World class education that opens up every door that they can walk through. and we can only provide those opportunities by we have much more election news tonight including in the state of virginia. but let s go straight to steve kornacki for the latest on kentucky. steve, nbc is calling andy beshear the apparent winner. what are we waiting for confirmation there? yeah, so basically you can see the margin here. it is inside of 1% here. this is 0.4% of 1%. the margin here 4,801 votes. we have every precinct in the state accounted for. what is happening now is that matt bevin, the governor there it is, we just had a i want to figure out what just happened there. i think i may know.
that was matt bevin campaigning for his re-election as governor in kentucky just last night. that strategy did not work. we re joined now by kentucky democratic party chairman ben self. mr. self, was this a referendum on donald trump? you know, i think that governor bevin clearly tried to make it referendum on donald trump, but at the end of the day kentuckians took at look at the two candidates and decided which one of them was better for kentucky, and that s when democrats win in kentucky, when you win on what s better for every day kentuckians. clearly they pull out all the stops to try to save the second least popular governor in america match they flew in donald trump on the night before the election. mike pence was campaigning the weekends before. donald trump, jr. came in, trump came in for two other fund raisers and even ben carson up
That morning with matt bevin, and he said look around, people are talking about trump, people are talking about impeachment. people are looking at someone that needs to defend the president. i countered him saying you re not ready for the house of representatives or senate with all due respect, sir. he essentially said you know what, trump works. there was no discussion of policy. and what you see here was a donald trump victory in 2016 by 30 bers 30% to an andy beshear victory tonight. he says he plans to extend voting rights, he plans to implement a board of education, and plans to roll back those medicaid waivers essentially playing work restrictions, work requirements on the recipients in the state of kentucky. it s time for our mapanel to
Leader of this culture. that s how we re going to create good jobs all over kentucky in every single community. in my first week in office i am going to rescind this governor s medicaid waiver. we are going to give this state a brand new board of education. and we are going to restore the voting rights of more than
It was this. this is where we had a discrepancy and i wasn t sure on. the misthis is the one discrepy that was on the board. i apologize, lawrence, it literally happened as we were right here. it updated by a few thousand votes, the totals for bevin and beshear. but you can see it still lands about 5,126 votes. 51-26 that s what it lands at right here. matt bevin the governor said he s not conceding this election. he has the right if he wants he didn t say he s necessarily doing this he has the right to file for a recount. if he has to do if he wants to take that route, he d have to go to court, he d have to go to a judge. apparently in his speech tonight he alluded to discrepancies, not apparent what he might be referring to, irregularities.