Hello, and welcome to the Byron York Show, the no-chit chat podcast.

We like to get right into it.

And what we're going to get into today is Donald Trump's losing Senate record.

We can now really talk about it with with Herschel Walker, the Republican candidates' loss

in the Georgia Senate runoff.

The 2022 midterm elections are finally over.

So it's over now.

The Republicans actually took a step backward in the Senate.

They have 50 seats, as we speak, 50 seats, 50-50 tie in the Senate.

And they're going to go to 49 seats when the new Senate convenes in January.

Now, that's obviously going to be a big boost for Democrats.

They had had a lot of difficulty.

They overcame that difficulty, but it was difficult running the Senate when it was evenly tied

at 50-50 because they couldn't have a majority on the committees.

When there were tie votes, they had to get the vice president to come in and break the

tie.

That's how they controlled the Senate.

And if they had some apostate, and they sometimes did, they couldn't bear, couldn't

survive losing even one of their own if it was a party line vote.

Talking about you, Senator Manchin.

So now, if they stick together, they can win outright 51 votes.

And even if they lose one of their own, like Senator Manchin, they can still win the

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