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Nbc news characterizing that race for governor as too early to call with the polls closed. Democrats are bracing themselves for a comforting victory, where, of course, another devastating defeat. Recent polling has shown northam with a slight edge but within the margin of error. Gillespie, an aid to george b. Push, is trying to help his establishment bonifides. If he wins, he can provide fellow republicans how to campaign in theably of trump. Lets get the very latest from the race from our own steve kornacki. Steve what do we know . Well, it was 7 00. The polls closed in new jersey. We were an hour away. As you just showed. We have no actual votes in just yet. What can we show you from the exit polls . Lets look at a few of the key questions, we can tackle there. First of all, see if we can call up the areas. Okay. That should call it up. Here we go, the trump factors,
starting in virginia, the president , his Approval Rating, cl ....
That put us on the the bobby kennedy assassination that put us on that inevitable road to hubert hum debris on the democrats side. what that campaign began with was bravery, was a senator standing up and saying, i m going to run against the president of my own party. that was something that was unheard of. and it was done by this obscure senator at the time, gene mccarthy. everyone was surprised when he did it. as you know, bobby kennedy thought about running before gene mccarthy announced. and bobby decided against it. then he was never comfortable with his decision, he kept going back and forth. gene mccarthy had some success in new hampshire. and chris, i was in high school. i thought gene mccarthy won new hampshire. and i thought that for decades after the fact. that s the way it played. because that s the way it played. turns out he came in a very strong second, as you know, bobby kennedy jumps into the race, lyndon johnson says, i quit. as you know, every single possible c ....
Reflected in the people in their community. you got to be sensitive to where, you know, popular national figure or unpopular national figure stand in your state as well. so the focus i went through this in 2006 wearing the brand of a party not very popular with the american people, certainly not within my own state. but you still forge ahead, you make your case to those folks about the issues that they care about, which i think ed gillespie did masterfully. to the point michael, don t talk leak you are on the side lines, you are in there, fishing in troubled waters. i know what you are up to. you are trying to fet african-americans not to vote democrat, cutting from the ballot of a lt. gov.. that is not what i m doing at all. i have not done that at all. anywith thaun says that are dead wrong. the fact of the matter is myself and j.c. wattts on this program last night made it clear the concerns that we raised was the way the democratic party and this democratic candidate ....
He has to answer for. he gets into this language what do you mean is is, those things? nothing was reached to conclusion, but the way he was saying it before sessions was, we never met, it turns out we met, we met, there is no discussions about collusion. they did discuss what the russians wanted. a debate over what s a meet something well, i mean we met in passing. i don t necessarily call that a meeting. what s a meet something where, you know, we re getting down in the polls. we now know he admitted he was in a meeting, a shutoff with papadopoulos, close down his architect for a deal, another meeting. we know it all went on? how close are we getting to an argument here, there was collusion, robert? there was this outer rim of the campaign, it s arguable. trump had nothing to do with this? i m not ready to say that at all. you look at sam clovis and george papadopoulos, inside the campaign, not talking to trump daily. ....
Starting in virginia, the president, his approval rating, clocks in at 43%, by comparison, last time they had a governor s race in virginia, four years ago, barack obama was the president, his party s candidate did win, very close race. his number was 46 on election day, trump s today coming in at 43 in this exit poll. also, new jersey, can you see a blue state, not surprisingly 32% is the trump approval rating. keep your eye on this, more significant in this new jersey race, how about chris christie, throughout as time as to have, he peaked at 77% back during hurricane sandy, all way down in the exit poll, a 19% approval rating for chris christie as his lt. gov. tries to succeed him there, back to virginia, obviously the marquee race, something else we can tell you. the story last year in the election of donald trump was that social class split among white college white non-college voters. what share of the elect terror ....