absorbed in other places. the places where walker overperformed in rural areas with small populations where he underp underperforms, look at this. the population areas around atlanta, columbus, augusta and savannah. huge numbers of votes there. all we have to do is push into some of these counties. don, you know this from living there, fulton county, the most populus county. raphael warnock overnight with a margin of 53,000. d plus 53 there. you re dealing with hundreds of thousands of votes. 53/49. when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of votes, it adds up. you have the magic here, but how does this compare to other runoffs? there was a huge effort to get out the vote in georgia. you want to know how this compares to the runoff?
i appreciate the members who made quorum today. it s time to get back to the business of the people of texas. the civil arrest warrants issued for 52 house members have been canceled now that they ve reached a quorum. debate for voting rights is heating up in georgia. they re setting up a panel in georgia that will review local election systems. the first order of business is a review of fulton county, democratic strong hold and the state s most populus county. now some voting rights activists are warning this is simply an attempt to intimidate and eliminate the voting rights of members. we have rob pitts with us. we appreciate you spending part of your week end with us. state, local, federal officials of all political backgrounds have said there is no widespread
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and the remaining are no party affiliation or other, and that s 19.3%. now, overall there is a misconception that most florida voters are seniors. that is not the case. this year, 52% are younger, meaning that this younger block of voters is more diverse. they are very much interested in jobs, the environment, health care. now, we re seeing that same dynamic in other states around the country. i want to take you now to texas where my colleague is standing by. athena, good morning. reporter: good morning. thanks, rosa. polls opened here, and we re in the third most populus county. we ll see if that changes today. we re here in belleweather
key county, the most populus county and where little rock is located, looking at a similar ordinance. and this is really kind of a local pushback to the restriction on these anti discrimination ordinances but also as you mentioned, the religious freedom measure in arkansas. so you are seeing kind of this local pushback, and really the pushback being kind of based on a business argument from these cities who are saying they want to send a different message than what they thought was sent during the legislative session here. andrew demillo, capital correspondent for the a.p. in little rock, fascinating to see how this goes tomorrow. thanks for helping us understand. appreciate it. thank you. all right. lots more still to come. did you see the speech the first lady just gave? have you seen this? you have not seen anything like this if you have not seen this exact thing. that and more ahead. stay with us.