margins. beto o roarke just took back the lead. and what happened? i just said this is home. this was gray a minute ago. we had no votes. the first votes to come from el paso. one of the questions here for beto o roarke, this is his congressional district. as you move out, this is a republican congressional district. just next to it. one of the things texas democrats were telling me in recent weeks is don t be surprised if beto o roarke makes this closer than you think because of a point of pride down here. they never have candidates in statewide elections. this is will hurd s congressional district. can beto o roarke keep this blue? this is part of the hurd district. beto o roarke is running strong. the vote totals were low as we watch them come in. look at the map. beto o roarke pulled ahead. texas looking like florida. back and forth. we haven t said that in a long time. that s something to be said in this environment that there was not a lack of money in this race.
on this map where you have 1%, 2%, even 20% in. but that s worth watching, again, down here, this is also key in the senate race. this has stayed this way. lizzy fletcher beating republican incumbent right now john culberson, 53% to 47%. this would be a big pickup for the democrat and another suburban district in a once red state. so, again, you see it, democrats winning in the suburbs. republicans leading up here in more rural, blue-collar minnesota. a remaking of the american political map. let s take a look at these. minnesota s 8th congressional district up here, this is an opportunity for the democrats and republicans fighting this one out, an open seat. the democratic congressman who held that seat ran for other office. the democratic incumbent, peterson next door, only 6% of the vote in. let s watch it.
state of texas. 16 point plus of the state-wide population. beto o roarke running it up strongly. 57 to 42. only 16% of the vote in. if you re a republican you re saying okay, this is texas. go back to the dna. maybe it will. but only 16 % of the vote reporting in one of the fastest growing counties in the state, and in the country and guess what, beto o roarke running it up. you pull out the map and look and say what are they doing in ted cruz head quarters? where the votes? a lot of republican votes. don t discount them. in a close race every vote counts, even if your winning, you look at harris county and say that doesn t count. it does count when there are 200 plus of them. and there are. you count them all, that s why they cast them. there are opportunities for ted cruz here. but this is an interesting map. something we haven t looked at in a long time. a competitive state-wide race in the state of texas. you come in. i want to check and see if the
jersey. the polls close later. picked up a lot of new york, new jersey, pennsylvania. they needed at least one. you re looking at the map. they got one. the question is can they keep going? then you look at it. come down to florida, we ve done the business down here. this was a flip. this one we already called. this one we re watching as we come through. we re up to 93 %. the democratic candidate running ahead of the republican incumbent here. this would be a big target for the democrats to get that one. pick up opportunity in florida. so they have won. they re looking at a second. i want to come back to the texas races and look. let me come up here for a minute. this is another one. i want to come back to johnny broken record, the suburbs. this is kansas. this is kansas city. the kansas city suburbs, democrats think can we get yoder again? the democrat pulls out to an early lead. in this district here, we ll see
antonio, running it up. pretty good vote totals. you can try to go back in time and look. how does this match up historically? ted cruz didn t have a race last time. you see all this up here. remember, just look at the map. see all of the red. now you come here. there s more blue. there s more blue. there s still gray. we have votes to come in. there s more blue. this is beto o roarke s home. el paso, only 3% of the state population. in a close race, it s nice to run it up 75-25. we ll watch. i talked about the unfilled in gray up here in small rural texas. we expect to come in red by significant margins. the question is what s happening in beto o roarke country? next to el paso, no votes here. it s tiny here. tiny here. you have has you start moviing along the border, they talked about the caravan ads. this is texas race. it s tough tonight in the border