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election night.

Look at what the results mean going forward.

>> There are wave elections and there are wave elections.

And it just seems like this is about as big a one as any of us have experienced in the last well, in this century, let's say Ana, when you look at this election and specifically what happened here in Wisconsin, what stands out?

>> I think there are kind of two questions that, as we kind of look more into the results and talk more to voters, we'll get to parse a little bit more.

But essentially, was this an election for Democrats or was this a repudiation of Donald Trump?

And so I think Democrats also kind of need to figure that out for themselves, because Democrats here, you know, took the held the governorship, took the legislature.

They're going to govern for this pretty diverse state that is historically and still a purple state.

And so figuring out kind of exactly what they are being sent to Madison to do, I think is going to be really important if Democrats want to avoid sort of past patterns of getting in power for about five minutes and then losing it all again.

>> Zac, what about you?

>> I think that the extra cushion that the Democrats got in the legislature is the key thing here.

We were talking in past podcasts about what happens if it's 5049 in the Assembly and the fact that Democrats get to 53 seats.

That means they've got a few people that they can lose.

And every time you have one of these waves, some people get into office who maybe didn't think they were going to get there, but then they think, I want to be here for a while.

So instead of thinking about what can we pass while we have power, they start thinking about, what do I have to do to get reelected?

So having that extra cushion in the assembly in 18 to 15 majority in the Senate makes a big difference when it comes to them starting to strategize how aggressive and how bold can we be when you don't have to worry about getting every single vote, every single time?

>> Rich, how about you?

>> It was just astonishing to see the margins.

Not in not just in Wisconsin, but nationwide.

And I think Zac and Anya have great points.

And I would agree.

I mean, Dems can think of this as a mandate that it was their policies that people wanted and they could theoretically, with a trifecta in Wisconsin, could just do every wish list thing that they wanted as fast as possible.

Lord knows, we saw something like that on the Republican side back in 2011, when a lot of bills moved very quickly.

So.

But I also talked to state senator who was reelected, Jeff Smith here in western Wisconsin, and he said he's been urging Democrats not to seek retribution.

He said, we've got busy, you know, a a big plate of things that we need to do.

We owe that to people.

We can't be playing games.

But I would imagine there's others within the caucuses in both chambers that wouldn't mind just giving the Republicans a taste of their own medicine.

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