somerset county is used to be back in the day a core republican county, it swung all the way to a 21 point victory for joe, biden back in 2020. you see ciattarelli is currently building substantially on that trump support. but i do think there is some vote out here, that will bring murphy up, and bring ciattarelli down a little bit. if you re murphy trying to make up both statewide, and you pick up a few thousand more votes in summer said that could be a significant thing. also potentially significant, it appears there s a number of essex county, newark in the area, that have not reported their same day vote. in essex county, some of the presets depending on where you re talking about, can be extremely democratic, there is an opportunity as well for murphy to add in essex county, retelling in the ones we know about. again we had some question marks as well in hudson county here. where were searing in our system is suggesting that maybe all of the same day vote has
well look where is there aren t a ton of areas left yet, ocean county is a good example. ocean county is a big producer votes for republicans, you can see ciattarelli had almost 70% of votes. look at the raw vote here, when chris christie won statewide, when he took out back in 2009 this is why ocean county looked like. looking at this return earlier tonight was one of the first to come in, you are saying what should really doing what s christy doing an ocean county and he can do it elsewhere. he hasn t replicated what christie did in 2009 when christie was able to win statewide. all the vote basically is in here. we talked about sussex county and we don t have, you can point to some fascism vote on the
or think we can attend densify are a number of past for murphy, tougher to identify those four ciattarelli. ciattarelli careful earlier this evening into not a victory, speech he kept on he was more specific than some people often are. when we can declare victory, murphy saying we re not talking about this until every vote is counted. we will continue to stay on this, joining us now is jonathan, allen senior national political reporter for nbc, news digital. jonathan alter in eugene daniels are back with, us thank you all for being with. as john allen, tell me what you make of this tonight. it s a big night for republicans in a bad night for democrats, anyway you slice it. joe biden and the democrats were in 2020, there s a recession, he s been waiting for glenn youngkin donald trump doesn t run for president, you would see him immediately launched into the potential candidate, he s created a model for republicans to run, on a
waiting in, new jersey, virginia is basically all in right now. virginia these counties have been getting vote by mail for weeks, they have been processing it. so they came into election night tonight, and a lot of cases they were ready to go with the mail-in ballots. in jersey the lies midnight on election day, the first time the election officials can begin the election process thing and it s things down considerably new jersey. we get into the wee hours here, i think we can see a path for phil murphy. i don t think so murphy will actually take these path in the overnight hours, because i don t know if we will get more reported it is awfully late in the night. you have been doing this all night the league has now for ciattarelli. steve thank you, steve kornacki, we will not go far from him. his cameras on him at all
as they were tightening, the polls were missing something, or the excitement s going to come. or the mail-in ballot is going to be huge. it s going to be democratic. obviously we did not see that enough, for mcauliffe for him to win. i think that s something for democratic people to figure out they had a year and some change to do that. when it tells you is that focusing on what matters, works for republicans. you have both ciattarelli and youngkin, who focused and some that were injured try and with the national conversation, vaccine mandate. critical race theory quote unquote, but they really did try to talk about the things in the state. they tried to talk about other issues, well you have terry mcauliffe talking about national issues. even saying in other virginia democrats saying with them that they wanted to see movement on things in congress. he s not a member of congress. in order for him to get a boom