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Take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that ship program before i get up there. [cheering and applauding] >> that's senator elect doug jones already trying to affect the senate's legislative agenda. tonight the president in an uncharacteristic tweet tweeted this about the election. congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great, and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends, exclamation point. and we ...

Populism in the deep south. this is the candidate steve bannon forced down the throat of the republican party, even donald trump has paid this price, managed to lose this unlosable seat, and finally donald trump himself who won this state a year ago with 62% of the vote, tonight at exit polls was at 48. a republican president under 50% in one of the most republican states in the country at 48. that tells you a lot of the story right there. this became a referendum to a large extent on donald trump who went all in for roy moore. he's now lost this race twice, in the primary and then in the gene...

Very big factor but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republican also have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. and the president may have a point when it comes to those write-in votes. alabama voters cast nearly 23,000 write-in votes which was larger than the marginal of victory. and in advance of this election, many republicans were saying i can't vote for a democrat, but i'm going to write in a conservative other than roy moore. bark to you guys. steve: all right, jonathan seare, thank you very much. keep in mind a lot of people down...

Will actually be certified no earlier than the 26th of december and no later than the 3rd of january so we've got to make sure that that occurs the way the code prescribes it to occur. >> reporter: so at this point, do you believe there is a chance of a recount? >> well, there's always a chance of a recount because any candidate can ask for a recount, and if they pay for it, they can receive a recount. now, there's an automatic recount provision where .5% of the vote threshold would automatically require that to occur. if that happens, at that point, we would follow the established procedures ...

>> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback has yet to concede the race. his campaign hoping moore's vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones, which would trigger a recount. >> what we have got to do is wait on god, and let this process play out. i know it's late. we can't wait and have everybody wait until after 11:00. but the votes are still coming in and we are looking at that. >> but with jones coming in at 49.9% of the vote to moore's 48.4, a 1.5 point difference. a recount appears unlikely. president trump weighed in on twitter saying congratulations to doug ...