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Hello and welcome to the 548 Politics Podcast. I'm Gailan Druke. I'm Nate Silver. And

this is model talk. So on Saturday, Nevada was projected for Democrat

Catherine Cortez, Masto, ensuring that Democrats are going to keep their majority in the Senate

regardless of the outcome in the December 6th runoff in Georgia. As things stand right

now at noon on Monday, Republicans are projected to win 211 House seats. Democrats are projected

to win 206. So Republicans need seven more seats and currently lead in 10 in order to

take control of the House. Most of the uncalled races are in California where the tallying

is still ongoing. They send mail ballots to every registered voter. You're allowed to

send your ballot back as long as it's been postmarked by election day. So there are plenty

of races that still only have like 50 or 60% of the expected vote tallyed. We're going

to talk about all of it. We're going to talk about what it means, how the polls did,

and also all of the stuff that is still not projected yet. So let's begin with the House.

At this point, would you say that Republicans will win control of the House?

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