Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Everybody has gone home. A few hours ago, this was a pretty bumping party. Democrats really felt like they had a shot here tonight. It the last 48 hours of this race, everything seemed to be breaking their way. The republican candidate stumbled into a gaffe about Franklin County The Night Before the election started. Their candidate had been all over the place in national and local media. They felt like they were fighting out the la
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead . No, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that baldersons advantage which is 0. 9 right now over oconnor if that ends up at 0. 5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. You could potentially, i wouldnt say its the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. There are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they havent been mailed back. A lot of them probably arent going to be mailed back. Some of them a small number probably military ballots maybe still making their way. Some of them probably a small number are voters you had to have them postmarked yesterday. If they sent it out yesterday, it still comes in, that vote probably still going to be
district, the areas that currentlied to trump, the turnout wasnt as high but the vote, the margins that bal
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Have Breaking News about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. His righthand man rick gates face a grueling crossx admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. And the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar Paul Manafort or the admitted Liar Rick Gates . Cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. How did it go for manafort . Well, manafort was really trying to put Rick Gates On Trial today. His Defense Lawyers were Hammering Gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsels office, about false filings and Bank Accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from Paul Manafort. And there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manaforts Defense Lawyer about where the money came from. Gates was not making many admissions. At various times he said he couldnt recall things whereas on dir
you in a jen election. this is really important to understand sort of mathematically as a political scientist. the vast majority of special elections are in gerrymandered districts. it s generally not a situation where in a special election you can beat the incumbent party. democrats haven t won very many federal elections. they ve been winning at the state level. when you can break down a margin from 10 to 16 points to single digits knowing there will be a rematch in two months, every single republican has to be concerned heading into the fall and donald trump can t visit all the districts he needs to visit in order to stave off a blue wave. it s interesting. we talk about the trump effect. the obvious trump effect is the fact we had a competitive race in the 12th congressional district a democrat hadn t won since 1980. in terms of the result, the president going in on saturday making noise in this one, how do you look at the results in a way the trump effect on this one? the way,
we have been focusing all night on a special election in the 12th district in ohio. believe it or not, there s a lot more when it comes to elections tonight. a bunch of other big races happening around the country including michigan where the democratic state senate leader gretchen whitmer has won the democratic nomination for governor in that state. this according to associated press. there s been a little bit of chaos in the vote counting out there for the secretary of state site. those are the numbers you see up on the screen showing you a low apartment in. whitmer the favorite of the establishment of the party. you re seeing in the a.p. count winning with 51% of the vote. she defeats apparently former top detroit health official abdul he will syed. he was backed by both bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez. they campaigned on his behalf ahead of this race.