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Be immense. could i see joe manchin being the 52nd vote? sure. >> when you look at the polling thats come out in the last couple of days, you do see the gap closing with republicans and democrats. >> no question. >> it seems to imply that republicans have a little bit of momentum right now. >> yes. remember, and this has been true since judges existed until today, the republican base cares deeply about the federal judiciary. the appeals court but especially the supreme court. these fights animat...

Counties. >> right. the big question right now is can judge moore in the blue counties were waiting for votes narrow the gap somewhat, number one. and number two -- >> take a look at this. lets go back state wide-beause the gap has narrowed to 1,300 votes. look at how close it is. it is roy moore only very, very slightly ahead of the democratic doug jones. all of a sudden, staid wide 87% of the vote is in. for theic doug jones, 533,935. but doug jones the democratic after a few hours has once ag...

Now the question is can he hold it and get to finish line? this is stunning where we are right now if you look at this in the sense where we still have big baskets still out. jefferson county, this is a democratic strong hold. 27% of the votes still down. come down here to mobile, not even half of the vote county. >> with almost 9% of the population, i think thats the biggest gap right there. the biggest vote is in jefferson and maybe even more so mobile county. >> democratic area. if youre the ...

Bad sign. and everyone who supported him or tacitly supported him were complicit in that strategy. and it was what rick said, they wanted that 52nd vote. part of is fundamental decency. and that is what you heard a lot of tonight in alabama. >> and charles barkley sent a m message, is this the message we want to send in alabama? so he said send a message, essentially dont make us look stupid on the national stage. that was his message to a lot of vote, and i think a lot of them took his advice. ...

But in jefferson county its a comfortable lead for doug jones. and it will stay comfortable probably throughout the evening. >> as the numbers change and youre getting them more quickly than we are. >> well, you know, its up to 123 out of 173 precincts, one of those is provisional. so really were going to count here tonight 172 precincts. the vote total here is -- the difference is still hanging at 75,000 votes. >> 75,000 vote advantage for doug jones over roy moore. thats in jefferson county. >...

These two counties come in, how much does doug jones narrow the gap, and were going to be waiting for the final results here, here, and here. and montgomery, dont underestimate the impact this could have for jones. >> an impressive margin. less than half of the vote is in montgomery county. so the hope for the democrats still is very much out there. >> there are more than enough votes in these democratic areas. and the question is a, do those margins hold up? just because 60% of the votes in tha...

If the ultimate split between them grows or not. well wait on that. again, were still waiting up here. and if you look at the margin for doug jones the challenge is the final 16% comes in, crow keep that split which will get you again if youre looking at a 12,000 vote difference, you can hold your margin in jefferson, get your votes up there and i think were under 33% of the vote in a place where doug jones is running well ahead. can you get 8 or 10 vets here, and were still waiting -- i keep wa...

Donald trump, did the message from the senior republican senator help roy moore write in another republican? could make a difference in this close of a race. >> its only about 500 votes right now. lets talk about the outstanding vote because thats going to make all the difference right now. lets take a closer look. >> lets go north to south, if you will. anybody looking into this race knew this would be key key to the race. >> youve got to feature state wide-where we can see the outstanding vote...

Issue should be two different issues. the republicans are in trouble because they cant get together in a phone booth. moores got problems because, in my opinion, i think he is a sex predator. theres the issue with roy moore. the people of alabama have got to choose. i will tell you, i would rather have a pro-choice democrat sitting in the senate of the united states thats not a predator than a republican predator sitting there just because we want the 52nd vote. >> laura: lets talk about the lac...