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Senator against the democratic party base and between the democratic party base and his or her states voters, this white house has not done that. >> its actually not democrats. youve got millions of americans who are sick of washington who voted for bipartisanship. they said we want pragmatism and thats the opposite of what weve gotten. joe, you are a republican. yesterday right after he voted, roy moore was at the podium and he said i urge people of the state of alabama to vote with their consc...

Factor. >> a white house source tells cnn the result is quote, devastating for the president, describingatize describing it as an earthquake. the president, has a great point about the write-in votes which were larger than the margin in this election. but those write-in votes they showed up as a signal to say to the president, to say to the republicans we will not have this type of candidate represent our state. >> lets bring in white house correspondent and mo kelly, host of the mo kelly radio ...

Voters beyond the beltway trying to have input. we need to come together, we need to dove it quick. we need to learn the lessons of virginia and the lessons of alabama, which is our voters are not going to show up if we dont give them a proper choice and we did not do that. we need to make lemons out of this -- lemonades out of these lemons, shannon. we have a lot of lemons tonight. >> shannon: we are awaiting roy moore, who appears to have been defeated, they g.o.p. nominee in alabama for the u...

There embarrassing -- look, i think as alabamas the mayor pointed out made a calculated decision not to be branded as the state of roy moore. well, the conservative movement should think about that branding as well, and i think tonight helps them. i would say this, as much as i agree that the african-american vote huge and very important obviously, the margin, you know, some of those -- i think a lot of republicans and senator sellby among them, writing in names, not voting for roy moore helps t...

Tweet that we just got and he says, "congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor. a win is a win. and therepublicans will have a shot and another short period of time. it never ends."ri in the meantime, they will have" a democrat in that seat. >> that was a very gracioushe tweet. especially, since, if you recall, after his preferred candidate lost in virginia, he roasted the guy on twitter in real time in the same evening, complaining about...

Take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that ship program before i get up there. [cheering and applauding] >> thats senator elect doug jones already trying to affect the senates legislative agenda. tonight the president in an uncharacteristic tweet tweeted this about the election. congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great, and the republicans will have ano...

Populism in the deep south. this is the candidate steve bannon forced down the throat of the republican party, even donald trump has paid this price, managed to lose this unlosable seat, and finally donald trump himself who won this state a year ago with 62% of the vote, tonight at exit polls was at 48. a republican president under 50% in one of the most republican states in the country at 48. that tells you a lot of the story right there. this became a referendum to a large extent on donald tru...

Very big factor but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republican also have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. and the president may have a point when it comes to those write-in votes. alabama voters cast nearly 23,000 write-in votes which was larger than the marginal of victory. and in advance of this election, many republicans were saying i cant vote for a democrat, but im going to write in a conservative other than roy moore. bark to ...

Will actually be certified no earlier than the 26th of december and no later than the 3rd of january so weve got to make sure that that occurs the way the code prescribes it to occur. >> reporter: so at this point, do you believe there is a chance of a recount? >> well, theres always a chance of a recount because any candidate can ask for a recount, and if they pay for it, they can receive a recount. now, theres an automatic recount provision where .5% of the vote threshold would automatically r...

>> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback has yet to concede the race. his campaign hoping moores vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones, which would trigger a recount. >> what we have got to do is wait on god, and let this process play out. i know its late. we cant wait and have everybody wait until after 11:00. but the votes are still coming in and we are looking at that. >> but with jones coming in at 49.9% of the vote to moores 48.4, a 1.5 point difference. a...