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In alabama. chuck todd, thanks for that, appreciate it. i'm joined by "hardball" host, the one and only chris matthews. chris, what do you make of this? >> well, i think -- i just want to add to that. it's about morale. the people working in doug jones' campaign down in alabama, people working hopefully against kelley ward in arizona, in the nevada, anywhere where it's conceivable that a democrat can win, they're going to be thinking victory tonight. they're going to think, this is a switch, as norman mailer called it, a switch of the cosmos where everything shifts. voters have crude tools to ...

Are going to continue. this is an effort, this bipartisan bill is an effort to provide stability right now and not hurt millions of americans, and i hope everyone can come together on that. >> all right. i want you it put your campaign hat on here. you have a senate special election in this year, calendar year down in alabama. how committed is the dsec and rhetorically you'll say very committed but what does that mean financially to doug jones' campaign down in alabama? >> well, we are committed, in addition to encouraging all of our members to support our candidate, doug jones, and i personal...

The primary i was running a campaign down in illinois, was a bernie supporter, did switch over to hillary in the general election and it's because for me, for the communities that i'm a part of, or the community i want to be a part of, trump posed a real threat to our existence in this country. and i say this as someone who's born and raised in milwaukee, wisconsin. i'm a wisconsinite, i'm a midwesterner, i'an american, so, yeah. >> when you say "pose a real threat to the communities you're part of," what do you mean by that? >> i mean folks of color, i mean communities of immigrants. i mean, ...

Campaign was a campaign of hate. i'm a community organizer and i was running a campaign down in illinois. i was a bernie supporter, did switch over to hillary in the general election and it's because for me, for the communities that i'm a part of, the community that i want to be a part of, trump posed a real threat to our existence in this country and i say this as someone born and raised in milwaukee, wisconsin, i'm a midwesterner, i'm an american. so, yeah. >> when you say posed a real threat to the existence to the community you're a part of, what do you mean? >> community of color, communi...

Talk about public education, we're not just talking about first grade through 12th grade. we're talking about college as well. >> i want to ask -- talk to you for a second. my producer talked to you. stand up. your name is rema, right? >> yes. >> tell me your full name. >> rema akmed. >> we talk about manufacturing, the middle class, people who feel that really the driving force of donald trump was bigotry or was all kinds of sort of ways that he was able to scapegoat folks. tell me what you think about this analysis. >> yeah, i think that trump's campaign was a campaign of hate. i'm a communi...