number three, trump spiked the vote in rural america. while romney won in rural areas by 19 points in pennsylvania, trump won them by 45 points. >> the rural jobs are tougher to find. factors, you know, made it a little easier for donald trump and his campaign focusing on immigrants taking jobs, trade deals causing jobs to be lost. >> clinton also struggled to articulate why voters should support her beyond the fact that she was not trump. what is the big idea of your candidacy? >> look, we are stronger together. we are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external >> instead of running clear economic messaing in small town and rural america as obama's campaign did -- >> now he has a plan that will give millionaire's a tax break. >> knock the crab out of him. >> the outcome is unfathomable. >> discourse has changed forever. >> the other half celebrate. >> what i'm seeing is a return back to family values. >> joining me now is the woman transition, kellyanne conway. welcome back to the show. >> thank you, chuck. >>

he knows rural america. he has been talking about opioid abuse. he was there to fix the mecha c mechani mechanics. i would argue a lot of people. ed you to be a spokesperson and a mechanic. they wanted you out in public. >> they didn't want that. that's different. they don't know what the committee members want. >> if i could offer up a word of caution. the base is making it clear. i would not assume that because you label a congressman a progressive that that's where progressives in california and florida and progressives elsewhere have their head. they need to be careful because they can do it before it launches. democrat i republican, across the board. they are about the grass roots. they are about something different than what you see in washington. this is a power vacuum that 72 hours ago. no one thought they were going to exist. it's like a black hole. the opportunity that now exists. let's assume obama is on the stage. there is a lot of opportunity there. that's why you will see more people. wait a minute. now is the time. it's so unexpecte

the white vote in rural america. a slice of the country whose strength many underestimated as they made a mockery of the polls. fueling this incredible upset. with more on that we turn to nbc's kevin tibbles in michigan. >> in the american heartland, farmers like aaron kate are back at work. just one day a and their vote was finally heard. what's the message people like you sent? >> i sense we've been forgotten in the last eight years. >> so important was middle america to trump his final campaign event was a raucous gathering of 4,000 in grand rapids, michigan. last night, local republicans in this county of city and country celebrated. >> i think we're going to look back in the records, look back at tonight. >> it was the rural vote in the small towns of states like michigan and pennsylvania that helped push trump over the top. with issues like jobs, health care and big government. more white voters in rural michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin went for trump. than they did for mitt romney four years ago. this coup

. >> reporter: propelled by turnout in white rural america breaking clinton's blue wall in the upper midwest, trump proving enthusiasm was more important than ground game. political infrastructure and money. >> usa! >> reporter: winning because of, not despite his often crass honesty. still the victory came as surprise even to the campaign. going into election day nbc news has learned from campaign sources team trump's internal data had him losing. but that changed. at 10:59 cheers from the soon-to-be victory party. fox news called florida, trump's campaign, seeing the momentum shift right alongside the nation. by 1:36 a.m. when the associated press called pennsylvania, they knew they had it. >> 85,000 people there at a county fair and the big question for the media, will they vote? they voted. >> reporter: today the now president-elect was holed up at trump tower planning. campaign sources say trump was too superstitious to talk transition before he won, leaving his aides to muse about cabinet positions. rudy giuliani as attorney general. newt gingrich, secretary of state. reince pr

america? i spent a lot of time in rural pennsylvania.to really go out and go into those areas. because a lot of the media is east coast slant in some ways, maybe. at least that's what i'm thinking. that's the thing i want to do. i want to go out in the middle of the country and talk to people. >> maria? >> we have to come and give people the space to have honest and frank conversations of where they are and why they feel so insecure and how do we bring together. because we are an increasingly changing demographic. this is generation z, the one that cast their vote for the first year. it's the last white majority. how do we prepare ourselves for the generations to come and making sure we're an inclusive america. >> stepping back from all the noise in the conversation and the events, this is the change election with the best example of an outsider candidate you could have, and the best example of an insider candidate you could have. and yet we all said the insider was going to win. and just common sense should have told us all this would b

second, do you think democrats were perceived as looking down on rural america? >> i tell you whose brand was tainted is donald trump. this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. no way in the world that donald trump is a champion of working people. multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. i don't know any good thing this guy has done. yet because he was able to throw hate and poison on hillary clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least to the electoral college. he lost the popular vote. i think he was skilled at just sort of keeping the attention on anyone but himself. this guy is the most outrageous person ever to w >> you don't put this fault on clinton at all? >> i'm not going to get up here cast fault on democrats. i think that -- look, negative campaigning, people do it because sometimes it works. in this particular case, him saying all this stuff that he said, you know, had an impact. but the real question,how do we go forward? my point is we have to go to the doors. we have to go directly to the people from the party unit by stre

a lot of our jobs are created in rural america. did not our great president, president barack obama, say we need to start taking care of the jobs in america and they got programs where they will assist you if you can bring jobs to rural america. >> and paying it forward. >> that's what it's supposed to be about. we're into creating opportunity business. >> that's the vision. it's to help thousands of people. hopefully one day millions of people. >> tell me how you stay sharp. you are clearly not someone who's deterred by failure. you are continually inspirational with different audiences and markets. what's been your greatest teacher? >> first of all, failure is a wonderful teacher. i've learned a lot. secondly, failure is a part of the process. you can't be successful without failing. what's you tripping beus failed for? do you understand that's a part of the process? you have to fail in order to succeed. my legacy, i think it will be fine. i don't think this father will leave me. i think he's going to show me some other things, th

move in the sander s warren direction or try to reconnect with rural and working class america. want to reason the democratic party joins me next. here is what snl did last night. their version of a clinton watch party from tuesday night. >> the urban -- black people vote late. >> yeah. let's hope there's 100,000 of us let's hope there's 100,000 of us in green bay. ?jake reese, ?day to feel alive?? impressive linda. it seems age isn't slowing you down. but your immune system weakens as you get older increasing the risk for me, the shingles virus. i've been lurking inside you since you had chickenpox. i could surface anytime as a painful, blistering rash. will it be you? and that's why linda got me zostavax, a single shot vaccine. i'm working to boost linda's immune system to help protect her against you, shingles. zostavax is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults fifty years of age and older. zostavax does not protect everyone and cannot be used to treat shingles or the nerve pain that may follow it. you should not get zostavax if you are allergic to gelatin or neomycin,

you said more americans -- i'm sorry, the real bubble isn't the coast, it is rural america., before everyone gets mad at patrick, he's the rural -- what is it? how do you say this county, explain your tack on this? >> well, you know, a lot of people saying that it is the people on the coast, they need to get out of their bubbles and they need to see more of america to understand why people voted for trump. but a lot of people saying that themselves actually live on the coast, and they actually haven't been that much in rural america. the county i come from is 97% white. the high school i went to had 950 students in it. two of them were asian, one was hispanic. we had zero muslim students. had zero non-white teachers. i actually had more teachers growing up that were sexual predators than were actually non-whites. so when people say this, i don't think they realize that there are many people who live in a white bubble, that don't know anybody other than themselves. and so what you're going to end up with then is they're saying, well, i didn't vote for donald trump because i'm

rural america is speaking in big voices tonight. still too close to call. ?? cigarettes, e-cigs and vapes have a lot in common. ?? they're all filled with nicotine and other dangerous chemicals. ?? hi everyone... . the polls closed closed just under an hour ago... and there are still people in line to vote... the democrats tried to get the deadline extended by - but a judge denied that request. a democratic party spokeswoman says complications with voting early in the morning prompted the lawsuit. some voters running into computer problems at several polling places. matt rodewald is live outside a polling place in the west valley... how's it looking controversial propositions on today's ballot. including prop 205- the battle to legalize recreational marijuana- marcy jones we're back in a half hour. we now rejoin fox's election coverage live from new york. good smith. >> 7:00 on the west coast, i'm shepard smith in new york and this is fox broadcast network's continuing coverage of the race for the white house 2016. we have a big one to call right now. hillary

. >>> that was republican senator ted cruz crediting rural america for donald trump's election victory. he says trump's win is a repudiation of elites on both coasts. in fact, cnn exit polling shows donald trump winning the majority of rural and suburban america. can this be characterized as a middle america takeover? joining us now is michael smerconish. hi, michael. >> good morning. >> so, is this a middle america takeover? do you agree with that premise? >> i do. i think there was a rural revolt. let me give a tip of the hat of david wassermann because he crunches this data in a way that i can understand. and he portrays it as cracker barrel versus whole foods. alisyn, there are 3,100 counties in the united states. cracker barrel and whole foods which reach two different audiences overlap in only about 90 of those counties. listen to this, donald trump won 76% of counties with a cracker barrel and only 22% of those with a whole foods. that's a 54% gap. if you go back to 1992, the gap between the two was only 19%. and it's grown every single presidential election since '92. it grew t

the trump vote in dublin county mirrored much of rural america. he won almost two to one. >> if i could be anybody, i would want to be donald trump. >> reporter: lance hooks is a 39-year-old registered hooks remembers when trump campaigned in rural georgia back in february. >> he was smart enough to come rally his base, and you know what his base was. it was the working class america. and that's the reason he got the electoral vote he got. >> reporter: what hit you when you looked at that electoral map? >> trump had better coverage than verizon. >> reporter: hundreds of people here work in three foreign-owned factorys. scott, trump won counties like this one because many working trump's anti-free trade stance, that this country needs a c.e.o. >> pelley: about 60 million of them. mark strassmann, thank you very much. the trump election, however, sent shivers through mexico's economy. the peso dropped 12% in two days. mexico's foreign minister said today that she is willing to modernize the north american free trade agreement, nafta, but not renegoti

rural america turned out and a decline in democratic turn out. rural counties produced 500,000 more votes in 2016 than 2012. even though some of them lost population since the last census. in urban counties where the obama coalition resides, people dent turn out to view. 2.5 million fewer people voted than in 2012. they didn't just dupe clinton, but cost senate and democrats on the hill. they are trying to figure out how to bridge the gap. they will have 25 seats so defend and more than half. conference. republicans are only going to have to defend eight seats. they had to make the tough call. they are choosing to discipline themselves from them and they lost. democrats didn't think they had to make the call, but maybe some of them would benefit between making time between themselves and hillary clinton. now they are left to determine if they missed an opportunity. i had to start with a panel here. the democrat from montana and not yet showing up for this. let me bring in the panel. the supporter for the "new york times." msnbc political analyst.

of states and the reason is we've seen some of the largest divisions between urban america and rural america. donald trump is winning white college men in a margin we haven't seen since ronald reagan and hillary clinton is winning african-americans and latinos. there's two different americas and we're watching them fight each other to a draw in a few of these states in ways that, again, reflects enormous division, much bigger than we've normally seen. >> fred, turn around here in your chair. is this an example of how divided the nation is? are we in for a night that's going to go past 3:00 a.m.? >> what i'm noticing in my study is an even bigger gender gap, that trump is doing better with male voters that romney did four years ago and mrs. clinton is doing slightly better with women voters than obama did four y yes ago which is making for a very tight election. >> freddie, bill, thank you. we'll chat more about these swing states of michigan and florida. this is our working newsroom. this is the engine room of our election center. the notebooks are out, the binders are out as these guys dig

change has not been kind to the midwest and rural america and rather than embrace it, rural and whitelass americans are twisting and turning, fighting it every step of the way. we will never return to the days where a white man could barely graduate high school and walk on to a factory floor at 18 and get a well-paying job for life. joining us now, mark thompson, host of "make a plan" on sirius xm radio. i talked about brooklyn and how brooklyn is the real america as so many areas of america are the real america. but what the real america isn't, is a non-inclusive, homo genous area. >> people cannot hide behind the argument that they were concerned about workers and the working class. they voted for someone, as patrick wrote, who was sued by the justice department for discriminating against african-americans, who has been saying racist, xenophopic, misogynistic things throughout the campaign. there's a great deal of voter suppression out there, stories yet to be told and fully analyzed as to how african-americans were cross-checked, caged, denied voting opportunity because of voter id

and the view from rural america. the heart of trump's strength denny's knows the holidays should be shared w with friends and family. except denny's all-new holiday pancakes. you won't want to share those with anybody. denny's new fluffier, tastier, >> jim: background checks for gun sales passed last night. coming up at 6:00, when the new rules start for gun buyers. >> maria: 8 yooe old girl recovering after shot in the shoulder. her father is in jail what we are learning about what happened. >> jim: health news using high doses are an effective treatment for patienteds with heart disease. patients who took higher doses were 10% more likely to survive than those on moderate doses. patients treated with the max dose had a better chance of survival. well is another new study out linking sugar drinks to type two describes. researchers analyzed data of 1600 middle aged adults those who drafrpg the drink had 40% higher risk of developing prediabetes. there has been a link on people who trafrng one sugar drink a day. >> ji

. >> reporter: change, a word no longer whispered but shouted in rural america. >> revolt. tired of the government, the way it's been. >> flipped the rust belt, the same that supported barack obama four years ago. pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, and iowa, all unexpectedly turning red even the once reliably democratic michigan too close to call. trump's message on jobs and trade resonated here. tom chufar is now an entrepreneur. >> one of the things i've seen happen in the county the last, you know, 20 years, 20 plus years has been business leaving. obviously, nafta had a huge thing to do with that. >> reporter: charlene volunteered for the trump campaign. >> he's the people's candidate. not the establishment. >> reporter: went over by much wider margins than the previous nominee. in rural michigan, a 19 point victory compared to mitt romney's 7 and small town wisconsin, trump up 29 points. romney, again, just 7 and in pennsylvania's rural areas, a whopping 45 point trump win compared to romney's 19. christine dye lost her factory job in 2015. >> manufacturing in northeast oh