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Democratic area. you still have a lot of registered democrats here. they still often elect democrats at the local level, but they are more conservative culturally. blue-collar, rural, conservative culturally, and they swung hard towards trump in 2016. one of the reasons for that last-minute visit from donald trump to the state of kentucky for that rally last night, it was to take voters in counties like this who were traditionally democratic but swung hard to trump to try to get them to do the same for bevin. he did fnot get that effect he was looking for, particularly in the eastern part of k...

Blame personally, and i assume when he speaks about this tomorrow, he'll echo that statement from the campaign. but we should underscore what a significant loss this is politically for the president. kentucky is not one of those swing states. it's a state that he won handily in 2016 that he's expected to carry with a significant margin in 2020. he flew there last night because he thought he could get bevin over the finish line. that was a rally to get out the vote, to turn out all those trump supporters to vote for the republican incumbent governor, and it was not enough. and so that's an indi...

This is, you know, home of lexington, university of kentucky. again, look at this. the beshear margin here sitting at about 36,000 and change. it was 10,000 for the democrat in the last gubernatorial election. so really drove up big numbers in those areas. then the other key here is eastern kentucky. i think vaughn mentioned this as well. coal country in the eastern portion of the state. you're seeing blue counties here, counties in the eastern part of the state, rural eastern part of the state that beshear won. you didn't see that when donald trump won this state. let me give you a couple exa...

The military with no motivation or reason to lie. they all seem to be telling pieces of the same story. >> that's right, brian. and what's so significant, i think, today about the testimony of ambassador sondland is he's not one of these career patriots. >> that's right. >> he's not somebody that trump can say was from the deep state or a never trumper to use the president's phrase. but he's a political appointee. he gave a ton of money to the trump campaign in 2016. he's been supporting the president. he wanted a job in the administration, and he was rewarded with this ambassadorship. and in ...

Kentucky. >> real quick, virginia results tonight. >> i think we have a graphic. the house of delegates. democrats were trying to flip the house of delegates and trying to flip the state senate. effectively there was a vacancy here, so effectively it was 51-49 for the republicans coming into tonight. the associated press right now has a five-seat gain. right now according to the associated press, the democrats have a net gain of five, and the associated press has called the house of delegates for the democrats. control for the democrats. op the state senate side, there was an open seat. it was...