jersey governor s race. numbered phil murphy is holding a strong lead. john berman is standing by with an update on those votes, where they re still being counted. where do we is thatened? so phil murphy s lead just shrunk ever so slightly. he is ahead. so new votes reported from a county where jack ciarretti leads. let me still e tell you exactly how many votes are there. jack ciarrelli clocked in with 4,251 new votes. phil murphy 2,1 naw. that s about 52% and about 47%. so you can see that was able to shrink the lead ever so slightly. the story overall in new jersey, though, so people now, is a little different. if you look, there is 85% of the
vote counted so far. where is the remaining vote? largely, we think, in areas that are still leaning democratic. places like hudson county, where jersey city is, 80% so far, phil murphy is way up. he pointed essex county. big urban center. 72% reporting. phil murphy has a big lead there. joe biden won new jersey. substantially by 16 points. i want to show people where this margin has shrunk, you can see jack ciarrelli has 60% of the votes there. well, donald trump won that. there has been about a 9 to 10-point shift in all the republican counties from trump upward to ciarrelli. he is doing better than trump in these trump counties. guys. jb, appreciate on the update.