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Race tonight. show us the map. what are the numbers in kentucky, please? >> kentucky first. andy beshear declaring victory there. it is a nail-biter. 5,800 votes is the margin. andy beshear declaring victory. governor bevin the republican incumbent saying he will not concede tonight, saying he wants to go through the process of tomorrow and raising what he says are some irregularities. we'll let the lawyers and everyone else deal with this one. but by the math, andy beshear we're not going to call it at cnn at least just yet but by the math andy beshear is and the secretary of state, a democra...
>> this is your opportunity. you're not saying that candidate is me. >> go to corybooker.com tonight and endorse. >> in a piece in "essence" magazine, you say what we need to understand right now as a party is every successful struggle for justice in america, not to mention every winning democratic coalition in modern times has included the active participation and engagement of black people. in particular, they have included black women, who in recent elections have been engaged more and vote at higher rates than the national average. cnn's exit polling for 2018 midterms confirms that showing...
Elect a republican governor. i just want to go back in time. the last republican governor won by 30 points. if tate reeves holds on tonight, it's somewhere in the ballpark of a 10-point margin. so again, a red state likely to stay red but if you're a republican from a red state, you thought -- red district-u thought you used to be able to go home and run for re-election and just phone it in, think again. >> mr. john king, thank you, sir. i appreciate that. also the news is cnn can project that democrats will take the virginia house of delegates as well as the senate. let's discuss now. back wi...
This from georgia to kentucky tonight. people rejecting this type of politics. >> i'm glad you said that because cnn is projecting democrats are going to flip the chambers -- both chambers, the virginia legislature and also taking control of the state senate and the house of delegates. is virginia now a blue state? >> look, i'm going to tell you right now we're going to see virginia now is shifting dramatically. it has been consistently in the era of trump. but i'm telling you right now don't give up. arizona is shifting. north carolina, you see incredible changes there in the last cycle. this...