the governor s race. the outcome is different, yes. but the results here highlight the challenges that are facing a party that is desperately seeking to keep control of congress in the midterms. let s go to john at the magic wall to walk us through this. berman. . so, brianna, as things stand right now, phil murphy is 35,000 votes ahead, leading by 1.4%. a win is a win. democrats are thrilled that murphy has been re-elected in that state. but let me show you what has changed since just one year ago when joe biden won new jersey by let s look at that. he won it by 700,000 votes. 725,000 votes. and oops. and 15.8%. that is a big difference there between those two races. so what s changed? where did all of this change happen over time? we can look back again at new
they tried to fight the policies. the reality though is that they don t feel foreigners. it acts like a ticking time bomb. it s remarkable what this administration is up to. in california well have none of it. next up on the case is the ninth circuit will hear oral arguments. october 1. they are filed by immigrant rights groups they plan to make the case that it will hurt children the most. thank you. for more on this let s go to john. john, as you just said it s a game changer at least in the administration. in the texas border.
the republicans did look, democrats have done a good job in recruiting house candidates. republicans have not sat back and let this happen. they ve been fighting for it. and what s going on in florida and georgia and indiana right now, republicans have managed to get their voters to the polls as well. let s go to john and take a closer look at the contests. the florida senate race right now is close. rick scott is still ahead. rick scott is still ahead. 96% of the vote. we went around the state earlier. i ll show you again to do this, to show. a smaller republican rural counties are mostly in. you ll find a couple maybe in the 90s. i just tapped four there. they re 100 %. most of the republican is in. now the question is if you re down 58, can you find them somewhere. i was just checking over here again to look. 91% still in hills burro county. this is at 100. as always, democrat in a close
bacari, we have to leave it there. i should note bacari, you say collusion, we re waiting for mueller and we re also waiting for those congressional committees. let s go to john now in miami who has all right. john, was going to interview senator marco rubio. we re trying to get his connection back up. senator, i believe i have you with me, is that correct? yes, ma am. thank you very much for your time and thoughts to all of you in florida and the incredible work being done by governor scott and all of those emergency responders. you tweeted this morning that you believe some of the lower keys should be evacuated. what is that based on? why is that? yeah. to be clear, what i mean is, if there are individuals down there that would like to leave, they may not have access to fuel or in an unsafe structure, not a mandatory thing, to go back. [ inaudible ] no water [ inaudible ] to the extent
he s been in the keys for days. let s go to john. you saw his vantage point. you saw the wind and the rain. john, what is the situation in miami in terms of the beginning of any storm surge? clearly you re getting wind and rain right now. yeah. right now it s about the wind and the rain here, anderson. we ve had gusts consistently touching 50 miles an hour or so. a second ago it was just pouring. it s bad, but this is not as bad as it was just a few minutes ago. we got an inch or so of downpour. the concern here is like all over southern florida is storm surge. behind me you can see this marina here. that would put the water up to my knees or higher here, and that would go i would not and get into the first floor store