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KRICHRIS CHRIS CHRISTIE AND HIS
TEAM WILL BE SENDING OUT THOSE
EXIT POLLS.
A NIGHT OF SURPRISES BUT
CONSEQUENCE FOR THE GRAND OLD
PARTY.
JOINING ME NOW FROM McAULIFFE
HEADQUARTERS IS CNN CHIEF
POLITICAL ANALYST DANA BASH AND
GLORIA BORGER.
CHRIS CHRISTIE'S RE-ELECTION IN
NEW JERSEY WAS NEVER IN DOUBT.
BUT THE POLLS PERFORMING SO
WELL, 55% OF FEMALE VOTE, ONE
FIFTH OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
VOTE.
MORE THAN HALF OF THE LATINO
VOTE ACCORDING TO RECENT EXIT
POLLS.
GLORIA HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK
THIS WILL BE RESONANT FOR THOSE
EARLY STATE ACTIVISTS LOOKING TO
PUT A REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE
HOUSE?
>> LOOK, I THINK IT'S GOING TO
HAVE A LOT OF RESONANCE WITH
MORE ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS
WHO ARE SAYING WE CAN'T GO WITH
THE TEA PARTY.
IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP US.
BUSINESS TYPES WHO AFTER THE
SHUTDOWN ARE LOOKING FOR
CANDIDATES, THEY CAN ENDORSE NOW
AGAINST OTHER REPUBLICANS.
SO I THINK FOR THOSE FOLKS, THIS
NEWS IS GOING TO BE TELEGRAPHED
EVERYWHERE AS YOU POINT OUT
EARLIER.
THESE EXIT POLLS ARE GOING TO GO
EVERYWHERE.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE STATE OF
VIRGINIA, THE TEA PARTY FOLKS
MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, IF KEN
CUCINNELLI HAD STUCK WITH THE
BASE, IF HE'D HAD ONE MORE WEEK
TO RAIL AGAINST OBAMA CARE AND
TO CONTINUE ON THAT, THEN MAYBE
HE COULD HAVE EEKED OUT A
VICTORY THERE.
SO THEIR ANSWER WILL BE, YOU
KNOW WHAT?
CUCINNELLI SHOULD HAVE STUCK
WITH HIS BASE AND HE MIGHT HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO BEAT TERRY
McAULIFFE.
SO I DON'T THINK THIS ARGUMENT
GETS SETTLED TONIGHT IN THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
I THINK IT'S STILL GOING TO
CONTINUE TO PLAY OUT.
>> LET'S GO TO DANA AT McAULIFFE
HEADQUARTERS.
DANA, GOVERNOR ELECT TERRY
McAULIFFE, SOUNDS STRANGE ON MY
TONGUE.
HOW EXACTLY DID HE DO THIS
TONIGHT?
>> FIRST OF ALL I SHOULD POINT
OUT I THINK YOU CAN SEE BEHIND
ME HE'S LITERALLY RIGHT HERE
GLAD HANDING, SHAKING HANDS, IN
A WAY THAT WE WOULD ALWAYS SEE
HIM SORT OF STAND BEHIND THE
CANDIDATE THAT HE WAS
SUPPORTING, USUALLY A CLINTON,
WATCHING THEM DO THIS.
SO TO YOUR POINT THAT IT IS A
LITTLE BIT ODD FOR THOSE OF US
WHO HAVE COVERED POLITICS FOR SO
LONG AND TERRY McAULIFFE AS THE
POLITICAL OPERATIVE STAFFER AND
NOT THE ACTUAL PRINCIPAL IS SORT
OF BIZARRE.
HOW DID HE DO THIS TONIGHT?
HE DID THIS IN A WAY THAT WAS
VERY UN-TERRY McAULIFFE LIKE.
HE WAS VERY DISCIPLINED.
SO THE POINT WHERE YOU TALKED
EXTENSIVELY TO CHRIS CHRISTIE.
JUST FOR EXAMPLE WE TRIED VERY
HARD TO GET AN INTERVIEW WITH
TERRY McAULIFFE.
HE WAS NOT GIVING ANY INTERVIEWS
TO ANY NATIONAL MEDIA.
ACTUALLY VERY FEW TO LOCAL
VIRGINIA MEDIA FOR AWHILE
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO VERY MUCH
KEEP HIM ON MESSAGE.
AND THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN, AS
GLORIA WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT
YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HIS
REPUBLICAN OPPONENT KEN
CUCINNELLI WAS SIMPLY TOO
EXTREME.
AND OTHER WAY HE DID IT, FRANKLY
HE GOT LUCKY WITH THE REPUBLICAN
STRATEGY THAT ULTIMATELY LED TO
A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.
WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IS KNEE
DEEP IN FEDERAL WORKERS, PEOPLE
WHO WERE PERSONALLY AFFECTED BY
THE SHUTDOWN.
AND THEY, EVEN SOME PROBABLY
MORE REGISTERED REPUBLICANS,
TRADITIONAL REPUBLICAN VOTERS
SAID THAT THEY'RE JUST SORT OF
DONE WITH THAT WING OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND SWUNG OVER
TO TERRY McAULIFFE.
THAT PROBABLY AT THE END OF THE
DAY HELPED McAULIFFE AND THE
MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
THAT HE WAS ABLE TO RAISE
PERSONALLY THAT THE CLIP TONS,
HIS VERY VERY GOOD FRIENDS, WERE
ABLE TO HELP HIM RAISE.
AND ALSO THE FACT THAT HE IS