we are on the green here. instead of green, let s talk red and blue. georgia, of course, traditionally known as a red state. republicans win this thing inputal elections, but democrats think they can make it a blue state in 2020. that was the national popular vote in 2016. trump won this state by five points. democrats always talking about winning back the rust belt. what if instead a state like georgia came into play for them. in 2016 trump won this state by five points down from what republicans normally do. democrats got even closer in the gubernatorial race. they didn t win it, but they got close, close enough that they are talking about being able to flip this in 2020. one of the reasons they talk about georgia being more competitive, it is in the atlanta metro area. it is in the suburbs, the sixth congressional district. we have talked a lot about this one.
i can put this fake microphone down. we are on the green here. instead of green, let s talk red and blue. georgia, of course, traditionally known as a red state. republicans win this thing inputal elections, but democrats think they can make it a blue state in 2020. democrats always talking about winning back the rust belt. what if instead a state like georgia came into play for them. in 2016 trump won this state by five points down from what republicans normally do. democrats got even closer in the gubernatorial race. they didn t win it, but they got close, close enough that they are talking about being able to flip this in 2020. one of the reasons they talk about georgia being more competitive, it is in the atlanta metro area. it is in the suburbs, the sixth congressional district. we have talked a lot about this one.
down. we are on the green here. instead of green, let s talk red and blue. georgia, of course, traditionally known as a red state. republicans win this thing inputal elections, but democrats think they can make it a blue state in 2020. democrats always talking about winning back the rust belt. what if instead a state like georgia came into play for them. in 2016 trump won this state by five points down from what republicans normally do. democrats got even closer in the gubernatorial race. they didn t win it, but they got close, close enough that they are talking about being able to flip this in 2020. one of the reasons they talk about georgia being more competitive, it is in the atlanta metro area. it is in the suburbs, the sixth congressional district. we have talked a lot about this one. here is why. the sixth district.
mber. proven, quality sleep. we are back, 11 minutes away from a huge batch of poll closings and our decision desk is deciding right now what we are going to say about them at the top of the hour. in the meantime, i m told our friend steve has new numbers over at the board. let s take a look at georgia. the picture coming in right now. it is very incomplete. you can see the numbers tabulated. overwhelming lead for brian kemp the republican. reason heavy republican areas in small democratic counties coming in. the ball game for democrats really is going to be in the atlanta metro area. you don t see much of fulton county. largest county in the state. this is what we don t have any votes coming out of here yet.
is a lot of information here. this tour can last just about over an hour. now, the storm was about 50 miles away when the tour started at 6:00 p.m. the storm that was approaching and threatening the lake and the area was moving at 60 miles per hour. so it was likely that the storm would arrive before the boat was able to return safely to shore. in other words, they should have known that a storm was approaching, listened to the warnings, and prevented the boats from going out in the first place. this is a really interesting time line. what you are looking at is zoomed in radar and severe watch box overlay of southwest missouri. the local time here is at 5:45. the national weather service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch or did issue a severe thunderstorm watch at that time, well in advance of that 6:00 p.m. departure of the boat tour. now, fast forward about 45 minutes, you can see the storm