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Correspondent steve kornacki. steve, again, you've been watching these numbers. seems like we have an answer. >> we have an apparent winner in the pennsylvania special election for the house district in the 18th. conor lamb, the democrat, nbc news is declaring the apparent winner over rick saccone the republican. now, i can take you through what that wording means. obviously we have been telling you all night since about 11:00 last night we were waiting on washington county, on the absentee vote in washington county. and you had a lead there of about 750 votes for con authori conor lamb, so wh...

Result? >> i wish i knew the time line because i signed off the air a couple hours ago in this same studio, and we believed at that moment that these outstanding numbers would be in momentarily, we had been led to believe that. we are still waiting. let me take you through what exactly it is we're waiting on. again, the margin right now for lamb in this thing, it is 579 votes. that is his lead. the big chunk of outstanding votes are absentee ballots that were cast here in washington county. so the question you see, it is red, you see saccone won it, it is traditionally republican. so saccone i...

>> one of the characteristics of this district, it's unique from the other ones we've looked at in special lek hundreds. -- elections. we have a trump surge or a trump backlash. you've got these two. does the back lash hold, does the surge hold? here's a district that trump won by 20, but romney also won this by 20. and this has been in this century, 2000, basically, this has been that kind of double-digit republican district. now in this special election, 2018, whatever happens with these absentees, it's 20-point swing. >> it includes suburbs of pittsburgh, some of which have highly educated,...

Issues that would help saccone. that's it. you're going to have scores, dozens or scores of military votes. low hunches dreds of provisiona. saccone needs a big number out of washington county. i think he's got to do better than he did in the election day vote. he's got to improve on that 53%. you can get a big number, multiply it into that 1200 of outstanding ballots. maybe he could start to eat into it. the math is stacked against him, but you can understand from his standpoint why he's not giving up yet. it's an exciting hour. you're awake with me. we have an election coming down to absente...

This district, it's unique from the other ones we've looked at in special lek hundreds. we ha -- elections. we have a trump surge or a trump backlash. you've got these two. does the back lash hold, does the surge hold? here's a district that trump won by 20, but romney also won this by 20. and this has been in this century, 2000, basically, this has been that kind of double-digit republican district. now in this special election, 2018, whatever happens with these absentees, it's 20-point swing. >> it includes suburbs of pittsburgh, some of which have highly educated, higher earners that were n...