primary to become the governor this that state while simultaneously serving as secretary of state. he has pioneered forgive me a lot of the modern republican politics of voter suppression. and has put the hardest ragged racial edge on it with glee. kansas is a fairly conservative state and kansas just finished up a hard time with sam brown back as their governor. kris kobach is losing big to laura. i happen to know a lot of people in kansas who feel like they re blue dots in a red sea. both the house race going to sherisse davids and the governorship going to laura kelly is going to be seen as an epic moment for that state. interesting stuff happening in the middle of the country. there are so many trump-era
and can you take us out to texas. and that senate race. everybody wondering, let s see here. right now beto o rourke leading this thing that is a 569 vote margin in texas. let s just here is the big thing that i think has been happening in last couple of minutes. harris county, largest county in the state, houston, we are starting to get sorry, we should be getting the results there. let s try that one more time. this thing is being a little it s being uncooperative. the vote was coming in from harris county. i can show you the suburban county right outside of it. fort bend county. this is a basically all in right now. you can compare this to 2016, an improvement for democrats. you re seeing more improvement for democrats around austin, around the dallas area, also beto o rourke s el paso. that is not having a few glitches here. we do have numbers from el paso. i apologize. i m going get to the bottom of this. steve, the understanding that you are having some difficulty
joy was talking was the delayed graphic being seen by the crowd. steve kornacki, if you ve watched any of our broadcast, has explained the lineup of the senate by taking states in and out of the center, and now tonight it becomes for real. yeah, and with those calls now, this becomes let me just show you where we stand now. with the calls in indiana, in tennessee that have just been made we have north dakota. i m going to put this out here. we haven t actually made a call. that puts republicans at 49, with this being the battlefield. you could see just a minute ago, if north dakota, if heitkamp does not come through in north dakota we will see. that right there would put republicans at 50 that would preserve the majority except for this. i got to take you through this scenario, because this will come up, become an issue on the screen here. what s going to happen in the next few minutes, democrats obviously will have to win everything else that s left here. that s a very tall order
first. yeah. we have another pickup, steve? yes, we do. i can tell you now the 11th district of new jersey has been called. this is a pickup for democrats. mikey cheryl defeating jay weber here. this district is an open seat. rodney freely long time republican incumbent elected in 1994, declined to seek reelection in this district. cheryl raised millions of dollars nationally for this race. she s going to win this thing pretty easily. this is not technically speaking a clinton district. donald trump won this district by a point in 2016, but this has all the markings of clinton suburban districts. this swung very hard. if you went back to 2012, 2008, further back, this is morris county, new jersey. this used to be the heart of the republican base in new jersey. it s been trending towards the democrats. that has xcaccelerated in the a of trump. rodney saw this, he had never run a race in his congressional
see the margin, 58,000 here for rick scott over bill nelson. keep in mind the basic turnout math i just took you through right there. nelson may be a little closer than gillum in this thing. steve kornacki at the big board for us, thank you. a little bit of news out of florida. one of the ballot initiatives in florida that has raised a lot of national attention, including statewide effort has been amendment 4, which would restore voting rights to felons. this affects over a potential million voters in florida, and that is now we ve got a projected answer on amendment 4 in florida. it looks to be it looks like amendment 4 will pass. that s a big deal not just for the people directly affected by having their voting rights restored in florida, this is a big issue of racial justice because the racial disproportionate impact of this type of policy. and this was also thought to be a potential turnout issue in terms of democratic turnout in florida. with the senate race and the governor s