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Mississippi's race is the last senate contest to be decided in the midterm. come january the senate balance of power will look like this -- 53 republicans, 47 democrats. giving the gop a net gain of two seats in the senate. meantime, the democratic majority in the next house continues to grow. the party picked up another seat with torres small beating republican yvette herrell, in the second congressal district. that makes a net gain of 35 seats for the democrats. can they reach 40? just one house race left to call in california's district. d.j. cox has pulled ahead of republican congressman d...

Tech. that's what they're hiring. >> the ever lugolution of the a industry. cindy hyde-smith will hold off her opponent, projecting to defeat mike espy in the runoff. the election centered largely on hyde-smith's comments evoking the dark history of the state's racism and slavery. she acknowledged it was indeed a difficult campaign. >> you can get brutalized, beat up. that's part of this business. we can go forward, and we're not looking back. >> hyde-smith will now finish out the final two years of thad cochran's term. he retired earlier this year. she'll have to run again in 2020 for a ful...

That race has been uncalled by our network and this could lead to a 40 seat net gain for democrats which was unimaginable on election night. my forecast on election night did have that result within the margin of error so i actually did okay. >> the heck with california. you did fine. >> there's something about harry. >> there is. 400 votes kprat them. i mean, every vote counts, we learned that in some every election cycle. >> i will say based on the votes remaining i expect that this margin is going to rise. we still have to count the votes but i would say cox is a favorite over valadeo. this...

>> there are still a few house races that we have that cnn has not called. here adams in the utah sport district, and -- >> look how close that is. >> it should be said love was conceding this race and i think she wanted thanksgiving to think it over a little bit. and there's one more in mexico that we have not called. here the democrat is running ahead of the republican. this is a fairly wide margin, so i would say small is favored over harrell, and they have not called that race yet. we are looking at 39 or 40 seats that democrats had a net gain, and if you get to 40 that's clearly a wave. >...

Net gain for democrats on the house side sits at 38 seats. on election night, we came up here and said if the democrats can break 23, they get back the house. at the end of election night, we were saying it looks like it will be high 20s, low 30s. they'll get the house.