negotiations. the push to get paid leave back in the bill. we re also talking about the moment in the pandemic that so many parents have been waiting for. children as young as five now getting the coronavirus vaccine as we speak. shots going in arms. could this be a turning point in our fight with the virus? also right now, day two of testimony underway in the kyle rittenhouse murder trial in wisconsin. the prosecution is up. the latest from the courtroom just ahead. but we start once again with nbc s steve kornacki at his big board. chris jansing is in virginia, outside washington d.c. rehema in hoboken, new jersey. and former congressman carlos kurbelo of florida, we ll get to them in a moment. steve, let s talk about what happened in new jersey, what is still happening in new jersey. right now 85% of the vote is in.
with. so, you have to balance these things out. i think these two programs, over a tremendous balancing act that we got to get past and go out and tell the american people exactly what we ve done. if we do that, i think we ll be fine come 2022. congressman jim clyburn, democrat from south carolina, number three in house leadership. always a pleasure to get your perspective, particularly on a day like this. thanks for coming on. thank you very much for having me. you got it. let me turn now to that deadlocked gubernatorial race in new jersey, not only is the race too close to call between democrat phil murphy and republican jack ciattarelli. just a confusion over the vote counting itself. anyway, ehema ellis joins us from hoboken. rehema, i m focused on that because i get a sense that
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there s all sorts of opportunity for murphy to pad the lead. when you look for where could ciattarelli combat that, we don t see that right now. this has been democrats and republicans alike in new jersey have been frustrated with how the vote reporting is going. there s been a lot of confusion. leave open the possibility that something might be being missed here, but you don t see right now any big pockets of republican vote left to come, so we still try to get some clarity on exactly the numbers in every count, but we re what we are aware of points strongly to murphy. don t go anywhere, we re going to talk about virginia in a moment. rehema, what are you hearing from voters? was this a more localized race or, in fact, a nationalized fight? reporter: you know they say all politics are local.
this election day one of the key races we ll be watching it went is the number number governor s race. incumbent phil murphy trying to be the first democrat to be reelected in 30 years. this is in bergen county. rehema, what are voters feeling this morning? what counties in the garden state should we be keeping an eye on? reporter: it really depends on who you re talking to. the issues they re talking about are taxes, the economy, education, climate change, women s issues. new jersey has 1 million more registered democrats than republicans. and there are four counties you ve got to keep ap eye on in this race, hudson, essex, union