Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20141105 : vimarsan

Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20141105

There are still 40 seats. This is being updated as we go. Congress with new 40 undecided. There were 36 Gubernatorial Races. Republicans currently have 29. Democrats of 21. 31 republicans will serve as governor. 15 will serve as democratic governors. Five races are still undecided. 202 is the area code for all of our numbers. If you would like to make a comment on yesterdays election, you can send a tweet at cspan or join the conversation on facebook. Greta bronners at the news desk with more results. We will begin with those senate and governors races we dont know yet who the winner is. The Alaska Senate race was closely watched, highly competitive. The former Alaska Department of Natural Resources commissioner the incumbent democrat. Hims him 4945 leading 4945 . Tuesdays election given early lead to the independent over sean parnell. The difference was thin and it remains so. Colorado governors race also to close to call. Thatenver post reporting the democrat in a strong position to win reelection early this morning. He would be one of the bright spots for the democrats. Counted. E ballots raceonnecticut governors also too close to call. Dan malloy claimed victory late last night to the supporters, but the gop challenger responding. In the Virginia Senate race, mark warner declared victory over ed gillespie late tuesday. Ap not calling this race. Its a remarkably close one. He is notie saying going to concede and raising the possibility of a recount. , maryuisiana Senate Landrieu is headed for a runoff on december 6 against bill cassidy. Neither one of them able to surround that 50 threshold last night. In the arkansas a race, we know who the winner is. Attorney in the senate race, tom cotton is able to beat mark pryor in that race. Mark pryor, the son of the former senator and governor there. A loss for democrats. They were hoping to keep that seat. Lets go to the ohio governors race. Cruised to a second term. They key battleground state for president , defeating and fitzgerald. Defeating ed fitzgerald. This race, over 111 million spent. Kay hagan falls to thom tillis. This is going to be the most Expensive Senate race in political history. As can go to cspan. Org these result come in. Page ofres the front usa today. Gop wins big. The New York Times, gop takes senate. Here, ae these down president left fighting to keep his relevance. Capture of the senate culminated in a season of discontent for the president and may yet open a period of deeper frustration. Robert is a democrat in stamford, connecticut. What do you think of the results . Thank first, let me greta for the run down. She mentioned connecticut. I am a staunch democrat, staunch liberal democrat. I knew it was not going to be a good night for my party in the u. S. Senate. I just fear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies in the next two years. There will be a Supreme Court fight with the republicans in control of the u. S. Senate with obamas nominee that we have not seen since clarence thomas. That Martha Coakley and in massachusetts Anthony Brown lost in maryland. In connecticut, it looks like from the latest numbers, my governor is reelected. That is a bright spot for me. Host daymond is an independent in georgia. Caller please let me say this whole thing. Let me piggyback on what the guy just said. This is a referendum against the president its more about how they jerryrigged the system. Me. Is insane to we have republicans who did not do this or did not do that, taking this away, taking that away and you are going to put more of them in office . To pave the way for a republican president next year in 2016. Hey have too much at stake host how do you think the system was jerryrigged . Caller they happened gerrymandering the thing for years and nobody is saying anything. Host patricia is a republican in fort worth, texas. Caller hi. Now that the republicans have , theynate and the house need to represent the people and no more business as usual. We the American People are fed up to here with political correctness. Theyve got the power. Do something with it. Host what do you think about the fact that greg abbott both one in your home state . Caller ecstatic. Host jerry is a democrat in chicago. You have a new governor. Caller im quite shocked. Republicans have taken a clean sweep. Host the paper we have out here, the Chicago Tribune says governor quinn refuses to quit. Loser. He is a sore coming. King is obama. D the blame on the democrats did not support him. Not runningans are for the presidency. I look for the health care witham im disappointed voters this year. Awner. Back to greta bro president obama will hold a press conference at the white house on wednesday afternoon. Lets begin with the details of the senate races last night. Lets begin with georgia where david purdue was able to best michelle nunn. 53 to 45 . Looking at the exit polls, david purdue got 70 of the white vote. Getting the black vote nine out of 10 times. Considerers said they Party Control of the senate as important and 60 of those worried about the economy. They voted for david purdue. Ernst is able to beat back a challenge from bruce braley. An open seat left by tom harkin. She wins 52 to 44 . Tilted more republican like in 2010. The said obama was a factor for them. Its good to kansas. Roberts will beginning a fourth term in the u. S. Senate. He will keep the republican int alive. T 62 of those 65 and over in that 66 say theite and country is off on the wrong and 70 very worried about the economy next year. Michigan, the voters evenly divided on obamas job performance. Gary peters able to win over lynn land. Gre , beating Amanda Curtis after the senator dropped out earlier this year. Dakota, the republicans pick up the seat left by tim johnson. 1 . E rounds with 54 and perce in West Virginia, health care was the second issue. Then immigration and foreign policy. They are sending their first. Emale senator thoughtt of five voters democrats unfavorably West Virginia. Go to cspan. Org for more of these results. The greta mentioned Michigan Senate race. The Detroit Free Press leads with the fact that rick snyder got reelected as governor of that state. She also mentioned the kansas race. We covered a lot of speeches and we want to show you a portion of pat roberts and greg gorman. [video clip] this election was so important because so much is at stake. Our values, our prosperity, our future and our faith in government. Thanks to you, your vote, your , our conservative Republican Solutions will see the light of day and be put before the American People and we will do great things. [applause] tonight, as is always with a night, it will be the start of a new day. The tide has turned in the era of the obama gridlock is over. [applause] with your help, with your help, each and every one of you, with your help and with gods good grace, we were not dragged across the finish line, we crossed the finish line, we took the hill. Roberts wonator tonight, we did not lose. [applause] we not only ran against senator roberts, we ran against the whole washington establishment. [applause] all of you in this room send them a very strong message. Cannot go to washington and hide behind your party label. You have to go there and get stuff done. [applause] here is the front page of the Richmond Times dispatch. Warner clinging to lead and wins. Brett at joe is in fayetteville, North Carolina. Independent line. Caller im not surprised about the Election Results. A lot of it is the economy. Obama, ao voted for lot of them have had to change jobs. My wife is traveling every day 100 miles to raleigh. She voted for democrats. They have shortened the amount of early voting. It makes it harder for people struggling to keep their jobs. Host did you vote . Who did you vote for . Caller i voted for the republicans. Dont vote on party lines. When i was young, i voted democratic. I was disappointed. , people werestand upset because they were against gayrights and the judiciary overturned that. There is a lot of anger. Kathryn is in florida. Democrats line. Want to thank cspan for putting on all the debates. I wish more people would watch. Joni ernst from iowa and purdue from georgia, georgia having the highest Unemployment Rate in the country and you are a fellow that outsourced jobs and got elected. The old republican candidates ran on bashing obama. They had not one word, not one plan for how they were going to fix the economy. That is not surprising. , goldberghe debates did a piece in the editorials saying that too Many Americans are uninformed and dont know whats going on. He is probably talking about low income, poor people. We are not stupid. We know when we are getting the shaft and being underpaid. Im not surprised. With a after four years disastrous presidency under bush, he got in and the london times were against the war in iraq, the day after the 2004 election they said how could 54 Million People in america piece o be so dumb. Host more results. Lets start with some governors races and more interesting races. We begin with arkansas where the former congressman Asa Hutchinson defeated mike ross. Filling the open seat of the Asa Hutchinson is a gun rights advocate who helped build the case for impeachment of president clinton. In illinois, pat quinn will not get another term in the state of illinois. He loses to the republican challenger there. , voterschusetts appeared to have rejected another challenge by the attorney general, Martha Coakley. Charlie baker eking out a victory. Pennsylvania, tom wolfe able to beat incumbent governor, tom corbett. President obama want to pennsylvania in the closing days this racece saying was important and about the economy and education and tom wolf was able to get the victory in pennsylvania. In the texas governors race, bidy davis loses her against greg abbott. Kansas, sam brownb ack will get another term. He beats paul davis. A race where political strategists had thought Sam Brownback would not be able to pull this off. But he does. Front page of the Houston Chronicle this morning. Read title wave or the gop with a picture of greg abbott and his family. Bob is a republican in canton, georgia. You are on cspan. Independent. Is , if theo say republicans had a bringing thect country to ruin and then accomplish what obama had sense, the republicans would now hold both chambers and the presidency and relegate democrats to the minority for generations to come. They did not hammer the positive the waiver the republicans have hammered the negative. Question do we have a turnout number yet . What percentage of eligible voters turned out . Host bob on our independent line. Mark pryor was one of the senators who went down. Tom cotton will be the youngest member of the senate. [video clip] i believe in arkansas and i believe in america. The biggest and most serious problem we are facing in our nation today is the dysfunction of our political system in washington. [applause] we have incredible potential, but we will not reach it unless washington starts to work again for all of us. [applause] if we are going to continue to be the greatest nation on earth, we must Work Together. A future united is much brighter than a future divided. This campaign, our candidates have told me that they are ready for america to again be a great, strong and prosperous country. Pessimism. He the bureaucratic rule of presumed elites. This other form of government now consumes nearly half the fruits of all their labors. It intrudes on private life. Every Community Come every business, every school, every person gets unwanted instructions from on high from unaccountable and elected elites. This other form of government always wants to help, but is always hindering. [applause] aid, buty seeks to constantly ends up constraining. We may gain some material security by choosing this other form of government, but under it, there is no true security for anyone. Enough to grant everything is big enough to take away anything. [applause] host in the wall street journal this morning, americans spend 16 times as much on beer as on 2014 midterms. 3. 67 billion spent on this years senate and house midterm elections. That compares to 95 billion on new cars, casino gambling, 88 beer at nearly 60 billion. Albert and told some, oklahoma. Gilbert in. A, oklahoma. Caller i was just listening. The republicans ran on a democratic platform and they won. Host what was that platform . Caller a social regeneration. Out of that came, look what we have. They are the ones that held up everything. Al goredrats were again. The democrats ran. The woman in West Virginia could not say she voted for obama. Running from obama. In pennsylvania. He asked obama to come and he won. The democrats have to get a spine and have to learn how to fight. One thing i will say about the they are good right or wrong and they fight for it. They know how to fight. Dirty, clean and otherwise. The democrats run. Please dont be mean to me. Ok, we will say we did not vote for him. Clay aiken, do you realize who you are in the south . Host jill is a democrat in chester, new york. Caller im sad the democrats lost. What i more sad about im is the speeches these winners are giving. They were running against obama. It israel said. It is real sad. Obama did so much good. When bush did so much not good not seecountry, we did this fight or talk about taking our country back. Host from politico this morning, no obama pivot after midterms. Voters demand change from washington on tuesday. Republicans say it is up to president barack obama to deliver it. The white house that emerges after the midterm elections wont look, act or sound drastically different. The president will seek some Common Ground with republicans, but there are limits to how far obama wants to go. Senate democrats will let him go. Ofma does not think too much Election Results. The president will be holding a News Conference this afternoon. Us . A, what do you have for the Kentucky Senate race where Mitch Mcconnell will get the leadership, beating off a challenge from Alison Lundergan grimes. Candidateshese two spent roughly 60 million. Mr. Mcconnell contributing 1. 8 million of his own money on october 22. More than11 million Alison Grimes and spent 10 million more than her. The Washington Post frontpage has a piece by robert costa inut Mitch Mcconnell back september worrying about whether or not republicans could take control. His focus was on the Kansas Senate race. Mitch mcconnell called a longtime colleague, pat roberts from his living room. 62,000 in raised august and was airing no ads. Hands on aad his private polling memo predicting roberts would lose in kansas. An alarming possibility that could cost the gop the Senate Majority. Reported by many of the newspapers. Pat roberts getting a washington insider. He was able to win. Lets go on to the florida governors race this morning. Bid to crist lost his unseat rick scott. Denied the democrats in that state. Their plea for more voting time scott spent 13 million of his own money on this race. Racee wisconsin governors , scott walker won a second term and could be positioning himself or president ial bid in 2016. Also this morning come in new moved to, scott brown New Hampshire to challenge jeanne shaheen. He was unable to out her from that seat. She wins 52 to 48 . You can go to cspan. Org for more results. Host harry is a republican in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. What is your reaction to last nights results . Harry . Moving on. And charlotte, North Carolina. Democrats line. Caller good morning. What do you think of the results . Caller to be quite honest, im disappointed, but im not surprised. I dont even know where to begin. , there waske to Say Something always told me as a young man growing up as a black man, you had to be 10 times better, work 10 times harder. I am not a prejudice person. Wither, its a shame that all of what this president had to go through and deal with every president has their issues. Any other president would have been glorified it to come out of it the way he did. Once again, the American People are misinformed. We are getting bad information. Our homework ourselves to try to figure out whats going on and we vote against our own best interests. The ridiculous amounts of money in Politics Today is another sad state of affairs. Im terribly disappointed in how we as a people dont understand whats going on out here in the ramifications of it. The couple of your callers made great comments. The possible future of the Supreme Court. Gerrymandering. There are so many different issues that have to be discussed today. The thing on peoples minds is the economy. If you have the least Productive Congress in history, who have stood in the way of progress, but you expect different results by putting the same party in thate, its amazin

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