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Midterms 2022: What does it all mean in the long run?

A joint session of Congress meets to count the Electoral College vote from the 2008 presidential election the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol  Jan. 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A joint session of Congress meets to count the Electoral College vote from the 2008 presidential election the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol Jan. 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving and Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer join Here & Now hosts Peter O’Dowd and Robin Young to discuss how the midterm elections Tuesday figure into the broader sweep of American politics.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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