Ali Velshi

He's apparently now on NBC.

They have Ali Velshi on MS Now with Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace and everybody.

But Steve Kornacki there pointing out he was talking about Texas, about James Tallarico way ahead already in Texas.

We also have Dr. Annie Andrews way ahead in South Carolina.

After the break, we'll be getting our first look at how tonight might shape up.

Ali Velshi takes us through the first wave of data, actual data, coming from the MSNOW voter poll.

Much more to come when our special Election Day coverage continues after a quick break.

Hi there, everyone.

We'll have special midterms results coverage late into the night.

Ali Velshi at the big board.

That special coverage starts tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern.

So if you happen to normally tune into this channel at MSNOW at 6 p.m. Eastern, just do that again tomorrow and you will get all of us kicking off what should be an interesting election night in America.

close at 6 p.m. in parts of Indiana and Kentucky.

That is also when our special election night coverage begins with Rachel Maddow and all of us providing analysis, Ali Velshi at the big board.

And tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, that is when we go to YouTube with the MSNOW community.

There is going to be even more special coverage.

Immigrants who are legal citizens who have rights under the Constitution to participate in the franchise to exercise that right.

To help us get a better understanding of what this landscape is starting to look like, let's bring in MSNOW Chief Data Reporter Ali Velshi.

Ali the Vest Velshi.

He's the host of the 11th Hour.

And of course, once we get to eight o'clock, it's going to be full steam ahead.

All right.

MS Downs, Ali Velshi is knocking it out of the park already, folks.

Thank you, Ali.

More than ever, obviously.

And yet, as a sort of student of the media industry, I marvel at how much this sort of remains the Super Bowl for the legacy news networks and how its minted stars in the likes of Steve Kornacki at NBC News his replacement at MSNOW, Ali Velshi, likes of John King over at CNN, the list goes on and on and on.

And so it being election day and that being the only thing that's gonna consume the oxygen, I wanted to invite on both Steve Kornacki and then Ali Velshi to talk about the art of calling elections, of explaining the data of understanding the polling, where it works and where it doesn't.

I wanted to ask them about the role that prediction markets play, about the role that artificial intelligence plays, and, you know, about their various sartorial choices, the Kornacki khakis and the Velshi vests.

So I had a lot of fun talking to these guys.

Boy, it is markedly worse than it was for him, certainly in his first term ever, and really at any point in his second term.

So you could certainly make an argument that the polls pointing to a big night for Democrats are really onto something.

As the guy who viewers look to, and you're perhaps more famous for it than anyone, be it a John King or an Ali Velshi or anyone else, what can you do to help sort of navigate viewers from the polling data heading into the primetime coverage to the actual results coming out on the other side? How do you navigate that in terms of how you convey the information?

Tamron, if you got a book, Tamron is going to be the one that's like, no, I will bring you on.

And Velshi.

So shout out to Velshi too, because Velshi always will have us on.

But that should be part of the apparatus.

When you have this Black author collective of the Tiffany Jacksons, of the Nick Stones, the Freds, the Jasons, the me, the all, like- It should just be baked into the cake, as they would say, that these programs and these producers are like, oh, so-and-so got a new book.