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But this arizona stuff is really important. i want to go back to somebody, one of our colleagues who knows arizona really better than anyone. this guy is there for a long time. i believe he even missed dinner with his family tonight because we are talking about these votes coming in maricopa county. so, vaughn hillyard, i m gonna make it worth you for you. i hope your family is watching. elton john concert is two blocks away from where i am, all right? we have wrecked your evening. you might as well tell us. there are other things happening in phoenix tonight, surprisingly. again, let s go back to the last hour. the number that i threw out at he was 53%. we came up with that number here based off of conversations with folks who are watching this closely on both sides here, who have interest in both states. katie hobbs and kari lake. and when you re looking at that 51.8% that kari lake brought in here, of course, that is below that 53% level there. and so, she is still in the ball ....
Ballots there in maricopa county. i do not believe what she did just there would constitute that type of a gain, but it was a better batch for kari lake than we have seen in some of these releases, and better than katie hobbs in this case. yeah. but the democrat, katie hobbs, is still ahead. let me bring david chung in here i can show you. it is updated on our wall. it is updated in our wall right now. so 708,629. 52.1, 47.9. so the lead did shrink there a very little bit. sorry to interrupt you, wolf. no, no, no. i just wanted to get the analysis of the new numbers with david chalian. what is your analysis? i m looking here. so lake got in this batch 43,797, about 3,000 votes it looks like, john, that she netted. it was sort of 51.8% for lake, 48.2% in this batch for hobbs. ....
Incrementally, began to tighten up this margin. at the same point, we were expecting out of last night s result, yasmin, for her to need to get somewhere around 53% really make the strong compelling case of being in the ball game. of the 80,000 ballots that were dropped she earned 51.8% down here. what this means is in these drops that come up ahead, we still have upwards of 300,000 ballots around the state that have yet to be tabulated. it is becoming more difficult for her. because these last results the past two did not meet the mark where she, to really feel comfortable about being in a truly neck and neck race, it s going to have to expand the lead in the margin by republicans are making the case here that the ballots that have been tabulated so far over the last 48 hours trying to add more blue. they came from more blue pockets of mayor coppa county. the first ballots here in the facility. among the ballot drops in the ....
The democrats will win 215 of them, however, because as a projection, and it s physical, and because they are still a lot of votes that haven t been counted, we are plus or minus ten seats on this thing. ten states! which still means that at this, our almost 4 am in the east, we don t know who is going to control the house of representatives. we do not know who s going to control the united states senate. all right, let s take a look at just a couple of key house races that i want to show you across the country, that are of interest, let s go to virginia, seven district of virginia s right here and 99% of the votes that we call this in the incumbent spanberger, this was especially title. the republicans had hoped to pick up in control of congress, close race, abaco spanberger with a difference of about ten and a half dozen votes, getting 51.8% of the vote. ....
Boris was pointing out. it s similar on the senate side. mandela barnes, the democrat, sitting at 51.8%. but that is not as strong as the gubernatorial candidate. ron johnson, the incumbent republican at 48%. we expect this to be one of the closest senate contests throughout the night. we ve only got 34% of the vote. and so, keep watching that one. pennsylvania, let s check back in. this has changed pretty dramatically since the last time we really look at it. john fetterman is now at 52.1%, two mehmet oz is 45.4%. this is starting to look a lot more like what we expected to look as they count the votes, perhaps over the next couple of days, depending on how close it remains. right, now about 146,000 votes separating them. fetterman has been underperforming the democratic candidate in the governor s race, josh shapiro. so, another thing to keep an eye on. let s check in on ohio, where j.d. vance has expanded his lead a little bit over democrat tim ryan, the congressman who is challengi ....