ExclusiveElection Night for the State Legislature

And welcome back to the Nation to Science. It's election night. I'm here with Roman Bamakov, reporter with the Epoch Times and host of the show, Facts Matter. So Roman, of course, a lot of the focus tonight is on the presidential race, but tell us why you're looking at these states specifically that are about to pop up on screen. Yeah, that's right, Tiffany. I mean, both yourself, Steve Lance, all your illustrious guests over at that table in the other room, and obviously everybody at home as well, is fixated on who's going to be in the White House, who's going to be in control of the Senate, who's going to be in control of the House moving forward. And rightfully so. I mean, those are obviously very important conversations. However, however, behind me here is a slightly different way to look at the 2024 election from a local perspective. Let me just show you what I mean. Each one of these buildings is a state capitol. So this right here is the state legislature of the state of Nevada. Joe Lombardo, he is the governor of Nevada. He's a Republican. And currently, moving into today, basically November 4th, leading into November 5th, the state legislature of Nevada was majority Republican. So they had majority in the state legislature and a Republican governor. That was the situation. However, today, November 5th, there's a potential that Nevada becomes a super majority in the state legislature. And that really matters. That really does matter because the difference will make it such that the Republicans, they can override a veto from the governor if the veto were to come. And sometimes they can override a filibuster, meaning in practical terms that if the Republicans can get together on one agenda and one policy implementation that they want to see in the state, they can ram it through without any compromise to the Democrats because they can override any and all compromise. And so Nevada is having the potential that they're moving in that direction. And November 5th, there are enough seats open that that could actually take place. You bring up a really interesting point here because often with the elections, you hear people saying, oh, I don't know if my vote counts, if I should even vote, does it even matter? But what you're just laying out here, it sounds like, you know, on that local level, what could really impact your daily life could come down to just a handful of votes if one party or the other gets that super majority. So you laid out the Republican side here. I'm seeing five other state capitals. Are they all Republican? That's an excellent question. They're not here. The next state that we have here is Colorado. The governor, Jared Polis, Democrat, Democrat majority, but they have the exact opposite situation. In this race, they might become a super majority Democrat in the state legislature. So it's not, you know, it's not an exclusive phenomenon to Republicans. It's across the board. For instance, the next state here is Iowa. Kim Reynolds, the Republican governor, same situation there. They might be able to flip in this election. Next slide here is Mississippi. Governor Tate Reeves. Now, this is a really exemplary case. I've interviewed Governor Tate Reeves before, and he has a very, very pro-life agenda, a very pro-life agenda. And so right now, Mississippi already has a Republican majority. But if they were able to cross that threshold into a super majority, well, it's not beyond the realm of reason that if him and the other Republicans are able to become cohesive on the issue, they could go as far as they want to in terms of an abortion ban, as an example. That's just a hypothetical, but they could implement it if they get a super majority in the state legislature. Just an example of how important this actually all is. So next up is South Carolina. Henry McMaster, the Republican governor, same situation, a majority with the potential to become a super majority. And then lastly, the great state of Colorado, Ned LeMond, the governor there. I don't know why that happened. Ned LeMond, the governor there, same thing that might happen there as well. And one really interesting thing that I want to highlight here is that you have six states behind me where this might happen. They might join the super majority club, but already throughout the nation, there are 27 states where that's the case. 27 states where one party holds essentially full control of the state legislature and they can do anything they want because they have a super majority. And so that's the situation as it currently stands. And in terms of whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, well, I mean, I guess the viewers can decide, right? I mean, to your point, your vote matters and a very fascinating segment that you just laid out with you popping up in the back there. Steve, we'll toss it back to you at the desk.