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Attention? >> well, it is really both. this wasn't a five alarm fire for democrats, nothing will be. this was, of course, local in the sense that you have local issues that make a difference and stir the party base on both sides. particularly republicans. but the national dimension is impossible to ignore. the fact is that president biden, with a 54% win last year manages to get below 45 and approval and as a result and a result also of the inaction of the house and the senate democrats on the two big proposals that president biden has on the table, democrats weren't excited. i saw that in goi...

Estimate and the turnouts and some of these areas are greater than expected. we have up on the screen these different numbers and we are saying that they have these, yo just talked about 40 percent an some areas in big numbers that have not been counted and there is lots of questions about how these people are dealing with this and each individual county. >> is that for me? >> i will try to answer it the best way i can. for example, here in loudoun county the estimated number is 99 percent. if we are going through this throughout the night, sometimes it was at 80 percent, and that was just an ...

Is where youngkin ran up the score and essentially took whatever advantage that mcauliffe got out of the northern suburb and wiped away. youngkin not only underperformed what gillespie got, but you can pick any county, the story is the same, mcauliffe, the same, raw vote is northam, that turns into a 5% drop because youngkin nearly doubles everything that he has. here the same. a 50% increase in youngkin's vote. you throw that in there. supercharged turnout there. mediocre suburban turnout for the democrats, mediocre african american turnout and the only place he hit it was the northern suburb...

So, you see the bigger story, democrats had suburb problems outside of everywhere, except for northern virginia which is an unique anti-trump vote that did fire people up in that one media market. everywhere else, you had a problem for democrats in the suburbs, a problem for democrats in certain african american turnouts and a supercharged republican electorate that was nearly presidential turnout. throw the whole thing together, you got this for the democrats a calamity, and for republicans, one of their better election nights in nearly a decade, nbc's correspondent kristen welker joins me no...

>> in terms of key locations, key demographics, you talked about places to watch, not necessarily bellwethers but places where it's going to be determine aive to, both in terms of the governor's race and legislative turnouts, i am thinking about black turnout and black democratic turnout has been the answer to everything in terms of democratic ab competitiveness in states like virginia and others. white voters in the suburbs turning out to be swing voters, but black voters and enthusiasm is as much of the story as inrsu anything. do we have anything to watch for, and do you agree that is a key...