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Be joining them. this is a decision that will be made in alabama. if you listen to what the secretary of state just said explaining, yes, well count the military ballots as soon as we can, yes, check the validity of the write-ins as soon as we can. nobody finds a few votes outstanding somewhere. if you look, were at 100% now in most of the places where there are a lot of votes. well go through the process, running a campaigns are hard. clearly sore feelings in the moore campaign. again, yes, thi...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: its always interesting to me to see that data whe...

Ridiculous. i would just point out, alabama is only a generation or two removed when a time when its name was tied to infamy, when it was tied to george wallace, when it was tied to about enthusiastic segregation. it is not something that alabamians are particularly interested in associating themselves with. that is why roy moore, and the past, was not only removed from office but struggled in statewide races and that is why you put the added part on about the sex scandal, he just becomes a no-g...

He put in more to this race, to this candidate, to rescuing moores candidacy when it looked like he was going to get pushed out by just aboutarve wn in the republican party. he flew down and said repeatedly this is my candidate. i think that helped revive moores candidacy. but clearly we can see the majority of voters in the state of alabama rejected him. >> heres what the president tweeted tonight. congratulations to doug jones in a hard fought victory. the write-ins played a big factor, but re...

It could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the raw vote total is roughly 9,000. we had 22,044 write-ins. you talked to chris stirewalt earlier about it. 22,000, that is double the difference. there you see the lead is increasing on the raw vote total, 670 now. just looking at the map, looking where the votes are, it doesntt seem like its going to get to that half percent, not even close. more like its expanding and not contracting. so i think eventually, you are g...

What happened with more than 1.2 million alabamians participating, this is a record participation and the people of alabama are to be applauded for their encouragement and support to both candidates and both campaigns. >> shannon: we have talked a lot about this.r its not only a specialal election, the special, special election. it comes at an off time, part of a runoff now, and there has been so many competing stories and scandals and all these kinds of things and that gets us to m tonight. you...

Deep red alabama, is positively toxic. >> there is no cause for spiking footballs. we are long way from the mountaintop. >> we need more senators and congressmen who are republicans. you will see a lot more of what we are doing right now. >> bret: the leaders of both parties say the alabama senate race down there is all wrapped up. take a look at the numbers. doug jones, the democrat, beating roy moore by 20,715 votes. if you have the write-ins, actually more than that. they are still ballots to...

Unemotional speech, losing the primary probably saved his life. >> there is something more important than politics. >> bret: lindsey graham tweeted "when it comes to alabama politics, steve bannon should have followed president trump, his lead in supporting luther strange. trumps instinct on the alabama race proved to be correct." >> lindsey graham is working hard to butter up the president these days and its getting noticed. and i everyone can read through dumping on the candidacy of roy moore....

But it overwhelmed. just the write-ins alone, you saw the presidents tweet mentioning that number, and what was actually a very gracious tweet if you think about where the president has been on commenting on some of these races. >> shannon: the g.o.p. certainly did not want to lose a senate seat. that is not helpless for supreme court nominations or anything else i have going on over there. but in a way, does this eliminate some sort of headache that they wouldve had to deal with moving forward?...

This campaign -- [ applause ] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency. >> it was also about a whole lot more than that for the democrats. the dnc poured about $1 million into alabama. progressive groups were also there. mo, this puts the democrats on the offensive for the midterm elections. it changes the map. >> it does in the short term. but i want to give a little pause to this. its a stunning victory, but it saddens me that the second coming of george wallace and bull connor...