Neither still in reach of the 270 needed to secure the presidency. All right. Steve smith, you just popped in next to me. I didnt see you. A campaign veteran, how will, how will democrats assuming Hillary Clinton loses here, where will the finger pointing be . Well, you know, you dont know where to begin. I mean first off, you will have the Democratic Party out of power with all three, you know, allhr congress, very weak bench. A massive repudiation personally of secretary clinton by the lek tort. It will have been a close election. For republicans will have 100 of the political power here. And right away, theyre going to have the votes to repeal and replace obamacare to dismantle dodd frank. And i think youre going to see really fast action. Yes, he is going to speak. We understand that this is not going to be a final statement. The friends, the donors, the supporters have all reassembled. The other people here, the large crowd has been here. The music came back up. And here heres the announcement f j [ applause ] thank you. Well folks, i know youve been here a long time. And its been a long night. And its been a long campaign. But i can say we can wait a theyre still counting votes and every vote should count. Several states are too close to call. So were not going to have anything more to say tonight. [ applause ] so listen, listen to me, everybody should head home, we should get some sleep, well have more to say tomorrow. I want you to know, i want every person across the country whos supporting hillary to know that your voices and your enthusiasm means so much to her and to tim and to all of us. We are so proud of you. And we are so proud of her. [ applause ] is not done yet. So thank you for being with her. She has always been with you. I have to say this tonight, good night, we will be back, well have more to say. Lets get those votes counted and lets bring this home. Thank you so much for all of you have done. You are in all of our hearts. Thank you. [ applause ] campaign c podesta addressing the crowd gathered at the Jacob Javitz Center on behalf of Hillary Clinton saying every vote should count, we can wait a little longer and telling the crowd go home. Its not going to happen tonight. There will be no speeches tonight. Andrea mitchell, did you see that coming . Reporter well, what i was suggesting to you just a bit ago was that Hillary Clinton saw what happened with al gore and especially given her verbal indictment going all the way back, but certainly in that san diego Foreign Policy speech last summer, the fact is, she has said she is not qualified to be commander in chief. That he is not qualified to hand the nuclear codes. He is not qualified to run our military. It would be very difficult for her to concede until every vote is counted. That said, this contradicts everything she had said as being gracious and listening to the voters, but theyre basically saying that there are some states that are still, they think, within the recount range. And they want to use every legal procedure that they can and theyre going to fight on. At least legally, as long as they can. As long as they have any argument. This is an extraordinarily role reversal sflp yeah, and let me ask around the table here. Doesnt play by the rules. So whats the betting that he comes out . I think he comes out. By the way, if i were him, i would. Hes leading in pennsylvania, leading in michigan, and leading wisconsin, he only has to win. He can win both wisconsin and michigan, donte, our data guy, hes running out of hes run out of a path for her to carry michigan. And it looked like it was, but theres wayne county didnt turn out. Does he come out and declare victory . I hope not. Look, theres a choreography to this, in our system, and i was critical of donald trump earlier in the campaign, but now the burden will likely fall on secretary clinton here to commence the process where we transfer power peacefully this in this country. And that begins with a concession phone call. And the first person who will address donald trump in the next hours is mr. President elect who and i think the choreography. And into the next afternoon and elections and this will probably be one of them. We dont know if any phone call transpired. Clearly not yet. Yeah. And most people seem to be heading for the exit, but there are long, sad faces here because even though john podesta is dlaekt its not should count, clearly the folks have been watching what weve all been watching here and that path to victory all but closed. Look, there is if we were talking about one state where they they needed to find a counting error or missing that or precinct here, she needs it in three states. Just imagine if trump were refusing to concede under these it has happened, again, she is trying to do something weve never seen which is find that missing whatever it is. That in three states where shes down essentially anywhere from a half percentage point. At the end of the night, she could still win the popular vote which gets the debate that comes up every four years or so, why do we do this Electoral College thing . These are the rules you to these rules. Exactly. But it comes up. Just try amending the constitution. You think a president ial election that lets go to the trump headquarters, are they away of what john podest adjust gsd. The crowd is aware. I have reached out to the tell his crowd to go home and not make a decision tonight for the Clinton Campaign. I still have not heard back. What i have heard going on is conversations about whether donald trump should come out and decide whether hes going to declare himself a winner or wait it out until they get to 270. At least wait for one news network to officially call him the winner and the president elect. Yo me. They are yelling call it, call it. Obviously people are getting quite tired. Its 2 00 a. M. In the morning and many of them have been here for hours. The doors opened here at 3 00 p. M. These are folks who have been waiting to see donald trump win the presidency. They want to see it happen as quickly as they can. We do know he does want to come out. He has been preparing his remarks. As of now, the last we heard, he is still waiting for 270. Thanks. Chuck . 2004 john kerry did not concede the night of. And you guys did not declare victory. You made the decision well give kerry, if he wants a day, give him a day. Give him time. The psychological impact of this is not only all of us but certainly everyone on the Clinton Campaign went into the Peninsula Hotel today believing that she would be the president elect of the United States. Giving your opponent some time to get used to the new reality is an okay thing to do. Lets make it official the senate. Alaska holds on. This is want a surprise. Puts a fine point on the night. It is a republican night and everything turns out the way i think we anticipate that it will, stays in republican hands, the house we know and it looks like donald trump will be president elect the. This is already a more powerful con congressional majority than george w. Bush. In fact, basically 50 50 senate when he came into office in 2000. Hes got, if he wants to hes got the ability to do it. Were all i think everybody is trying to figure out how is that going to work . They have an r by their name. Let me quickly make another projection. It is the state of alaska. Nbc news predicts that donald trump will win the state of right now in alaska. As we come down and look at that race to 270 it inches trump closer but not quite there. Look at that map. A sea of red with illinois kind of breaking it up there in the middle. Lester, arizona, 11, leads in pennsylvania, leads in michigan, he leads in sc New Hampshire. Any combination of his encounter leads i believe does it. Kevin tibbles is in michigan. He can count some of those votes or the people around him. Reporter well, you know, lester, this has been such an initial roller coaster ride evening here in grand rapids. From talking to the several hundred people that were here earlier, obviously the crowd has thinned out as has across the country, but the people here are just sort of flabbergasted by what has taken place with regards to this election this evening. I spoke to some people who said when they had their first sort of trump organizational meeting, you know, you could have held it in a phone booth here in grand rapids and last night, mr. Trump had more than 4,000 people in the local Convention Center here after midnight. So things have really changed here. I can honestly say, and im looking across the room, that people are very surprised. Im getting a nod that it has gone down this way. But at the end of the day, i think that people here are cubs last week to be honest with you. How many innings is this thing going to go tonight, lester . And in the same week we saw the end of day late saving time. None of us is going to get enough sleep right now at least on this end. Savannah, the morning papers are probably being produced even as we speak. Well hear a lot of talk about brexit and drawing the comparison. Well, on a couple of levels. Complete rejection of conventional wisdom and what the establishment thought should happen. This is the voters of the great brit an deciding to pull out of the european union. That was a political earthquake. Then also many people felt that the polls got it wrong. I think if you look a little more deeply into that it might have been the analysis of the polls that was an error. So we have a lot in common in the sense that if this election turns out tonight as we are the establishment, polls that arent getting it right, media conventional wisdom being rejected, its all there if you want to make those connections. Donald trump has been making that connection himself actually quite a bit. Saying we got a brexit situation. Hes been using it as something of a shorthand, a way of saying this is a moment that all the people are supposed to know everything. Soon its going to be turned brexit hasnt played out yet but people can look over there and say well, there was this immediate regret that people felt. You see the financial markets. We already are seeing some of that happening. The dow future is crashing and youre seeing some of the overseas stock markets that are already open dropping significantly. But then theres also as the months go on you start to see that life goes on. The world didnt end. Yeah. I find it fascinating we talk about rejection of the establishesment. In every state even the makeup of these states, theyre slightly different. It is very rural urban. Its like she did look at texas. She actually did it better than texas because she did well in urban areas. But its the rural vote that came out. It is every state essentially shows the those that feel as if they were feeling left behind or whatever the big city is in that state, they voted clinton and rurals of that state said no. Senators get returned to office, blur and blunt to name a couple. Were going to take a break f. Youve been flipping by, just to be clear, the party essentially ended at the what was the viewing party for the clinton folks, came out and said we want all the votes to be counted but were not going to do anything tonight. Were still waiting on a couple of states too close to call. Well update you after a short break. Is is just something that i have. Im not contagious. See me to know that. 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We dont know what that number is and our guys want to know what the number is until they feel comfortable making a lead there. Let me take us over to pennsylvania. There it is. Here in pennsylvania, again, between provisional ballots and the extraneous ones that are around, and some provisional ballots, our folks dont think well be able to call pennsylvania tonight. Thats available. We know a few other news organizes have. Our guys dont want to do it considering how many provisionals or out there. Can he win without he can win with any pairing, any combination. He can win with just pennsylvania and arizona. Hes 22 short. So both wisconsin and michigan i think wisconsin looks of all these i think the biggest reach for clinton is wisconsin. Well throw ten in there. Thats 258. Michigan would put him over or pennsylvania. So look, we are ill get to the what if in a minute and make sure its all working well. Shes got to win all of them. O this point. Pennsylvania puts him there. He just needs that. Arizona would put him over the top. He could lose both wisconsin and michigan. Or lets do. Give her both of those. Then he could win michigan and wisconsin. Talk about all those paths she had. Donald trump has them all now. Hes the one with all the paths. But the fact is those combinations are still possible. The clinton folks have gone home. And the question is now, what will donald trump do . It would almost seem in character that he would want to come out now. I have to say, look, when they decided not to declare victory that night with john kerry, we were talking about one state. We are talking about three states here. They basically, they need a miracle in two of those three ballots that are missing or provisional ballots from or a bigger absentee vote that was expected. Obviously, you wait. But i can see why the trump people are irritated. Hillary clinton had talked so much about healing in her final remarks. As andrea pointed out, if she had to concede, you almost wonder what can she say in a healing way given the way she has positioned herself against shes laid out the homework assignment pretty well because shes been telling him what is required, what our democracy is required when theres a peaceful transfer of power. Shes going to have to fine the words if she finds herself in that situation, to put the country first, to say this man is our president. There is a script to follow. But i mean, these are not speeches to give. Not to interrupt, Spokes Person for the Republican Party says donald trump is about to take the stage at the hilton. Lets go to katie then. Katie are you hearing the same thing that were about to see donald trump on stage . Yeah, i am. Donald trump is in the building and there is a bit of a frenzied atmosphere. Lineup a couple minutes ago. Now secret service are on either side of Donald Trumps podium. We are expecting him to come out. It is unclear at this point what donald trump will say. Will he declare victory . Will he chastise Hillary Clinton for not conceding . Will he chastise the News Organizations for not calling it . This crowd has gotten quite rowdy. It has turned on the press. You hear them yelling at times behind me, yelling at fox news which is standing right next to me to call this race and wondering why they are not doing it. Of course fox news is on the monitors here at headquarters. It is late. Many of these folks have been drinking. There are bars here. They want to see their candidate come out and they want to hear what he has to say. And what donald trump has to say frankly is anybodys guess. Campaign trail for this last 17, 18 month, you never predict what donald trump is going to do. I think you appreciate the restlessness of folks. They have seen this thing turn around in ways that not even members of the campaign could acknowledge. Look, the right thing the right way to handle this if youre donald trump and you think youre going to be president of the United States is to go out there. You thank everybody. Its close. We dont want to assume anything. The winner soon. Something like that. Can he restrain himself . Call for a moment of grace. Thats right. This is his first president ial moment. How he handles this will be an interesting test. I remember having a conversation with him in New Hampshire at the beginning of all this. He had said something that raised eyebrows. I remember asking the question that at some point will you switch into a president ial mode . I said its hard for people to think of you saying what you seal in front of you. He acknowledged theres a certain amount of showmanship and he in fact would. Weve seen moments along the campaign where he has but then he reverts back to the primary donald trump. Youre right. He says i know how to be president ial. Theres just no question. Hes treated this as a steel cage death match from the first hour that he descended the escalate level of restraint . This could be that moment. Look, hes going to have hes got a very divided country on his hands. Hes going to have it the same way, no matter which one of these candidates won tonight, they had a divided country. Hes got one thats going to feel more divided by race than perhaps there was an expectation. So look, he, again, he has got million people, not the 122 that voted. One of the interviews we saw earlier down in the plaza was with someo