understands that his pan ins do not worship government. we worship god. laura: that was congresswoman el elect monica day la cruz who made history by becoming the first republican to win texas s 15th district, ever. there are races like that all over the country. iowa s third district, republican zak nunn flipped the seat defeating sydney axney. described as a painful loss for the democrats by the new york times. democrats have been viewing the result as a huge victory. they re likely to lose the house and control over major committees and losing rising stars in the process. joining us is congresswoman-elect monica day la cruz and in iowa, congressman elect, zach nunn. congratulations on your victories. you ran fantastic campaigns. monica, we re going to start with you. why did you succeed? some didn t succeed, republicans who wanted
they lost the independent vote in a lot of these really cl se house races around the country. and obviously it s playingwe at the senate level as well. and to what do you laura attr that? m not i m not sure. i mean, it looks like it looks like independent voters, while they tol d pollsters and i thinkt it was true even from the exithe polls, that the economy waser oe their number one issue. they did not hold bidenponsib responsible foler for the econow and for inflation in the same way that they did with otherg tf issues. allay tims toe will be unpacg for days to come.last v and we ll seote what happensthas with the last vote count. thanks so much.bright now, when we come back , a bright spot from last night s election resultsults you might e heard about the last bite. we ll tell you next. hello, i m former arkansas governor mike huckabee. did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to very serious health problems? i know it s scary. you can t fall asleep. you re tossing and t
about the most. and if the democrats continue to preside over the type of economic and crime problems that we ve seen over the last year, even early voting will not be enough to save them the next time. and that s the angle. joining me now is molly hemingway, fox news contributor and editor in chief for the federalist and scott mckay, contributing editor at american spectator and the author of the revivalist manifesto. molly, now with the caveat we re still waiting on a number of big races, what s your takeaway from last night? i think things will improve for republicans in nevada and arizona. but, we really did see given all of the enthusiasm in the country that republican leadership really failed republican voters. republican voters were excited. the the ground was very fertile for a big republican victory. joe biden s approval was in the toilet. 75% of the country thinks we re going in the wrong direction.
and progress isn t sometimes overnight or in a straight line. so we ll getting to all of that. sean: things are turning out a lot better than maybe people thought last night. we ll wait for the races to come back. i m pretty optimistic about them all. have a great show. laura: all right, sean. i enjoyed yours. i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. let s getting right to it. big takeaways, that s the focus of tonight s angle. so, sean alluded to this, they re breathing a sigh of relief at the white house. even as democrats almost certainly will lose the house. and they could even b lose the senate. little attention is being paid to the astonishing fact that democrats do not intend to do anything differently in the next two years. this is with 75% from fox news
governor s race there. obviously, there s more work that needs to be done. but from oregon to new york and of course in florida, we made big progress. since we know democrat policies are only going to drive crime and the cost of living higher in all of these states in the next few years, republican prospects and recruiting should just continue to improve in all of the states. third, there is no reason to believe that a more establishment approach would have done better in most of the senate races. now, while many trump-backed candidates did lose, mcconnell s favorite candidate in colorado, joe o dae got annihilated. and think about this, mike lee, he fought off romney s candidate in utah, the trump hater edwin mcmuffen. murkowski is behind in alaska but j.d. vance won in ohio. fourth, the runoff in georgia could well decide who controls