them neville. former president obama just wrapped up a rally with democratic senate candidate john fetterman in pittsburgh. mr. obama will team up with president biden for another rally later this afternoon in philadelphia, and former president trump stumping later as well for senate candidate mehmet oz and gop gubernatorial candidate doug maas try january know. we ll have full cover coverage with lauren wright standing by in philly, bryan llenas on former president trump hitting the trail, but first, rich edson on the democrats rolling out their big guns, and he is live in pittsburgh. hey, rich. reporter: hey, good afternoon, arthel. it is a wealth of former presidents here on the western part of the state. president obama just finished here close to the university of pittsburgh where he s trying to turn i out voters, college students, folks in the area to vote for john fetterman for u.s. senate. also campaigning for the house candidates and the governorship that s also up
are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor s race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania s going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you re going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who s running for senate and doug mastriano who s running for governor here. he has supported oz since the republican primary. he was the one, the former president, babbed in that backed in that primary in mayment. oz has trained his campaign on crime and inflation. mortgage rates are through the roof. couples all over the commonwealth, new families are worried about crime in their communities, and they re worried about fentanyl in their mailboxes. it d
oz conceded a moment ago. pennsylvania the keystone state goes it s a pickup for the democrats and there lies the drama for the forecast for wisconsin, georgia, nevada and arizona as we wait on that. battleground arizona, mentioned that. we re watching two hotly contested races there. a senate race there, democrat mark kelly is incumbent fighting to keep that seat. republican blake masters trying to gain some traction there. the battle for the governor s mansion between katie hobbs and kari lake, both contests too close to call. kelly o grady live in phoenix to bring us up to date on what s happening there. good morning, kelly. good morning, bill. too close to call is right. election officials are telling us that we re likely going to be waiting until friday to see 95 to 99% reported in. that means a lot could change between now and then. i want to give you context on how and why this race is evolving. let s start with the senate. 66% reporting.
democratic incumbent mark kelly leading by five points. he won heavily in early voting but masters is closing it as day of voting day trickles in. the spread. kelly started 18 points ahead. masters has already made up 13% overnight and we re seeing new patches skew heavily for the gop. 90,000 votes separating the two. on the governors side a lot tighter. kari lake just 12,000 votes separate the two. hobbs start evidence the night 14% higher and narrowed to under a point overnight. the big reason is lake has been winning a lot of batches by 70 to 80%. one of the big story lines is voting issues. 27% of county machines were down for a period yesterday. election officials tell us the snafu was with the printer. it was fixed by 1:00 p.m.enter rnc loss a last-minute suit to keep the polls open three more hours.
lake a addressed the issues. we have incompetent people runing the show in arizona. if we have to take this fight through we will. if it takes hours or days, we will. those voting snafus mean a lot of maricopa county ballots are outstanding in skew republican and masters encouraged their base to vote on election day. we re here at maricopa county they are tabulating. 60% of the residents are in this county and an update how many ballots are still remaining. bill: kelly, thanks. don t go far, okay? dana: she will be seen a lot today. fox news contributor katie pavlich and jessica tarlov co-host of the five. jessica, even democrats thought they would lose seats and even pre-blaming joe biden with blind quotes in many of the articles. so what do you think made the difference? knives were out for sure. now they are butter knives, i