mber. proven, quality sleep. we are back, 11 minutes away from a huge batch of poll closings and our decision desk is deciding right now what we are going to say about them at the top of the hour. in the meantime, i m told our friend steve has new numbers over at the board. let s take a look at georgia. the picture coming in right now. it is very incomplete. you can see the numbers tabulated. overwhelming lead for brian kemp the republican. reason heavy republican areas in small democratic counties coming in. the ball game for democrats really is going to be in the atlanta metro area. you don t see much of fulton county. largest county in the state. this is what we don t have any votes coming out of here yet.
poll closings coming in at any time right now. terms of house races we re watching, we have our first flip of the night from red to blue. we ve got barbara comstock losing her seat to jennifer wexton. it s the district in florida ron desantis used to hold. had to give up the seat. waltz is the democrat to came in. waltz will hold that seat. that s one of the ones that democrats had hoped to pick up, if only because it was an open seat. but the republicans have been able to hold on there. as we re starting to see the first conclusive results come in tonight, we want to go to our dear friend, the eloquent republican strategist and former republican, i should say, steve schmidt. it s been too long since i ve seen you, my friend. great to have you here tonight. good to be with you rachel. big picture, how you re feeling about the import of this
estimate, steve, which is 216, that is not enough to make nancy pelosi speaker that would leave kevin mccarthy a speaker. that s right. we re waiting for poll closings at 9:00, but we have a new call right now. this is the west virginia senate race. nbc news can project that democrat joe manchin will hold on to his seat in west virginia. this was obviously a state that trump won by huge double-digits in 2016. that made republicans very excited about the prospect of knocking off joe manchin. joe manchin is a home state senator above all else. he is a moderate democrat much in the mold of claire mccaskill who is fighting for her seat tonight in missouri. but joe manchin will be returning back to the senate, and that will make the democrats happy, especially given that just moments ago it looks like they have lost joe donnelly s seat out of indiana. i m getting i m getting the top of the hour calls for 9:00, 30 seconds away from the
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community, and i think some of his values are great. carley: i ve got two words from you. you are hired. everyone is excited out here. we are going to keep the party going, and we will check in with you in a little bit. martha: just in some moments now. martha: all right. a few moments now from the first major poll closings. what is going to be a very long nights with some very high-stakes. bret: the control of congress on the land, results are next is live coverage continues from america s election headquarters.