how many were by democrats. the number four republican outnumbered the democrats. we know that overall in the early vote in washakie, there were more democrats than republicans who are voting, so it s a reversal from that turned. in arizona, and a maricopa, we don t know. what we know is that in 2020, that big, big final batch was republican, and in 2018, it was democratic. there s real suspense around it. yes, legit. we have much more to come tonight, we ll go back to steve as soon as we get those news votes in. we ll go live to arizona, we got a lot to get to. this election is still going with all the more important questions still unanswered. stay with us. stay with us
same-day vote is what brought masters closer in the senate lake. it s what brought kari lake close in the governor s race. democrats are hoping that this batch of votes, this sort of late arriving early votes, that it favors them and gives kelly a path in the senate race and it boosts is hubs in the governor s race, as well. i mentioned the governors races close. we re expecting to get a big chunk of this any minute now but then, once all that is added in, the one other major outstanding piece of business in maricopa county, and this is a biggie, will be 275,000 votes that were delivered by voters to the polls on election day in person. and this is the wild card, and it may end up being the ultimate wild card, because there are good theories from each party on how to interpret how this will look. republicans look at that and
county, where tucson is in, it s a similar situation to what i was describing about those early votes that came in late in the process, right before election day, they put them aside and counted them out and really seemed in tonight. they released 13,440 of them just a few minutes ago. kelly won them by a margin of 4937 votes, basically, kelly beat masters a little better than 2 to 1 with a new batch of votes that was reported out of pima county. with that date again, it extended kelly s lead statewide, sitting at about 83 dozen oh. sitting close to 88,000. there are more votes like that. it that s not all that is arriving late from pima county. it s about 30,000 more to come from that county that may well look just like that. you can see from democrats, it s an opportunity to pat the lead statewide that kelly has. again, as a saying, the hope for maricopa, from whatever
the expectations of democrats, frankly, is that this pool of votes, and we don t expect that all of this 136,000 will be recorded, but we do expect a significant chunk of it will be reported out. the hope of democrats is that this is a democratic friendly batch of votes, and they hope that because generally, it s early vote. it came in a few days before the election or a day before the election. certainly, we saw that trend last night in arizona. if you re watching last, night you saw that big initial reports put kelly ahead by like 20 points in the senate race. that was early vote all getting reported out quickly. then what happened in the overnight hours is they added up all of the same-day vote, and the same-day vote is what brought masters closer in the senate race. it s what brought kari lake close in the governor s race. democrats are hoping that this batch of votes, this sort of late arriving early votes, that it favors them and gives kelly a path in the senate race and it boost
what we know is that in 2020, that big, big final batch was republican, and in 2018, it was democratic. there s real suspense around it. yes, legit. we have much more to come tonight, we ll go back to steve as soon as we get those new votes in. we ll go live to arizona, we got a lot to get to. this election is still going with all the more important questions still unanswered. stay with us. before we begin, i d like to thank our sponsor, liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. and by switching, you could even save $652. thank you, liberty mutual. now, contestants ready? go! why? why? only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.