VIDEO: Weekly Standard’s Kristol Calls 2014 GOP Gains Significant | Eastern North Carolina Now

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High-quality candidates cited as major factor in historic Republican win

    RALEIGH — Republican margins in the 2014 elections were "significant," suggesting they would have won many of the same victories in a presidential election year as they did during this midterm race. That's the analysis Weekly Standard editor William Kristol offered to about 150 people Monday at a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon.

    Kristol projects Republicans will end up gaining nine U.S. Senate seats and as many as 14 U.S. House seats, giving the GOP its largest margin in the House in 68 years. Republicans also picked up three governor's mansions and now control 69 of 99 legislative chambers across the country.

    In the video clip below, Kristol assesses the quality of candidates who helped Republicans retake the U.S. Senate.



    Click here to watch the full 59:04 event.