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Molester but i understand the positivity there. we need to be careful where we send our leadership and to make sure we don't have nancy pelosi in a place where she shouldn't be and people like a tim ryan, i think jones will be great for the party going forward. send them places and we just need to be careful. >> sandra: the gop senate majority narrowing to one seat. things changed the other night. >> absolutely. look, you never want to lose a seat clearly with a 51 majority. it will make things more difficult. we've seen vice president mike pence have to come in and be the tiebreaking vote on ...

20,000 votes. jonathan serrie is live for us in montgomery, alabama with more. jonathan? >> hi, trace. roy moore's video statement seems to be neither a concession nor a challenge. instead, he appears to be waiting things out and hoping the official count will benefit him more than the current tally. listen. >> in this race, we have not received the final couldn't to include military and provisional ballots. this has been a very close race and we're awaiting certification by the secretary of state. >> the alabama secretary of state certifies the vote anywhere between december 26 and january 3....

>> reporter: what do you mean? >> well, i think this was a good result, paradoxically, it was a good night for republicans. we didn't want roy moore here in the senate. it's -- we have enough challenges as republicans without being the party of roy moore. >> reporter: perhaps the second biggest loser of the night, steve bannon, the president's former chief strategist. he helped convince the president to support moore. now, some republicans want bannon banished. >> he looked like some disheveled drunk that wandered in off the street. i think we should shun him. i think we should cut him off. >>...

48% for him. >> but i think again that the fact of the matter is that i am talking about the republican party. >> that's by the way the most desolate victory platform i have ever seen in my life. looks like guys waiting for a bus that hasn't shown up. >> okay. a number of things happened here tonight that i think are important. and a lot of it has to do with how the party now begins to reorient itself tomorrow morning. whether it's out of the white house, and what the president tweets. the tweet tonight i don't think was really the president's tweet. >> it seemed sort of civilized. >> yeah, it...

We have a new senator-elect from alabama. how did jones do it? >> how did he do it? a couple of things i want to highlight from these results. if you're looking at this and saying, there's still votes out, it's only 10,000, how can we be sure? the bottom line is we still have a lot of votes around birmingham, a lot around montgomery, a few around mobile, all democratic areas. if jones is up 10,000 now, he's got this thing. what are the keys? two things jump out to of me number one is -- oh, that's not supposed to happen. the enthusiasm of black voters in the heavily black counties here, their ...