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Ten or 12 years ago. now as to kevin mccarthy right now its all about the math. if you have it narrow majority theres a reason he did not become speaker of the house seven years ago jon weiner departed he did not have the votes then put some people have suggested to me this is perhaps a rehash of 2015. heres something very few people know, shannon. theres two occasions of the mid- 19th century you had to speakers of the house elected without it outright majority of the entire house. it would hel...

Race, the final votes cast for maricopa county, if they are a republican friendly batch of votes, it is an open question in the governors race, whether they will be republican friendly enough to carry lake to victory but they were republican friendly enough to put dave schweikert in the lead and tonight with the batch, he could pad the lead and put himself and put his party in a good position to retain. it so right now there, there are a couple of others where republicans are leading, too. so th...

He wants to protect him from any blame for the poor midterm performance because he needs him if hes going to run for president in 2024. and it does seem that some allies have gotten the message. marjorie taylor greene now saying she thinks its a bad idea for someone to challenge mccarthy. but not everyone in the party feels the same way. take a listen to what congressman matt gaetz said earlier today. >> right now there are a lot of the establishment republicans in denial, believing that kevin m...

Races. its a steep hill. it could go through a couple of them quickly. keeping that math in mind that republicans need seven from this list, theres a couple -- theres a bunch here, actually, where they seem very well positioned. fifth district of oregon, most of the vote is in. more than a 7,000 vote lead for the republican right there. 22nd district of new york. not much left to come there. californias 45th district, about two-thirds of the vote is in. michelle steel -- the republican leading t...

Which is more than 26,000. so 58% would be enough. here is the problem, jim. for her. and im going to write the 58% up here in utah. forgive me utah. im going to write this up here so we remember it. in the latest batch weve seen from maricopa county, kari lake got 55%. and down in pima county, she got 40%. so you could see, ill pull out here, shes not getting what she needs. she needs 58% in maricopa she was getting 55 and in pima shes getting 40. were expecting tens of thousands of more votes ...

Who says? based on what? based on nothing. they said the same thing in 2010 during the tea party revolution, they take responsibility for nothing, they had the money, they decided where it went. there was never going to be this wave, period. math made it impossible. but if senate leadership fund spent its money more prudently we might have picked up a couple more seats. what the house? a different story, several more million republicans that voted than democrat bus we dont have a good fraction o...

But they are diluting themselves, democrats made no progress in senate, they needed. at best one seat. when math was 100% with them, 100%. in 2024, they are in a o in -- oh horrendous situation 2/3 of senate seats coming up are democrat seats, they celebrate they lost house by a relative few votes, but they lost the house, g.o.p. can now block the radical kook programs thatted by sense pushing. -- that biden is pushing and they damn well better, but if republican allow same dc establishment. if ...

As we are coming on the air this hour, in the building just behind me here, youve got the senate gathering into session as we speak for the first time in weeks. the house, theyre just back post-election, but big question marks who will lead the parties from here. you got a key republican meeting set for tonight, as our team joins us with the latest reporting on why all of this matters to voters and to the white house. keep in mind the other big question mark right now, house control. can you bel...

Crucial to the governors race, the biggest in the state, the majority of the votes in the state come out of here and due tonight in the 8:00 eastern hour to again come out with a giant batch of votes. and they are into this group of votes there, it is the most republican friendly of those that are counted after election day, kari lakes campaign has been counting for the last week, has been saying these are the votes that are going to lift us over katie hobbs to victory. weve got a couple of nigh...

Theres one district that has gone kind of republican and democrat. he served that district and then he lost and hes back in. it seems like thats a very 50/50 district. how is it doing now? >> you could take a look here. you talk about not having much of the vote count. we have 39% counted. this is the central valley of california here. the republican incumbent leading the count so far. its an interesting district. the presidential level, this went overwhelmingly for joe biden. but even as biden ...