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Presidency consistent democratic gains. the flip side of that, if you will, and tonight is an example in a state the president carried by 30 points, in a state the president is more than lukely to carry by a healthy margin in 2020, still a warning for republicans that things are very different than they were just a couple years ago. >> he thanked the educators, right? how did beshear make this race so tight? it was in large part, i would imagine -- correct me if im wrong -- because of teachers. ...

Heres our breaking news this election night. democrat andy beshear declares victory over republican matt bevin in kentuckys governors race. weve got news on the governors race in mississippi. so lets get right to cnns john king. john king is at the magic wall. john, theres a nail-biter of a race tonight. show us the map. what are the numbers in kentucky, please? >> kentucky first. andy beshear declaring victory there. it is a nail-biter. 5,800 votes is the margin. andy beshear declaring victory....

Democratic candidates. andy beshear overperforming the exact from four years now with 8% reporting whats out and missing you see the counties gray. not -- but the issue in the counties is yes they will most likely come in red not a lot of people if you look at the vote four years ago. if you do the math now in both campaign headquarters near the democrats thinking can we pull off the upset youre trying to do some math how many votes possible out there and how many still to count? right here. >> ...

Big margin on bevin. when the rest of the people vote how much more can you get? when you have eight or ten little counties, the math is possible. it gets hard. he has to thread the needle with the rest of the vote coming in. but this is a red area of the state. s thats where the outstanding vote it we will wait and i want to check one more time if youre in democratic party headquarters you think you have more coming in jefferson county, the last of the big reliable areas a little bit more likel...

I want to thank the fop, the fraternal order of police. i want to thank our educators. >> while hes thanking the educators because the educators are the ones who helped propel him to this, at least perceived to be the winner there, he is declaring victory. cnn has not called it yet. the secretary of state has called it. i want to bring in the guy who knows just about everything about politics, and that is mr. john king. john, we find ourselves in an interesting position here because he is declar...

As they say, the numbers dont lie. andy beshear, the democrat is ahead by nearly 5,800 vote. he has 49% to 48.8%. we will wait until everyone is done with the final math, see what the state says tomorrow. but andy beshear is declaring victory because he is the leading candidate over a republican incumbent governor in a state that bevin won by ten points four years ago and in a state that donald trump won by a ton in 2016, by 30 points. so the democrats have every reason to be happy and cheerful ...

Declared victory over incumbent matt bevin in the race for governor there. bevin has not conceded the race. in virginia, democrats made history flipping both the state house and state senate, making it the first time in 25 years the democrats have control of the legislature and the governors mansion at the same time. in mississippi, a different story. republicans holding onto the governorship there with lt. gov. kate reid defeating the democratic attorney general jim hood. president trump has be...

Things are very different than they were a couple areas years ago. >> he thanked the educators, right? how did beshear make this race so tight? in large part i would imagine correct me if im wrong because of teachers. teachers did not like this governor because of the cuts he made to teachers. >> teachers didnt like this governor. andy beshear we were talking about earlier tonight, the main reason he won, jefferson county over here, the largest urban area of the state, some big suburbs up there....

Hed get a 3,100 vote plurality. that would eat about a third of beshears margin. you look at those counties and you say if you are the beshear campaign you like where you are. theres a scattering of about a dozen other precincts left throughout the state. i just checked, theyre basically all in republican counties. these precincts are producing about 350 votes each give or take. so theyre very small pieces of real estate. so it is -- i know our decision desk has not called this. they want to mak...

Be going. >> when you talk about those dozen precincts yet to come in, and those being largely republican precincts, just sort of enveloping the math here in terms of what you just said about the total number of votes that would be, seems to me what youre saying about what you expect in grayson and ballard evenae even in a good scenario for matt bevan, even if he sort of cleaned up in those outstanding republican precincts, he still wouldnt be in beshears lead. if you want to be sure about this ...