Control of Congress Still Up for Grabs
Bloomberg00:00 What is still in the balance and how long will it take before we know the real outcome? They'll have at least 52 seats in January with victories in places like West Virginia, Montana and Ohio, which will give them the power to move any number of incoming President Trump's nominees for the executive cabinet agencies, as well as for the judiciary, where they had a lot of success during Trump's first term remaking the federal bench. And we could take a number of days before we know whether, in fact, Republicans have won complete control of Washington next year. And it was pretty clear by the time I went to bed at 10:00 that Donald Trump was going to win, At least you could see in the betting markets that, you know, buying Kamala Harris only cost you $0.07 and you win a dollar. Republicans have been very confident that they would actually flip the Senate majority because Democrats had the narrowest of majorities and were defending seats in states that Trump had won previously.