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the better. now troy wins a great victory during a very tough time of the year for voting. he will win big in november. so steve kornacki, let s talk about what happened last night. as mika referenced, this has been a republican seat since 1982 consecutively since john kasich won it. president trump less than two years ago won it by 11 points. first of all, the numbers here. is there a chance, with balderson up by 1,700 votes right now, with provisional ballots, with mail-in ballots, that that result changes, that o connor somehow comes out on top. the suspense here is extra weird on this one because you expect those provisional ballots there to break toward the democrat. you don t expect them to actually erase 1,754-vote republican lead. however, if the margin there were to cut that 1,754 in half which is not implausible then the overall victory margin for balderson would be under .5 points. by state law, if you re under .5 that s more generous than you ll see in some other
second time. can you believe how close this is? we are in a tight ball game! we went door to door. we went house to house. we made our case for change. we re going to make that case tomorrow. we re not stopping now. tomorrow we rest, and then we keep fighting through to november. let s go out there, let s get it done! let s change this country! the closely watched special election in ohio is this morning too close to call, according to nbc news. you heard at the top, republican troy balderson and democrat danny o connor speaking last night with balderson currently leading o connor by less than 1% of all votes cast. that s 1,754 votes ahead in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades. the official outcome may not be known until over 3,400 provisional ballots are tallied
all right. welcome back to hardball in 24 hours, 24 hours ago i stood in this exact position and i said the polls are closing in ohio. 24 hours later, we still don t know who won the special election. nbc news is calling this too close to call. there has been movement today and i want to show you what it means. when you are in a situation like this, small numbers can be big. the gap, this morning in this district, the lead for balderson sat at 1754. it turned out there was a precinct that they had not tabulated. so 1754 tonight comes down to