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Necessarily one fluke in an area that is reliably democratic -- >> kacie, i have to stop you. steve kornacki has something in his mouth and hes playing with a hard paw. >> im sorry, and i wouldnt do it. we have the absentee ballot count from allegheny county. here are the totals. conor lamb gets 1,930 votes. these are the absentees in allegheny. saccone gets 1,178. so thats the difference right there, 752. that is the difference. a margin of 752. so thats what just happened. when we were standin...

Lamb. thats why hes sitting with 847 votes districtwide. he gets that courtesy of the absentees in allegheny. what is left? i think we still have two precincts sitting in westmoreland and then its the absentees. we have absentees in republican areas. the margin is 847. lamb is now down with his base in allegheny. how many absentee ballots are left in the district? if 847 is the margin, were sitting here looking at 1,800 ballots. these were the ballots that were requested. if you keep in mind the...

Greene county. what do we have left election day? we have two precincts left in westmoreland county. heres the thing thats killing me right now. every other one of these counties has been releasing their vote by precinct tonight. westmoreland announced a few hours ago no precinct reporting. i cant tell you exactly what those precincts are like. i can tell you this is the most republican part of the district. this is -- donald trump won this thing in excess of 30 points. saccone has been doing we...

Resistance movement across the country that helped him fund-raise and funded all those ads he was able to put on tv, but he stayed true to the swing voters in this district. and i spent yesterday talking to a couple, dan and elkie miller, and he was a coal miner for 30-plus years, hes a registered democrat. they have been very active in the steelworkers union for all of those years, and they vote, you know, a lot of times the way the union votes, and they voted for trump in 2016 but theyre votin...

847. again, what we know here is the history, the history is that a couple things. first of all, we know trump won this district -- excuse me, this county with 63% in 2016. we know when they counted the absentees only, they only got 56% of those. the republican kind of drops off. on top of that, saccone has been running south of trumps number, pretty much across the board in this district. you knock that down to 50% and you say its a 50/50 district here, youre not looking at much in terms of a g...

It, going to the district and analyze this race, the argument republicans have made to try to drag mr. saccone across the finish line. its been said every five minutes on this network all night long. this is a republican district. its a district donald trump won by 20, that mitt romney won by 17, that before that republicans won in this district in some cases unopposed going back some decades, right? in terms of the national swing, the fact this race is super close -- it doesnt matter who wins t...

The election day vote, there are two precincts left in the district that are going to report. they are both in westmoreland county. we believe they are republican counties, we believe that saccone is going to net some level of vote out of there. lets do the math right here. youre sitting at 847. thats lambs lead right now. okay, 847. lets say, you know, 200 votes comes off that lead with whats left. then we knock it down to 647. lets say 650 so its easy. 650. lets estimate that thats where were ...

>> youre here for the -- >> both here from the "washington post," phil rucker and ashley parker. ashley, ill start with you. a fasth nalgt night to watch the timeline of cable news. to hear trump surrogates coming out and really letting si coacc have it. some were very vicious, thinking he was going to have a bad night. then to have the dems come around and say, you know what, nobody even expected this was going to be close, even, in a district that trump took by 20. >> well, to hear the spin no...

Districts hillary clinton won. this is a district that the trump coalition should hold all things considered. >> its strange because we talk about the formula for democrats in the age of trump being suburban nights and the suburban nights im talking about didnt break as hard against trump. trump won this portion of the county in 16. they will have to win big tonight. trump won by four points. thats not great for a republican but not the slipping we saw elsewhere. if we look at the district in to...

>> you guys are amazing. im not kidding. youre always so upbeat, youre salt of the earth, youre the best people in the world. i couldnt ask for a better blessing than to have supporters like you, and im pleased that youre still here. and again, i dont want you to try to hang on too much. i know many of you have to go, but i definitely wanted to come down and say to you that i thank you ever so much. were going to keep fighting. dont give up and well keep it up! were going to win it! god bless ya...