'Largest House majority' in decades, says election expert Boyd Wagner on US midterm elections

The midterm elections in the United States. Let's head straight over to Philadelphia, where elections expert and former Euronews head of polling, Boyd Wagner, is standing by for us. Good morning, Boyd. You've been following the whole thing throughout the night. What's the latest? What can you tell us? We'll start with the House, where the AP now says that the Democrats have control of the lower body of Congress. They needed a net gain of just three seats. They're at 220 now. Well, let's talk about the Senate then. This was probably the biggest surprise, right? Yeah, this was gonna be the dogfight and where Republicans thought that they could continue to keep control. The Democrats needed four seats, three to get to 50 and then plus one to bypass any advance, the swing vote there that would happen from the vice president. That number got blown away, though. We are now looking at 55, maybe 56 seats for the Democrats in this upcoming term in the Senate. So what is striking here, talking about the Senate, at the beginning of the cycle, nobody had the Senate on the map because most races took place in deeply red states. Tell us about the inroads that Democrats made here. Well, they did run a few very good candidates including in Telerico and Texas where they flipped deep red Texas. They ran a pastor, conservative leaning pastor as a Democratic candidate in Kansas, which they flipped to Republican for the first time since 1932, nearly 100 years. We're now have our eyeballs looking at the state of Mississippi, which is even deeper red than those other two states. And this, per the latest numbers that we saw, It's now a 29 vote, 29 people, 29 voters lead for the Democrats right now. That one's gonna go on much longer, but you're looking at many, many deep red states that have flipped. And there, of course, is Maine, not a deep red state, because Maine votes Democrat in every presidential election, almost. But Susan Collins, the long-term Republican senator, lost. Tell us about this briefly. Yeah, Susan Collins has always been able to overcome polling deficiencies, we'll say, three terms in the Senate. This time, it did not come out that way. She finally got taken down by the Democrats in this one. Another very close race. She did exceed expectations with polling. However, she will be unseated this time around.