buckle up, we are heading into the final hours of voting and the first results in one of the most consequential midterm elections ever. it s the high stakes race to a fever pitch campaign. are you ready to win this election? i love to win. voters, making big choices in a nation on edge. with high prices. crime is rising. the woman s right to choose. what s happening across the u.s. could shake up the balance of power in congress and shape the next race for the white house. speak out, get engaged, vote, vote, vote, tonight, democrats are fighting to hold on to the senate, knowing a loss of one seat could cost them the majority. we need a senator that understands what pennsylvania is going through, not some guy that has ten gigantic mansions. the poster part of the far left radical part of the democratic party, john fetter nan. fetterman. we must change direction in washington. everything is at stake. both parties, hoping to expand their influenc
anywhere. okay. so apparently we re a little close. so we have been doing this all day long, talking to different people. apologize for that. we got a little bit too close. you can see, they re serious about making sure that people feel safe here as they vote, jake. sara sidner, let s go to nevada. gary tuchman is at a voting site in las vegas. how busy is it where you are? jake, we picked a busy place, not only because of the intense interest in three major races in nevada. but we are in a mall, just east of the las vegas strip in clark county. so you can come here, you can shop, you can eat. you can ride kitty rides, you can go to the movie theater and cast ballots. that s what a lot of people are doing here. five minutes ago, i walked down the line, more than 100 people wait to go vote in the 25 stations here, and the people are talking to us about five major issues when we just talked about. no particular order, the economy, crime, reproductive rights, the border and trump.
spoken to dellmocratic campaign chiefs to thank them for their work. i m told the president and his actual political team are separated. the political team is a few feet away from the west wing and the president is planning to watch returns with his senior team tonight likely in the residence at some point and what they re watching right now more than anything else is a hand full of those battle ground senate races. when you talk to white house officials, they are keenly aware between the history and the economic headwinds, the house is likely not going to be held but they do feel like there is a fighting chance to hang onto the senate and they believe that s a reflection of the work they ve done over the course of the last two years. keep in mind, the president has made very clear several times over the course of the last few weeks that he believes this is not in fact a referendum on his administration this is a choice between two parties and the white house is trying to echo that cir
this campaign think we have a chance in new hampshire. let s bring it to this map. if don bolduc were to pick up new hampshire, democrats to 489. what do they have to do to keep the majority, pick up a piece. if you lose a piece, you have to pick up the piece. this is the best hope, the pennsylvania senate race. your home state. this, like new hampshire, will be decided in the suburbs. let s hypothetically say the democrats can get that. they re back to 50/50. you go through the competitive races in georgia, arizona, nevada, republicans say keep an eye on colorado and washington state tonight. the democrat hoping for a surprise in a state, carried by trump, north carolina, carried by trump. ohio carried by biden. wisconsin. democrats are hoping they have an upset up their sleeve. it would be remarkable if they do, but very close races, all three of those. what s going to happen as we count the votes is follow the chess. let s go back to where we are.
redistricting, which gets you to the 2020 map. focus on this to begin with. the current house, the prior map. the district lines have been changed quite a bit. that s the map you need to remember. republicans essentially need a net gain of only five. the historical average is 30, if you go back to ronald reagan s days. president s first midterm election, 37 if you start the clock at bill clinton. so you re looking at this map across the country. you mentioned those competitive races. first, let s bring them up this way, and show they are coast to coast. you have competitive house districts from coast to coast. here s another way to look at it, the way you brought it up. we get into how this map tells you here, look at all of that blue, that tells you democrats are on defense. defending way more districts. look at the guide down theory. 57 of these districts have incumbent democrats. 20 have incumbent republicans. and a race down here in texas with two incumbents, think about that. demo