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Busy night, sir. i want to read the presidents tweet that we just got done he says, "congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. this write-in votes played a very big factor. a win is a win and the republicans will have a shot and another short period of time. it never ends." in the meantime, they will have a democrat in that seat. >> that was a very gracious tweet.t. especially, since, if you recall, after his preferred candidate lost in virginia, he roasted the guy on twitter in re...

You can see here, its basically the margin in this race. i think, look, in the presidential election in 2016, there were about 20,000 write-in votes. that was also very high. a lot of people didnt like the choice then. a lot of them obviously didnt like the choice last night. the question here was, i think, it probably was where these were typically republican voters. a good guess is they were. does that mean they otherwise would have voted for moore? who knows. maybe they were close to voting f...

Across the finish line. >> president trump was all in on moore. when it was clear the republican seat was lost, his reaction was extraordinarily tame by trump standards. the president tweeting, congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. >> a white house source tells cnn it is devastating for the president, describing it as an...

Justice. >> moore refusing to concede though. his campaign insisting a recount is possible depending on write-in and military ballots. but alabamas state republican party says its over and alabama secretary of state says its highly unlikely the outcome will change. that secretary of state will be on "new day" shortly. good morning to you in montgomery. how did doug jones get it done? >> reporter: good morning, dave. you dont have to look much past this past week of doug jones campaign schedule t...

Deciding, something like the write-in votes could be very important. richard shelby, the senior senator from alabama didnt say vote for doug jones. he said write in somebody else. >> im thinking of that married couple you mentioned in your op-ed piece the other day. i think the bishops are your name. your grandfather presided at their wedding 72 years ago, and the husband said to you that he was going to try to sway his wife to vote for doug moore. and his wife said to you very emphatically, no,...

Factor. its entirely possible the margin of victory was so narrow many republicans were saying that while they couldnt vote for a democrat they were going to write in the name of a conservative other than roy moore. a total of 23,000, nearly 23,000 write-in votes cast in this election. back to you guys. steve: jonathan serrie live in alabama with the very latest. thank you very much. we should know by the end of this week, next week who exactly those write-in were for. i would suspect a lot of t...

Mitt romney in 2012. so if you think the trumpification of politics, the polarization that comes with that, might boost moore, you want moore if youre his campaign to be running better than he did in 12. thats the level you want to see in that county if youre jones. >> we should note he did win that, he won that race, that state supreme court race, eke the it out by i think 3 points. but also interesting data there, one of the questions i think a lot of people have been asking is, what about wri...

Moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. >> moore quoted scripture as he talked to his sup porters refusing to concede telling them its not over. this campaign insisting a recount is possible depending on write-in and military ballots but alabama state republican party says its over. an alabama secretary of state says its highly unlikely the outcome will change. our coverage of this historic election begins in montgomery. eric, how did doug jones get it done? >> reporter:...

Bannonism or trumpism. you have 48% of the vote there. what happened was big african-american turnout, and some chunk of republican white women stayed home. i think shelby helped a lot with that when he said on sunday, stay home. i think there were more write-ins. and the write-in is amazing. usually when you have write-ins or abstentions. i didnt vote for trump or hillary clinton. 1.5% of the people in alabama went to the polls to write someone in. that was all republicans who couldnt vote for ...

Can work in mid-terms. the other element here is that candidate quality matters. roy moore was a uniquely controversial candidate and he all but disappeared from the campaign trail the final week or so of the race, only holding a couple of events. president trump of course tried to get in over the hurdle, but our exit polls found that even president trump is not that popular anymore in alabama. only about half of the voters here approve of the job hes doing, dave. >> that is president that one p...