Andrews's historic South Carolina win opens Bloomberg's victory montage
The short compilation moves from newly flipped Senate seats to pointed messages about billionaires, household costs and Donald Trump.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 586,390 views a day, 103 times a normal first day on this channel (5,677).
Democrats Celebrate as Blue Wave Sweeps US
"Tonight, Iowa, we outvoted the billionaires." Josh Turek's declaration is one of the sharpest lines in Bloomberg Television's compilation of Democratic victory speeches, which brings election-night celebrations across the country into a single Short.
"Democrats Celebrate as Blue Wave Sweeps US" reached about 427,000 views in 13 hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts. It captures the winners' own words rather than a studio panel's interpretation of the results.
Annie Andrews opens the clip in Charleston: "I think we just made some history." Her South Carolina victory makes her the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state. The edit then cuts to James Talarico in Austin celebrating his Texas win, followed by Turek in Des Moines.
The speeches offer different versions of the Democrats' message. Georgia's Jon Ossoff delivers a direct rebuke of Trump. In Overland Park, Kansas senator-elect Adam Hamilton focuses on war, tariffs and their financial cost to families. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro calls for a new chapter that restores the public's voice.
Bloomberg also drew unusually large audiences for separate Shorts about the election's implications for Trump and falling shares in Elon Musk's companies. This compilation stays with the victory stages, ending in Washington with Hakeem Jeffries declaring, "America is back!"
Iowa’s Democratic U.S. senator-elect, a state representative since 2023 and a former wheelchair basketball player.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic pediatrician and South Carolina’s U.S. senator-elect. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from the state.
More on Wikipedia ›Texas’s Democratic U.S. senator-elect, an educator who has served in the Texas House of Representatives since 2018.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democrat who has represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate since 2021. He is the youngest serving U.S. senator.
More on Wikipedia ›Kansas’s Democratic U.S. senator-elect and a Methodist minister. He leads the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in the Greater Kansas City area.
More on Wikipedia ›Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor since 2023. A lawyer, he previously served as the state’s attorney general.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Bloomberg Television
- Subscribers
- 3,330,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,860,361
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,948,388 (on a normal day: 1,353,247)
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 427,084 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 586,390
The numbers
The victory-speech compilation drew far more views than Bloomberg Television's usual Short. Other election clips also attracted unusually large audiences.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which city does Jon Ossoff deliver his victory speech in the compilation?
The clip places Ossoff's Georgia victory speech in Atlanta.


