party can call the shots on the hill for the next couple of years. right now we have a split senate right counsel the middle folks, 50 democrats, 50 republicans with the vice president able to cast that deciding vote. now, bun seat here could really change everything. the biden agenda would hang in the balance. >> bret: voters have been lining up at the polls throughout the day today. georgia's polls close in the next hour and pennsylvania, the hour after that. >> martha: but not all states count and report their votes the same way. here's where it's going to get pretty tricky and we will guide you through this tonight. georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin are known to be historically slow counting states. they start opening the mail-in ballots at 7:00 a.m. on election day. other states like florida and texas, they start processing those ballots that come in before election day. therefore, it will happen there probably much faster. >> bret: virginia is quick, too. that's why we always warn against what's called the red or blue mirage. it may seem in the early hours of the night that one party has a cleared a vantage but it may be short-lived. we'll guide you through this as the night goes on. >> martha: so this election comes as our nation deals with crises on multiple fronts. we have got run away inflation. we have out-of-control crime. and we have a disaster that has unfolded on the southern border. tonight will be the difference between what gets prioritized and what gets put to the side. here's how the numbers break down. >> first, on the senate side of the congress, where both parties have no room for error. there are 50 republicans and 48 democrats in the senate but you have got two independents who caucus with the democrats. that makes a total of 50 for each party. but democrats have control because they have vice president harris' tiebreaking vote. republicans need to gain just one seat to take the majority. so the senate could come down to just a few key races. >> bret: now over to the house side of the capital. democrats hold a razor thin majority with 220 seats while republicans have 212. there are three vacancies with one likely to remain in republican hands after a special election. that would mean the g.o.p. needs a net gain of five seats to take control of the house. we have more than 25 reporters spread across the bottle ground states throughout the country. take a look at them there. we will get to all of them throughout the evening. but, first, let's head over to bill hemmer manning the billboard. here we go, bill. brill. >> bill: this thing is loaded and ready to go. good evening martha and breath. bret.on the senate side republis they must win and hold the five following seats in fact keeping them in the red column. first of all, pennsylvania, where dr. mehmet oz and john fetterman have been locked in a sea saw battle. in ohio, also in the buckeye state that's where j.d. vance and tim ryan right now are battling it out throughout the evening from. ohio we will move down here to the tarheel state and the state of north carolina where ted budd is hoping to hold off sherri beazley. could be a tight race in carolina as well. back in the upper midwest, however, in wisconsin, we find ron johnson trying to find a third term defending his seat against a progressive newcomer by the name of mandela barnes, a 35 lieutenant governor there in the state of wisconsin. that's four of five. the fifth one is down here in florida where marco rubio is looking to hold off val demings. that closes 8:00. and they count pretty fast, too. so, if republicans are successful in all five of those races, they still need to knock off a race somewhere else across the country. now, the most likely possibilities could be here in the state of georgia where herschel walker is trying it take down raphael warnock. we will check in there momentarily. also in the american west, stay up late for us tonight because it might be in the state of nevada where adam laxalt has been leading against catherine cortez masto. republicans think they have got a good shot at that race. we will see whether or not they are right. also in the american southwest in the state of arizona, mark kelly is trying to hold off blake masters. a battle we have been watching now for months. now, a victory in just one of those states coupled with that 5 for 5 scenario would give republicans the majority. now, if the g.o.p. is having a good night, we might see other close races pop up in othe states, maybe new hampshire in the northeast or colorado in the mountain west or even the state of washington. some people believe that could be in play tonight and therein lies the drama for this election. on the house side, however, as we enter the evening, democrats hold 220 seats to the republican 212. 218 is a simple majority. our fox news power rankings put 223 seats in the red column. 186 in the blue. and we believe in the middle there are 26 seats that are considered toss-ups. and they will determine the margin in the house and we may not know that for several days. buckle up, it's night one, perhaps, as we begin now. bret and martha, back to you. >> bret: thanks, bill. >> martha: thank you very much, bill. two of the big battle grounds in this cycle as bill was just talking about georgia and pennsylvania. we have team fox coverage aishah hasnie at herschel walker's headquarters in atlanta but let's start tonight with bryan llenas who is live from a polling location in ben salem, pennsylvania. hi, brian. >> martha, good evening polls in pennsylvania close at 8:00 p.m. except for lucerne county where a judge has ordered polling places to stay open until 10:00 p.m. after some locations ran out of the paper needed to tabulate votes in voting machines. lucerne has a lot of republican votes. president trump won that county by 14 points in 2020. this morning. polling workers began processing what could be as many as 1.4 million mail-in ballots. statewide. counting will continue overnight until they are finished. initially philadelphia officials said they would be done counting by wednesday morning but now it could take several days after the board of elections voted this morning to reinstate a security procedure to catch double votes. tonight, there is focus on undated and misdated mail in and absentee ballots. a recent court decision said these ballots will not count. but just yesterday, the fetterman campaign filed a lawsuit arguing that they should counts mail-in ballots could be a mainly path to victory for john fetterman tonight. about 70% were sent to registered democrats. tonight's senate race between dr. mehmet oz and fetterman is expected to be close which could mean we won't know results for a few day, the oz campaign tells us they are feeling confident. the race is a toss-up but oz has momentum after erasing fetterman's double dignity lead over the summer by selling a bipartisan message on bringing balance to washington. the oz campaign, martha, tells us they are feeling good in places like deep red butler, franklin and york where before feel even got out of work. that armartha. >> martha: and extra hour for lucerne county. >> bret: aishah hasnie at herschel walker's campaign headquarters. >> good to see you. republican insiders are telling us tonight that they do believe that herschel walker could squeeze out a victory tonight and avoid a runoff and there are a couple of reasons why. number one, they say that herschel walker has the momentum, did have the momentum going that election day. he will was able to close the gap with raphael warnock and shore up his base in the end despite those early abortion claims which, of course, he denied. number two, he is getting a pretty big poll from incumbent governor brian kemp that successful campaign. finally this may be the biggest factor of all, bret. inflation is the top issue for voter in georgia by a mile in this election really could be a referendum on democrats and their policies. meanwhile, incumbent senator raphael warnock has already been hinting toward run off, the democrat hinted this canvassing event earlier today whether it's tonight or next month that he believes georgia will pick the right candidate. way to avoid the run off break the 50 pointed flesh hold. we were looking at 2.5 million voters already. bret? >> bret: aishah, thank you. >> martha: fox news voter analysis will explain the trends that we are seeing as the results start to roll in. shannon is going through all of that. shannon, good evening to you. what are you seeing so far? >> good to see you guys. we have been asking voters around the country more than 100,000 of them how they vote and why. first look tonight at fox news voter analysis. we have a new method to analyze their decisions and to tell you why they voted the way they did. the top concern for voters, not surprising, it is the economy. nearly half of the electorate 47% that we talked to say the economy is the most important issue facing the country. that's nearly five times as much as the next issue. abortion is a distant second at 10%. immigration at 9%. the climate at 9%. now, the highest numbers, if you dig in here, can you see there are sections of the country where these colors are most intense. so right here i would say we have a group idaho, wyoming and utah, and wyoming in the middle of the country. they say there the economy is their biggest worry. essentially it's the economy, stupid. let's check in here to see what else we can tell you about the numbers so far. inflation at 50-year high who do voter blame. 54% of them say the president and his policies. 46% say though they think it's out of his control. now, let's tease one of the hot races for you in ohio we are watching closely tonight. democrat tim ryan is distancing himself from president biden. the republican in this race, j.d. vance was endorsed by president trump. yet, roughly equal numbers of buckeye voters think that ryan supports biden too much and vance supports trump too much. we will see how that filters out. midterms often a referendum on the president a third of voter say that they are actually falling behind financially. that is twice as many who felt that way two years ago. that could signal trouble for the white house tonight. we will dig deeper into the numbers and get back to you on this soon. martha? >> martha: thank you, shannon. >> bret: let's bring in fox news senior am list brit hume and dana perino, co-host of "the five." dana, you just got off set. what are you thinking tonight? >> dana: nice night out there in new york city as fall is happening. it was very interesting to be sitting with my colleagues of "the five" as i'm sure it is for you in many ways to think about how this midterm cycle has really been going on since january 20th of 2021. the history repeats itself. midterms are usually won by the opposing party from the president. i think one of the most interesting things tonight is to watch this fox news voter analysis. washington and many of the states across the country are going to have a lot of changes when they wake up tomorrow or by the end of the week when we have final results. and a lot of what informs their decisions going forward on how to govern the country, what the people are asking for, if government is responsive to the people, it will have to really take a listen to what people are saying in that fox news voter analysis. it's very interesting tonight. >> martha: brit, great to have you with us as always. it is a measure of where the country stands, how it teams about the current president and what's been going on. it's an opportunity to weigh in on that tonight. >> brit: if you look at that right track, wrong track number and whereby the parties stand on the issues, where the president stands, you see what would normally be the setting for a huge republican sweep. the polls don't indicate that at least not in the senate, which is what we are watching so carefully because it seems so close. the fact that in the house the republicans picked up 14 seats two years ago, so a lot of their best possibilities have already been exhausted. people -- republicans already in those seats. so it looks close. and closer than you might imagine with these conditions and with the public feeling the way it does about the economy and about the direction of the country. so, you know, this is interesting. and control is on the line. it isn't always in these midterms. usually it tilts one way or the other. it's very much on the line tonight. >> bret: there's some shifts that we are seeing in these numbers in different demographics, hispanics, blacks. >> brit: hispanics and blacks moving more twaws toward. not many republican also win the hispanic or black vote but more from the past what we can del from early analysis. that bodes well -- that's another thing that bodes well for republicans tonight. >> bret: all 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and bret. the race between republican kari lake and democrat katie hobbs can arguably one of the most watched in the country. lake and her opponent not only dramatically differ in policy but tenure and tone. hobbs, the sitting secretary of state established herself in the spotlight during the 2020 election by not only certifying president joe biden's win in 2020 but becoming a staunch defender of arizona's election integrity. she is promising to cut sales taxes and centralized her message on defending democracy. at one rally warning, quote: this could be the last election of our lifetime lake, a former local tv news anchor endorsed by former president trump has found traction in not only attacking her opponent but the media. lake has garnered national attention with her unabashed statements questioning the legitimacy of biden's win and promising to declare an invasion at the arizona-mexico border on day one. both have heavily courted maricopa county voters. no candidate wins a statewide race here without it. as the second largest voting jurisdiction in the country, maricopa makes up two thirds of the entire arizona electorate. heading into today, 80% of voters cast their ballots with thousands more expected today. this afternoon maricopa elections said they resolved a technical problem that hit 27% of voting locations earlier today. for a number of hours, this morning affected tabulation machines would not count the ballots at the voting sites; however bret and martha, maricopa county elections officials now assuring folks here every ballot will be counted. back to you. >> martha: thanks alicia. >> bret: in new york republican lee zeldin has made the surprisingly strong showing against democratic incumbent governor kathy hochul. alexis mcadams is live at a polling location in new york city. alexis? >> yeah, bret. all eyes are on this governor's race here in deep blue, new york. as you mentioned pretty surprising how close it is. and shocker according to experts that say that governor hochul's campaign did not think it would be this close this late in the game. republican congressman lee zeldin says it's all a numbers game at this point. if ask you him he says he gets more than 30% of the vote in new york city, he will be the next governor of new york, which will be historic for him. so as we know that gap has really been shrinking in this race. in recent weeks as the gap closes voters say they are energized by this race because they don't want to see where this is going. they don't like where this is heading in new york. zeldin would be the first republican elected in 20 years to statewide office. incumbent democrat kathy hochul took over for disdisgraced governor last year and looking to make history as first governor elected governor of new york. zeldin focused his campaign around crime. slamming kathy hochul for having what he said are soft on crime policies trying to convince as many independent voters as possible that he is their guy. governor hochul shifted her focus do crime in recent weeks here, launching a new subway safety initiative which has been here. back out here live we can tell you talking to voters all day looking forward to seeing who is elected tonight and it could be close, bret? >> bret: alexis, thank you. >> martha: let's bring in a few more members of our panel karl rove is with us, former white house deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush and kellyanne pollster and former senior counselor to president trump. >> bret: also with us juan williams, trey gowdy former congressman of south carolina and host of "sunday night in america." josh kraushaar senior correspondent for axios. all right, karl, what are you looking at right now. you see some of the results from fox news voter analysis and you have all the knowledge you have. >> i'm not -- [laughter] >> what's interesting to me is this is like a campaign with two different agendas being talked about. normally fight over big things, the war in vietnam, the war in iraq. but this is two different issues. sets of issues. the republicans are talking about the economy and inflation. they are talking about crime they are talking about the border and democrats are talking about abortion, threats to democracy and climate. and these things don't intersect. and so each party is out there talking to a different segment of the electorate. problem for the democrats two fold. one is the republican issues are more important to the voters. we saw that with issue of 451% think the economy and inflation is the number one issue. so, their issue set is not as important. second of all, problematic for them, independents in this election are looking more like republicans. that is to say their concerns are more like the republican concerns than the democratic concerns. and finally, the interesting thing to me is one of the issues that democrats are put a lot of emphasis on is threats to democracy. and, yet, there is a new abc, "the washington post" poll that showed that their lead on this issue is 47-43. that is to say they are thought by 47% of the people to be better able to handle that issue than the republicans who got 43. and why? because each side has its own description of what those threats to democracy are. so you have conservatives and republicans saying, you know, a government that doesn't, you know, gives away half a trillion dollars without passing a law through congress or one party rule or the politicization of the doj or the fbi, all of these kinds of things are seen by people on the right as threats to democracy as well as the january 6th attack on the capitol seen by people on the left and right as a threat at the democracy. >> martha: kellyanne, that's a great point. that's the world we live in where each side has the issues that they are most fired up about and seems like they are living in two separate countries at times. you looked at the fox news voter analysis as we get a gauge of what some people's minds. what do you think so far? >> so, martha, this country no doubt is divided. our senate is divided. washington is guided. some of our households are divided but the country is not divided on the biggest issues that are motivating them to the polls in these midterms. over 70% of americans tell the fox news pollsters and other pollsters that they are very or extremely concerned about crime, about inflation, about immigration and border security. and, yet, the democrats have taken a huge gamble on creating this parallel universe and talking about something totally different. we'll see if their gamble pays off. the other thing that is not in doubt that you are dealing with very unpopular president whose disapproval rating has been over 50% for a year. independents are leaning far more toward republicans. will they show up? i think for independents the big question in the midterms is not just for whom to vote but whether to bother at all. some of those p&a parties 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>> bret: jacqui, thank you. >> martha: so america's number one issue is the economy. inflation has skyrocketed under this president's watch. forcing americans to pay more for gas and groceries here is a graph of what it looks like on the wall. here to talk about it now is larry kudlow. larry, good evening, happy election evening to you. your thoughts as we get ready for some numbers here to roll in at 7:00 p.m. tonight. >> first of all, thanks for having me. look, inflation is number one for good reason. too much spending, too much money printing, too much regulating. the war against fossil fuels. all these things contributed to a big rise of inflation. really, by the middle of 2021 and i think the problem right now is that inflation has become embedded into the economy. it's become embedded into wages. of the federal reserve is having to crack down on raising interest rates and cutting back on the money supply. recession looms large. you know, democratic economists tried to warn them against it. that failed. i don't know, right now, it's a very difficult story. no wonder it's number one. absolutely the key issue in this campaign, has been from day one. >> bret: democrats didn't turn to the economic message until the end of this campaign. what kind of message is that? i mean, they are saying that the economy is strong, inapparently, is that viable? >> no. i don't think it is. i mean, look, statistically, bret, the first two quarters were negative of this year. the third quarter was slightly positive. the fourth quarter may be slightly positive. but it is still a very weak economy. you are in a terrible housing slump, for example. and probably, look, the soft underbelly of the biden economy frankly is the decline in real wages. year-to-year change, i think it's down 18 consecutive months. that's just a killer. and people don't want to work for less than what they had before. and so it shows up in grocery prices. it shows up even in lower gasoline prices still ahead of a year ago. this is passionate of the issue of getting embedded into the economy. once you start inflation, you know, 8, 9, 10% is very difficult to bring it down. expectations begin to form. labor unions get restless. railroad strike may be on the horizon. and, again, one of the key factors here is the war against fossil fuels. all right. this need not have happened. we could have had an all of the above strategy. but, instead, we are still producing 2, 3 million barrels per day fewer oil than -- fewer barrels than we had pre-pandemic. and a lot of people, including myself, don't understand this. why not side by side? why not renewables? why not fossil fuels? and, by the way, another inflation factor. refined petroleum products. permeate this economy. literally 150 or more. i mean from, eyeglasses to mris to fertilizers to clothing. there's no end to it. these prices have all gone up because of the problem with fossil fuels. we're not producing enough. and too much federal spending. and too much regulating and too much money printing. it's very hard for the federal reserve now. that's where the pain is going to come in next year. by the way, if the republicans take both houses, they are going to be failed with the very difficult situation. you are going to probably have a recessionary economy and continued high inflation. so, this is a difficult one. >> martha: we have heard a lot about laughs and that's passionate of the pain that you expect to come with all of these rate hikes that we have had over the last several months. larry, thank you. we will talk to you larry. thanks very much. >> bret: coming up, we will hear from you the voters. hairs faulkner asks a live audience about the issues most important to them and what they think is at stake in this election. as we count down to the first poll closings of the night. it's election night 2022. keep it here. ♪ when i first started ancestry, i had no idea what to expect. ethnicity inheritance, nigerian east central from you. benin. my dad's side. there's 30% japanese. thank you, mom. i love how it gives you a little bit of history. yeah! i feel like reading this, like, these are my roots. there's just still so much to discover. discover even more during our holiday sale. ♪ the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. 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is that everybody? >> it looks like everybody. >> yeah, that's unanimous. kristin, i'm coming to you first. why is that? why do you feel like this means so much? >> well, from my perspective, i would say that there have been things happening lately that are enormous issues like the roe v. wade being overturned and i feel like women's reproductive rights is so important to me. and i feel that this is the midterm that matters to make our reservoirs known, to say that, you know, that's not okay. we need women's reproductive rights. >> harris: all right. i'm guessing you voted democrat today? >> i did a little bit of both. >> harris: you did a little bit of both. we will get that that later. some allot of people did ticket splitting because they were split on different issues. david, i will ask you a different question why is this election different for you. >> whoever wins there is no in between. hover wins gets to make the decisions going forward and that's very important who our leader are and what decisions they are making. >> harris: i know that you voted republican today. >> yes. >> harris: all right. okay. we will move. watch the lines on your screen now. red represents republican's reaction blue for democrats and gray independents. first up tonight the most powerful republican in the house minority leader kevin mccarthy on this big election c direction does america want to go? that's why we have the commitment to america. would he literally spell out what we'll do. make us energy independent, give us an economy that's strong, secure the border. fund the police. stop the prosecutors who are woke. give you a parent's bill of rights. i think the entire nation should look at what has -- the democrats have done with one party rule, look at what the commitment says and make a decision. >> harris: all right, so the lines that you saw correlate with how people responded, lee? >> leland: you can see democrats that blue line gave it a d republicans an a, and independents a b plus. very different reactions across the board there. >> harris: i know you dug that's one of the things to watch how democratic voters are going to react. >> harris: real quickly. you and i have done this on the faulkner focus during the day during the week. independents were looking for from republicans they didn't want just complaining they want answers. >> republicans were talking about how bad things were. most americans were telling us we know how bad things are we want to hear a solution. this was his effort putting this together with a commitment to america. >> harris: real quickly we know democrats pulled in former star former president barack obama. watch again the lines. >> democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real consequences. democracy is at stake in this election. that's why it's not enough to elect democrats at the top of the ticket. we need to elect good people up and down the ballot. [cheers] across the country some of the folks who tried to undermine our democracy are running for offices that will oversee the next election, and if they win, there's no telling what might happen. >> harris: what grades do voters give it. >> democrats that blue line they gave it an a, while republicans gave an f not surprising that big division. those independents though that gray line they gave it a c minus. >> harris: all right, go back to brett and martha races called more voters' voices coming up a bit later. >> bret: interesting stuff. harris, thank you. another factor in tonight's results, mother nature, the weather potentially affecting turnout in key states. fox weather meteorologist amy freeze has more. good evening, amy. >> good evening, bret. really across the country, east of the mississippi dallas 78 degrees out west where the polls are still open a real storm has come through. did not reach into arizona. in fact, maricopa county, no problems there today but just a little bit further to the west. look at the mess that's over nevada. reno, this is a owasso county. very tricky travel, sierra getting up to 4 feet of snow. that's not it. they also had stormy weather this northern california. maybe a tornado touching down outside of sacramento on highway 99. we have flooding rains at this hour right now other los angeles. in fact, flood watches up for much of southern california. look at the strong storms coming over the five grapevine. on the east post after the polls have closed it will be interesting to see what happens. we have tropical storm nicole. it went be making landfall until tomorrow night. we already had evacuation orders today in bradford county. as we all know weather be people will make that effort tonight even with the storm out west. back to you. >> bret: amy, thank you very much. >> martha: thank you, amy. let's get back to the rest of our panel and get them into the mix here. we will start with juan williams. juan, your thoughts as we are just a few minutes away from getting results tonight. >> juan: post covid, martha. i think there has been a real change in american politics. we can see today that democrats vote early and oftentimes vote by mail. republicans vote on election day. it's almost like you have two elections going on. and we are going to see that play out in terms of how we report the results and we have to be very cautious about that because some, well, you know, some speculation, mirages may appear here and there. the other thing to say very quickly is for all the talk about election fraud, and the big lie, and the big steal and all that, today has gone fairly smoothly. we have had some trouble in maricopa county in arizona as you have heard. some machines not functioning properly. i think it's like 6 voting areas in georgia. six polling places. they have been told to stay open later because of some problems with the balloting. and the judges have said we need to make sure those people are able to vote. but, overall, despite the many election deniers, despite the fact that you have 30, i think, secretary of states who deny the results of the 2020 election. this has been a fairly smooth election. >> bret: maricopa says they have fixed those machine problems in those precincts and moving on. trey, your thoughts early? >> i think dana put her finger on it. every tail wind you can have, the economy, inflation, gas prices, history is with the republicans. so if they underperform tonight, somebody needs to ask how and why and if there is a wave, what does that portend for 2024. that's what i will be watching. >> martha: josh? josh josh i'm looking at the disconnect between the house and the senate. we will be getting house numbers in virginia and indiana early on and give us an early sense of the public's mood. but, you know, senate races are about candidates. and republicans have nominated some untested rookies in the political landscape like herschel walker and dr. oz and blake masters. so i'm really going to be closely watching, i know folks on the house races put on the red and blue jerseys but on the senate races they look at the candidates and the candidates matter in those contests. >> martha: that's a great point. bill is going to take us through those virginia races as we get a look at the three races, 2, 7, and 10. that we think are going to give us early indications tonight of the mood out there. it's also really important juan was saying that in some places they going to start counting today, you know, they did mail-in ballots first and then they do today's vote in some places it's the exact opposite of that we will take you through that. >> bret: brit, you want to weigh in. >> brit: voter analysis says something like 40% of the electorate will vote on election day which means that change that juan was talking about has devolved now. and now that tells you, for example, that in pennsylvania the people, a majority of pennsylvania voters, if that holds for pennsylvania and there is no reason why it wouldn't, voted in this election without seeing either of the candidates in debate. without seeing john fetterman and the difficulty that he had that were so striking to all of us. that -- is that an argument for more early voting or not? good question. >> that is a good question. definitely an argument for more debates. >> martha: absolutely. >> bret: we are waiting now for the final moments here before the next poll closings, including the closely watched state of georgia. jesse watters, tucker carlson, laura ingraham will join our special coverage of the 2022 midterm elections. ur forms and submit the application. that easy. getrefunds.com has helped businesses like yours claim over $1 billion in payroll tax refunds. but it's only available for a limited time. go to getrefunds.com powered by innovation refunds. >> we will not back down. >> it's all on the line. >> bret: expect an exciting night that could go either way. >> in america's decision, starts now. ♪ ♪ >> martha: it is 7:00 p.m. in the east and polls have now closed in six states. we begin with the battleground state of georgia where fox news decision desk says democratic senator raphael warnock and republican herschel walker are in a very tight race at this hour. it is too early to make a call in this race. georgia historically slow counting these vote as they come in. we will watch this one throughout the night. also if either candidate does not get 50% of the vote there will be that expected runoff in four weeks from now in december.