county, which is basically evenly split between democrats and republicans, those reports say lamb has taken 60% of the absentee ballot votes. didn t stop him from claiming victory. 32 years old, former marine and federal prosecutor. he thanked the steel and coal unions that supported him last night. he said he wants to focus on social security, medicare and union pensions. he said our issue is common ground. although many of his issues do dove tail with president trump s positions. he also said that our nation s contentious politics must end. it took a little longer than we thought, but we did it. [cheers and applause] i ll work on the problems our people face. secure their jobs and pensions, protect their family. and i will work with anyone to do that. republican state
the prototypes, there were a number of rallies from supporters. there were also a number of people who tonight like president trump. but tim donley does. and he says the protests were a dud. and he said this just about an hour ago on this program. the president was greeted with great fanfare and the media tried to cover it up. they kept making a big deal about how it was his first visit and he was coming to the state of resistance. he was going to meet all these massive protesters. and so far they were a real dud. his supporters outnurved the protesters 3 to 1. ainsley: he was actually there he said the president s supporters outnumbered the protesters 3 to 1. you won t see that in the headlines. steve: you went. that guy also said that he is calling for the arrest of jerry brown and also the oakland mayor because they have obstructed justifiable. brian: right. meanwhile 11 minutes now after the hour. you don t watch the view
poppins when we saw the movie back in salina, kansas in 1960 s, my mom took us to the fox theater. brian: ford theater ended badly. steve: that s a different show. it turns out she had just bout us the sound of music album and because it was flat we figured we should put it in the back window that is flat, too. when we came out it was waffled. brian: re interesting. very different. steve: not a good memory but a mary poppins memory. thank you for joining us on this very busy wednesday. start with a fox news alert. special congressional election they held yesterday in the 18th district, too close to call. ainsley: a razor thin margin separating those two candidates right there. one is already declaring a victory. brian: let s go out to eric shawn. this looked like a blowout for a while. conor lamb in the driver s seat a matter of blowing up the balloons. and then what happened?
damage to isis than other administrations. a certain other administration did in many years. steve: the president got a very warm reception there at miramar. he was greeted with a lot of applause. in fact, we are going to have somebody coming up in the next section talking about the reception that he did get. he told those gathered he said we are going to get you new planes and everybody is going to get a raise. ainsley: so nice to hear him say that to the men and women who sacrifice so much for our country. brian: he also pointed out general mattis doing a great job. general kelly over there him and his four stars. we are very pro-military here. and by the way he getting his parade it looks like, too. without the tanks. i have always said what s a parade without tanks but they would try it anyway. steve: the tanks would screw up the streets. brian: in you new york we screw it up without the tanks. in washington they get it down. ainsley: don t carry a cup of coffee down the street.
ainsley: nation of islam leader louis farrakhan continuing his hate-filled racist rhetoric. jews don t like farrakhan so they call me hitler. well, that s a good name. hitler was a very great man. your country has been taken from you by the synagogue of satan. the satanic jews. because you see white people deserve to die. white folks are going down. brian: several house democrats are under fire for ties to farrakhan. a republican colleague is putting pressure on them to at least condemn the man who said that. steve: congressman todd rokita announced a resolution doing just that yesterday and the indiana congressman joins us now from our nation s capital.