — including democracy and abortion access, which voters supported even in heavily Republican states.
In the Senate, races remained uncalled in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Democrat John Fetterman won the Senate race in Pennsylvania, defeating Republican Mehmet Oz, who conceded on Wednesday. That was a pickup for Democrats. Republicans prevailed in Ohio and North Carolina, fending off efforts to flip those seats. Democrats retained seats representing New Hampshire, Colorado and Washington state.
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| 0:00.0 | So Liz Goodwin, Tyler Pageer, right now it is just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, we are |
| 0:09.1 | here in the studio and to be clear, there are a lot of critical races that have not yet |
| 0:15.1 | been called. |
| 0:16.3 | But from what you guys have seen so far, what is your one big reaction to what we've |
| 0:21.8 | seen play out in these election results? |
| 0:28.2 | I would say no red wave, which is also everyone's big reaction. |
| 0:34.1 | I think it's just surprising how much especially on the house side, a lot of these vulnerable |
| 0:39.8 | Democrats held on. |
| 0:42.9 | And you know, there's even some kind of surprise results on safer Republican seats like Lauren |
| 0:48.8 | Bobert, who's kind of fighting for her life right now. |
| 0:52.8 | It just was not what the narrative was. |
| 0:55.4 | Our Democrats were freaking out, Republicans were feeling amazing, especially on the house |
| 0:59.5 | side. |
| 1:00.5 | And I would echo that and just broaden it out a little bit. |
| 1:03.4 | I mean, even some of these governors and states that are conservative places like Kansas |
| 1:09.5 | that has reelected a Democratic governor in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, all places |
| 1:16.0 | that, you know, Democrats felt good, but not great about their chances of reelecting |
| 1:20.4 | governors. |
| 1:21.4 | I think we saw that sort of across the board that Democrats did quite well there. |
| 1:25.2 | And I think digging down a little bit into what that means is the policy issues that we |
| 1:31.4 | thought and strategist thought were going to be the most animating, were maybe not the |
| 1:35.7 | most animating for voters. |
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