picture of how those early ballots before election day are going to fall. but, wolf, it is very important to note that these are not the same day election day votes. that is also going to give us a different picture. but what we are looking for in the next hour or so is to get a better idea of where these races stand. wolf? huge number expected very, very soon. kyung lah in phoenix, arizona. we ll get back to you quickly. gary tuchman is in north las vegas, nevada, for us right now. we expect new the numbers to come in from nevada as well. reporter: we re one state north of arizona, and we re expecting a similar thing to happen here. updated results any time. we ve been promised once a night, there will be updated results. we haven t been told what time, but we anticipate it will be soon because it was this time last night we got the results. there are still tens of thousands of ovotes to be counted in nevada, 17 counties, including this one, clark
population depending on turnout. this is the bulk of the election here. if you come out to the state-wide numbers, she is behind just by 16,000 votes. her math is more difficult. but it is still well within reach. let s go to arizona for a second. i want to show you. we ve gone through this now. senator kelly s lead is 104,570 votes. it was 85,000 when i came to the office today. it s grown a little bit as smaller results came in. we re waiting for maricopa county. just like nevada, this will most influence the final outcome because maricopa county is 61% of the state-wide population. so, it s going to be 6 and 10 or more of the votes cast in the state of arizona are going to come from here. we ll know the final number soon. but every vote counts. we want to come down here to santa cruz county. i want to bring up the blackboard because i want to show you something here as we go. you see this county is a republican county. you see it play out there. i want to give you votes. i want to s
captions by vitac www.vitac.com right now we re getting a behind the scenes look at the vote counting in arizona, as we await a big new round of results from the state s largest county. arizona one of two western battlegrounds with considerable power to shape the ongoing fight for control of the united states senate. we re following all the undecided races and the stakes for both parties, as election night in america continues. i m wolf blitzer back in the cnn election center. we re standing by to see if there are any new shifts in those key races, as more votes come in from the pivotal battlegrounds of arizona and nevada, those states home to two undecided senate races that are crucial to determining the final balance of power in the u.s. senate. right now democrats hold 48 seats in the u.s. senate.
uploaded each day. official es will continue counting through the weekend and will get through most but not all of the outstanding votes by monday. john king is with me at the magic wall. show us right now why arizona is so critically important. number one, critically important to the balance of power in the senate. if you come back out to the full map and see that s 50/50. this is the current balance of power in terms of leading in the races. in the races we ve called it s 49/48. democrats only 50 because they have vice president harris to break the tie. you have it right now. the republicans have 49 seats. so, the republicans need two of these three, nevada, arizona, and georgia. georgia run off is december 6th. these will be settled in the next cupouple of days. so, they re critical, absolutely critically important because if the democrats if the democrats can win them both, that gets the democrats to 50. and this would be to get to 51. if the democrats can win both of
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