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Today, Explained

What happened to Congress?

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Vox’s Ella Nilsen explains why Democrats are waving goodbye to the blue wave. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ellen Nielsen, lots of focus on the presidential race, of course, but you cover Congress for

1:33.2

Vox. What's going on there? Yeah, I mean, I think that we had a different result than a lot of people

1:40.4

expected in Senate and House races. The theories heading into the 2020 election was that if it was

1:47.4

a big night for Biden, it would also be a big night for Democratic candidates in Senate and House

1:53.6

races. But that did not trickle down to those Senate and House races.

1:57.3

Well, let's start with the Senate. What were the expectations there specifically? I mean,

2:01.0

we spoke to you about whether Democrats could flip the Senate and it was certainly an expectation

2:06.6

a lot of people had, right? Yeah. And I mean, so we should say right now that the Senate result is

2:12.6

still uncertain and it could be uncertain for another few months. That's because there are still

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