Blue Tsunami: Winners, losers, and what's next
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Blue Tsunami: Winners, losers, and what's next

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 4, 202626 min
  • Politics

Americans have overwhelmingly brought about a blue tsunami. Several deep-red states have been flipped blue, including Kansas, Texas, Maine, Iowa and others. Meantime, President Trump has agreed to acknowledge the midterm election results and work with the Democrats. Host Maria Kestane follows along the races across the U.S. and breaks down the results so far with co-host Caryn Ceolin and Mitch Burke, managing editor and anchor for 680 NewsRadio Toronto. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us: Through email at...

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frequency podcast network, stories that matter, podcasts that resonate. Hey everyone, it's Maria Kastain. We're doing something a little different on the big story today. As the U.S. midterm election results roll in, we want to bring you a conversation as fresh and up to date as possible, still considering that podcasting is not a live broadcasting medium.

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I'm recording this right now in Toronto at just after 2.30 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday the 4th of November. So election day has officially wrapped in all states. Alaska and Hawaii just closed their polls not too long ago at 11 p.m. Eastern time. And throughout the night, we've been getting some pretty concrete projections as to who will make up Congress for the second half of President Trump's second term. And at this point, it's safe to say a blue tsunami has made waves.

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A handful of American networks have projected that the Democrats will take control of both the House of Representatives, which requires 218 seats for control, as well as the Senate, which requires 50. To say we saw this coming is true.

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