everybody thought sickown was going to get blown out. it was much closer and that was because i think trump showed up and energized some people okay. but a loss was a loss. but they showed some improvement in the early voting they say after pence and trump came. they feel good tonight about the flushing operation of voters in franklin and delaware. i will tell you this. the republican apparatus feels better going into election night on this one than they felt about going in on pen in the conor lamb race. i don t know. going back to your question to april about why this is so important, including everything that april said, this is so important because it s in play, erin. there is no reason why this district which is deeply, deeply red, should be in play. it woz won by trump by 11 points. it was won by the republican in 2016 by 37 points. there s no reason we should even
balderson, who was backed by president trump, right? that big rally this weekend. o connor s trying to flip a seat that the gop has held for about 35 years. inside politics host john king is out front. john, obviously this is a very crucial race, right? and this is the last special election. dem versus republican. that we re going to get here before the ultimate test in november. what are you watching tonight? erin, just the fact that we re having this conversation, that we re worried about this race tipping, republicans are worried about this race tipping, tells us it s a problem for the republican party. this is the district here. here s the big question. we re going to learn tonight is this a very difficult year for republicans or is this potentially a disastrous year for republicans? as you noted the 12th district hasn t elected a democrat since ronald reagan was presidential. what are we looking for tonight? you mentioned the president going out there. let s start with that. the
i can save anybody but you are unsaveable. right. i did my best to get you there. however, why voters should care right now is that this is the canary in the coalmine right now. this is something that we ve seen over the past few months. and this could be intuitive of what happens in november. here s part of the problem. we are supposedly sitting on a great economy right now. and for it to be so close in so many different areas, something is wrong. something is wrong. and here we are because we have our first key race alert for the night. polls just closing in ohio. and as literally here closing within the past ten seconds. obviously, too early right now to call the special election race. but you see here what s at stake. democrat danny o connor, republican troy balderson. polls are closed. these results are going to start coming in. we are going to bring them to you for this crucial ohio 12. i want to check in with both candidates. we have reporters at those headquarters with
again, 5.2 to 1 million. what does that tell you? a democrat, again, has not been elected here since ronald reagan was president. the republicans having to flood money into this district from outside pacs trying to save their candidate. it tells you how worried they are, b, how important it is for them ton lose the morale. if republicans lose the seat there s going to be panic in the party it s going to make more republican incumbents think i m in trouble this year. that s why pouring in all this money, trying to save a race, erin, that if you went back a few months you wouldn t even think should be close. incredible. john king, thank you. and john s going to be back with us of course because we re awaiting results, as i said, could start coming in here in just about ten minutes. i want to go now to our senior political analyst mark preston white house kernt for american urban niktsz april ryan, former assistant to george w. bush scott and former dnc communications director maria c
helping that. the breaking news continues because those polls are closed and those first results, any second are going to come in from the ohio special election. john king s back. going to look at some other crucial races tonight. the must-win races. and why is president trump paying such close attention to a race in kansas this evening? i m captain obvious and hotels.com