votes in person? paper ballots, no exceptions no e exceptxc the elderly,litary the military people that are out of town . tow we can make thatn. those exceptions. yeah, partisan observers watching. o the voting and watch the count and change custodyriti protocols will ensure integrity in every election. confidence in every result. but back to this year s results. while we don t have the final vote totals in several key states , the balance of powestar in the house seems all but certain. as it stands, republican ,e seat they just need six more seats for a two 18 person majority. rf last night, the editor of the left leaning cook report political report tweeted, quote, between arizona one , arizonbetweeona six california. holding forty one democrats dreams of holdinthusg the house majority probably died tonight in arizona. arizona, one of tone of the republican incumbents now has a three thousand vote lead and the000 approximately approximately eleven thousand votes left. the they are
the election. democrat if you stay home, democrats,s, well, they re likely to win and you will get the government you deserve. the senate s always tough, especiallysenate is always we hy bellwether state. you know, as you know, not every state is going to be an easy run for the republican side. so let s be clear.a guarante this is not a guaranteedede wad election. anyone that says republicans have a lock on the house the e race and senate, they re lying to you. they don t know the races canrey be extremely competitive in every bellwether state. co now, since day one , since the beginning of last year, si this year,f fact, rather, we cautioned againsthis all this red wave exuberance. every kerding to the polls, nearly every key race wasts within one or two points, certainly within the margin error. some swing states like wisconsin republicans pulled er out a win. in others, like pennsylvania, it went the other war.y fo ngr very specific reasons. pu the state s republican gubernatorial c
one in one election to twenty three in another election. so youon. can govern with a prey narrow majority. it s challenging it. it s exhausting. it s tricky, but ii t cathinnk be done. and i thinark the republicans ae going to be in charge. and as you know, passing over that gavel from pelosifr to mccarthy is an enormous shift in the balance of power in washington. importance of you cannot overstate the importance of this. . you really can t. big it really is that big. look, i understand peopleat looked at, you know, historicall historically a president snds wh first term ends with a loss in and in this case, ithouse. turned over the house. at ever i cannot i never understood. i looked at every one of thesesd senate races. and i know i just said, youtosss know what? these these are all tossup t states .o win. you have to run th these are all hard to win. you got to run the table on these and i m seeing this what i call accelerated migration accelerated by covid and shutdowns and
to subpoena. ere s be and i think there s been a lotea of things that have gone uninvestigated, things we should be investigating this year. that have gone uninvestigated. should t should thahat be their top priority? i don t know. i do i wouln t know.d i would prefer gor gas prices go lower. i d prefer to see our borders get secure. i would prefer energyergy independence. joe biden answered the question independence. i don t joe biden answerlast wee the question last week, what will you d youo differently? . his word, nothing. right. oversight isng. well, that s oversight shave vitally important. and i have every confidence that house republicans, the right committees will be creating that kind of you accountability. but i m with you. i , i think it s import inears these next two years that house republican , if only passing itt in the house ofhe h representatives, produceouse o a people they a portfolio of bills that show the american people the way back. back , evef they just pi
she outspendey cut off his money and she outspent him look at some o the last three weeks. so i think you ve gof thest to o and look at some of these key places. in the case of bolduc, the candidate in new hampshire, mitch mcconnell, himself, ran for a million dollars in ads attacking baldock in a way, in the primary in a way thatde i i think probably made it harder for hit harderm to win. so some of this is one race at i a time. tie biggers story, i think, is that kevin mccarthy went oute and recruited new people. this will be the mospeople, thii house republican party in history. histthe most women, the most veterans, the most minorities, and in fact, it f we had kept our incumbency in both 94 when 2 we won and in 2020 whena single kevin picked up 16 seats, we didn t lose a single incumbent .would be well, if tha ct were the case 20 now, we d be much closer to two 30 . and so one of the things w e have to do is go back and look at why did certain incumbents lose? was a reapportionmen