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It, going to the district and analyze this race, the argument republicans have made to try to drag mr. saccone across the finish line. it's been said every five minutes on this network all night long. this is a republican district. it's a district donald trump won by 20, that mitt romney won by 17, that before that republicans won in this district in some cases unopposed going back some decades, right? in terms of the national swing, the fact this race is super close -- it doesn't matter who wins this race -- 20 points have swung in less than a year and a half off of donald trump's vote total ...

The election day vote, there are two precincts left in the district that are going to report. they are both in westmoreland county. we believe they are republican counties, we believe that saccone is going to net some level of vote out of there. let's do the math right here. you're sitting at 847. that's lamb's lead right now. okay, 847. let's say, you know, 200 votes comes off that lead with what's left. then we knock it down to 647. let's say 650 so it's easy. 650. let's estimate that that's where we're going to end up on election day. that then brings us to what's left of the absentee ballo...

>> you're here for the -- >> both here from the "washington post," phil rucker and ashley parker. ashley, i'll start with you. a fasth nalgt night to watch the timeline of cable news. to hear trump surrogates coming out and really letting si coacc have it. some were very vicious, thinking he was going to have a bad night. then to have the dems come around and say, you know what, nobody even expected this was going to be close, even, in a district that trump took by 20. >> well, to hear the spin now that it looks closer than their initial spin, it's not even really about saccone at all. it's ab...

Districts hillary clinton won. this is a district that the trump coalition should hold all things considered. >> it's strange because we talk about the formula for democrats in the age of trump being suburban nights and the suburban nights i'm talking about didn't break as hard against trump. trump won this portion of the county in '16. they will have to win big tonight. trump won by four points. that's not great for a republican but not the slipping we saw elsewhere. if we look at the district in totality, if the democrats win tonight the story would probably end up being in large part a surg...

>> you guys are amazing. i'm not kidding. you're always so upbeat, you're salt of the earth, you're the best people in the world. i couldn't ask for a better blessing than to have supporters like you, and i'm pleased that you're still here. and again, i don't want you to try to hang on too much. i know many of you have to go, but i definitely wanted to come down and say to you that i thank you ever so much. we're going to keep fighting. don't give up and we'll keep it up! we're going to win it! god bless y'all. >> that was about as animated as we've seen rick saccone. neither a victory nor con...