is prime minister netanyahu going to yield to president biden s calls for brief humanitarian pauses in the air war to protect palestinian civilians? he and the u.s. are ruling out growing demands for a complete cease-fire. i don t think there s going to be a general cease-fire. it s not that i don t think. i think it will hamper the war effort, our effort to get our hostages out. the only thing that works on these criminals and hamas is the military pressure that we are exerting. we will have more on the fallout from donald trump s wild day on the witness stand and look ahead to ivanka s testimony tomorrow. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. happy election day. we have a preview of what s at stake in key governor and state legislative contests that could signal which party has an edge going into 2024. in deep red kentucky, popular democratic governor andy beshear tries to hold off a challenge from the republican state attorney general who has su
Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
state, those are the suburbs of cincinnati, ohio, right across the ohio river. these are densely populated, large, usually republican bastions. republicans usually run up the numbers. two of these counties actually flipped and went for beshear, went for the democratic here. the other one, boone county, the red one, went with bevin, but his margin was a lot lower than it was last time he ran. in kentucky, you have these big suburb counties moving away from matt bevin. the third one, rural coal country, eastern kentucky, rural eastern kentucky. you saw numbers here, a couple counties where beshear this is a small rural county. beshear won this 55-44. put that in perspective. how did donald trump do in this county in 2016? donald trump won it by almost 40 points. this is a 50-point swing you re talking about here for beshear winning by 11. that s what the numbers look
this part of the state, rural eastern kentucky. look at this. a county like bath county. a small county but beshear wins this by six points. look at that. trump won it by 37. it was trump by 37 points. tonight democrats win it by six points. that s a swing of more than 40 points. when you have swings like, that a lot of these blue counties in eastern kentucky it s a very similar story. that s the third ingredient for beshear. rural parts of the state that are ancestrally democratic. the folks that were there, their parents all kind of democrats. they inherdt the democratic registration. they kept it. they vote republican in national levels. they went with beshear tonight. that was an essential ingredient for him. those are the three sort of things that went into that. also we ll get to the other governor s race tonight. there was a second governor s race in mississippi. tate reeves, the republican, we re declaring him the apparent winner here. the reason for the hesitation, because his
republicans usually depend on to drive up their margins. he didn t drive it up here like he did last time, like he s supposed to do, like a republican is supposed to do. kenton county next door, matt bevin won this easily in 2016. look, he lost it. he got 57% of the vote last time around. tonight he lost it outtrite beshear. same thing in campbell county. bevin won this thing by 10 points last time around. tonight he loses it by 6. so population-dense suburbs in northern kentucky really dramatically moving away from bevin and toward beshear. that s the second part of the formula for beshear. even that, though, those two things alone or those two things together wouldn t have been enough. the third ingredient that got beshear across the finish line here in kentucky, rural eastern kentucky. this is a part of the state that really you talk about kentucky decades ago was a democratic state. still a lot of democrats there in kentucky. they re culturally conservative, and they tend to vote r