Midterm results: Democrats take both chambers, flip at least 7 Senate seats

All right, so a big night for Democrats winning control of both chambers of Congress. And they managed to flip at least seven seats in the U.S. Senate, and they will have the largest majority in the House in almost 20 years, two decades. Let's get right to Robert Moses. He is here now with the very latest. Robert, good morning. Dan and Rosanna, good morning to you. Seven seats and counting because we're still tabulating some of the results from around the country. Though one thing is already clear, Democrats have emphatically retaken control of the House and the Senate, dealing a major blow to the president in his final two years in office. So let's begin with two of our local House seats that Democrats flipped. First. Let's go to New York's 17th district, covering much of the lower Hudson Valley, where two-term Republican Congressman Mike Lawler has conceded to Democrat Kate Conley, even though there are still votes left to count after yesterday's ballot scanner outage in Westchester. Lawler says no matter what, the math simply will not work in his favor. Conley rejoiced with her supporters. We took back the House on this. Tonight we showed that this fight, this wasn't a partisan fight. This was a patriotic fight. I'm a big believer in humble in victory, gracious in defeat. And when you lose, you have to accept it with grace and humility. In New Jersey's 7th District, Democrat Rebecca Bennett easily defeated the incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Kane Jr. Tonight is about something bigger than any one of us. It's about all of us coming together to demand change. These local Democratic victories are part of what some have called the blue tsunami across the country. And Texas Democrat James Tallarico flipped the Senate seat by comfortably defeating the Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Let's go to Michigan now, where the Democrat, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, beat former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers. El-Sayed becomes the first Muslim senator in American history. And it is the end of an era in Maine. Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has served for nearly three decades, lost to the Democrat Troy Jackson. In South Carolina, Darlene Graham could not hang on to the seat long held by her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham. She lost to Democrat Annie Andrews. And in Kansas, Adam Hamilton will become the state's first Democratic senator since 1932 after he beat the Republican incumbent Senator Roger Marshall. To say this was a good night for Democrats would be an understatement. We just took back Texas. We just showed that a politics of division is no match for a politics of love. My name is Abdulrahman Mohamed Al Sayed, and I am so proud and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from the great state of Michigan. And not surprisingly, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker easily won re-election. President Donald Trump must now contend with a Congress that Democrats control. Leading into the midterms, he had beseeched his supporters to pretend that he was on the ballot. He changed his message a bit in a phone interview with Fox News early this morning. I don't like to consider it a defeat for me. I was on the ballot. If you're on the ballot, it's different than if you're not on the ballot. But nevertheless, you know, I feel badly for a lot of very good Republicans. And so now two New Yorkers, Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, are in position to lead both the Senate and House, respectively. Already, President Trump has threatened to deploy his veto power, though in an interview with The New York Times, he says that he will accept last night's results. Well, that's good, and he's also said that he's going to try to work with everybody across the aisle. Yeah, he said he can work something out, so we'll see how big the majority is and what they can get accomplished.