In a stunning reversal of expectations, many Republican candidates underperformed their Democratic opponents in several key congressional and statewide races in the November 8 midterm elections. Jim Kessler, vice president for policy at Third Way, and John Fortier, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discuss with host Carol Castiel the primary factors which minimized losses for the Democrats, from former President Trump’s role in endorsing flawed candidates to the overturning of abortions rights by the US Supreme Court.