responsible for getting democrats elected to the senate. much more on yesterday s surprising democrat win in the alabama senate race. who possibly could have seen this coming? i just don t, right now, believe any polls. i mean, moore will probably lose but who knows? i think it s more likely than not that actually roy moore will lose. you have a lot of educated women going out there, standing in lines, i think, a long time. i think, just like virginia, that could make a difference even in the reddest of red states in america. i ve got the feeling we re in missouri territory with todd aiken. really? i think the support is bleeding away. i agree. and doug jones is.
let s go to alabama, montgomery, alabama. roy moore has not conceded this race. he said this thing is not over yet. where does it go from here? reporter: yeah, good morning you guys. this was a room last night, it was the wrong party to be at number one. this is a room that had a sax joe, phonist. a silent crowd. before roy moore finally took the stage, this is what he said. you realize when the vote is this close that it s not over. and we still got to go by the rules about this recount provision. part of the problem with this campaign is we have been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. we have been put in a hole, if you will, and it reminds me of a passage in psalm 40. i waited patiently for the lord.
our state, it damages our reputation. it damages the brand we are trying to sell across the country and the world, given that, by the way, it s a view shared by olot of alabama yoons, are you relieved roy moore lost? i can t say the word believe is the right word. i m a republican and i want to see a republican senator here. so i m not happy about. that i believe it s over. i believe all this national attention that s been so negative to the state of alabama is over. we re a good state. we re a state that has all these companies from all over the world come in here. we have world class universities, so the way alabama has been portrayed in the last five weeks is not alabama. 32-year-old men don t date teenage girls in alabama. that s just not alabama. so i m glad it s over so that we can talk about the good thing about our state and, frankly, we can move on. we need to move on in washington. washington, you didn t campaign much for roy moore, you den show outward support for
year allegations and all this national attention because it s a special election and still roy moore came within one-and-a-half percentage points of winning it. this is a once in a lifetime, maybe once in several lifetime elections in the state of alabama. i hope i never see this one again. i m sure a lot of alabama residents agree with you. congressman, do you agree, earlier today i had said that in part you talked about mitch mcconnell, yes, steve bannon owns this along with donald trump, the loss, do you agree mitch mcconnell also by working aggressively to stop mo brooks from winning the nomination? i think mitch mcconnell has much about the outcome of this race as any other single person in america. mitch mcconnell should have stayed out of this race. if he would have, we d have a republican u.s. senator coming up there, not a democrat. congressman, it s willie geist. i want to ask you, at the end of the to have, you made a comment, where you said, talking about the race, i
of us as americans that they were able and willing to shake off the dust of history that has followed alabamians and alabama unfairly for too long, and they did it, and they did it proudly? elise? i m with barnicle. i m proud of the men and women of alabama who rejected a candidate with a bigoted history and crossed party lines to do it and make that choice. steve? when you think seth moulton, he s among the best of the type of people that you can send to the united states congress. but what we saw last night is that the reality is our american people, our fellow countrymen are more decent than so much of our politics and our political class. and you saw them rise up last night. and that s got to be chilling for this republican majority which has just sold its soul