seat, and cuyahoga's chantal brown and nina turner has been one of the most vitriolic primaries in democratic history. and down the road in columbus, we are watching the 11-way republican field including a candidate backed by former president donald trump and the other by recent holder steven stivers. a defeat could deal a blow to the president who is using primary threats as a primary means as keeping the influence over the party. a pac made a six-figure buy last week on trump's chosen candidate in ohio mike kerry. nbc news political editor mark murray is with us now. mark, some big named surrogates came to down for brown and turner over the weekend and what should we watch for in the ohio 11th primary tomorrow? >> yeah, the democratic race has given me ptsd of the bernie

for the north and cleveland chantal brown won the democratic primary in district 11.he squad-backed candidate became a proxy for tensions between old guard democrats and progressive liberals. tonight we look at what the ohio results and other developments mean for the progressives who want to have more influence here in washington. here's congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> a split decision for progressives. their favorite candidate bernie sanders co-campaign manager nina turner vanquished at the polls but progressives also scoring a big win. >> a huge victory for the power of direct action and not taking no for an answer. >> the left prodding the restore the eviction moratorium. >> it marks i hope a turning point in the way that this white house views progressives. >> the left spurred action through guerrilla tactics camping out on the house steps for days in protests. >> activists are in congress. so expect for things to be different than what maybe people are used to. >> they may be activists but they are not informed. they're not policy makers. >> overall

of the presidential campaign and on the other side, we had jim clyburn who is campaigning for chantal brown on the same battles that we saw for and a year ago, and this is over the $15 minimum wage, and medicare for all as well as who would be the better democrat and the better ally for joe biden in congress. so, the strategists on both sides tell me that it is a close race, and nina turner had the early lead, but we have the wait and see what ends up happening tomorrow, and what is going to be a really close and very closely watched race. >> yeah, you called it one of the nastiest democrats on democrat primaries since obama and clinton. i wanted to ask you about the race across the state in the special primary of a trump-backed candidate and steve stivers candidate in the local race, and does the local endorsement carry more race, because we saw a rick perry-backed candidate beat a trump-backed candidate in texas. >> yes, and as we talked about in the democratic race, it is the national forces at play more than local, but in this particular race in ohio on the republican side in ohio '15,

we've had a couple of bellwether elections, chantal brown beating nina turner and eric adams, a moderateer progressives in that race there. is it safe to say that the more moderate wing to some degrees that -- has the upper hand right now. >> what we call a moderate in new york city is far left everywhere else in the country. what is considered moderate is to change and reform the police department as opposed to defunding it. what we call moderate in new york is finding ways to house tens and tens of thousands of people as opposed to, you know, sort of doing nothing at all which is what happens in a lot of the rest of the country. we have got a very, very progressive democratic party nationally and certainly in new york city. >> you bring up defund the police. an i have not met a democrat who thinks that is a helpful bumper sticker for the democratic party. many of them lament that even though a tiny minority support that, that is sort of a yoke that has been slung around their whole neck. but we see missouri democrat cori bush sparked controversy after being called out while spending mo

right now, chantal brown is warning that raised by six and a half points with more than half of precinctsf a tryst with donald trump's influence. just a few minutes ago, the solicited president clumped -- declared the trump backed republican party annoys 15th congressional district. msnbc will continue to follow tonight's election results as they unfold. that's it for us. we will see you again tomorrow. i will see you tomorrow afternoon on 4 pm eastern. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. hi, lawrence. >> good evening nicole and thank you very much for that ohio report that is now everything i know about the ohio house races tonight. there is so much news pouring down on us that i have not been able to get to that one tonight. so, you have just taught me everything i know about it. >> the tea leaf reading is always too much leaf reading tea leaves to be read should you choose. >> we will have tea leaf time tomorrow on those election results tonight. >> have a great show. >> thank you, nicole.

the 11th district in ohio nina turner, progressive, early favorite against the more establish chantal brown defeated turner and here's what connie schultz tweeted tonight. hello from ohio's 11th congressional district tonight is a reminder that elections are not won or lost on twitter and communities are more complicated than the national narratives wrapped around them. this was a local race, always. do you agree with that? a lot of people are looking at the various endorsements on both sides saying who came out ahead? how do you read that race? >> well, joe biden did lose the twitter primary, but the twitter primary awards no delegates. and so, i agree with that, i think the lesson here is you have him in your corner, he's on a winning streak here. and i think we will see more candidates do all they can to get clobbered on their side. >> and best not to talk against him. >> david plouffe and tim miller, thank you both. coming up the inspiring story of how an american teenager went from skateboarding in her backyard to competing in tokyo, when the 11th hour continues. h hour continues do yo