Political strategists react to Democrats flipping House, Senate
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[0:00] Democrats are taking a victory lap. CBS
[0:02] News projects a historic flip of the
[0:04] House and the Senate and not by a
[0:06] little.
[0:07] >> Joining us now to discuss political
[0:09] strategists Haime Moore and Mark Bednar.
[0:12] Welcome to you both. Uh glad you're here
[0:14] after such a late night. Mark, let's
[0:17] start with you. You know, there are a
[0:19] lot of theories floating around about
[0:21] what exactly it was that went wrong for
[0:24] Republicans. Was it the uh war with
[0:26] Iran? Was it the way that they talked
[0:28] about the economy? What's your take?
[0:32] >> Uh well, yeah. I mean, how much time do
[0:34] you got? U but the fact that um I think
[0:37] the biggest thing that we saw kind of
[0:40] going on throughout the course of the
[0:42] the summer going into the fall, even
[0:44] with the midterm convention, is that
[0:45] there was a lot of talk from Republicans
[0:47] about what they had previously done,
[0:49] especially in one big beautiful bill, uh
[0:51] the year and a half prior, but there was
[0:53] never a mention about what do they plan
[0:55] to do? should they keep their
[0:56] majorities. So just saying that I'm
[0:58] going to be a warm body to ensure that a
[1:01] socialist does not take this seat in
[1:02] Congress.
[1:03] >> That works. You can do that if you are
[1:05] the opposition party and say you're
[1:07] running against N