the candidate, rick saccone. telling them, hey, by the way, there s an election on tuesday, that that information shared by president trump, bringing the spot really helped. wolf blitzer? let s go over to john king and see where these votes are outstanding. i want to also point out, 96% of the vote is in. the libertarian candidate, drew miller, he s got 1,280 votes. he s got more votes than the difference right now. conor lamb, the democrat, still ahead of rick saccone, the republican, by only 918 votes. we don t have exit polling, so we can t say who they would have voted for the drew miller were on the ballot. but this is welcome to american politics, 2018, and for the foreseeable future, third party candidates. increasingly, especially in close races, you re going to see back to them. you can talk to hillary clinton about jill stein, that s up to you. but 918 lead. 49.9 to 49.5. that matters in the sense that we don t know exactly where it s coming from, but it s taking away. so
the people that i interviewed across the vast district. it took me an hour to get to a coal miners rally the other day for lamb. this is a massive district. i think that what it tells the trump administration is you have to tell better stories about your candidate. saccone did not have the best message about what he has done and what he accomplished in life. you have to have less of a race about nancy pelosi. that did not work in this race. you have to talk more about his accomplishments. i think if saccone loses, that is the trump administration has to remember going forward into the mid terms. it is all about pittsburgh. right? you made that very clear. center of the universe. do some exit polling for us today. we will follow you on twitter.
i mean, 15-25 times the death rate, is unacceptable. that is one of the things we have seen in past elections and polls in a national election. even people who oppose, who want some sort of gun regulation or more gun control, it is not one of the top issues that they are voting on. that has been the case for decades i would say. it is not one of the top issues, but we are changing that. in 2017, and in the election, the house of delegates, the election in virginia, we did some exit polling and did some real polling after that election to see what was the number one issue driving people to the polls. and i think, i have to say, i think it was 40% of the people put gun violence at the top or
out his own party about hypocrisy when it comes to the deficit. republicans want and need to hold on to both houses in 2018. the president tweeting this morning there need to be more republicans in washington at this point. salena, is this the type of government they can run on for the midterms? everything that you ve mentioned, we re all drinking out of a fire hose every day on news. but i think last night, i think what we re missing about last night is something that we ve missed in the discussion after the election in 2016 because everyone was so sort of focused on the shock that president trump won. one of the things that, in the exit polling and interviews that i ve done with people is they wanted to see what happened exactly this morning. i think it was this morning when they finally signed the deal and the president signed off on it, to see more people working across the aisle on issues that