i am jake tapper with our special coverage of election night in america continued. we are standing by to see if we can make any new projections in any key races that could tilt the balance of power in the house or the senate. let s take a look at the fight for control of the house and senate at this moment. in the senate democrats currently hold 48 seats. republicans currently hold 49 seats. republicans need to pick up two more seats in order to get to the 51 required to retake senate control. three key senate races remain undecided. those are in georgia, arizona, and nevada. georgia could ultimately determine senate control as the contest between democrat raphael warnock and republican herschel walker is headed to a december runoff. in the house, 218 seats are needed to control that chamber. democrats are trailing. they only have 187 seats right now. republicans have in-stepped to 206. 42 races remain uncalled.e edge
and any idea of, what else can you tell us about the ballots we re about to learn about? yeah, so maricopa county has said they will provide an update in the 6:00 hour. so it will be very shortly here. i think that we are going to see a small number of early ballots that came in over the weekend. so these will be 48, saturday, sunday. it might not be as big of a batch as folks are expecting. but as you are mentioning, arizona takes a lot of time to process the early ballots. and they go through a signature verification process. it has to go to an early board. the ballot has to be separated from the envelope and then it can be put into batches for tabulation. i know it is frustrating for
you re right. if something crazy happened here, and he got on top of it. the senate is hugely important to everybody in the country. she is a very outspoken, media savvy election denier. should she be elected governor of arizona. there will be questions about what happens in the election of 2024. and b, what role she ll play in the national party. and she questioned whether she would trust the election result even before ballots were counted. and so, if it turns out that she doesn t win and it is even by attainy amount, there is no telling what she will do. i looked at our exit poll. the people of arizona, when asked if they were confident that the elections are fair and accurate. 73% of people in arizona said
what is it about hobbs? democrats were so hot on hobbs. if what you say about lake is extra, shouldn t this have been a layup? i think people expected it to be a layup. i think the tateness of the race speaks to what a polarizing race this is. i spoke to people in arizona who were making provisions, law enforcement folks down there, for what might happen around the counting facility. and it was a labyrinth. a lot of it had to do with the frenzy that they thought she might whip up if the count went against her. it didn t materialize so far because i think she anticipates that she will win this election. my larger point is, this is the united states of america. we shouldn t need law enforcement around the place
and i also know that i m sorry, there was something coming in here. that was just the video of you this morning. oh, got it, okay. forgive me. we had a great conversation, and i think that one of the things that he made clear to me, it s also the way i ve tried to be as attorney general is to really get out around the state, to make sure that when we are in these positions when, we are elected with the voters trust and the expectation that we re going to deliver results, it s really about making sure that people across this state know that whether they voted for me or not, i will listen to them, i will understand them, i will meet them where they are. and together we re going to work to find common ground and to move us forward. and i know that s possible here in this state. all right, well congratulations again, governor-elect. i appreciate you taking time to talk to us today. well, thanks for having me. we are standing by for new numbers from arizona in the