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>> yeah. he wasnt very popular as has been said all along here on cnn. what he did with the teachers and medicaid expansion, and his father actually passed medicaid expansion. the governor that bevin was -- i should say andy beshear. >> andy beshears father was the one from 2007 to 2015. he was big on medicaid. >> its interesting when you have a state that is that red. >> mm-hmm. >> as kentucky. used to be a swing state has john king said. now you have a state that is this red. are republicans g...

Republican governor and apparently may not have been able to do that. thats where the trump linkage comes in. its not that bevin was not an unpopular governor. he was. he was behind in this race. the other republicans on the ballot did do better. but republicans who are going to be so eager to try to delink donald trump from this, there should be some concern there in doing that too quickly because what we are seeing -- what john just went through, the inroads democrats have made in the suburbs,...

Teachers, he went out. this part here, look at the red there. i want to go back four years ago. its not a ton. its not a ton, but its a lot more red here. you come back now, he went out and competed in what we would now call trump country, in rural, small counties that are becoming increasingly republican. he ran a complete race if you will. governor bevin tried to nationalize it at the end, trying to make it about impeachment, trying to link andy beshear to the quote, unquote, liberals liberals...

Came out of fayette county, indicating a strong straight-party ticket voting. but importantly i think what has propelled attorney general beshear to be governor-elect beshear that will be sworn in come the end of this year is what happened in jefferson county. the lead coming out of louisville, the most urban area in our state, much too large for governor bevin to overcome in the western part of the commonwealth. >> all right. well see if the prediction holds. an interesting night because you ha...

Texts and emails from republicans from kentucky to here in washington who were focused on working on this campaign, saying that this is bevin. hes a terrible candidate. hes disliked. hes the most unpopular governor in the country. so on and so forth. but i did get a very candid text as well to back up what david was just saying. somebody who works very hard in fund-raising and strategy broadly in the republican party saying that this -- if bevin does lose, its a massive blow because the presiden...

Do. i mean he didnt talk about impeachment. he didnt allow bevin to say he was some, you know, liberal democrat. he went, and he talked about health care, which bevin had become sort of opposed to in many ways. he talked about education. you know, bevin had a fight with teachers down there. he was talking about things, kind of those kitchen table issues that really matter. and there should be -- look, theres a big lesson for republicans. it looks as those the midterm results, which showed the su...

Before. that matters from an organizational perspective. that would be very historic in virginia. they havent controlled all three facets of the government there -- >> were projecting theyre going to win at least 21 seats in the virginia statehouse. >> right. so the senate we have called. the democrats took the senate in virginia. were waiting on the house, and of course they have the governor. to your question about what kentucky means, you know, you got a split picture here because the other r...

Pull it out, but if he does pull it out, re-election somehow, if theres a recount or re-canvassing, i mean this is a big blow for republicans, especially considering trump won kentucky by 30 points in 2016. what are your takeaways? >> yeah. theres no doubt about it. we should remind the audience andy beshear, who is declaring himself as governor-elect here. >> and the secretary of state of state as well. >> and the secretary of state did too. obviously there are some still outstanding votes to b...

Also big in virginia, mississippi, what it means for the national picture. so right now to cnns don lemon on a big night. >> it is a big night. listen, we havent called it, but i mean if you have the secretary of state, the actual person who counts the votes, pretty fairly certain that she is right. she said to you theres going to be -- there could be a re-canvassing. explain the difference between re-canvassing and a recount. >> so they dont have an automatic recount, which is where a certain m...

Andy beshear whos declaring himself as governor-elect here sxwlp and the secretary of state as well. >> and the secretary of state. obviously there are still some outstanding votes to be counted. the margin is very small. governor bevin has indicate a recanvassing is coming. beshear on the verge of victory. remember his dad was governor. he was the predecessor to bevin. so its not unlike kentucky can have a democratic governor but i think what is so important here is that after donald trumps hug...