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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News. It's Wednesday, November 6th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, welcome back to Trump's Washington. Number two, the outstanding House and Senate races to watch. And number three,

looking forward, GOP leadership drama. All right, Jake, let's get into it. It was a big

election night and decisions and the results happen fast.

I think there was a lot of expectation that we might not know for days, what was going

to happen, a lot of networks looking for, you know, for potentially days of coverage.

And we know, welcome back to Donald Trump's Washington.

He eviscerated the blue wall and Vice President Kamala Harris's

underperformance in basically all corners of the country has ushered in a new era for U.S.

politics and a dramatic shift right word, much more significant than a lot of people

expected and decisive.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Just to keep to put in context where we are at 4.45 on Wednesday morning slash Tuesday night,

it even seems like it still is, that Republicans won the presidency could have,

could have as many as 55 seats in the House.

Republican challengers are winning in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Montana.

Sherrod Brown won, lost in Ohio.

Jim Justice, obviously, won in West Virginia.

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