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Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. When it comes from the Point Of View of the voter i always thought it should be called One Two Three voting. From the point of voter you dont have to do anything that hard. The hard part to explain is how it gets tabulated. The counting the vote part of it is hard to explain. What you do as a voter isnt that hard. But i bet kornacki can explain that part better. Exactly. Its the counting the vote spot in the script where i just gave up, and you can watch that on tv later this hour. See the point,
Voting. The Point Of View of the voter you dont do anything that you need, you dont need it rancorous. As the hard part of it is how is it gets tabulated. The candidates, the next choice, moves up, recalculated the counting the vote part of it is hard to explain. When you do as a voter is not that hard. But i bet that kornacki can explain all of that. It is exactly its the counting the vote spot in the script or i just gave up. And you can watch that on tv later this evening. Youll see the moment where rank choice, they get to choose their top and here is steve, it is going to go just like that. [laughs] now he knows to be ready in the middle of your sentence. Very good. Yeah, thank you rachel. Thank you. What we saw on the United States senate today was a show performed for two senators. Majority leader chuck schumer, wrote the Voting Rights bill before the and the senate just to show Democratic Senators joe manchin and kirsten cinema that the bipartisanship is hopeless in the United
job. but he s ahead by just about one percentage point. joining us now is the great steve kornacki, msnbc national political correspondent. he has basically been at the studio since yesterday, waiting on the results. steve, your voice has dropped an octave, i hope you re close to the end. we got the call in virginia sometime last night, now we have new jersey, so there you go. tell me what you think people should understand about why it took more than 24 hours to make this call. was this a slow count or was the reason this took so long just because it ended up being so close in the end? a couple of things. obviously the fact that it was this close, this surprisingly close, we say joe biden won this state by 16 points. not many republicans this century have even made it close in a statewide race in new jersey. they had chris christie win a couple of governor s races, not
governor phil murphy has held onto the governorship in the great state of new jersey. nbc news only updated its call within the last 30 minutes to project that governor murphy will win that race. that s a call more than 24 hours after polls closed in this election. and lots of questions remain including how close it will be in the end, will the ciattarelli campaign request a recount, also why was the polling so off? in virginia at least, the polling at the end showed the race to be really close, with glenn youngkin having a small lead. in new jersey, the polling showed phil murphy with a healthy and in some cases even double-digit lead over republican challenger jack ciattarelli. well, at this hour, phil murphy, again, is projected to keep his job, but he s ahead by just about one percentage point. joining us now is the great steve kornacki, msnbc national political correspondent. he has basically been at the studio since yesterday, waiting on the results. steve, your voice has dropped
first democrat to be elected governor in nearly 45 years. with me now to take a closer look at all of this, msnbc national political correspondent, steve kornacki at the big board. nbc news correspondent rahema ellis is in new jersey. and larry sabato, the director of the university of virginia s center for politics. thank you for being with me. steve, let s start with you. what s the latest from new jersey? here we go. all eyes are on the garden state right now. you see phil murphy, the democratic incumbent. he leads here by just under 6,000 votes, 0.2 of 1% over jack ciattarelli, his republican opponent. look, the bad news for murphy is this was a state that obviously joe biden, as you say, won in a landslide. it s a state that republicans really struggled to be competitive in. and nobody thought this race was even going to be place. i think the suspense both democrats and republicans talking to in the last week felt, hey, is this maybe going