who spent a grand total of 153-dollars on his campaign, according to campaign finance filings. this was the people s voice being made heard clear and through all through new jersey because i m not the only victory. there is upsets all up and down the state because the people spoke. chief, breaking news correspondent, gallagher is tracking and he - - good evening, trace. shannon good evening. not only did the measure in minneapolis defind fund and dismantle police get voted down but four city council members who supported the measure got voted out. another council member in favor of defunding police, jeremiah ellison, the son of minnesota attorney general keith ellison, just barely kept his seat. now we should note that some council members who favored overhauling police kept their seats but after losing nearly a third of their police officers in just two years and watching
the crime rates sore, minneapolis voters have sent a very clear signal. the red wave is also apparent in blue new york. on long island where crime is a concern to republican candidates for district attorney who both oppose eliminating cash bail and putting criminals back on the street, won their respect races in landslides. republican anne donnelly upset democratic state senate senator - - and in suffolk county republican dominated the incumbent democrat tim feeney. and separately in new york, city council races in brooklyn, queens, and staten island republicans picked up four contested seats including a victory by ukraine native and major trump supporter, - - republicans are also making key inroads in appellate races including pennsylvania s high court where kevin robson has beaten democrat mclaughlin. it s a key seat considering five of the seven seats on the pennsylvania supreme court are held by democrats.
years and could get things done. they have passed the american rescue plan, but a number of things on his agenda remain to be determined. and apparent for a lot of voters when biden promises he s going to do things and bring the country back together and pass this massive agenda, they re seeing chaos, they re seeing infighting, they re seeing this debate going on and on and extending for months on end without resolution. that is not what he campaigned on, and makes it difficult for democrats to campaign heading into the midterms. yeah. but, eva, is that agenda, that legislative agenda what voters really want? because one of the messages it seemed from the tuesday evening elections war that folks are focused on inflation, they re focused on particularly in virginia having a voice in their children s education, supply chain issues, crime. the build back better agenda focuses on other things that granted individually or popular,
where we started and this is where we are, how it it started and how it s going showing the soon to be out our of office governor in either black face or a clan outfit, and compare and contrast that to the newly minted lieutenant governor winsome sears. her speech was interesting she says i ve always been black y don t want to make it about that. i m here because i want to make things better for the commonwealth. it is a new day here in virginia. that s not only the right messaging, if you will, it s also true this is someone who earned over a million votes being exactly what she is, a veteran and someone who wants to do the job for the state not out there sort of wearing a particular label on her shoulder, she just wants to do the best and she is so far at least getsing an opportunity to do just that. yeah, and it s great. i think the more veterans we have either side of the aisle who are helping to make decisions for this country, i think they ve earned it. indeed. thanks,
able to win in virginia. a lot take in there, harry enten, appreciate it as always. joining us now, cnn political national political reporter eva mckent. i want to pick up where we left off just as we look at what is happening with joe biden s popularity, whether he sort of misread certain rooms in this case and i m struck by what we heard from abigail spamburger who said nobody elected him to be fdr, they elected him to be normal, and stop the chaos. tolu, is that message getting through? well, joe biden did campaign essentially as the new fdr for the 21st century. he promised a lot of things. said he would be a transformational president, said he would have the most progressive agenda of any president ever elected and said he had been in the senate for 36 years, been in the white house as vice president for eight