katherine cortez mastiff and a tough battle for reelection to his second term, as is democratic governor steve cisa. like joining us from the count by far the largest county in the state, it is our beloved jacob, msnbc correspondent. thanks for joining us. hi rachel, it s great to see you. you are 100 percent right, it is not going to be an early night here in nevada. i ve been inside this building as a matter fact for the last couple of years, the man in charge of elections here in the largest election jurisdiction in the state. he was kind enough to invite us inside to show us all the machinery of democracy. they ve been doing mail-in voting here, in person early voting. and like you mentioned in pennsylvania, those votes are actually counted in advance, processed in advance of tomorrow. they won t be calculated until tomorrow. they are some of the votes that come out of this building tore night. he is the one who told me, i don t get authority, i m not just making this up, it s
voting. and like you mentioned in pennsylvania, those votes are actually counted in advance, processed in advance of tomorrow. they won t be calculated until tomorrow. they are some of the votes that come out of this building tore night. he is the one who told me, i don t get authority, i m not just making this up, it s not going to be an early night here in nevada tomorrow night. inside this building, the vote could go on, the count could go on for days and days. he explained to me why, take a look at what he had to say. if it s close, there s a chance we might not know the results until around ten days from election day. that is correct. we have statutory deadlines that we have to stand by. the counties on monday, i can t even read a precision about until i get a report, that could be tuesday afternoon or wednesday morning. you heard that right, ten
suspected, it is voter fraud and election rigging going on. they will demand the vote counting stop, they will file even more losses on the top of dozens they already have to try to disqualify early voter democratic votes. but knowing it s coming doesn t stop it from happening. it does help us know what it means when it does come. but setting those expectations is probably the best thing that we can all do for ourselves, for our family members, for our friends, in terms of being real, being patient, and not jumping to conclusions about tomorrow night results. joining us now for the first time is the great steve kornacki at the big board. steve, tell us what s important from this big final nbc news this out today? yes, sort of conflicting signals i think you can say. you had the headline there. that was the likely voter model results, so registered voters,
i have given up thinking about these kinds of elections, congressional elections, literally for decades, for the following reason. you got to be 40 years old in this country, when i was about 40 years old, without ever having seen that republicans control the house of representatives. [laughs] ever in my lifetime, okay? and then, in 1994, the republicans won the house, and they win the senate in what is bill clinton s first midterm election was. here s who predicted that. not a living soul. [laughs] no one predicted that the republicans are gonna win the house for the first time in 40 years, and no one predicted that the 57 democrats in the senate were the next day going to become the minority. no one predicted it. and i was working in the senate at that time. i had to move from a big office and the majority side, to a cubicle on the minority side of the building. and i knew then what william goldman and the great screenwriter headset about show business years before that, no one k
succeed in picking up pennsylvania. let s say that republicans succeed in picking up nevada, plus one for republicans there and let s say that nobody gets to 50% in georgia. then you d be in a situation where republicans could come out of election night with 50, democrats could come out with 49 and there would be one undecided race and that would be georgia and we would then await the results of a georgia runoff where if warnock won the runoff, democrats would get back to 50-50, control the senate with kamala harris tie breaker or it warnock run, republicans would have control. a georgia runoff would be december 6. if georgia is the deciding state, we would be waiting until december 6th at least because it could take a day or two to get the results of the runoff to