campaign, the senate race and the governor s race have been running almost exactly tied if you look at the polling so one of the things you re going to watch tonight, jake just noted, ron, a pro-trump congressman, running on the trump message, rick scott, the republican, saying, whoa, i believe the higher death toll in puerto rico. 125,000 in the early vote count for ron desants. rick scott outperforming him a little bit in terms of the same counties reporting. let s look at the senate race. 113-5 is your change there. let s look at the governors race. 111. so the senate candidates outpufou outperforming a little bit. look at the map. very early for the democrats, whether it s the senate race or the governors race. down here, up here, across here, critical for the democrats, lot of rural area. one of the big questions here, because of the recent hurricanes, how s the turnout? some parts of the republican
opportunities, give or take whatever the republicans may or may not pick up. we haven t mentioned this race all night. this is up in maine, the 2nd district up here. the democrat only 5%, though. so we re counting slowly there. we ll watch to see if the democrat can pull that off. then you pull it out and looking down. we called one virginia race early. we just called another virginia race. is it possible the democrats pick up three in what was once a red state, now a more blue state of virginia? are the suburbs changing this much? 99%. 1892 votes. the democratic challenger, abigail spanberger leading republican incumbent dave brat. dave brat became a bit of a national name when he knocked off eric cantor, many thought on track to be speaker of the house. i ve been getting text all night from the cantor wing of the republican party. they re not crying over this. they want to keep the house majority. there s not a lot of tears, i
back and forth all night. let s just check. the democrat, abigail spanberger, 2,500 votes ahead. 50%, 48%. a very close race still in the 7th congressional district. one of the big battlegrounds inside virginia. democrats are hoping not just to get the 10th but to get one, possibly two, but one more. they want the almost half the vote is in. almost half the vote. the question is is it from the suburbs or up here? we re going to watch this as we go through the night. pull it back out. see more targets of opportunity for the democrats in north carolina. this one here would be a bit of a surprise but we re going to check in on it. the democrat leading in this race in south carolina, that would be a pickup opportunity. if you re the democrats, you have a list of, we got to win these, you got another list of we d really like to win these and we think it s possible. you have a list of, okay, if there is a big blue wave, can we get some others? so we ll watch this play out. florida, cri
have the democrats leading here in florida 18. that s a pretty healthy lead with 35% of the vote in. it s only 35%. we ll keep counting. that would be a pickup for the democrats. let s come down here. this is a republican incumbent. another republican incumbent. brian mast won. losing at the moment. trailing at the moment. a much closer race so far. watch this play out. it s has been hotly contested. moderate republican at odds with the white house quite frequently. in the neighboring district, that s pretty close. both of the races likely to be affected by the let s take a look at the florida senators race and governors race. just one more quick point i want to make. we ve been tracking this race all night. what s missing? the republican has moved ahead in kentucky 6. so we re going to watch this. 66%. 4,600-vote lead. this was a target of opportunity for the democrats on the outer limit. if they re winning here, they think they re getting to 30, somewhere in the ballpark of 30
let s come back to the map. you want to look, pull back out florida. let s switch over to the senate. you sigh the map starting to fill in. you see this is florida. tightening. you can change the names and you d have a very close race. what do we have? 51%-49%. 92,000 votes. healthy lead. you re happy to have it in a state like florida, that can change. the question is, can it change? so you were talking about this with jake. we have to wait. these are generally republican areas. we have nothing. polls haven t closed there yet. right, nothing out here yet. we re waiting for the top of the hour. we ll start to see results come in. this, if you re in the republican campaign quarters, when the polls close, you already have input from your field operations. you know who you turned out today. for the republican candidates whether it s the senate race or the competitive governors race, that needs to fill in red. let s just take a look right here. how this duvall county, used to be a