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>> it's getting extremely exciting. we've still got a ways to go. but this write in number has dropped roy moore under 50%. democrats thought they got to get this up to 2 -- >> and explain the write ins. these are republicans that didn't want to vote for roy moore. >> the state senator richard shelby, the last democratic to win a senate seat back in 1992 switched parties along with so many to be republican. he urged people -- he urged republicans to write somebody in. he said he could not vote for roy moore. we talked a lot about the trump effect tonight. that's not a giant number, but was the...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: it's always interesting to me to see that data when it gets broken down. we really actually see the other names in the effort that people need to go ...

Removed when a time when its name was tied to infamy, when it was tied to george wallace, when it was tied to about -- avowed and enthusiastic segregation. it is not something that alabamians are particularly interested in associating themselves with. that is why roy moore, in the past, was not only removed from office but struggled in statewide races and that is why when you put the added part on about the sex scandal, he just becomes a no-go and i think that is when you get those tens ofom thousands of write-in votes, saying won't vote for the democrat but i think it's important, they are sa...

Welcome back, everybody. it's 32 minutes past the hour. welcome to our viewers around the united states. i'm john vause. >> and i'm isha sesay coming to you from los angeles. >> a remarkable upset in the red state of alabama. doug jones has repeated republican roy moore in the state's contentious senate race. >> jones is the first democrat to be elected senator in alabama in more than 20 years. but so far, roy moore has refused to concede, even though the state's republican party says this election is over. >> donald trump spent this election day in a public spat with democratic senator kirste...

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...