he used every race dog whistle, every bigotry he had. making overtly bigoted, racist statements, attacking brown people, attacking black people. he s going to replace the caravan with a black man, elijah cummings, a woman, nancy pelosi. the president has enough support and enough places to win big races in states that have large enough rural populations to either of on the offset suburban america. laura: it s those racist rural people. how dare the country bumpkins ruin the country for the urbanite relief. when the country rejects the left s race was asian of politics, the democrats write them off altogether. i have a simple question to ask.
el paso? democrats turns out. we ll watch it play out. i want to come to houston. this was another one we had no results a short time ago. harris county, surrounding areas coming in. this was a major democratic target in texas. another suburban republican. democrat ahead . that s a trouble sign for a incumbent. houston suburbs, let s move up a little bit. come over here. dallas suburbs. pete sessions, republican incumbent. chamber of commerce, others helping him out. 14,000 votes ahead in a congressional race here. again, you re beating the drum but suburban america democrats are not to the finish line yet. as they try to get closer to the magic number, they began the night at 23. suburban america is their base. dana has two more projections
state. he always says joe manchin says he s with me but never votes with me. went down there to help patrick morrissey, but manchin is the ultimate survivor. he was the democratic governor. michael dukakis carryed this state. it s become one of the red states in america where president trump is off the charts. president trump won this state two years ago by 42 points. that s a close race. closer than manchin likes it, but to win there is a big deal. that s a big win for joe manchin. texas, cruz has pulled ahead. we talked about earlier they re small, but there are 200 of them, meaning the smaller rural counties in the state of texas. that s what s starting to fill in to make it closer. we re not over. texas, a big state and diverse. only 55% of the vote. but beto o roarke takes an early lead. ted cruz comes back as the republican counties start to come in. there s not a lot of votes
picture. what does this mean in terms of control of the senate now that cnn projected that joe manchin the democrat will keep his seat in west virginia. and blackburn will keep that seat in republican hands. let s look at the picture. here is the u.s. senate. 36 democrats, 43 republicans with 21 seats outstanding. of those we only think 10 are competitive. then let s look at them. all right. we ve put west virginia in the democratic column and we ve put tennessee in the republican column. what does that mean in terms of balance of power? let s for the sake of argument give texas to the republicans. we haven t called it yet. i m not saying that s going to happen. let s give mississippi to republicans. then what happens? let s say that heidi heitkamp has a bad night. that s it. that s all they need to do,
the other direction instead of losing incumbent democrats to republicans. not in the right direction in the senate. but if the house it s a different story right now. look at this as you can see 21 there are 32 democrats leading in republican districts right now in races that are too early to call. democrats must pick up 21 republican seats. republicans are leading in democratic districts in five democratic districts. let s go over let s talk a little bit about that, jake, as we take a look at the numbers. 32 democrats are leading in republican districts right now. 5 republicans are leading in democratic districts in fact let s assume all of those go the way they re going right now. it s not going to happen. just for argument s sake, that means the democrats would win 27 seats. we haven t gotten to the west coast of the united states. right. there are several potential democrats. right. but that s 27 when all they need to 21 because we called two