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Hi, and welcome to the your good news podcast with me your host Katherine Getty. Each Thursday, I'll give you the scoop on the good news coming out of Washington, and how you can get involved with this thing called democracy.
Welcome back to another episode of The your good news podcast. I record this from a sunny and cold Washington DC on the Wednesday after elections and I may be a tad sleep deprived after staying up late to watch election results. This episode, as I said is recorded on Wednesday, November 9, so I'm gonna give the lay of the land, which will likely won't shift majorly in less than 24 hours. But I will in the weeks to come provide even more context on what happened in the midterm elections in the United States. being really honest, this wasn't quite the map I expected we wake up to given recent polling and the history of a President's first term, which I'll talk on a little bit more later. So today, we have a special episode and election recap episode. And I am so excited to give you a little bit more insights on what's happening in Washington. Overall, the 2022 elections represented a divided country with a number of issues rising to the top, from inflation to abortion, to safety and security voters across the country headed to the ballot box over the last couple of weeks in early voting or via mail or in person in high numbers. And like I referenced midterm elections are often a referendum on the President's party. However, last night's results paint a very different picture of the congressional landscape. And while it's still likely that the Republicans will pick up a majority in the House, it is expected to be much smaller than once anticipated, possibly less than 10 seat majority. And for reference, the current House Democratic majority has a less than 10. A seat majority as well. So we kind of flip, it seems more so than we've seen in the past voters split tickets at higher levels, meaning someone voted for a Democrat candidate as the governor or maybe Republican as the senator, and a House member, TBD party. It's a newer phenomena. And I think it shows the importance of candidates. Candidates matter what they're talking about, and how they talk about it and what their value system is really shine through in this election. The house no matter what will have a very similar feel to the last couple years, what would really shift is dependent on the Senate. And as of right now as of recording this. It is basically anyone's game. If it becomes a Republican controlled House, and a dem controlled Senate. It will take some Herculean efforts to get pieces of legislation across the line, not saying it's not possible, saying it's going to be a lot harder, they're gonna have to work from the middle. If it's a Republican controlled House, and a Republican controlled Senate, it's going to be really interesting to see what they can cobble together, because they're going to have razor thin margins, but they're also going to have these new members that maybe are a little more conservative than the rest of the conference, depending on kind of where they sit. And so what are they going to actually be able to get across the line and Oh, lest we forget President Biden as a Democrat, so what would he actually even sign or agree to? If the House and Senate were both Republican controlled and sent pieces that maybe were a little bombastic over towards his desk? When it comes to the control of the Senate? A lot of these races remain too close to call. Those kinds of races that are outstanding remain. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, these three races had always kind of been the top either pick up opportunities or defensive opportunities and it was really interesting to see kind of how
All they how these races really showed up. In Arizona, there is a governor's race as well as these federal races. And it's kind of an interesting dynamic. I only bring up the state race because I think it adds a little color to what's happening for those federal candidates. Senator Mark Kelly remains ahead of his challenger Blake masters, but ballot in typically really Republican leaning areas remain on counted. So this race is going to drag out for a few more days in Georgia. incumbent senator Raphael, Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker remain in a statistical basic dead heat and then Georgia you have to win 50 plus one to avoid a runoff. It is not looking like that 50 plus one is going to be met by either candidate. And so it's going to be likely Oh, December runoff, which has becoming kind of the norm in Georgia. Georgia is a little bit more purple, I would say than it had been viewed in the past. And the last kind of Senate race. It's outstanding is Nevada. So incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is 25,000 votes down to challenger Adam Laxalt. ballots, though that are in Clark County, Washington County, which are really kind of democratic strongholds haven't been counted yet. So is this race going to tighten up even further, that's going to be remain remains to be seen. I think these tight races across the country will also add a wrinkle into leadership elections, it was expected that House and Senate Republicans would hold their elections next week. And Senate Democrats and House Democrats would be in the first week of December. That timing for House and Senate Republicans I think is going to now be a little bit up in the air. There are rumblings as of this morning that the House Republicans would postpone their leadership elections because they may not have a clear view of how many seats they have won by. It's gonna be so interesting to see how those leadership elections play out. And then also, oh, by the way, they need to actually fund the government as well as some other Indivior packages, the National Defense Authorization Act. There's an FDA user fee agreement, which we've talked about in a previous episode, the funding and the FDA user fee agreements expiring December 16. NDAA has also have a end of year deadline. So Congress is also going to have to govern while dealing with a shifting majority. And it will prove to be a very interesting 100 and 18th Congress, which will start in January of 2023. That is all I have for today. That's the quick and dirty update of what's happening in Washington. I hope you have enjoyed this week's episode. It was so much fun to put together. If you haven't already, please subscribe so weekly, you're gonna have an episode of The your good news podcast, you'll get to know what's happening in Washington as well as a deep dive on some key issues or things you may not have heard about. If you have a chance to leave a review, share with someone you know share with someone you don't know via Instagram sharing this little podcast, The Little Engine That Could mean so much to me. Reach out to me on Instagram, my handles at Katherine Getty. Tune in next week for another episode of The your good news podcast where I will dive in even further on the control of Congress. Hopefully by then we will have some clear views of what is that going to look like in the 118 Congress. Thanks again for joining. See you next week.
