a long night. you said you re waiting for rural counties to report votes. in our count we only have one county, dodge county, in most of the other counties we have a significant number of votes. is it a question you mean they haven t reported them on a statewide website? we have coffey county at 99% of the estimated vote. jeff davis county 99% of the estimated vote. i could go through them. you know them better than i do. it s just they re not reported on a statewide site yet but the county is releasing and reporting its numbers? is that what you re talking about? in some cases yes. but one of the things you need to be careful of when we talk about this 67% or 80%, that s not 80% of the vote. that s 80% of what the system is viewing as a type of vote within a precinct. this gets really deep into the weeds. but like if you have two to be laitors in a single precinct and they upload one tan laitor the system says that is 100% of the votes in 1/3 of that precinct because they re broke
1600 votes right now. 50-50 as you look at the race as more votes come in. so again, disproportionately, the votes are still out here but if you look at rautthe raw math the moment can t get much closer than that. pick a republican county for me. just any republican county. this is cherokee county, one of the biggest republican counties. herschel walker has 68.8% of the vote in with 80% in. compare this to how he did a month ago and then tell me how brian kemp did a month ago. one month ago herschel walker got the same. he s a little above today. if you round that up he s at 69. again, we have a ways to go still. so we ll see. but 69 now. he was at 68 a month ago. and governor kemp was at 74. i mean, that s the difference. we were just talking about how brian kemp was competitive in the suburban democratic counties. brian kemp also was stronger in the republican counties. that is the defining question. with kemp s involvement in the runoff when we get to the final numbers here in t
key race alert now. look at the vote right now. 78% of the estimated vote in and republican herschel walker has taken the lead once again with 50.2% of the vote over democratic incumbent senator raphael warnock, who has 49.8% of the vote. herschel walker with a .4% of the vote lead leading by roughly 8,200 votes right now. let s go to pivotal fulton county, georgia, the home of atlanta and the suburbs. diane gallagher is there. diane, tell us more. more ballots just arrived there? reporter: that s right, jake. i don t know how much you can see behind me because there s a lot of observers also looking in that area. we can t go there. but we just had at least two election workers who came in
county, which was at about 5% estimated vote when you were here last time as you see, they reported a large installment. that s them counting the early votes, the early mail-in ballots you see senator warnock just 92% when you round that up. a month ago 84%. this is a big predominantly democratic county. they re only at 45%. he made a huge jump. so if you re in the walker campaign headquarters, you say number one, still a ton of votes to come in in this metropolitan atlanta area in the suburbs around it and it is blue and you re likely, even if you narrow the gap with election day votes, you know it s likely there are going to be more democrats there. the other problem is you just pick them. as you go through here. coffey county 90% of the vote in. in these rural areas where there s not a ton of votes but walker just needs to run it up like that, but 95% in. 99% in. 85% in. 99% in. so you ll find some that are still in the 60s, but if you re looking at where the live outstanding votes
counted everywhere. and as that happens the republicans do better in the election day vote. and in these red counties they do much better. the question is are there enough of them? gwinnett as an example. herschel walker s getting 33% or 34% if you want to round that up right now. a month ago he had 39%. which tells you we re still waiting to count election day votes. to your point republicans do better in the election day vote. but if he he gets 39% again tonight that may not enough because if you look at the governor s race brian kemp gets 44%. so he loses the county but he s much more competitive. and you see that all around metro atlanta. you see it in fulton county. you see is it in dekalb. everywhere you go. you see it in cobb over here. you see it in fayette, you see it in douglas, you see it in clayton. in all those counties brian kemp lost but ran competitively. and then brian kemp wins all this. that s herschel walker s problem right now, is he as we get more, as we move away