this is, again, the early and mail vote. and the democrat with a lead of four points over anna paulina luna. we now have about a third, a more than a third of the vote to come in. it s going to be same-day vote and it s a question of will that be enough to lift luna over eric lynn. there was a little bit of talk in the run-up to today that this district, drawn so aggressively to favor republicans, that luna might be testing how far voters were willing to go. and you see from this early number, it does look competitive there. so that s one we ll be keeping a close eye on. there are several other districts in florida as well that were drawn for the same purpose that 13 was drawn. steve, can i ask you a georgia senate race, if we could go back to georgia for a second. the third party candidate there, the libertarian candidate, isn t expected to be in contention to win that seat. but in georgia, the performance of that libertarian candidate is
biden at 64.5% for biden in 2020. that s where he ended up. like we said, this first batch of vote that you get, this big chunk of vote in these counties in florida, is generally going to be the high water mark for democrats because what s to come after it is going to be the same-day vote. as you have been talking about, the same-day vote tends to be more republican. expectation that this would be the high water mark and it would come down from here. we ll see if that s how it pans out tonight. that s how we have seen it pan out in the past. but we are getting, you see that in broward, and i think we can expect in the next few minutes a lot more of these counties to be lighting up. we have got the governor s race. we have got the senate race. you can see demings running in that county, about a point better, val demings, the democratic challenger. macko rubio. running about a point better. we have gainesville, where the university of florida is. again, this is a core democratic county.
tried to kill him. one of liz cheney s, i don t know if it was rolled out the way some of her other endorsements were, but she made no secret about jd vance being undemocratic. part of the putin wing of the republican party. and mitch mcconnell was loathe to spend dollars there because he had all the access to billionaire money. bl we re going to check back in with steve kornacki who is taking our first look at the night at important house races in virginia in particular, as we look at lines to vote in texas growing even longer, even after dark. also, we have been looking at long lines in henderson, nevada. lots of people still turning out to vote, if the polls are still open where you are and you re in a big line, best thing you can do for your country is stay in line no matter what. it doesn t matter who you re there to vote for, if you re there to vote, stay and vote. we ll be right back.
tonight. you re seeing the senate race right there, obviously we re following the governor s race. you see abrams tracking a couple points behind raphael warnock, something we re going to be looking at, gaps in the polls between warnock and abrams, between kemp and walker. is there a gap, how much of a gap? that s another story we re following. the other thing we re waiting on and i m checking to see if anything is coming in in florida. broward county, one of the biggest counties in florida. where ft. lauderdale is, like i said in florida, every county right now in this time period, about 30 minutes outside the panhandle, will report out its combined early and mail vote. in this case, more than half the vote in one of the biggest counties in the state, broward county. heavily democratic. you have crist here with a 25-point advantage over desantis. let s put this in some perspective. broward ended up in 2020 with
richmond county, this is where augusta is, a democratic area. state-wide, that is all the vote we have right now, but as we said, in georgia, and i think this is a difference from what we saw in 2020. you can expect a lot of the earliest vote to come out to be more on the democratic friendly side. that is not the same day vote coming out first in a lot of counties. you see in richmond county, 41% of all the vote in one batch. that s early, that s mail, that s what they re able to tabulate today and get out. this county in the 2020 presidential election was a 68% biden county. it s that much more favorable to the democrats with this big early batch of votes that they re able to report out. so again, the name of the game here in richmond, and we ll see this replicated in county after county, this gives you a preview of perhaps how to watch georgia and the results coming in. when the same day is added to this, does this number tick down? how much does this tick down? i think we ll see tha