especially with the labor vote especially outside of allegheny county and parts of the rural parts of the district. but so far they are seeing the absentee votes coming in from allegheny county. we ll have to wait and see what the remaining ballots show up. we won t know until tomorrow morning. right now conor lamb with 847 vote lead over rick saccone, the republican. anderson, over to you. thanks very much. everybody is hiding their rice crispy treats. monica do you think it s possible they could try to count the ballots. given the interest and the real sedation that the race won be otherwise decided until tomorrow it s not definitive but it s possible they are reconsidering the decision in washington county and maybe will count the ballots this evening. are you saying that based on somebody you talked to. i am. but i m not reporting 100% i will. i know it s being considered. okay. . senator. the bottom line is there is
but 847 votes here enough to make up the difference? but in each of the three counties in 18th district when they count the absentee ballots, the republican has to overperform in the absentee count than he did in the live voting by a decent chunk. a chunk many people tell you is unlikely. to overcome the advantage that the exact has over rick saccone. jake you ve been doing reporting. are you getting new information more votes coming in. that s right. and john just explained all the things that would need to happen for rick saccone to be able to is your mountain pass conor lamb s 847-vote margin right now. we just spoke with beth electin election district in west moreland where there is absentee ballots waiting to be counted. they are feeding them in the machines right now and are going
to count. he took the time to thank the supports, talked about the grass roots campaign, the conor lamb folks ran. he also gave thanks to the labor community. at the end of the day they believe some of the folks in the labor community, 18th district can help them eek out a win here. but he told the crowd to hang in there. can you hear them channing conor lamb. he told the crowd to hang in there. he said hang in there at least for another hour. don t go home yet but it looks like it might be longer than another hour before this is all coming to an end. anderson. yes certainly will take several hours in some locations for the absentee ballots to be counted. in the minutes we have remaining here with this particular panel obviously our coverage is going to continue all through the night. if conor lamb is able to pull it out and as close as it is what s the message for exacts and then for republicans. the message for democrats is that we won in a district that
guess what, it carried over. and it carried over in a plus-20 trump district. here s what they re thinking about today. i was told to watch for at least four or six more retirements. this morning everybody is panicking. so don t trust anything you hear today. but primary deadlines are coming up. so republicans are looking at what just happened in pennsylvania, and they re looking at this. the president s approval rating, this is an average of the five most recent polls, is 39%. the president s disapproval is 55%. you look at what just happened in a plus-20 trump district. you re looking at that approval rating. you re looking at the turnover in the white house. president obama had a 47% approval rating at this point. we know what happened. he was up 47 and they lost the house huge. i came back from pennsylvania this morning. i went up to capitol hill. i had talked to house lawmakers as they were coming out of their
both campaigns will tell you conor lamb has to be above 55% or above in this district to compete. then the turnout could come into play. but right now, that s about and in allegheny county 68% of the vote has been counted. does conor lamb keep that margin, number one, stay above 55? and, number two, where s the turnout, more populated precincts? what s the math? he needs to run up the margin because you re starting to see rick saccone, this is more republican. this is the part of westmoreland county in the 18th district. 56-44. if you roundup, most people will tell you saccone probably has to hit 60 in this part of the district to get up. this has changed a bit. he s performing it s red and what should be red, i would argue, 53% as more comes in for saccone to tighten the race. he has to get that up, 57. a third of the vote is in westmoreland. a little more than 40% here. this is a big basket of