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IrelandCBS LA calls the House while Senate suspense continues
Tom Wait's election-night report pairs the Democratic House projection with Annie Andrews's South Carolina victory speech and leads in Texas and Kansas.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 78,358 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (3,134).
Democrats to win majority control of the House of Representatives, CBS News projects
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- 0:13CBS projects Democrats will reach the majority threshold and win control of the House.
- 1:00James Talarico leads Ken Paxton in the partial Texas Senate count shown in this broadcast.
- 1:46CBS projects Annie Andrews will win South Carolina's Senate race.
- 2:22Andrews thanks staff and voters across party lines during her victory speech.
- 3:03Adam Hamilton leads in Kansas; Wait then shows a Senate balance with control still unresolved.
"The Democrats have hit that magic number of 218 for control of the U.S. House of Representatives," Tom Wait tells viewers from a virtual Capitol set.
The declaration comes near the start of CBS LA's election-night report, leaving most of the segment for a different question: whether Democratic gains would extend to the Senate. At this point in the broadcast, that chamber remains uncalled.
The upload drew about 78,000 views in its first day, roughly 25 times the channel's usual start for regular videos. The comments also became unusually busy, with household prices and whether a changed Congress would bring practical relief among the subjects viewers raised.
Wait moves through James Talarico's lead over Ken Paxton in Texas and Adam Hamilton's advantage over Roger Marshall in Kansas. These are election-night leads, not final results announced in this clip.
South Carolina supplies the report's victory scene. CBS projects Annie Andrews as the winner, then carries her thanks to campaign staff and voters across party lines. She singles out Republicans, independents and Democrats who took a chance on a pediatrician and mother of three, thanking them for believing South Carolina should come first.
A Democratic politician and educator who has served in the Texas House of Representatives since 2018. He is the U.S. senator-elect from Texas.
More on Wikipedia ›Texas’s attorney general since 2015 and a Republican politician and lawyer. He was the Republican nominee for the state’s U.S. Senate seat in 2026.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic politician and Methodist minister who is the U.S. senator-elect from Kansas. He leads the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in the Greater Kansas City area.
More on Wikipedia ›A Republican physician and former military officer who has served as a U.S. senator from Kansas since 2021. He previously represented Kansas’s 1st congressional district in the U.S. House.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic pediatrician and the U.S. senator-elect from South Carolina. She is the first woman elected to represent the state in the U.S. Senate.
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- Channel
- CBS LA
- Subscribers
- 1,170,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,030,398
- Channel views, pace per day
- 368,796 (on a normal day: 628,286)
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 79,254 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 76,963
The numbers
The House projection drew a much larger first-day audience than CBS LA's usual regular upload. Its comment section was also substantially busier.
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Which state does Annie Andrews thank in her victory speech?
Andrews thanks voters for believing that South Carolina should come first.