jon tester in montana securing a third term. vote. by 39% of the interestingly jon tester one by the same percentage point back in 2012. this was the state the president won with 56% of the vote. jon tester able to win by 7000 votes over his republican opponent. here is the story from the great falls tribune. the unprecedented amount of money. record $60race at a million, that race. the balance of power, republicans maintain control with 51 seats very democrats with 46, caucusing with them. right now they are still waiting on results in arizona and florida. when those results are known we will bring them to you. we are waiting to see how those races are called. in florida senator nelson conceded. then the race became closer as they continue to count votes. an automatic recount has been triggered in the state of florida. we are waiting for chuck schumer of new york. he is expected to hold a news conference after last night's results. and his party will stay in the minority in that chamber. their counterparts on the house side will be i

president trump went after jon tester. doesn't like jon tester. john tester is popular there. and he says look, the president may not like me, but i'm one of you, very tight race. what are we seeing now? >> the president is looking at this senate map tonight, and he loves this. he loves this. he loves this. he loves this. he is dancing over this. if it holds. remember, jon tester was the senator, the democratic senator who called dr. kaentd man. dr. jackson is still under investigation. republicans were not ready to confirm dr. jackson. but the president, because tester was out in the lead, taking it personally. so he has been out here four times. his son has been out there. this is a big deal. tester led early on. you capitalize this race perfectly earl yes. tester says i'm a democrat. i'm not one of those national democrats. i'm one of you. that's his race. that's how he has survived throughout. and he has been pretty damn good at it. he tried to say this is a maryland real estate developer. this is a republican state. this is a state the president won 20 plus points. you lo

some believe jon tester has a slight edge. he's won these big races before but the question is, can president trump get those trump voters from 2016, can he remind them there is a midterm election on tuesday and get them out to vote? about two-thirds of the vote already cast here by mail. every day that goes by, some diminishing returns. he'll be here in an hour or hour and a half, rallying the crowd here and then fly to a warmer climate in pensacola. >> jeff, while they've been casting their ballots via mail, is it immigration which is a message that resonates with people there or is there something else which has influenced their selections? >> reporter: talking to voters here, it's not immigration. the president is very much trying to nationalize this race. he's trying to make this race about immigration, but health care is the top issue in all surveys here. health care and also public lands. that is a big issue in montana. keeping the land out of private hands, keeping it in a public land use and things. those are key issu

jon tester how is he doing? 53%. go back six years, about the same. just start to go through this. as you go through the map, you see tester underperforming or is rosendale overperforming. tester at 64. go back in time. tester at 64. it's filling in. he had a close race last time, all three-points. 3 1/2 points. now, trailing. this, again, you look at this map, this is one of the

of course democratic senator jon tester running for his third term in the u.s. senate, facing a credible challenge here largely because president trump has decided to engage so much in this race. montanans have never seen a u.s. president visit so much as president trump has. we'll see if that actually results in a win on tuesday. despite the excitement, you can see the crowd cheering as he's about to step off air force one, most people here have already voted. more than two-thirds of montana voters have mailed in their ballots. so these rallies certainly drive attention and the president is trying to get any trump supporters who voted for him in 2016 to come out and vote if they have not already done so. as the president tries to nationalize this race, talking about judge kavanaugh, talking about immigration, jon tester and other democrats are trying to localize this race, talking about health care, talking about access to public lands. so we will see which argument wins out. fredericka, watch tuesday night to see if jon tester wins or loses, it will largely de

jon tester is a democrat, one of the rare ones representing a red state. president trump won montana by some 20 points in 2016, and he is trying to awaken his voters to come out and support the republican candidate. but we caught up with jon tester yesterday as was he campaigning and asked him how he sees the race. let's watch. senator, president trump has been here four times now. he has a target on you. how has that changed the race? >> i don't think it has. still a race between myself and matt rosendale for united states senator. the difference between me and my opponent are 180 degrees on nearly every issue, that's what it is about. whether the president comes here or not doesn't make a difference, still a race between matt rosendale and myself. i will tell you this, i think the president coming is a good thing and i would like to see him get around, not just do rallies, but see some of the challenges in a rural state like montana. he is from new york city. he could learn a lot. >> reporter: senator tester getting a dig in there, saying the president i

we caught up with jon tester on friday. this is what he said about the president's visit. >> whether the president comes here or not doesn't make any difference. it's still a race between matt rosendale and myself. although, i will tell you this. i think the president coming was a good thing. and i would like to see him get around and not just do rallies but actually see some of the challenges we have in a rural state like montana. he's from new york city. he could learn a lot. >> so jon tester there taking a bit of a dig at the president saying he's a new york city developer and lowering my voice here as they're doing a prayer before the rally but no question, this race is one of the most competitive. i'm told the president is telling his advisers, this is the one he wants to win the most. he's having a bit of a personal feud with jon tester over who's going to lead the v.a. earlier this year and that's one of the reasons that president trump has been out here so often. we'll see what happens on tuesday. the final stop her

jon tester is one of the more moderate democrats in the u.s. senate. he is seeking a third term to the senate. no doubt it is an uphill challenge, a challenge by any means, because this is such a deep red state. but the president misstating jon tester's record on immigration, misstating his record on health care and other things. he's clearly trying to portray him as a national democrat, if you will. but the president also talking about how he feels good about what's coming up for tuesday, at least on the senate. but ana, they are acknowledging behind the scenes the white house does believe the republicans are likely to lose control of the house of representatives. it's one of the reasons he is trying to campaign in these senate seats. so he's here in montana. he'll be flying to florida shortly, ana. yes, sir jeff zeleny, not just behind the scenes, acknowledging the house could change hands. thank you, we'll check back in with you throughout the afternoon. joining me now, steve cortes, democratic strategist keith boykin, and editor at large for "wa "t

montana, senator jon tester remains behind matt rosen dale. jon tester with 48.2%. matt at 48.9%. aheada, martha mcsally is .n her bid to replace that is expected to be headed to recount. bill nelson requesting a recount. over 8.1 million votes. nelsonvote margin, bill at 38.9%. governor rick scott at 50.2%. -- bill nelson at 49.8%. the georgia race, stacey abrams has not yet conceded to brian kemp. she is behind 48.6% to 50.5%. we will keep watching the results. host: jennifer on facebook reacts. towardsll step restoring normalcy. great night for women candidates and diversity." cindy saying "i believe the president will enjoy toying with nancy pelosi." comments on social media. you can make comments about yesterday. republican line, massachusetts, linda from chicopee. caller: how are you. host: i am fine. caller: as far as i'm concerned, the democrats winning the house is a blessing and a curse. can young because, imagine what america would look like today if they had lost? they would be tearing up the cities, burning things up. they are completely out of control. if they do not

jon tester up four points over a g.o.p. challenger matt rosendale, and that's almost within the margin of error. it's a very tight race. >> it's laughable that he sits there and talks about campaign finance and he is the largest recipient of contributions from lobbyists in the nation. >> talk about dark money, i paid for my ads. there's a few dark money ads on and i can't stop them. >> martha: so it's the ads in the montana senate race that have become the headlines lately. this ad appears to be sent by rick breckinridge, in order to take away votes from matt rosendale, is the thinking here. but breckinridge denies ever sending this mailer out and now conservatives are pointing to 2012 when a similar thing happened in an attempt to use a libertarian candidates to take votes away from the opponent. so here to sort this out, real clear politics national reporter. so what's going on here? >> basically in 2012, this was the same thing that happened. jon tester -- we don't know in2 but there was a mysterious mailers sent out to

we'll put jon tester over here just for the sake of it. that's a 53-seat majority based on the early returns that we have. again, this is projecting. i'm not basing this on anything other than just extrapolating. but the republicans are going to pick up seats in the senate. >> you know, but if you take a look at that, there's a difference if the republicans have a 50-seat majority, 51. but if they get 52 or 53 or 54, they're sitting pretty comfortably in the senate as far as confirmations of controversial judicial nominees, if there's another supreme court nominee, for example. they're looking pretty good. >> think about somebody like susan collins, the republican senator from maine and all the power she's been able to wield the last two years because her vote was so crucial, or lisa murkowski, the moderate republican from alaska. those two have been able to exact a lot of demands. they were able to -- they did not vote for the repeal of obamacare. that had huge impact on that. their concerns were listened to when it came to the kavanaugh

jon tester claiming the democratic party botched the kavanaugh debate. they didn't give him a chance. remember they were against kavanagh from the beginning. joe donnelly ran an ad about socialists and government run health care. it is a buddy chuck schumer gave us that failure, gave us that monstrosity. many people only have one choice of a health care provider and this is a light campaign. they support the far left policies of schumer and they constantly work to address president trump and his agenda. all they want is power and they have contempt and they are caught on tape. radisson caught on tape. heidi heitkamp, caught on tape. now we have joe donnelly, caught on tape. gillam, one running for governor, caught on tape. look no further than kavanaugh and steve gore such. only a far left democrat would be voting against these two highly qualified impeccable candidates. and we saw what happened, no due process and no presumption of innocence. and we have yet another revealing project veritas video to show you, this time coming from the great state of te

jon tester winning 49.8% of the rate -- vote. rosendale, 47.3% of the vote. 95% of precincts reporting in montana. we will continue throughout the evening showing you the results and briefings from today. looking ahead to tomorrow on washington journal, more about and discussions throughout the day, including at the american enterprise institute. tomorrow, the smithsonian associates are hosting a panel on the elections and what they reveal about america. average tomorrow includes c-span2 and the brookings institution with their look at the factors that produce the results we are seeing today. c-span2,discussion on journalists and analysts for a breakdown of the election outcome at 12:30 eastern. on thethat live tomorrow c-span networks. one more governor result to tell you about this afternoon. the associated press with this tweet. mike dunlevy winning the race for governor in alaska, defeating the former senator mark begich. one that is still too close to call is georgia. the secretary of state there has declared victory, it is

not jon tester and president trump. tester largely stayed focus on things like public land use, veterans issues. and healthcare. and part of the reason is because president trump does have a high approval rating in this state, about 50% approval rating. we want to take a quick look back at recent montana senate races that flipped in 2006. democrats turned a red senate seat blue with tester. in 2014 republicans turned a blue senate seat red with steve danes. they are hoping to keep this seat blue. republicans are hoping they can eke out a win for now. we have to see. back to you guys. brian: fascinating in montana. i have never seen bigger and louder crowds than what we saw in montana no offense to indiana. ainsley: no matter what happens where these races are too close to call to call. republicans will keep the majority in the senate bottom line. the democrats took the house. several of these races are too close to call but it was definitely not a blue wave. brian: it's a split decision. it's almost never been done in h

we still don't know what's going to happen with jon tester in montana. but that does perhaps say something about democrats in republican states or in trump-winning states. so right now republicans have -- they've won control of the senate. so now the question is how big is the margin going to be? let's give -- let's say that the current vote totals hold up and republicans win florida. let's say the current vote totals hold up and republicans win arizona. let's give mississippi special election that's probably going to happen in a runoff. look at that. 54 votes and i'm still not even factoring in what could happen in nevada or montana. i mean, republicans are having a very, very good night in the senate. >> mitch mcconnell is watching right now probably and smiling from ear to ear. because he worked incredibly hard alongside with the president. and that's a storyline that is quite different from the way the president worked or didn't work with the house republican leaders, particularly the current speaker of the house paul ryan. worked very hard to get th

matt rosendale, jon tester presents a clear contrast. jon tester doesn't even have a hunting license and he lives in montana. matt rosendale i think is the man you want to vote for. >> dana: i do want to bring up one other race, michigan. i have a good friend of mine who said watch michigan. john james is the republican candidate, challenger against the incumbent. a voice mail from a reporter that was left on john james' message. listen to this. >> and he beats her. jesus. that would suck. i don't think it's going to happen though. >> dana: that was a reporter. john james last night was on tucker carlson's show trying to make the case he could win. very good friend of mine said watch michigan. this could be a big surprise. have we not talked enough about michigan? >> i don't think people have talked about michigan. john james is a phenomenal candidate. you talk about the religious devotion in that voice mail that was left. i think this will be an tune for us to pick this seat up. john james closed this race very much so in the last few d

one of the big winners in last week's midterm elections, montana democrat senator jon tester, he was successful despite heavy opposition and campaigning from president trump. tonight, correspondent gillian turner looks at what tester did that many fellow democrats could not. >> you must defeat the democrats and you must defeat senator jon tester. >> president trump pulled out all the stops this election cycle to beat back in convent democratic senator jon tester in montana. the president, vice president, donald trump jr. on visiting the state during the run-up to the midterms. despite the president and the g.o.p.'s best efforts, prevailed against republican matt rosendale and will begin his third term in the u.s. senate >> they saw how political the president was making this race. >> test there is >> a red state that president trump won in 2016. he voted against the president supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, a move that contributed to defeat for some fellow democrats up for reelection. political strategists are scratching their heads pondering whether tester is an outlier or th

jon tester claiming the democratic party botched the kavanaugh debate. they didn't give him a chance. remember tester was against kavanagh from the beginning. joe donnelly ran an ad about socialists and government-run health care. his party, his bff, his new best friend, his buddy chuckie schumer gave us that failure, gave us that monstrosity. nobody kept their doctor, their plans, and everybody paid more. many people only have one choice of a health care provider and this is a lie campaign. they support the far left policies of schumer and they constantly work to support president trump and his agenda. all they want is power and they have contempt and they are tecaught on tape. bredesen caught on tape. claire mccaskill caught on tape. heidi heitkamp caught on tape. kyrsten sinema caught on tape. now we have joe donnelly, caught on tape. gillum, one running for governor, caught on tape. look no further than kavanaugh and gorsuch. only a far left democrat would be voting against these two highly qualified, impeccable candidates. f and we sawot what happen

reporter: senator jon tester will be this afternoon. the afternoon. her public and hoping take his senate seat. that was no campaigning north that president trump tomorrow. we'll have more on this race from the ground in just a minute. sh in. what's in your wallet? eric: president trump heavily invested in montana senate race. a rally there yesterday turned to the deceiver and jon tester to republican macros and mail. the race has become the most closely watched race this election season. ellison barber is live in missoula, montana with the latest on the contest for president trump held a rally yesterday. hey come allison. reporter: hey, eric. president trump in montana yesterday. mike pence will be here tomorrow campaigning with state auditor matt rosedale. that is the republican hoping to flip that senate seat currently held by democrat jon tester. tester will be in missoula this afternoon. both candidates trying to make a final push to get voters to the polls at montana state university and montana in montana television network found six by 5% are

jon tester. mr. kornacki, mr. tester just got a little more air in his lungs. >> this has been the most fascinating to watch, right up there with wisconsin. i'm not sure which is of more suspenseful. tester cut rosendale's lead in half. he cut it in half because we finally got vote in in glacier county. half of it in there. this is why i was circling it earlier. we were expecting a giant tester win there. still half to come so tester can get more margin out of glacier county to cut into that rosendale statewide lead which stands at 1800 lead. in the bozeman area, tester expected to get more vote out of there. great falls area, tester expected to get more vote out there. blaine as well. those are the places left on the map where tester can still make up gains. if you just put all of those together, that would certainly put him ahead of rosendale. of course, the question is, right here in particular, get that to -- try to get that to work. oh, my goodness, it won't work. come on. maybe if i do it 20 more times it wi

i voted against sanctuary si cities. >> juan: greg, guess what, even in montana, jon tester taking a swipe at elizabeth warren's dna test. >> greg: unbelievable. good to police your side. and have, and i think everybody should be stashter in excommunicating their extremists. the problem with our side, as a conservative, physical we listen to the mainstream media we're all bad. >> dana: i'm out! >> greg: we're all suspect when somebody says this person is bad. really, we saw what you did to kavanaugh, and he wasn't bad guy. but do i think it's always important, for, if you're -- to point out and say this person has gone too far or what not. i say that for both sides. >> juan: i agree. morgan, bill clinton, not too many places. he had a fundraiser in new york for mike espy, from mississippi. but it's interesting, it's almost like the former president hasn't xils 9d in the campaign season. >> the mighty have fallen f you think back to president obama's re-election campaign and the dnc convention, whether clinton won't stage and gave that speech that many bun dits at the time said was th

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but the reality here is, i was talking to jon tester about this. i said, you have to get trump voters to support you. and he still believes and some others believe, like joe donnelly and others, we'll see, that there still is a need, an appetite for checks and plans. we'll see if that's true. >> and thematically, it is playing out like the house races. borrowing here the from bloomberg, see all this green, those are health care ads. the other colors are different issues, taxes, border security, but look at all of that green. democrats are running on health care. and listen here, they have some republicans on defense when it comes to health care. essentially, the republican candidates are being forced to say, no, no, no, wait a minute. when democrats say, we'll take away your pre-existing condition insurance, they're wrong. >> earlier this year, we learned our oldest has a rare chronic disease, pre-existing condition. we know what that's like. i'm josh hawley. i support forcing insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions. >> i grew up i

tester claimed victory over matt rosendale. he discussed the election with reporters wednesday afternoon.

matt rosendale a challenger leading jon tester. we'll take you through the counties in montana, missoula county, big democratic area, tester is leading this 2-1. there is outstanding votes there. there is outstanding votes in cascade. tester is leading there and there's outstanding vote in yellowstone. basically what you see is the bulk of the outstanding vote in montana is in places that are likely to be friendly to tester, friendly enough to make up a 2,000 vote difference. that's what we're going to see. >> why are there still outstanding votes there in montana? >> i'm tempted to say because it's montana. we might get that today. arizona might be a couple of days. >> if you're watching or listening from montana, please tweet steve kornacki. >> the people are great. it's the election officials in missoula county. i love montana, i drove through it this summer. >> this is what happens. >> election officials only. >> steve, thank you. just a few moments ago, nancy pelosi, she talked to nbc news exclusively on capitol hill. there ha

tester claimed victory over matt rosendale. he discussed the election with reporters wednesday afternoon. >> thank you all very much. i go upstairs to check a few number, these guys write speeches. we did it. [cheers and applause] for those of you that don't know, and i don't think anybody knows this, ap just called this race. cheers and applause] and would not, as you know, i wouldn't be here without my wife charla. [cheers and applause] my did kids, my brothers, my best friend from high school, steve stivers back here. but -- an the countless volunteers. everybody in this room. literally thousands of other people have spent incredible amounts of their free time to walk around this state and talk about how important this race was and i want to thank you for that. and to my staffmark that are in this room, there wasn't a day that didn't go by for the last two years that these folks didn't think about what we needed to do to make sure that i was able to be able to be here for a third term. i want to thank them but most important

the winner, jon tester. >> that was a very tight race. it was not being called because the split between the democrat and the republican was very close. we have now called that montana will remain a democrat -- with the democratic senator. that was the president giving a very long, almost hour and a half long press conference. any moment now we are going to be hearing from the house speaker, nancy pelosi. >> possibly soon to be. >> well, currently. >> oh yes, yes. >> i'm sorry. she's not currently the house speaker. she possibly could be the speaker because she's the democratic leader. you bring up a good point. this is in question. >> we haven't seen another name or heard of anyone else, but it's not a done deal as of yet. we could say the most likely soon to be house speaker nancy pelosi. >> that's what everybody there is getting ready for. that's a discussion as to who ends up being the speaker of the house. peter alexander is live at the white house. he was in that remarkably contentious press conference. very long and contentious pre

democratic senator jon tester is liked there. he was one of the topmost ten popular senators in the country and yet, he's fighting for his life right now. what do you make of the fact that montana is so tight? >> look, donald trump carried that state by 20 points. the the senasenate races often the presidential reference in these kind of elections so tester was bound to have a close race. president is obviously working very hard to make it such. has a personal beef with tester because tester led the battle against ronnie jackson, the president's personal physician in the white house who he appointed to the v.a. so he seems out of sorts about that, that action had to withdraw. but, you know, i'm not surprised the race is close. i'm also not surprised that tester continues to maintain, he's a very authentic montanan and most people don't realize is even though trump won by that margin, montana, 50 of the last 53 senate races have been won there by democrats. it's not that unusual for democrats to win the senate race. thest the natu

but he seems to be absorbing these body. >> montana does jon tester. he served two terms, 12 years, also as legislator for a while. he's based in montana. crewcut, missed a couple fingers, got a little weight on it now. he's a good guy to my people know him. his opponent, the sky is not in the state or not but in montana very many years. it's got nonstate twang in this election comes down to you vote for the guy you know, local guy out of state for even though trump tries to nationalize this race by talking about immigration and national issues. i don't think that's going to prevail. tom has come in here already in the last several. and pens a couple of times, added altogether about a republican president, vice president of surrogates have been here against tester for the last several. primarily because donald trump is addictive. he's vindictive against jon tester because they cause some problems for ronnie jackson and trump has taken up personally. that's why it comes so often. i don't think it's going to work ready sure working hard at it. >> there's

jon tester is in trouble. if people in indiana don't vote libertarian, joe donnelly would be toast, issue murder democrat. my question is, what if there iy a split decision? what if nancy pelosi becomes a speakerer? >> if she becomes bigger grandpa it will be aggravating, to listen to this woman for the next w x number of years, nothig she says makes sense to me. more than that, in the end, the senate -- >> sean: how do you really feel? >> you ask me so i told you. [laughter] this and that is what really counts. donald trump, the president come i can certainly give any candidate the edge. y this is a man, who you just go to america and you say, do you like the money in your paychecks, the reduced regulations, the fact that gdp is 4.2? consumer confidence, the fact that isis's caliphate is atdestroyed? that is what he says and does. >> sean: the headwind, though, 45 retirements of the house, history, only three times in 100 years -- think of 1994, when newt came to power. a blistering year, two years after clin

by the way, he is now giving democratic incumbent jon tester the fight of his life. that is a winnable race for republicans. why breaking news in that race tonight. the libertarian candidate has dropped out and endorsed rosendale. tester's opponent. giving a big boost to the g.o.p. montana you now have a chance to pull off a major political upset because this race is dead even. by the way, indiana, you may want to follow suit. don't vote for the libertarian. that only helps the incumbent, chuck schumer democrat by the name of joe donnelly in indiana. in sixth days you will definitely see one of three results. first is a best case scenario let's start with the good news. republicans pick up seats in the senate. they hold ton a small majority in the house. second scenario would be a split decision. g.o.p. on to power in the senate. picks up some seats but loses the house. there she is. nancy pelosi becomes your speaker. the third, well, that's sort of like the doomsday halloween nightmare scenario. that involves republicans losing both the house and the senate, meaning

he went out there several times to campaign against the democratic incumbent, jon tester. so far, pretty much all night, he has been ahead. it's a narrow lead. a little more than 3,000 votes, but he is ahead of his challenger, matt rosendale. let's go to maine. maine is an interesting case because angus king is an independent. he caucuses with the democrats in the democratic column. he's ahead by a wide margin but only 17% of the vote is in, which is why we're waiting to see if it's going to stay in angus king's column. i should say, nevada is out there. we haven't gotten any votes back from nevada. that is one of the seats that the republicans, dean heller, is trying to hold on to. i want to go down to nia to talk about the governors' races. >> let's look at wisconsin, a race we were eyeing all night. it's still, tight, tight, tight. 6,200 votes separating the democrat, tony evers, from the republican, incumbent, scott walker. 93% reporting, a really, really close race. in connecticut, some good news, and a possible flip here for republicans. bob stefanowski is up 28,000

in montana jon tester and the republican rosen dale in the state of montana. we've been able to project jacky rosen, the democrats will be the next senator from the state of nevada come january. knocking off republican incumbent dean heller there. in the nevada. governor's race, steve sissy lack, another in the democrat category in the governors mansions, as well. we have two late calls in nevada we can make. as i said, the nbc decision desk predicting jacky rosen unseating dean heller. dean heller has already conceded there. do we have kornacki over there? you hate when he disappears. he hasn't left the board. we worry about him when he's not there. he hasn't left for about 24 hours maria teresa kumar, an msnbc contributor, susan del percio, political analyst, also with us, elise jordan and adrian elrod, former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign and at the end of the table, dave wasserman. welcome to you all. >> good morning. we've agreed it's morning now. maria, let's talk about the kind of candidate that won tonight. we

they were saying in montana, jon tester is ahead. however there has not been a lot of research done in montana. they were not talking to people out there. it shows he is ahead but they made it seem like you can't trust the polls. for example, there is another pullout, i think larry elder said 4% of black people support trump. i'm just thinking can i really trust that? larry elder is a donald trump supporter so he will be very biased in his research. i know i'm black and my family and i have not been asked about trump. my question is, can the polls really be trusted this time around looking at 2016? host: thank you for the question. guest: we could spend four hours talking about that great question. i would be skeptical of any poll that showed 40% of african-american voters supporting any republican candidate. one thing about 2016 is some of the polling was pretty good. the national polling cap hillary clinton winning by 3% or 4%. she won by about 2.5%, the popular vote, but that is not how we vote for president in this country. i thi

republican matt rosendale gaining ground against schumer democratic incumbent jon tester. inat the latest poll, tester don by 3. 50% of the state voted, it will depend on turnout tomorrow. remember, people ofpe montana, tester voted with schumer 87% of the time. you might as well have schumer in tennessee, a very important race. republican candidate marsha blackburn should win. if you are in tennessee, take nothing for granted, anything can happen. nevada, races are always close. republican senator dean heller in a most-hold seat for the republicans. we'll have an actual race in our hands in west virginia. that is news tonight, between incumbent democrat joe manchin, republican patrick morrisey. in florida, let me just be blunt. everything in florida is as usual, too close to call. democratic do nothing schumer democrat bill nelson against the florida governor rick scott who has been there again and again for the people of florida.e in florida, the gubernatorial race also so tight between ron desantisra and corrupt socialist -- by the way -- wouldn't it be great if we coul

it's interesting to watch montana, jon tester, one of those senators running in a state that was double digits for trump. montana was 20 points for trump and tester is running there. also in arizona, looking like we have a tight race there in terms of the senate. right now the republicans are at the majority they've got right now in the senate. the question is whether or not they are going to build on that. it's not unheard of for parties to add seats in the senate, even as they lose in the house and midterm. ronald reagan went through that himself when he was at an unpopular point in his presidency at one of his midterms. the remaining senate races that aren't yet called, arizona, florida, maine, nevada, these are going to be very important in terms of how much leeway mcconnell has to move in the senate and what happens in terms of all the all-important confirmation fights. >> here was the heartbreaker for so many democrats tonight. this is beto o'rourke speaking live in texas. >> el paso has produced some really great teams over the years. and i am very lucky that i got to be part of

the republican challenger, matt rosendale is ahead of the democratic incumbent, jon tester, with fewer than 2,000 votes separating these guys. the governor's race between brian kemp and the democrat stacey abrams is still up in the air. there are reports that thousands of absentee ballots still need to be count. we're also waiting for a call in the state of connecticut where the leading candidates for governor are separated by only 18,000 votes. don't forget, every vote counts. and finally in arizona where the senate race between republican martha mcsally and democrat kyrsten sinema was a dead heat before election day. at this point it is still too close to call. these two women are separated by less than one percentage point. von hillyard is in arizona. the result is a woman and it's the first time a woman holds this seat from the state of arizona. but tell us which one. how soon are we going to get this answer? >> the reality is we probably will not know today. we will probably not know tomorrow. maybe tomorrow evening we'll start to get a little bit better sense. this could roll all

jon tester, matt rosendale neck and neck. 95% of vote has come in. however, we haven't called the race because more than a quarter of that vote is still out. look at the advantage that jon tester has. we want to see what happens. we get down to arizona. this is not looking as good as perhaps montana is for democrats. martha mcsally has a lead in arizona right now. a quarter of the vote is out. mail in vote, military vote, what have you. we'll see what happens down there. a lot going on right now in the senate. when we get across to the house this is where things get very interesting. let's see where we are. this is where democrats have done incredibly well so far. right now if you look at it, they have 229 seats. they can add to that total. republicans with 206. where are we right now? who lost? that is kind of an interesting story. what is still out and what we haven't counted? all this blue are democratic pickups of republican seats. i want to show you one race right here. look at this. mia love, a republican, the only african-american woman republ

in montana, jon tester now projected to win his senate race against matt rosendale. president trump and vice president pence made several trips to montana to campaign for him, but tester who wins there. republicans have retained control of the senate. the democrats lost two seats down to 43. the gop gained two seats and now has 51 seat. a handful of seats are still to be determined. meanwhile, dianne feinstein won her race here in california with quite a significant lead. 97% of precincts reporting. she was up 67%. of course he congratulated her last night in his concession speech last night. he lost despite the endorsement of the state democratic party, which was a clear message that party leaders wanted a more combative approach to handling the trump administration. all memberses of the house of representatives were up for re-election and here are the latest results. democrats expected to gain 28 seats bringing their total up to 223 seats in the house. the gop will lose 27 seats. that's down to 201 seats. the results are still a toss up in a few highly contested di

jon tester is four points ahead of rosendale in the polls. president trump is trying to paint senator tester someone who is lockstep with the big-name democrats back in d.c. >> far left dem i can't think jon tester, by the way, who will never vote. he is saying wonderful things now about me. he might be a nice guy except he tried to destroy admiral ronnie jackson, who, most clean-cut, wonderful person that you have ever met. he tried to destroy him. and i have never forgotten it. remember this, tester voted against your tax cuts, tester voted against "kate's law". reporter: the people we spoke to at this rally today by and large said they came here to see president trump not necessarily the candidates he is stumping for. >> oh, i've already voted yeah. i voted red, all the way. >> i am hoping he can stay on message and convince people to vote correctly on tuesday. >> he has done what he said he was going to do. no surprises or anything. reporter: so you, i'm guessing you're not old enough to vote? >> no. reporter: are you making sure your mom

jesse: you have claire mccaskill and jon tester, and they are really not like that deep down. they get back to washington and they vote for crying chuck. anthony: they are responding to the president. they can't deal with him. so they are race baiting. he moved it over to the republican party. they would be way smarter if they said whoa, whoa. they are not willing to admit the mistake they made. that core constituency is showing up at the rallies. they are call them deplorable and opportunistic. and it's not helping them. jesse: will they come out again like they did in 2016. i know he's not necessarily on the ballot. but these are the people that were inspired by trade commentary and immigration. are those people in the rust belt? are they going to come out and vote republican? >> as we mentioned earlier, the president is talking about immigration at all these rallies because he unlike previous candidates have had a bold agenda, a wide variety of things he promised to the people. the economy is doing great. he's making progress on trade, now we have to fix immigration. that's

tester. >> vote for matt rosendale, w is a worker. is a vote for low taxes, low unemployment, strong borders, and montana values. >> reporter: while the president was ine montana, vesident mike pence was in wisconsin. d former vice president joe biden campaigned for democrats in ohio. former president barack obama hit the trail in geoia and florida friday, leveling harsh criticism against the trump administration, a sign of how high the stakes are in the2018 midterms. >> they promised to take on corruption. instead they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. >> reporter: democrats need to win 23 seats to control the house of representatives and two .eats to control the sena after 2016 neither pty is taking anything for granted. chris polone, nbc news, new york. >>> today is the final dayf in person absentee voting in fairfax county, and the turnout has been county elections officials say early voting has surpassed levels from the 2012 presidential election. nearly 67,000 voters have already cast their ballots in f

and in montana nbc news now declaring democratic senator jon tester thepparent winner in his re-election bid. >>> turning now to the weath and conditions out there, hats and gloves, that's over, right? we're going to need them in some spots. >> we'll need them s ine spots at least through the weekend. here's that cold air in place. eally dipping m down. that's allowing all that cold canadian air to come in. this sort of acts like a roadblock and keeps the cold air to the north. but that's not the story today. it's dipping down to the south and we'll see temperatures some spots 20 to 25 below what is typical r this time of year. below freezing in minneapolis. 30 degrees. that's 15 degrees below where they are supposed to be right around now. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. here's a closer look at the day ahead. lots of cold air in place. we're looking at temperatures? temperatures just in the 20s. 21 in bismarck. a lot right at the freezing mark. even down to the south we're looking at chilly temperatures in texas, temperatures in the 40 and also lotsf rain there. yeah.

democrat jon tester holding on, though president trump campaigned hard to unseat him. and we are awaiting results in the arizona senate race, as well. kyrsten sinema versus republican martha mcsally, not yet decided. we'll continue to follow it. >>> in the meantime, we move onto the other news tonight. the emergency evacuations at a hotel in downtown nashville, after more than a dozen guests were suddenly sickened. firefighters rushing to the scene, finding dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide. abc's victor oquendo on this tonight. >> reporter: the call came in around 6:45 a.m. from this downtown nashville hotel. a report of a guest feeling sick. >> cardiac or respiratory arrest on bravo four. >> reporter: by 10:00 a.m. -- >> looks like we're going to be transporting this one, chest pressure. >> reporter: more than a dozen people treated, at least five take on the the hospital. authorities say the leak originated on the hotel's third floor, where the pool and gym are located. and the carbon monoxide levels were through the roof. >> a normal reading for a safe lev

he knows who jon tester. is he knows who heidi heitkamp is, and he knows who claire mccaskill is and he wants them out. but i think republicans need to keep in mind, one real thing we'll learn in this mid-term is how effective the president's strategy is in comparison to the approach that president obama used. the problem with president obama is when he was on the ballot, his base came out. they showed up. this is now president trump trying to figure out whether he can do the same thing in an election when he's not on the ballot, which was the same problem that was a real challenge during the obama years for other democrats. >> in the exit polls in 2010, democrats did not come out for president obama to defend him in the way that our polls show that republicans are coming to defend donald trump. >> that's where that low propensity voter that i talked about early with anthony, especially these voters on the republican side, they came out for donald trump, don't traditionally come out, an issue like the economy

you mentioned senator jon tester. he is behind to republican matt rosen dale in that race -- rosendale. in that race. a separation of about 3000 votes. in florida, over 8 million votes cast and in the senate race, senator bill nelson behind by ,ust about 30,000 votes continue watching that and arizona, you mentioned the two congresswoman running against each other -- congresswoman running against each other. martha mcsally to kyrsten sinema. almost at 100 -- 100% reporting. we are going to overtime in mississippi. yvette is the other race that has yet to been called. we will find out the results in the runoff happening later in the year. two tweets from the leaders of both parties, both claiming victory. tweet "tonighta was a win for the democrats and democracy. we won the house because democrats had a clear message for local families and now it is time to get to work, holding trump accountable. a tweet from the president around midnight. a tremendous success tonight, thank you to all. host: a story in the washington

they include for democrat senators heidi heitkamp, jon tester, and joe manchin. and the arizona senate race between martha mcsally and kristen season pla. the polls hope that krysten sinema leads martha mcsally by 1 percentage point. reporter: the entire republican ticket will be holding an election eve rally right here on the courthouse steps behind me. republican candidate for senate martha mcsally is in a virtual tie. if elected she'll be the first woman senator from arizona. 50% of early voters so far are women. soon she says she is in ast full sprint head -- she is in a full sprint heading into election day. >> we have to keep and grow the senate majority and hold the house so we can keep the country going in the direction that's happening. if you are happy, get out there and vote. >> reporter: arizona secretary of state said 1.4 million ballots have been cost. that's 41% voting for the gop ticket and 24% of those early ballots are from independents which means the senate race between mcally and cinem sinema. martha mcsally campaigned side by side with mcsal