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Dana Bash highlights moderates behind Democrats' new House majority

CNN's House projection leads into questions about the incoming caucus, its investigative powers and competing explanations for Republican losses.

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Why this story? One of CNN's most watched videos since yesterday, with 1,731,091 views.

Dems flip the House, CNN projects

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0:00CNN projects Democratic control of the House, putting Hakeem Jeffries on a path to the speakership.
0:59Manu Raju describes the subpoena powers and oversight investigations available to an incoming Democratic majority.
3:00Dana Bash highlights moderate Democrats who won Republican-leaning districts and will help shape the majority.
4:14Kaitlan Collins reports Trump's veto message and White House resistance to incoming congressional oversight.
6:48Van Jones interprets the result as a rejection of Trumpism.
7:58Scott Jennings emphasizes inflation, living costs and gas prices as explanations for Republican losses.

Democrats' projected House majority includes candidates who won Republican-leaning districts, Dana Bash notes in CNN's election-night coverage. That matters for what comes after the celebrations: the party will have to govern with members who represent different political constituencies.

Jake Tapper opens the segment with CNN's projection that Democrats will control the House. Reporting from Hakeem Jeffries' headquarters amid cheering supporters, Manu Raju says the result puts Jeffries on a path to the speakership and gives Democrats the prospect of subpoena powers and oversight investigations.

Bash's emphasis on the incoming majority's moderates adds a question beyond who holds the gavel: how will that caucus use its power? Kaitlan Collins reports that Donald Trump is already calling himself "Mr. Veto" and describes White House resistance to congressional oversight.

At the neighboring panel desk, Van Jones and Scott Jennings offer different readings of the result. Jones calls it a repudiation of Trumpism. Jennings puts the immediate explanation closer to household budgets: "The most immediate issue is cost of living and gas prices."

The segment drew about 1.7 million views since yesterday. Its discussion moves beyond CNN's House call to the choices facing the new majority: pursuing accountability, responding to affordability concerns and holding together members elected from very different districts.

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