republican glenn youngkin is retaining his lead and expanding upon it as of this hour, glenn youngkin has 211,382 votes. that s 55.3% of the vote. he is 43,149 votes ahead of the democrat, former-governor terry mcauliffe. terry mcauliffe has 168, i m sorry, just jumped again now, it s up to terry mcauliffe has 173,192. glenn youngkin has 55.2% of the vote. terry mcauliffe, 44.1% of the vote. we just jumped from 12% of the estimated vote to 13% but glenn youngkin with a a lead at this hour. roughly 43,000 votes. and oh, we have more votes coming in from northern virginia. including from a very key county we will be watching aw night, loudoun county. again, one of the suburbs you come across the potomac river. you are into first alexandria or
that is 216 votes ahead of republican glenn youngkin with 910. that is 54.6% for terry mcauliffe. 44.1% for glenn youngkin. but but obviously, that is just a very, very small percentage of votes that are in. where is it coming from, john? where are the votes coming in from? zoom in right here, you see the capital of richmond. chesterfield county. this county actually matters. this is one of the central suburban counties just south of richmond. this is a place where democrats the transformation ever virginia from red state to purple state to blue state has been because of the democratic growth here. you are absolutely right to make the point this is a minuscule number of votes. it is proof, though, that we are getting started. that the counties are beginning to report results. and so, then we will accelerate and get through it. now, that s not a big deal. you always want to be in the lead, sure. but what matters is the end of night. they are now counting votes. polls are closed. no
rico county here to the north of richmond. again, you go back in time. that s mcauliffe, youngkin right now as we get about 40% of the vote. if you go back, ralph northam winning big for governor four years ago at 61%. so, if you look at it that way, in some of this early voting, we don t know the answer to the question yet but one of the big questions is does terry mcauliffe overperform north chlm? or at least one equal with northam? run close to biden in the virginia suburbs? or does he under perform? we can look at that early on, jake, and i want to emphasize for people at home this is early on. we are just starting to build but if you look at the map right now, let s take it this way. let s look at it from this way. is glenn youngkin over performing trump? in a lot of places. in a lot of places at the moment. again, the vote is early. if it s red, it s a county if it stays on. so let s come back to this. i will turn it off for you. here here, you are looking at the vote rig
joe biden won because he had a blowout in fairfax. but george w. bush won loudoun, and a blowout here in 37% of what used to be a republican county. what is going to happen here? glenn youngkin does not have to win the suburb, but he has to be competitive. so the last time they won was 2009 in the governor s race, and the last time they were competitive in 2017 in senator s race where mark warner won here over ed gillespie, and that is why he won the election, but gillespie won loudoun county, but not enough. so can glenn youngkin win in loudoun and probably by more than that, and can he break through, and do better in fairfax that happened to ed gillespie seven years ago, because if he can t, the math is overwhelming. fascinating, and they are still voting in virginia, but closer to the end. when the moment, and the moment when the first results are
before 8:00, and we will get the first tranche here in fairfax, and it won t tell us the whole story, but where the county is headed. and over to brian todd who is in ashburn, virginia, which is in loudoun county, where they are hoping for the republicans to have a strong showing this evening. they are, jake, because the democrats have made real gains here, and glenn youngkin, the republican believes he can retake the county for republicans this time around, and it is going to be tight in the county as we have been saying all along, and here is a shot of the polling area here, as the polls are closing in 30 minutes. we had a line out of the door for the first time since the polls open, and i want to go over the two voters here, and they have just moved here from southwestern virginia, and switched the party affiliation, and what drove you here? the main issues here today are women s rights and human rights in general, but the woman s right to choose, and i