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It is Election Night in america. Much of america. In new jersey, Chris Christie reelected to a second term as governor. We are awaiting a victory speech from governor christie. Likely within this hour. In virginia, nbc news project, democratic Terry Mcauliffe pulled off a narrow victory. Defeated, Ken Cuccinelli, with 96 of the vote in. Mcauliffe, has 47 . And libertarian candidate, has 7 . Nbc news also projects that Democrat Ralph Northam is winner of the lieutenantgovernor race. Political director, chuck todd is at the headquarters in tysons corner, virginia. Chuck, how did this race find its way to a Terry Mcauliffe victory and rather narrow ....
Its way to a Terry Mcauliffe victory and rather narrow one . Well, a rather narrow one. I think we can be reminded. Virginia is virginia. A swing state for a reason. This is as virginia goes. So goes the nation. Its been that way for the last decade. When you look at the last two weeks. You can on one hand, look at the result tonight. And say the minute, Ken Cuccinelli was nominated. He was going to have problems in Northern Virginia. Problems in suburban counties. I can tell you, i will give you two results tonight. I know Steve Schmidt will love this. And henrico county, richmond, suburban county, mcdonald won the county. 5644. Mcauliffe will win it 5239. Fairfax county. Mcdonald won fairfax county, 23009. Mcauliffe, has a lead. Not all vote is in. 5837. Ken cu ....
They include a notorious democratic governor, a former championship sports team owner, and a former new York City Police commissioner. All of this happens against a backdrop of judicial intrigue and raised eyebrows involving the president , his tweets and comments, and his attorney general. John roberts starts us off tonight from the north lawn. Good evening, President Trump greased some skids for a controversial clemency grant to date sending out football legends to get the ball rolling with a fairly innocuous pardon. Then dropping the big one, Rod Blagojevich. The release from prison of the former illinois governor was a long time coming, his supporters have been advocating for a pardon since President Trump took office. In the end, he stopped short of a full ....
For twitter and behind or global in nation. let s welcome in margaret sullivan, and from the post national correspondent philip bump disbunker checker khaya himm himmelman. good morning, everybody. is anybody believing elon musk he s concerned about twitter, wil will anybody buy it? yes, he has a group of supporters that believe it. he has groups that are very vocal. to exports believe it? no, not really. matt bloomberg wrote a story that his original complaint was there were too many boxes and now there are too many boxes so he doesn t want to buy it and these other machinations and so and so sforj. this huge war, how does that play out in a courtroom? ....
Lot of volatility in the political marketplace. a lot of downward pressure on the president, the democrats and republicans. david axelrod, should democrats score virginia as a win or was it just something that the republican kicked away? you have the democrat sitting in the governor s mansion. and where i come from that is a win. and, we ll take it. look, it is the first time in decades and decades that virginia is actually elected has elected a governor of the same party as the president. certainly, i agree with what steve said. that if the republican party had nominate aid differed a differe. they would have had a greater chance here. that is the essence with the republican party right now. you have chris christie up in new jersey who, who tried to build a broader coalition. and had a good night. and then you had the republicans in virginia, who ran a narrow ideological campaign. and they lost. and so that the lesson should be clear, i agree with steve, i am ....