am, and those six days, it s unsustainable and dangerous. what do you say to those workers who say the president says he s pro labor, but he hung unfit to dry? first of all, what i d say is the agreement we re talking about this organized labor access to a point that produced a proposed settlement. that wasn t getting the. we went back to the table, and made the railroad industry give even more concessions to workers. and in the end, the agreement reached between labor and management was ratified by eight of the 12 unions involved here. it gave a 26% pay hike to the people who work in the industry. gave health care benefits. really solid permanent health care benefits for the first time in this industry. and gave unpaid leave digs to some of the workers who ve never had that benefit before, you were actually penalized for even just taking off and unpaid day. so i think the agreement made a lot of progress for a lot of the key issues for working people in the industry. was it pe
you re the foremost expert in america on why 50 1:49 is better than 50/50. so from years perspective as that expert, explain to us why it matters so much. yeah. the bottom line is 51 is so much better than 54 a bunch of races. first, in terms of appointments. when it s 50/50, it takes a long, procedural, torturous road to get candidates for judge, or administration positions moving forward. we can do it a lot more quickly. by the way, chris, one of the things were proudest of as we put more good, strong, progressive people on the bench than anyone has. we are over 80 judges now we put in place. that can speed up and leave the republicans blocking so many important moments. ambassadors, cabinet, sub cabinet members that are needed going forward. second, our committees now, we have a majority. that means we can pass more legislation, at least through
candidates. at the same time, so many of those candidates embraced this maga republican-ism. a lot of people in the middle our base turnout because they cared about things like this. kids, students, young people, about student debt, about climate, about the dobbs decision. and, people in the middle also turned and voted for us, who in the past had voted for republicans because they saw what we were doing compared to what republicans are doing. so it was a great campaign. we worked very hard to get it done that way. and, we succeeded. there will now be in outright majority in the united states senate. 51 to 49. that s different to the 50/50 senate last time, two years ago. after that midterm after the runoff, which was in january, last time and, there s a complicated negotiation between you and mitch mcconnell about how a 50/50 senate s gonna work. that doesn t happen this time.
another convincing victory. difficult terrain, both historically and politically. for this to happen, for democratic senator raphael warnock to win in a state otherwise dominated by republicans, particularly the cycle, for him to win for the second time in two years while his party is currently holding the presidency, while, it requires a lot to have gone right for the democrats, and a lot to have gone wrong for the republicans. that was actually true for the midterms and general. in fact, this election in georgia, both elections, this runoff particularly, sort of a perfect microcosm of the midterms as a whole. right? and the republican side, the person everyone is blaming today, correctly, is donald trump. he was, after all, donald trump s idea to recruit herschel walker for no other reason than because he appeared on his game of celebrity apprentice. trump has known him for years, and herschel walker played football in georgia, although he had since moved to texas. but that s about i
results in georgia, and the fact the state one of two democratic senators, at least for 2020 sex, was a long time to make it. the product of a lot of hard work on the ground in the state by some people you might not recognize. we were there all the way back in 2014, almost nine years ago, thailand about how a bunch of folks in georgia were setting in motion a plan that could make this moment happen. what if i told you that georgia, deep red georgia, could be a blue state? and it s all a matter of simple math. they re 600,000 unregistered black people in the state, and 230,000 unregistered agents and latinos on top of that. and if we could just sign up 750,000 of them, it be almost impossible for the republicans to win again. organizers say there are roughly 830,000 unregistered voters of color in the state. they can register 90% of them,