not a pickup for republicans, it was an open seat held by a republican previously. polls have now closed in the state of arkansas. arkansas for the republicans, for the presidential race, closed at 8:30 eastern time, 7:30 central. arkansas too close to call. solid republican throughout. arkansas not called yet. kentucky senator rand paul republican presidential candidate himself before dropping out of the race in february. he's with us now live from louisville. senator, fox news projects you congratulations. how do you and yours begin to put things back together with the republican party? it appears the senate is very much in question. republicans could lose it. could you be a leader in put things back together? >> i think so. kentucky, a huge republican sweet, biggest victory in 100 years here. we defeated the democrat speaker of the house who's been in for 36 years. we are poised to take over the statehouse for the first time in almost 100 years. so kentucky maybe because we're tired of the regulations. clinton regulations killed the coal industry. no matter what

not a pickup for republicans, it was an open seat held by a republican previously. polls have now closed in the state of arkansas. arkansas for the republicans, for the presidential race, closed at 8:30 eastern time, 7:30 central. arkansas too close to call. solid republican throughout. arkansas not called yet. kentucky senator rand paul republican presidential candidate himself before dropping out of the race in february. he's with us now live from louisville. senator, fox news projects you congratulations. how do you and yours begin to put things back together with the republican party? it appears the senate is very much in question. republicans could lose it. could you be a leader in put things back together? >> i think so. kentucky, a huge republican sweet, biggest victory in 100 years here. we defeated the democrat speaker of the house who's been in for 36 years. we are poised to take over the statehouse for the first time in almost 100 years. so kentucky maybe because we're tired of the regulations. clinton regulations killed the coal industry. no matter what

not a pickup for republicans, it was an open seat held by a republican previously. polls have now closed in the state of arkansas. arkansas for the republicans, for the presidential race, closed at 8:30 eastern time, 7:30 central. arkansas too close to call. solid republican throughout. arkansas not called yet. kentucky senator rand paul republican presidential candidate himself before dropping out of the race in february. he's with us now live from louisville. senator, fox news projects you will win re-election tonight. congratulations. how do you and yours begin to put things back together with the republican party? it appears the senate is very much in question. republicans could lose it. could you be a leader in put things back together? >> i think so. kentucky, a huge republican sweet, biggest victory in 100 years here. we defeated the democrat speaker of the house who's been in for 36 years. we are poised to take over the statehouse for the first time in almost 100 years. so we've had a big sweep here in kentucky maybe because we're tired of the regulations. c

it's solid republican. the five electoral votes from the state of west virginia officially according to the fox news decision team now go to donald trump. polls closed a half hour ago in the state of virginia. not west virginia. this is virginia. we now have 5% of all precincts reporting. donald trump with a lead, but it's still too close to call. this is georgia. in georgia, it is still too close to call, but you can see, we have less than 1% in. though you see a 50-point spread there, that is not at all how this night is going to be. less than 1%, the numbers mean almost nothing. georgia is a very different city in midtown atlanta that it is in the rural areas of the peach state. depending on where they're coming in, we won't know georgia for just a little while. the state of south carolina, still too close to call. less than 1% in in the state of south carolina. big picture now. four states are called. let's look at the electoral count for the night. you have to have 270 votes in the electoral college to

republican craig johnson won 60% of the vote there. that makes up bremer, buchanan and rural black hawk counties. in district 34, democratic incumbent liz mathis, of cedar rapids won against her republican challenger. mathis beat rene gadelha 56 to 44% in one of the more contentious state senate races for 2016. and in district 48, republican incumbent dan zumbach, of ryan, beat out 2 challengers with 63% of the vote. district 48 covers delaware, northern linn and northwest jones county. republicans also unseated now-former deomcratic senate majority leader mike gronstal. we talked with iowa gop chair jeff kauffman about the shift in power last night. gronstal was not only a more than 30-year veteran of the iowa legislature. kaufmann told us what he believes happened. "honestly, you can't just single handedly and unilaterally stop legislating that's coming from one gronstal did over and over again. i honestly think people got it" we'll take a look at the state house election results, coming up in our next half hour. according to the iow

go republican and democrat. he needed to win a bunch of these battle ground states and now he's doing it. >> charlie you know this so well, i would love to hear what you're thinking right now. >> you got to remember for a long time north carolina was helms and north carolina has a governor who was republican. that was always there. that was the african american vote that obama had to come for him in 2008. we thought with the president there, it might make a difference this time and get the level of african american votes. there may still be that level of african american vote but those people in eastern north carolina who are conservative are coming out in strong numbers. >> we keep talking about pass the victory. i think it's fr realistic path to victory at this point in the night. we're seeing all these divides tonight. men versus women having different attitudes. and another divide we're seeing over and over tonight, rule versu --rural versus city. s he's going from longshot to real shot. she does. we have to

now, with a unified republican government in washington, with 34 republican governors, more republican-controlled state legislatures than ever before, we have the chance to do that. it is an exciting time in our history, a time to look in the mirror, remember who we are, and what we believe in, a time to stop the talk and start the action. the opportunity is there. we now have a chance to work on meaningful solutions to change the way we communicate, to remind people that the gop is the party that will deliver freedom and possibility to all citizens, regardless of their race, gender, or where they were born and raised. that, after all, is what drew me to the republican party in the first place. and, what drew my parents to america. i am the proud daughter of indian immigrants who reminded my brothers and sisters and me every day how blessed we were to live in this country. they left a wealthy lifestyle in india with just eight dollars in their pockets to come to america and start completely over. why would they do that? because even in 1969, they understood that no amount of money, no lifestyle c

and even his own republican colleagues. he says he'll keep pushing for veteran's issues, social security reform and border security. blum says despite the presidential election, he stayed focused on iowa. "hillary clinton decided to get involved in one house race in the united states of america. this one .... based on what i am seeing, on the national returns, she probably should have focused on her own race and blum says he will not become a career politician and will continue to push for congressiona l term limits. democrat dave loebsack is returning for a 6th term representing iowa's 2nd congressional district. he defeated republican christopher peters with 54% of the vote, to peters' 46%. voters in iowa's 3rd congressional district are giving republican david young a second term. young won his re- election bid over democrat jim mowrer, grabbing 54% of the vote. mowrer had 40%. young was a longtime aide to u-s senator charles grassley before being republican steve king has been re-elected to an 8th term in the u-s house.

on how republicans are split. i think there is a split on immigration, but there are freedom caucus members for immigration and against it. most of it is split -- most of the split in the republican party, you go from leadership and move down the line to the right, and mainstream partnership people, and then to caucus, and the freedom and the nine people who voted on the ryan for speaker far right, most of that split is on strategy. it is a split that says the further right you go, you don't want to cut a deal, period. that no deal is better than any deal that gives democrats a thing. the for closer you get to leadership, the closer you get to, i'm willing to get a deal. it is a strategic divide. now that you have trump, who is saying this is our strategy, which is what i think he will say, that divide goes away. and yes, there will be republicans losing on certain things. strategically, republicans will be united, and that takes away a lot of what has been misinterpreted as a divide. lanae: i think that's only tr

these are your republicans we're talking about. and in florida, we have 28% of registered republicans voting for hillary clinton. >> that's absolutely staggering if the number holds. i really had in my head that donald trump probably was going to win florida, all be it, it was still going to be a very close race, but this would basically, if this percentage holds and republicans are coming out in such a strong percent for hillary clinton, he's in huge trouble in the sunshine state, you know, consider that exit polls in 2004, republican voters, 6% voted for john kerry. in '08, 9% voted for barack obama. if 28% of republicans in florida are voting for donald trump, he has a huge problem on his hands, and you know, he can't win the presidential election without winning florida. >> maria theresa kumar. marco rubio running for senate in that state. the guy who called donald trump a con man hit him very hard, running on the same ticket with donald trump, and here we see this massive crossover of republicans voting for hillary clinton in

used to be republican. now a democratic-leaning suburb. >> 28% is in there. >> is 58 more secretary clinton. 52 for president obama when he won four years ago. and back out here. this is one of the counties i always watch. prince william county. once republican, now democratic in part because of the college educated women and the growing latino population. and we just got the first votes in ffrgs. 57% there. it is running about what it takes for a democratic victory even though donald trump is ahead at the moment. ffrairfax county. donald trump still leading in part because as we expect in the more rural areas, republican anyway, donald trump is running a healthy margin in the small counties in the southwestern part of the state. that is where his early lead is coming from. the challenge for secretary clinton, offset it up here when the vote comes in in the d.c. suburb. >> in north carolina, the polls closed there a few moments ago. >> and very little so far. just 2%. and you are going to see this. some of

those people, a lot of them were republicans and they went back , to the republican column. when they decided, they decided for trump. soledad: you look at urban voters, rural voters, and the country feels very divided. john: we have a political process to try to work through those big differences of opinion. we will see how it works out before we go into our camps again. i think he has an opportunity to get some things done. soledad: what will it look like? will it be problematic on the republican side? he is not your closet conservative republican. he will have to figure out a way to govern with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. paul ryan and mitch mcconnell are not on the trump team, but right now it's a marriage of convenience, and to be successful, they are going to have to work together to get stuff done, which i think he going to try and do. jamal: one thing that happens in a one-party government though, we have to remember, when it is harder, you cannot blame any one if something doesn't work. at least if you have one house congress, you could say, oh, this is nancy pel

we are also looking at a republican senate and a republican house. with all of that comes the possibility of not just one seat on the supreme court, which would swing it back to being a republican supreme court, but two seats, which really makes it a republican supreme court. we are looking, andrew, if all of these numbers bear out, and what norman is saying about his predictions for wisconsin and michigan bear out, we are looking at an america that is very republican for the next 40 years. -- four years. but is led by a president, who, if you take his economic policies, and is less hawkish foreign policy, is actually not as conservative as this movement that he is leading. this is going to be fascinating. we are certainly looking at a republican era in american politics. the impact of that around the world will be tremendous. one of the areas where mr trump has done very well and concentrated on was the midwest. the states around the great lakes. the states that go from wisconsin all the way through td from wisconsin all the way through to pittsburg

i think that the republicans say you have to remember that the republican ceiling is 290s? 300 would be everything going right. that's just the reality of the map. >> look at john kerry's number. it was 244. i think. >> romney gets 206 and he wins north carolina and he wins the states and barely gets to 200. >> silence they can compete more strongly. >> i thought new mexico is a state that is 45% plus hispanic and both trump and pence spending time there, they believe they can get that. >> about gary jnchs lowers the win number and it made i think the colorado numbers are an inflated number. she may win it by bigger than what we think. >> it is the gary johnson factor that has them enticed they have to find more states. >> i think you are right. wisconsin with with scott walker and ron johnson is the center from there. the issue there and this has been true since the recall. it is like charlie brown and lucy and the football. you can get to 47, but the problem is at a federal level. can you get to 48, 49. >> you have to see jill stein overperforming. maybe a half point, but

republicans, when you look at this. it is this one of the first waves we have seen like this for the state in a long time? what dew think the republican party should take away? they have had strong performances in north carolina. and 2016 is more of a mixed bag here and not just the governor's race but also a supreme court race. and north carolina supreme court is republican controlled, not partisan and now will go to it a democratic lean. there were democratic bright spots, but the republicans had a lot of victory and won races they had not run before. and the legislature had has more institutional power than the governor. they had super majority in the legislature for republicans. >> you are you giveing the relbow. >> obviously. it depends. and if the vote holds up the meanings and the they maintain a sure majority. they didn't make narnl gains. donald trump did well. but it was a split night in the north carolina races. >> i want your thoughts on something that we hear. if you are watching news conference about the e

republican party. and later, a look at how the international community is reacting to donald trump becoming the next u.s. president. we are joined by the ceo and editor of foreign policy magazine. host: good morning as america continues to assess the results from last tuesday's election, congress returning to work for a lame-duck session that will continue into mid-december. a number of key agenda items first and foremost, agreeing on a spending plan. meanwhile, expect the first wave of announcements mike donald trump. -- by donald trump. he will likely announce a chief of staff as early as tomorrow. it is sunday morning, november 13. our question this morning, how can america unite under president-elect donald trump? our phone lines are open. you can send us a tweet and join us on facebook. thank you very much for being with us. the front page today of the "washington post"," this is the headlie. nowhere did his candidacy inspire more trepidation or alarm than in the national security community inhabi

priebus the opposite of that, a member of the republican establishment as head of the republican national committee. his office is steps from capitol hill. while the two may have had diametrically opposed view points when it came to viewing the d.c. insiders, they both did in the end work toward a common cause which is getting donald trump elected as president of the united states and they were successful. donald trump tends to put people together and let folks fight it out. we've seen that in his campaign. possible by having a variety of viewpoints in the west wing that trump believes that is a way in which he'll get sort of better decisionmaking. what i'm curious to see is how the rest of the west wing fills out, who comes proefr the rnc, who doesn't, who from the campaign comes over, who doesn't. who ends up over by the rnc running that branch. so there's stale lot of dominos thatave to fall into place here setting aside, again, the cabinet and the administration positions that are yet to be filled in. we expect movement on those soon. >> we have to be talking to the trump children i'm

not a pickup for republicans, it was an open seat held by a republican previously. polls have now closed in the state of arkansas. arkansas for the republicans, for the presidential race, closed at 8:30 eastern time, 7:30 central. arkansas too close to call. solid republican throughout. arkansas not called yet. kentucky senator rand paul republican presidential candidate himself before dropping out of the race in february. he's with us now live from louisville. senator, fox news projects you congratulations. how do you and yours begin to put things back together with the republican party? it appears the senate is very much in question. republicans could lose it. could you be a leader in put things back together? >> i think so. kentucky, a huge republican sweet, biggest victory in 100 years here. we defeated the democrat speaker of the house who's been in for 36 years. we are poised to take over the statehouse for the first time in almost 100 years. kentucky maybe because we're tired of the regulations. clinton regulations killed the coal industry. no matter what the

republican side? he is not your closet conservative republican. >> he is an antiestablishment figure, not unlike obama. he will have to figure out a way to govern with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. paul ryan and mitch mcconnell are not on the trump team, but right now it's a marriage of convenience, and to be successful, they are going to have to work together to get stuff done, which i think he going to try and do. jamal: one thing that happens in a one-party government though, we have to blame any one if something doesn't work. at least if you have one house congress, you could say, oh, this is nancy pelosi's fault or chuck schumer's. they won't have anyone to blame this on besides other republicans. so factional differences and regional differences will emerge inside the republican party. so i don't think its going to be completely smooth. john: it is not going to be completely smooth. i do think that trump has this new leader in the senate, chuck schumer, who is his neighbor in new york and they

is, if i were a republican consultant, i would not tell future republican residential candidates, don't field, do it the way trump did. what's in those car commercials, professional drivers on a closed course. kids, don't try this at home. just because it works for him does not mean it will work for you. the thing is, and i'm not saying that this is the same, but the had somelks, romney awfully brave people working for him, and they had done a lot on prettycs, and it was a sophisticated campaign. they thought they were pretty good. they felt good going in, but they were measuring up reasonably well to the obama operation. were measuring up reasonably well to the obama operation. it was not as sophisticated as the obama operation. --t i think -- that i think did not haveomney that powerful message to make up for whatever gap in the technology level that was there. no, i don't think this is something new, but i think it is the power of trump's message. i will stick with that until we learn more, which i'm sure we will all three plots more. is there nobody here? >> what impact does this el

texas is republican. i lived in louisiana years ago and it was so sad that governor edwards had to go to jail. he had -- he was for the people. it is time for the people to stand up. not a money thing and washington, d.c., because it is out of hand. hillary clinton has taken foreign money and we have got refugees coming into our country and we need to stop this. we do not have no jobs for the people here. more people from overseas and refugees and we have got to pay for all that. what are we going to do in this country? where is it going? it's sad. i love my country. i loved living in louisiana. it's sad. host: talk about your governor. what do you think about governor greg abbott? he ranks number six in the most popular governors and the country according to a ranking by morning consult. do you like the job he has been doing? caller: yes he is doing a fair job he needs to step it up a little bit. for these refugees coming into this country and blocking them from coming into here, because we cannot afford

go republican and democrat. he needed to win a bunch of these battle ground states and now he's doing it. >> charlie you know this so well, i would love to hear what you're thinking right now. >> you got to remember for a long time north carolina was conservative because of jessie helms and north carolina has a governor who was republican. that was always there. that was the african american vote that obama had to come for him in 2008. we thought with the president there, it might make a difference this time and get the level of african american votes. there may still be that level of african american vote but those people in eastern north carolina who are conservative are coming out in strong numbers. >> we keep talking about pass the victory. i think it's fair to say now that donald trump has a realistic path to victory at this point in the night. we're seeing all these divides tonight. men versus women having different attitudes. and another divide we're seeing over and over tonight, rule versu --rural versus

and, surprisingly, in missouri, republican senator roy blunt, member of the state's most powerful republican family, is in a tough battle against democratic secretary of state jason kander, who vaulted into prominence with the single most talked about ad of the entire year. >> blunt is an establishment guy running in an anti-establishment year. >> reporter: at 9 p.m., polls close in 13 more states. michigan and wisconsin, two states that are part of that democratic "firewall," have been special trump targets. >> right now, the polls are showing hillary clinton pretty consistently in the lead. but again, if trump is overperforming the polls, those states become very dicey, especially wisconsin. >> reporter: it's a different demographic shift in states like colorado and arizona. increasing latino turnout helped turn colorado blue for obama twice; clinton is counting on it to stay blue. and she's invested time and money in arizona, a state that's voted democratic for president once in the last 64 years. a win for her could make up for any loss in one of those industrial midwest states. democrat

there will be the republicans -- there will be republicans that you lose. charlie dent will certainly disagree with ted cruz. strategically, republicans are going to be united and that takes away a lot of what has been misinterpreted as a divide. >> i think that is only true if you are talking about aca and maybe taxes. when you go to issues like trade, there is a huge, mammoth split in the republican party, and on the democratic side about trade and whether we participate in a global world, whether we globalmove into the economy or put the toothpaste back in the tube and go backwards. that is a real divide i don't think you can explain away. there are things that trump has said on the campaign trail most republicans would stand up against, including -- i think he talks a lot about money in politics. we did focus groups with swing voters. that is the thing they said about him. they said, he cannot be and sold. he is the person who buys people. he cannot be bought and sold. having a government reform agenda that flies in the face of everything mitch mcconnel

ohio moves from tossup to lean republican and indiana and missouri go from lean republican to solid republican. so you see what that does to numbers? secretary clinton with 283. you need 2 0 -- 270. there are 63 in the tossups. tossup in florida, tossup in iowa, arizona, utah, nevada, give all of those to donald trump. every single one of the tossups, trump gets them, hillary clinton is the president. he still has to flip something. he has to flip a blue state or a light blue state. he needs 14 to get to -- to push her below, right? he needs all of the tossups and 14. so some combination, arizona and utah, flip them, he has a chance. you follow? his path is still narrow but weirdly not as narrow is a six minutes ago. our decision team just made a chang. could there be more changes? there could. the election is not until tuesday but this is how our smart people see it. they see it very close and see opportunities for changes but between tossups and leans but he can have every tossup and hillary clinton is the president of the united states. steve harrigan is live in miami with more on what is g

it's solid republican. the five electoral votes from the state of west virginia officially according to the fox news decision team now go to donald trump. polls closed a half hour ago in this is virginia. we now have 5% of all precincts reporting. donald trump with a lead, but it's still too close to call. this is georgia. in georgia, it is still too close to call, but you can see, we have less than 1% in. though you see a 50-point spread there, that is not at all how this night is going to be. less than 1%, the numbers mean almost nothing. georgia is a very different city in midtown atlanta that it is the rural areas of the peach state. depending on where they're coming in, we won't know georgia for just a little while. the state of south carolina, still too close to call. less than 1% in in the state of south carolina. big picture now. four states are called. let's look at the electoral count for the night. you have to have 270 votes in the electoral college to win this night or any night in presidential

the republican operation is focused on bringing republicans out. but they're not trump focused and they're not coordinated to t degree that perhaps they should be, with the trump campaign. so it's unclear to me what the -- there could be places where they're bringing out voters for republican candidates who aren't necessarily trump voters. >> let me just add a little bit to that. the rnc and the trump campaign is more coordinated than i think people realize. they are -- just for example, i was in iowa at that republican center, and the iowa state director, eric branstad, is literally next door to the rnc director and the governor's son. they're actually working in the same offices in many places in these battleground states. and they have constant -- it's not the same as being under the same roof, but -- >> part of the benefit that the clinton folks have had is that they've had a long run-up to this. they've been accumulating data for a long time. they've been focused on this program for a long time. so, i mean, it should be -- i think it should be

also decided he should be working with the republican majority leader in the senate, a republican speaker of the house. this election was not close, it was not a squeaker. there is a mandate there and it is a mandate for his 100-day agenda as well. i have to tell you, chris, the voters have also said stop hiding behind divided government. for both sides and both -- the legislative and the executive branch, stop using the excuse that you don't have one party rule where you can actually get things done. that excuse has been removed and i think you are going to see him take some significant action on obamacare and on these other issues that he has talked about like tax reform and defeating radical islamic terrorism, energy and infrastructure investments, educational opportunities. he has put all this forth in his 100-day plan. as people read that they will know exactly what you will get. this is also a legislative process, he has to work with the people on capitol hill as well as vice president-elect pence to make sure they can actually pass and become law. >> let's turn to the transition te

we now have a unified republican government. if you listened to us in the closing days of the campaign, whether it was crisscrossing america or wisconsin, we were making an appeal to our fellow citizens and our republicans to unify. we did just that. that is why i am excited about where we are. >> tell me about your conversations with the president elect. are you sure that he supports your speakership? speaker ryan: we had great conversations about how we would work together on the transition. we are trying to get our schedules lined up to flesh out how we build our transition, how we go forward. yes, i am very excited about working together. >> what do you say to voters concerned during this campaign? president-elect's chums, dutch president-elect trumps comments about women. what do you say to people who are concerned? speaker ryan: i will say what i said to wisconsinites before the election -- look at the direction we have been going and where we need to go and what a unified republican government can get you. i am proud of t

i think he was more independent then republican -- than republican. it his so bad that people need to wake up because of what happened when ross perot was running. they said that he told the people that there would be people losing their jobs, and it would go to the outside a lot. it would go to outside the country. this is what happened. tople just need to wake up help at these parties are -- how bad these parties are. the end of greatness with aaron that miller, and i think there should be a fourth one. that was eisenhower. maybe think about adding that in there because we have not had a great president, i am saying president, probably since eisenhower. all of this boggles my mind. host: we have to move on. just a few more minutes left. this is a tweet from steve. let me go back to what the new york times -- the "new york times" is writing. in 10 voters saying the campaign has left that repulsed routed and excited. the toxicity threatens the victor. here is the latest from the trump campaign. [video clip] >> our movement is about replacing a pale an

to republicans and the republican head of a crisis and hel in a tiny town was arguing to keep medicaid expansion because that was helping him reduce the number of charity cases they were having to pay for. in washington, medicaid expansion is not something they want to do and many republican states have decided not to try medicaid expansion, but it was interesting to go to a republican state and have republicans in health care tell me that medicaid expansion is one part of the law that is working. host: let's go to beachwood, ohio. david, good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for the topic and the knowledgeable speakers. for either or both of them, a question about what glimpses, what episodes of emergent cooperation among the different partisans and segments of the parties are they seeing in either the house or senate? a name withoute causing trouble for the individual. that onere, i think area, if i can pivot the to something that is going to be interesting to watch next year. one is how the civil liberties coalition adapts to the presidency of donald trump. this is an informal

and republican senate. it will frankly be easier to unify behind the agenda. these are still independent and principled members, but i think they will like a lot of what is there, and a lot of frustration in the caucus has been when we get things to the president's desk, like obamacare's the keystone pipeline, they get vetoed. now they will be signed. but we still have to get through the senate, which will be challenging, given the nature and rules of the senate. i think people know a lot rides on president trump being successful. i think there is a strong desire to make sure he is. that does not mean there will not be differences, but for the most part, at least in the opening session of congress, probably the president, like most presidents before him, can rely on unified support from his party. host: we are joined by congressman tom cole. viewers can join the conversation. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. on our independent line now, we have jim from m

not a pickup for republicans, it was an open seat held by a republican previously. polls have now closed in the state of arkansas. arkansas for the republicans, for the presidential race, closed at 8:30 eastern time, 7:30 central. arkansas too close to call. solid republican throughout. arkansas not called yet. kentucky senator rand paul republican presidential candidate himself before dropping out of the race in february. he's with us now live from congratulations. how do you and yours begin to put things back together with the republican party? it appears the senate is very much in question. republicans could lose it. could you be a leader in put things back together? >> i think so. kentucky, a huge republican sweet, biggest victory in 100 years here. we defeated the democrat speaker of the house who's been in for 36 years. we are poised to take over the statehouse for the first time in almost 100 years. kentucky maybe because we're tired of the regulations. clinton regulations killed the coal industry. no matter what the president is, it's still going to be a fig

republicans vote for republicans and democrats vote for democrats. republicans were coming home at the last minute and that is democratic vote. she lost because she couldn't bring her home -- her own people home . >> what you think? >> i think with hillary clinton in the komi issue, it is a non-issue -- james comey issue , it is a non-issue at this time. i think she lost. she can blame it on james comey, wikileaks, the republican party, but at the end of the day she was doing a lot of things that the people of the united states did not want and they did not want her in office of the things she had done in the past. she represented the establishment. she was essentially the incumbent in this election and she lost. >> i think in florida see the strategy that they had. that is why governor chris lost for governor where is donald trump focus on the role areas and he had massive turnout. he had a better strategy and they were more thoughtful with with a targeted. >> thank you for joining us. when we come back we will talk more about obama care and donald

we all have spent a lot of time talking about the 2013 republican autopsy and have -- and how republicans needed to do better with minority voters and younger voters, yada yada, that maybe democrats should have done a study like, ok, we won, but there are some warning signs out there. there are signs where democrats are underperforming, and they are troubling. i think that democrats would be very well advised to maybe do their own autopsy this time and take a look at what happened, and what some trends are that they ought to be worried about. clearly the country is changing, and it is changing a lot, and it is changing in a way that generally benefits democrats, but it is not changing as fast as they think it is. and it is exposing some real -- i guess for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. it is opening up real problem areas for them that they have to figure out a way to square. >> i wanted to ask you, is some of this trump's new approach to technology? did the clinton campaign fight the old election of obama, data-driven, turnout operation, were they fighting the old

the republicans had stolen elections before. the other interesting thing, lee, was former chief -- which was sort of subtle defeet or subtle degeese in. he went into deciding whether to settle the election of 1876. there were certainly parallels, sometimes eerie. in 1876, as in pho two. as in 2000, electoral votes were in dispute, including the electoral roets of florida but also the electoral votes of south carolina and louisiana that were being disputed. in act, all three of those states ent contesting sets of electoral votes to washington to be counted. now, there's emocratic electors and republican electors. in 2000, here were people who counted rutherford b. hays as an. i was originally approached by editors of a new series for the university of kansas on presidential elections. they said, would you write one on 1848? or 1860. and as george said, i would spend a lot of time riding about the. we got on the topic of 1876 and why would i want to do that? well, i had written some chapters in a new version of a textbook called t

to bring republican voters out. when you have a presidential campaign, you're identifying your voters. they're not all republican. some are independent. some are democrats. you know who your voters are. you go and get them. there is no indication to me that there is any such operation on the trump side. as to the big problem, you know, ultimately, this comes down to math. in order to win, you have to achieve a certain number. in a country that's becoming more and more diverse, you can't alienate yourself from the most dynamically growing parts of the country and expect to win. this is what the republican party concluded in 2012. donald trump put together a campaign that was designed to win the republican nomination for president. he achieved that. in so doing, he made it virtually impossible to win a general election. >> if he does not win, a candidate who said early on, i build a winning organization, surround myself with the best people, hasn't built a winning organization. it may turn out he knows more than anybo

because hemself in has the republican senate and a republican house. affectingexcuse and all of his policies throughout the entire campaign. even if they wanted to get away from building a wall and making mexico pay for it, that is what he promised, and now he has the backing to do that. the of his how policy proposals are going to be different from anything he has promised on the campaign trail. it is going to be a long four years for him. a lot of people who put their hope and trust in him will be disappointed when they realize a lot of his will turn america around and we will be the laughingstock of the world. host: you're calling from washington d.c., chris. who has the upper hand in getting things done? trump: it is going to be because right now the house numbers, they get reelected every two years. essentially, if any of them decide they are going to refute trump or go against him, he has a lot of political power and he will attack them. whatever elected official decides to go against trump on the republican side, they will get bullied. consequen

. >> reporter: republicans have their own concerns. some have suggested that paul ryan's speakership could be threatened if tensions with donald trump resurface. others have dismissed that noting the house is fiercely protupr protective of its own turf and its own constitutional responsibility. >> thank you. >>> let's talk about the relationship between president-elect trump and congress. earlier today, i spoke to house speaker paul ryan. i started by asking him how his meeting with the president-elect went today. >> wonderful. wonderful. >> you are not just saying that. >> no. we had a great working lunch. the president-elect, first lady -- incoming and the vice-president-elect, great working lunch. i can tell you what i got out of donald trump is this a man of action. he is ready to get working. he wants to get it done for the country. it's really, really exciting. >> does he want to get it done with you? >> yeah. we're already talking about how to execute plans, how to get the transition working, how to make 2017 a success for the a

and probably even for undecideds who are breaking for republicans because they're leaning republican, they say donald trump has character flaws but less than hillary clinton. >> you know, i would say for the partisans who are voting, and there's plenty on both sides, they've already made up their mind, and they're not going to worry about some of this, but for the undecided people who are looking at this economy, the weakest recovery in modern history, the lowest home ownership rate, 94 million people underemployed or unemployed. 43 million people on food stamps. household income that has fallen from 57,000 to 53,000. that's what's going to say, i want change. i don't want a third term of barack obama. >> do you believe it actually goes to those issues, bakari? >> no, i don't. because one of the things that he said was the weakest recovery, but we are in a recovery and the middle class is actually growing and it's growing the fastest since the last clinton was in the white house. but i think one of the things we're failing to realize is that the electorate has changed since 2008. it's

republicans blited the battlegrounds today themselves. new hampshire, iowa, minnesota, yes, minnesota. a blitz of swing states he's got to win just to stay in the game plus some of those big blue states in the upper midwest including michigan where trump and pence have made four stops in the past seven days. according to folks inside the trump campaign, internals are showing a dead heat in michigan and they claim a three-point race in minnesota. cl clinton campaign is taking michigan pretty seriously in their final blitz along with stops in cleveland, minnesota, ohio. minnesota is calling trump's bluff on that one. the map favors clinton but the trump campaign is hoping to pull out a win. our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, clinton holds a four-point lead nationally among likely voters but that is down from an 11-point lead in october. those numbers came out this morning. we have new numbers this hour and they paint a pretty dark picture about the future of american politics. look at these numbers. 64% of likely voters we surveyed sa

solid republican state, voted republican in the last four elections. of course, donald trump made a direct pitch to the coal miners in that state. very turned off to democrats. that is a win for donald trump. we're closely following these battleground states. polls have closed in two battleground states, including the state of north carolina. hillary clinton closed out the campaign last night in the state of north carolina. we do not have enough votes in in 2012. barack obama won it in 2008. and this, jon karl, this is really hard-fought state. rob robbie mook saying, they're not even sure it's going to be decided tonight, and barack obama went in there heavy in the last several days. >> went over there huge to try to boost the turnout among young voters and especially african-american voters. the state that we are watching, florida, george, a lot of returns are coming in. look at this. we have 40% in, and -- florida. it's been going back and forth. so much early vote. that's why we're seeing so much come in. and neck and neck. it's been going back and

my guess is, if i were a republican consultant, i would not tell future republican presidential candidates, "don't worry about field, do it the way trump did." i mean, this is like, what's in those car commercials? "professional drivers on a closed course." kids, don't try this at home. [laughter] mr. cook: just because it works for him does not mean it will work for you. the thing is, and i remember, and i'm not saying that this is the same, but the romney folks, romney had some pretty awfully bright people working for him, and they had done a lot on analytics. it was a pretty sophisticated campaign. they thought they were pretty good. they felt good going in, but -- and they thought they were measuring up reasonably well to the obama operation. as it turned out, it was not -- or did not seem to be -- nearly as sophisticated as the obama operation. but i think romney did not have that powerful message to make up for whatever gap in the technology level that was there. so, no, i don't think this is something new, but i think it is more the power of trump's message. i will stick with that u

he's a republican. "i'm actually a republican. i have been supporting republican candidates for quite some time. i just don't support donald trump." the man was detained after a scuffle allegedly broke out near the front of the audience. authorities say no weapon was be charged. several attendees at the rally say they saw a trump supporter raise up a sign before the chaos broke out. trump returned to the stage several minutes later thanking secret service. house speaker paul ryan was planning to campaign with donald trump today in west allis... but then -- one day after the event went on the calendar -- trump canceled it. political reporter theo keith talked on stagein mukwonago, house speaker paul ryan campaigns with donald trump's running mate mike pence. and he says, he planned to be with trump in west allis on sunday. if our nominee came to west allis and i was in wisconsin, i was going to show up. why? because i think we need to unify as republicans and get out the vote but trump canceled the rally, citing a scheduling confli