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There was so much attention on the democratic mobilization, looks like republicans got fired up too and we have a result here that ossoff number, that looks like hillary clinton's number from last november. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. joining us now steve schmidt, nbc political analyst. also, jason johnson, editor at the root.com. steve schmidt, there are two comparisons being made here on ossoff's vote. his vote is compared to hillary clinton's vote which is a choice for president. not a house member. and the vote is being compared to the last congr...

All the time, districts where a republican represents them, hillary clinton won, hillary clinton came within five points, here is sort of that quintessential district filled with college-educated white republican suburbanite voters. hillary clinton almost beat donald trump off mitt romney won by 20 plus points in 2012. a district that didn't like donald trump that much and yet again republicans did get mobilized and did get activated here. looks like as much as democrats were there. there was so much attention on the democratic mobilization, looks like republicans got fired up too and we have ...

A district that would still more or less vote for him. as karen handel gets saddled with some policy issues that made trump unpopular i think she will be a number one target for ossoff next year. hasn't fallen off the map. people will stay enthusiastic. i wouldn't be surprised if we have a rematch next year and the result may turn out different. >> in the 2018 congressional elections, republicans in congress are either going to be defending a bill that they voted for on health care that has been sign need law or they are going to be defending to some constituents their failure to get a bill on...

Go had completely evaporated. it started to disappear about half an hour to 45 minutes go wh the votes from today started to come in and we saw ossoff elead start to slowly disappear. about 30 minutes go, ossoff's fiance came out and thanked voluntee volunteers and staff and started talking about small victories like volunteers signed up, voters in the district. important stuff, sure. but not the kind of thing that would rally this crowd. there will be plant plenty of time for smarter people than me to analyze what happened here but two obvious takeaways so far. but first, as fired up as democ...

Health care, lack of an ability by this republican leadership to move an agenda forward. there are a lot of ominous wins out there, if you're a competitive member of congress. remember most members of congress are as likely to lose their seat as a member of the old soviet bureau. for that special category, in competitive races, probably have a nauseous feeling watching this georgia 6 race. >> what happens in the georgia 6 district next year in the 2018 election? will john ossoff try to trump back in and try to win this race? >> no one will admit that now but that's what will happen. they are j...