sitting office holder who would be jeff sessions in the senate, chris christie the governor for another year of the state of new jersey. it s difficult when you look at allies, people he could hit the ground working with. and not only that, if you re thinking of things that we ve never seen before, the talk both from mr. trump and the people around him, that he may undermine the sitting republican speaker of the house, paul ryan, and try to look for someone else and throw ryan out. michael, on that point, i was just about to ask you about that. are there historical allegories to that sort of thing? there has been so much drama over the years, have to believe something like that has happened before, but i don t know about it. has it happened before? i can t think of a case where a new president has come in and said, we ve got a speaker of my own party, even though i may not like him, i m going to work with him. that s usually what you hear. i can t think of a case where a new ppt
space inside the javits convention center, named for the late great republican senator, there in the middle of the united states is the lectern where we will hear eventually, one would assume, hear from hillary clinton. the crowd came in very jazzed up, high energy. we saw the overflow room, and then as the first projections came in, the mood started to sour and then darken. and there have been sporadic pictures of people in the crowd in tears, embracing each other. that sort of thing. steve kornacki is at the board with new numbers out of the state of pennsylvania. told you a few minutes ago, donald trump was closing in on the lead in pennsylvania. donald trump now has the lead in pennsylvania. he s moved ahead by a thousand votes. the reason we told you, the biggest source of outstanding votes left on the map in pennsylvania was right here in
this map belongs to donald trump, but there still are scattered votes coming in. you can see trump s lead sits at about 2,400 over hillary clinton now in pennsylvania. steve kornacki, you are not making projections from the wall, but it sounds like you can see where pennsylvania s going to end from where you stand. there s also some question, do we have absentee ballots, if it gets really close. if you have something that s really close, you could say an apparent winner or something. at this point, though, trump has taken the lead. that s what i ll say for right now. all right, steve. the states we are watching that are still outstanding at this point, pennsylvania, michigan, nevada, new hampshire, maine. that s all that s left on the board. neither of these candidates has made it to 270. trump is significantly closer and he s within a state or two. this is the time of night we often call in michael beschloss, presidential historian, author, and a frequent contributor to
tucson is. it s not what democrats need. they ve tightened the margin from 2012, trump is leading by three points. maricopa county here, bottom line, romney won it by a bigger spread, but trump is still winning it. it s the biggest county in the state. donald trump even by winning with a narrow margin, it s almost 40,000 votes, his lead there. you see, what s the clinton margin here in the second biggest county. it s just over 40,000 votes. this is an improvement for democrats from four years ago. it s why it was a fringe target for them. but it s not enough. when maricopa and tucson are cancelling each other out. then you see a lot of areas around the rest of the state are trump areas. so it s not looking good for clinton. i can also tell you, we have now called it, this second congressional district up here in maine, a rural one, donald trump is out to a pretty sizeable lead in that district. again, stressing we haven t called it. also you wouldn t know it from
some absentees around the state, but donald trump with a 35,000 vote-lead in pennsylvania. if we zoom out, that bottom line question here, if hillary clinton is trying to get to 270 electoral votes at this hour, how could she do it? she would need a couple of things here. first of all, if she somehow got a win in pennsylvania, that would be a she would get 20 electoral votes. if she could get michigan, she trails in michigan right now, that would be 16. 36 to 215, sitting at 251. if he could pick up minnesota, 10 there, she d be at 261. then wisconsin, the problem, she s trailing in wisconsin. she continues to trail, but if she were to pick up wisconsin, that s 271. that kinda looks like the most viable path, maybe the only viable path here. and i m not even sure how viable it is. we just showed you, she s 35,000 votes behind in pennsylvania. she s behind in all these states