What Won for the Democrats?
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Democrats ran all sorts of different campaigns and won (or lost) in all sorts of different ways. Is there a lesson they could take from the midterms and carry into the next election? Plus, how did racism figure into the Florida and Georgia governor’s races? Jamelle Bouie joins the show to nurse our election hangover.
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| 0:00.0 | When you woke up this morning and turned on your phone, you were probably sitting there, like me, just wanting to know who won. |
| 0:06.8 | But if you were looking for someone in Washington to answer that question for you, well, it's complicated. |
| 0:11.6 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:13.1 | Get out. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going to ask my colleagues to join us here. |
| 0:19.5 | Speaker, Siemer, see her, see her, see her, see her. ask my colleagues to join us here. |
| 0:21.7 | Siemer! Sieger! |
| 0:22.4 | Sieger! |
| 0:23.4 | Leave us! |
| 0:25.0 | Around 1130 last night, Nancy Pelosi took to the stage at Democratic headquarters to revel in |
| 0:30.6 | the news that the Dems had retaken the House of Representatives. |
| 0:33.9 | Thanks to you, we owned the ground. |
| 0:36.9 | Thanks to you. Thanks to you, we owned the ground. Thanks to you. Thanks to you, tomorrow will be a new day in America. |
| 0:48.4 | Remember this feeling. Know the power to win. And then this morning, President Trump shared his take. |
| 0:56.4 | What lesson did you learn most from looking at those results? |
| 0:59.4 | Was there one thing, as you kind of reviewed them, that you'll change your strategy, not just for Congress, but kind of going forward? |
| 1:06.1 | And then just to follow up questions. |
| 1:06.9 | Well, I think the results that I've learned and may be confirmed, I think people like me. |
| 1:11.0 | I think people like the job I'm doing, frankly. |
| 1:15.9 | Earlier this week, we talked about how this election was really two elections, a debate between two Americas, suburban, rural, open, closed. |
| 1:27.6 | And Slate's Jamel Bowie told me today, that's right. |
| 1:30.6 | But with a caveat, especially after last night. |
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