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Democrat, especially sitting in doug jones headquarters, watching the map fill in and starting to get hopeful. starting to get hopeful. let me add the big important caveats, 3% of the vote in. don't jump to conclusionings. this is a ruby red state. don't jump to conclusions. if you look the at results coming in so far, we talked earlier, most important place for doug jones, the first piece of a foundation to an improbable democratic win in alabama is jefferson county. he's getting close to 90% of the vote right now. again, it's only 1%. these are largely absentee ballots. let's be careful. if ...

Republicans and 9 49 democrats. chuck schumer welcome d him saying he was a great candidate and will be a even better senator. roy moore was an awful candidate and never should have gotten to the senate. make in mistake about it. democrats are energized focused on the middle class and those struggling to get there and things are looking better and better for 2018. what's next, i'm bring in the experts larry is a batto at uva, director the center of politics at university of virginia. larry, virginia was a powerful message a couple weeks back, but this one, alabama has become part of the new so...

>> look, this is much bigger than virginia. and i love virginia. and i think it was a very strong signal. but to have a ruby red state like alabama with doug -- with president trump carrying it by 28% an points and then managing to lose a senate seat, even by a small margin, it really suggests what could be coming in 2018, each with roy moore being a horrible candidate. don't forget, donald trump struck out twice in alabama. once in primary, and then in the special general election. so it is suggests to me and i think to a lot of people that he is not going to have a lot of pull in 2018. and w...

Jersey a couple weeks ago. and we don't, we have to remember alabama's a ruby red state. he won it by 28%, 28 points last time around. and this is where we are today, what voters saying no way, no how. >> ron klain, a big surprise. the self-admitted sexual assaulted endorses the accused child molester, and the accused child molester loses. i thought that's the way that equation was supposed to come out, and it did. >> i think it's a huge loss for trump, for the reasons just stated, for the obviously loss of a senate seat and putting the senate in play in 2018. but i think most of all for the r...

Allegations were important to your vote. 70% who voted for jones said yes. moore analysis. african-americans plus 87. i don't know how much of a surprise that is but that next line is. plus 26 for those under the age of 45. okay, brad, let's go ahead and start with the caveat sometimes we read too much in these elections. sometimes perhaps we do not read enough because the nuance may give us a lot of clues along the way. what do you see today? >> a couple lessons. jones would not have won unless republicans gave him that seat. that can be said absolutely in this race. republicans stayed home a...