end up voting the other. what do you mean by that? reporter: they come in and think i m going to vote republican. and then they go and have to decide do they pull the ballots or do they want to make a statement by voting democrat? 8% of the population comes in and may change their minds. third is that the independents, and this is where the republicans have to take very close analysis to. the independents usually break 55/45 republican. if they break 60/40, republicans win. in this case they broke 50/50. that s a real problem for the gop. it s a drop. and one more, republicans got 5 million more votes for the house than the democrats. 5 million. so why don t the results show themselves in the congressional races? the answer, redistricting. that had a bigger impact against the gop than anybody realized and you could not know this until election day. you brought up independents,
abortion is not on the ballot as it won t be in michigan in 2024, for example. it s a fantastic question. it s frightening. i haven t recovered. i still have trouble talking from the 2022 election and we re looking ahead to 2024. we had an early warning of kansas, a republican state, a conservative state, and yet their efforts to restrict abortion back fired and it was very harmful for republican candidates, and in fact the democratic candidate for governor was reelected there. there s a lesson for republicans, and the vote i m most fascinated with are independents. they broke for democrats by 1% tuesday night. and that 1% enabled them to basically get to a 50/50 senate and a 50/50 house. if independents don t break for republicans by at least 55/45, the democrat wins, and abortion is an issue that non-ideological
donald trump calls for the immediate release of the warrant that allowed fbi agents to search his florida home earlier this week. the shortlist is announced for hosting next year s eurovision song contest 7 uk cities are in the running. and coming up later in the hour doesjordan peele get a yes from the critics for his new film nope? find out in the film review at 5.45. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. a drought has been declared
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