Welcome to the beat everyone. I'm Ari Melbourne. We begin with the shockwaves from an earthquake that is

reshaping our politics. What started Tuesday night has really continued to resonate across the week.

Democratic wins in what are off-year elections. And when you go into the data and all the people have been crunching the numbers even more as the days go on,

you can see it was a lot

more than just the governor's races. The trend lines are a warning for Republicans if Democrats could

continue this and run good candidates and stay united. Now, those are obviously big ifs,

if you know politics. President Obama is taking a more active role than usual in the past election cycles,

especially for an off year. We saw him not only on the stump, but today he weighed it in,

but she doesn't always do. These are his first public comments about those Democratic victories,

something of a victory lap for him, given that he was out in the field, and he discussed

what he calls the

voter's rejection of a cruel Trump agenda.

It was a good reminder that it turns out that the American people are paying attention.

They don't want cruelty.

They're not looking for people on the top trying to entrench themselves in power.

They believe in community.

They believe in treating people with decency and respect.

You can hear the applause. He was speaking at a gathering of Pod Save America, which is a hit media company series of podcasts from Obama veterans.

You could see behind him as well, Alex Wagner and MSNBC anchor, who also has

done a podcast for them. And so it was, of course, in the crowd cheering a very friendly Obama

kind of crowd. But the things he said do seem to relate to what a heck of a lot of other people

thought who aren't partisan Democrats, but are voters in places that Trump had done well before,

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