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nevada, you have up and down the ballot some election deniers there, same goes for arizona. a lot at stake out west and across the country. >> nobody's going to sleep on the west coast tonight, back east, because, man, some of the most important races taking place. >> control of congress is up for grabs. republicans are favored to win the house, where they need a net gain of five seats. the smallest number of seats the out of power party has needed to flip the house since 1932. >> michael, let's put perspective on this again for our friends joining us on the west coast right now. in ...

>> so i think what's going on in virginia is that these candidates ran sort of in the hopes of not appearing too trumpian outward lay because they know that it's a light blue state. youngkin did not denounce trump but only went so far to embrace him and i think the attorney general who ran on sort of a law and order message in his position took a similar stance himself. now what i was saying before that struck me about this was how someone like tom fitten head of judicial watch reacted to this and it was a praiseworthy fashion. the former attorney general from virginia part of the trump admini...

Purple competitive state. i'm dropping that. it is a blue state. a light blue state. california, new york, new jersey, deep blue. let's make that distinction. here is what happened. actually gillespie did about as well as trump in percentage terms in rural virginia. he kept the trump vote if rural virginia. he got 170,000 more votes than the last republican candidate for governor. here is what won it for northam. he got 335,000 more votes than terry mccauliffe got four years ago. democratic turnout. they were energized this year like the republicans or the trump republicans were last year. >> ...

>> i do. >> how about jeff greenfield? light blue state, minnesota, michigan, oregon? where does romney do best? >> minnesota and congratulations on coming up with the least significant. >> who cares, right? it is about predictions that won't matter. >> take one, which one do you want? where is the president? >> oklahoma. >> so the president will do better than kevin durant tonight? who will score more points. the president or kevin durant. >> the campaign never sent me to oklahoma. >> a more serious one, nebraska, two. maine, two, does obama do better in maine two? >> i think in romney does b...

Only focus on three states in 2018, a sense of both '18 and '20, i would pick florida, ohio and arizona. three states. my obsessed states for most of 2020 basically dumping virginia for arizona now in my big three. what are you looking at? >> well, i hate the fact you're dumping virginia, chuck. i take that personally. >> good luck finding the -- is virginia a swing state anymore? >> it's a light blue state. a light blue state. >> fair enough. >> now, i understand florida and ohio. i think you could argue about arizona, talk about other states there, but florida and ohio absolutely. if somehow...