GOP braces for potential historic House losses as tight Virginia midterm races unfold

Let's bring in Tom Fitzgerald now, and Tom, as you know, the president's party typically doesn't do well midterms historically, but the president's final message to the voters was yesterday at the reflecting pool. Did he help or hurt? Well, I mean, the president acknowledged that himself during his speech down at the reflecting pool last night. He said, which is a fact, both Democratic and Republican presidents over the years have lost seats as they go into these midterm elections, but possibly not like this, all right? You know, you go back historically. 1958, the Republican Party, under the end of Eisenhower's term of president, they lost 50 seats in the House that year, okay? The next worst year? 1974, Gerald Ford had just become the Republican president after Watergate. They lose 48 seats in that race. Republicans do not get control of the House of Representatives until 1994 when they sweep in with Newt Gingrich. So they could be looking at a 1958-1974 scenario tonight, and that could generationally put control of the House out of reach for years. So that's what's on the line. For Republicans tonight, when you just look at what's going on in Virginia right now, you've got five Republicans trying to hold on to the Republican seats. One already, we know Morgan Griffin has won resoundingly tonight. The other four are in tight races and in tight races in places we traditionally haven't seen that president goes out yesterday. It was supposed to be his closing argument about the election. Most of that speech I was there. Wasn't about the midterm elections, it was about the reflecting pool, it was about statues, it was about beautifying Washington, D.C. All important issues, but not really getting to the heart of the matter about what the midterm elections were, what was on the line, and most importantly, Marina and Kenneth, what voters are saying they want addressed right now. Grocery prices, gas prices, the cost of living. You've got... For all intents and purposes, an election sign on every single gas station in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia right now, those are people's eyes are every day, and it was kind of glossed over in this. The president spoke about ending the war and prices coming down very quickly, but the heart of the matter, how they're going to do that, that's been out of reach for a lot of Republican candidates to be able to point to a way the Republicans are going to fix the economic situation where we're at now.