Okay, so it is Friday, November 18th at about 11 a.m. and what are we going to talk about this time?

Well, when we start off with the midterms.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay, so everyone was predicting a Republican red wave and that meant probable control

of the House and likely control the Senate.

And of course, that would have been historically expected.

The incumbent president's party usually loses seats in the midterms.

So Trump lost 40 seats in 2018.

Obama lost 63 House seats in 2010 and Bush and Clinton both lost the House during their midterms.

Right.

But that red wave nearly everybody was expecting didn't happen.

And on November 12th, Catherine Cortez-Masdo narrowly kept her Senate seat in Nevada.

And that secured 50 Democratic seats in the Senate.

And there is one remaining race. That's the December runoff election in Georgia

between the incumbent Democratic Senator Rafael Warnock and his Republican challenger,

Herschel Walker.

Right.

And Republicans did win the House, but just barely.

They secured the 218th seat on November 16th.

It was not a red wave.

No.

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