ride some recent controversial comments by hyde-smith to a narrow win in the deep red state. peter doocy is in jackson. peter? reporter: dana, secretary of state here in mississippi is accusing hackers of trying to overload the website that tells people where to go and vote in this runoff. secretary of state told the abc affiliate here in jackson that there were hundreds of thousands of clicks on the site of somebody trying to figure out where to go and vote, but that mississippi cyber defenses kept things running smoothly. a possible attempt to affect turnout is a big deal. a big turnout is the only way the underdog in this race mike espy can pull out a win. only half the americans come out to vote, i won t win. i know that. i know that. i have known that throughout my career. so we have to have a good number
shepard: i want to follow-up on breaking news from the last hour. we heard a little bit and weren t going to mention it because we didn t have enough. you can imagine how often there are active shooter situations. want to make sure it s real before you put it out in the public so we were holding off and know the whole active shooter thing at walter reed was a drill. that s all i it was. these are tense times. it was a drill today. remember the midterm election three weeks ago? it s not over. but today the last remaining race for the united states senate could finally get settled. we ll take you to mississippi where democrats are trying to flip a seat in the deep red state and where thanksgiving lunch was terrific, pity pat. insurance that won t replace
just one race is left to call to determine the final balance of power in the house of representatives with a race in new mexico the last holdout. this afternoon in utah, incumbent republican congresswoman mia love conceded in a tightly contended house race in the deep red state. democrat ben mcadams won by just 700 votes, meaning democrats have now officially picked up 38 seats in the house. and joining me now is republican congresswoman mia love from utah. congresswoman, it s great to see you again. sorry it s under these circumstances. i want you to take a listen to a comment president trump made the day after the election about the race which at the time had not even been called. take a listen. right. no love. and she lost. too bad. sorry about that, mia. what did you think about that when he said that? you know, i i guess i was surprised at first, but i started thinking about what would start that, what would
wave election of tuesday also included the republicans you would schuyler rued who won a washington state assembly see you had been west who won a city council seat in the state of oregon and in the deep red state of south carolina jason elliott in a heavily conservative district won in his bid for reelection for the state house of representatives this is someone who had the support and the endorsement of former south carolina and heritage foundation president jim de mint in his bid for reelection i think it just goes to show just how far hearts and minds are changing on both sides of the aisle when it comes to supporting good candidates regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. we do the wall street journal exit poll from tuesday to twenty four percent of the community voted republican in thirty seven percent of transgender people voted republican i mean those are those
a number of l g b t democrats who won but the l.g.b. t. wave election of tuesday also included the republicans you would schuyler rued who won a washington state assembly seat you had been west who won a city council seat in the state of oregon and in the deep red state of south carolina jason elliott in a heavily conservative district won in his bid for reelection for the state house of representatives this is someone who had the support and the endorsement of former south carolina and heritage foundation president jim de mint in his bid for reelection i think it just goes to show just how far hearts and minds are changing on both sides of the aisle when it comes to supporting good candidates regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. tweeted the wall street journal exit poll from tuesday stated twenty four percent of the community voted republican in thirty seven percent of transgender people voted republican i mean those are