christine todd whitman joins us from scottsdale, arizona. get your reaction to the election, first as a woman, second as a republican. ms. whitman: first of all, i was disappointed. was he was not my candidate. i was surprised by the magnitude of the suite. hispassion was behind voters. there's a whole host of angry, frustrated scared people out there for whom government has not been working. the fact that he was able to win was not a total surprise. it was the magnitude of that win that was surprising. see a woman as president at some point in time because i believe we do bring a different way of problem solving and prioritizing, but i did not vote for hillary clinton because she was a woman. that was not my central issue. it was because i was more concerned about him and his ability to bring the government together, but i have to take him at his word in his acceptance speech last night and i hope proceed.he way we scarlet: absolutely. you are the face of moderate republicanism. what do you think it looks like today and what might it look li

idea of a moderate republican from the northeast, like bill scranton, nelson rockefeller, christine -- >> todd whitman? >> there was this long pattern of well-to-do, in many cases, republican moderates in that part of the country, and they're gone. and that's why the burbs are gone. >> our last break before the top of the hour. polls closing. if anything happens, we'll break out. >>> just under four minutes till the next poll closing at 11:00 eastern, top of the hour, we'll have poll closings in california, oregon, washington, idaho and hawaii. at this point, this is the part of the race where everybody who looks back at having covered previous presidential races say ooh, yeah, by the time we call hawaii, it's not like we didn't know what's going to be happening, we have no idea what's going to be happening. right now at this point of all the swing states that you could possibly be watching, the only ones that are decided are virginia for hillary clinton, colorado for hillary clinton, new mexico for hillary clinton. donald trump winning ohio. those are the projections in terms of nbc news. in terms of

in the meantime, former governor christine todd whitman as she was then a small core stubborn group in republican party. many who would be bad news. some come back into the polls including mitt romney in his state jury speech last night did much the same sentiment expressed by former president bush even though they didn't vote for anyone for president in texas which the new one while any phone calls sent their best wishes and prayers. governor whitman, where's the party right now? where are you right now.trump? >> i obviously wish him well. i hope that the rhetoric of he gave last night of his speech is how we go forward. we need to bring the country together. this has been an extraordinarily divisive campaign but the harshest rhetoric we've ever heard. we've got to get over that. if donald trump is going to succeed at what he says he wants to do, he is going to need to reach out to the people. as you pointed out earlier, he's got a senate where a number of the republican senators ran away from that, did not campaign with her for him. he's going to need that many can't ignore what they