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DeSantis calls Republican losses close to an "extinction level event"

LBC's Simon Marks brings together Republican warnings and Hakeem Jeffries's affordability pledge in a post-midterm American Week roundup.

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'Trump lost a battle, but the war's not over' | Simon Marks' American Week

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4:00Trump attributes Republican losses to candidates' inability to draw on his personal support.
4:48Marks examines JD Vance's argument that the Iran war contributed to the defeat.
6:30DeSantis calls the results close to an "extinction level event" for Republicans in many areas.
8:00Bannon urges supporters to continue mobilising despite the losses.
9:04Jeffries says Democrats should deliver results for Americans, with affordability central to the discussion.
10:05The closing section examines AI stock losses and Mamdani's warning about an AI bubble.

Ron DeSantis offers a stark assessment of the Republican midterm losses in LBC's American Week: "This is close to an extinction level event for Republicans in many parts of the country."

Simon Marks's roundup adds the Florida governor's warning and Steve Bannon's response to the debate over Donald Trump's handling of defeat. LBC reports that Democrats have won control of both houses of Congress, and Marks presents the result as a major repudiation of the president.

Trump's explanation is different. Speaking at a White House construction site, he says: "Look, I mean, if I were on the ballot, we would have won." He then describes the problem as a failure to transfer his personal support to Republican candidates.

The segment moves from DeSantis's assessment to Bannon's War Room broadcast, where Bannon urges supporters to keep mobilising: "If you want to save your country, you're going to have to stand and fight." These are responses to the same losses, but neither treats the election as the end of the political contest.

Marks also turns to what Democrats intend to do with their majority. In an MS NOW excerpt, Hakeem Jeffries sets out his priority: "The American people don't want us to get even, they want us to get things done on their behalf." Affordability is the focus of that passage, before the programme closes by examining the AI stock sell-off and warnings about a bubble.

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