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Results are worse for republicans than people thought. >> its true what a difference a week makes. as we were watching the results come in, it was obvious that the democrats were doing quite well in the house. we called the house for the democrats relatively early on in the evening last tuesday, but the senate picture looked different. it looked as though the president had really gotten a big bump from all of his extensive campaigning in the red states where you had either open seats or democrat...

Every other republican understood full well what this night was likely going to be for the house which is very big for the democrats. in fairness, where he did put his efforts he seems to have you know, gotten some fruit from those efforts. so far, republicans that he campaigned for are doing quite well. some of them weve already called like in indiana, we called it for mike braun, he helped him, tennessee for marsha blackburn. city helped had he ever. he also went there not just so he can claim...

Florida, it is so tight. the republican challenger rick scott is still ahead beating right now the democratic incumbent bill nelson. very close. less than 60,000 votes between them. indiana. this could be a heart break for the democrats because the republican challenger mike braun is ahead and has been all night long. about two-thirds of the vote in. joe donnelly is down significantly there. west virginia, a very different story. same in that theyre both states where theyre trump country. joe ma...

Get every vote counted is only right. >> did you vote for stacey? >> 100%. >> reporter: thank you very much. some voters on the kemp side may have a different opinion about this. and i hope to get a chance to talk to them in the next hour. >> well be watching for that. thank you. as we wait on the results out of georgia, we also. want to talk about the record number of women heading to congress in january. nearly 100 women are projected to have won seats in the house. that number could go up. sh...

Seeing in the senate race. a little unexpected resiliency for the republican candidates. four republican targets, for congressional districts, democrats thought they had a chance and will remain in republican hands, still waiting on the 26 district. this is carlos curbelo. this is another clinton district. clinton won this district you can see by double-digits, in fact, 16 points. this was the second most pro-clinton republican seat in the 2016 election, a 16-point hillary clinton victory in thi...

Estimate, steve, which is 216, that is not enough to make nancy pelosi speaker that would leave kevin mccarthy a speaker. >> thats right. >> were waiting for poll closings at 9:00, but we have a new call right now. this is the west virginia senate race. nbc news can project that democrat joe manchin will hold on to his seat in west virginia. this was obviously a state that trump won by huge double-digits in 2016. that made republicans very excited about the prospect of knocking off joe manchin. ...

Welcome back. democrats recapturing control of the house tonight. they also flipped several governors mansions. j.b. pritsker notably campaigned with president obama. and state attorney general bill lost by double digits. governor, thanks for taking time with us at this late hour of the night. you had some pick-ups. you have to be happy.

Obamacare. >> so far a tiny number. lets see what happens. we have our first key race alert. >> thats right, wolf. in the state of indiana, this is a state we will be looking at closely all night. right now it is extremely early, but the republican challenger mike braun is ahead by about 10 percentage points of the incumbent democrat joe donnelly. it is one of the important states that will determine the balance of power. donnelly is one of five democratic senators who is up for reelection in a ...

Results in seconds. >> in seconds, and, wolf, this will be the earliest test of how democrats are going to do tonight and whether control of the house is in the democrats grasp. we will get important clues when the first results come in from kentucky. democrat amy manage gragt has a chance of defeating republican incumbent andy barr who rode the trump wave to a big victory two years ago. in the fight for the senate, democrats on defensive in indiana. joe donnelly has embraced key aspects of the ...

That they were extremely interested in this midterm election. and craig, were talking double-digits in terms of a bump in enthusiasm among african-americans, latinos, young people. this is a big time, and 40% of people who gave us that poll, they said that this was a vote in disapproval of the president and 32% said their vote today would be a vote in approval of the president and his agenda hoping that it continues to patpass through. >> love to see it. democracy in action. lets get to georgia ...