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High. it clocked in at 47%. that was the turnout rate as opposed to 43% elsewhere. that's not something that you look at and say wow, that's shocking. that's the normal. not every turnout level in every county is the same. it's not like it's 106% or something. that's when you see alarm bells. nothing he's presenting here is going to, i think change what the secretary of state just said there. what strikes me, steve, is how this is frankly a trumpian move with a big difference. the president made unfounded claims of voter fraud after he won. moore is doing it after he lost. >> yeah. i guess t...

Him of any misconduct allegations. remember this thing in the election a few weeks ago? take a look at what roy moore is claiming. this is where things stand with all the votes. secretary of state poised to certify this thing. what roy moore is saying here, a couple different claims, though. the big one seems to center around turnout, casting aspersions on the turnout in jefferson county. jefferson county is birmingham and the suburbs. you can see this is a big democratic county. it typically is a big democratic county. even hillary clinton carried this in the presidential race as te she was b...

Ro rode in on, sassy. let's bring in msnbc national correspondent who fortunately didn't party all night but he did work all night, steve kornacki, with more on how did doug jones pull this off? >> i think there's two major things to focus in on and one is the question of energy. you look at the committed supporters typically for each party. look at it this way. this part of the state up here, actually i should have drawn it all the way up to the north there, this part of the state down here. this is the heart of republican alabama, rural, largely white, overwhelmingly republican. now, the l...

So that's the republican base in alabama. meanwhile the core democratic base, which is in these predominantly black counties in this band of the state right here, their turnout level was at like 75% of what you got in the 2016 election. so not nearly as much erosion from the presidential election turnout here in the heart of democratic alabama as up here and down here in republican alabama. so energy is key to this, but energy alone is not going to do it for democrats in the state. they normally lose by 30 points. what else happened? you had typically republican voters, suburban, college educa...

They callologically the black belt. so named because of the color of topsoil in alabama, which is tonight, in electoral map terms, a strip of blue across alabama. and jones can really tharch the get out the vote and the vote operation there tonight? we get to follow up on these things because we talk ad nauseam in the run up about the importance of turn out. this area of the state in particular is what you are talking about here. here's the metric we were more on thing to judge turnout. the share -- take the total vote, what share is it of the 2016 vote? basically in this area you were seeing ...