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Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.

And it's a special edition breaking down election day,

election night, and now election week 2017.

Got my partner in crime in here, Mark Murray, the senior political editor here

for NBC News.

So we're going to riff a little bit.

Are we going to overread 2017 into 2018 underread it?

What does it mean?

Is the answer's simple, complicated, or somewhere in between?

So we're going to get right to it, Mark Murray.

Chuck.

Is there any other way to describe election night 2017

outside of five letters, T-R-U-M-P?

Look, I think that's one of the big takeaways.

And when you look at the exit polls, definitely present,

Trump weighed down the Republican candidates, Ed Gillespie and Virginia,

and Kim Quadano in New Jersey.

Virginia, Trump's approval rating 40%, half a voter said that Trump was a factor in their decision.

And by a two-to-one margin, those people said that they were opposing Trump rather than supporting him.

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