The 2022 election season is winding to a close. What can Democrats and Republicans learn from their candidates’ successes and failures in this midterm cycle — and can any of those lessons be applied to 2024?

This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, political correspondents Susan Davis & Danielle Kurtzleben, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

This episode was produced and edited by Elena Moore & Casey Morell. Fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.

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