talking about expulsion. he was saying, hey, you know what, you win this election, roy moore, you re going to face an ethics investigation, you re going to be expelled. now that is a very different posture. it suggests if roy moore does win this race a week from tomorrow, mitch mcconnell and senate republicans will say the people of alabama has spoken, that settles the matter. steve korn aki, fantastic stuff from the big board. thank you so much for being with us tonight. as promised we go to robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post, moderator on washington week on pbs also an msnbc political analyst. he s in tuscaloosa tonight covering this race. and, robert, what do you make of the number, the percentage of voters who are on the move, the vote that is migrating perhaps back and forth between these candidates, or do you think as steve seems to indicate, this is getting a little bit baked into the cake now? it s a significant move,
teenager. robert costas is going to join us on that in just a moment. first we figured we d get a status report on the big board from steve korn aki. hi, steve. a week from tomorrow alabama voters will go to the polls. that s the story now. trump complete endorsement now of roy moore, signals of a changing posture from mitch mcconnell. the rnc, why are we seeing these signals a week out? look at what s happening. two weeks ago this is what the lay of the land looked like politically in alabama in this race. you see two weeks ago, if you average the polls together back then, doug jones, the democrat, had the lead. the significance obviously that was the first time in more than two decades a democrat was leading in polling in a u.s. senate race in alabama. so republicans are saying you have all these stories coming out about roy moore. he has now fallen behind. maybe the bottom is going to fall out. maybe the floor is going to fall out for roy moore and he s just going to collapse. the
going to turnout for an election in the middle of december in alabama. so, this is not to say doug jones can t win this race next week. it is to say that republicans who two weeks ago thought roy maybe he s the favorite to win and we don t want to lose this seat. so, that s the most significant move i think today. in the last 24 hours, it s mitch mcconnell, two weeks ago he was talking about expulsion. he was saying, hey, you know what, you win this election, roy moore, you re going to face an ethics investigation, you re going to be expelled. now that is a very different posture. it suggests if roy moore does win this race a week from tomorrow, mit post, moderator on washington week on pbs also an msnbc people of alabama has spoken, that settles the matter. steve korn aki, fantastic stuff from the big board. thank you so much for being with us tonight. as promised we go to robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post, moderator on washington week on pbs also a
puppet. the washington post also out with new details saying the woman knew moore when she was a teenager. robert costas is going to join us on that in just a moment. first we figured we d get a status report on the big board from steve korn aki. hi, steve. a week from tomorrow alabama voters will go to the polls. that s the story now. trump complete endorsement now of roy moore, signals of a changing posture from mitch mcconnell. the rnc, why are we seeing these signals a week out? look at what s happening. two weeks ago this is what the lay of the land looked like politically in alabama in this race. you see two weeks ago, if you average the polls together back then, doug jones, the democrat, had the lead. the significance obviously that was the first time in more than two decades a democrat was leading in polling in a u.s. senate race in bam bacalabama. so republicans are saying you have all these stories coming out about roy moore.