understands that his pan ins do not worship government. we worship god. laura: that was congresswoman el elect monica day la cruz who made history by becoming the first republican to win texas s 15th district, ever. there are races like that all over the country. iowa s third district, republican zak nunn flipped the seat defeating sydney axney. described as a painful loss for the democrats by the new york times. democrats have been viewing the result as a huge victory. they re likely to lose the house and control over major committees and losing rising stars in the process. joining us is congresswoman-elect monica day la cruz and in iowa, congressman elect, zach nunn. congratulations on your victories. you ran fantastic campaigns. monica, we re going to start with you. why did you succeed? some didn t succeed, republicans who wanted
to insult republicans in his. speech. so what s your reaction to this comment? well, s my hope that i the republican majorityajorit will work with republicans to pasy k s our agenda to get to two hundred and eighteen plus votes to pass8 plus the agn that we promised the american people and the commitment to america and the other promiseserica an that we made al the way. and the whip will play a veryl y big role in doing that with republican votes, not with democrat votes. again, don t give in to theha radical left. do wha askt the voters ask us t ,stand up to them instead.majory and the whip, the majority leader, the speaker ofdo. the house, that that s what the voters are trusting us to do. we can t let them down. laura: we can t let them down. an well, congressman, do you think tom is too much like an a establishment guy to to get this excitement going and the caucus that does exist? well, again, i m laura. laura, e i ve thrown my hat in the ring because i believe that the lead
more than ever in managing a smaller than expected majority. jim banks wasted no time. he threw his hat to the whip race this morning. congressman jim banks joins us now. congressman, does a slimmer margin affect these leadership elections. i know tom emer from minnesota, he s interested in the leadership position that you re after. some are saying that mccarthy could be vulnerable. i saw some comments from the freedom caucus tonight. your reaction to this, you know, from the results from last night? well, laura, at the end owef the day, the american people gave us the majority, it might be a very slim majority, but they gave us a majority to fight back against the radical left, not to give in to the demands of the radical left and the radical democrats, but to fight back against them. over 80% of americans believe that joe bide season doing a bad job and america is on the wrong track. and they want us to do something about it.
understands that his pan ins do not worship government. we worship god. laura: that was congresswoman el elect monica day la cruz who made history by becoming the first republican to win texas s 15th district, ever. there are races like that all over the country. iowa s third district, republican zak nunn flipped the seat defeating sydney axney. described as a painful loss for the democrats by the new york times. democrats have been viewing the result as a huge victory. they re likely to lose the house and control over major committees and losing rising stars in the process. joining us is congresswoman-elect monica day la cruz and in iowa, congressman elect, zach nunn. congratulations on your victories. you ran fantastic campaigns. monica, we re going to start with you. why did you succeed? some didn t succeed, republicans who wanted
he said he just wouldn t do anything different because, of course, our achievements take a long time to be recognized. that s insulting people. laura: that is insulting. and even david axelrod seemed a little less than enthused. he s proud of what he did. he wants to talk about it. this is an opportunity to tell a story about the country. to be big and tell a story about the country. it was a missed opportunity. a fair number of people who didn t have a favorable opinion of his performance in office who voted for democrats because it was about something larger. and it was also about the alternative. laura: biden s message today featured all of the usual slights of hand, juz as in 2020 when he campaigned then on uniting the country, remember that? only to go on and brand the country as systemically racist and trash trump supporters as semifascist. today, he raised the goal of uniting america again only to make false claims about