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That s how many they are running through the machines right now. so it s a republican district and saccone, to have a chance to still win this election, he s got to cut severely into that 579. what he is up against is this. he didn t do he won it but by republican standards you re supposed to do better in washington county. he got 53%. you want to be eating into that margin that conor lamb has in the district, you re going to need more than 53% of these absentee ballots. the problem what is we ve seen in allegheny wash, what we saw westmoreland is, lamb is doing better on the absentees than he did on election day. that pattern would have to break in washington county. fit does, saccone could get a bump here. if it doesn t, he quickly runs out of votes because all that s left, greene county, there s only 200 absentee ballots, they ll count those tomorrow, but there s only 200. military votes, those are probably going to break more republican. there may be like dozens of ....
Saccone, but that s it. you re going to have scores or dozens of military votes, low hundreds of provisionals. what saccone needs, and he needs it in this hour, when they release that number from washington, he needs a big number out of washington county. i think he s got to do probably better than he did in the election day vote there. he s got to probably improve on that 53%. you could get a big number, multiply it into the 1,200 outstanding ballots. maybe he could start to eat into it. it is a massive stack against him but you can understand why he s not questioning up yet, it s an exciting hour, it s early morning, you re awake with me. we ve got an election coming down to absentee and we get to watch it together. don t go to sleep, what would be the point of staying up this late and going to sleep now? i know you re supposed to work in the morning, so am i, who cares, we re going to be talking about this 50 years from now. joining us now, kaitlin huey ....
Rick saccone over the weekend. the 18th district special election in pennsylvania, it comes just two years after donald trump carried the same district by 20 points. we do not yet know the final outcome tonight. we hope to learn this hour. we are waiting, any minute to get the absentee wall lots out of washington county, i can t wait to tell you. before we get to that interesting stat from today s vote. this is hq reports. conor lamb won 132 precincts that were won by donald trump in 2016. rick saccone did not win a single precinct won by hillary clinton in 2016. david jolly, former republican congressman from florida, am rhea teresa kumar, president and ceo of voter latino and msnbc contributor. i m curious about the trump effect. we saw high turnout, energized turnout against the republicans in allegheny county, the suburban part of this district ....
The possibility, to your math, of lamb pulling this out. i think you have a lot of republicans across the country really worried, no matter what the results are tonight. jonathan, what s going through your mind waiting for these final votes to come in? since it s 3:00 in the morning, one of the things is going through my mind is i was in a studio on this floor in 2000 on election night ahh, yeah. on the area with tom brokaw and tim russert and we were talking about how that election, the stakes were higher, a presidential election, but it could all be going to court, and indeed it did in florida. i don t think this one is going to go to court. i don t think the republican party nationally really wants to pursue this that much. i mean, these guys are going to run again in november. and they re in different districts. but it is fun for anybody who loves politics. and it s why politics is sometimes compared to sports. ....