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Basically we had to wait to see if northern virginia was going to perform like northern virginia before we could call that race. tonight, what you're seeing is the -- it looks like a bad environment for republicans, but you're not sure if the tactics are going to work. going in it looked like this was going to be a bad environment for them. but the question was, how much were the voters going to punish the republican party in virginia for president trump? i think we got an answer. this is a wipe-out for the democrats tonight. this looks like they're going to sweep all three of those state race...

Wage. people want their wages raised. i think democrats have to speak to those issues, they also have to speak to bread and butter issu issues. they are going to reject donald trump. we cannot just run on a platform of we don't like donald trump, we've got to run on a platform that says what we stand for. >> we should note ralph northam endoensed a $15 an hour minimum wage in virginia. interestingly enough, ed gillespie did not attack him very much on that, which i thought was indicative. donald trump has 280 characters as you can see. from halfway across the world he said, ed gillespie worke...

It's a fluid situation. democrats have picked up six republican held seats in the house of delegates and the magic number is 17. six they've picked up before i came up here three minutes ago, it might have be it might have changed. they led six plus 12 you get 18, if say huge if but if that holds. >> wow. >> that's unthinkable coming in to tonight. a win of the house of delegates. that's what we're really looking at right now. >> background context this is a state that has a democratic governor, that has gone for the democratic presidential candidate with the 66-34 imbalance in the house of de...

Any -- anywhere i think anyone thought, projected winner with northern virginia still out, defeating ed gillespie, who won a narrow bid for senate just three years ago. my colleague chuck todd is on the phone now. chuck, there was so much anxiety and focus on this race. what do you make of tonight's results? >> well, the data, the results matched the data. i think, you know, why there was so much anxiety that i noted even with the people that were looking at the data and all of that on the northam campaign themselves, they had their own anxiety, was because they were sitting in this exact same...

Night in america. the first national election since donald trump was elected president. we've got some calls. in new mexico, phil murphy is the projected winner there. he's the democrat. he's running against the lieutenant governor kim qua dawn know. in virginia, what was project a nail biter and conventional wisdom in the political press was ralph northam was going to blow it, gillespie would win, it but no, we called it for ralph northam by 5 appoints. we've got a lot of votes to come in. that's going to be a example margin. not only that it appears democrats have picked up at least maybe a ...