split on that vote that we did just get the kind of partisan split the democrats were hoping for, or was it an underwhelming number in terms of 55% roughly democrat vote? i think it s helpful, you use it as a point of reference in 2020 when donald trump used that final batch of votes here that i was telling you about to nearly erase joe biden s lead , let s bring it down from 90,000 to about 9700. that s the ground the republicans can really make up with that in 2020. i think if the democrats can get the lead, in the senate race over 100,000 votes, again it is a very wild card here. we ve seen that late arriving, you see that final patch and two completely different characteristics from the partisan standpoint in the last two elections.
slept either. thank you for being here. thanks for having me. while we have been speaking with the white house chief of staff, again, i don t mean to characterize it as a place holder function, but steve kornacki was working in that time, and i understand we have a little more vote in the midterm. we re been teeing up maricopa county, which is the biggie here. i m being told that there is a slight delay in getting the maricopa county number, but if you watch closely here in the time you are doing that interview, mark kelly s lead statewide did ticfk up over blake masters. that s because the other big county in arizona, the one near the size of maricopa, peña county, where tucson is in, it s a similar situation to what i was describing about those early votes that came in late in the process, right before election day, they put them aside and counted them out and really seemed in tonight. they released 13,440 of them just a few minutes ago. kelly won them by a margin of
came in on election day, we do know based on the partisan composition of the ballots, the vote that came in before the vote that came on election day, there are more republican ballots there than democratic bouts. it s a bit of a mix here in terms of what to expect with these votes, but between what is left in washoe and clark county, we will see how does numbers are breaking. there certainly are enough ballots, directly, four for cortez masto to catch laxalt statewide, but she is the one by big margin. when we do get updates, really crucial to see what the cortez masto has to be leading them, and it s crucial to see what the margin is. she s got to be leading by a significant amount to overtake laxalt statewide. that may come later in the night, but again, i don t mean to tease this and not follow through, but usually, my experience with maricopa has been that they have these updates, and they re usually pretty quick. it s 8:18, and we still don t
it s going to be 70,000 that are left, and we still have 61,000 mail ballots in washoe county. there will be an update tonight, but they don t expect a big or significant update tonight. what democrats are hoping for is that there are 56,000 ballots in clark county that were dropped off in the drop boxes on election day. they are uncounted, and certainly they re hoping that there will be anything like we just showed you in that sample of 15,000 or so. that could be a very significant gain for cortez masto in terms of trying to catch laxalt. i want to ask you a process question, because i know you are also asking general election officials in terms of when it votes are expected, and of what kind. in your experience doing this , is there anything that seems to be strange or off, or a typical, or wearing it all in terms of the way the votes are being processed, and the pace at which the vote is happening. i only ask this because they re still conspiracy rising on the right that there ma
time, and i understand we have a little more vote in the interim. we re been teeing up maricopa county, which is the biggie here. i m being told that there is a slight delay in getting the maricopa county number, but if you watch closely here in the time you are doing that interview, mark kelly s lead statewide did ticfk up over blake masters. that s because the other big county in arizona, the one near the size of maricopa, peña county, where tucson is in, it s a similar situation to what i was describing about those early votes that came in late in the process, right before election day, they put them aside and counted them out and really seemed in tonight. they released 13,440 of them just a few minutes ago. kelly won them by a margin of 4937 votes, basically, kelly beat masters a little better than 2 to 1 with a new batch of votes that was reported out of pima county. what that did again, it extended kelly s lead statewide, sitting close to 88,000. there are more votes like that