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Trump turned the midterm election into a big show for network news

Bob Schieffer, the elder statesman of CBS News, has been part of the network's midterm election coverage since 1970. But he was not getting into the prediction business on Tuesday night.

"I've never gone into one of these so unsure of what is going to happen," he said as he prepared some notes in the green room at the CBS Broadcast Center before joining the "CBS This Morning" team to help analyze the results.

Network political teams, many of whom had

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