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Retaining their control of the senate with a down to the wire victory in nevada. president biden heralded the news from southeast asia ahead of his high-stakes meeting with chinas president xi. that meeting is set to take place in hours. democrats are still holding out hope to keep control of the house where several races remain outstanding. neither party has reached the 218-seat threshold. the midterm vote is increasingly seen as a repudiation of former president trump and many republicans are ...

Our rights, you know? and it goes on and on. and the young people, young people, they werent listening to those who said, if you look at electoral history, youll see that the president and the midterm loses all these seats, the young people are going, wait a minute, let us make that history. so, its so exciting. the last thing i would say to you is, think about what joe biden said. i wrote it down, so i wont miss quote it. he said, dont compare me to the alternative. i love that. because were al...

Rejected trumpism. they rejected racism, and they voted for. the good guys one, the democracies, the swing state candidates who are anti-democratic, election deniers, almost all of them have lost. we still have another gubernatorial thats waiting to be called. but the american people did not give them enough credit. they sought through it, and they voted for people who believe in democracy and the rule of law. i think that it was a very good night for democrats, but more importantly, its a good ...

Could keep control. lets bring in the sunday night panel, president of the leadership conference -- >> and ben collins, nbc news senior reporter. its great to have all of you with us. do you see a path forward for democrats to keep their majority in the house? three winning outright races, or having such a narrow republican majority that the democrats may try to reach across the aisle and peel off one or two democrats. maybe somebody who voted for the january 6th commission, or is staunchly agai...

So, what went wrong for republicans? cnns senior data reporter, harry enten, joins us to run the numbers. harry, the presidents party, as we know, usually loses a lot of seats in the midterms. so, what happened here? >> i mean, this is a historic, historic midterm. you know, i ran the numbers on this. and you look at the governorships that the democrats had a net gain. you look at theres no net loss in senate seats. its probably going to be they lose fewer than ten house seats. if all of those h...

Democrats took a victory lap on Sunday after retaining control of the U.S. Senate, defying Republican hopes for a

Issue. what else were voters thinking about as they walked into the voting booth? >> number two on your list, abortion. 27%. were dealing with once in a generation inflation. i think a lot of folks like me thought that would result in the good midterm for the opposition party. when roe v. wade got overturned in june, it kind of flipped things around. there was some thought in our mind, analysts like myself, that it wasnt going to be nearly as important to voters as it ended up being. while voter...

Had a favorable opinion of biden than trump. and amongst that neither category, that 18%, that bloc of voters basically split their votes fairly equally. they only slightly went for republicans over democrats. trump being in the picture was not good for republicans this midterm. >> you make an important point. its unusual for a former president to be so involved the in a midterm like this. lets talk about extremism. how did that play into this midterm election? >> yeah, i mean, look, we have bee...

Senate majority leader because republicans. steve: we know how they behaved in the primaries at the democrats love mucking about. >> if we are not united on that it is a very good example democrats are behaving it is like puppies everywhere. and the republicans are running around with all of the expansion and then they are moping and then the democrats 60 seats with the midterm he didnt cheney saying either. thats was stacy abrams and charlie crist so before the

Better almost anyone imagined. the president that joe biden resembled the most was john f. kennedy. because not since jfk in 1962 has a first term democratic president had such a strong performance in the midterms. >> this victory belongs to joe biden. it belongs to joe biden and the democrats who got out there and fought for working people. the things we did were important and popular. >> the presidents party almost always loses ground in congressional midterms. its not just conventional wisdom...