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What happened with more than 1.2 million alabamians participating, this is a record participation and the people of alabama are to be applauded for their encouragement and support to both candidates and both campaigns. >> shannon: we have talked a lot about this.r it's not only a specialal election, the special, special election. it comes at an off time, part of a runoff now, and there has been so many competing stories and scandals and all these kinds of things and that gets us to m tonight. you and i have had many conversations as this has unfold the last couple weeks about write in votes. i...

Deep red alabama, is positively toxic. >> there is no cause for spiking footballs. we are long way from the mountaintop. >> we need more senators and congressmen who are republicans. you will see a lot more of what we are doing right now. >> bret: the leaders of both parties say the alabama senate race down there is all wrapped up. take a look at the numbers. doug jones, the democrat, beating roy moore by 20,715 votes. if you have the write-ins, actually more than that. they are still ballots to be processed. the roy moore campaign, roy moore himself is not conceding. the president called doug...

Unemotional speech, losing the primary probably saved his life. >> there is something more important than politics. >> bret: lindsey graham tweeted "when it comes to alabama politics, steve bannon should have followed president trump, his lead in supporting luther strange. trump's instinct on the alabama race proved to be correct." >> lindsey graham is working hard to butter up the president these days and it's getting noticed. and i everyone can read through dumping on the candidacy of roy moore. obviously, i agree he was completely toxic and it's easy. there are a lot of people who are repub...

But it overwhelmed. just the write-ins alone, you saw the president's tweet mentioning that number, and what was actually a very gracious tweet if you think about where the president has been on commenting on some of these races. >> shannon: the g.o.p. certainly did not want to lose a senate seat. that is not helpless for supreme court nominations or anything else i have going on over there. but in a way, does this eliminate some sort of headache that they would've had to deal with moving forward? apparently the word was there was going to be a 10:00 a.m. meeting with mitch mcconnell to get ev...

This campaign -- [ applause ] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency. >> it was also about a whole lot more than that for the democrats. the dnc poured about $1 million into alabama. progressive groups were also there. mo, this puts the democrats on the offensive for the midterm elections. it changes the map. >> it does in the short term. but i want to give a little pause to this. it's a stunning victory, but it saddens me that the second coming of george wallace and bull connor was in such a close election. we're only talking about 1.5%. this was not a run away election. mos...