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Don, in a state president trump carried by 18 points two years ago. cindy hyde-smith at the moment a little over ten-point margin there. so republicans will say a win is a win. democrats will say they made a pretty good run here. now, we're calling this race because we've gone through this, and there is no way. cindy hyde-smith will win this race. i will say it's possible the margin will get a little bit closer as the final votes come in. why do i say that? you see a lot of gray here in the western part of the state. there's blue all around it. this is where mike espy's old congressional distr...

The western part of the state. there's blue all around it. this is where mike espy's old congressional district was out here. democratic areas that have yet to report. but they're pretty small. you look down here, jefferson county, less than 1% of the state population. adams county, just over 1% of the state population, and so on as you look out here at these democratic counties. cindy hyde-smith by running it up in these red areas here. this is biloxi where president trump was on the eve of the runoff. neighboring counties here, 60%. so in places where the president visited -- he was also in ...

Off a miraculous victory here? >> everyone should go into the night -- cindy hyde smith, she should win this race. this is the map tonight. these are the candidates. let's go back three weeks. this is where we were on election night. the reason we have the runoff is because neither candidate in the race tonight cracked 50%. these were the top two candidates. the third place candidate, another republican, 41-16. you do the math. that is the state of mississippi. look at this blue. this is pretty impressive for mike espy. this is three weeks ago. for cindy hyde smith, we'll use the yellow here. ...

Cindy hyde smith. if those republican votes go to the republican incumbent it is game over. mike espy has to somehow find a way. let's go back to tonight's map and find a way to cut into the white vote. that's a complicated challenge. we look at the map now. it tells us just about nothing. one of the things we are going to look at. you have to go back to way before this technology existed to find a competitive democrat in mississippi in a senate race. let's just look up here. de soto county a little shy of six percent of the state population. cindy hyde smith getting a little over 50%. that is...

Mike elsepy, the democratic challenger, got just below that, 41%. the other candidates finishing below that. mike espy did run it up in this part of the state three weeks. go. this is what he has to do again tonight and i would argue by bigger numbers. if you look at the republican vote, 41% for the incumbent, cindy hyde-smith. 16% for chris mcdaniel. if those republican votes go to the incumbent, it's game over. espy has no run up the african-american vote, find a way -- come back to tonight's map -- find a way to cut into the white vote ala doug jones in alabama last year. that's a complicat...