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Joe biden won this district handily in november. that is it. that is bidens margin. it was 23 points. thats one of the reasons democrats felt confidence they would take deb haaland in the cabinet and taking the shot in the special election. biden won this district by 23. deb haaland who was on the ballot in a house race last november, she won by 16 points. i say there were benchmarks. those are the two benchmarks coming into this. what republicans were hoping, they would have been thrilled to wi...

In the house of representatives. polls have closed now in new mexicos first congressional district. lets check in with steve kornacki of what we know. >> hey rachel, we know a lot and stansbury has defeated mark moores. democrats win the seat. this had been a democratic seat. we got it from the big county that makes up the overwhelming bulk of this district. we knew democrats was going to do well. we did not expect necessarily would be this well for democrats. a 32-point advantage with stansbury...

If they can get it into single digits or below how the democrats did in both races in november, they would say hey look, there are some backlash to biden and momentum of republicans. what was that? that was sort of a signifier important of that midterm wave that was to come to democrats that got them back in control of the house. now that biden is president, republicans were hoping this special election would give them something comparable, would give them a result where even if they dont win, t...

Descending into the cesspool of the trump years. we now had a government that was busy radicalizing a huge swath of american society, with pockets of the country turning to violent white supremacy or a qanon conspiracy theory positing that america is secretly run by a cabal of child sex traffickers. at precisely the time that progressive forces around the world were under siege america absented itself from the defense of the most basic propositions that had once defined it in the eyes of the wor...

Margin. so, again, this is -- that these special elections with a grain of salt. there are investigator circumstances involved but republicans came in tonight hoping they could get a big talking point and hoping they could get some momentum point to a midterm year for them and democrats are coming out of new mexico bragging saying, hey, maybe that conventional wisdom being tough, maybe is a little worthy of re-examination is what they will say. rachel will be back right after this. say. rachel w...

It would put a sort of proverbial floor under voting rights that no state could go below. president biden unexpectedly announcing today he has asked vice president kamala harris to lead the effort to pass it, to find a way to get that thing through the united states senate and on to his desk for his signature. and then president biden got blunt about why that hasnt happened yet. he said, quote, i hear all of the folks on tv saying, why doesnt biden get this done? well, he said, because biden onl...

Absentee vote. we got it from the big county that makes up the overwhelming bulk of this district. we knew democrats was going to do well. we did not expect necessarily would be this well for democrats. a 32-point advantage with stansbury. it certainly puts stansbury to win this decisive margin. it was not necessarily which party would win but would the democrats win by a convincing margin. >> joe bidens victory margin in this district was 23 points. thats one of the reasons democrats felt safe ...

Election. biden won by 23. deb haaland who was on the ballot in a house race last november, she won by 16 points. coming into tonight, republicans dream scenario was they win the seat out right. what republicans wanted to do was to get the margin, if they lose to get the margin south of these two numbers. if they can get it into single digits or below how the democrats did in both races in november, they would say hey look, there are some backlash to biden and momentum of republicans. we have se...

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Deb haaland to be u.s. secretary, she made history. tonight a special election to replace her. republicans desperately want to pick up a seat in the house. democrats do not want to lose one because of how small the democratic majority already is in the house. lets check in with steve cornacki of what we know. >> hey rachel, we know a lot and this happened the last minute. it is a lame slide here and it is significant. the question right now is shifted not to whos going to win this race but to ho...