including delaware county as well as votes coming in in bucks county and lancaster county. now, that s going to be interesting because there are roughly around 7,000 to 8,000 votes there that they re going to have to hand count due to a clerical error. so all of this might take quite a while. that s exactly what david mccormick said tonight. but again, he s saying he feels very, very good about it, as are his advisers as they cleared out this room tonight, don. all right. listen, i want to get now to jeff zeleny. jeff, from kristen to you, it s only 2,600 votes between mccormack and oz right now. he still believes he can pull it off. can he? what are they thinking? reporter: without question. i mean, don, this is absolutely it is more than too close to call. the votes simply have not all been counted yet. so we are going to have to take a collective deep breath, that election day is going to turn into a second day, perhaps an election week. this is something that happens in close
i would say this essentially, and that is that this race is going to take a while to count. but you know, jeff got at something, which is there s a real difference that we have seen between the early vote and then the election day vote. if in fact there is still some absentee ballots to be counted what you saw earlier on in the evening was that oz was trailing in that race. he caught up as we went on. so mccormick was doing better in that early vote. if there s still a lot of that vote left, yes we re seeing some squeezing right now, yes it is too close to call. but the fact is dave mccormick has led at every point in this evening. you d rather be him than mehmet oz. but again, there s a reason why we haven t called it. this thing is tight as a tick. it s ridiculously close. everybody channeling their inner dan rather, tight as a tick tonight. look, what really struck me about this race was even after donald trump called mccormack a liberal wall street republican what was mccormick s
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this state. in this race to charlie s point that the republicans should win. i mean, the republican should win it. the fact that the candidate right now, mccormick, is maga but yet is republican establishment, the likes of the senate, of mitch mcconnell, all this inside d.c. money is all going to go to mccormick anyway because they re going to be supportive of him because they know deep down inside that he is more like him and donald trump, let s not rule out the fact that donald trump is going to come out in the next couple days assuming that mccormick wins and say i love this guy, deana powell was such a great member of my staff. he doesn t believe in the election lie. he has not run on the election lie, right? and other parts of maga he ceremony did not embrace donald trump at all. makes him more acceptable for more centrist republicans like charlie. you also had the america first agenda was more of his