president, george w. bush who beat him in the primary in 2000, barack obama who beat him in the general election 2008, to be the one to eulogize him. and so that and there was really bad blood between him and george w. bush. really bad blood. and there wasn t the warmest and fuzziest of feelings with him and barack obama at the beginning after obama became president either. but he forged working relationships with both of them. and the symbol clearly that he and his family want to put out there is what he has stood for in addition to duty, honor, country, which is work together, compromise, do what is right for the country. and put human rights and the ideals of democracy as he believes these two presidents have done ahead of everything else and that is what he wants the stamp on his legacy to be. he and those close to him clearly do not feel that president trump factors into any of that in a productive way. i want to take a look at the moment that mccain defied
for tonight s event martha maccallum. it should be fun. martha: that should be interesting. bret: we were talking about how much president trump factors into the race, and we worked it into some of our thoughts about that. as we look at the 2016 election and the votes, donald trump get 68.6% of the votes in west virginia. over hillary clinton. then you look at the recent poll that we just did, and that is the approval of job performance, somewhat approved 20%, 67%, that is a big number, 87% in the state. martha: that is exactly why they are all trying to prove that they are closer to president trump and joe manchin who has been moderate on a lot of issues. can the president have agreed on a few things. trying to carve out a space that is to the right of joe manchin and they believe that the electorate west virginia once a senate republican to the senate, it s going to be a bruiser, this has been a very intense campaigo
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. let s 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? let s 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,