Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Thats 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. The official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1 of each other once the votes are certified. This morning, balderson is claiming victory. Oconnor has not conceded. Regardless, well see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, august 8th. With joe, willie and me, we have Associate Editor of Commentary Magazine noah raufman. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner and National Political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, Steve Kornacki. But you see this same thing happening. Theyre bleeding. Republicans are bleeding so badly right now in suburbs, and then
we don t have an official call yet here at nbc news, but he s declared victory saying when i decided to go to ohio for troy balderson, he was down. not good. after my speech saturday night, a big turn for the better. now troy wins a great victory during a difficult time for voting. he will win big in november. steve car knacky, cautalk about what happened yesterday. big republican state and president trump won it two years ago by 11 points. first of all, numbers here. is there a chance with balderson up by about 1,700 votes now with provisional ballots, mail-in ballots that that result changes, that o connor somehow comes out on top? the suspense is extra weird on this one, because you expect the provisional ballots to break towards the democrat. you don t expect them to actually erase 1,754 vote republican lead. however, if the margin were to cut that 1,754 in half, not
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and in the brexit vote of the united kingdom. but the track record of the polls in france at least for this election is very, very good. and it indicates a pretty clear victory for emmanuel macron. but not an emphatic one. 60-40 is not seen an emphatic victory. when marine le pen s father was in a runoff with jack chirac in 2002. her father got only 15% of the vote. she is set to get around 40%. so this is a political party, a far right political party, that is doing better and better. thank you so much for being with us. our thanks to philip krouter and jeremy bash. i ll going to go home and practice my french accent. coming up, steve car knacky back by popular demand. at our big board with the high wire act in the senate on health care.
5th. as congressman elijah cummings says, not everyone feels the same. i think it s quite possible the tax extension will be passed but not with my vote. the white house is pushing the bill but the president looks like he s getting opposition on all sides now. steve car knacky, editor for salon.com, he s in new york. do you think the president anticipated how hard of a sell this bill would be? yeah. no, i think so. i think there is sort of a precedent here, if you go way back, if you can think of the first president bursh, he broke his no new taxes pledge he knew he would face a revolt from the republicans and basically got it through with minimal support from the republicans. when you look at what the democrats really to get this through the house and senate, there s a lot of room built in for defections, for sort of liberal legislators to take a