Democrats overperform, halting GOP’s predicted red wave — Transcript

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1. 0:00while much is still up in the air one
2. 0:01thing is clear Democrats outperformed
3. 0:04expectations and Republicans did not see
4. 0:06the Red Wave they predicted let's bring
5. 0:08in our ABC News contributors former
6. 0:10Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley of
7. 0:12New York and former Republican
8. 0:13congresswoman Barbara Comstock of
9. 0:15Virginia for more thank you both for
10. 0:17being here Barbara there is still a
11. 0:19chance Republicans could flip both
12. 0:21Chambers but they have to be
13. 0:22disappointed with these results so far
14. 0:25what went wrong
15. 0:27of a certainly well you know the only
16. 0:28Red Wave we really have is uh you know
17. 0:31maybe the ketchup on the walls at
18. 0:33Mar-A-Lago
19. 0:34um you know this was a case of instead
20. 0:38of having candidates I think that we're
21. 0:40a lot of serious candidates that we
22. 0:42should have had maybe you know people
23. 0:43like a Chris sununu running for Senator
24. 0:45Governor Ducey in Arizona
25. 0:48um you know maybe you know Pat Toomey
26. 0:50staying on in Pennsylvania and winning
27. 0:52that seat Donald Trump ran these people
28. 0:54out of the party and it became a Donald
29. 0:57Trump primary and we had these
30. 0:59candidates who weren't you know you know
31. 1:02you kind of had these Todd aiken-like
32. 1:04candidates that where we lost seats
33. 1:06before in the past and and these
34. 1:08candidates who their only qualification
35. 1:10in many cases are the most notable
36. 1:12qualification was fealty to Donald Trump
37. 1:15and people looked around and said
38. 1:17there's a lot of problems and in the
39. 1:18clock when we had the best climate that
40. 1:20Republicans could ever had a bad economy
41. 1:22you know inflation crime all these
42. 1:25issues sets that favored Republicans we
43. 1:28put up people that were unpalatable and
44. 1:30Democrats said no yeah I don't think so
45. 1:33and so really you have to look at
46. 1:35Mar-A-Lago and Donald Trump and he is
47. 1:37the person who uh set back this wave and
48. 1:41him being front and center particularly
49. 1:43at the end in places like Pennsylvania
50. 1:45and some of these uh swing States had a
51. 1:48very bad effect and I I think you know
52. 1:51he holds the main responsibility but
53. 1:52also for Republicans who have given him
54. 1:55the keys to the car to drive it over the
55. 1:57cliff
56. 1:57now Joe exit polls show that inflation
57. 2:00was the top issue for voters these
58. 2:03elections no surprise there polls have
59. 2:04also showed that voters tend to trust
60. 2:06Republicans more on that issue so why
61. 2:08then are we seeing Democrats
62. 2:09outperforming expectations well I think
63. 2:12because all politics is local and each
64. 2:16district is different not one message
65. 2:19pertains to each district and it's about
66. 2:22personalities that as Barbara knows you
67. 2:25know there's so many factors that go
68. 2:26into elections like this uh hand-to-hand
69. 2:28combat in these congressional districts
70. 2:31and that's why I think you're seeing
71. 2:32this how come it also shows that voters
72. 2:34were concerned about other issues as
73. 2:36well that was a big issue but they were
74. 2:38worried about a woman tried to choose
75. 2:40their word about democracy itself they
76. 2:44have other things that they're concerned
77. 2:45about and I think that also came through
78. 2:47in the selection when you see especially
79. 2:49in Pennsylvania you just heard that the
80. 2:52the issue of abortion was the number one
81. 2:54issue when people going to vote
82. 2:55yesterday and and Barbara I'm really
83. 2:57short on time but very quickly sources
84. 3:00close to former president Trump tell us
85. 3:01he was fuming as the results came in
86. 3:03last night there's a lot of fanfare now
87. 3:05over Rhonda santis governor of Florida
88. 3:07do you think Donald Trump's time with
89. 3:11power over the Republican party is over
90. 3:14well I certainly have thought it should
91. 3:16be over for a long time now I think it
92. 3:18just depends on if Republicans are sick
93. 3:20of losing obviously Ron DeSantis
94. 3:22overperformed I think there are other
95. 3:25mainstream Republican candidates that
96. 3:27would do much better normal one
97. 3:30Republicans who are normal one last
98. 3:32night dewine Kemp other you know you
99. 3:36know normal candidates won the trump
100. 3:38candidates had a bad night Joe very
101. 3:41quick final thoughts yeah I think it was
102. 3:43a really bad night for Donald Trump as a
103. 3:45kid from Queens is that that doesn't
104. 3:47make me upset quite frankly and it was a
105. 3:49good knife for Joe Biden I think Biden
106. 3:51actually had a really really bolstering
107. 3:53night despite his numbers heading into
108. 3:55the now presidential cycle he had a
109. 3:58really good night all right Joe Crowley
110. 3:59Barbara Comstock thank you both
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