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Earlier tonight, he has had a very big margin, 60% of if early vote in dekalb county. however the same-day vote that we re seeing right now, true across the district, handle doing better in the same day vote than the early vote. if you re jon ossoff, the bottom line right now the returns, we ll see what hapts as we get more. but you probably wanted to see a bigger number in the early vote. he got 60% in dekalb. he probably wanted to be up 64%, 65%. somewhere around there in the early vote. he actually was under 50% in the early vote in fulton county. he probably wanted to be winning that outright. as i say, promorportionately speaking, a small number of votes. so all of those signs right now i ve been talking to some republicans who feel good about this. if you re a democrat, you re nervous. but there are still a lot of votes out there. it s a volatile election. ....
And that s because democrats will be watching those margins. this was a very republican district. donald trump won comfortably by double digits. ar think parnell was able to come in close there. democrats didn t spend much to help him unlike in georgia where both sides have spent so much, that in georgia that is the most expensive congressional race that has ever been conducted in our country. we re going to continue to watch to votresults from the voting tonight. i ve got other news to bring you, including this late breaking news from the the new york times. plus an exclusive tonight about something that s going to get very very unfrt kcomfortable in court. concerning trump and his business ties. that s all ahead tonight. that s all ahead tonight. stay with us. when it hurts, it hurts. when i can t do something, ....
Instead they got 69 # 68.6% in the early vote. and at least from the precincts we ve seen so far has had karen handle leading in the same day. as i say, the fact that cobb county disproportionately is underrepresented at this point. if there was a turnout effect from the bad weather today in the district, does that have any partisan implications that you could foresee in terms of what was expected for same day election day voting rather than the early vote? it all depends. there have been anecdotal reports. and i ve heard republicans saying this. that the turnout this is where if you re ossoff you want to get 60%, 61% of the vote. he got 60% in dekalb. there have been reports that the turnout in dekalb less than expected. we ll see in that turns out. be that s something else. obviously if you get into an election like this where it s going to be decided by a point ....