typical divide between the parties when it comes to preelection day ballots. 69% of votes so far from registered democrats. 21% from republicans. and that is roughly the same break down that we saw in pennsylvania in 2020 with 66% of early votes from democrats, and 23% from republicans. but then take a look at this. there are several states seeing a rise in early voting from republicans. in ohio, republicans make up 28% of early votes. that is up 5% from 2020 as you see here. and in florida, republicans are outpacing democrats making up 43% of early votes. that is also up 5% from 2020. so we re going to see what kind of impact these preelection votes will have as results start coming in tonight, jake. let s go live to our battleground correspondents. sara sidner is at a voting location in tempe, arizona. what kind of turnout are you
lombardo says donald trump won in 2020. which he did not. he did not. it s purple and it s at play in presidential elections. yeah. you have it and then you come here, this is probably the poster child of the new trump candidates running in 2022 and that is the former broadcaster kari lake who again, says donald trump won in arizona. that arizona was stolen from donald trump and it was not and maybe the grace of this matchup running against the current secretary of state katie hobbs that certified the arizona results in 2020. again, arizona, nevada, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, all states absolutely critical to the citizens of those states but pivotal in american presidential politics. they will be for the foreseeable future. one other point on arizona which is if we can go back for a second. yes, kari lake a big election liar who said that if she had been governor in 2020, she would not have certified the state. the republican governor currently republican governor
seeing there? it has tripled in the past couple of hours. the line here on asu campus, we re in tempe, arizona. that is part of maricopa county, the largest and most populous county in arizona. typically about 85% of voters vote early. this line is indication that there are quite a few people left that want to get their vote in today. there are a lot of folks here who are students. there are a lot of folks here who are first time voters, and you know, we are talking to them about some of the different issues that they have come here to vote about. there are lots of concerns about a lot of different things, so, you know, and you have people here that are constantly, you know, saying you ve got to be 75 feet. you ve got people who are constantly making sure people feel safe, but, you know, we ve got different voters from different parts of the county because you can go anywhere,
of 223 voting locations were rejecting ballots as voting got underway. file this under technical difficulties, and we learned from election officials that this problem has been resolved and all of those votes will of course be counted. state officials are expecting the majority of ballot processing will be done by this weekend. meaning if there are some tight races in arizona, we may not actually have final results for a few days here. then in nevada, this is the first midterm election with universal mail-in voting, it was a method first put if place. everyone in the state is sent a ballot in the mail. to be clear here, everyone receives one. they don t have to use it. voters can go to the polls in person today. we don t have too many details from election officials about what order ballots will be reported tonight, which means, it could take longer to project the win skners and even though election workers started processing mail ballots, nevada
america and our first exit poll results are coming in right now. we re just moments away from bringing you crucial early clues about how this night might play out. president biden has acknowledged he and democrats are fighting against the tide since the party in power traditionally loses seats in the midterms. republicans need to win 218 seats to reclaim the majority in the house. five more seats than they have now. it s likely to come down to 82 key house races, competitive contests that could go either way. in the closely divided senate, republicans need 51 seats to take back control. that s only one more seat than they have now. 13 key senate races will be crucial in deciding which party is in charge of the chamber. we re also following, of course, the 36 governors contests including key races of georgia, wisconsin, michigan, arizona and florida. here in the cnn election center, dana bash, abby phillip and chris wallace are watching all