dana: now senate taking shape as doug joans is sworn in as alabama s next new senator. if you well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you god? i do. i do. congratulations. [ applause ] dana: three vice presidents were all there to help with the ceremony which changes the landscape as democrats are chipping away at the republican majority. now just one seat shy of a 50/50 split. let s bring in chris stirewalt. i think states shy three times really fast you might have a mistake like i almost did. deregulated. dana: what do you make of the changes today? i think that the republicans, i think from the national republican senatorial committee
dana: fox news decision team is keeping a close watch on the election in alabama as voters decide whether to send republican roy moore or doug joans to the u.s. senate. we call fox news voter analysis. let s bring there our data nurse. the director of our fox news decision team. darren shaw is a professor at the university of texas at austin government department. all right. what is different now? we re no longer doing exit polls. we re doing fox news sroert analysis. what s different? fox news left the pool of the network pool that conducted the exit pools. we re using a system that involves three different sources of data. first is the a new kind of poll. very large poll of every state where there s an election. that poll is conducted by phone as well as the internet. we coordinate or calibrate the two polls together to get a much more accurate view of the state. the second thing we re doing is we re combining those poll results with the actual vote
voters. david. vaughn, great that you are showing reporter: sorry about that. no problem. i ve been called all sorts of things in my time. so you could call me david if you like. but back to the story here. we re seeing both sides and the pulling out of the tars. they are pulling out may add weight to their brand. we ve seen this in elections across the country before. and the question is will it work with these voters. they don t like outsiders sure. they don t like outsiders. and you remember two months ago when president trump came into the state and endorsed roy moore s opponent luther strange and didn t move the polls. despite donald trump suggested it so. when you talk to people on the ground, they say we like donald trump but it doesn t matter what he says or what mitch mcconnell says and we asked doug joans about that, the fact that cory bookers and outsiders are coming in and he believes that the people he s bringing into the
him? the campaign we won t hear from him at least monday. the only thing that if we could defend roy moore in this situation is the fact that the iron bowl is tomorrow, which is giving him a little bit of rest here for the weekend. but you re right, it s been since a week ago thursday was the last time he held a press conference in which he didn t even ask any questions. it s been longer than that. but to note going around here, this campaign is going on. doug jones is still out on the campaign trail. he s been out the last several days. he has been out. they have canvassers going door to door. they have signed up across the state. it is hard to miss the television ads. the question is whether doug joans is going to be able to pick you have enough republican voters on december 12th. republicans are expressing hesitancy to vote for roy moore. it is going to be very hard for me to rectify the activities
accus accus accuser beverly young nelson recounted a detail she says happened with moore. i thought that he was going to rape me. i was twisting, and i was struggling and i was begging him to stop. reporter: nelson is the latest woman to come forward recalling past encounters with moore. moore has denied all the allegations. i m a republican but roy moore, no way. reporter: the democrat running against moore, doug jones, is targeting republicans to cross party lines in this new ad. you read the story and it just shakes you, just awful. i m for doug jones. i m another republican for doug joans. reporter: alabama s leading website calling to pull support of moore, calling him grossly unfit for office. the state s republican party so far is not pulling its support,