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More popular in the state than he is the national average and that gianforte has hugged donald trump as close as he can and that rob quist, the democrat, has made health care a very big issue in this state. and there are a lot of people in the state of mt. nth wontana wh worried they're going to lose their health care benefits. the question the reporter asked yesterday was about the congressional office estimate that 23 million people would be left without health insurance and that is the question that gianforte did not want to answer at that particular point. so health care is a very big issu...

Now republican greg gianforte is projected to win a seat in the u.s. house of represent testifies from the state of montana. >> latest numbers for you. gianforte has 50.8% of the vote. rob quist with 43.4%. now gianforte apologized for his confrontation with the reporter. saying when you make a mistake you have to own up to it. >> the. >> the alleged assault of ben jacobs marks a new low in relations between the u.s. media and politicians especially republicansen a reporters. the cnn spelling spent the day at a apology station montana goch voter upon learning we're from cnn. you're lucky someo...

Be a temptation to ascribe this to what happened last night. as you heard earlier, about 70% of the voters will have been cast before last night. so something else is going on. this is a district that donald trump carried by 20 points that has been held by a republican for to years. so there is a resistance to what's going on in washington. >> there are the new totals. i hate to cut you off, but let me -- >> no, go ahead. >> -- just put this up, david, then you can continue your thought. >> yeah. >> gianforte has taken the lead, 47.3%. rob quist, 46.9%. 45% of the vote. just one more percentag...

Election. there they are. 49.4% for greg gianforte, and 44.8% for rob quist. greg gianforte, when we got this, was very close. let's discuss now. cnn political commentators, peter beinart, symone, sanders, jeff kingston, and kevin madden. jack, let's start with greg gianforte. although he lost three newspaper endorsements, rerosponse from t gop, far more per missive. where's the outrage in this for someone who's accused of committing a misdemeanor assault? >> well, don, let met say this. we weren't there, we don't know everything there is to know about it. i think the voters of montana have we...

The final results of this special congressional election in montana. and the race between republican greg gianforte and democrat rob quist is probably getting more attention than it would have for one reason. the body slam heard around the political world. deputies charged gianforte with misdemeanor assault late last night after a reporter from "the guardian" newspaper named ben jacobs, accused him of body slamming him. it started when jacobs asked him a question about the congressional budget office scoring of health care. >> we'll talk to you about that later. >> but there's not going to be ...