thanks. republicans have firm control of the white house and the congress. the house and the senate. they fought off democratic challenges, winning virtually all key battleground races to cheap majority in the u.s. senate. right now they re holding 51 seats, democrats 47. some seats still at play right now. republicans maintain their majority in the house olding 235 seats. the democrats 191. the house speaker paul ryan spoke a little while ago praising donald trump for his win. donald trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard. he connected with connected in ways with people no one else did. he turned politics on its head. and now donald trump will lead a unified republican government. we won more seats than anyone expected, and much of that is thanks to donald trump. donald trump provided the kind of coattails that got a lot of
as i said before, the former president did it right in the room. it s a mess. in japan when he came out for it all the way. the fact that trump is against it and the republicans will be against it is a message to china go ahead, do what you want in the pacific. absolutely. this is i call this a brave new world. let s focus on the brave part. thank you, simon marks, and thank you, howard fineman. thank you. up next, besides the stung upset in the presidential race, look what happened last night with the republicans. look what they did with their very strong showing, winning a string of battleground races to keep control of the united states senate. and they did it. so where do the democrats have to go from here? it s going to be even tougher for them two years from now. and they had a good shot this time. look at all the democratic senate counties who got blown away in this wave. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.
home. after eight years as your president, i m asking you to trust me on this one. we re hours away from a once in a lifetime change. this election will end, but our work together will be just beginning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is new day. and it is election day in america. i never thought we d get here. you look better. i look worse. nothing unusual there. but this is an historic day any way you look at it. the end finally in sight for hillary clinton and donald trump. it is now up to the voters. both candidates battling late into the night. during this hour, polls are going to open in 17 more states across the country. many millions having their opportunity to have their say. those states include some of the key battleground races. florida, michigan, pennsylvania. they could decide this race.
senator sanders on the campaign trail. clinton in florida. one of the closest battleground races so far. the first of her three stops, dade city. 3:00 p.m. msnbc s kasie hunt is already there. obviously, they see the polls, at least right now, it appears that this comey revelation has not had an impact. maybe people have decided where they stand. so is it back to try to expand the battle ground map or is she just trying to hold down the fort? reporter: well, tamron, i think that they re trying to push on this comey matter as aggressively as possible especially in light of the news from eamon javers at cnbc and you mentioned that call that they had calling this a double standard. they felt like they had no choice but to go after director comey in this at this point but the source that i m talking to so far and the polling data that we ve seen so far don t indicate necessarily a huge swing out of
are in tight battleground races will be able to use it to their advantage to maintain the majority of the senate. these are e-mails that appeared to show donna brazil maybe giving questions or guidance ahead of time of a debate that was held in flint during the primaries. what s the closing argument over the next eight days. and they want donald trump to be the person that voters believe that somebody is going to be on their side in the white house. and so they re trying to put that forward and obviously, this is challenging with donald trump. even when you put him on