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The issues that drove voters' decisions in the midterms

Season 2026 Episode 225 | 4m 03s

For a deeper dive into the election data and why people voted the way they did, Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz spoke with Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report.

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