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Town. >> or something. something. >> might have gotten the title wrong. we are going with it right now. this is a wild story to say the least. the doctor, what say you? >> this is what i live for. this is the best. you are down to the very end. just got a bunch of boats dumped in, allegheny county boats. conor lamb put his margin back up to about where he has seen it, but as you guys were talking about before, washington county, which is partly suburban pittsburgh on the northern side, on the ea...

There is something to be said for the republicans who are running to say, man, weve got to figure out what we are going to run, we can no longer run on pelosi if democrats run on localized issues in these particular congressional districts as we get into the election. >> ed: you were making those good points when i so rudely interrupted you. i want to come back to you, guy. what is your sense? >> you said there was competing spin from the two parties, on this one, the democrats have a better spi...

Suburban-its. >> i think republicans did a decent job of getting vote out compared to the other races that weve watched. but democratic intensity particularly in those inner suburbs of pittsburgh was just slightly higher. and that made the difference in this race. if you actually break it down, conor lamb lost the election day vote by maybe a handful of votes, one thanks to absentees. but the danger for republicans is that they are not going to be able to run this kind of field program everywher...

Votes in this republic. it renders green meaningless. we already saw. if that continues, it shuts off the wanting to do that. lets say go nice, im not conceding things go away. a lot of experts didnt think it would go, that is where you can take it back in the absentees. >> reporter: a city/director of washington county for the pennsylvania being elections. thank you for being with us. lets start out by confirming

Well get word in 45 minutes to an hour or so on washington county. absentee ballots about 1,200 there. margin is 579 district-wide right now. what are you expecting to hear from them? >> what weve seen in other places, other counties, democrats, not only in this election but other races have overperformed in absentees about five points compared to the election day vote. if that holds, lamb could conceivably add to lead a small amount there. but not talking about a swing out of washington county ...

Thats how many they are running through the machines right now. so its a republican district and saccone, to have a chance to still win this election, hes got to cut severely into that 579. what he is up against is this. he didnt do -- he won it but by republican standards youre supposed to do better in washington county. he got 53%. you want to be eating into that margin that conor lamb has in the district, youre going to need more than 53% of these absentee ballots. the problem what is weve se...

Necessarily one fluke in an area that is reliably democratic -- >> kacie, i have to stop you. steve kornacki has something in his mouth and hes playing with a hard paw. >> im sorry, and i wouldnt do it. we have the absentee ballot count from allegheny county. here are the totals. conor lamb gets 1,930 votes. these are the absentees in allegheny. saccone gets 1,178. so thats the difference right there, 752. that is the difference. a margin of 752. so thats what just happened. when we were standin...

Pittsburgh, the entire county, a lot of these are not even in the district, they only had 400 military ballots. special election much lower turnout, only parts of counties. that may only number in the dozens. while military ballots tend to favor republican candidates, there may only be dozens, maybe a couple score of military ballots that are out there and that takes you to the end. you got absentees, hard to see saccone making a dent there, provisions, easy to see lamb climbing, and whatever yo...

Lamb. thats why hes sitting with 847 votes districtwide. he gets that courtesy of the absentees in allegheny. what is left? i think we still have two precincts sitting in westmoreland and then its the absentees. we have absentees in republican areas. the margin is 847. lamb is now down with his base in allegheny. how many absentee ballots are left in the district? if 847 is the margin, were sitting here looking at 1,800 ballots. these were the ballots that were requested. if you keep in mind the...

>> no, were going to need the absentees and thats the other thing -- that should be up there -- were not getting all the absentees tonight, so thats the other thing. we may not actually get to a -- boy, im just realizing this now, what a sad thing -- we may not get to a clear verdict tonight unless they do get these absentees counted, but the last time we checked, we are not going to get absentee ballots that are counted in these two counties tonight. lets see if i have a note that tells me othe...