gillespie: and kurt cox. [applause] i want to thank all of the campaign staff who were tireless, loyal, professional and love our commonwealth and gave the campaign everything they have. i want to get in particular a great deal of appreciation and thanks, and i know everyone shares this, for our campaign manager. [applause] mr. gillespie: and the woman who wrote all of those 21, specific, detailed policy proposals, our policy director. [cheers and applause] mr. gillespie: i also want to thank our political director. [applause] mr. gillespie: our digital director, our communications director. [applause] mr. gillespie: and finance director, who led all of our departments. [applause] i'm going to draw the line at department heads, but all of the staff who truly made me proud everyday and did an incredible job. but i also, clearly have to think with all of my heart, the incredible, dedicated volunteer active allere so across the commonwealth and uplifted me everywhere i went, who made me want to run a campaign to

but gillespie and trump. gillespie didn't know who trump was in northern virginia but ran a television ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. >> southerner ? >> this time it didn't work. >> catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall jackson and other guy had southern accent. >> and native and doctor running against a new jersey lobbyist. i don't think it was a credible candidacy from day one. >> here's the deal, guarantee it was never in their game plan. had polling numbers three weeks ago that said, we're losing, we have to figure out something to change the topic and rolled dice and decided those would be the issues. >> what if brought trump in to campaign with snim. >> i don't think the results would have been better, but think they were trying to spark trump voters without having the negativity they would have had in a place like northern virginia by bringing trump in. i think they got greedy, tried to do that with issue but guarantee s

president trump quickly took to twitter last night to disown gillespie saying, quote, ed gillespie workednot embrace me and what i stand for. many conservatives interpreted last night's election as a referendum on president trump. take a listen to republican scott taylor from virginia on cnn this morning. >> i think last night was a referendum. i don't think there is any way you can look at it in a different way to be honest with you. >> we took a look at the numbers. here is the thing, gillespie actually did get his voters to the polls. in the deep red parts of virginia, he did better than the 2013 republican candidate for governor ken cuccinelli. he did better numerically than he did in 2014 when he almost won. in fact, ed gillespie got more votes than any republican candidate for governor in the history of the commonwealth of virginia ever. but ultimately democrat ralph northam shellacked him with the largest margin for a victory for a democrat in virginia since 1985 that's was partly due to the huge turnout for the democrats in the suburbs. in loudoun county, in 2014 gillespie almost

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ed gillespie, the caricature of ed gillespie that ran was not "the ed show" that all of us have knownn the house. >> he is a regular washingtonian. >> a chamber of commerce establishment republican who beat trumpism in the primary, and then became trumpism in the general election. and it came back to bite him. everybody up on capitol hill worried right now. >> we got to do it. we're not south africa. but sometimes we talk politics, we sound like it. i think it's amazing. if you take 21% electorate which was african american this time, just assume, roughly, 20 the 21 voted against trump. and you take the white electorate which is the southern in the southern accent. northam is not some crazy left winger. he is pretty much a centrist, a medical doctor. i think the republicans would have had a run of ridiculous percentage among white voters to win with 20% automatically against him. john? how do you win an election like that if you're a republican? >> which they didn't. they didn't. if you look at the turnout, northam did a lot better. >> white women voted for northam. >> a lot better th

ed gillespie is a pretty mild-mannered guy.is democratic opponent seems to be the same and yet it got quite rough and we had ms-13 gangs being dragged into it. we had sanctuary cities as an issue in the race, even though there aren't any in virginia. the social issues, these hot button issues got dragged into the race and it got pretty rough. the ad that you described was the single roughest of all and it was so bad i think that it backfired, to the extent that it had any real effect at all. >> tucker: lets a gillespie loses, the message to republicans in other states in the midterm next year is what? run on trumps issues or avoid trump's issues? >> if he loses badly, which i don't think will happen, if he loses badly, that might provoke the kind of soul-searching you were talking about, but let's be clear about this. virginia has gotten to be a pretty blue state. it's also the political gravity and a president's first term, off year election like this, almost always with the out party where the white house is concerned. in add

and perhaps a bad sign for edse gillespie, although gillespie has been widely noted did close in thelosing days of the campaign, in which he is long been the underdog.g. he let in a couple of polls but the average polls told him trailing throughout. he's clearly an underdog. >> tucker: this wasn't a normal campaign in that national issues seem to dominate, not just the president, but questions like immigration were right at the center of it. what are the lessons that each party will take away from this contest? >> certainly the campaign was very much affected not by trump himself, he didn't really campaign in virginia, but by his presence in the white house. the democratic candidate, ralph northam, did campaign hard against trump and did his best in the campaign to tie ed gillespie to trump. gillespie on the other hand was in a situation where he didn't have a trump campaign, he was never seen with him. he wanted turmp voters to turn out for him, and trump did end up making robo calls, as you know doubt heard on gillespie's behalf, andf endorsing him. he was trying to kind of have it

at gillespie will do this particularly in southwest virginia. if you look down at the coal country, the area south of west virginia, it was won by mitt romney, but at gillespie won the senate bid in 2014 but he didn't get the margins that romney did, and then trump came and won that county overwhelmingly. the question is, is at gillespie going to be able to get trump-like margins in the southwest part of the state? >> martha: very interesting. with that to go, but just pop up the monument number. virginia has been a hotbed for this issue. the robert e. lee statues and thomas jefferson stay up, 63%, take them down, 31%. we will see if that has any meaning. >> that's how you get a guy from new jersey to fall in love with his confederate heritage. at gillespie didn't know which side of the blue or gray he really felt until i guess he was running for governor. >> martha: we seen that happen with the yankees won hillary clinton comes to new york. thanks a lot, good to see you tonight, thank you very much. we will be watching the race throughout the c

ed gillespie, the republican candidate.e'll get those numbers, and we'll share them with you as soon as they start coming in. in the meantime, let's go over to erin. >> and welcome to a special edition of "outfront." thank you, wolf. as we are continuing our election night coverage in this crucial race. now that the polls are closing at this instant in virginia, we can reveal some more

and gillespie 51.2% to gillespie. 4.6 he's ahead by 57 votes. if your ed gillespie, what does he need to do right now, can he come back? >> can he come back, no. the short answer if you look at this -- i don't believe we've counted all the votes, but most of the vote is in in these counties and it's not a lot of votes. you're winning 68% of the vote, here with 80% of the votes. there's not a lot of votes out here for gillespie. for republican to win statewide in today's virginia, you have to either win or break even, just barely lose loudoun county, he's losing almost 20 points in loudoun county. republicans to win statewide in virginia that i will tell you you have to win -- so in the d.c. suburbs northam is running it up. the capital city, african-american turn out. one more quick one, northam lives in norfolk, we don't have votes from there yet. he's winning in -- this is filling in in a big way. >> we got a major projection right now. as cnn projects ralph northam will be elected governor of virginia, beating ed gillespie. continuing to win

the question is going to be, are they going to vote for gillespie, punish gillespie and perhaps voteor vogel. what do you make of that? >> i think that's a good gut choice. i think vogel is probably the person who has the best chance of winning. of course remember it depends on coattail. we live in a very polarized era. if northam ends up winning by more than a couple of points, probably the whole democrat ticket comes with him. the same is true in reverse. if it's really close, then the person with a lib more of an edge would be vogel. >> quickly, this delegate race. a lot of the national handy kap cappers are saying these clinton seats, the ones she carried, 17 of them, if democrats pick up six, eight, ten, that's a canary in the coal mine for the house for congress in 2018. a do you buy that? and b, are you watching it closelilike that? >> i'm watching it very closely. ten member of the house of delegates, that would put democrats over 40. she haven't been there in a long time. that's within shot of controlling if they get beyond jerry mannedered line. of course we read into every

, saying when ed gillespie lost the virginia governor's race, saying ed gillespie worked hard but didrace me or what i stand for. today on voting day in virginia, crystal ball, as you know, donald trump placed robocalls -- they placed recorded row ball ca -- robocalls for ed gillespie by donald trump. let's listen to donald trump's phone call today to virginia voters that did not work. >> like me, ed is tough on crime and on the border. ed will protect your family from crime, drugs, and violence, something northam will never do. and ed loves the vets, loves the military, and loves your second amendment. with your help, ed gillespie will help make america great again, a face that i like a lot. vote for ed gillespie. >> crystal ball, a lot of pundits working from a national frame looking into virginia from places like here thought that stuff was going to be very effective. >> yeah, and you know, gillespie really embraced the worst of the worst parts of the trump agenda and the trump campaign. he went all in on the zeen phobia, on the racism, and virginia said uh-uh, it's not going to wo

now gillespie did not embrace trump enough. >> gillespie never jumped on board the campaign. what if campaigned on preserving history, prospectfully, virginia first, law and order. simple. >> and never trumpers are saying i told you so very loudly. rick wilson tweeting everything trump touches dies. recriminations just beginning in a party that already hates itself. david jolley and ben howe djinn me next. jo me next. i me next. n me next. e me next. me next. it's the sleep number semi-annual sale on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? right now our queen c4 mattress is only $1499. save $300. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. whstuff happens. old shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. >>> resistance in general really is the gift to the republican party as you've told us many times. right now, you know i'm your fan girl, i can say this. i would be your fan girl even if you weren't my boss. but you've become basically the de faktto leader

and republican ed gillespie- giving his and republican ed gillespie- giving his concession speech around nine last night. gillespie's campaign tactics mimicked president trump's. he attacked northam over sanctuary cities... said he would not remove confederate monuments... and referenced n-f-l player protests. the former r-n-c chair even had help from the president .. who recorded robo calls that went out to voters. but in the end those efforts were not enough. but this morning - president trump quick to deflect gillepsie's loss.. tweeting "ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for." here's a look at some other races... the lieutenant governor - predictably - also won by a democrat. justin fairfax - beating out republican jill vogel. and in the attorney general's race - democrat incumbent mark herring defeated republican john adams. and another race in virginia - making history and blowing up social media this morning. voters.. electing the nation's first openly transgender candidate into the house of delegates. democrat danica roem beat thirteen-term incumbent

northam almost beat gillespie.which was pretty republican clearly switching solidly to blue. not just in this election, but the last two. two things here. one is the change of virginia from a very competitive purple state increasingly toward the blue column as a regular thing. and secondly, this backlash against president trump or at least trumpism, as ed gillespie sought to project it in this election only. whether this means anything going forward again, very open question. >> phil rutger, in 30 seconds or less, do you expect to see more republicans in the house decide this will be a great time to spend more time with their families? >> potentially. i think what a lot of republicans in the house are going to have to decide whether to continue to support, you know, donald, president trump in every way or try to find ways to break with him and show some independence. and, you know, we'll have to see how much the republicans in the house contort themselves over the next year before these mid terms. >> and kimberly,

well, yes, gillespie didn't have him in the campaign. but he certainly embraced his issues and then some. he campaigned on immigration and crime and football players take agony and confederate monuments. and virginians stood up, a very large majority and said no thank you. >> and, nick, it was interesting to watch at least some analysts, political analysts, especially on television being very impressed with the gillespie campaign over the last few days, apparently believing that confederate monuments and scary talk about mexican gangs and drug crime is the way to win elections. >> i mean, i never really understood why gillespie was pursuing that, was pushed that far. obviously wasn't the primary and then he kind of stayed in that direction. but i also think he misunderstood that one of the things that the republicans are most successful in the obama years was to say you've got to vote republican in local races as a check on president obama. and now that picture is reversed. and so i think that is going to be to the democrats' advantage.

you're seeing ed gillespie, he didn't want to see any of these numbers. >> the gillespie approach which called trumpism, one prong got a lot of attention, the ads he was running. things on keeping the confederate statues up, about the central american gang ms-13, one about terry mcauliffe reenfranchising felons, things that played in the call tour war terrain of donald trump. he was meanwhile sending these mailers to northern virginia calling himself the son of an immigrant, talking about economic growth. what i'm hearing from you is attempting to essentially pull off that two-track campaign did not work up in those places in northern virginia? >> yeah, i mean, look. maybe it was ultimately an impossible thing that he was trying to pull off. but here with the dynamic that ed gillespie walked into was as a republican, his background obviously, he's sort of the establishment republican traditionally. his background, he did pretty well for a republican up here when he ran for the senate a couple of years ago. he actually didn't do as well as republicans should do maybe in the rural parts o

to distance himself from gillespie writing on twitter from south korea that, quote, ed gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for. and that is partially true. gillespie didn't let trump anywhere near him but ran a campaign fueled and tinged by trumpism. here's a little bit of what northam said at his victory speech in the last hour. >> you know, it was said that the eyes of the nation are now on the common wealth. today, virginians have answered and have spoken. virginia has told us to end the divisiveness that we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. >> also tonight a pick up for the dems in new jersey, phil murphy, former ambassador of germany, former partner of goldman sachs, handedly defeated kim quad dag know in that very blue state. as the numbers have rolled in tonight, we have been at the big board tracking them. steve, i was watching chuck todd at 5:00, he didn't believe in the data. i don't think i believed in the data. i don't know if you believed in the data, but having said that what just happene

now gillespie did not embrace trump enough. >> gillespie never jumped on board the campaign.ld bush hand. >> what if campaigned on preserving history, prospectfully, virginia first, law and order. simple. >> and never trumpers are saying i told you so very loudly. rick wilson tweeting everything trump touches dies. recriminations just beginning in a party that already hates itself. david jolley and ben howe djinn me next. >>> resistance in general really is the gift to the republican party as you've told us many times. right now, you know i'm your fan girl, i can say this. i would be your fan girl even if you weren't my boss. but you've become basically the de faktto leader of the political party. steve bannon, former senior strategist of donald trump may need to be reconciled with the election results. well, david, what do you make of last night particularly given bannon's advice and laura ingram's idea that problem is didn't go all in on the agenda. >> time to remind the nation that donald trump has never won the popular vote. office of the presidency is only one decided by

vote for ed gillespie he today. virginia senator time cane responded directly to the president's tweet. he wrote actually ralph northam is a great vote. this phony attack is it. we have live team coverage on the big election. fox5's contact clear i is live in fairfax county, but let's start with tom fitzgerald. report report all of us excited to hear the arcadia band tonight that was a nice much t. the situation is this. ed gillespie has been trailing insirjfg[q allt advertising stepped in. on the gillespie side they unleashed a series of ads one aiming at record on gangs and another taking on party issues like restoring the rights to convicted criminals. then on the democratic side, a group called latino victory fund came into this race with an ad showing up a pickup truck going down the street with a confederate flag and a gillespie bumper sticker on the back chas ing down minority children. these ads have been in your face they have been rough and in the last two weeks they have dramatically changed the tone of t

ed gillespie is in a tight race with northam -- ralph northam. we are told by our decision desk there is no thought an early call in this race, it's too close, based on our voter analysis. a striking shift in president trump's tone against north korea. president trump urging north korea to come to the negotiating table. new evidence of democratic collusion are russia. reports that the co-founder of fusion gps met with the russian attorney before and after she sat down with donal done donaldp jr. in virginia voters are deciding whether to elect republican ed gillespie or democrat ralph northam. democrats tend to do better with higher turnout. a steady turnout despite rain in the northern part of the state and threatening rain in the southern part. officials saying there was a substantial higher number of early voters this year compared to past gubernatorial elections. but gillespie says momentum is now on his side. >> our voters are enthusiastic. i think the intensity are on our side. people are pumped up out there. but i have been feeling it for

and in fact when the president sent out a tweet in support of ed gillespie, ed gillespie wouldn't even retweet it. so he treated the president like he had typhoid. this was not a referendum on trump. in fact it was a referendum what happens when an established republican wins and loses by big margins. >> but cory looking at it nationwide, and go ahead and jump in also, david, but how is it not ha referendum on the president? you've seen the results on so many of those raises and we are not just talking virginia. >> well, take a look at the person who ran for lieutenant governor in virginia, joel vo gel, she embraced the president, she was campaigning with me, and seen by the biggest trump supporter in the state, all campaigning together, embraced the president and she out performed ed gillespie who was running for governor, out performed him by 55,000 votes. so there you had a candidate who embraced the president, she got 55,000 more votes in virginia than the head of the ticket who avoided the president. >> david? >> look, i think you can find these one off races and certainly cory kn

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ed gillespie once says this about immigration. in 2006 in an op ed, quote, anti-immigration rhetoric is a political siren song. and republicans must resist its lure by lashing ourselves to a party's twin masts of freedom and growth. or our majority will crash on its shoals. freedom and growth were not the maemgs conveyed by the gillespie for governor campaign in virginia, were they? >> when you saw what gillespie campaigned on, what he talked about was usually the economy, yet he had advertising and he had these nods to kind of a grievance politics of the republican party. breitbart headline, type political slogans on gangs full of illegal undocumented immigrants. this was the kind of thing gillespie got tangled up with this time because he thought he needed to bring out those trump voters. but his race proved, at least in virginia, those trump voters aren't enough of a coalition to get you over the finish line in a swing state general. >> steve schmidt, ed gillespie is a good person and elise jordan put this nicely yesterday. his

ralph northam beat ed gillespie 54 to 45%. northern virginia turned out bit for northam including loudoun county. >> reporter: the size and scope of this victory beyond anything democrats might have imagined and it is northern virginia voters that powered ralph northam and the democratic ticket to such an win. northern virginia democrats are saying this lean sweep for their party sends a strong message be beyond virginia to the world and directly to president trump. they see this win as a repudiation of what they believe are policies that they have divided virginians. they say voters angry with president trump were motivated voters and there was also an updraft effect, all the energy poured into those competitive house races help turn out at the top. ralph northam the first doctor to be governor. it's a skill he says will help him to unite virginians after this bruising race. >> in virginia, it's going to take a doctor to heal our differenc differences to bring unity to our people and i'm here to let you know that the doctor i

orthis man, republican ed gillespie.race is not really about them but about the president and whether democrats can win in the age of donald trump. when we caught up with gillespie last night, donald trump's name didn't pass his lips, not once. think of that. the republican candidate didn't even mention the republican president. but mr gillespie has run tv ads echoing many of donald trump's issues, tough on illegal immigration, tough on crime. the republican playbook is trumpism without donald trump. here is his problem. like most of urban virginia, richmond is basically liberal. full of hipster coffee shops and even more hipster murals. this is the changing face of an increasingly diverse state. you'd think these young people would rush to send donald trump a message, but even with the democrats‘ top warm—up act alongside him, ralph northam is an anaemic campaigner. he has flip—flopped on critical issues like immigration. there is a lot of fire in the democrat base but you won't find it in mr northam. democrats should w

, ed gillespie.rt of order restored. a lot of conservatives were saying, wait a second, you know, northam may end up winning. the same thing with democrats. it was big. this was big. you look at these races, they call these offyear races but in virginia they always matter. 1993, george allen's land slide victory replacing doug wilder that led to republicans foreshadowing them winning a land slide. a year after barack obama was elected president suggested that the -- the tea party revolution was coming in 2010. i think you have to go back to and i wrote the date down here, january 19th, 2010, when scott brown won that special seat for ted kennedy. after bob mcdonald was elected, to find one offyear election night that so shifted the landscape of american politics and the expectations of american politics and suggested to the party in power that they were in trouble and meekca, we can all look at ed gillespie's loss, we can look at what happened in maine, we can look all across the country, but if you

gillespie's campaign ads, though, embrace mr.mp's issues: illegal immigration... >> ralph northam voted in favor of sanctuary cities that let dangerous illegal immigrants back on the street. >> yang: ...and confederate monuments. >> i'm for keeping them up. and he's for taking them down. >> yang: while polls find both issues far down on the list of voters' priorities, they are very important to some of the trump supporters who voted against gillespie in the surprisingly close republican primary. gillespie backer alison katzman, a tax preparer, did not vote for him in the primary. at the top of her concerns: confederate monuments. >> that is one issue that i feel that is very important. it's sort of like the left at this point is tilting at windmills. we've got to get rid of the statue when that name offends somebody, and then, it's something else. >> yang: that's a concern for northam voter eric anderson. he's a registered republican, and voted for gillespie in the primary. >> what disturbs me is having won, gillespie seems to be

so gillespie has. that what you have seen gillespie try to do in virginia is try to moderate himself in many ways. not in all ways, obviously, the moving of the monuments, things like that play into that base. i think he is trying to have his cake and eat it too, a bit. ly keep that trump base, i will eat into northern virginia and hopefully keep the lieutenant governor down, win big enough in southwest or south side of virginia, where republicans traditionally have done well, you saw mark warner in '01 jim webb do well in southwest, the democrats have evened the score there a bit. gillespie's strategy is make myself look safe to enough voters and then rely on the base of the command without having to do too much to keep him? and he's made eight close race. >> well, let me ask the first question, steve, first to you, northam the democrating nominee and the democratic governor, was he woo iz to say, tear down the confederate statues? was he smart to do that politically? steve? >> i guess we'll find out

at the gillespie last night -- ed gillespie last night did not mention nald trump once. tried to give him a question afterwards and ask about donald trump, and he pushed me aside, said far too busy, not talking, not answering questions. push ed gillespie, and he still won't mention donald trump. i think you will see this repeated. if he wins tonight, this will be the new republican playbook. go tough on immigration, tough on crime, far more hard right than the republican party has been in recent years. forget all that stuff about being more inclusive and reaching out to immigrants. if gillespie wins in virginia, that will go out the window, and you will get republicans saying that is the way we win, we go tough on things like immigration, tough on crime, and we talk about people's fears about the changing america, but we don't actually mention donald trump. people do it here, they think they can do it somewhere else. laura: what is your takeaway about the mood of the voters in virginia in these very disputatious times? katty: today i would say they are a bit cold and fre

even though gillespie didn't embrace him wholeheartedly, donald trump tweeted his support for gillespie, did a robocall today. as you said, saying that he would keep the state safe. of course virginia's one of the safest states in the country so it sort of belies the facts there. but it really back fired on him. virginia's a big state, but it's hard to run than kind of campaign focused to the south thinking that the folks in northern virginia wouldn't see it. and those ads were the talk of the town in northern virginia by people who are really appalled by that and really motivated to vote against it. >> peter, let's talk about 2018 and fraud of course because no two candidates or districts or races are like. can democrats get by with the bumper sticker slogan democrats, because we're not republicans, what must they do? and also how do republicans handle this going forward now? trump and trumpism? >> that's a great question. this is a great moment for democrats in a sense that they are feeling pumped, they're feeling victorious, they haven't had a lot of good news in the last year electo

gillespie did embrace the residency issues.not embrace the president personally in the sense that he didn't have them come in and campaign. most presidents do come into campaign for their party's nominee for governor. he did embrace the issues: immigration, crime. had plenty of ads about it. virginia is a blue state. we have been calling it kind of purple, competitive. we will just go ahead and call it blue. it's not as deep blue as california or new york or maryland but it's blue. you would expect a democrat to be elected when there is a republican president, particularly when the g.o.p. president is unpopular. he is unpopular in virginia. he's popular in red states but is not popular in blue states. and virginia's blue. >> shannon: we have a sound bite we want to play for my local voter at the polls about whether they think it's a referendum on the president or not. >> it's not a referendum on any national politics. local voters are looking at local issues. i hope no one is going out in voting just based on a presidential ele

if you vote it gillespie tomorrow it will come roaring back.igns with president obama, sought to make donald trump a liability for gillespie. >> we watched the campaign in 2016, one that was embarrassing for this country but also a campaign based on a lot of hatred and bigotry and discrimination and fear. >> reporter: voters showed it was healthcare the economy and education at the top. confederate monuments at the bottom. there was a latino victory which may have turned some voters, a pickup truck with a gillespie bumper sticker chasing down minority children. it will come down to turn out and gillespie says he is confident. >> i'm confident, i feel the momentum everywhere we are going. i went everywhere in the past year, in the past week, i can tell you the crowds have been great. >> reporter: history is not a gillespie upside. the last 10 elections the voters picked the candidate opposite the voters party. heather: more democrats calling foul after new emails show how far james comey went to protect hillary clinton. >> it stinks, it is run.

gillespie you described as a moderate republican. >> tucker: i disagree with gillespie's views on immigrationery strongly. >> okay. >> tucker: i'm way to the right of him on immigration because it actually is a threat. it's a great thing in other ways, but in some ways it is a threat and ms-13 is oneit manifestation of that. it's real, and there's nothing racist about saying that. if we make that off limits, if we call people names for telling the truth, then we can't have an honest conversation about it. >> i want an honest conversation, but i'm telling you it's not a threat to the extent that it would become the major issue in the race for governor of virginia, unless you are playing it in order to stir up and turn out your voters, which is what ed has done. a he's following stewart, donald trump playbook. >> tucker: they ran an ad, his opponents, accusing him and his voters of wanting to murderd, children with a pickup truck. it's literally true. that's not like my spin on it. have you seen the spot? of course. >> of course. >> tucker: somehow, ed gillespie, who was a victim of that, he's

ed gillespie won running for the senate three years ago. and he got beat by double digits yesterday. you look at the overall raw vote up i believe 13% in virginia over the last midterm election. the last off year election in 2013. you are looking right at northern virginia and there are districts just like that in pennsylvania, in ohio, across the industrial midwest, in the mountain west. aural over the place. more than the number of "the washington post" pointing to there. there's got to be like 50 or 60 districts around that are going to be prime battlegrounds that again where democrats -- remotely guaranteed to win and they're now in the -- absolutely in the strike zone for democrats again with this trump drag on the republican ticket. >> i was watching steve kornacki yesterday and when he pointed to what was happening in loudon county -- >> right. >> he was almost jumping up and down because as you mentioned it was stunning to him and i think steve knew. he told me later that he knew as soon as he saw that that this was over. stuart and

gillespie did well in southwest virginia. that trumpism strategy worked for him in trump country but the backlash was bigger. >> think about that. virginia beach, that's a military country right there, surprising to see them go blue. but virginia was just one of several big political story lines that developed last night. and democrats came out on top in almost all of them. let's walk you through. in new jersey, my home state, voters rejected chris christie's lieutenant governor, kim guadagno, electing phil murphy. he won easily, 56% to 43. right here in new york city, mayor bill de blasio was easily elected to a second term. he trounce his closest republican competitor by nearly 40 points. two other notable races in virginia, democrat danica rome won the 13th district becoming the first openly transgender person to be elected to virginia's state legislature, and democrat chris hurst won the 12th district. this is former tv anchor who gapd national attention after his girlfriend, alison parker, was shot and killed on live tel

he urged people to vote for ed gillespie. the president taking advantage of twitter's 2830 kairkt limit. ed gillespie work ed hard but did not embrace me or what i stand for. don't forget republicans won four out of four house seats. we will tin to win even bigger before. first ronica cleary has been very patient tonight. she saturday through about a dozen people on stage. they're trying to kick her out of the ballroom at george mason, but he stayed for us. >> right. nobody likes a wet blanket, jim. that's kind of what it felt on the loudspeaker and told everybody to get out of here and we said, no. when we talked to tom fitzgerald, they were really somber present the get go. what was the mood in their like? in political parties are what they are. >>reporter: right. it was a little unusual. when the news started to break, i mean the reum relate i didn't show anything. of course they had the tvs go withing some of the networks. when the announcements were made, there was some cheering, they had some performances, but it really

if you vote for ed gillespie, you're voting for donald trump.m with trump and make it an election about donald trump rather than what's going on inside virginia. look, this is a turnout election. northam has been having some problems animating minorities. he's got to have their vote. he needs the vote of people in northern virginia who did not vote for trump, and gillespie needs the people in virginia who did vote for trump. paul: but is it working, bill? >> probably not in the way it was intended. i'd say it's not just to associate ed gillespie with donald trump, but as you've seen, with the white supremacists that marched on charlottesville. it's really an obscene ad and should be thought of the next time people complain about divisive g work p politics. -- gop politics. i think ed's handling it wisely. his contributions online have increased because he has an ad attacking northam for this ad, and he says it's not just that ralph northam disagrees with ed gillespie and his policies, it's that he disdains us. the big problem that the democrats

enron ed gillespie. he's not lobbying for you. >>> tonight the fbi is looking into the attacks that seriously injured kentucky senator rand paul at his home on friday. senator paul's neighbor is charged with assault and could face additional charges. sources familiar with the incident tell nbc news that paul was wearing headphones and was mowing his lawn when he was tackled from behind. paul suffered several broken ribs. there may be a long-running tension with the neighbor. the two had not spoken in years. it's not clear, though, if anything specific prompted the altercation, but the neighbor's attorney says it was not politically motivated. >>> the news4 i-team recently reported members of congress expressed concerns about their safety at home to capital police. they ordered some panic buttons for some officers and they approved giving all 35 house members an extra security. >> just hours before the polls open in virginia, and new numbers show the governor's race is tightening tonight, a fox news poll

enron ed gillespie.lobbying for you. >>> i'm darcy spencer back at the live desk with an update on today's mass church shooting in san antonio, texas. the shooter has been identified at 26-year-old devon patrick kelly. kelly is dead. we're waiting to find out who took him down. at least 25 people inside the first baptist church of sutherland springs are dead, including children. msnbc reporting that one of the people killed is the pastor's 14-year-old daughter. the gunfire erupted late this morning during worship. meantime, president trump is weighing in on twitter as he travels overseas. he said may god be with the people of sutherland springs. the fbi and law enforcement are on thesc the situation from japan. i'm darcy spencer at the live desk. >> thank you. >>> back here in fairfax county a family is grieving for a young man killed outside a bar. police believe there are dozens of witnesses who saw that fight at the velocity five bar in centreville and they are hoping that somebody will do the right t

gillespie won this by 51 points. you know what the margin was last time gillespie ran for office? it was about 30 points. ed gillespie -- this is where donald trump drove up hue margins in 2018. running on trumpism gillespie was able to take those parts of virginia and get pretty close to trump levels of support. the problem was, he stirred a backlash, a much bigger backlash in the suburbs. if you look at national implications, those parts of the country, like southwest virginia, we didn't see movement away from him, from trump. we did see it, though, boy, did we see it in the suburbs. >> steve, tom, michael, thank you, appreciate your time. >>> breaking news. new allegations of sexual assault against kevin spacey. a former boston news anchor now alleges her teenage son was sexually assaulted by the actor. exactly one year after president trump was elected to office, has he kept any more than 60 -- any more of the 60 campaign promises he made on the campaign trail? we'll break it down just ahead. my 30-year marriage... ...my 3-month old business... plus...what if this happened aga

gillespie sought to thread the needle. as it turned out, he did not get the base energized and the establishment republicans did not show up. host: greenbelt, maryland, democrats line. your first call for our guest. caller: good morning. i applaud the entire democratic for relentlessly telling people to go out and vote. they have not been going out to vote and i was told in -- telling my friends. i told them go out and vote. if you don't vote, there is no way the democrats will win this election. i applaud them. anytime there is no election, we should not take it as a joke. guest: turnout was key for democrats in virginia. you look at prince william county, where all of the house of delicate seats flipped -- where most of the house of delicate -- delegate seats flipped. races, when they lost special elections in very conservative states and districts. virginia is a blue state. when that based shows up in large numbers, it is hard for democrats to lose. host: years before, it was a purple state and read. is it solid blue? g

what happened to ed gillespie?the percentages are about the same as they were in the presidential race with the lower turnout. i want to congratulate ralph northam. being governor of virginia is the highest honor that can be bestowed on anybody by the people of virginia. one of the things that gets lost in campaigns are some of the good ideas. ed gillespie had great plans to make virginia more competitive for investment and jobs from tax, regulations, energy, agriculture. neil: what do you think hurt him? >> i think northern virginia is very strong for the democrats and they came out in force. and what i'm hopeful for is that the members of the general assembly that will be controlled by republicans ought to look at some of the plans ed put forward. i think governor than can look at them as -- governor tha govem can as well. i've jump not one to kick somebody when they are down. ed worked hard and tried to get his message out as bestr best he could. virginia is a tough state when people are trying to nationalize it

it's had a negative rebound effect that is helping gillespi gillespie.another example, we've seen it in entertainment, academia, politics. when identity politics enters the room, it's a skunk. and you are stuck with the stench as long as you live. >> dana: i want to get juan and kimberly n. >> kimberly: i think i want to touch on the democratic party question because i think this is going to be very critical when we see the outcome of the race because i think it's really going to exacerbate some of the existing problems they're having, that they are losing a bit of their grip on state politics and being able to go in and do the anti-trump thing and win. this to me is a very good sign. republicans, if they can come together and kind of bridge the divide we talked about yesterday. and ed gillespie, i think he's done a masterful job of learning lessons from the left. really taking ownership of the situation, will getting behind him. he's a very good example of kind of a modern-day republican candidate they can appeal to multiple facets of the party. be a cl

a 20-point loss for ed gillespie. all of the damage to the trump brand in northern virginia and the suburbs, it attached itself to gillespie and maybe even a little more we saw that story throughout the suburbs. look down here. prince william county, another one. gillespie only lost by three running for the senate in 2014. trump lot it by 21 last year. last night gillespie loses it by 23. all of the resistance to donald trump in the suburbs last year in the election, it was still there. maybe even a little more. also we saw exceptionally high turnout here. voters who were very motivated to get to the polls. very motivated to deliver a message. again, the story for gillespie was, he did get some trump levels of support returning on those trump cultural issues in these red parts of the state. did not necessarily get the turnout he wanted there, and then when you go to where the people, a lot of people really live here. the suburbs, boy, got the backlash to being in donald trump's party and the backlash to running on tru

back to you. >> nightly ne narrator: ed gillespie's false attacks. independent press says they're false. fear mongering. absurd. ralph northam went to vmi and was an army doctor for eight years. in richmond, dr. northam helped pass longer sentences for gang members and mandatory life sentences for violent sexual predators. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad because i'm a pediatrician, and for ed gillespie to say i would tolerate anyone hurting a child is despicable. z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy >>> tonight, reaction is pouring in to the sentence revealed. no prison time for bowe bergdahl who walked off his post in afghanistan, held captive for five years. americans wounded while trying to find him. president trump calling the sentence a disgrace. >>> and there's breaking news. police say they're building a rape case to arrest harvey weinstein after an actress' allegation he sexually attacked her. >>> and there's new fallout for kevin spacey as "house of cards" employees accuse the oscar winner of inappropri