districtwide. assume rick cuts into a little bit here. if you look at absentee ballots here and here and down in green county, a smaller number down here, 203 down here. pull you back to the district. saccone has to win 60% plus, maybe as high as 63%. is he in the hunt? he is in the hunt. however, you look here. 53% today. he has to wayover overperform in absentee ballots what he did in the live voting. down here 58%. if you round that up again has to yefr perform that. when the absentee ballots are counted. 57% over here by my math if anyone has different math jump out and shout. has to have 60% plus. depending what we get when the final two precincts come in here. this is as close as it gets. not as close as it gets. we have seen closer actually.
chalian said earlier, the freaking out factor any less among republicans. even if saccone, the republican ends up pulling ahead it s entirely possible that in some of the very, very tight swing districts where republicans are running in areas where hillary clinton won that you might see more retirements. we already have 38 republican retirements this election cycle. you might see more because they don t want to deal with a situation that they have in their district where they don t have the benefit of a 20-point lead or 20-point win that donald trump had in their district. it s a lot harder. and so i think we have to keep that in mind in terms of big picture. they are counting the absentees as we speak. we re about to get more numbers. could make the difference. we ll have much more on the dramatic contest right after this.
votes by a 752 margin the democrat increased the lead in the county. that s right. how long did the uploading process take. about five minutes. i m counting there is about a little over 31 votes cast. absentee you sent out 4100 a thousand votes weren t brought back. that s correct. let me read it one more time the absentee ballot in allegheny, the no contact lamb 1930 votes. he makes sure i m accurate. the rang saccone 1078 votes. that s a 752 vote margin. lamb over saccone in allegheny county. in the voting itself the voting today was a 56725 with 4211 by more than 14,000 votes he won here. he increasewood absentee by the total of 752. that s positive news for the democrat lamb in his bid to win this congressional seat.
the white house trump supporters will what will they say. bad candidate. well i think they re pointing the fact of the trump bump that saccone got on the hoech stretch. they closed the 5 point gap and you talk about some of the other things the trump folks did there was a robo call from the president yesterday. the trump campaign shared. donald trump junior was there for a while. you had the tariffs announcement other jobs and economic announcement over the past week. i think the trump people will point that fact that if you want additional enthusiasm down the home stretch bring fl the president. kirstin. ky say you also had the firing of rex tillerson. if it s down to 100 tor 200 votes wait until tomorrow. and do something like this, which is not going to be helpful in suburban. trump supports were excited by that. kirsten, what were you going to say. i think i was responding to what you say but i don t know