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Democrat, especially sitting in doug jones headquarters, watching the map fill in and starting to get hopeful. starting to get hopeful. let me add the big important caveats, 3% of the vote in. dont jump to conclusionings. this is a ruby red state. dont jump to conclusions. if you look the at results coming in so far, we talked earlier, most important place for doug jones, the first piece of a foundation to an improbable democratic win in alabama is jefferson county. hes getting close to 90% of t...

Republicans and 9 49 democrats. chuck schumer welcome d him saying he was a great candidate and will be a even better senator. roy moore was an awful candidate and never should have gotten to the senate. make in mistake about it. democrats are energized focused on the middle class and those struggling to get there and things are looking better and better for 2018. whats next, im bring in the experts larry is a batto at uva, director the center of politics at university of virginia. larry, virgin...

>> look, this is much bigger than virginia. and i love virginia. and i think it was a very strong signal. but to have a ruby red state like alabama with doug -- with president trump carrying it by 28% an points and then managing to lose a senate seat, even by a small margin, it really suggests what could be coming in 2018, each with roy moore being a horrible candidate. dont forget, donald trump struck out twice in alabama. once in primary, and then in the special general election. so it is sugg...

Jersey a couple weeks ago. and we dont, we have to remember alabamas a ruby red state. he won it by 28%, 28 points last time around. and this is where we are today, what voters saying no way, no how. >> ron klain, a big surprise. the self-admitted sexual assaulted endorses the accused child molester, and the accused child molester loses. i thought thats the way that equation was supposed to come out, and it did. >> i think its a huge loss for trump, for the reasons just stated, for the obviously...

Allegations were important to your vote. 70% who voted for jones said yes. moore analysis. african-americans plus 87. i dont know how much of a surprise that is but that next line is. plus 26 for those under the age of 45. okay, brad, lets go ahead and start with the caveat sometimes we read too much in these elections. sometimes perhaps we do not read enough because the nuance may give us a lot of clues along the way. what do you see today? >> a couple lessons. jones would not have won unless r...

Potentially win this race in deep red alabama. lets go to wolf blitzer for a second, im sorry. >> we have a major projection right now. and cnn projects doug jones, the democratic, he will be the next united states senator from alabama. he beats roy moore in this really, really exciting contest. doug jones comes from behind, takes the lead and now cnn projects he will be the next senator. first time in 25 years that a democrat will be elected senator from the state of alabama. a ruby red state, ...

Alabama well. he is a great candidate and will be a better senator. roy moore is awful and never should have gotten to the senate. just like in virginia, democrats are energized and focused on the middle class and those struggling to get there. for more on whats next, this is me talking, im bringing in the expert from uva. center for politics at university of virginia. editor and publisher of the great political report. larry, virginia was a pretty powerful message a couple weeks back and this o...

That feeling that he really wanted to be with roy moore, the bigot. and he had his opportunity to do that and went out and campaigned for him, even though it was in florida, he was still campaigning for him. it was clear what he was doing, did robo call as we heard, and it was a smackdown once again, twice in a couple months in alabama. and lets not forget what happened in virginia and new jersey a couple weeks ago. and we dont, we have to remember alabamas a ruby red state. he won it by 28%, 28...

Time in 25 years the ruby red state is sending a democrat to the united states senate. doug jones beat republican roy moore that accused sexual molester and attacker endorsed by president trump. i want to play the moment when alabamans realized the stunning upset since the president himself won. >> from alabama, he beats roy moore in this exciting contest, doug jones comes from behind. [ cheers and applause ] >> now, in the world of roy

Home. apathetic republicans, not interested in moore or some republicans like richard shelby to casts their vote for somebody other than roy moore, that combination and thats why jones position in such this ruby red state is tricky, he needs all of those factors working together in order to get over that finish line tomorrow. >> ana claire youve been doing reporting on one important segment of this, suburban women. what are you hearing from them? >> theres a lot of conflicted opinions from them....