be the next mayor of washington, d.c. council chairman vincenty defeating adrian fenty. fenty has conceded in the democratic primary. these are the latest results with about 90% of the precincts reporting. gray leaks fenty 53% to 46% and the washington post has declared gray the winner. good morning. i m sarah simmons in for gurvir dhindsa. welcome to fox 5 morning news. there were some scary moments as staffers waited for election results to come in at fenty campaign headquarters. a volunteer fell and crashed through a plate glass window all while care engray houston was live on the air. those are the people who were targeted by the get out to vote effort oh, my gosh. don t get too frightened. somebody leaped against the glass and it broke out. that volunteer fell through a nine by nine foot window and was bleeding badly from the head. we are told he was conscious and talking when he walked to an ambulance. we ll have more on gray s big win as well. you can see the r
washington, even the most sort of optimistic republican strategists say we d love to win two out of three, but two out of three and losing delaware okay. i think that you re so smart. the majority. let me go to gaviny. a fellow irishman. i have to ask you this. do you think it could be the like guys like joe biden and guys like me who were smart enough to make the run? i m looking at this situation. it s a crapshoot. you cannot predict this year they recognize your name and say, i knew that name three months ago. they don t like you. isn t that true? it is true. bow biden should have gotten in this year. could he have beaten either of these candidates. beaten cassel or o donnell? i think that he could have. really? yes. biden, absolutely. chris, can i make one quick point that matters. alaska, august 24th, what was
conservative movement hating the republican establishment. what that means in delaware senate primary is a competition among republicans to see who counts as the establishment and who counts as the real insurgent conservatives. former alaska governor sarah palin, south carolina senator jim demint and tea party express organization all in one corner promoting a tea party identified candidate. in the other corner, the republican party in state is unified around a nine-term republican congressman, a man named mike cassel. here is a good way to see that. here is the delaware republican party website and here is mike castle s website. they are mirror images of each other. the woman challenging is named christine o donnell. the state party filed a complaint with the federal election commission about her accusing the tea party express of illegally coordinating with the o donnell campaign. the chairman of the delaware
but i m starting to think if she pulls it off tomorrow, she could do anything. if she can beat mike castle in this state, we re ready for anything. what s your state like these days? is it as unhappy as the rest of the country and could say, she s not quite prepared or maybe this other fellow cunes has more executive experience. the logic way that we make decisions may not play out this year. no, chris, it s very emotional. there s a lot of antiestablishment, anti-incumbent sentiment. the tea party is strong. there are three counties, the two lower counties, much more conservative, much more likely to go to christine o donnell. the others, the city of urban. more likely to go to mike cassel. however, will he win enough to take the whole state? it s a crapshoot. all of my political pundit friends are saying the same thing to me. i don t know. let s talk about the country. chris, let s pull back and look at the whole country. people who are watching from
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