Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. You need a recount. If that is correct and get what it is, the other thing we know is they have apparently under state law until august 24th to certify this election. Were sitting here on august 7th, weve got 17 days, more than two weeks until this has to be certified. If you have that tenday waiting period and then it comes under 0. 5, you know, youre short of that certification. So the law isnt putting a real lot of pressure on them here to get this certified. The law as we understand it is saying its going to be ten days before they can open these. Again, if im a betting man, if you come out here and say, kornacki, your life is on the line, who is going to win this thing, i would tell you balderson, he looks in much better position than oconnor to win this thing. Are you telling me are you sure hes going to win it by more than 0. 45 points and therefore avoid a recount, oh, no, i wouldnt tell
we did a little bit of both tonight in ohio. and el eli stokols is with us tonight. what do you think they make of a barn burner in this district in ohio during this time? i think there is some concern. i m talking and texting with some as we talk right now. there is a lot of concern. look, dozens of districts that are up in the midterms are not as red as the ohio 12th. and the fact that this was such a squeaker, even if they come out with a w at the end of it, it s quite an erosion of support for donald trump, who won that district by 12 points. i know the president is claiming victory tonight, and it might be the case that he energized
and kimberly has provided some, and people on this network have been providing it all night. the fact that it s a squeaker, a nail-biter, that we re still too close to call at this hour, means that democrats should have a lot to be happy about here. they ve looked at this race and said, you know, but for a couple of a few votes here, we could steal this race and we have 90 days to do that with these same candidates on the ballot. democrats are right to feel good about what they ve done here tonight. this should not be a contested race let alone a race that s a razor thin margin. but again, republicans get the win and you can t take that away from him, assuming that things hold, they get this win, and, you know, you can t gainsay that. eli stokols, i heard a noted political expert on another network tonight say the following. quote, if democrats can do this well in a district 88% white, they will retake the house.
democrats, just a couple of, it only takes two new york democrats to say abolish i.c.e. to remind voters who are on the face, you may not love me and everything, but here is where the democratic party is going these days, that is also effective. i know danny o connor said i m not going to support pelosi for speaker but he bungled that in the interview with chris matthews and that wasn t convincing. democrats have a win at their backs but it does take candidates and it does take some convincing some of these voters. i love my friend eli stokols, but i will say this, this isn t the biggest lie the president has told on twitter. the governor of ohio, john kasich, who is the anti-trump governor, who came in and cut an add for balderson in the last week of the race. but waited very late. waited very late, but it s
useless, but essentially from now until the race is run again you ll be engaged in the act of full-time politics even though you need to pretend you re involved in other things like constituent service and occasionally filling that office in one of those three buildings on the house side. eli stokols, how legitimately happy do you think the president is, assuming, again, at the end of this race, that the republican wins. we certainly won t know tonight. when donald trump gets anything that he can portray as a victory, he is a happy guy. and he is going to play that up. and i think that s why you ve seen two tweets tonight already. he may call the pool back to bedminster tomorrow and hold a press conference. you never know. but this is a guy who is going to, for better or worse, insert himself in every election race, every one of these races that he can. republican consultants, a lot of them don t want him in this race, they think there are