but the messaging that national narrative about democrats being terrible on crime and the economy all of this, smeared some very good moderate democrats on long island, robert zimmerman and laura were painted with this broad brush. they are not what you want to call crazy progressives. moderate, sensible, fiscally responsible democrats and they were swept out. lee zeldin, you know him. suffolk county guy. but he did surprisingly well for a guy affiliated with trump known as a conservative. it looks like he has got within four points. yes. that s right. and that was i kind of guessed it would be about that but is he a long island guy. he comes from a regular working class family. and he ran i have to hand it to him he ran a flawless campaign. brian: real quick, your prediction on the senate. do you think it s going to come down to georgia? georgia and nevada it looks like will be the two states. brian: nevada and laxalt up. two years ago with the
close to me in real life laura kern. as a democrat for you laura, tonight, are you surprised that democrats aren t trying to explain a red wave because it never happened? it never happened. and i know a lot of democrats were expecting. this i think we were all expecting this sort of cleansing thing to happen. and we re going to have some kind of answer about the direction of the country. and we just didn t get that it was a mixed bag everywhere. a lot of close races and kind of a big mess. brian: main reason, do you believe is abortion? yes. i think we were talking about this before the fear of trump and fear of government overreach with abortion was a motivating factor for voters who might have been concerned about crime and the economy. these two things kept them from saying i m going for the safe bet. brian: a trump backed candidate in arizona. we know j.d. vance was a trump-backed candidate in ohio and he did win a substantial win. but, jason, you know who didn t win? mastr