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Cincinnati is just north of the kentucky border. those flip to the democratic candidate. and the third, coal country which is where trump has -- that was where he ran up the score against hillary clinton. there were counties there. thirkts 30, 40, 50-point wins. and if you put those all it that's why beshear won. >> it's not just the urban areas and the suburbs, but if you slim the margin of victory in those rural districts, that spells trouble for 2020. >> let's talk about virginia. virginia has been trending blue for a number of years now. and now democrats solidifying control across the boa...

This is, you know, home of lexington, university of kentucky. again, look at this. the beshear margin here sitting at about 36,000 and change. it was 10,000 for the democrat in the last gubernatorial election. so really drove up big numbers in those areas. then the other key here is eastern kentucky. i think vaughn mentioned this as well. coal country in the eastern portion of the state. you're seeing blue counties here, counties in the eastern part of the state, rural eastern part of the state that beshear won. you didn't see that when donald trump won this state. let me give you a couple exa...

Behind the numbers, steve kornacki. >> hey, brian. interesting night to put it mildly here in kentucky. vaughn just said a 30-point win in this state for donald trump in 2016. how does the republican governor end up losing? you see losing very narrowly. basically there are three things to key in on here in terms of why did beshear win. number one was just monster turnout and monster performance in the democratic areas of kentucky. there aren't a lot of big democratic areas in kentucky but i'll give you one of them right here. that was supposed to click open. here you go. jefferson county. bigg...