country and giving us an early read on what they re thinking as the nation is heading into an unprecedented, unprecedented presidential election year. the contest american democracy as it s never been tested before. this is cnn s coverage of america s choice 2023. i m erin burnett. and i m jake tapper. we are about to get the first results of the night possible clues about the political trends in 2024 and the potentially historic and divisive rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. polling places just closed in the eastern half of kentucky. the commonwealth has one of two governors races tonight. new measure of the democrats strengths and weaknesses on republican turf. popular democratic governor andy beshear is fighting to keep his job in kentucky, where president biden is in louisville, kentucky. let s go to king in columbus, ohio. she s tracking the state s abortion rights ballot measure. king has there been last minute campaigning on thi
Dedicated to ideas that never took off. The museum of failure. Good morning. Its june 8th. Iam i am annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Polling stations are open across the country as millions of people go to cast their votes in the general election. Theyll close at 10pm this evening, with the first results due before midnight. Police say therell be increased security at some Polling Stations with Armed Officers in some areas. Joining me now from westminster is our Political Correspondent alicia mccarthy. And intensive seven Week Campaign and now people get to go and cast their votes, tech as to what has been happening. 50 days since mps voted to hold the selection and finally, today is the day. Polling stations will be open for another 11 hours. We have seen theresa may, tim farron, nicola sturgeon, jeremy corbyn, they have all been out to vote so far. We are electing 650 mps. We have got 3301 candidates standing in the selection. 986 of those women. The polls dont close unt
Lauren bobert a message. whether she squeaks this out which has been increasingly up in the air here or she loses. we were talking about this earlier in colorado there were two other races. the governor who won 58% or something, 57.2% and then the income bnt senator michael bennett, it tells you generally speaking the voter in colorado was generally to the left than the right. that s not necessarily the case in bobert s district but seemed how did she win two years ago? the lines are not exactly the same. it s different. we could go back to the house now and you can go back to the house now and you can look at the district here.
Let s take a look at wisconsin. ron johnson sitting at 51.6%, he is doing better than the republicans gubernatorial candidate in mandela barnes is underperforming at the sitting governor tony evers, 51.6% to 41.2% for this race, still very close. but johnson right now doing what he needs to do with 83% of the votes in here. let s check in on arizona, where mark kelly is sitting at 57.2%, pretty comfortable lead over blake masters, who s got 40.5%, tighten a little bit since the last time we took a look at this. we really need to know where we re still waiting on votes to fully understand what this means at this hour of the night. we ve got 53% of the vote in in arizona. all right casey, wow, lots of votes still out there. john king and i are going to dive into georgia. where 6% of the vote is remaining outstanding, raphael warnock has taken a slight lead at 49.1%, he s 12,000 votes
Seats, republicans have 47 with five races still left to be called, including the hotly contested race in arizona. that is still too early to call. but the democrat incumbent, mark kelly, has 57.2% of the vote. however, only 50 poor 54% of the vote is in now. it s coming in really slowly. we are going to talk to steve kornacki about why this that is the case, why this hour we only have 54% of the vote in arizona. senate race and wisconsin is still too close to. paul whelan johnson, the republican incumbent, and remarkable election denier, up by only 1.6 points, and 88 i m looking at it. now that s 93% of the vote that s now in wisconsin. and we are still watching that one. we might not find out the final configuration of the senate until december. because if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in georgia, that race goes to a runoff between the two top candidates. that race is also still too close to call. but a runoff between democratic