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Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Glad you're with us.

Glad we made it to the end of another week.

And it's been a very eventful week. And it's a busy Friday as well. So if you don't already subscribe to the Three Martini Lunch podcast, we encourage you to do that on your podcast platform over on YouTube and have your friends do it as well. Jim, one of the things, as we've said a few times now since Election day, that's always fun, especially when your

side wins, is watching the other side ring their hands, try to figure out what went wrong,

and most importantly, blame each other for what went wrong. And so, you know, what Kamala Harris

did wrong, did Biden stay in too long, you know, the Senate races. We'll talk more about one of those in just a moment.

But on the House side, the Democrats really thought they had a good chance to win back the majority.

And since they were also confident of winning the presidency, all they were missing was the Senate for their trifecta.

Instead, Republicans have the trifecta.

And Democrats, even on the House

side, are pointing fingers. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader, I assume will still be the

Democratic leader, but he addressed the media for the first time since the Democrats fell short.

But here's how Hakeem Jeffries started his briefing today. The elections are over and the American people have spoken.

The former president, Donald Trump, will be the next president of the United States of America.

And House Democrats have fallen a few seats short of reclaiming the majority.

And so, of course, there are all sorts of recriminations and blame to be pointed around,

but Axios has found a number of unnamed, of course, Democrats, progressives, who say it's

Hakeem Jeffries' fault.

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