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Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Midterms No One Saw Coming: A Postmortem

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

With inflation soaring, the worst crime wave in decades, and Biden’s approval rating at a pitiful 41%, everyone predicted last night’s midterm elections would be a bloodbath. It wasn’t. The red wave the Republicans were hoping for did not arrive. In fact, it was barely a red trickle. While results are still coming in, it looks like Republicans will narrowly win control of the House, and Democrats will remain in control of the Senate. What happened? Today, journalists Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Kraushaar from Axios, Batya Ungar-Sargon from Newsweek, and Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine – all of whom didn’t sleep a wink last night – discuss the stunning results of the 2022 Midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is honestly, and here's what happened last night.

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Hi everybody welcome back good morning it's 1 a.m. on the East Coast 11 p.m. on the West

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this is our coverage of the 2022 midterm election.

0:54.3

It has been an unexpectedly good night for the Democrats against the odds.

0:58.8

Going into last night,

1:00.4

Joe Biden had an approval rating of about 41%.

1:04.0

Well, nobody with this low of an approval rating

1:06.3

as a sitting president has ever done this well in a midterm.

1:09.6

We're experiencing the worst crime wave in decades and the worst inflation in more than 40 years.

1:15.0

You would expect the Republicans to do far better than it looks like they're going to do.

1:20.0

This shouldn't be competitive and it is and I think you have one place to look.

1:25.7

And yet the red wave, the red tsunami that Republicans were hoping for, that didn't arrive.

1:31.5

The Democrats are having a good bad night.

1:35.2

The results are still coming in, but it looks like Republicans will narrowly win control of the

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