Election day

of this here you're seeing is vote by mail.

If it's postmarked by Election Day, it can come in up to five days after Election Day in Mississippi.

And what's been happening with that vote by mail? Cologne, the Democrat, has been doing better than Hyde-Smith, the Democrat.

And so that advantage for Cologne, while extremely narrow, has ticked up a little bit from election night.

He's connected to both Democrats and Republicans, and he tries to analyze where we are at any given moment.

The last time we had him on the show, and I never changed throughout the election at all, even including up to election day, where I kept saying to everybody, I don't know.

In 24, I knew.

I knew that Donald Trump was going to win.

And I kept saying, I can make the case for a blue tsunami, a blue wave.

I can make the case that Republicans shocked the world.

Even up until Election Day, I was reading Mark's commentary and he laid out all the reasons why Democrats should win, but why Republicans were still in the game and could win.

And and then it became a little more apparent on Election Day.

Mark Halperin was on this radio program a number of times leading up to the election.

did not disagree at all with me, which was my position even up to and including Election Day, that I did not have a feel for how this election was going to play out, but I could make an argument, an intelligent argument, that any one of the scenarios from tsunami to wave to shock the world could happen, believed it, still believe it, had things been done differently.

One of the things Newt said on this program, we'll ask him about it later, was...

You know, he wanted a better explanation on the issue of Iran.

The Democrat Senate candidates in Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina got more early votes than their opponents got in total.

In other words, had those Democratic voters or had those Democrats not gotten a single vote on Election Day, they still would have won their races.

I want to run the numbers tonight with our chief data analyst, Harry Enten, who is often quoted by both parties.

Harry, that number is crazy.

The idea that so many people showed up before Election Day to vote for these candidates, that even if no one had showed up, they still would have won, is wild.

It's absolutely bonkers.

You know, you talked about the Senate, but how about the House? How about the House? The enthusiasm off the charts, it's historic.

To that end, the National Republican Senate Committee today sent a letter to state election officials telling them to preserve any affidavit or provisional ballots, laying the groundwork, it seems, to potentially challenge the outcome there.

Yet as close as that race is, some of the Democratic Senate victories were so decisive in Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas that the winning Democratic candidates had enough early votes to have won even if none of their voters had shown up on Election Day to vote, which is incredible.

More people voted early, absentee, and by mail for John Ossoff, Roy Cooper, and James Tallarico than the entire vote count of their Republican challengers.

It's the size and scope of that blowout that seems to have subdued the president, who said today he can work with Democrats.

But The point is we have a plan.

And the things that are going on now are really unsettling because it doesn't seem they have a plan for how to move forward.

It is incredible that more votes came in for those three Senate candidates for Democrats than all the votes that came in on Election Day for the Republican candidates.

It's astounding.

Mark Halperin was on this radio program a number of times leading up to the election.

did not disagree at all with me, which was my position even up to and including Election Day, that I did not have a feel for how this election was going to play out, but I could make an argument, an intelligent argument, that any one of the scenarios from tsunami to wave to shock the world could happen, believed it, still believe it, had things been done differently.

One of the things Newt said on this program, we'll ask him about it later, was...

You know, he wanted a better explanation on the issue of Iran.

And as you say, you've got money in the bank, says Andrew.

The sun will come up after election day.

Every election is the biggest catastrophe of all time and it's the end of the world.

That's what the parties want to make you think.

So, I mean, is that true?

See, I think we need to bring that kind of stuff back, though.

I reckon Election Day should be more of a nationwide celebration of our democracy.

That's why I don't support early voting.

Yes.

If you listen to our first post-Election Day show with our guests Heather Digby-Parton and Drift Glass, you know that I and they were frankly just blown away by what happened on Tuesday in the American voters' first formal response to Donald J. Trump's disastrous second term as president.

And I continue to be blown away today as more and more information becomes available.

And while all of us, I think, who pay very close attention to politics, we're all well aware of all of the encouraging signs leading into Election Day and the sheer... breath and scope of the sort of the pushback in the results against the horrors of the Trump administration has certainly continued to knock me back on my heels as it's come in from literally all corners of the nation.

It's still... difficult, at least for me, to kind of wrap my brain around all of this in truth and adequately share it with you, get it across to you.

Yes, Democrats have won back a majority in the U.S. Senate.

It was nearly $100 a share way back when.

It has more recently been trading for about $6 or $7 a share.

It ends this way.

The last Sunday before Election Day, Mr. Jeffries arranged for a symbolic final stop to a battleground district.

He went to Alabama, where Republicans had redrawn Representative Shomari Figure's district to favor their party after a Supreme Court decision weakened the Voting Rights Act.

Weakened? That's some lady-sewing-circle language.