Dramatic music plays. Currently, Steve Kornacki is off the air and broadcasting to MSNBC viewers on election night. He’s not on the air, hence the insane, repetitive elevator singing. But those of us on YouTube — as of this writing, there were 171,947 of us — watch as he walks through Michigan’s districts, the index finger of his right hand gently touching the screen to zoom in on areas, then investigate the percentages for Kamala Harris And Donald Trump next to.

Kornacki is dedicated and determined – know this, no matter what you see on TV, Kornacki continues to crunch the numbers with a steely focus when the cameras aren’t rolling.

We watch via “Kornacki Camera”, an election night wheeze dreamed up by MSNBC to feed the insatiable lust/hunger/devotion its fans have for MSNBC’s chino-clad, white-shirted, nerdy statistics king. It’s basically an MSNBC OnlyFans account made halfway respectable.

While on TV the cameras face Steve, the Kornacki Cam is much more mischievously placed on our hero’s side, and – in prime time anyway – proudly voyeuristic. It’s to the right of the TV screen that you see Steve poking on TV. He doesn’t pay attention to the Kornacki Cam, which probably makes his fans even crazier. He’s – even hotter! – probably forgot it was there. He has a pen in his mouth. There is a laptop on the table. He moves the mouse. He looks at the screen. He is immersed in the computational task at hand.

This is what his fans want. This is pure Kornacki porn.

Here’s Steve hunched over a small desk looking at some papers and a laptop!

Here’s Steve with his producers (we’re guessing!), one of whom is dressed in a trendy pig hat combo, with a ponytail emerging from the back. They speak with Steve, seriously.

Steve came to the table to ruffle the papers.

He returned to the big plasma screen. He has two microphone packs attached to the back of his chinos.

The tease has disappeared! Where to go? Even the Kornacki Cam draws a line during bathroom breaks, presumably.

The papers on the desk feature probably brilliantly analytical scribbling. Swoon.

The music stops. When the music stops, Kornacki fans know Steve is back on the air and Kornacki Cam viewers have to share it with the general MSNBC audience. who doesn’t deserve it.

Steve is talking about Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; we are approaching a critical moment.

He’s already talked about what’s happening in North Carolina — in his usual up-to-the-minute rant, we learned that Trump is surpassing his 2020 performance there. “When you get to 80 percent in one county, you’re all left just vote the same day.”

Later, we return to Kornacki on air. The Kornacki Cam watches him address the nation, but from the sidelines, Kornacki Cam’s growing audience – now at 177,235 and growing – watches the back of his ruffled white shirt (which is peeking out from his pants) and the back of his blue chinos (unfitted, very regular). guys). The sleeves of the shirts are rolled up carelessly. Forget it Clooney, with your tuxedos. That’s it.

The stress of watching Election Night isn’t alleviated by Kornacki Cam, but it’s fascinating to watch this numbers master host his own internet side show and keep his thousands of fans happy by not watching once. Chinos, a white shirt, a pen in his mouth. A furious and resolute concentration. Pass the Doritos as the game nears end. For a Kornacki stan – 212,688 at 10:20 p.m. ET, as Steve talks about the critical numbers Harris needs in Allegheny Co. in Pennsylvania – it doesn’t get any better.