beyond those specific charges. it, like the other indictment from john durham, seems designed to try to further this project of making the russia investigation itself seem like a scandal. we re going to get into it, we ve got more on that coming in in just a few minutes with a former fbi senior counterintelligence official. but where i want to start tonight is with a story that i think isn t getting nearly enough attention. i think this story is lightning in a bottle. it has broken this week, but not broken nearly widely enough.ghth in the last midterm elections, the elections we had in 2018, you ll recall that was a really good election for democrats. the so-called blue wave election right in the middle of president trump s term. trump and all the republicans got elected in 2016. 2018 the democrats came back, swept to power in the u.s. house.01 there were hopes at the time something similar might happen in the senate. republicans had just a narrow majority heading into the 2018 midt
0 race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election, they are the only two states that do, if they do it every four years, all the way back to the 1980, every year t the president has seen the governor loose his race bothe in virginia and in new jersey. that s the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose bothe those governorships. biden s democratic party did e lose the virginia governor s ir race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he has a t