joined by manu raju. this meeting, house minority leader kevin mccarthy spoke with republicans at the meeting. what are you learning? yeah, he tried to appeal for unity. this is a party that came into the midterms last week expecting a big blowout victory. they thought they would have a mas massive house majority next year. now they are looking at potentially a handful of seats could make or break the difference in any bill on the floor and could make or break the difference for kevin mccarthy himself as he stries to secure the speaker ship. today they had a candidate forum. mccarthy appealed to the members and preached unity. he said they don t give out gavles, small, medium and large. we have the majority and we have the gavel. we still have the majority regardless of the size of the majority. he faced some sharp questions, including from some critics, but he is expected tomorrow to get the nomination from his conference to be the next
florida that you guys were talking about. a blowout victory byron desantis winning in miami-dade which that s a deep blue county. several house seats were flipped in florida as well. you used the perfect term ruby red florida used to be a purple state. ainsley: i heard you stay on fox & friends. stole that from me. will. steve: make it rubio red. who also had a big victory as well. some people thought val demings was a threat. the reason was ron antioxidant, unlike some of these other candidates who are rookie candidates who are just talking right now what they want to do he has a record to run on. as far as opening that state first, which a lot of people you talk to in florida still thank him for. there has been an exodus to florida ever since. and what their children aren t being taught in florida. ainsley: a lot of people that might have voted for zeldin in new york have left. many have gone to florida, tennessee and texas. that s great point. somebody i was watching t
where they didn t believe their kids were getting a great education, they moved to counties like that. you don t have to look very much farther. look down at where i am in the state of florida, i moved my family down here. we saw the blowout victory, of course, for ron desantis down here. but then you look at a state like oregon where this oregon governor s race is neck and neck right now. you have christine drafn look to flip the state of oregon to a republican governor. speaks to the polls that sentiment we have seen across the country. of course, we have to be patient and wait for everything to play out. we all wish we could know the answers right now. from the house, senate, governor s races to 2024. former president trump says is he going to make a big announcement on november 15th. what will that announcement be? you guys want me to tell you here this morning? carley: sure do. i will let my father-in-law make the announcement as soon as he is ready which looks like it
attorney general. mastriano attended the stop the steal rally, even seen walking past breached barricades that day. many republicans fear he might be easy for shapiro to knock out in november. and interestingly enough, shapiro thinks so too. he was actually apparently hoping that mastriano would be the one to run against him. and remember, whoever the governor will be, will appoint a secretary of state in pennsylvania, who will actually oversee elections, including the one in 2024. with mastriano trying to get a free and fair election overthrown from back in 2020, that could worry a lot of voters in november. meanwhile, there s the blowout victory in the democratic primary for senate last night. john fetterman winning that nomination from his hospital bed. recall that he had a stroke and a defibrillator implanted to regulate his heart rhythm. but the medical emergency did
last week in an absolute landslide. her name is sheila cher full lus mccormick. she s got a great story. she s the child of haitian immigrants. her parents were a taxi driver and a made. she is now a lawyer and a ceo of a health care company. and thanks to her blowout victory, she s now the first haitian-american ever elected to congress from florida, the first elected to congress ever. a great story all because she cleaned up in that race. she got 79% of the vote in that election last week. the republican who ran against her got less than 20% of the vote. her margin of victory if there that special election wuls almost 60 points, just a complete blowout. but because of where the republican party is right now and what they re now wired for, that republican who ran against sheila cherfilus-mccormick, he s