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Four suburbs right here. we said that white college educated vote. they didnt get the ground vote. you had all the red areas and the rural areas in the state. they went bigger for the republicans than expected. you land here in scranton, president obama carried scranton by nearly 30 points and look what happened yesterday. donald trump almost won it. that is a huge shift in one of the blue collar white voter areas of pennsylvania. this is where we find jacob today. you are in the heart of a big ...

The greatest country in the world and we are a nation divided right now. everybody is spewing hatred and we should come together and accept the reality and try to stand united as we should be. >> i have ten seconds. how do you feel about the results? >> im mixed. we need to move forward and make peace with the result. >> that is democracy. cheers. >> jacob in scranton, pennsylvania. a big part of the reason donald trump won the state. for what lies ahead on capitol hill. republicans for the firs...

And unfortunately this morning and half of this country was going to wake up very afraid this morning either way. >> right. >> if i was a factory worker in scranton i would be afraid. right now if youre a muslim, youre very afraid in this country. if youre a woman who gets harassed at work, youre afraid this morning. if youre a young african-american, youre afraid this morning. >> whats the challenge for donald trump? >> thats the simple challenge. donald trump, its very interesting -- >> youve ...

Has been a rock-solid democratic state for so long, number one, erie county. that should be a democratic county. donald trump winning there. allegheny county, lets see this one is about where its supposed to be if youre a democrat, 56 -- 57, 42, so hillary clinton did well there. she was wethere just the other day. this ones embarrassing to the vice president of the united states. he was there many times. you see 50 to 46. thats pretty stunning. its not a huge vote center, the scranton area, but...

>> steve kornacki, did they carry scranton? >> the answer is no, the margin is three for the democrats, almost 30 points four years ago we can tell you pretty much youre looking at the results from pennsylvania. there are still scatters on here, look at this margin for donald trump, this crept up. now north of 50,000 votes. it is tough to see. very tough to see a 50,000 vote deficit being made up by anyone with what is left on here. we said pretty much right here, hillary clinton to get to 270, ...

S. >> the government is back in the hands of the other people and for the people. this is like a pop lift up rising. >> the american people have spoken. all colors, all ages and all genders. we have spoken. we want the country back. we want the government to work for us. the party is over. >> those are two of the passionate trump supporter. he did much better than anyone expected. that coupled with huge turn out in pennsylvania helped push trump to victory. jacob joins me now from up in scranton...

Ago. they saw this coming. >> the three of us, mark, you and i, were talking just yesterday morning at quarter of 6:00 in the morning yesterday about how pennsylvania on sunday. the vice president in pennsylvania in harrisburg, in scranton. large crowds. fairly large crowds. and you just got the sense that while they loved joe biden and loved listening to joe biden and heard his message, they were quite reluctant about the top of the ticket. >> lets just say it right now. joe biden -- i saw a po...

They are just starting to count. donald trump, i should say, the red counties youre seeing around pittsburgh and across pennsylvania tonight, they are a lot redder than four years ago. donald trump is going to get a lot of votes here. we talk so much about scranton, this county where scranton is, it was a blow-out for barack obama, he won it by 28 points. tonight hillary clintons winning it by three points. thats the progress donald trump has made away from philadelphia in the suburbs in this st...

>> reporter: trump also came -- as you mentioned he came to scranton, he spoke very passionately as he does to the large crowd gathered there. i do want to mention -- you might not know where im standing. its dark and late but im standing right in front of the rocky steps. >> i knew that. >> im doing that for a reason. this is a ballots. this couldnt be a bigger battle between those two candidates. we thought it was apropos to stand here and show folks how much they have been through over the la...

Him. it is you know, the traditional swing states werent enough, he had to find others. i cant help but wonder if hes filled with regret. in hindsight, it is stunning that scranton and mccomb county, michigan and say janesville, wisconsin, to borrow a familiar hometown of a certain wisconsin republican. werent more regular stops for trump during the fall. and in hindsight, did he, just as the democrats have taken all of these formally red states in the sun belt that have been diversifying year a...