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Is about 800 votes ahead of the democratic incumbent katherine cortez masto. there are somewhere around 60,000 votes to be counted, and democrats think they have a real shot of keeping the seat once those votes are all tallied. after mark kelly s victory in arizona last, night democrats now only need out there cortez masto to win in nevada, or senator raphael warnock to win georgia s runoff next month to solidify control of the senate. joining me now is nbc news political reporter, gary grumbach from las vegas. gary, good morning to you. very early morning to you. nevada is where the or las vegas, clark county, is where the outstanding votes, many of them are coming from. tell me how prognosticators think about the votes that we are likely to get today, this afternoon, and what effect it s going to have on the race? yes, it is crunch time here in clark county. the state statute mandate that they have to get these ballots ....
Customer tantrums. this is where we are as a country. we are following news from facebook ahead of a hearing on capitol hill, the company attempted to minimize its own research about its track record on children and teens mental health. leave it to facebook to try to doctor their own. it s a busy day on capitol hill, chuck schumer announced last night democrats have reached a deal with republicans to avoid a shutdown. a vote will take place on a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through early december. the bill does not include a debt limit increase. the house is expected the take up the measure once it s passed by the senate. nancy pelosi told reporters last night her plan is still to bring the bipartisan infrastructure bill to the floor for a vote today despite threats from ....
We ll get to see when we get there if they decide not to do the reconciliation pass. we ll see what all sides are made up here. we have seen republicans what they are made of. they are reckless. their leader has said we know it has to pass and rec the market and the economy. if it does not pass, we ll not going to help you pass it everyday. democrats need to have a vote on this everyday between now and the date of the default. they need to post the 50 democrats who voted for it and on the other side they need to put the republicans who voted for it and have a big zero. i wonder if mit romney wants the economy to crash. i wonder if ben sass wants the economy to crash. i wonder if responsible republicans want the economy to crash. will lisa murkowski blindly ....
They can run washington. one general assumption. i am trying not to sound partisan here. the assumption is that democrats don t want to shout government down. i would put a question mark over the second half. i think we have seen a number of equations and a number of years now that there are republican leaders who would like to promote the idea that when they are in charge they can t run a government that it s paralyzed and so they ll do what they can to trip it up. we know that populists not only fear of deep state or powerful state government. they feoff of an idea that the government can t pungs and paralyze. it note it for the record there. tat patrick, you worked in ....
Infrastructure. democracy is strong. when people have the right to vote, freely and fairly and conveniently on a free and independent press pursues the truth founded on facts and not propaganda. now why it s such an uneasy time in our democracy, the presidents very words as several states are in the midst of passing laws that will restrict voting in our country. a legacy of the falsehood that the 2020 election was somehow rife with fraud, somehow stolen. late last, night democrats in the texas state legislature staged a walkout to stop a sweeping republican overhaul of state election laws. their movement that last night s session lacked quorum the minimum number of lawmakers required for a vote for the midnight deadline. republican governor abbott who supports the restrictive voting ....