Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media.

I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.

We are recording this on November 11th, six days after Election Day.

What we know is that Republicans will control the White

House and the U.S. Senate. The leadership of the House of Representatives is still being tallied,

so we'll keep you posted. We also know that reactions continue to swirl and percolate,

and I'm sure at this point, you've heard plenty of theories about who or what is to blame.

You know, at the end of the day, the economy, the economy, the economy, inflation. It affects everyone's lives.

You're paying double for food. Too many Americans just don't believe that the system works for them, and they're not wrong.

Well-known on-air personalities are asking what role gender and race played, including our own ABC News Live Prime anchor, Lindsay Davis.

One thing that stands out, a less diverse electorate, when you think about even just at large with the world of the 193 UN

member nations only 13 have a woman who leads them black women are often the

last of the table when it comes to even pay disparity in this country getting

67 cents on the dollar when it comes to to white men I think that that is kind of

the elephant in the room

that we're not talking about

because we're not just talking about having a woman.

We're talking about having a woman of color.

And I think that that's something

that we cannot underestimate.

The reality is all of these can be true

and still not be the actual answer. The mistake we keep making is treating

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