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Was a red wave in the senate and so on, what we saw in the east room i thought was really an acknowledgement on the presidents part that he does somewhat feel like he lost something yesterday and that he understands that the job moving forward is going to get a whole lot tougher in this town because he does have the house of representatives now falling into the democratic hands. but as for being called the enemy of the people and so on, jake, wolf, all of our folks on the set there with you, i t...

Mississippi, missouri, new hampshire, new jersey, oklahoma, pennsylvania, rhode island, and tennessee. jake, those states could hold the balance for the democrats if theyre going to do well tonight. >> absolutely, wolf. and new jersey and the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, democrats have an opportunity to win about one-third of the republican-held house seats that they need to reclaim the majority. one-third. now, one of their best shots at a house pickup is in the garden state. new jersey....

that are being fought where this entire battle for the house has been fought in the suburbs with people some of them traditionally republicans who dont like the tone and tenor even though their pocketbook is great, their bank account is great. their stock market portfolio is great. that is what makes this particular election so unlike anything weve. >> another new jersey projection. nia, what do you see? >> big projection, wolf,s in florida. a contest weve been watching all night. cnn project...

Leading in republican-held districts. those districts are here, here, and here, so were going to watch this one play out throughout the night. the goal is 23. democrats believe this side over here, at least enough seats to get most of the way, wolf, and now we start to get more. >> the polls are closing in three more states right now where democrats are hoping to make some significant inroads. we got a key race alert in the senate right now. polls closing in west virginia. joe manchin, the incum...

a major projection. west virginias cnn can project joe manchin will go on for another term. this was one of those very key battle ground senate seats and mostly because the president won there by such large margins. lets look now at what it means for the balance of power in the u.s. senate. right now 36 democrats. 42 republicans. we still have 22 senate seats that remain out, and, of course, 23 you look at the number in the upper right, 51 is the number of seats that democrats could need to h...

Republicans. that would be beyond the democrats dreams. will they get six? who knows? they want to pick up at least two in texas. that tells you the democrats in texas are on par for their math. lets go over to more results. one of the things we cannot compare and cannot emphasize enough for democrats trying to get to that magic number was total of 23. now 21. the new lines in the state of pennsylvania. court ordered said republicans went too far drawing the lines. newer, more competitive, bette...

Again, democrats arent there yet. the map looks like theres a path to get there. >> harry enten, youre doing some statistical models right now. whats the forecast? >> we cant project the house yet, but our forecast is that democrats will fact have a net gain of 35 seats. however, it could go even higher than that. we could go all the way up to having a net gain in the low to mid-40s for democrats. 238 seats, which is far more than they started the evening with, wolf. >> its looking good for the ...

Especially because we only have results in the small portion of the country, youre laying the building blocks that you need but theres a lot of counting to do. >> democrats have high hopes for new jersey and pennsylvania. some of the contests, we got a key race alert, dana. >> wolf, it doesnt get more trump country than west virginia, at least not tonight. the president won there by more than 40 points and right now, the incumbent democrat, joe manchin, is ahead. hes almost at 60%. the republica...

Can tell you, among establishment republicans tonight at those results. its not final yet. jake just mentioned this. beto orourke. weve called that race for ted cruz now. just moments ago, will hurd had pulled ahead in his race down here. we look at these districts. we just went through some districts president trump carried like dave brats district. this is a district, will hurds district, hillary clinton carried. this was always one of the democratic targets. will hurd, even democrats will tel...

52-48. not quite there. but heres another one in new york state. lets pull back out and look at new york. come back over here. move up here to the new york area is up here. john faso, republican incumbent. just 1%, but thats a target for the democrats. well see. another one here, claudia tenney, the republican incumbent losing with 3% in. thats early. the big picture, wolf, if you pull this all out, is the democrats well within striking distance of taking back the house. more than enough targets...