rest of the votes play out. we know that right now we re at about 87% statewide. we know the bulk of the outstanding votes are in this the ga gansz call it the donut hole. right there around atlanta and the suburbs around it. and we re waiting to see herschel walker s challenge was can you run it up on the election day vote? he did that in some of these rural areas, not by the big math i think he needed to do it by. the challenge now is they count the votes in the most populous counties in the state, most of them are right up here, anderson, so we re looking again we just got fulton county but we still have a third of the vote out. raphael warnock right now is getting nearly 82% in fulton county. if he stays above 75% he s going to be re-elected because so many so many votes are still outstanding here. you move over to cobb county they re still at 68%. you have scott with you, lieutenant governor duncan here. lieutenant governor duncan knows the math very well. gwinnett county about
key race alert now. look at the vote right now. 78% of the estimated vote in and republican herschel walker has taken the lead once again with 50.2% of the vote over democratic incumbent senator raphael warnock, who has 49.8% of the vote. herschel walker with a .4% of the vote lead leading by roughly 8,200 votes right now. let s go to pivotal fulton county, georgia, the home of atlanta and the suburbs. diane gallagher is there. diane, tell us more. more ballots just arrived there? reporter: that s right, jake. i don t know how much you can see behind me because there s a lot of observers also looking in that area. we can t go there. but we just had at least two election workers who came in
his policies aren t popular. people aren t happy with the economy. there are flashing red lights here for republicans, and i ve been on that since election night back in november. but if you re a democrat looking at how you won this race and barely beating herschel walker and having to draw some of these republican candidates you did in this midterm, there has to be some introspection here because biden is not the answer. we re getting a lot more votes in. i want to go to john king at the magic wall. anderson, as you guys were having the conversation, senator warnock has now pulled ahead. welcome back to the seesaw. by 18,516 votes. still remarkably close. 50.3 to 49.7. so what just happened, you hear everyone talking about, we re waiting on the metro atlanta area. well, the closest piece, the most central piece of the metro atlanta area is fulton county, which is atlanta and the suburbs to the north and the south. again, runs about 90 miles total. we just got a large installment o
warnock would get beat by eight points. we probably would have still been in a runoff. warnock is a strong senator. he is part of a historical context of the state of georgia. he s done a lot of bipartisan legislation. but your candidate herschel walker, the republican candidate, is a disaster. yeah. my concern actually is why is it so close? that s what i m talking about. who is still voting for herschel walker after the last three weeks? i do think warnock closed strong. i still think he s going to i always thought it was going to go into a runoff. i think he s going to pull it off tonight because we still have a strong base of voters in the mt roe atlanta area that just haven t been counted yet. here s why it s close. because for all the talk we ve had about herschel walker and donald trump tonight what we haven t discussed yet is joe biden is not popular. he s not popular in georgia. there s a reason he s been in boston and arizona and everywhere else.
county, which was at about 5% estimated vote when you were here last time as you see, they reported a large installment. that s them counting the early votes, the early mail-in ballots you see senator warnock just 92% when you round that up. a month ago 84%. this is a big predominantly democratic county. they re only at 45%. he made a huge jump. so if you re in the walker campaign headquarters, you say number one, still a ton of votes to come in in this metropolitan atlanta area in the suburbs around it and it is blue and you re likely, even if you narrow the gap with election day votes, you know it s likely there are going to be more democrats there. the other problem is you just pick them. as you go through here. coffey county 90% of the vote in. in these rural areas where there s not a ton of votes but walker just needs to run it up like that, but 95% in. 99% in. 85% in. 99% in. so you ll find some that are still in the 60s, but if you re looking at where the live outstanding votes