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Joe biden won this district handily in november. that is it. that is biden's margin. it was 23 points. that's one of the reasons democrats felt confidence they would take deb haaland in the cabinet and taking the shot in the special election. biden won this district by 23. deb haaland who was on the ballot in a house race last november, she won by 16 points. i say there were benchmarks. those are the two benchmarks coming into this. what republicans were hoping, they would have been thrilled to win this seat. these two numbers.

In the house of representatives. polls have closed now in new mexico's first congressional district. let's check in with steve kornacki of what we know. >> hey rachel, we know a lot and stansbury has defeated mark moores. democrats win the seat. this had been a democratic seat. we got it from the big county that makes up the overwhelming bulk of this district. we knew democrats was going to do well. we did not expect necessarily would be this well for democrats. a 32-point advantage with stansbury. it certainly puts stansbury to win this decisive margin. it was not necessarily which party woul...

If they can get it into single digits or below how the democrats did in both races in november, they would say hey look, there are some backlash to biden and momentum of republicans. what was that? that was sort of a signifier important of that midterm wave that was to come to democrats that got them back in control of the house. now that biden is president, republicans were hoping this special election would give them something comparable, would give them a result where even if they don't win, they could say, hey! in this big deeply democratic district we held the democrats to eight points, s...

Descending into the cesspool of the trump years. we now had a government that was busy radicalizing a huge swath of american society, with pockets of the country turning to violent white supremacy or a qanon conspiracy theory positing that america is secretly run by a cabal of child sex traffickers. at precisely the time that progressive forces around the world were under siege america absented itself from the defense of the most basic propositions that had once defined it in the eyes of the world, the idea that individuals are entitled to a basic set of freedoms that should be applied equally...

Margin. so, again, this is -- that these special elections with a grain of salt. there are investigator circumstances involved but republicans came in tonight hoping they could get a big talking point and hoping they could get some momentum point to a midterm year for them and democrats are coming out of new mexico bragging saying, hey, maybe that conventional wisdom being tough, maybe is a little worthy of re-examination is what they will say. rachel will be back right after this. say. rachel will be back right after this [sfx: bikes passing] [sfx: fire truck siren] onstar, we see them. okay....