The Blue Wave Failed, Republicans Won Out Overall
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Democrats Will Take the House and the GOP Sees Historic Senate Win. Not since Kennedy has a President's party been able to gain this many seats in the Senate and hold a majority.
Though the Democrats should be very happy with their winning the House majority their gain was actually very slight. As of the making of this video Democrats only gained 27 seats. They needed 23 to gain a majority.
If this was a referendum on Donald Trump I would think that he passed with flying colors. Winning more Senate seats and Holding ground in governorships.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple days ago I predicted the Republicans would blow up the Democrats and take everything, |
| 0:04.4 | and I was wrong. |
| 0:05.4 | The predictions seemed to be mostly correct. |
| 0:07.5 | The Democrats were able to squeeze by with just a small house majority, and their Republicans |
| 0:11.8 | retained control of the Senate. |
| 0:13.4 | But actually, Republicans gained some Senate seats. |
| 0:16.8 | Republicans were also able to defend several governorships across the country, so in my |
| 0:21.0 | opinion, it looks like with as vulnerable as their Republicans were, they actually held |
| 0:25.6 | their own very well. |
| 0:26.6 | Now I would say there's good news for both sides, but I'm leaning more towards the Republicans |
| 0:30.8 | definitely are going to be more excited about this. |
| 0:33.1 | A lot of people online are saying the Democrats didn't do good enough. |
| 0:36.6 | Andrew Gillam of Florida did not win. |
| 0:38.4 | Beto O'Rourke did not win, and as of right now it looks like Stacey Abrams also did not |
| 0:43.0 | win. |
| 0:44.0 | So, it really does seem like a very tiny victory across the board for the Republicans, |
| 0:48.8 | especially when we look at the historical context. |
| 0:51.2 | So today, let's take a look at the results and talk about what this really means. |
| 0:55.8 | Did the Democrats win this, or did the Republicans win this? |
| 0:59.2 | And as I said, I think this leans a little bit in favor of the Republicans, but let me show |
| 1:02.4 | you the data. |
| 1:03.4 | But before we get started, please head over to patreon.com-fords-timcast. |
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