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Younger faces in government come 2019 and a lot of them, im proud to say, are going to be the faces of women. As of right now the number of women who have won elections or reelections to congress is at at least 110. Thats a new record. But even at this hour theres still a number of very important races yet to be decided. Among them the Florida Senate race, considered too close to call with the republican rick scott leading the incumbent. Democrat bill nelson, by less than half a percentage point. That is tight. Montanas senate race also too close to call. The republican challenger, Matt Rosendale is ahead of the democratic incumbent, jon tester, with fewer than 2,000 votes separating these guys. The governors race between brian kemp and the Democrat Stacey Abrams is still up in the air. There are reports that tho ....
Lets talk about the state level. They have governors seats back in kansas, illinois, michigan, wisconsin, maine, new mexico, but heres the thing. That was offset by republican wins in key 2020 battleground states including florida, ohio and arizona and by the way, we have just learned republicans have gained a seat in alaska. So here we are new reality for President Trump. Now for the first time he is going to have to deal in congress with the democrats. You are looking at ted cruz, another winner after orourke lost his race there. We have road warriors blanketing the country. Maybe they are blurry eyed this morning. They have reaction on last nights elections as we wait to hear from all the Major Players this hour. We have a press conference coming up. Mitch mcconnell in about 30 minutes from now taking questions from reporters. President trump in 90 minutes. Nancy pelosi ri ....