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What should be an easy republican win district. >> hold that thought. i want to talk about nancy pelosi when we next get the chance. steve kornacki, we have a note from washington county. >> yes. just filling in the blanks here on the absentees. heres two things we can tell you. remember, the lions share of the vote that has now left two counties absentee vote -- were looking at washington doi count there is 1195 sitting in absentees. in westmoreland county, were looking at 1800 absentee. rememb...

Vote in washington. thats the lebs day. if this same thing happens, thats an 11-point difference. if at that happened, saccone will be sitting down there at 42 in the absentee ballot. he could lose significant ground to lamb. down here in green theres only 200 we wont know until tomorrow. this is all building of is there going to be a roo count? we think a cant can request one if he says for it. i think that might be an issue. but right now the gap between these candidates sits at 0.26. this law...

Against president obama? because we shouldnt be in this situation. republicans should have won this by 2% or 3%, looks like they probably wont win because they werent willing to put in the work. >> one of the characteristics of this district thats a little unique from some of the other ones weve looked at in these special leaks, we have the storyline were familiar with, there was a trump surge in the district in 2016, or a trump backlash, georgia 06. the backlash, the surge, the storylines, trum...

>> so right now heres where we stand. 579, thats the margin districtwide. a couple things are left. theres one more rinkwrinkle to to this. we got westmoreland in, allegheny is in, thats all done, were waiting on the absentees in washington. based on what weve seen in w t westmore land a westmoreland, i think lamb gets more than saccone, maybe even significantly more. the idea of saccone eating into that 579 in the biggest chunk of real estate left on the map here, washington, i really dont see ...

Ballots. trying to eat into the lead that conor lamb has, rick saccone. melanie, thanks for joining us. i know youre in middle of lot. do you have sense of when this count will be complete? >> were anticipating 2:30, 3:00. >> so 1 1/2 hours or so from now. 1,195 absentees? >> yes, sir. >> that was the number of ballots received, not sent out right? >> correct. that -- >> great. do you have any indication right now how theyre going? >> i have not, separate room from the counting. my process is do...

Correspondent steve kornacki. steve, again, youve been watching these numbers. seems like we have an answer. >> we have an apparent winner in the pennsylvania special election for the house district in the 18th. conor lamb, the democrat, nbc news is declaring the apparent winner over rick saccone the republican. now, i can take you through what that wording means. obviously we have been telling you all night since about 11:00 last night we were waiting on washington county, on the absentee vote ...

Result? >> i wish i knew the time line because i signed off the air a couple hours ago in this same studio, and we believed at that moment that these outstanding numbers would be in momentarily, we had been led to believe that. we are still waiting. let me take you through what exactly it is were waiting on. again, the margin right now for lamb in this thing, it is 579 votes. that is his lead. the big chunk of outstanding votes are absentee ballots that were cast here in washington county. so th...

>> one of the characteristics of this district, its unique from the other ones weve looked at in special lek hundreds. -- elections. we have a trump surge or a trump backlash. youve got these two. does the back lash hold, does the surge hold? heres a district that trump won by 20, but romney also won this by 20. and this has been in this century, 2000, basically, this has been that kind of double-digit republican district. now in this special election, 2018, whatever happens with these absentees...

Issues that would help saccone. thats it. youre going to have scores, dozens or scores of military votes. low hunches dreds of provisiona. saccone needs a big number out of washington county. i think hes got to do better than he did in the election day vote. hes got to improve on that 53%. you can get a big number, multiply it into that 1200 of outstanding ballots. maybe he could start to eat into it. the math is stacked against him, but you can understand from his standpoint why hes not giving ...

This district, its unique from the other ones weve looked at in special lek hundreds. we ha -- elections. we have a trump surge or a trump backlash. youve got these two. does the back lash hold, does the surge hold? heres a district that trump won by 20, but romney also won this by 20. and this has been in this century, 2000, basically, this has been that kind of double-digit republican district. now in this special election, 2018, whatever happens with these absentees, its 20-point swing. >> it...