to put lots of battlegrounds into play, but look where we wound up. almost where we started on november 7th. one more by the numbers. this is a staff from open secrets. 96% of house races. 96 of u.s. house races were won by the higher spender. and only one senate seat flipped as well. so mike, house republicans in the new congress, they nearly doubled the amount of crossover seats, meaning in districts carried by president biden back in 2020. what can we read into that in terms of what it would mean for gop control of the house the next two years? jonathan, i think this is one of the most illuminating stats in all of politics. whenever i talk about politics, i use this stat. and i always credit it to david wasserman at the cook political report. these are districts where you voted for biden but now you have a republican house member or vice versa. you voted for trump, and you ve got a democratic house member,
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to own him something, and how he balances that is going to be a huge factor in what kind of leader he s going to be for the republicansch. jeff, you mentioned this a little bit, but the concessions mccarthy is going to have to make in his own party to get to the 218 votes and in order to win, there s a lot of folks in the caucus he s going to have to make concessions to. he is. and one of the central things is an air cane motion to vacate the chair. and the big question hanging over this is he going to have to restore that? and essentially he would put a rule in place that allows any house member at any time to call for a vote of no confidence and a new election as speaker. no person wants this. it s essentially what led to the demises of speaker boehner and paul ryan, just the threat hanging over the speakership. this is something he wants to
has basically kept his hands off of that situation, melanie zanona reported that he has been making calls to backup mccarthy. so mccarthy is gonna him something. and how he balances that is gonna be a huge factor in what kind of leader he is gonna before the ruffle comes. jeff, i mean, you mentioned this a little bit. but the concessions that kevin mccarthy s gonna have to make within his own party, not with democrats, within his own party, to get to the 218 votes you need to win. i mean, there is a lot of, you know, folks in the freedom caucus who is gonna have to make concessions to? he definitely is. and one of the central things is a very arcane washington for a scold the motion to vacate the chair. and a big question hanging over this is if he is gonna have to restore that. and essentially that means that he would put back a rule in place that allows any house member at any time to call for a vote of no confidence, and the new election of a speaker. so no person, of course, wa
outside and watch or from the outside going in, i thought of that trunk sure that at that moment of madness, surely the party would take stock of itself and come to his senses, we know what happened since then. and the ensuing 18 months, basically, is what i sought to chronicle. but to get your question, but though trumpism exacerbated, their symptoms, those symptoms were present well before 2016. one of the characters in this book, why is quite an arc, is marjorie taylor greene, who enters the house pretty disgraced, as it were. she ends up getting in trouble as a house member for things she said long before her political career even started. then we watch her rise in the story, as liz cheney follows from power. to the point where, i want to go to somebody of marjorie
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