some of the rural areas. so we re going to watch this go back and forth. inch up vote by vote by vote. there are a lot more votes to be counted. this is a party here, much more than any thought bust it is far too early to call it a victory party. before i go to warnock headquarters, let s get you up to speed at home on the vote. with1% of the vote in, herschelalr has taken the lead. he s up by .8 rctage points. herschel walkeinhe lead right now. 50.4% of the vote with moatic incumbent senator warnock with 49.6% of the vote. now walker is up 20,000 votes. and it is a 1-point race. let s go to warnock headquarters. and eva, i m seeing the screen
going to have him back, of course. so, you had raised a lot of concern towards john about election laws that have been put in place, you and other democrats had as well. jim crow type legislation that was state. we re seeing 3.3 million voters supporting the election that showed up today. is there any evidence that those fields were born out of things democrats raised over the past year? we don t know what the totals would have been, if it would have been easier to have people to vote. and what we are seeing across the country remember, they were trying to ban standard day voting right before the election. who does? that usually when parties lose an election, like what happened with trump and a number of their candidates in the midterms, they step back and say what should we do about changing our policies of our candidates? what they ve been saying is let s change the voters. let s make it harder for people to vote. georgians respond to that. they do not like. that meantime,
vote. herschel walker, the republican, with 49.6% of the vote. that is a lead for warnock of .8% of the vote. roughly 19,000 votes. a reminder here that this is all about the balance of power in the u.s. senate. democrats currently have 50 u.s. senate seats including a pickup from the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. republicans have 49 seats. they are hoping to win this one last remaining seat in georgia needed to control 51. let s go back to eva mckend at warnock headquarters with the reaction, with the race swinging back to a warnock lead. and eva mckend, i see myself giving the voters there good news. so this is going to be perhaps it s going to seesaw all night. we don t know. but at least now for the time being it has seesawed back to warnock. reporter: yes, jake. you can hear loud cheers in this room. democrats telling me that they
listen, i m going to be last night was lit at warnock headquarters. you know why i say that? i say that jokingly, but there was so much tension, so much importance, so much wrapped up into this. steeped in history. and you know what i m talking about. this is dr. king s home state. it s more than that. i think the history of the entire movement and it s more than king. it s all of those individuals who didn t have to read about jailhouse floors or being shot. they knew what the smell of gun smoke smelled like. many of them sacrificed and paid what abraham lincoln called the last measure of devotion to get the right to vote. and to see someone like raphael warnock, a moorehouse graduate, to be able to vanquish his opponent, stand on stage, still have the grace and the pastor delivery. two men of color. this was a content of character i think it was more than
that it is getting out the vote. the sun is shining in some places in georgia. of course walker recruited into the race by the former president trump and his chances rely on early vote. his chances rely on the turnout today at the polls. republicans are not feeling quite as confident as democrats but still three hours left to vote in georgia. thank you very much. cnn s eva mckenzie in atlanta at warnock headquarters and joins me right now. what do you hear from their camp earlier today? reporter: good afternoon to you. you are right. i m at warnock headquarters. i feel like i have a deja vu here in the same place four weeks ago. today i was in cobb county,