now? roy moore. same question? it s a lot tighter than i expected, even a week ago, chris. i would expect that roy moore squeezes this one out. it s a lot tighter than anyone would have expected, considering some of the exit polling we re getting with african-american turnout being a little higher than we anticipated. it is anybody s bargain. it s a jump ball right now. how high is it? up to 25%? back to john on this. the black vote, is the black vote going to be 25%, which apparently is the threshold to win this thing for jones? it looks to me like the turnout is going to be a little what makes what s turning at the last minute?
did disagree slightly rewide receiver know what white evangelical christians are going to be. to me it s what are the more moderate, middle of the road republican women doing, right? let be clear, this is a republican state. republican as all heck. he only wins if republicans either sit on their hands or some switch over. you re saying it s going to come down doug jones only wins if there s a strange development? if there s increased turnout among minorities, which the early exit polling says they re overindexing. and still, even with that over 25%? right now it s over 25%, which is better than it typically is. but you still need republican women to cross over. 25% of the electorate tonight will be african-american. that s a good sign. more than 25% of the electorate is reform reform, rightxe)ju$e early exits show it more, that s a good sign for democrats. one quick thing, only 49% plurality, that think the allegations is true is a bad
about because they haven t been listened to forever. the president was able to tap into that anger and show people there was finally someone in this building behind me actually working for them, that is with most important. harris: does the president look at the situation as he tightened the gap between doug jones and roy moore? when you dig into some of the exit polling, roy moore was in trouble with women and we knew that going into yesterday and as people were coming out, the deficit for him was with women. i think donald trump did a lot better amongst women then people like mitt romney did for example. the presidents harris: i am talking about roy moore. i understand that. the president was able to narrow that gap. he was able to narrow the gap, he gave that person credibility, he gave that person arise in the polls. that is the power of what this president is able to do. you don t have to look very far to figure out how smart he is,
there s that music again. it s an election on nbc news at msnbc. welcome back to hardball. polls in alabama will be çí8 cl in less than 20 minutes. for the latest exit polling in the race let s go to our expert who s always0 kornacki. chris, look, the word we ve been using in the race, talking about the horse race here, was polarizing. how polarized the electorate was, how polarized poll tibs are. we have a polarized exit poll. some of the highlight questions, the question of values, a basic car judgment about the candidates, does roy moore share your values? you see here 46% in this exit poll saying yes, 49% saying no. if you turn the question around, awez th0 same thing about his opponent, doug jones, what do you see? not that different. 49% saying jones shares their values, 48% no. so almost an event split for both candidates. a very, very slight difference in jones favor. a couple ofryfw.her things we c show you here. this is the issue, one of the big issues the moore folks
analyst brit hume. so, brit, what are the implications either way? let s say roy moore wins, what does that mean for the republicans in washington? well, tucker, my assessment of that is very simply this. on an ordinary night, on a special election in alabama, we would probably be calling this at 8:00 if we had exit polling for the republican. but, as you point out. this is no ordinary night. my way of looking at it is that there are two missiles headed toward the republicans in the u.s. senate and those who may run for the job. and the only question is which one is going to hit them. either in the case of a moore loss. they lose a seat in the senate. which narrowly divided as the senate is, that s a big deal. however, if roy moore wins they have a political albatross around their neck or at least someone that the democrats going forward into next year s midterm elections will try to hang