call in control of the u.s. house of representatives. it comes just a week after the midterm elections. it is a long period of time. nbc news decision desk projects republicans will control the house, with at least 218 seats. a very slim majority. there are a remaining uncalled states that will determine just how narrow the margin will be more publicans. potentially effects or have again later ever mccarthy become speaker. carlos carrabelle is a former republican congressman from florida, he joins me now. carlos, i wanted to have you on tonight to talk about this news, because there has been so much discussion, the freedom caucus, go, sars the big, so the marjorie taylor greene s. majority caucus here will be the 12 or so members representing biden districts who are coming into congress. you are one of those, right?
and seem to be gaining a lot of energy. and then they seemed to lose in a lot of cases right before election day, had some setbacks on election day and then they it s like they walked off the playing field. i m not complaining because it s good for democracy, but after they took the first punch, they just sort of went and turned tail and left. i should say the normal way this works, is when the political party gets punched, as where, particularly by the voters, and it happens to democrats same way it happens to republicans. i have been through those elections where they tend to say will we don t need to change the rules we need to change the vote machines. the normal way is, what was wrong with our message? what was wrong with their candidates? what was wrong with his strategy? it does seem like there is much more of that discussion this
frankly, i can t believe we re all gonna go through this again. at 507 years ago i was sitting in the studio, the empty podiums. we have literally been there before. and it s also easy to forget this part of, it because republicans all jumped on the trump train. they are humiliated themselves. they prostrate themselves so intensely before him. but in the very beginning, the summer of 2015, when he came down the escalator, the conservative media was broadly against on trump when he announced his first run for president. remember this? at the very first republican debate, rupert murdoch s fox news was hosting it, and then fox host meghan kelly grilled him about his massage instruct statements. if called women who don t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account only rosie o donnell. he was told a contestant on celebrity apprentice will be
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to be a neck and neck race this time around. herschel walker will not have republican which probably helped him out. democrats are already mobilizing for warnock who is a star in the party with a very bright future. fred hicks is atlanta-based political strategist who worked on 100 of campaign in georgia, and he joins me now. fred, the factor here that people are going to is that this is a special, kemp is not in the ballot, he will be campaigning with walker on saturday for his seat, but how much do you think that will affect the turnout? chris, you said it right there. this is all about turnout. there are some structural differences between this runoff and the last one that we are just talking about. last time in 2020, you had two months you had absentee voting which was very strong. you had drawbacks it everywhere. republicans changed those rules, and so we basically had very little to do in this runoff, and drop boxes are looking