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This is deeply personal. for president trump. he loves to campaign. he loves to be at those rallies. i can remember back when i covered him on the campaign trail, and just seeing him, thats when hes in his element. but youre totally right. ive spoken with several republican sources all week, ron, who tell me that they view the alabama race as an anomaly. and actually, if were going to play it forward a little bit, the key race to watch at least according to one senior republican aide that i spok...

Cant do that because its going to be another roy moore is that fair? >> thats not fair. alabama is unique, special elections in and of themselves are unique. you cant extrapolate anything from them thats going to be a bellwether in 2018. only one candidate on the ballot. so many circumstances that go into each special elections. candidates do matter. do you need good candidates. we need to let the voters make that decision. the voters dont love washington coming in. >> laura: mcconnell. >> we le...

Jeff flakes seat vote no. cant do that because its going to be another roy moore is that fair? >> thats not fair. alabama is unique, special elections in and of themselves are unique. you cant extrapolate anything from them thats going to be a bellwether in 2018. only one candidate on the ballot. so many circumstances that go into each special elections. candidates do matter. do you need good candidates. we need to let the voters make that decision. the voters dont love washington coming in. >> ...

United states country. this is not who we are as a country and we cant allow this person to serve. i hope the alabama voters will shut it down. >> cory booker of new jersey. nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> watching the total result come in, were at 55% of the vote in. this is too close to call according to nbc news estimation. with 55% of the vote in, roy moore leads 52-47%. i want to take you back to tell d -- talladega county. we had almost complete results and that...

Suburbs outside of dc. those are the same characteristics of the voters we are talking about. that could have implications in 2016. >> did you accepts watching this dynamically in the last week or two that this was going gradually to jones? >> yeah, look, we didnt see mass defections from republican leaders, we saw the president of the united states decide to get involved. but we did see shelby. i thought he was a good bellwether, his refusal to make that endorsement. thats what i was thinking o...

>> did you accepts watching this dynamically in the last week or two that this was going gradually to jones? >> yeah, look, we didnt see mass defections from republican leaders, we saw the president of the united states decide to get involved. but we did see shelby. i thought he was a good bellwether, his refusal to make that endorsement. thats what i was thinking of when i saw the turnout figures in this part of the state. when i saw the turnout figures that speaks to a republican base. its nec...

Tuscaloosa. >> dont forget mobile. >> doug jones is only in play if african-american turnout is off the charts. some polls show it at 30% of the electorate. that would be a major achievement. if its close to 30, you win, if it falls under 30, you lose? >> i think 30% is promising. you look at the places where doug needs to do well, and thats exactly in the african-american communities. madison county is one of the first counties. thats huntsville, that will report. whats interesting about madiso...

Microcosm of the demographics of the state of alabama with a white population of about 65%. and an african-american population of about 32%. if african-americans turn out in large number in talladega county, it could be a bellwether of their turnout across the state that bodes very well for the doug jones campaign. sean, back to you. sean sean by the way, as we bring in our panel here, joining us now with reaction is we have american conservative union chairman matt schlapp. salem nationally syn...

I want us to put up one screen we showed a moment ago. nbc highlighted talladega as a bellwether. watching the result in talladega seemed to show you what the statewide result will be. with 96% of the vote in talladega doug jones 50%, roy moore 50%. this looks tighter than a tick. talladega county agrees. cory booker jones us next. ♪

A lot of people say it will hinge on turnout. are there enough democrats to elect him today? >> yes, there are i believe the democratic base of alabama which is very, very large, will turn out today and i do believe that doug jones will be elected. pete: mike, it does hinge on turnout. you understand the political land escape here well. you support roy moore but whats your bellwether today? >> i think its going to be literally getting out the vote. republicans going to get out in strong numbers....