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CBS Mornings pairs Republican arguments over defeat with a Democratic debate about what to do with power.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 213,972 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (13,477).
Republicans reckon with stunning midterm losses as Democrats gear up to take Congress
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- 1:01Cruz criticizes tariffs and the Iran war; DeSantis questions culture-war messaging as Republicans explain their losses.
- 1:45Trump says Republicans would have won if he had been on the ballot.
- 1:59Democrats set out priorities on costs and corruption while debating how much attention investigations should receive.
- 3:20O'Keefe examines unresolved Senate races in Mississippi and Alaska and the policy implications of Democratic control.
- 5:22O'Grady explains Wednesday's stock-market rally, including technology-sector movements and energy-price shifts.
CBS Mornings moves beyond the Republican postmortem to a question for the incoming Democratic majority: how much of its time should go to investigating Donald Trump's administration?
Kansas senator-elect Adam Hamilton offers a clear preference. "I do not want to spend the next two years in trials," he says. His intervention comes as Chuck Schumer puts reducing costs and ending corruption at the top of Democrats' agenda, and newly elected members discuss the scale of investigations.
That tension gives the report something more than another round of election reactions. Winning control of Congress settles who will hold the majority, but not how its members will divide their attention between legislation and scrutiny.
Nancy Cordes first lays out the Republican explanations for defeat. Ted Cruz criticizes tariffs and the Iran war, saying, "Tariffs have made everything too expensive." Ron DeSantis takes aim at culture-war messaging, while JD Vance emphasizes the war. Trump, inspecting construction at the White House ballroom, insists Republicans would have won had he been on the ballot.
The segment drew about 162,000 views in its first 14 hours, already far beyond CBS Mornings' usual first-day audience for regular videos.
Ed O'Keefe then examines the unresolved Senate contests in Mississippi and Alaska. Kelly O'Grady closes by bringing the election back to viewers' finances, explaining Wednesday's Wall Street rally, technology stocks and energy-price movements.
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- November 5, 2026
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