morning joe. it is friday, november 16th. joe, what a week of recounts, temper tantrums and political turbulence. what a week. look what s happening in florida. broward missed the deadline by two minutes. that didn t get counted. but they re going to a hand recount there. caseo in the state of georgia. maine, my goodness, maine, too, goes democratic. a lot of people didn t expect that. you know what i always say, as goes northeast harbor, so goes france. and so was the case in maine, too. jared golden squeaks out a win for the democrats in a district that went for donald trump by double digits. and you know how he did it? he focused in on the affordable care act. that bought democrats yet another seat. you look out at orange county, my gosh, as tom nichols said, congratulations, republicans, you just lost leggan county. it looks like it s going to be a complete wipeout.
evidence whatever to back up his allegation. i think the gubernatorial candidate of the democratic party could teach anger management. that is the calmest candidate, i am nowhere as calm as that lady is, the way she addressed the last-minute smear to try to jamb the election in one direction. she s calmly laying it out analytically. i was in iraq and afghanistan for elections when the u.s. government was involved in still an oversight capacity. if there had been an afghan official involved in overseeing the disputed results of a contest in which they were a player, we would have had a fit. it really baffles my mind that in 2018 in america, three secretaries of state have control and have authority over their own election. did you see that mayor of north ogden, utah, killed over there? his last tweet was, people over here risk their lives to vo vote and we screw around, say i m in starbucks, they don t bother to vote, i m in another line.
has chosen to go on this final day. ohio where there is a governor s race. indiana and missouri, those are both states with close senate races. and where he is probably a plus. unlike, say, a place like florida, more of a swing state where donald trump may not be a place a plus in that senate race or that governor s race. well, president trump is also targeted two leading democratic candidates who happen to be african americans. we talked about them, andrew gillum of florida and stacey abrams of georgia. let s watch him go at them rather viciously. i will say this. andrew gillum is not equipped to be your governor. he s just not equipped. it s not for him. it s not for him. he knows it. he won t say it, but he knows it. oprah s good, but the woman that she s supporting is not qualified to be the governor of georgia by any stretch of the imagination. you know, these terms, i don t know whether it s about a woman or an ethnic group, a race, if you will, but he seems to reserve
has pushed at every rally over the past few weeks. vote for one of his candidates and you re saying yes to trump. amid all his behavior, his gros statements about women, his ethnic and racial baiting, his personal assaults on anyone in his way, this is how the election is going to be read tomorrow night on wednesday morning and weeks from now. it s how trump is going to read it, claiming personal achievement if he holds on or strengthens his grip on the senate. denying responsibility which is very possible that the house goes democratic. in other words, americans will deliver their verdict tomorrow on donald trump, and all he represents. the final nbc/ wall street journal polls shows among likely voters, democrats now hold a national advantage of 7 percentage points over their republican opponents. 50% say they prefer a democratic controlled congress, 43% want a republican congress.
make robocalls in georgia, stacey abrams, we were talking about, her chief surrogate oprah winfrey. there is that racially suggestive ad produce bid trump s campaign committee which wrongly linked the democrats there he is, for killing two police officers and saying he wants to kill more. as of tonight, facebook, cnn, nbc and fox refuse to air that ad or pulled it from their networks. john, this has to be the first time in modern history that a president s ads have been pulled for being racist. imagine. right? i imagine it. it s happening. look, his dystopian vision of the future he has knocked the legds out of so many candidates in the suburban districts and broadened the playing field for the democrats and the house. and i think he s the one causing the senate races now to become much closer in missouri, north dakota, texas they are getting closer. they are. in fact, i see the democrats leading in every win of the late polls i saw today, ayesha.