Maya Sharma Is More of a Passion Pit Than a Vampire Weekend. Stephen Baldwin was in the crowd, Alec Baldwin’s brother. It was one of the oddities that often popped up when you spent time around Trump and his events. Broadly speaking, they painted a picture of, it’s not going to be the world’s most impressive victory, but Hillary looks like she’s getting what she needs here. They were very gracious to have me on the set. MSNBC - Election Coverage - Season 2016 MSNBC - ELECTION COVERAGE -- Election Night 2016 -- Pictured: (l-r) Brian Williams, Anchor, "The 11th Hour with Brian Williams" and Rachel Maddow, Host, "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 from New York -- (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/MSNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) It was a feeling like, Oh my god. But that way of doing it, honestly, was undermined in 2016. It was a bust of Trump in a suit. I had checked in with that person a couple of times during the night, because he was standing, overlooking all the supporters. It was extremely apparent it was dawning on them that the map was not going to go in the direction they thought it was. All of our lives are going to change. Okay, you’re expecting Trump to do decently here, but these are counties that Romney won by single digits and Trump’s going to win these counties by, like, 20. It was brought out really early. When he walked inside, some kids were selling cookies as part of a fundraiser for the school. The Place for Politics 2016: MSNBC Election Night Coverage News | TV Special 8 November 2016 Live coverage of US 2016 presidential race, including Trump upset victory. Tur: When Donald Trump took Florida, it was like the cork was popped on the Champagne at the Hilton. I just said maybe.” The crowd is still super-excited, but it wasn’t until 11 o’clock at night where things became abundantly clear. They wanted to be in the green room with the celebrities they had brought to the Javits Center. Vitali: Around ten, a Republican staffer walks by me and he’s visibly drunk. The MSNBC election desk, from left, Brian Williams, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Steve Schmidt, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. I wish I had followed my own instincts, what I was seeing with my own eyes, a little more aggressively when I was out there. these are pretty narrow paths that each of them are going to be following. Season 13 has found its footing again with a satisfying spin on a dependable challenge and some high-stakes shake-ups. Like the sitcom-superhero show itself, Schaeffer’s work on. Where did you get that information?” I told him, “Well, Ali Vitali has the source information.” He says, “No, it’s not true. People were rifling through them, grabbing confetti for a confetti cannon that was never going to be fired off. Kornacki: It was somewhere right between those three — Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia — that it hit me that this was a very different night than had been expected. Coverage and analysis of the 2016 presidential election. Then someone from the Virginia Trump team happened to whiz by me outside the ballroom and they looked really harried and confused, but also a little excited at the prospect that maybe this wasn’t an entire loss for the campaign. Read headlines covering the presidential debates, polls, results, and more. The reason is that those indicators can be artificial. John Nolte. I was always taught you don’t use road signs or even crowd size to make assumptions about the state of a campaign. Kasie Hunt, NBC correspondent covering the Clinton campaign in 2016: We woke up after coming back from the rally the night before and went with Clinton to vote. ET, featuring Rachel Maddow and Brian Williams, along with … Where did you hear that?” And I said, “It’s not just Ali Vitali, Sean. Oscar Futures: Our Last, Best Guess at the Nominations. It felt like you can’t breathe. Which polls?”, referring to an interview he had with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, when she was saying all the polls showed Donald Trump losing. It includes an entirely new thematic section, a new vamp section and other minor updates. Alba: I remember getting to Javits, and it was such a giant building with so many reporters and people. I try to talk to voters wherever I go, but it’s really been more challenging than four years ago. I remember seeing Lena Dunham, who went home before the thing was called, when the night was looking grim for the Democrats. Shaq Brewster, an NBC News producer in 2016: I was in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Unclear who will get the city of Miami in the breakup. For the 2016 election, composer Michael Karp revised his legendary NBC election theme that has been on the air since 2004. Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews and the MSNBC team deliver in-depth coverage and analysis of the 2016 presidential election. ... and eps John Reiss and Pat Burkey produced the night’s coverage while on the 7th floor, ... MSNBC Election … Alba: The Clinton campaign had turned the TV networks off and just put on the playlist.