weekend plus some ballots that were returned on monday of this week. they were all brought in, they have not been added into the count yet. this total pool, the weekend ballots plus the monday bouts is 136,000 votes. now the hope of democrats and the expectations of democrats, frankly, is that this pool of votes, and we don t expect that all of this 30 600,000 will be recorded, but we do expect a significant chunk of it will be reported out. the hope of democrats is that this is a democratic friendly batch of votes, and they hope that because generally, it s early vote. it came in a few days before the election or a day before the election. certainly, we saw that trend last night in arizona. if you re watching last, night you saw that big initial report put kelly ahead by like 20 points in the senate race. that was early vote all getting reported out quickly. what happened in the overnight hours is they added up all of the same-day vote, and the
this kind of pool that we just got votes from, it s 136, 000, that s what county officials told us. 136,000 ballots they were being returned, friday, saturday, sunday, or monday. and again, what we are seeing reported out here is that we have 62,000. it would appear that it is not the entirety of that weekend slash monday vote. it appears that there is more from that to go, and if the rest of that bucket breaks the same way, again, that is a more ground that kelly can gain there in terms of padding the lead. we ll see what that looks like with this new update. statewide, katie hobbs at the start of this hour, if it was this hour that we started with a lead of about 3,000 statewide. that goes up to 13,000. and so again, from hobbs standpoint, she would love to get more from the same bucket. as i said, there could be 60,000-plus from the same bucket based on what county officials have told us. i think the name of the game for democrats is just to get as much as they can out of that bucke
so, yesterday was the first day of early voting in georgia. voters there showed up in record numbers. more than 130,000 voters showed up in person to cast their ballots in some of the most watched election contests of this election cycle. that is nearly double just over 70,000 votes cast on the first day of early voting nt last midterm elections held in 2018 and almost as high as the 136,000 cast in the 2020 presidential election. early voting will continue through november 4th. another break for us. we ll be right back. ight back. what will you change? will you make something better? will you create something entirely new? our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things. because we believe there s an innovator in all of us.
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an escape. exactly. then they went to social media to say look at my wonderful undiscovered country. like i saw that so many times. and every time it triggers me. that disparity between what is shown on social media, like look at all these beautiful beaches. whoever lives here must be so lucky to live here. and we are. we are lucky to live here and we love this place. but there is a whole other side of the story. it s hard to survive. it is hard to pay for food. have you seen a gallon of milk is $10. i make videos about that. i make videos laying out facts about these things. hawaii having the highest cost of living. the median living wage in the u.s. is about $67,000. in hawaii, it is $136,000. yep! as we talked about before, hawaii, a land so fertile it literally grows rocks, imports 80% of everything it sell.