now she s ahead. the votes, a lot of the votes are still which democrat by 20 points. you re looking at the math. i was just going to say george logan, who is not this is an african american who supports abortion rights, might actually have his politics line up with a lot of people in the western part of connecticut. this is one of the races where we talked about last night. house republicans were smarter in some of these nonmaga districts. some of those maga candidates lost. but in this particular district this was a pretty good recruit for the republicans. the democrat is ahead at the moment. when are we going to know is kevin mccarthy the speaker or do democrats somehow defy history? if kevin mccarthy is a speaker, by how much? we re going to have to wait until we settle these uncalled races. in 2018 some of these races here took days and days.
and the two house seats in new hampshire, the two democrats were reelected as well. so what did you do differently from all the republicans who, especially in new england, had a bad night last night? yeah, well, i can t say specifically other than i tried to connect with the voters. as an incumbent governor, i had the opportunity to do that. these were new individuals on the republican side. given the late primary, they didn t have the time, the money and the resources to connect with folks. whether the conspiracy theory type stuff on their side played into it. one thing that we did find. all the polls had them winning. they were off massively by at least 10 points so that took everybody by surprise. i think what you ll find is young people voted in much bigger number and. more for those democrat candidates and others. as well as, they voted much more
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
impact. kari lake s campaign, who has been very, very confident about her being able to catch up and overtake democrat katie hobbs, they are meeting throughout the day with a number of transition team would-be transition team members. that includes members of the former trump team, ag matt whitaker, as well as a member of former jan brewer s team, trying to establish a transition team when and if she does become governor. thank you so much. joining us now to discuss, the white house chief of staff for president biden, ron klain. ron, thanks so much for joining us. so, we still don t know what s going to happen here. it seems as though republicans will likely take over the house. we don t know yet. it s possible that republicans will take over the senate. and yet phil mattingly earlier today said the mood inside the white house is jubilant. explain for our viewers why that is. well, you know, jake, as you know, we ve already secured the seats we ve won in the house,
elections are decided. with the exception of the 15% that live in tucson and the suburbs around tucson. when you get to the south. but largely democratic areas. you see katie hobbs with 52%. it is interesting watching these come out. we could get all the new ballots and its possible, one democrat holds the lead and one democrat loses the lead. it s closer. it is statewide. she s at 51%. this is almost a dead heat. 3,600 votes. he s at 52%. you would rather be 83,000 votes with more votes outstanding. 83,000 votes ahead than 3,600 votes ahead. that s simple math. now we go through the process and we count and there are a lot of people stirring this up. questioning the integrity. yl does it take so long? we have zero reasons to believe that this is anything but there are a lot of votes and they need to count them. and they will. one more key point.