margins. beto o roarke just took back the lead. and what happened? i just said this is home. this was gray a minute ago. we had no votes. the first votes to come from el paso. one of the questions here for beto o roarke, this is his congressional district. as you move out, this is a republican congressional district. just next to it. one of the things texas democrats were telling me in recent weeks is don t be surprised if beto o roarke makes this closer than you think because of a point of pride down here. they never have candidates in statewide elections. this is will hurd s congressional district. can beto o roarke keep this blue? this is part of the hurd district. beto o roarke is running strong. the vote totals were low as we watch them come in. look at the map. beto o roarke pulled ahead. texas looking like florida. back and forth. we haven t said that in a long time. that s something to be said in this environment that there was not a lack of money in this race.
the governor s races. in illinois cnn projects the winner of that race is j.b j.b. pritzker. this is a pickup for democrats. an expensive race. democrats ahead in the race. in oklahoma we project the winner of the race is kevin stitt. another projection cnn can make in alabama. cay ivey going for her first full term in alabama. in south carolina another cnn projection. henry mcmaster defeating james smith. and now let s check in on these races we ve been looking at in wisconsin. tony evers in wisconsin ahead of scott walker at this point. the incumbent in the race, evers ahead. 23% reporting. we ll keep an eye on this really
state of texas. 16 point plus of the state-wide population. beto o roarke running it up strongly. 57 to 42. only 16% of the vote in. if you re a republican you re saying okay, this is texas. go back to the dna. maybe it will. but only 16 % of the vote reporting in one of the fastest growing counties in the state, and in the country and guess what, beto o roarke running it up. you pull out the map and look and say what are they doing in ted cruz head quarters? where the votes? a lot of republican votes. don t discount them. in a close race every vote counts, even if your winning, you look at harris county and say that doesn t count. it does count when there are 200 plus of them. and there are. you count them all, that s why they cast them. there are opportunities for ted cruz here. but this is an interesting map. something we haven t looked at in a long time. a competitive state-wide race in the state of texas. you come in. i want to check and see if the
trump. they were fighting about their ability to see a doctor. and on the ground you had a million doors knocked on in florida. those people were talking about health care and real issues with people. i agree, but people here on all the networks is trump negative trump. and what you said about the antibodies coming out against race and bigotry, people bristle because they support trump and they re not bigots and they don t like to be called that. i want to follow this race in texas. beto o roarke with 107 vot,000 s ahead. unpredictability. there s a ways to go. we re at 70% in the state of texas. and the democrats, beto o roarke, is leading the senate race. that will surprise a lot of people. one of the things that s happened recently since the last time we had the conversation is we got the first votes in from harris county. it s houston. and the sprawling houston suburbs. one of the fastest growing areas in the country, not just in the
el paso? democrats turns out. we ll watch it play out. i want to come to houston. this was another one we had no results a short time ago. harris county, surrounding areas coming in. this was a major democratic target in texas. another suburban republican. democrat ahead . that s a trouble sign for a incumbent. houston suburbs, let s move up a little bit. come over here. dallas suburbs. pete sessions, republican incumbent. chamber of commerce, others helping him out. 14,000 votes ahead in a congressional race here. again, you re beating the drum but suburban america democrats are not to the finish line yet. as they try to get closer to the magic number, they began the night at 23. suburban america is their base. dana has two more projections