FOX6 political reporter Jason Calvi analyzes the latest race results

Andrew, of course, something we're going to stay on top of all day are these election results. Thanks so much. And speaking of those election results, join now in studio with our political reporter, Jason Calvey. Jason, we were just hearing from Andrew about this change of power now in state legislature. Democrats have a trifecta. What does that really mean? I mean, trifecta is massive. I mean, it is going to change so much about Wisconsin when it comes to laws, when it comes to policies, when it comes to taxes. All of those things are probably going to be changing. When you think about the most controversial issues, let's think about guns. There's going to be definitely movement right away for something like a red flag law. which would be able to go to a judge and have guns taken away from somebody that might be deemed a danger to themselves or to the community. Red flag laws on guns. On abortion, we're going to see that 20-week abortion ban. That's probably going to be taken away as well by this Democratic trifecta, taking the state Senate, the state Assembly, and keeping the governor's office. Things like marijuana, that's going to be coming to Wisconsin as well, because you heard that from David Crowley that that's one way that they're going to pay for some of their proposals. Like. Universal pre-K. So think about how expensive it is to provide child care. Now, Governor-elect David Crowley is saying, hey, universal pre-K, that means four-year-olds, maybe even three-year-olds will get paid for by the government schooling. That's going to cost a lot of money. And again, we really saw this blue sweep. I think you maybe even called it a tsunami. Not just here in Wisconsin. We saw it around the nation last night. It was a terrible, no good, horrible night for Republicans across the entire country. People took out their vote. Maybe they're upset with the president. They're upset with gas prices. They're upset with utilities. They're upset with the war in Iran. And they voted en masse across the entire country, Wisconsin. Let's look at some of those states that flipped. Yeah. I mean, right now, Seven Senate seats have flipped, but it's like, you know, it's possible Yeah. I mean, right now, that others could flip as well as those numbers are all counted up. Let's look at a place like Kansas. I mean, this just shows you the blue tsunami that took place last night. Kansas hasn't elected a Democratic senator for over 90 years. Yeah. Another state, Texas, I mean, it's incredible to think, I mean, I don't think anybody thought that Texas was ever going to flip if you were to ask them last year, and it flipped last night for the first time in more than 30 years. And then a state that you covered very well, South Carolina, also flipped last night for the first time in many, many years. And elected their first female senator ever yesterday in South Carolina. There's just history all over the map here for these election results. Yeah, and really bad news for Republicans. I know talking to Republicans, there's a lot of blame. Same game going on this morning. A lot of soul searching about what's going on. But definitely the voters sent a message that they're very upset with Washington, D.C., kicking out Republicans from the statehouse in Wisconsin, but also the Capitol. I mean, it is incredible to see. Democrats are going to have a majority of the state Senate, of the state Senate, of the state assembly, of the United States Senate, of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives majority. It's going to be more than 30 seats. So Democrats are not going to need to look at Republicans to get laws passed in Washington, D.C. What is incredible about this also, think about the United States Supreme Court. Think about if you're Justice Clarence Thomas, who's in his upper 70s. Think about if you're Justice Samuel Alito, who's also in his 70s. They only have two months under Republican control of the White House and the United States Senate to be able to retire and get a replacement. Are they going to retire right now, this week? Or are they going to let the possibility of having a Democratic Senate is not going to approve a President Trump nominee appointee to the Supreme Court? This is a wild times for politics across the entire country and here in Battleground, Wisconsin. If you're the GOP, what do you start doing today? Looking ahead, obviously, a presidential election in two years. You don't want it to go the way it did last night. I think all of these states, we never would have thought Kansas, Texas, South Carolina were going to be swing states. We think, yeah, Wisconsin is a swing state. Right. But to think that these states are swinging, it changes the map, Haley, and Republicans are going to be doing a lot of soul-searching about the future direction of the party. President Trump has definitely dominated Republican politics since he got into the race for president in 2015. Last night may have startled Republicans when they lost so many seats in the House. I mean, it's a 218 to get a majority in Congress. Democrats right now. Are 30 above that, and it's going to get even higher? I mean, it is so wild. I think it's a wake-up call for Republicans right now. A lot of soul-searching about what the future direction of the party needs to look like moving forward. And again, seeing that blue wave here as well in Wisconsin, I want to break down some of the data with you. Can you take us kind of county by county, some of the results from last night? I think just to give a little example of what we're looking at, if we zoom in on, let's just go to Racine County, for example. We have a graphic here. This is the Racine County election results. You can see David Crowley winning 51% of Racine County. This is a county that. Usually goes 51 percent for the Republicans. They did that for Scott Walker. They did that for Tim Michaels going 51, 52 percent in Racine. But this flipped last night. That just shows you again, if we if we go to another county, go to Kenosha County, another one that Republicans have been really increasing their scores in the general elections. And look at this. David Crowley winning 53 percent of Kenosha County. Normally Republicans get 51 or 50 percent of Kenosha County place. They've been ramping up the score. If we zoom in on. Milwaukee County, this is really fascinating, Haley, because 76% of Milwaukee County, that's the home county of the governor-elect, 76%, that is a big rise from where Democrats were in Milwaukee County just four years ago when they went 71% for Tony Evers. But what's interesting, Haley, look at that number there. The total votes in Milwaukee County, actually down from 2018. Last night, 360,000 people voted in Milwaukee County. Back in 2018, 393,000. So I don't know where the 40-plus thousand voters went, but they're not voting even when their county executive's on the ballot. As a political reporter, have you ever covered something like this? Because we now have a governor-elect that at one point actually ended his gubernatorial campaign. Yeah, absolutely wild. I mean, we have seen so much in this election cycle. Think about the main United States Senate seat where you had Rand Paul get out of the race, even though he won the nomination in the primary. Think about what happened in Michigan where you had Haley Stevens, the Democrat who lost the primary at the very last minute. In a minute, the Democratic... Loser for the primary, backs the Republican nominee. I mean, it was incredibly, incredible changes here and just wild election all around the entire country. And you saw David Crowley, he got out of the race. He said he didn't have a path forward. And he backed Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor. Sarah Rodriguez's campaign had some major financial scandals and reporting and had duplicate entries in her reporting to the state. She dropped out. David Crowley, who a week earlier had endorsed Sarah Rodriguez, all of a sudden says, I'm back in. Gets the endorsement of Governor Tony Evers. And... What a comeback for this guy who got out of the race now as the governor-elect of Wisconsin. Speaking of surprises, I think we all expected that to be a race that didn't get called until very late into the evening, maybe early in the morning. Did it surprise you at all how early Tom Tiffany kind of conceded? Yeah, we were in the nine. What do we know at exactly the time? I think it was the nine o'clock hour. Everything's kind of a blur right now. It was before I went to bed. I assumed I'd have to wake up for the results. Yeah, yeah. So normally it's a very close. This was not a close. We have the full screen of the election results for the entire state of Wisconsin. I mean, it was not close. We're used to elections, at least at the presidential level, being decided by less than one percentage point, about 20,000 votes separating winners from losers in Battleground, Wisconsin, for president. We saw Governor Tony Evers win in 2018 by 30,000. He increased that score to win by 93,000 in 2022. And now we're seeing David Crowley take that and go even further with his victory last night in Battleground, Wisconsin. So I don't know what else to say other than this was a blue tsunami across the entire country. Republicans are in shock. And a lot of blame going on right now for them. What does the rest of your day look like? Is there some data you're kind of really excited to dig into? You and I had a chat yesterday morning on Wake Up where we talked about Port Washington. Yeah. And the crazy thing about Port Washington was it's a swing city in a swing state. It went. That was the five votes, right? Governor Tony Evers, back in 2022, they decided between Evers and Michaels, five votes separated winners from losers of that city of Port Washington. So I want to go in and look and see what the numbers look like there, some of the other swing districts as well. But across the entire country, when we look at Waukesha County, Milwaukee County, Kenosha. We're seeing all over the entire state of Wisconsin, we're seeing that Republicans really just underperformed voters across the state and across the country said no to Republicans, even in places like the place you used to cover, South Carolina. That is a shocking switch here. for Republicans in Kansas the first time in 90 years that they've had a Democratic senator. I know, since 1932. change is certainly happening right now across the country with these election results. Jason, we appreciate you joining us. I know you had a late night yesterday, so we appreciate you being back with us today. And again,