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>>this is a fox news alert. we want to take you back to ohio. all eyes are on this ohio special election for house seat district 12. democrats were hoping tonight's election would be a precursor to a progressive wave in november. the race is too close to call. but we are getting breaking news. now you see there the spread is about 1700-plus votes. they say 100% of districts are in but they're telling us this additional information. 3,435 provisional ballots were cast. there were 5,048 outstanding absentee votes. none of those ballots can start to be counted until august 18th. now then we under...

Progressive message to a red state. the progressive wing of the democratic party is gaining momentum ahead of midterms and worrying many moderates within their own party. some moderates are trying to figure out if the progressive wave helps or hurts. my panel is back with me. christine, can democrats win back congress or the presidency with this kind of division? many are pointing out, this kind of division is straight out of the republican's playbook. they want to see this divide. >> i think they do want to see this die livide. the party needs to come together. that said, i don't think the id...

With conor lamb here on "morning joe" after his victory in a democratic primary, democrats then said, oh, but the path to swin to have moderates, but now we're seeing this progressive wave, and including in states where democratic legislators have been beaten in primaries from the left in a couple of dozen cases. so can democrats focus on republicans? can they figure out a way to keep these two wings of the party from swapping each other? >> mike allen, thank you very much. reading ax yous inin inaxios, newsletter. that does it for us. i'm ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. g...

It's chaotic and causing irrepairable harm. what does that say to you? >> laws that might look great in then executed in the absolute, can fall short when you look at how they impact human beings. policymakers have to take that into account. what are the ramifications of that? do we have enoug prosecutors? do we have enough judges? and how will this impact real human lives? i don't know if this administration factored any of these things into account when it made this policy, but it sure is having to deal with it now. >> it's a big, big crisis they're dealing with now. thank you very much for ...

>> ben jele former naacp president, wins governor in maryland. is that part of the progressive wave? >> yeah, i would say at this time if we're looking forward to 2020, someone on the left, a minority, who's young and an outsider, i think if you can match all of those, you might have a pretty good shop. in. >> in the republican field, someone people may not have heard of, mitt romney, did well last night in utah. what -- how does romney set up as a potential voice or resistance within the republican party to president trump or wil? >> mitt romney is one of the most fascinating people in politi...