Despite an expected ‘red wave’ failing to materialise, the ex-president called the election results a ‘very big victory’, asking: ‘Who has ever done better than that?’
that may factor into the president s decision then he leaves for a week long foreign trip on thursday. thank you. come up, legal challenges are already happening in a key swing state. we re going to get the latest from our vote watch team monitoring this and a number of other legal challenges potentially across the country. plus, we are under two hours now from our first exit polls. the first real data we re going to get in. so let s talk red wave, blue wave, red ripple, blue ripple. but first, we ll get to some key governors races. where those races stand and what to expect tonight in just 60 seconds. see you in a minute. tonight in 0 seconds. see you in a minute. (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it s going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts. (foreman) nic
is it going to be a red wave, red ripple, that s a tongue twister. that s a big question a lot of people are going to be watching for when house results start coming in later tonight. what would a red wave even look like in the house? if history is telling us anything, the president s party usually loses seats in that president s first set of midterms. look at president trump. his party lost 40 seats. barack obama, his party lost 63 seats. bill clinton, his party lost 54 seats. mark murray is here to break it down. we re going to talk about the idea of what s the number going to be in a second, but let s start with what races, house side, you re going to be watching for. virginia, there s a couple of races i m going to have my eye
will that have on the biden presidency red ripple? it means that his legislative presidency red ripple? it means that his legislative agenda - presidency red ripple? it means that his legislative agenda will- that his legislative agenda will essentially be blocked, which is the case when the president s party loses a house of congress at the midterms. that is not necessarily unusual. it happens quite frequently, it is a historic trend, and for president biden, that would mean he would probably have difficulty passing more climate legislation or working for further climate steps. it might mean that policy on ukraine could change. the republicans have signalled or suggested he might not approve as much aid to ukraine as a democratic controlled house of representatives. there would be quite a lot of contentious discussion over the bills that have to be passed, bills to fund the government and so on, so i can basically president biden s agenda for the next two years would be blocke