expectations on the ground teeny make a lot of good points it is ab grouped game i think he saw democrat are also step up their game from 2020 two years ago where we didn t have a ground game because of koafdz and tony point as well it is about candidate quality you saw so many ticket splitters that is a good thing for this country because it means americans are looking at the quality of the candidate and not just label next to their name. i think that s a good night for democrat and country going forward. lawrence: real we cannily tony what s the case? i think the case is that some people look at quality candidate and some people look at a letter after the name. i think that s oven obvious and clear for races like for example, pennsylvania. but republicans are going to have to forget out this leadership conversation, and kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell have to know they re in the hot seat and anybody believes otherwise is out of their mind. goncht talk to your people. talk to vot
the fact that this far-right swing of this sort of maga extremists was alienating centrist republicans themselves and leaving them with nowhere to go but two candidates who were appealing to them. people like mark kelly, catherine cortez masto, and even, frankly, someone like raphael warnock. i think the data shows there were enough ticket splitters, enough republicans voting for democrats, to make a difference. again, these are really narrow races. we are talking a point or two. it s one or two people out of a room. 100 you can get over the other side can be the difference. it looks like in a lot of places that was the case. cory booker, thank you for making a little time for us tonight. thank you, always good to be with you, chris. coming up, if you missed it last night, get ready for it. an encore presentation of an all and special investigation. where did all this red wave come from anyway? ?
america s youngest voters played a big role in the elections. crediting gen z and younger millennials for stopping the potential red wave. voters below the age of 29 largely turned out for democrats, a fear of maga was a factor, biden deserves credit for keeping his word on a number of issues, like student loans, climate and guns. ticket splitters appear to have also played a pivotal role in a number of key battleground states. take pennsylvania where democrat josh shapiro defeated his republican opponent by 13 points. john fetterman won his senate race by three. in new hampshire, where republican governor chris sununu won. don bolduc lost by nine. there are signs that at least
and it s hard to know exactly what the party breakdown is on those. if you remember from 2020, things actually tightened up for biden in the end as the counting went on and so we may end up seeing a lot of ticket splitters there. it s just fascinating to watch. it really is. as we look at, too, where things are moving, as we wait for these final house races, i know that there is already the jockeying is already happening by kevin mccarthy. he s trying to make sure that he s ready to go. that he has the votes for speaker. i found it interesting this morning, georgia s lieutenant governor duncan said this morning on cnn this morning that the republicans have a window of opportunity here but said the first 100 days can t be about trump s agenda or his list of grievances, rachel. but that could actually impact mccarthy s run for speaker. yeah, look. because election night was such
the senate race and it looks like there were a lot of ticket splitters here so what happens in a runoff when you don t even have somebody at the top of the ticket who is actually bringing republicans along and so it doesn t particularly bode well for republicans and i think that biden s approach here is exactly right. it s not really the way donald trump thinks, though, right? so he s not somebody who is necessarily willing to step aside for the good of the party or, you know, really anybody else other than what s good for him. out of the corner of my eye i can see scott raising his eyebrows to that, full agreement. one race i have been tracking and i know that i ve been bending your ear quite a bit is colorado s 3rd congressional district. this is lauren boebert s district. challenging her is a adam frisch and he s posed a very serious challenge to lauren boebert. he s said that all along that what he s what he s been