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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

What can we learn from the midterms?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The biggest test of U.S. democracy since Jan. 6, 2021. What do the midterm election results tell us about Americans' belief in democracy and the direction of the nation? Heather Cox Richardson, Stephen Henderson, Tom Bonier, Lisa Desjardins and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's what you were told was going to happen.

0:03.5

Is this an indicator of a coming red wave?

0:07.0

But I think there's going to be a very positive red wave

0:09.0

as the night goes along, not just here in New Hampshire,

0:11.0

but across the country.

0:12.0

We are going to take our country back

0:14.0

from these left-wing lunatics.

0:17.0

On Tuesday, we will be part of a big red wave

0:20.0

that says enough is enough.

0:25.0

And here's what actually happened.

0:27.0

In places like Pennsylvania,

0:29.0

where Democrat John Federman

0:30.5

edged out Republican Mehmet Oz.

0:33.0

We held the line.

0:35.0

I never expected that we were going to turn these red counties blue,

0:39.0

but we did what we needed to do.

0:43.0

And tonight, that's why I'll be the next US senator from Pennsylvania.

0:49.0

In Maryland, where Democrat West Moore took the governor's race.

0:53.0

And my entire life has taught me that patriotism does not mean

0:57.0

waving a flag around.

1:01.0

Patriotism isn't a boast.

1:03.0

It isn't self-righteous.

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