The Brian Lehrer Show

Annie Karni, congressional correspondent for The New York Times and co-author of Mad House: How Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby and a Man with Rats in his Walls Broke Congress (Random House, 2025), talks about the election results giving Democrats control of both houses of congress in 2027 and what to expect.

Photo: U.S. Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Ruth Igielnik, New York Times polling editor, talks about the voting trends in the election results.

Photo: People vote at a polling location on Election Day during the midterm elections in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP via Getty Images)

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Joe Hong, WNYC and Gothamist investigative data reporter, talks about the disparity in parent teacher association funding in New York City public schools, which he says reflects broader racial disparities in the school system.
Photo: A parent crosses the street to drop off their child at P.S. 179 Kensington on December 07, 2020 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)

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Cori Marquis, deputy state director for the New York Working Families Party, shares the Working Families take on the election results in New York and nationally.

Photo: Ron Kim, Democratic challenger for Saratoga Mayor, comments on local GOP efforts to add their candidates under the Working Families Party. (Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

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Listeners who are from (or have connections to) red states that flipped to blue in this year's midterms explain why they or those they know voted for Democrats this time around.
Photo: Supporters watch election results during a midterm election night watch party for Texas Democratic Senate candidate, State Rep. James Talarico at the Long Center on November 3, 2026 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell via Getty Images)

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