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50% plus one of the vote. basically the bottom person keeps on getting knocked off round after round after round until someone gets above 50. there have been rank choice elections in other places. >> what do we know in terms of the outcomes after the first round? if someone is leading after the first round, how often do they win? >> they usually do, in fact, win. 96% of the time the same lieder in the first round and the final round. there is this 4% of the time where it does have a different leader where the person leading after the first round doesn't necessarily win. this happened in oaklan...

I'm don lemon. we begin this hour with breaking news on the hard fought special election in north carolina ninth district. the republican dan bishop nar lowly winning a district that trump took handedly in 2016. so red it's solidly republican since 1963. it shouldn't have everyone been close. it was. the president taking credit tonight for his victory. in the middle of the win, are there warning signs for the gop? john king at the magic wall. good evening to you. how narrow was the win. >> very narrow. two things can be true. republicans won the seat. that's a relief for them. in a district th...

>> very narrow. two things can be true. republicans won the seat. that's a relief for them. in a district they should have won easily. there are warning signs. bishop 99% of the vote in. winning with 4,100. a two point race. 51 to 49. in a district president trump carried by 12 points. two points now. 56 years this seat has been in republican hands. the president will claim credit in part because the election rally was in this part of the district here. and bishop didn't win the county by a lot. you can see it there. 35 to 36. but the democrat knew he needed to turn this county the suburbs her...

>> that is his biggest strength is he can take on trump and people think other candidates can do just as much of a good job against donald trump, they will start looking at him. they're at eight points. if it gets to a point race, biden can be in trouble. they think their candidate is the best person. >> my question is how do they give up? their preferred candidate doesn't win here. it's a little stronger than that. >> let's ask about bernie sanders, look. the reputation is this is the candidate of the activist. this is the candidate on the left and the reputation of iowa, the caucuses, this i...

It's why the president called him lying ted. >> in the second debate, he started to punch back. not very well. kind of awkwardly. didn't seem like himself. >> you are all talk and no action. >> it's clear congressman all action. >> it's clear his pollsters told him to come out on the attack. >> he regretted it. it was changing the character of the campaign he was trying to promote. >> because he wasn't being who he was. we thought to ourselves oh well, the carriage turned into a pumpkin. fairy tale over. they'll migrate to cruz and it will be a ten point race. >> beto returned to the campaign ...