anything for donald trump. >> that's right. >> here's gianforte, who cares about this guy except for the fact he's running for congress, and people were able to marshal the same muscles that they've exercised in excusing donald trump to excuse this guy. >> it is pretty remarkable. i think part of it was the fact that this is less than 24 hours out from the polls closing. and i think that partisan motivated reasoning is a pretty strong thing. it's a little bit spooky. as gianforte apologizes, if you talk to the people on my twitter mentions, i think they would say he's got nothing to apologize for. >> that was the other weird thing. because the line had been, everyone saw that the statement was transparently fabricated. that wasn't what people said. what they said instead was that he -- you know, he had it coming. you know, there was some excuse for the violence. cornell, to michael's point, my sense is that actually the performance in the early vote, which is about 75% of votes, and