National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. My podcast, The Revolution, is available...wherever you get your podcasts. Instagram: steve01450
We released all six episodes of my podcast, The Revolution, a few weeks ago. Then we heard from our main character, and he wanted to talk. And so here is the Episode 7 we hadn’t originally planned on: Newt Gingrich
Forget grabbing sleep, there's still votes coming in in PA. I'm heading back to the studio. In the old days, there was USA Up All Night. Tonight, it'll be MSNBC Up All Night. Come on along for the ride.
I’m heading to the studio and I won’t leave until we have a result. Our live special coverage of the Georgia runoffs starts at 6:30 Eastern. Hope you’ll join us!
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As a part of
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(I also want to give a **huge** thanks to
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, a great broadcaster and a true good guy, who had agreed to spell me for a few hours and whose sleep schedule I have now thoroughly messed up.)
Larry King was a radio and TV legend with an insatiable curiosity about people and a real sense of humor. He could get anyone talking, from Hollywood stars to the guy on the corner. In the 1990s, Larry King Live even became the most important show in American politics. RIP.
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America. There's the United States of America."
16 years ago tonight: Barack Obama's keynote speech:
November 7, 1989: After finishing less than 50,000 votes behind David Dinkins in a tight New York City mayoral election, Rudy Giuliani quiets supporters demanding a recount and instead concedes defeat and urges unity behind the new mayor "in the highest spirit of our democracy":
Polls have consistently shown that Sanders is broadly liked by Democratic voters. The possibility has been staring us in the face for some time that he’d start winning contests and that the bandwagon would start growing pretty quickly.
Well I just lost Powerball, so I guess I'll be working tonight. First polls close at 6pm EST and we'll be live from then until...who knows when? It'll be a journey, hope you'll tune in and join along.
The early vote was double-counted in Hudson County. It has now been fixed, bringing Murphy's total down by 10,732 and Ciattarelli's by 2,842. Ciattarelli goes back up in the statewide tally:
Ciattarelli (R): 1,177,803 (49.6%)
Murphy (D) 1,177,108 (49.6%)
12 years ago tonight: With the last night of the convention moved to 76,000-seat Mile High Stadium, Sen. Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president:
From the entrance poll, among the 34% of NV Dem caucus participants who call themselves moderate or conservative:
Sanders 23%
Biden 22%
Buttigieg 20%
Klobuchar 14%
Steyer 10%
I like to say that I grew up in Mass and went to college in Boston, but it was in New Jersey that I got my education. My favorite stories, people and memories are from there. To be called a New Jerseyan is about the highest honor I could imagine!
In AZ, another batch from Pima County -- ~24,000 votes -- just came in, with Kelly winning them by a two-to-one margin. His statewide lead over Masters is now 120,000 votes. The Maricopa release later tonight looms very large.
These 10 Metro Atlanta counties make up about the same share of Georgia's statewide vote as they did in 2004, but between then and last night's runoff they have collectively shifted 42 points toward the Democrats:
With more than 80% of the vote in, a 28-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America has a double-digit lead over a 10-term incumbent who was thought to be the next Democratic leader of the House.
These aren't exact numbers, but it looks like turnout in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District (SW GA, rural counties with large black populations) is nearly 90% of what it was in November. In GA-9 (heavily GOP NW GA, where rump went Monday night), it's about 85%.
When Wellesley College chose Barbara Bush as its commencement speaker in 1990, students launched a protest petition, arguing the First Lady wasn't a career woman like they aspired to be.
In her speech, she responded this way:
28 years ago tonight: NBC abruptly blows up a commercial break as Ohio is called for Bill Clinton, pushing him past 270 electoral votes and to victory over President George H.W. Bush, currently the most incumbent defeated for re-election:
November 27, 1978: San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein announces that Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot to death and that the suspect is Supervisor Dan White.
A week later, the Board would elect Feinstein the new mayor.
A small number of anti-McCarthy R's voting present/abstaining (instead of voting for someone by name) will help him by lowering the threshold to win, since they don't count as official votes. But if all 212 Dems vote Jeffries and 11+ R's vote present/abstain, then Jeffries wins.
So, it was David Pecker's National Enquirer that almost single-handedly chased down the John Edwards paternity story, which led directly to Edwards being charged with...a conspiracy to illegally use campaign funds in order to conceal a politically damaging affair.
NBC's tally now puts NH Dem primary turnout at 287,594, officially surpassing the 2008 total of 287,557. And still waiting on numbers from 18 towns, so it will go higher.
PA update: With a few hundred more mail ballots counted today, Oz's lead over McCormick in the GOp Senate primary is now 977 votes (0.1%). What we think is left...
With 97% in, turnout in the NH Dem primary is 283,400. In 2016, it was 250,983. In 2008, it was 287,557.
With about two dozen towns left, the final number should end up above that 2008 level.
So what just happened is we got the results from *one* of the two remaining satellite districts -- IA-3. Sanders again cleaned up getting 12.45 SDEs. Buttigieg got 0.19. That brought Buttigieg's statewide lead from 16 to 4. Critically, there is one district still to come - IA-1.
A sad day as Tom Brokaw announces his retirement from NBC after 55 years.
Here from 9/5/83 is his first-ever broadcast as the sole anchor of NBC Nightly News, the start of a 21-year run that would see him emerge as America's most popular and trusted news anchor:
Why NBC News is *not* declaring a winner even though the Iowa Dem Party is reporting 100% of the vote: “There are definitely some inaccuracies in the data,” the head of our Decision Desk says.
The best part of Jimmy Fallon ambush-cleaning my office: the
@NHLBlackhawks
saw that I had one of their jerseys and sent me one of these. Can’t wait to see them debut on the ice on Sunday!
How many GOP No votes were there in Kansas? One way to look at it:
276,383 votes in Dem primary
463,592 in GOP primary
168,772 unaffiliated voting in just the referendum
Dem + Unaffiliated votes = 445,155
Total No vote: 534,136
So that suggests at least 20% of R's were No's.
I'll be talking about the recent election on "Around Town" on the Groton, Mass. cable access channel this week -- show will air Thursday night at 7:30:
If the Dems flip MI and PA and trump holds WI, it would be 270-268 Trump with no other changes. Next best Dem flip possibility would probably be AZ. Or...the single electoral vote from the Omaha district in NE that Trump barely won in '16. Flip that and not AZ and it's 269-269.
NBC now calling CA-6 for Ami Bera (D) and CA-26 for Julia Brownley (D). Brings tally to 211-203 GOP. Now 21 uncalled D vs. R races. Magic number for House control:
Dems: 15
GOP: 7
With just about all votes counted, turnout for the Kansas primary stands at ~910,000. For comparison:
2014 KS primary: ~330,000
2018 KS primary: ~473,000
2012 presidential election: ~1,159,000
2016 presidential election: ~1,184,000
2020 presidential election: ~1,372,000
Start of a long and exciting day and night. We'll be live starting at 6:45 tonight, and it's very possible we'll be getting a lot of votes reported right after polls close at 7. Hope you'll tune in!
I feel guilty promoting my book so much here, but it's the product of many years of (fun!) work and I really hope you'll check it out. It's in stores on Oct. 2, but honestly, preorders are extremely helpful and I'd be grateful if you order one here now:
Update on PA: Oz now leads McCormick by 2,564 votes (0.2%). It appears the biggest source of remaining *election day* vote is in Allegheny County -- around 6-7,000 votes. This is McCormick's home county and he is currently winning the same-day vote there 39-33% over Oz...
I don’t think I could have imagined in 2008 that barely a decade later a member of the Democratic national ticket would be bragging about how many George W. Bush administration members were supporting it
Ayanna Pressley now poised to become the first black female to represent Massachusetts in Congress. The state did have a black senator, Ed Brooke, from 1967 to 1979.
46 years ago this morning: NBC interrupts its programming for a special report from the steps of the Supreme Court, where Carl Stern has emerged with a copy of the court's decision on whether President Nixon must turn over 64 tapes subpoenaed by the Watergate special counsel:
Iowa's outsize role has faced attacks for decades, along with periodic failed attempts by other states to take the first-in-the-nation slot. But criticism has been louder than ever this past year, and now those critics may have the ammunition they need to kill it.
With the Clark County update in Nevada, NBC has now called NV-1 for Dina Titus (D) and NV-4 for Steven Horsford (D). Additionally, WA-8 has been called for Kim Schrier (D). This moves the NBC model to a projection of 220 seats for the GOP, +/-7.
Updated chart: