you right now. with 82% of the estimated vote in, democratic incumbent senator raphael warnock maintains a lead over republican herschel walker. warnock with 50.4% of the vote, walker with 49.6% of the vote. that is a lead of roughly .8%, or 19,000 votes. let s go to nick valencia in cobb county, georgia. another key location where votes are being processed in a pob lous count populous county in georgia. nick, tell us what you re seeing. reporter: if you re wondering where some of those day-of votes are, here they are for the county. you re seeing them come in, being loelded off from these cars, a very well-oiled machine. what you re looking at here are not only some of the election supplies, the actual physical ballots, also poll pads and the memory cards that hold the results from those individual precincts. we really saw this activity pick up as soon as polls closed at 7:00 p.m. this has been really just a steady flow of traffic
see is that republicans, those mccain republicans, they ended up fundraising for katie hobbs. we talked to a number of them, many on camera, who said that they simply couldn t stomach the trump republicans, that what they wanted was what mccain represented, decency, honesty, and conservative values, which they feel is the real fabric of arizona. and that they did not feel that a future with kari lake would deliver that. anderson? i want to check in with john king at the magic wall. john, what else can you tell us about these latest ballots from arizona? just that the math is getting near impossible for kari lake. let s walk through it, anderson. here s where we are and here s the challenge for kari lake. we are running out of available votes. the pool of votes has now shrunk almost to the point of where katie hobbs lead is. katie hobbs is 50.4 to 49.6%.
many on camera who said that they simply could not stomach the trump republicans, that what they wanted was what mccain represented, decency, honesty, and conservative values, which they feel is the real fabric of arizona. and that they did not feel that a future with kari lake would deliver that. anderson? i want to check in with john king and the magic wall. john, what else can you tell us about these latest ballots from arizona. just that the math is getting near impossible for kari lake, despite a very improved performance in these last numbers of maricopa county. let s walk through. with anderson, here s where we are. here s the challenge for kavalec. we are running out of a every little vote, the pool of available votes for her to catch up has not shrunk, almost to the point where katie hobbs is leading. now, katie hobbs is now up 20,480 vote, that s 50%, 50.4 to 49.6. that is a very, very, very close race, right? but here s the challenge. we talked about this at the beginnin
the numbers unlike election deniers do not lie. kari lake trailing 49.6, katie hobbs, 50.4. how did this happen? we made the projection last night after new votes came in in maricopa county. in the last installment from maricopa county kari lake came out on top but was well beneath the margin she needed to catch . katie hobbs ahead, small batches of votes came in from around the county surrounding the state too. katie hobbs, katie hobbs will be the next governor of arizona. think about that. katie hobbs, the secretary of state in 2020 who said, no, donald trump you lost. joe biden won, will now be governor, defeating the woman who stood by donald trump, who . outside of battleground arizona, look what democrats did. democrats lost the nevada governorship. thaw win in arizona. they hold, wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. they pick up massachusetts, they pick up maryland. they hold kansas and colorado.
numbers, karen bass is at 50.4%, while rick caruso is at 49.6%. so far only 58% of the vote has been counted. that s just a little more than half of the vote. so, yes, we will likely be here for a long time. we re expecting results today between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time. then we will not have anything tomorrow, and we re expecting the second update on monday, same time, between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time. so, we might be waiting a long time not to just find out who the next mayor of l.a. is going to be but also a number of house races here in california. we re waiting for at least ten of these races to be called or projected. and according to our cnn politics team, nine of these races are key races, meaning they could help determine the balance of power in the house of representatives. so we are going to be waiting for a while, and the country watching california as they