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What should be an easy republican win district. >> hold that thought. i want to talk about nancy pelosi when we next get the chance. steve kornacki, we have a note from washington county. >> yes. just filling in the blanks here on the absentees. here's two things we can tell you. remember, the lion's share of the vote that has now left two counties absentee vote -- we're looking at washington doi count there is 1195 sitting in absentees. in westmoreland county, we're looking at 1800 absentee. remember what saccone has to be dealing with. we talked about the challenge, that we're getting two-th...

Vote in washington. that's the lebs day. if this same thing happens, that's an 11-point difference. if at that happened, saccone will be sitting down there at 42 in the absentee ballot. he could lose significant ground to lamb. down here in green there's only 200 we won't know until tomorrow. this is all building of is there going to be a roo count? we think a can't can request one if he says for it. i think that might be an issue. but right now the gap between these candidates sits at 0.26. this law is very nebulous, it sit at 0 .26. that would set up remaining absentees and maybe a scatterin...

Against president obama? because we shouldn't be in this situation. republicans should have won this by 2% or 3%, looks like they probably won't win because they weren't willing to put in the work. >> one of the characteristics of this district that's a little unique from some of the other ones we've looked at in these special leaks, we have the storyline we're familiar with, there was a trump surge in the district in 2016, or a trump backlash, georgia '06. the backlash, the surge, the storylines, trump won by 20, but romney also won by 20. this has been in this century since 2000, basically. ...

>> so right now here's where we stand. 579, that's the margin districtwide. a couple things are left. there's one more rinkwrinkle to to this. we got westmoreland in, allegheny is in, that's all done, we're waiting on the absentees in washington. based on what we've seen in w t westmore land a westmoreland, i think lamb gets more than saccone, maybe even significantly more. the idea of saccone eating into that 579 in the biggest chunk of real estate left on the map here, washington, i really don't see it now. there's only 200 absentee ballots here in greene and based on what we're seeing, i do...

Ballots. trying to eat into the lead that conor lamb has, rick saccone. melanie, thanks for joining us. i know you're in middle of lot. do you have sense of when this count will be complete? >> we're anticipating 2:30, 3:00. >> so 1 1/2 hours or so from now. 1,195 absentees? >> yes, sir. >> that was the number of ballots received, not sent out right? >> correct. that -- >> great. do you have any indication right now how they're going? >> i have not, separate room from the counting. my process is doing. so i haven't been there to check the totals yet. >> i'm sorry? >> and we won't be releasing ...