doctor that used to treat president obama and tommy tuberville, ronnie jackson, tommy tuberville who voting rights act is, those people are more emblematic of the party than the people like lindsey graham who represents the elite, the donors to the party. they represent the people who want the division but the base of the party is much more representative because people like tommy tuberville and others. >> my heart goes out to my favorite coveted republican, michael steele, for having the courage to be with us. the thing is, the party is still a cult. it's still driven by donald trump. that's not going to change even when he's moved out of the white house by federal marshalls. he reminds me of a mob boss who says to the party, you know, you work for me. you still work for me. even if i'm going to jail, you're still working for me because the base is following him. so all those great scenarios that our friend jennifer rubin came up with, this gigantic analogy which is donald trump who entered the white house because of his racist birthism conspiracy and is leaving the white house with

and then the gop flipped a seat in alabama where former college football coach tommy tuberville defeated doug jones and in maine incumbent republican susan collins held on to her seat as it south carolina, republican lindsey graham. now those were all seats that democrats thought that they had a legitimate chance to win. meantime speaker nancy pelosi is on track to keep control of the house. well not all propositions passed that's including the ones that poll suggested would pass without a prop for a problem proposition 15 chipped away attacks. protection on commercial properties, lot of folks who are concerned about this now if passed it would have dramatically increase taxes taken in by cities and also by the counties proposition 16 looked at repealing proposition 2 '09 that actually blocked affirmative action at schools and public employees are public construction contracts and then there is proposition 25 calling for the no cash bill for those arrested for a crime. the chief justice of the california supreme court supported this as did many other democrats including governor newsome

the meantime, the democrats losing a senate seat in alabama after former auburn football coach tommy tuberville defeated doug jones. in north carolina, senator thom tillis in a close race overnight against democratic challenger cal cunningham who stressed his service in the iraq war and as a u.s. army reserve officer, but in the final weeks of his campaign, cunningham admitted to sending suggestive text messages to a political strategist who was not his wife. the democrats' first flip coming in colorado. republican incumbent cory gardner losing to john hickenlooper, the former colorado governor and 2020 presidential candidate. >> clearly people are saying it's time to turn the page. it's time for a different approach. >> reporter: we are also learning incumbent republican senator joni ernst won in iowa. incumbent steve daines won in montana. in georgia a special election senate race will go to a runoff between kelly loeffler and warnock. so far mark kelly is winning against martha mcsally. democrat was need to gain four seats to seize the chamber or three seats if biden wins the white house. mo

tommy tuberville, the senator from alabama, linked right back up with him.ou are seeing a fair bit of that dynamic. a lot of the strongest republican voices against trump do not have a title. francine: derek, thank you so much. derek wallbank looking at the u.s. elections. let's get plenty more on this historic u.s. election. with more analysis, our next guest is former deputy chief to the u.s. embassy in london, now at signum global advisors. to.lukens, welcome the program something we have not really focused on but seems significant is, how well the republican party deal with the latest comments from president trump yesterday? saying that this is a rigged election, when we have actually no proof of that. >> i think we are seeing a split in the republican party leadership. some senators and leaders have come out in support of president trump, but i think some of the more cautious members, including mitch mcconnell, will start distancing themselves from trump , especially as the day goes on, as georgia flips, pennsylvania, and it becomes clear that joe biden

republican incumbent cory gardner but there was bad news for them in alabama where republican tommy tuberville is projected to defeat doug jones of alabama the results mean that the democrats look on likely to take control of the senate. now in the race for the house the democrats also failed to make substantial gains but the left wing democratic representative alexander of cost you of course ted was reelected from new york as were the other 3 like minded congresswoman who are known as quote the squad for challenging washington's status quo. and as for the u.s. presidential election of course it remains too close to call with a vote counting continuing in key states that will decide who wins the white house so far neither president donald trump nor his democratic challenger joe biden have clinched the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the southwestern state of arizona is the latest battleground state that has just been called it is 11 votes going to joe biden making it the only state to have flipped to the party to the democratic party since the 2016 election you're just seeing those r

alabama, tommy tuberville did defeat doug jones. the only gop flit of a democratic -- flip of a democratic held senate seat. 62% of the voters according to fox news voter analysis said the president handled the pandemic well. 56% say the nation's economy has been handled well by the president. that certainly helped tuberville. his victory means republicans will regain the seat they lost in the reliably red state in 2017 when jones pulled off a special election. jones was considered a long shot against tuberville. republican, tuberville, a former auburn university football coach. he was endorsed by the president. fox news by the way has recently called a runoff in georgia, this is now official. republican senator kelly loeffler, the democratic challenger are headed to a january 5th runoff in the special election. they're the top two finishers in a crowded field which included gop representative doug collins. neither loeffler nor warknock was able to get the 50% threshold to win outright. a lot of the senate seats will be in play as w

here to talk about that is republican senator-elect from alabama tommy tuberville. you for being here. i want to ask you personally what this victory meant for you but what did it mean for your party as we know the balance of power is obviously key? >> it is so important but i'm a citizen. i'm a citizen legislator. i coached for 40 years and just goes to show any young man or woman out there you can do anything. i've told our caucus yesterday last week at this time i was one of 340 million. today i'm one of 100 that has a chance to make a difference in this country and i will do exactly that. >> sandra: doug jones was asked if he would lend any advice to you after he conceded and he said i hope he gets right to work. he also hoped you would get more specific on the issues. one of his criticisms during the campaign was you weren't specific on the issues for the people of your state. what can you tell us this morning about how you may do that? >> well, i've been doing it for two years, sandra. i didn't do a television campaign. didn't have the money. i spent 2.8 milli

speak republicans picked up a seat in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating doug jones. senator mitch mcconnell expressed hope that he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i'm going to be the majority leader or the minority leader. i've been both. the majority is better. >> pickups for democrats in colorado with john hickenlooper defeating cory gardner. >> it's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us and come together to move forward. >> in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. >> we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> democrats lost numerous seats in the house, many they won two years ago. in iowa, new mexico, and florida. donna shalala and debbie mucarsel-powell. in oklahoma, kendra horn and in south carolina joe cunningham and it wasn't just freshman. house agriculture committee chairman collin peterson of minnesota lost his 15 term seat. democrats could still lose seats in new york, michigan, and california. house republican leader kevin mccarthy celebrated. >> our numbers continue to gr

the gop flipped a seat in alabama where former a college football coach tommy tuberville defeated doug jones and then in maine, incumbent republican susan collins, she actually held on to her seat as did south carolina republican lindsey graham, those were all seats to the democrats thought they had a legitimate crack meantime as speaker nancy pelosi is on track to keep control of the house but she saw her democratic majority shrinking one of those losses west to marjorie taylor green a republican who expressed racist spews and support for cuban on conspiracy theories. she won a seat representing georgia in the house, those results almost ensures partisan gridlock regardless of who wins the presidency and now for the latest out president trump's camp we now head to washington dc outside the white house that is where we find our dc correspondent jessi to nor jesse thanks for being with us tonight last night we heard president trump declare victory. that was not the case today. he's claimed victory in pennsylvania. >>where there are still 800,000 votes or so to be counted in joe biden is

in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating democratic senator doug jones.ty leader mitch mcconnell sounds hopeful he will be holding onto the majority leader role. >> it appears that as of today, at this moment, that we are in a pretty good position in north carolina and maine. we may as i said earlier no later in the day how that turns out. if my math is correct if we win in north carolina and maine i am still the offensive coordinator. >> north carolina was seen as a possible pickup for incumbent tom tillis facing kal cunningham. tillis has claimed victory but we await the final call. in georgia, one seat is going to a january runoff. kelly loeffler will face democrat rafael warnock. as for the house late night last night, speaker nancy pelosi's about holding them and will make a majority but there were upsets and it certainly wasn't easy. >> i'm here just to sing the praises of our house democrats and our candidates. not just in terms of numbers. not just about the quantity, it's about the quality of leadership that they provide for our country. >> this

. >> republicans also picked up a seat in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating democrat doug jonessenator mitch mcconnell expressed hope today he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i'm going to be the majority leader or the minority leader, as i told you, i've been both. majority is better. >> two pickups for democrats in colorado with john hickenlooper defeating republican cory gardner. >> it's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us and come together to move forward. >> and in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. >> are state doesn't need a democrat senator, a republican senator. we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> in-house, democrats lost numerous seats, many that they won two years ago. in iowa, new mexico and florida. donna shalala and debbie mucarsel-powell. in oklahoma, kendra horn and in south carolina, joe cunningham. and it wasn't just freshman. if house agriculture committee chairman collin peterson of minnesota lost his 15 term seat. democrats could still lose seats in new york, michi

usaa >>> alabama's newly elected senator, tommy tuberville, is showing an alarming lack of knowledgethe government works, according to doug jones. listen to what the former football coach said when asked if he thought the two parties could work together in congress. >> our government wasn't set up for one group to have all three branches of government. it wasn't set up that way. or three branches, you know, the house, the senate and executive. >> the three branches are, of course, the executive, the legislative, which is both the house and senate, and the judiciary. but he didn't stop there. here's what senate-elect tuberville said about the democrats pushing the world toward socialism. >> as i told people, my dad fought 76 years ago in europe to free europe of socialism. >> it's not the first time that he's told that story about world war ii. this is what he said on election night. >> my dad, as you know, i said this last time. he quit school at 16, joined the army, landed at normandy at 18, drove a tank across europe. he said he had never got tent look on people's face in paris whe

in alabama, trump-backed republican tommy tuberville, the former head coach of the auburn football team, has defeated incumbent democratic senator doug jones. georgia voters cast ballots in two senate races. democrat reverend raphael warnock will head to a runoff special election in january against republican senator kelly loeffler. in georgia's other senate race, incumbent republican david perdue is leading democratic challenger jon ossoff. several senate races remain too close to call. in maine, republican senator susan collins is leading in her bid for reelection. it is maine's first election since the state instituted rank choice voting. in north carolina, republican thom tillis is leading over democratic challenger cal cunningham. republicans won many of the most high-profile races. in kentucky, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell easily defeated democratic challenger amy mcgrath. in iowa, republican senator joni ernst has survived a strong challenge by theresa greenfield. mississippi's republican senator cindy hyde-smith has defeated democrat mike espy, who served as the first

to the democrats in colorado because john hickenlooper is there and a win to alabama win to tommy tubervilleey are looking at iowa seeing if they can defeat joni ernst the incumbent there. susan collins in maine is a key target. if democrats win there they would be well on their way at 49. then looking at north carolina, the race between incumbent tom tillis and cal cunningham. they are looking, of course, in arizona one of their best shots to concert a seat for mark kelly over martha mcsal lee. not a certain thing and they are close. that would be the easiest path for the democrats but easy it won't be. >> dave chalain, thanks so much. >>> concerns about election-related violence across the country. stay with us about that. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. (burke)stomer) happy anniversary. ♪ (customer) for what? (burke) every year you're with us, you get fifty dollars toward your home deductible. it's a policy perk for being a farmers cu

but in alabama republican challenger tommy tuberville has defeated democrat incumbent doug jones. and in kentucky mitch mcconnell has defeated democrat amy mcgrath. so it appears, unlike his hands, mitch mcconnell's seat will not be turning blue. if there's one thing we cannot deny about 2020 is that it has sucked balls. also coronavirus has made everything weird. you've got a face mask drawer next to your underwear drawer. your delivery guy throws food at you like a broke ass quarterback and even your creepy aunt doesn't kiss you on the mouth anymore. >> with the coronavirus pandemic making social distancing a must sporting venues have been transformed into polling locations across the country from the k.f.c. center in louisville to philly's union stadium. arenas and stadiums uparen't the only places repurposed. you can cast ballots at the city's tar pits, this texas location allows people to vote without ever leaving their car. in san francisco the neptune society, home to 8500 cremated remains, is now a polling site. >> trevor: people are even voting in crematoriums? probably s

look at this tommy tuberville, the new-elected senator from alabama, misstating the three branches ofgovernment. and then, making up tales about al gore having served as president-elect for 30 days. there are many people who learned -- and we're going to see a lot more of this, i'm afraid. >> heidi przybyla, thanks so much for making time tonight. appreciate it. ahead, why is a supreme court justice spouting fox news talking points? hear from a member of our new 6-3 majority, after this. r new 6-3 majority, after this see yourself. welcome back to the mirror. and know you're not alone because this. come on jessie one more. is the reflection of an unstoppable community in the mirror. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look... ...with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one... ...fda approved... ...to temporarily make frown lines... ...crow's feet... ...and forehead lines... ...look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic, may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor ri

tommy tuberville, who won the eenate race in alabama, said the elec election results are out of control, and the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team's side. >> just to be clear, none of them had any evidence of this. it's the excitement of emotion. >> no evidence whatsoever. but it shows they're willing to come to the president's defense, even when he isn't providing any evidence. now, i should say, there are a lot more republicans who aring out and saying that the president is going too far. i mean, you heard from will hurd, a very well-respected congressman from texas saying what he is doing is dangerous and wrong and undermining the foundation foundation that this nation was built upon. larry hogan, the governor of maryland, saying there's no defense for the president's comments, undermining the democratic process. and adam kinsinger, a congressman from illinois, never afraid to criticize this president, even though he's a republican, said stop spreading debunked information. this is getting insane. >> has mitch mcconnell said anything? >> no. >> that was my poi

that in this case with the exception of ted cruz, lindsey graham, some members of congress, tommy tubervillecoming alabama senator as well. >> of course. >> but they're not riding to his defense because, as you say, they're look at the votes. they know what is coming in pennsylvania and nevada. they see where this election is headed and there is a sense publicly and really privately when you talk to them, they don't have to stick up for him any more. if he is not going to be here, it is not worth sticking their necks out and put in danger our democratic process to defend a guy that is not going to win an election and he's suing on the basis of nothing state by state. let's recap, challenges to stop the counting or direct the processing in michigan and georgia, dismissed on thursday. the arizona effort to have voters fix sharpie marked ballots and be counted does not have a hearing scheduled as counting continues there but the sharpie-gate scandal has been dismissed. and in nevada, stop using scanning machines and verify all signatures was yesterday and the supreme court set aside late arrivi

. >> there's a reason why they flipped the senate and tommy tuberville is going to the united statesenate, there was no big blue win. you had susan collins win for goodness sake. there was no big blue wave that took over the country. there's not a single republican house member running for reelection, not a single one that lost their election, so, you know, don't tell me there's some big blue wave. republicans down ballot did exceptionally well. harris: jason chaffetz, i will get the pleasure seeing you again later this hour because you will join the power panel, good to see you, thank you, in a few. joe biden giving his first speech as what he's being called president elect last night saying he will go to work immediately to fight the coronavirus pandemic and, in fact, he's already made an announcement today. a little ahead of schedule but he plans to make it official tomorrow as he makes a plea to unit the country about the very path. >> we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies, they are not our enemies, they are americans >> folks, i'm a proud democrat. [cheers and applau

former football coach tommy tuberville handily defeated doug jones in alabama.ox called mark kelly unseated senator martha mcsally. mcsally is not conceding. gop senator joni ernst was victorious. the confirmation of amy coney barrett may have given ernst a boost especially in catholic dubuque. democrats have a chance to win a seat in georgia but not until next year. gop georgia senator kelly loeffler is headed to a run i don't have against democrat after farrell warnock on january 5th. for the house of representatives, democrats were forced to defender close to 30 seats which president trump won in civil sift civil 2016. if anything he helped the. >> the worry that president destroyed republicans down the ballot. that did not happen this year or in 2016. reporter: we know democrats in the house of representatives will have a smaller majority. it will be a more liberal majority because there were so many moderate democrats who lost in the swing districts. there could be recriminations for house speaker nancy pelosi. keep in mind when the democrats did not get th

tommy tuberville, a popular football coach. he coached for auburn and he coached for old miss. is goto washington. and here is a look at r where we staht now in the overall senate map. this is a map of the country, the dark blue states are the states where we don't have results or where there isse noate race this year. but you can see at this , point democraey have 47 seats. right now they're at 43. and the republicans have 50 -- i'm sorry -- that's right, they have 53, the republicans do, but right now they're at 41. th certainly do expt to pick up a number of other seats. it is going to be close. >> atheycally just zeroed each other out. st colorado,l and the democrats lost alabama. so now we're at no net gain. >> woodruff: we're still at 53 to 47. colorado, there was one other re really, really waiting for the ones thatd co determinative, collins in maine, north carolina, and, of course, >>e georgia seats. oodruff: and joni ernst. > -->> ondernst, but those states just closed not that long ago. >> woodruff: iowa's polls just closed and we don't see numbers on the senate rate

tommy tuberville, his republican opponent, has been leading in the polls there. gets that seat, then effectively democrats actually need a net gain of four plus biden's win to get them senate control. so let's take a look here. they need a net gain of four probably. where are they trying to get it? here are the ripest targets for democrats right now. there are five republican incumbents right now where if you look at the polling average in their races, they trail to some degree. very close here obviously at one to nine for cory gardner in colorado. democrats needing a net gain of four. they're feeling very good about colorado. they're feeling very good about arizona. we mentioned they like biden's chances in the state but also trump has been running significantly ahead in arizona of his ticket mate, martha mcsally. she's been lagging trump's number consistently in arizona as well. so that's why democrats feel good about that one. maine they expect to win at the presidential level. susan collins you see trailing in the polling we have there. plus maine has instant

tommy tuberville ease the famed football coach, pretty tough to beat there. way ahead of doug jones we'll keeping an eye on all these races throughout the night get back to you. >>thank you thank you for that crime four's dan thorn is also standing by for us in san francisco. there's concern about protests and damage to businesses after the election results are and so dan us now live for us near union square where stores have been boarded up since last week than any action out there so far tonight. >>i most of the action that we've heard is just the chorus of buzz saws and hammers of workers out here putting up those bought plywood boards and other sorts preparations that they're taking here in anticipation of any sort of unrest getting out of number of the stores in this area as you mentioned not have been boarding up for days now and this is something that we've seen happening across the country so far we've only just seen people that are either wrapping up their shopping here tonight or just walking around we've also seen some police that have been surveyin

in alabama, trump backed tommy tuberville has defeated the incumbent democratic senator doug jones.ones was the most endangered democrat in today's election. only narrowly won a 2011 special election after nine women accused his opponents roy moore f ail -- attacking them as teenagers. lindsey graham fought off a strong challenge from democrat jamie harrison, an african-american who raised a record $70 million during the final quarter of the 2020 campaign. and in georgia, the two senate seats are up for grabs. democrat reverend rafael warnok in ised to go to a runoff january against the sitting senator or doug collins. in arizona, democrat mark kelly has an early significant lead against republican martha mccall -- mcsally in the contested u.s. senate race and at this point with about 60% of the vote in this arizona, it looks like biden is ahead but we'll see what happens with that. and in texas, republican senator john cornyn has won re-election. all 435 seats in the house are also on the ballot. nearly all polls shows -- show control. will maintain joe bowman will get a house seat

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the expectation is that tommy tuberville, the former auburn coach-s going to win it back.uby red state, makes sense to some degree. colorado a state where a stitting republican senator is. cory gardner. the belief is the former governor of colorado john hickenlooper will take that seat back following democrats wresting control of the state over the last several cycles. so that pretty much evens things out. democrats 47 seats, republicans 45 seats. democrats need 51 seats to win control. so where do they go find hem? well, let's start right here. the state of maine. the toughest race, one of the most expensive races in the entire country. susan collins the incumbent facing a very real challenge and trailing in much of this race to sara gideon. what if democrats win that race, pull that out against an incumbent, a battle-tested incumbent and end up winning that race? then you look at the state of wa with awa. joni ernst. republicans think overt last several weeks she started to open up a little bit of a lead after trailing. however, theresa greenfield way lot of money puttin

and then susan del percio, tommy tuberville, he coached at aub n auburn, i don't expect from him, ander than saying his father fought in europe to defeat socialism which he should read a history book or two about nazis, but he also said that al gore had been president for 30 days in 2000. until the supreme court took it away from al gore and then made george w. bush president of the united states. i mean -- you can't make this stuff up. you really can't make it up. but the republicans are. it's just -- it's beyond crazy there aren't grown-ups in the party that aren't stopping these people from making fools of themselves. >> yeah. that's just looney tunes, but there's one republican senator i would like to hold up to task and really deserves some real responsibility in how poorly this is going as far as the right transfer of power to the president-elect. and that is marco rubio. marco rubio is the acting chair of the senate intel committee. he knows better. he knows what's on the line. he -- you know, he may be trying to get a nod from donald trump for 2024, but he has to face the vote

state of play for the senate now, democrats lost a seat in alabama, turned over to republican tommy tubervillen one in colorado, john hickenlooper beating the republican incumbent there one for one. but democrats needed to win at least three for control. still seven uncalled races and the house race, democrat also holding on to control there. but melissa, it is clear and undeniable the democrats underperformed it seems expectations all across the board going in >> and we saw that he reflected in the futures as they roller coastered throughout the night the biden campaign putting out a statement, eamon javers is joining us with that >> yeah, a sharply worded statement from the biden campaign responding to the president who falsely declared victory earlier tonight. campaign manager saying that the statement about trying to shut down the counting of duly cast ballots is outrageous and incorrect, because it is a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of american citizens and they respond to the president's idea about going to the supreme court saying if the president makes good on his thr

senator doug jones losing to tommy tuberville. so that leaves us with the six races yet to be called and the best way to look at those is on the politico map. politico using the same associated press data so it makes it easier to read this map. so this is a map from politico showing the senate races that are yet to be called. they include alaska, michigan, north carolina, maine and then georgia. there's the race in georgia. the regular election scheduled this year for senator david purdue and the special election as well taking place in georgia. as of right now, republicans ahead in all those races. if republicans do win that michigan seat, that would be a takeover for republican, gary peters battling to keep his seat in michigan. but all of those states that democrats thought they would be on offense this cycle and we'll see what happens in those six seats. for democrats they would have to win four seats to take over the senate if they didn't have the white house. if joe biden does win the white house, they would have to win thre

we saw some defending him, lindsey graham, ted cruz, tommy tuberville, cable news hosts, that crowd. what are you seeing from other republicans on capitol hill who seem to have at least -- they're keeping their powder dry and telling the president to stop what he's doing? >> you're right, the president and his family basically tried to call in the cavalry. they said, you better be out there, we better see you defending what we're doing or you're not going to have a place in whatever the republican party will be next. but there are only a handful that answered that call. you're right, that most are urging calm. and, you know, i heard from one of my good sources, a republican operative who essentially said there's no message. what are we going to do with this? right? we can give you outrage for only so long. but at the end of the day, you have to have a path, you have to have path to win and they don't see that right now from the president. obviously, we haven't called the race yet, but you know, i think they're basically all just trying to wait it out, urge calm, say count the votes,

is he going to be losing to tommy tuberville, who campaigned for him but jones could get a consolation been discussed as a possible cabinet pick. another big piece of news to report in the lone star state democratic hopes dashed as well because john cornyn we can project will be the winner and he will pick up a fourth term. democrats had high hopes for the former military helicopter pie loll mj hegar but we are no projecting that john cornyn will keep his seatment will you recall that he sensed he might need to create a little distance between himself and the president. he saw the president's poor poll numbers and so he did an interview a couple of weeks ago saying his relationship with mr. trump was kind of like when you get married and you think you will be able to change your husband but after four years or so you realize are you not going to. >> yes, i know that tune. do you think that president trump will remember this? ness he seems to always remember when a member of congress says something negative about him. but in this case clearly john cornyn was looking at the polls, they w

in addition, nbc is also projecting tommy tuberville will win the atlanta senate race against democrat this was another expected outcome. democrats had ceded doug jones was likely to lose in his election, considered his seat a wash against the gain they hoped to make in colorado by flipping the seat cory gardner is holding. we find each party has flipped one senate seat so the mast doesn't change democrats need to flip an additional three seats at a minimum in order to take control of the senate. >> ylan mui, thank you so much a couple more projections to make, nbc news projection team is now saying kansas likely goes to president trump this was a -- well, this is a kansas senate seat roger marshall and that's not what we were talking about we were talking about for the president i believe. kansas now goes for president trump, kansas and its electoral votes six of them, likely republican throughout the process. sure enough now the nbc news decision desk predicts its six electoral votes go to president trump. in addition, louisiana likely red, now is projected to go to president trump.

but it was a very different environment, running against a much weaker candidate, tommy tuberville. 72%ich is just 1% of the expected vote. tommy berville has been a favorite football coach not just for auburn, but old miss. so we will see what happens in that senate race. democrats bracing themselves. we return now to our core group analysts for th night, socially distanced at the table. amy walter,olitics with amy walter, along with our frequent ctributors, who will with us mu of this night. mark shields, "new york time columnist david brooks, jont,athan capeh and the editor and chief of the washington free beacon, eliana johnson. maybe it took a little bit of time to call some of the races, like kentky, r the senate race, for mitch mcconnell. what are you seng? are you seeing anything shaping up? >> nothing is shaping up, but it is notable.t she becamt candidate again in 2020 because she was challenging mitch mcconnell. she raised so much money from this small donor community. lots and lots of money. that we started to see -- there was talk, well, all this money is going to amy mcgra

tommy tuberville is the new senator-elect. so democrats went one up in colorado. republicans went one up in alabama. i was never good at math, but it seems like we're right back to where we started tonight. unless your name is tuberville or hickenlooper. we're back to four needed to gain, rachel, for the democrats. >> let's talk about what's going on in arizona. brian, you've just changed the characterization, in terms of nbc news's projection in arizona. in both of those states, arizona -- excuse me, in that state in both of the closely watched races in arizona, nbc news is now projecting a lead for joe biden in the presidential race in arizona and a lead for democrat mark kelly in the senate race. can we talk a little bit about that senate race in arizona? i will foreshadow or i will cheat and tell you that after this i would also like to talk a little bit how that north carolina senate race is going, given the too close to call designation now in the north carolina presidential. but let's start here in arizona in terms of why the democrats are characterized as

bolsters republican's chances of holding onto the senate because the former auburn football coach tommy tubervilleake a look at where republicans held on to seats where they kept in montana. steve daines overcoming an onslaught of fundraising by democrats. he defeats former governor of montana, steve bullock. not being competitive at all, joni ernst in iowa very closely tied her re-election efforts to president trump and winds up paying off. she defeats theresa greenfield who vast ly outfunded her. jamie harrison, a record-breaking fundraiser. tonight lindsey graham literally said you wasted your money. he wins re-election in the state of south carolina and it wasn't very close. let's look at where things stand for the races that are still being fought over. firstarizona. mark kelly, he's leading incumbent martha mcsally by 176,000 votes with 82% of the vote in. democrats have to be happy about that, but i'll show you why the math still doesn't add up favorably for them just a second. here is the most expensive race in senate history. more than $240 million spent in north carolina. it's not paying

. >> jake, going down the races we were watching, tommy tuberville not a surprise.y. a couple of hiccups. which surprised you the most, thom tillis, joni ernst, and lindsey graham, just the margin alone by how much it looks like he's going to end up winning by. which of these races surprises you the most? >> probably joni ernst. the margin by which they won, lindsey graham and john cornyn, considering jaime harrison raise ready $100 million. i know we're talking senate, willie, but i want to shift to the house. democrats, we talked about this last night on peacock, republicans won two seats in the miami area. they beat incumbents, max rose in new york. i'm not sure if that's officially called but republicans are quite confident they won that seat. they won a seat in south carolina, joe cunningham got knocked off. they won a seat back in oklahoma. by the way, i just weant to mak this clear and this doesn't mean anything besides making this statement. republicans did not expect this. >> no. >> they expected at best to keep their losses to single digits in the house of

know that doug jones most likely will get on seated but he spent $14300000.00 to his challenger tommy tuberville just $3000000.00 why i mean do you think a lot of these senators could we see someone sitting tonight as far as i mean we probably won't an alabama i'm sorry will in alabama but as far as these other races . well that's a great question scott the 2nd time you asked me a great question today. lindsey graham looks like he's going to hang on in south carolina even though $100000000.00 was spent against him the phenomenon at work here is that the democrats were able to raise what i call stupid money far more money than can possibly be spent in any official way he might in money matters to communicate with voters and get out the vote in commercials and sober but there's only so much you can spend in a given state at any given time in south carolina i mean there's not $100000000.00 worth of t.v. ad inventory in the charleston and the charleston t.v. market for example so it's kind of like they had more money than places to put it efficiently so they're like saying hey to your friends i'm th

tom tommy tuberville in senate there, and south carolina, one of the most watched races in the countryndsey graham is going on to win re-election we project. defeating incredibly well funded democratic senator. in georgia, special election, cnn projects a runoff in state of georgia, candidate needs 50% in order to win outright. that's not happened. democratic rafael warknock and kelly loeffler the incumbent will go to runoff in january. tight races in the battlegrounds for balance of power. arizona, democratic challenger mark kelly is ahead by more than 200,000 votes. 55.1%. incumbent republican martha mcsally is 44.9%. vote in. iowa. democratic challenger ahead there as well. theresa greenfield, it's tight, jonie ernst at 48.5%. in montreal, dramatic challenem challenger ahead about 12,000 votes. what this means right now. three democrats leading in republican senate seats. democrats are back to needing four seats to pick up in order to flip the senate. and democrats have 42 seats. republicans have 42 seats and 16 seats remain to be called tonight. >> so important what's happening in

we can make a projection, the fox news decision desk can project that republican tommy tuberville will a senate seat tonight. alabama, remember, this is the jeff sessions seated that he was trying to get back, lost in the primary. >> martha: that evens out the cory gardner loss in colorado and leads us at square one in terms of moving that balance of power in the senate. we can also now project louisiana republican senator bill cassidy has won his reelection as well. >> bret: not a surprise there. you're looking at the net gain and it was plus one for democrats. now it is back to zero and again, they need to pick up three plus the white house or a net gain of four seats to take over control of the senate. >> martha: let's take a look at, what do we have? do we have bill hemmer up there? >> bill: sure do. >> martha: hello, bill hemmer. [laughter] >> martha: his voice from above, the balcony. we have a very good social distance with you guys. >> bill: i love listening to you guys, it's all right. some phenomenal things on the mat. something is moving out there. i don't know if it sticks,

tommy tupper ville, the republican who ousted him tonight, sending out a tweet, "thank you, alabama. we got the seatback. tuberville, the republican who ousted him tonight, sending out a tweet, "thank you, alabama. we got the seat back." and in iowa, theresa greenfield setting out this tweet. i have not taken one second of this campaign for granted. thank you for everyone who has shown up and spoken out and made their voices heard. i am in this fight for you. she says she has not taken one second for granted. she has also outraised joni ernst, the company republican, and 90% of the money coming from out of state. so let's take a look at the state of iowa and where things stand in the presidential race first. let's see. 48% reporting or 38% reporting. to biden up 52.2 percent president trump, 46.1%. in that senate race there, between joni ernst and theresa greenfield, theresa greenfield with a slight lead right now. she is up less than a couple of points in the state of iowa. theresa greenfield trying to oust joni ernst, who was the first woman elected statewide in iowa. and then, finally, taking a look at the state