montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban, passed by republicans in the ohio legislature that is currently being challenged in court and joining us now we think is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news an msnbc or perhaps not. the control room thought we had steve cord aki and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we re gonna find. and we re gonna get him back. instead, joining us now is sherrod brown, democratic senator from ohio. mr. brown, what is your take on what the voters of whole ohio have delivered? not thrilled. i started to shut hijack your show for a moment and, do a shout out to the victory party in columbus, they have a lawrence o donnell on the screen. volunteers have been in the vineyards fighting for years for women s health and women s rights, and a whole bunch of volunteers and fundamenta
does that end up hurting him enough that elvis s son, nephew, can win? you know, that s a good question. you know, how does that translate for folks? to be honest, stepping away from it and being this far, i don t think it will really factor. for a lot of those voters. there hasn t been a lot of blowing up around that. and yeah, it was a scandal. i think they re blowing up about it. it s hurt his popularity. it s made him very unpopular, tate reeves. yeah, but the question is how does that then translate into votes? donald trump is unpopular. but that has him beating joe biden. i m not going to base my experience in politics. i m not going to base how a campaign is going to turn out based on who is unpopular. what i m going to base it on is how reeves and presley are managing their ground game. and how they re managing the vote. and who they re turning out. are they turning out voters who see reeves as unpopular? are they taking advantage of his unpopu
in fact, if you take a look here at the margin the margin of victory that warnock got out of cobb county, if you look back in november, the difference is 51,000 votes. now look at the difference last night, that s closer to that s about 53,000 votes. this is really striking. there were overall turnover in georgia was lower yesterday than yesterday. runoff turnout tends to be lower than again election turnout. yet, warnock got a bigger plurality, 53,000 vote plurality than he got in the november election. he improved not just his share of the vote but he improved his plurality in a big, major core democratic county. walker excuse me, warnock succeeds in doing that in the democratic areas. then you look at a core republican area. we will go to the biggest,
points. how did he do it? he squeezed more votes, more support out of the core democratic area which is the immediate atlanta metro area. warnock getting 62% of the vote in gwinnett county. this county has been zipping from republican to democrat. it voted in the 2004 election for george w. bush by well over 25 points. now it s a core democratic county. warnock got 62% there last night in november. he got about 59%. so he increased he improved his performance in a major vote-producing democratic county. that was part of the story we saw throughout this atlanta metro area here. warnock exceeding his november totals. the other part of the story and the other place where walker fell short is when you get outside the metro area here to more of these sort of fringe atlanta metro counties here, a
that is largely what we re waiting to find out about what s happening in these democratic suburbs. look at a place like delaware county, this could be a core democratic county, looking at mail-in ballots to give that fundamental give that kind of early advantage. looking at mail ballots to give, put this into some kind of perspective. montgomery county is a core democratic county. big one right outside philadelphia. with 26 points for biden. so when you see fetterman chalk this great these, or mail about a. so when the same-day gets counted, the tally released, where does this fetterman number will come down, how far will it come down? will it land north of that by number, at that by number. oz is really gonna need it to land south of that by number. if you look back one more time, this is the point was making. trump got clobbered in the philadelphia suburbs and both 2016 in 2020. but montgomery lost by 21 points in 2016 and he, lost by