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Busy night, sir. i want to read the president's tweet that we just got done he says, "congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. this write-in votes played a very big factor. a win is a win and the republicans will have a shot and another short period of time. it never ends." in the meantime, they will have a democrat in that seat. >> that was a very gracious tweet.t. especially, since, if you recall, after his preferred candidate lost in virginia, he roasted the guy on twitter in real time in the same evening, complaining about ed gillespie. this time, he didn't denigrate roy moo...

You can see here, it's basically the margin in this race. i think, look, in the presidential election in 2016, there were about 20,000 write-in votes. that was also very high. a lot of people didn't like the choice then. a lot of them obviously didn't like the choice last night. the question here was, i think, it probably was where these were typically republican voters. a good guess is they were. does that mean they otherwise would have voted for moore? who knows. maybe they were close to voting for jones and the write-ins saved them from doing that. there's a lot of commentary looking at the...

Across the finish line. >> president trump was all in on moore. when it was clear the republican seat was lost, his reaction was extraordinarily tame by trump standards. the president tweeting, congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends. >> a white house source tells cnn it is devastating for the president, describing it as an earthquake. finger pointing already underway with calls for the president to replace his political ...

Justice. >> moore refusing to concede though. his campaign insisting a recount is possible depending on write-in and military ballots. but alabama's state republican party says it's over and alabama secretary of state says it's highly unlikely the outcome will change. that secretary of state will be on "new day" shortly. good morning to you in montgomery. how did doug jones get it done? >> reporter: good morning, dave. you don't have to look much past this past week of doug jones' campaign schedule to understand how he pulled this off. over the course of the past week he had barack obama make ...

Deciding, something like the write-in votes could be very important. richard shelby, the senior senator from alabama didn't say vote for doug jones. he said write in somebody else. >> i'm thinking of that married couple you mentioned in your op-ed piece the other day. i think the bishops are your name. your grandfather presided at their wedding 72 years ago, and the husband said to you that he was going to try to sway his wife to vote for doug moore. and his wife said to you very emphatically, no, he is not. is that the story? >> i think it is the story. and i'm glad you brought up winston cou...