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that she's contesting.

- Yeah.

- We're headed towards--

If she wins Florida,

that's that.

- Well, right.

- You know?

Eighteen months of, like,

extraordinary buildup

ends...[chuckles]

with one projection.

Mr. Trump, sayonara.

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[Heilemann] So welcome

to the Jacob Javits Center.

[Halperin] AKA Hillaryland.

[Clinton on TV]

Now is our chance

to beat the historical odds

and give the American people

the health security they need.

We worked really hard.

We weren't successful.

Which really disappointed...

This is, like, mind-blowing.

[indistinct chatter]

[Heilemann] Very futuristic.

Literally, it's like

nothing I've ever seen

on election night.

This is like a show of force.

If she wins, it's gonna be

a metaphor for the fact

that she and her team

outplanned,

outworked, outspent

Donald J. Trump.

[man] This is the

electoral college map.

The colored states

you see now...

[crowd commotion]

No.

Really?

I guess I never

really thought about it.

- I just know how hard it is...

- Right.

- ...for women to win.

- Since you never expected

to see one in your lifetime,

it's fair to say

that you are seeing one

sooner than you expected.

Yes.

I hope that's right.

[laughter]

Stay--don't-

don't let him f*** with you.

Stay here and talk to me.

[Fallon] So everybody's paying

attention to the glass ceiling

and all the symbolic value

of that.

- [Heilemann] Yeah.

- [Fallon] And that's true.

But the other thing that

we're pointing to is the stage

that is shaped like the map

of the United States of America.

And the symbolic purpose

of that is--

and this is something you're

gonna hear in her remarks--

that she wants to be

a president for everybody.

We realize, even if she has

a decisive victory tonight,

that the country's

gonna remain polarized

and the big challenge

facing her is gonna be

how to try to heal the divide.

And so starting tonight,

wants to start

to reach out

to even those Trump supporters

that didn't vote for her.

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[indistinct chatter]

So this is kind--I mean, I know

he's done events here before,

but it's so weird

for an election night party

for the guy that

has huge rallies

to end on a note like this,

right?

I know.

Well, I think...

[McKinnon] This looks more like

an annual convention

of osteopaths than it does

an election night celebration.

[man on TV] North Carolina,

Florida, right away.

First in the polls...

[Blitzer on TV] Key race alert

right now.

[dramatic music on TV]

Key race alerts!

[Blitzer on TV] All right,

let's take a look.

Let's start with Florida.

Right now, Donald Trump

is ahead impressively

with 91% of the vote.

In Ohio, Donald Trump

also has the lead

of more than 52,000

with 39% of the vote in.

Eighteen-point threshold.

It's too close to call.

[Blitzer on TV] In Virginia

right now, Donald Trump

still has an impressive lead...

[Heilemann]

The suggestion earlier was

if she won Florida,

it'd be a really early night.

And now it's Trump

with 92% of the vote in

and Trump ahead

by 130,000 votes.

She could still...

[Blitzer on TV]

...votes outstanding...

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[Schumer on TV] I got to watch

my oldest daughter,

Jessica, get married

to the man of her dreams...

[Halperin] So I'm over

at the Clinton headquarters.

And the atmosphere here

in the last 45 minutes

has just pancaked.

[Schumer on TV] I guess

what I'm saying is this.

I believe that she will win.

[Halperin] They're playing

Schumer giving some speech,

and people are like,

"Please, we don't need

to hear about how much

you love Coney Island.

What the f***'s going on

in Broward County?"

[man on TV]

And this is encouraging you,

if you're the Trump campaign,

If Donald Trump keeps it

that close...

[Halperin] My sense is that

in the last 45 minutes or so,

the energy's...

- Air--yeah, absolutely.

- Air out of the room, right.

Right.

Have you reached any of the

Clinton people about Florida?

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[man on TV] A couple things to

point out. First of all we talk

about this

college, non-college...

[crowd cheering]

[man] Donald Trump has just

won the state of Ohio.

[man] No Republican has

won the White House without

winning the state of

Ohio. Donald Trump, the GOP

nominee has just...

[man on TV] Sure, it's only a

couple hundred in this county,

maybe 1,000 there,

maybe 1,500 there...

[Halperin] They've got

the audio up

on John King at CNN

because

they're starved for information.

That is something

if that's 100%.

There's not more votes to be

gained by Hillary Clinton...

If she--if he wins Florida,

it's an earthquake.

I would say

at this moment

that...

pretty much

every liberal I know

is comprehensively

freaking out.

[siren wailing]

Think that's fair to say.

[Blitzer] CNN can now project

that the state of Colorado

will go to Hillary Clinton.

Remember, you need 270

to win the White House.

I keep saying that...

Yeah, even with Iowa.

She's got--

she's got a chance still.

If she can block him

in Michigan, Wisconsin...

For Trump?

All right.

Fox is giving North Carolina

to Trump, so...

really about Michigan,

Wisconsin,

and New Hampshire right now.

Michigan-Wisconsin thing

is key.

'Cause she's behind by--

I mean, it seems like bo--

those are probably

gonna go the same direction.

Okay.

Let me know, okay?

Thank you.

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[Colbert]

My guests tonight are

executive producers

and reporters

from Showtime's political

documentary series The Circus.

Please welcome Mark Halperin

and John Heilemann.

[cheers and applause]

[man] Yeah, there you go.

[Colbert] Yeah.

Uh, what is happening out there?

I haven't looked at anything

in, like, the last half hour.

What's going on?

Um, my sense is that

this audience will not

particularly like this,

but he's now the front-runner.

[crowd moans]

Uh, if Trump wins,

how about bursting into tears

and screaming "f***"

for the next 45 minutes?

[laughter and applause]

What did you want to say?

What?

- Yeah.

- Uhh, Donald Trump

has taken the state of Florida.

- [crowd groans]

- Okay, so that's been called.

He is--he is now on--

he is now

on the doorstep

of 270 electoral votes.

Wow.

Wow.

Uh, that's

a horrifying prospect.

I can't put--

uh, I cannot put a-a-a--

I can't put a happy face

on that.

And-and that's my job.

[soft laughter]

If you did an MRI

of the country,

I think you'd--

terminal grievance

and anger and populist ire

is the--is the-the-the thing

that afflicts

both sides--Democrat--on

the far left and the far right.

And now we are

where we are, which is--

Outside-outside

of the Civil War,

World War II,

and including 9/11,

this may be

the most cataclysmic event

the country's ever seen.

Um...[chuckles nervously]

well...

[laughter]

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