Nbc news characterizing that race for governor as too early to call with the polls closed. Democrats are bracing themselves for a comforting victory, where, of course, another devastating defeat. Recent polling has shown northam with a slight edge but within the margin of error. Gillespie, an aid to george b. Push, is trying to help his establishment bonifides. If he wins, he can provide fellow republicans how to campaign in theably of trump. Lets get the very latest from the race from our own steve kornacki. Steve what do we know . Well, it was 7 00. The polls closed in new jersey. We were an hour away. As you just showed. We have no actual votes in just yet. What can we show you from the exit polls . Lets look at a few of the key questions, we can tackle there. First of all, see if we can call up the areas. Okay. That should call it up. Here we go, the trump factors,
starting in virginia, the president , his Approval Rating, clocks in at 43 , by comparison, last time they had a gover
president trump attempteden the p an attempt in the demilitarized zone, he was turned back not by military problems but bath bad weather. nbc news kelly o donnell joins us from seoul with the story. it looks like sunshine over there right now? reporter: well, there is heavy fog here, chris. in advance of this trip the white house says president trump would not go. vice president mike pence visited earlier in the administration, so this was an important and surprise development that has now fallen apart. the pool traveling with the president had this information and it was held for a period of time as they made an attempt with marine one to get to the demilitarized zone. they were turned back due to fog, restaged, tried to go again and determined what we call a weather call that they would not be able to make this trip. it would have been important especially because the layout at
house and senate have said no people understand that. and virginia looks a lot like america, the diversity of america. we have exit polling saying health care is the number one issue in america. i have a problem. you argue about the republican tax bill, which i think should get near passed. but you don t offer an alternative to rebuild this country. why do democrats fear to talk about construction, jobs, good jobs, railways, fixing up the country and building a big intercontinental railroad system. doing something that catches up to the rest of the world? why do democrats support public enterprise? i do that all the time, it s about bold opportunities for every community for everyone. stop dithering what republicans are doing and outmatch them. thank you. he does not claim the right to remove the nominee for president. president trump has cast a long shadow over the race, despite having just a 41% approval rating in virginia, not so high.
kennedy. nixon was afraid of him. lbj was afraid of him. gene mccarthy was afraid of him. everyone was. let s talk about the results. i voted for humphrey. but i thought i did so because of civil rights and because i thought ed muskie was one hell of a running mate. you probably did too. i thought nixon, tricky dickey, would get us out of the war, he d say that s the democrat war, i m getting out. yet he gets in there thanks to henry kissinger, prolongs it an entire term, half the americans killed in that war are killed after nixon comes to office. that was not what the voters voted for, they did not vote for nixon to keep that war going, they voted for him to say, i ve got a secret plan to get out of this thing. exactly. he had that trump trump was saying last year, i ll beat isis, i can do this, the generals can t do it but i can, i know how to do it. he kept, of course that plan a secret because he didn t have one. nixon implied he had a secret plan to end that war, but he got
oh, i m in the fight, absolutely. no doubt about it. that s what i want to know. are you making your points, thank you, michael steele as always, well done with some charm. we ll be tracking right away the returns all night long, nbc news is characterizing the race. the polls are closed. it s too early to call. we ll be back with the russian investigation. there is always some russian. there is a trump campaign foreign adviser. he says he coordinated with five campaign officials five of them before and after his trip to moscow after maintaining he made it as a private citizen and met with top citizens while there. the glue gets thicker and stronger. this is trump s long-time body guard as interviewed by the house intelligence committee. trump doesn t like that guy being interviewed. i can tell you, this is hardball where the action is.