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Can do a bit of a math here and figure out where this may be going. in 2015 he won grayson county, his margin here was about 1,500 votes. weve been seeing much higher turn out across kentucky today. weve been seeing bevan do well. so his margin we can expect will be significantly higher. lets say it was 2,500, okay? lets say she got a 2,500 or so. remember that number because the other big county left is ballard, the other outstanding piece of real estate. and here his margin was 322 votes in 20...

Delegates. nbc news is not characterizing individual state legislative races. were sort of deferring to the associated press. the associated press right now with more to come has called one flip, one republican seat in the house of delegates going to the democrats. democrats need to end up with two. according to the associated press at this hour they have one on the state senate side. again, its a 40 seat body. its a republican vacancy so its really 21-19. here the democrats just need a net gain...

It was an historic night in virginia tonight where democrats have won control of the state house and the state senate for the first time in the 21st century. lets go to steve kornacki for a look at whats happening in virginia tonight. steve? >> yes, lawrence. so lets take you through the math on this in terms of the house of delegates coming into tonight. this is what the balance of power looked like in virginia. republicans controlled it. it was 51-48. a vacant seat, a democratic seat, essentia...

To reading and math. the test was administered to more than 600,000 students enrolled in public and catholic schools from every single state. the findings are stark. since 2017, the reading scores among 8th graders dropped or remained the same in every state, with the lone exception of the district of columbia. and among 4th graders, only mississippi showed improvement. math scores among 8th graders have remained flat since 2017 with an increase in just three states. joining me now to discuss, t...

And thats why republicans on capitol hill are very, very nervous and the nrcc and republicans that are going to spend money on the house in 2020 are left wondering how do they win with a president whos in the 40s and 30s in approval ratings in these districts. and its impossible to know because the math simply at this point does not work out. >> well, and it does. there is an ongoing debate inside the democratic party about whether ideology matters. if you look at the 2018 election returns, whet...

From talk about impeachment. notice he hasnt been on the national airwaves today. its not clear when he anticipates doing so. how is this sort of an operation, has run -- a state that has -- even the democratic voters in the state are more conservative. i think this is part of that conversation. how does someone like doug jones in alabama win the re-election. i think those are the conversations that are going to be taking place over the next days ahead. >> all right. well go back to louisville, ...

Side. i think theres going to be strong momentum. make no mistake about it, trump will be formidable on his side. he is running a straight to the base election. and hes going to work to turn out those difficult voters on the hard right to turn out. well have to do our job to turn out voters from the center. on out including patriotic republicans who believe in trying to maintain the republic. voting for a president who leaves in the democratic process. im still hopeful very much so. this will be...

Candidates on the democratic side. i think theres going to be strong momentum. make no mistake about it, trump will be formidable on his side. he is running a straight to the base election. and hes going to work to turn out those difficult voters on the hard right to turn out. well have to do our job to turn out voters from the center. on out including patriotic republicans who believe in trying to maintain the republic. voting for a president who leaves in the democratic process. im still hopef...

Controversial. the south bend, indiana, mayor is on a bus tour chriscrossing the state of iowa. hes been pushing warren to release her plan of how she would pay for it. he says he hasnt had a chance to dig through all the numbers recently put out by her, but he is still voicing concerns. >> i think the biggest issue im hearing from voters, even above how are we going to pay for this is am i going to lose my private plan. and thats something that i just havent heard -- well, we have heard an answ...

In fact, i will put $11 trillion right back in your pockets. but thats something that her opponents have criticized saying thats not feasible, not okay. vice president biden saying it is mathematic gymnastics. now she sort of flipped the script saying that she wants to know where her opponents are with their plans for funding their health care proposals. then this was interesting. sunday morning senator sanders criticized her plan saying that his was proper progressive and that hers could hurt j...