Okay, so it is Friday, November 18th at about 11 a.m. and what are we going to talk about this time?

Well, why don't we start off with the midterms?

Okay, yes.

Okay, so everyone was predicting a Republican red wave,

and that meant probable control of the House

and likely control the Senate.

And of course, that would have been historically expected.

The incumbent President's party usually loses seats in the midterms.

So Trump lost 40 seats in 2018.

Obama lost 63 House seats in 2010 and Bush and Clinton both lost the house during their midterms.

But that red wave nearly everybody was expecting didn't happen.

And on November 12th, Catherine Cortez. everybody was expecting didn't happen.

And on November 12th, Catherine Cortez-Mastow

narrowly kept her Senate seat in Nevada.

And that secured 50 Democratic seats in the Senate.

And there is one remaining race.

That's the December runoff election in Georgia

between the incumbent Democratic senator,

Raphael Warnock, and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker. And Republicans did win the house but just barely they secured the

two hundred and eighteenth seat on November 16th it was not a red wave. So I think in part we can thank the Supreme

Court for the result. Everywhere that abortion was on the ballot, voters came out in big numbers to protect abortion rights

and the issue of abortion rights turned out to be a huge factor in motivating voters in general in battleground states, and that was critical in place. in in battleground states to defeat a lot of anti-democratic candidates that supported

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