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Be immense. could i see joe manchin being the 52nd vote? sure. >> when you look at the polling that's come out in the last couple of days, you do see the gap closing with republicans and democrats. >> no question. >> it seems to imply that republicans have a little bit of momentum right now. >> yes. remember, and this has been true since judges existed until today, the republican base cares deeply about the federal judiciary. the appeals court but especially the supreme court. these fights animate them period. now that this fight has turned into what they believe to be and donald trump a smear...

Counties. >> right. the big question right now is can judge moore in the blue counties we're waiting for votes narrow the gap somewhat, number one. and number two -- >> take a look at this. let's go back state wide-beause the gap has narrowed to 1,300 votes. look at how close it is. it is roy moore only very, very slightly ahead of the democratic doug jones. all of a sudden, staid wide 87% of the vote is in. for theic doug jones, 533,935. but doug jones the democratic after a few hours has once again taken the lead. >> and if you're at jones headquarters, number one, bakari talked about this e...

Now the question is can he hold it and get to finish line? this is stunning where we are right now if you look at this in the sense where we still have big baskets still out. jefferson county, this is a democratic strong hold. 27% of the votes still down. come down here to mobile, not even half of the vote county. >> with almost 9% of the population, i think that's the biggest gap right there. the biggest vote is in jefferson and maybe even more so mobile county. >> democratic area. if you're the roy moore campaign, you're going to start thinking are we going to somehow start performing better...

Bad sign. and everyone who supported him or tacitly supported him were complicit in that strategy. and it was what rick said, they wanted that 52nd vote. part of is fundamental decency. and that is what you heard a lot of tonight in alabama. >> and charles barkley sent a m message, is this the message we want to send in alabama? so he said send a message, essentially don't make us look stupid on the national stage. that was his message to a lot of vote, and i think a lot of them took his advice. >> the other thing i think is important to note here, the united states senate is in play

But in jefferson county it's a comfortable lead for doug jones. and it will stay comfortable probably throughout the evening. >> as the numbers change and you're getting them more quickly than we are. >> well, you know, it's up to 123 out of 173 precincts, one of those is provisional. so really we're going to count here tonight 172 precincts. the vote total here is -- the difference is still hanging at 75,000 votes. >> 75,000 vote advantage for doug jones over roy moore. that's in jefferson county. >> yes, sir, it is. >> so you still about have 30% of the vote outstanding as we speak right now...