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Necessarily one fluke in an area that is reliably democratic -- >> kacie, i have to stop you. steve kornacki has something in his mouth and he's playing with a hard paw. >> i'm sorry, and i wouldn't do it. we have the absentee ballot count from allegheny county. here are the totals. conor lamb gets 1,930 votes. these are the absentees in allegheny. saccone gets 1,178. so that's the difference right there, 752. that is the difference. a margin of 752. so that's what just happened. when we were standing here and i'm like an idiot trying to figure out where they came from, that's where they came ...

Lamb. that's why he's sitting with 847 votes districtwide. he gets that courtesy of the absentees in allegheny. what is left? i think we still have two precincts sitting in westmoreland and then it's the absentees. we have absentees in republican areas. the margin is 847. lamb is now down with his base in allegheny. how many absentee ballots are left in the district? if 847 is the margin, we're sitting here looking at 1,800 ballots. these were the ballots that were requested. if you keep in mind the number returned will probably be a little south of that. that's what we just saw in allegheny. ...

Greene county. what do we have left election day? we have two precincts left in westmoreland county. here's the thing that's killing me right now. every other one of these counties has been releasing their vote by precinct tonight. westmoreland announced a few hours ago no precinct reporting. i can't tell you exactly what those precincts are like. i can tell you this is the most republican part of the district. this is -- donald trump won this thing in excess of 30 points. saccone has been doing well here. you probably expect those are going to be saccone precincts, those two that are left. th...

Resistance movement across the country that helped him fund-raise and funded all those ads he was able to put on tv, but he stayed true to the swing voters in this district. and i spent yesterday talking to a couple, dan and elkie miller, and he was a coal miner for 30-plus years, he's a registered democrat. they have been very active in the steelworkers union for all of those years, and they vote, you know, a lot of times the way the union votes, and they voted for trump in 2016 but they're voting for conor lamb this time around. and that's the kind of voter that, you know, it doesn't make se...

847. again, what we know here is the history, the history is that a couple things. first of all, we know trump won this district -- excuse me, this county with 63% in 2016. we know when they counted the absentees only, they only got 56% of those. the republican kind of drops off. on top of that, saccone has been running south of trump's number, pretty much across the board in this district. you knock that down to 50% and you say it's a 50/50 district here, you're not looking at much in terms of a gain for saccone. you'd see the same thing in washington and see maybe lamb getting extra votes an...