'A generational win' for Dems as blue wave sweeps midterms

Well, let's cross now live to Los Angeles, talk to our correspondent, Wassim Kornai, who is there for us. I mean, Wassim, these results, of course, still very much coming in, but I keep seeing the phrase blue tsunami or even blue nami. I mean, is that overstating it, do you think? It's not overstating it. You know, if the current House projections hold. The Democratic Party would have more seats in the House of Representatives than they won in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected. That is a generational win and just really it's impossible to overstate just how massive this change would be and how massive this would be a repudiation of Trump's policies. And I think that's the one thing to remember tonight. Yes, obviously, Democrats, there is a lot to celebrate about what... The results have been tonight, clearly there have been millions of Americans who have been offended or hurt or upset by Donald Trump's policies, whether it is economic policies, whether it is Widespread deportations, a reminder that Donald Trump during his presidential campaign said he would go primarily after criminal illegals or undocumented people. But only so far since January 2025, only 20% of the people deported from this country, of the approximately one million people deported from this country, are actually felons. So again, a lot of people who who were very upset about that, several Americans who ...who took offense at the ICE actions. Alex Petty, for example, who was shot and killed in Minnesota. Many of these things deeply offended Americans and shocked Americans. And so it's important to remember that, again, given the results, given the exit polls that we've been seeing, exit polls about the economy, about corruption, about favorability. Just earlier I was watching... Some of the returns here on a national news network showing that despite this massive win, Democrats have an unfavorability rating of 53%. So important to remember that even though this might seem like a massive blue wave and a massive embracing of Democratic policies, I would caution against that being the main takeaway. This is very much a repudiation of Trump's policies and a willingness to sort of walk back some of the policies of the past two years During this Donald Trump second term. And I suppose now I see my attention really turning to what comes next, both in the short term, how Donald Trump might respond, what that could mean over the next two years, and indeed what it'll mean running into the presidential election. So, of course, in two years' time, we'll be here talking about that. Yeah, absolutely. And it's hard to sort of determine the scope of what Democrats can do for the next two years, you know, especially because some of these Democrats who have won tonight and who are projected potentially to win, I'm thinking specifically about the Alaska Senate race like Mary Peltola, but even James Talarico, even Annie, sorry, I forget her last name, the Democratic senator elect in the state of South Carolina. Those are much more moderate and... There is, given their track record of their policies and their opinions, that there is the good chance that they might not actually toe the party line for every single vote in the Senate, for example. So there will likely need to be a lot of compromise, even within the Democratic Party. You have, again, more centrist, more progressive, like Abdullah Syed, who will now be entering Congress, the Senate, excuse me. So we'll be... Potentially difficult for Democrats to find that common ground to unite the party and to, again, potentially investigate some of Donald Trump's decisions, fill in those investigative committees, the Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, and potentially walk back some of the policies that have marked Donald Trump's first two years in his second term.