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Ballot audit. back with us, cornell belcher and veteran of the obama campaign. -- wolf good to see you. cornell, in that letter, the republican chairman called the never ending review an adventure and never never land, which points to what biden said earlier today. so cornell, in your mind, which is fight like hell look like faced with reality in today. so cornell, in your mind, which is fight like hell look like faced with reality in states like arizona? >> when you look at the

I think we had a lot of support from the leadership in the african-american community. those leaders knew me. we've been -- this is -- i've been around for a while. i may look young and pretty, but i'm really not. i -- i've been around for a long time. and those leaders knew me and they knew my background and they knew that they would have a partner in the united states senate. >> with me now, cornell belcher, msnbc political analyst and democratic pollster and amanda litman, hillary clinton's former e-mail drerk and cofounder of the organization, run for something and whose book is a guide fo...

So cornell, let me start with you on two of the most striking takeaways. one of the cross tabs of how white voters and black voters voted in this race, roy moore won white voters by quite a bit. he won them going away by 38 points. he lost black voters by 92 points and black voters made up crucially around 29% of the electorate, far exceeding what the models or some models have projected. what do you make of it? >> i make this. you know, this has been the formula that we've been looking for, for a whale, as you get increased african-american turnout. but also, you have the ability to sort of, ...

>> okay. so cornell, you've always been a fair dealer and you've been in democratic politics long enough to have any cockiness drained from you -- >> zero cockiness. >> -- how do you do this with the primaries and won't they lose a couple followers as well? >> taking the democrat and republican label off, this is a problem for the country, right? you see the civil war that's all is foul and all is fair. there is something not right in

>> well, and i think that's a reality. the concerning moment tonight is the reason this is newsworthy is because we are living through trump's republican party. bob corker would not be a news story if it wasn't the fact that he was challenging what is the norm of the republican party right now. and that is what we are living through and deciding, is this a temporary anomaly of the republican party or is there a permanency to this renting of the republican party of donald trump right now? and it is a very frightening moment for establishment republicans, but the reality is, establishment republ...