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Governor was speaking about. its not just the issues the democrats choose to focus on. they actually did a really good good job with candidate selection. they put the right candidates in the right district. they were appealing to their constitue constituency. when people question how there was a republican wave or how republicans -- im old enough to remember wr were doing well in california, thats because they put good candidates in there. it goes beyond party labels in a lot of these states and...

Immigration issues when he made comments about haiti where her parents are immigrants from. but this is also important. candidate selection. we talked all throughout the night about democrats going out, getting candidates that could win in districts that maybe traditionally they would not. this district has toggled back and forth, but this was considered to be reliably republican to some degree. ben mcadams has won before that is a top tier candidate who has already won countywide. 97% reporting...

>> well, the we -- im not sure what we -- >> im talking about democrats and im asking you from your perspective, does it look like democrats have this down for the midterms? >> they should, but -- things just keep happening. i mean, whether its elizabeth warren or other things and they the dont have a clear message. the one thing that they do have going for them was they did a lot of really good candidate selection for individual races. so in the swing seats, you see very good potential. just ca...

Could say, who are skeptical of voting for a congressional republican. just dont care to and probably werent going to show up in a midterm anyway. >> kevin, final thought to you. is there anything going on in ohio that you think is being underplayed or not highlighted or a trend that you think icritical here? >> i just think overall what drives people like me crazy who do campaigns for a living is when people say this such and such congressional district is a bellwether for whats going to happen...

John if you heard jonathans report there. you had camera issues. the point remains, if roy moore wants to recount this, wants to call for a recount, he has to pay for it himself. this is a pretty big hit for steve bannon and his wing of the republican party, correct? >> yeah. this is going to be over in alabama soon. the reverberations in washington and across the country will linger for quite a while. youve had this civil war going on in the republican party between this bannon populous, trump ...

Republicans could be an interesting coalition that could be a winning coalition for democrats across this nation. you know, i think the real story within the african-american community is really the black womens vote. and womens vote generally. jones was able to garner 57% of all female voters last night. 57%. and that was 16 points more than moore. and i -- you know, with that it meant that african-american women voted for jones by 98% while white women voted for him by 37%. look, i think that ...

It was a close race but the day you were the democrat when do you think the democrats in alabama were able to pull a trump in with i mean trump when he was elected he took traditionally democratic race turned republican and you got the democrats taking a deep south red state alabama and turning it democrat and they flipped it fundamentally from one alabama just thirteen months ago with twenty percent over hillary clinton so this is significant and the democrats havent won alabama in the senate s...

Accusations for roy moore, it comes down to one major issue enthat e and that is abortion in alabama. >> one of the reasons roy moore was so popular in the primaries to begin with because he is known in the state a household name for his evangelicalal activism on the bench and why he came popular in baerm and not surprising the abortion issue has loomed large over the entire cast. the fact that doug jones has not been able to pick off more voters from roy moore, given how much turmoil the moore ...

Looming tomorrow night. thanks for watching us. miss megan is next p.m. im bill oreilly reporting from l.a. remember the spin stops here and were definitely looking out for you. break being tonight the super tuesday of primary season six states holding elections today, five of them with senate primaries that could help determine the balance of power on capitol hill come november. both parties carefully watching the results tonight to see in particular if republican voters make the same misstep...

You had some conservative leaders. i think this is because as much as theres been a civil war within the republican party, an idealogical one, right now republicans see the senate majority on the horizon. they know mcconnell is part of that strategy, and they reluctantly in some quarters are getting lynned him because they want to get to the 51 in the senate and get that majority. >> one more question to you, robert costa, going down to the dwvs race. >> theyve done a good job of candidate selec...