grows or shrinks when we get those new arizona results very, very soon. stand by for that. and in nevada right now, democratic senator kathryn cortez masto is running close behind republican adam laxalt. this is the state of play for the senate. democrats won 48 senate seats so far. republicans have won 49 senate seats so far. if democrats can pull off wins in both arizona and nevada, they would seal control of the senate with a tie breaking vote of course being that vote of vice president kamala harris. let s go to arizona first where those maricopa county votes are coming in any any moment now. kyung lah is on the scene for us. this is an important round of counting votes we re about to see in the next few minutes, right? reporter: very important round of votes. we re expecting 80,000, approximately 80,000 votes to be released. that information is highly
ballots, some might be ruled out. 38,000, 38,000 of the estimated 55 thousand are here in clark county and she s getting 52% of the vote so far. tomorrow s vote, doesn t necessarily track yesterday s vote but you do see we re four days in now and she s getting 52% in clark county that s a consistent number for her if david just laid out they pretty much need the same. if she continues to get 38,000 or 30,000 plus of the 50,000 plus are here, that s good odds for her. what else did gary said? a couple more thousand votes up here in washoe county. this is a competitive swing county. if she can break even, she can catch up. she s a little bit ahead now in a tough county. again, tomorrow s vote count doesn t guarantee anything based on what happened today but she s running strong enough in this county so far including votes counted tuesday, wednesday,
votes. if you re blake masters, you re trailing. they say wait for the votes. yes, that s a big lead. you wait, when these votes come in you ll see blake masters come back. when we get the first chunk, that s the big test. there are more votes to come after but remember in 2020, we knew mail in ballots would favor democrats. we saw that in state after state after state so you can make a statistical analysis. we knew election day ballots are favo favoring republicans. this was a hybrid ballot. this was sent in to a house and dropped off on election day. who are those voters? we don t know. the first bach of these l late earlies, if you will, new terminology will give us a sense and from there you say okay, they re tracking a pattern. we saw the pattern in 2020. will we have a pattern in 2022? we don t know. if you have 115,000 vote lead, they re about to release 80,000 votes in the state s most populous county you think this will tell you something very important. right now senator kell
she did win washoe by 53% of the latest data jump so pretty good. however, based on what we re sill expecting to see from the rurals and what we know is outstanding in clark, we need to see if she can get 50%. two urban counties are so key. it s too close to call right now. we re down to the wire. i know the whole nation is waiting for an answer but it can t be called yet. it can t be called yet. that s smart. the best thing to do is be conservative and cautious when people are questioning the counts. elizabeth, we got a descent installment out of ma ra ricopa county to call mark kelly. we re waiting for more votes in the governor s race. your governor s race had been called. when you re looking at the math
there are more votes to come but they have been banking on this first bach because it include as high percentage of the early ballots dropped off on election day. they were counting on those being republicans that voted election day that decided to do it with an early ballot they received at home. this is competitive. look how competitive. competitive is great but not enough when you are trailing. competitive is great but not enough when you re trailing. when you bring it up here, now they re in the system. i ll move the chalkboard out of the way. 683,410, the system processed these votes. in maricopa county mark kelly at 53%. blake masters needed a much bigger percentage. again, i want to caution there are more votes outstanding but if we went through this in 2020, wooes we re watching this in arizona and nevada. when the new votes come in, you have to meet the target. when new votes come in, there is a smaller pool left to count. you need to meet or exceed the vote. blake masters did