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Headquarters at bozeman. this is the watch party where he was scheduled to speak. we haven't been able to confirm that he will be here. >> kimberly: where do we stand in terms of election results coming in? there was early voting in those votes stanford results and returns are coming in now at this hour as well. >> they have the associated press next to me or they have 25% of the precincts reporting. 169 out of 681. right now they are within two points. right now greg gianforte is ahead to democrat rob quist, at 46%. before i came on with you i was talking to the director of elections for the ...

As a member of congress should he ultimately win this special election. so, of course some people arguing hey, this is part of the overall tone that president trump is setting, but at the end of the day, it does look like this race is on track to be basically what we expected. potentially tighter than it might have been if trump weren't president, president trump weren't in office, but at the end of the day, basically expected result for republicans. still early, but that's what it's looking like right now, brian. >> kasie, a long way from washington, thank you. steve's at the big board. it's ...

The wildly unpopular health care bill will impact republicans electorally. with that go to msnbc's steve kornacki at the big board with the first vote results. steve, take it away. >> joy, we've got a lot of it in right now, actually. this is coming in fast. what is happening is a lot of the county, especially the big counties in montana are counting that early vote you mentioned, the absentee, the mail-in ballots. a very big part of the electorate in montana. here is where we stand right now. this is the most recent count. yes basically looking at a dead even race at this minute. again, there...

Montana they can basically pull even in yellow stone county. not even close tonight for rob quist. he's going to lose this thing by 19 points. so, again, rob quist not getting what he needed there. that's the biggest single disappointment on the board. overall, one of the questions we asked coming into today was how much could that event last night, could that controversy with that reporter actually affect the result, given how much early vote there was? we're getting a sense here. probably about three out of every four ballots that were cast in this thing ended up being cast early, before tha...

Republicans, well, one is this. eastern montana. these are small rural counties. but these are counties. all the counes where donal trump won more than 80% of the vote are out here in the eastern part of the state. almost none of them have reported anything yet. so these are small counties. but you can expect massive margins for gianforte, the republican, coming out of here. so the question is how much bounce does gianforte get here, especially from eastern montana. is there going to be a same-day vote in some of these more democratic areas where right now quist is doing well. is there going t...