Some of the rural areas. so we re going to watch this go back and forth. inch up vote by vote by vote. there are a lot more votes to be counted. this is a party here, much more than any thought bust it is far too early to call it a victory party. before i go to warnock headquarters, let s get you up to speed at home on the vote. with1% of the vote in, herschelalr has taken the lead. he s up by .8 rctage points. herschel walkeinhe lead right now. 50.4% of the vote with moatic incumbent senator warnock with 49.6% of the vote. now walker is up 20,000 votes. and it is a 1-point race. let s go to warnock headquarters. and eva, i m seeing the screen
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
Vote. herschel walker, the republican, with 49.6% of the vote. that is a lead for warnock of .8% of the vote. roughly 19,000 votes. a reminder here that this is all about the balance of power in the u.s. senate. democrats currently have 50 u.s. senate seats including a pickup from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. republicans have 49 seats. they are hoping to win this one last remaining seat in georgia needed to control 51. let s go back to eva mckend at warnock headquarters with the reaction, with the race swinging back to a warnock lead. and eva mckend, i see myself giving the voters there good news. so this is going to be perhaps it s going to seesaw all night. we don t know. but at least now for the time being it has seesawed back to warnock. reporter: yes, jake. you can hear loud cheers in this room. democrats telling me that they
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