will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? let s move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we re several hours in now. this is very interesting here. the seventh district russell frey is donald trump s candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a
that is where nancy mace is running not nearly as conservative as where tom rice who got defeated by russell frey tonight. donald trump is going to claim victory tonight but he was still 50% today. are you surprised by this? no. rice actually cast two weird votes. he initially sided with trump on rejecting the electoral college in a couple states then voted to impeach trump so if you can get on the wrong side of everybody in a five-minute period he figured out how. mace s transgressions were more rhetorical and she ran a pretty good race. i m glad mace survived and i agree with bacarri i think candidate quality played a big role. good job for nancy mace and glad she ll likely be going back to congress. do you care to comment on this? not a home state. i agree with what was just
nancy mace holds on but for the congressman who voted yes on impeachment who said he was proud of that vote donald trump is going to say gotcha. thank you very much. let s go back to the folks discussing. you want to pick it up from here? no. i think what john king said was right. one of the things i wanted to point out is in these races where donald trump is endorsing the quality of candidate matters. in south carolina you saw the dichotomy there but also the districts matter. you know charleston very well. a bluish purplish type of district surrounded by buford and dorchester and berkeley etcetera. that is where nancy mace is running not nearly as conservative as where tom rice who got defeated by russell frey tonight. donald trump is going to claim victory tonight but he was still 50% today. are you surprised by this? no. rice actually cast two weird
if you look over all again we re getting close to 80%. nancy mace has a nearly 5,000-vote lead. we ll count to the end. let me ask you. texas tonight there is a special election. it is an interesting one as well. this is a democratic seat. the democratic incumbent resigned so they re having a special election. because it is a special election it is a little funky to get to the programming. let s pop down to the end and bring up the state of texas and move it over. the house general election. you see this strangely drawn district. we could have a week long conversation about texas gerrymandering. it is the 34th district. it was represented by a democrat. 97%, still counting but the republican candidate mira flores at 51%. the wall is acting up. if she can hold that and stay above 51% she will be the congresswoman only through january. this will be re-run in november to fill the remainder of the term but democrats have a very narrow majority in the house. if she were to win this seat
votes. he initially sided with trump on rejecting the electoral college in a couple states then voted to impeach trump so if you can get on the wrong side of everybody in a five-minute period he figured out how. mace s transgressions were more rhetorical and she ran a pretty good race. i m glad mace survived and i agree with bacarri i think candidate quality played a big role. good job for nancy mace and glad she ll likely be going back to congress. do you care to comment on this? not a home state. i agree with what was just said. mace is in basically a swing district so a very different district and very different kinds of votes.