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Looking for. as soon as these numbers update, we'll start to see how it shakes out. but again, the question here is can lamb squeeze enough votes out of allegheny to offset what's left in washington, and probably a sliver or two. i've got to look closer, a sliver or two in westmoreland. can lamb hold off saccone in that part of the district. >> steve, this district is normally so hopeless for republicans that in the last election, the republican -- hopeless for democrats, the republican ran unopposed. before that, murphy ran unopposed. and the two years before that but the last time there was ...

Is he going to catch him? is he going to come up just short? two, the absentee ballots. we're going to find out the exact proceed dwroerns entire district and when and how we will find out about these. but that's the thing we know. it looks like the lion's share of these are in allegheny. there are plenty that are in the rest of the district. but disproportionately, i think that's the word, disproportionately they're in allegheny. that is the word, steve. disproportionately. thank you very much, steve. we're going to come back to you as soon as you say we should. cornell belcher, if this comes...

Particular district. >> and we're going to go right back to steve kornacki. >> okay. a few more votes coming in. and again, that little drop we saw stabilized. the margin now sitting at 585 votes. see if i get that right. lamb up 585 votes. the other piece of news, though, is this. we're getting word there are some absentee ballots that are going to need to be counted here. and it looks like we have in two of the counties, it's greene. and this note was handed to me. the total, though, the total number of absentee ballots from two of these counties we're see is 1,400 there are an additional 1,...

Manchin democrat. but we're going back to steve kornacki at this point. >> i haven't added enough wrinkles. i'm going to add one more there is two x factors. one is the remaining outstanding vote. no change in that since the last time i came on. two, then, the absentee situation. now let me give you three. state law in pennsylvania calls for a recount if the final margin in a race is within half a percentage point. 0.5. well, these are not the exact numbers. the exact numbers right now are conor lamb, 49.9%. and rick saccone, 49.5%. so right now a gap of .4. .5 allows for a recount. so there i...

District, it brings us tonight to put this in some kind of context. this is going way back, a generation or two. this was is not one of the dists we talked about in 2016 that just flipped because of trump. it was for trump by about 20. it was for romney by basically the same margin in 2012. the big turn happened about the turn of the century. it's really become increasingly republican since then. this would not be just a drop-off from trump's levels. this would be a drop-off if there republican levels in the 21st century. the other thing, as we wait for the final votes that we can say with cer...