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Is he the governor-elect of georgia? >> he is the legal governor of georgia. >> that sounds like a sore lose loser. we still have two u.s. house races that are still undecided and looking good. up by 1500, robert woodall a little below .500 and it looks like both of them leading those races. 37 seats in the house. that is nothing compared to president obama and clinton. 2010, obamas first midterm and democrats lost 63 house seats and six seats in the senate. they told him in the first midterm th...

The democrat has pulled ahead of republican mia love. mcadams now leads by 739 votes out of more than 269,000 cast. claiming victory last night, mcadams stated we are confident there is no way representative love will retake the lead. love has not conceded and mcadams said he hopes to speak with her later today. with millions of votes left to count, the democrats margin in the national popular vote continues to climb, now reaching 7.8 percentage points in the house races. as nate silver points...

>> for more im joined by the "hardball" round table. beth, senior editor for politics. republican strategist. and a bit of news i was just over at the board a minute ago, going through the democratic gains in the house. i said that new mexico second district race had not yet been called. literally 30 seconds after i finished that, the race was called. the democrat, nbc news, has now declared is the apparent winner in new mexicos second district. that is a pickup for the democrats. that gives the...

See. this is something that should have been dealt with immediately at the start of this administration. >> all right. david french, susan page, paul butler, jonathan lemire, thank you all for being with us. and coming up, president trump as the commander in chief of the armed forces, after missing several military events around veterans day, he is now attacked the retired admiral who led the raid that killed osama bin lauden am 2011. plus, election night has turned into election week, maybe...

In trump time, every day is a week and every week is a month as we always say. i think in this case yes, its going to be because unlike the last two presidents you mentioned, obama and clinton, this midterm happened in the midst of extraordinary economic growth, record low unemployment. the recovery has been in process for nine years. and president trump still lost fairly substantially in the house. so he can say that he wasnt on the ballot, but certainly absent any other major seismic event tha...

Theres a few dads out there that drained away. for the democrats, of course, they have to be unhappy about putting together 270 electoral votes without ohio, which is going away for the democrats and without florida, which is a hump they could not get over. >> lets stay on the president, simone, it seems he was on the ballot and you had 61 million people voting for democrats -- >> its unthinkable for a mid-term. i think donald trump is on the ballot and the agenda is also on the ballot and the p...

You never do. >> you are a rude, terrible person. >> talk about somebody thats a loser. she doesnt know what the hell shes doing. >> excuse me, dont do that. >> you ask a lot of stupid questions. >> decorum, should the president have to follow his own rules? >> it would be welcome if the president were to call off attacks, especially -- its been especially unseemly once again to go after women, especially especially to go after black women. he has a history of doing this, and we all know the pat...

Boehner and the republican party had to deal with after the 2010 mid-term. a lot of republicans came in and raged gwen the old republican machine, and there were a lot of divisions in the republican party and barack obama got re-elected. >> john boehner is now enjoying a nice glass of merlot. >> among other products. >> he is supporting the marijuana lobby is what she means here. and then a deadly outbreak blamed for the death of another child in a rehab center. what parents need to know, next...

The democrats win the minority, the largest win sense 1946. >> there were 61 million voters that voted for the democrats. i think trump only got 63 million votes in a presidential election. >> thats right. the number of votes for democrats in a mid-term is off the scales, which is fantastic for them, and i think that this i leading to a very large turnout in 2020. stay tuned. >> the house mm-bop -- >> sing us out. >> i think i will bring my uncle next time. he will do it better. if you were wa...

Ballot. i say no, no, go and vote. what do you mean? as much as i try and convince people to go vote, im not on the ballot. >> seems, to an extent, at least there, maybe he was. >> he really was. i mean, its so obvious after spending so much time in all of these districts this year that trump was on the ballot for many democrats but also independents and some republicans as we can see on the exit polls in these districts that drifted over to the democratic party. and so many -- so often you woul...