Michael Barbaro
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We've now had several days, Lisa, to sift through the data in the aftermath of this election.
And what we've discovered is just how meaningfully the victorious Democratic winners, especially the governors,
won over Trump voters, voters who voted for Trump just a year ago and made him president.
And just to be very specific, and here I'm going to crib from our colleague Nate Cohn, he found that Hispanic voters in New Jersey, where Mikey Sherrill is now governor-elect, were
That group of voters really swung from Trump to Sheryl.
Exit polls found that Sheryl won 18% of Trump's Hispanic support in New Jersey.
That's a pretty big number, wouldn't you say, Tyler?
Well, why did the president take, and this is for all of you, why did the president take his eye off of the economy?
It's not exactly news to him, based on his presidential election victory a year ago, that he won because of Americans' economic insecurities and their belief that he was going to make life more affordable.
It's one thing, of course, for Democrats to have won races in blue places, right?
Virginia, pretty blue, although a little bit less than perhaps New Jersey and New York.
But Lisa Lair, I noticed these two races that nobody thought all that much about in Georgia, statewide commission races, were
where Democrats ousted Republicans by like the largest margins in decades.