coal mine moment for the democratic party. last night, there was a special congressional race in south texas. it saw a very deep blue sea turn bright red. now, republican mayra flores easily defeated her democratic opponent by eight points in district 34. now, get this, it s the first time in 150 years this district ever elected a republican! in 2012, obama won it by 23 points. 2016, yeah, hillary won it by 22 points. biden only won it by four, but now republican mayra flores, she won it by eight. all right, that would be a 12-point swing in two years, a 30-point swing if you go back to 2016. keep in mind, this is a majority hispanic district. it borders mexico to the south along the rio grande valley. now, mayra actually immigrated to the u.s. from mexico making her the very first mexican-born woman to be elected to congress. she s also married to a u.s. border patrol agent. she made border security a huge focus of her campaign. take a look. too many to many, the borders
sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
fundamentals of what they re getting wrong when it comes to the strategy of politics and early voting is a major parts of that. bret: quickly, marc. you want to call it inviting, battles, both at the rnc and in the house, how is that going to play out? i mean, i don t know how it will play out in the rnc but i will tell you i think ben is right. and we neat it is candidates. if you look at georgia, brian kemp got 203,000 more votes than herschel walker. if you choose better candidates you win elections. it s just that simple. bret: all right, panel. thank you very much. have a good night. bret: and finally tonight, a special day, a nonprofit teams up with an 11-year-old boy s school to surprise him on his birthday. you see, even on one leg, kenyon sims stands tall. when former wwe star fellow
had with vaughn was the rain behind it. tomorrow, it s going to rain in north georgia. you know, when you have a turnout problem, which walker does, and you have rain, it usually makes your turnout problem worse. we ll see. remember, in the general election, in november, walker got 203,000 fewer votes than governor kemp, and if you look at the polling, the campaign internal polling, he does better with democrats than republicans and that means walker has a problem relative to warnock with his own base. and now he wants to get his own base out. we no longer have a motivator that this is going to be down to who controls in the senate. the democrats control the senate. this would be an additional vote for democrats. so how would this change matters in the senate? we started this show by talking about how it is going to dilute joe manchin s power. that s really kind of arcane stuff for most voters to pay