those gains two years ago and it is clear that we are going to take the house back. in new york we defeated the democrat campaign chairman. [applause] sean patrick maloney, which will be the first time in over 40 years that a dccc chair lost his reelection. [applause] not only that, but on long island, anthony won a seat that joe biden carried by 17 points. [applause] we are on the verge of a historic gains in new york,

florida we gained four seats alone. we are poised to sweep the entire state of iowa. [applause] and i will tell you from the southern order of monica daylight crews to virginia beach, of detroit with john james, and houston with leslie hind, we are expanding this party. [applause] now let me tell you, if you are out late and when you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority and nancy pelosi will be in the minority. [applause] the american people are ready for a majority, that will offer a new direction. that will put america back on track. republicans are ready to deliver it. it is a new direction towards an economy that is strong. where you can fill up your tank,

feed your family, we are paychecks grow and not shrink. a new direction towards a nation that is safe, where communities are protected law enforcement is respected, and criminals are prosecuted. a new direction towards a future that is built on freedom, where children come first and are taught to dream big. and a new direction towards a government that is accountable. our government works for you, instead of against you. republicans will work with anyone who is willing to join us, to deliver this new direction. that americans have demanded. but there is no time to waste, our work begins now. let's get america back on track. thank you, god bless, and goodnight. [applause] >> are those house minority leader kevin mccarthy speaking in washington d.c., putting a good face on tonight. they thought that they would have many more gains than they

did, but he is touting gains in new york, at the dccc chair sean maloney saying they have winds in new york, florida, iowa as well. saying they're going to take back the house and that by tomorrow are coming soon, that nancy pelosi, the current speaker of, the house he believes will be in the minority. clearly, as i turn to john berman here who is at the magic wall, he is like a coach trying to put a good face on basically what they saw would be a good win. >> two important, saying one is ahead of themself. we have not rejected yet that republicans will take control. to, if they do, and they might, it is by much smaller margin the kevin mccarthy. this is what you're seeing right here is where republicans are currently ahead. you can see yes, this is would give control of the house of representatives, but barely. just by a few seats. this is where the races that we have called, among the races that we holiday hold a big early but there is still a lot

of races out. there if you look at a competitive seats these are the seeds that cnn with inside elections considered to be either toss-ups or tilting one-way. republicans need to win 30 of these to take control. right now, they are ahead of only 33. so 30 is the magic number, they are at 33. so barely, barely where they need to be. i also want to point out a few other things where he is ahead of himself. let's go to new york. he said, in new york, there are ten competitive seats. you can see the republicans do lead in eight of these seats. democrats into. this would be a very disappointing night for democrats in the state of new. two years ago, within these boundaries, democrats would have held eight of these seats, republicans just to. so you can see why republicans feel good about new york, he particularly pointed out that district held by the democratic congressional campaign committee, sean patrick maloney. he is trailing in his rice right, now we have not called this race.

there is still fairmount vote left to be counted, including in the most democratic county, in this district of westchester county. still more than 25% of the vote. he's got a smaller lead there that he should, this is a democrat plus 27 district right. now these only leading by a little. it is possible that he does pick up some votes, they're a couple of other states, i want to point out to you here. why democrats might feel better about certain things. let's look at michigan. right now, again, there are four competitive seats here. democrats needed to. republicans leader to. a couple years ago that would be 3 to 1. let's focus in on these races that we have been watching. this is elissa slotkin district. this is a disappointment for democrats if this holds. this is a district that democrats fought very hard for, liz cheney actually window to michigan and campaigned for illicit lock in. you can see that she is trailing right, now let's see where the remaining vote might be. lansing, which is highly democratic area, only 16%. this is a county where

democrats hold a wide margin, so there is vote to be made up by alyssa slotkin there, but right now she is trailing. we can look at some other states on the map here. pennsylvania, what is interesting about pennsylvania is that we call the senate race there for john fetterman already. in the house, you can see 40 competitive districts, democratic leading in all four. two years ago, they only would've led in three. one of these districts right here, if we look up, here would is a hit district held by an incumbent, matt heart right. this is actually a republican plot three district right now. matt current right is holding league, so democrats outperforming in some places that republicans help to make gains. >> it is interesting, a lot of the vote is coming from big areas, bigger urban areas near the city. so there is a lot of democratic votes out, there in your cautioning, it is so early, they're coat votes out there. even though it is two in the morning, it is too early because a lot of the votes of not being counted. >> we are watching this come in. again, republicans have a very

narrow lead in the house. i was warned that john berman might be best friend by tonight, so we will be buddies tonight throughout the evening and the morning on cnn. so john, we just saw, just moments ago, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy speaking in washington d.c., into that room was our very own -- he appeared optimistic, but this is not the night that they're going to have. >> look, going into the night, mccarthy's people, is team set a bar. that barr is a 20 seat gain. they believe that if they were to clear, picking up 20 seats, that would give them a comfortable governing majority. anything left and that would be problematic, potentially for speaker mccarthy so that it would empower the right flank of the conference. often folks to not listen to leadership, and often folks who have their own ideas about what exactly to do, it would empower that element of the republican conference. what we are seeing here tonight is a very likelihood that the republicans will not meet that

goal of achieving a 20 c gain. never mind what mccarthy had hope for last, year which is a 60 seat gain, things have changed post-dobbs. but even so, with a decision over abortion, republicans are still optimistic that coming into today they can get that majority of more than 20 seats. right now, as john pointed out, cute, on that seems uncertain. we agree that the republicans to take back the house and they are still likely to do so, given the amount of territory that are playing. it could very well be a narrow majority. so, not only does that give problems for mccarthy and trying to pass an agenda, but also trying to block down the votes to become speaker. that is one of the things that he is going to begin tomorrow, don, is to actually call members, ask for their votes to ensure they have the votes become speaker. he almost certainly does have that, but republicans, even though they do not have the bigger majority as they could

have, they still have subpoena power and the ability to set the agenda. >> so everybody standby, fasten your seatbelts as i say. bobby raju in washington, the house minority leader's headquarters where he spoke just moments ago. let's slow things down for you and get you caught up. everything that we are watching at this hour in cnn, valid are still being counted all over many of the races just too close to call right now. but, i want to take a look at where we stand. this is the balance of power in the house of representatives. at this hour, control the house is still in question, the parity with at least 218 seats will be in the majority. there it is up on this screen, right there. republicans leading with about 193 seats, they need to win 21 of the competitive seats to gain control. democrats on the defense with 170 seats at this hour. now the balance of power in the u.s. senate. over on the senate side, the chamber still hangs in the

balance. okay, so let's look at the senate seats here. republicans still hoping to gain control. at this moment, all eyes are on three senate races. wisconsin, nevada, and georgia. there is still no protections in these states. of course there is one in pennsylvania as we saw john fetterman. in nevada, catherine cortez masto leading with more than 50% of the vote. let's take you to his constant now, democrat mandela barnes, he is feeling debt republican ron johnson by that 40,000 votes, in georgia this is a really close one that everyone is watching. probably just as close as they are watching pennsylvania. republican herschel walker become an incumbent raphael warnock in locked in a very tight race and you can see they're separated by nearly 14,000 votes. will someone come out victorious tonight? well, you will have to stick around to find out. we will put those contests to a runoff, we will have it all for you.

this is what's happening in pennsylvania. as you can see, there is a huge democratic win here. democrat john fetterman, cnn's projecting that he is won the race, defeating mehmet oz. this after he had a stroke on the campaign trail, recovering. and after oprah winfrey through major support behind him. check this. out >> every county, every vote. every county and every vote. every county every vote. that is exactly what happened. we jam them up. we held the line. i never expected that we were going to turn these red counties blue, but we did what we need to do and we had that conversation across every one of those counties. and tonight, that is why i will be the next u.s. senator from pennsylvania.

>> back now with john berman, we have taken around the united states and you are going to give us some of that, and some of what is happening in georgia in just a bit. you saw pennsylvania there, a big win for democrats. >> let's talk what that means for the u.s. senate, the number that you are seeing on the sea now is where the democrats are currently ahead in terms of the head into the race that have already been called. -- the remaining seeds that we are watching very closely. nevada, arizona, wisconsin, and georgia. let me quickly take you through these states to figure out where we are right now. in nevada we only have 62%, catherine cortez asked, oh the incumbent democrat there is holding on to a small, lead but we need a way for more votes to come in. in arizona, the incumbent mark kelly is holding a lead, there and it looks big but it is largely the early vote that his come in so far. we know that the presidential race two years ago donald trump actually narrow that lead as the days went on.

showed biden did, win but we are going to this -- >> the day that republicans usually have an advantage. >> they have a advantage during same day voting. in wisconsin right now, the incumbent ron johnson is up on mandela barnes. we have not projected a winner on this. race let me finish on georgia, let's stay here for a little bit. the key number that you need to look at now, raphael warnock, and the incumbent democrat's leading by -- but he is underneath the key number of 50%. if neither of these candidates get to 50%, there will be a runoff in georgia in december. right now it is closer to each other then they are 2:50. >> it is 50, it is not 50 plus. >> it is 50 plus one vote. >> it is 50 plus one vote. so he's got a really pad that lead if he is going to avoid a runoff. let me take a look. >> can you consider him a -- >> he is a third candidate in

the race, he's got 2% of the vote. if you are not, there you can imagine somebody would be over 50. he did not play a role in the campaign in general, other than to be that 2% this morning that may be causing this to go to a runoff. where is the vote? 96% reporting, so it does not feel like there is a lot left, but of that 4%, of that tiny little bit that is remaining, the bigger the circle the more votes that is out there. the bigger the blue, the more vote that is out there. you can see that there are bigger bluer circles left here. there are more red circles, but the blue ones are bigger. let me circle that here where you remember that where that is. let me take this down, and then you are left with primarily around the atlantic area where we know there is a lot of democratic votes. fulton county, raphael warnock's got a huge, lead almost 50 points. 95% of it, it does not feel like there was a lot left but it could add up. cobb county, there's actually

only 80%. again, raphael warnock leads by 16 points. he is outperforming what joe biden did in that county. biden won by 14, warnock is up by about 14, he is outperforming. there still a little bit of the vote there. let's go to cap, and also very important county. 91%. a lot, but there is still some votes come in there. this is a district that he is up by, what, 70%? also outperforming joe biden. biden won this district by 67, so you can see here in georgia, raphael warnock might be able to extend his lead a little bit. can he get to 50? that might be a little bit harder. so, this could go into overtime and depending on what happens, depending on what happens in these other races, if was can content goes read all of a sudden, this number will get to 48. if republicans managed to win nevada, for instance, they get 49 and then all of sudden georgia, it could all come down to the runoff.

democrats would need to win that runoff in december two -- >> we may not know until the first of the year? >> we may not know until december. >> this is not just days, this is weeks into we will. no >> thank you very, much we appreciate that. john berman, thank you. we'll get back down to silhouette. let's go inside the votes, leads the outstanding vote, especially in georgia. victor blackwell was at the voter desk with more information. hi. vector >> let's pick up where you left off about whether there will be a runoff in the senate race. we are just getting those in from gabe sterling, he runs the operation stay today on the secretary of state's office in georgia. he tweeted that while you are speaking with john berman, while county officials are still doing work on counting the votes, we feel that it is safe to say that there will be a runoff for the u.s. senate here in georgia slated for december 6th. that is a prediction from gabe sterling looking at the numbers from across the state. now let's look at what is still out there. 154, the hundred 59 counties in georgia had completed their

counts. if you are looking at a precinct number as a total of 207,023 precincts, we have got 2711 that are complete. so we've got the numbers there. you look at turnout overall for this, we've got nearly 4 million, i'm updating the website from the secretary of state's office while we are talking here. 3 million, nine, hundred 22, 000, 847 ballots are cast. about 56.4%. if we look at the pre-11 -- how many votes were cast before election day that 2.5 million, 65% of the votes overall were cast before election day. as it relates to any questions of voter integrity questions, or questions around with if things are moving very slowly there. the headline, the prediction from the states offices that there will be this runoff

december six, for that senate race. it looks a lot like it did in the 2020. election >> at this point, victor, that is a prediction. we have not yet called up for sure. that is just a prediction. >> thank you to block, will we get back to victory in just a second. we have reporters, correspondent standby all over the country. including cnn's nadia romero in georgia. now, diabolo do you. what are the campaign saying at this hour? ? a >> wild, on both campaigns, warnock and walkers are very optimistic about their chances. likely seeing that this could go to a runoff election in the state of georgia, still though, too close to call right now. and that is to be expected. if we look at the season poll numbers leading to election, day two when the republican party first gives a nod to herschel eau claire, many people questioned if he started fighting chance. but we saw that gap between the two start to narrow bit by bit as the month went on. partly, probably, because of

some of the spending that was done. if you look at the top spending in the senate races, the georgia race was at number two, only speck and behind pennsylvanian senate race. and then the real scandal after scandal, in this race that really muddled up that campaign trail. and so, i went to georgia which is two hours outside of atlanta in the same district that represented by congressman marjorie taylor greene. a maga supporter, an election denier, and i spoke with walkers a porters in her district. they were clear, they said to me, we do not believe that he potentially paid women's past have an abortion. one woman told me that it was certainly the media trying to ruin his reputation. another told me that even if he did do that, if you is story, he was a changed man. and some people were pretty frank. they were clear saying, they wanted to vote with the person next to the are next to their name because they wanted the republicans to gain control the senate. and that is why we saw those numbers, the margin of those

two candidates really start to close through early voting and now to today, leading through election day and into the morning after now two and am. so i want to do here to both of the candidates they spoke to their supporters. >> i am not ricky bobby. i do not come to lose. if you can hang in and hanging a little bit longer, because something good it takes a while for to get better and it's gonna get better. >> we are not sure isis journey is over tonight or if there is still a little work. but here's what we do know. we know that when they're finished counting the votes from today's election, that we are going to have received more votes than my opponent. >> so don, this could lead to a runoff election and that is

exactly what we saw two years ago at the 2020, and that is what raphael warnock was able to win last time around. don. >> thank you very much, nadia in atlanta georgia. thank you very much. at this hour we are standing by for the latest information on the campaign. the votes are still being counted. the balance of the senate, and congress up for grabs. election night in america continues. better luck next time. who said that? i did. but i haven't even thrown yet. you threw good money away when you bought those glasses. next time, go to america's best - where two pairs and a free exam start at just $79.95. it's a quality exam worth 59 bucks. can't beat that. can't beat this, either. alright, i'll give you that one. ... and, apparently, that one. two pairs and a free exam starting at just $79.95. book an exam today at americasbest.com somebody sign this kid!

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here. it is election item erik and we've got you covered here. we're gonna start with two key race alerts. first up in wisconsin, that is where incumbent republican john johnson. he is holding on to a very slim lead mandela barnes, a very slim lead. -- mandela barnes at one ron johnson at 50.7%. let's take it to nevada where you see right here is, well catherine cortez masto with 50.9% and adam laxalt at 46.3%. those are in the senate races in wisconsin and nevada. 60 who 2% of the votes have been counted, and so let's go over to mr. john berman here at the magic wall. john, take us inside the battle is for the senate where we. our friend victor who is

sitting generally not far from house is just told us that gave sterling told us that this will be a runoff race. that georgia will not be decided. the four races that you see and yellow, on the map, are the races that we have not cold in the u.s. senate. the member, democrats need to get to 50 to maintain control because kamala harris, she will break a tie, republicans need to give to 51 if they want to control. let's see what will happen if things go certain way here. let's play a game. in wisconsin uc ron johnson leading there. that get republicans to 40, nine you have three races left there. in nevada, you just had democrat incumbent macedo ahead, and let's say republicans are able to win this. that gets them to 50. arizona then becomes crucial if it comes democratic, it might -- the term is whether or not democrats maintain control.

if republicans were to win this, that would mean the runoff would matter. if democrats were to control or win both arizona and nevada, it would mean the one of would not matter in terms of control. so, we just do not know whether or not the georgia runoff will determine control of the senate. but it very well much could, depending on which way the states. go >> these states are outstanding, but georgia -- where the outstanding votes in these two very crucial states? >> let me get back here. that's going to take a stuck into reload this map here. this map here will go out and we will take a look at arizona right now. you see 56% reporting, the most important county by far is maricopa county. it makes up 61% of the population, you see only 56% of the vote in. this is actually a pretty tight county, joe biden won this district by 2.2%. you can seem r. kelly has a big lead here, but again, it is when which votes have been counted so far that matter the

most. so we don't have clear visibility on that just yet. 56%, it is not nearly enough to know. nevada, you have 63% in the county that matters most is clark county, which makes out 73% of the vote. it is by far the biggest county. right now katherine qatar's mast of say seminary percent there. this is a nine-point democratic district for joe biden, so she is actually underperforming joe biden here. 74% of the vote. but, you can see these other counties, there are counties where you have virtually nothing yet. now, look, this is not a big county. i can show you two years ago in a presidential race you are dealing with 25,000 votes. but, those votes add up. once you start getting these huge leads. this is a republican plot 40 district here in this county. you have no voting eureka county. this is a republican plaza just direct here. blender, republican plus 61. they are not dying counties, but those numbers can add up. the swing county, typically a

nevada, is washoe county. we only have 43% of the vote here. catherine cortez masto has a sullenly there again. joe biden lead there by -- she is up by three. it is the type of vote that might end up mattering most in nevada and arizona. what is left to count? we will try to find that out. soon >> john berman, all right. speaking of nevada let's head over to garrett tug man who is all in nevada. gary tuchman, good evening sir. they are still counting ballots. it looks quiet we're you are. it does not mean that they are not counting in doing their work behind the scenes. >> that is exactly right. it does will quiet behind, me and there were dozens of workers processing the votes in clark county nevada. look into what john is talking about, we need to point this out. clark county, it is one of 17 counties in the state. it is the home of las vegas were 70% of nevadans live in this county. washout, which john was just saying, has about 20%. so between those two counties, 90% of nevadans live.

so these votes are critically important. there is a lot of counter definite reporter yet, but altogether those 15 counties comprise less than 10% of the votes. so these are the two key counties. we are the election clip center in clark county. there were dozens of workers are tier processing votes. they have gone home for the night to come back early in the morning. back in the corner, it's a secret corner, it's not really seeker but we have today faraway from the, that is the tabulation center. right now workers or their tabulating the council came in today. now you may think it sounds like things have been kind of slow, here because the polls have been closed for four and a half hours, but these workers are working very well. it is not slow. there is a tradition here into nevada in this relatively small state, is not small anymore their three 1.1 million people, but just to give you an idea, which is pretty amazing, after world war ii there was 150,000 people living in the state. the state has increased by 20 times since world war ii. it is increased, it is doubled in the last 25 years. so the population keeps going up. but it still has a small state mentality of a tradition here

in the way for all 17 counties to process their votes before they put it on the state list. so that slows down a little bit. also it slowed down today is that when you come to vegas we're expecting great weather, sand, maybe a little chilly, may be hot in the summer. it is usually seen here in the desert. trying to rain today, and winds, tropical force winds. and then in reno in the north, it was snowing today. so the weather was very. bad another the less, we are being told by officials here in nevada that people really turn our back. numbers that he is the mail-in ballot. that would be the number one way to get votes, here in mail-in ballots are allowed to be receipts at by the. saturday don backed. you did gary tuchman, las vegas, at the election headquarters. election headquarters in new york, where we are right now. i go to kaitlan collins, caitlin hello to you. a lot of things being reported in this election, now is time to talk to people who have been talking to those narratives and the polls as well. >> certainly surprising, some

have been a pending a lot of those expectations. so to talk about that, let's bring in pollster and communications strategist frank luntz. frank, thank you so much for joining us in the early hours of election, morning which we have now turned into. let's talk about what is happening in the senate, which i think it is not met the expectations that republicans had going into election night. it is surprised even some democrats i've been speaking with throughout the evening. what are you watching as we are trying to determine who is going to have control of the senate when all this over? >> the question is whether or not the candidates on both sides of the aisle were the best candidates that could've been nominated, or chosen. i think you're going to see a within the next 24 hours a real examination, what happened in arizona, what happened in new hampshire. what happened in a number of these states where republicans had tremendous opportunity and they did not follow through with it. pennsylvania is another one

places where republicans were boys to do better than they did, and i agree with. you the level of surprise, the level of disappointment it is still, it still feels like a reasonably night for republicans, by is nothing like they expected and they're going to start to see an analysis of, what the candidates? was it the party? or was the message? that really did not a chief their objectives. >> of course the big question has been the trump factor in all of that, especially now just know bio where you -- but the fact that republicans had to put so much effort in that race to pull off that victory. i also want to ask you though about what we are seeing happening in the house,, because you saw kevin mccarthy came out and heat it took him a little bit, he came out of the republican headquarters in washington tonight to talk about what he believes is going to be a republican control of the house. but, it does make a difference how big a difference of margin he has. right? >> absolutely, the bigger the

margin the easier it is for him to govern. there is a segment of the gop that is difficult for leadership. a segment that vote no and if you've got a majority of about 20 seats, it makes it very easy to succeed. if you've got a majority of 5 to 10 seats, it means that every vote is under pressure and you have to ensure that your caucus is behind you. so, i've got to believe that republicans are looking at this and the house, knowing that they're going to get the majority and not the majority that they're hoping to get. what they are going to do in the days and weeks to follow. >> the person that makes the biggest difference for us, kevin mccarthy, has the smallest majority. he has the, the more power that goes to the figures in that caucus like marjorie taylor greene and others of that wing of the party, that have been quick to challenge him on certain aspects of his rule. >> we've seen this with the democrats, nancy pelosi had

about a four seed mueller jordy and she is pulled to the left by her squad. by her more progressive caucus. so, it is not to say -- i've been following the races and i still expect republicans to end up with a 10 to 15 seat again. the question is, is it ten seats or is it 15? because that means everything for the flexibility and capability of the leader to move the caucus in different directions, depending on what the public calls for them. >> no one is watching that closer than kevin mccarthy. frank lance, thank you for joining us. we will check back in with you. obviously balladeer are still being counted, there's still a lot of key races that we are watching here, including when it comes to the senate races in nevada in georgia to see what is happening here. stay with cnn, we will be right back.

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all right we are back everyone i am don lemon, and this is cnn special live coverage of election night in america. both chambers of congress up for grabs at this hour, and justin we have cnn projections in the house. we are going to take you straight away to the 15th district, they did 15th district. look there on the wall. republicans have picked up of

the seat, monika deadlock roots has defeated the democrat there. she has defeated the democrat in texas, and in iowa, the second congressional district ashley benson has won, defeating liz mathis. republicans holding on to that seat in iowa. ashley henson winning right now. in minnesota second district, democratic angie craig has defeated republican tyler kissing or there. this is a hold for democrats. democratic onto that seat, in minnesota. this is north carolina, the 13th district that you are looking at. democrat widely nicole is one over republican boeheim's. wiley nicole behind. this is a democratic pick up there. thank you to pennsylvania. this is the eighth district in combined. not cartwright has held her seat. in that district, another hold for democrats there. chris the lazio has defeated

republican jeremy schaffer, he is defeated jeremy schaffer there. i want you to look at the power here. republicans getting closer and closer to that magic number of 218 seats. but they are not there yet, and we still have lots of runway to go. another cnn projection, just in. that cnn projection is in alaska. alaska will remain a republican stronghold. this is a seat held by incumbent lisa murkowski. we cannot declare an exact winner because the state uses rank choice voting, which is what is happening in alaska. that is a balance of power. now in the house, we are going to continue to check in with the balance of power. the house also has the balance of power in the senate. we want to get straight now to poppy harlow. papi has been talking about

what we want to hear to the voters. we've been talking a lot about the vote, but i want to hear about the voters who are out there and what our correspondents are saying on the ground, poppy. >> i remember many, many nights in iowa on election night. being one of those reporters in the field. let's go to our cnn joan, she joins us from bethlehem pennsylvania. let's bring in, also, our analysts before we get to athena jones. thank you ladies very much for being with me. we've got alice toured, maria cardona, hillary rosen, thank you all. hillary, let's begin with what you said on sunday. it is a lot better than what you thought is going to be for democrats. you said that we did not listen to voters in the election and we're gonna have a bad night. >> well i'm not going to celebrate kevin mccarthy being a speaker. still not a great night. but look, the numbers are better. we learned from the exit polls that the economy was the number one issue, we did not actually have an economic message.

but, the republican stereotype is did not work. i am glad about that. i said this morning that i thought that our turnout seemed stronger than anticipated, that the democrats had done a really good job on early voting and republicans were depending on their vote coming out today. that is a big gamble. so, we had a couple of things in the field in our favor. the hidden factor that i think here is abortion. it came up as number two in the exit polls, very close to the economy as an issue that mattered, and i think that people just did not want to vote for anti choice republicans, even as they are struggling with their family budgets. >> cnn exit polling did show that abortion did dominate for those who dominate -- voted for democrat candidate. 44%. i'll store, you are hearing from realtime from a number of big republican donors. what are they telling you tonight?

>> they are frustrated with the fact that there was not a larger, as we anticipated, a larger red wave. it looks so republicans will take over the house, but they expected a lot more. they made those assumptions based on the state of the economy, and hearing from voters for the last several months, they're frustrated with the economy and we saw in the cnn exit polls at the condition of the economy was poor or bad according to 75% of the voters. so republicans thought they could capitalize on that, and sent out a message of committed to america from kevin mccarthy that they would really address that. but, the big factor was that what donors are saying is that trump. trump's involvement in this turned off a lot of independent voters. what we saw, democrats voted for democratic candidates, republican voted for republican candidate, it is as always the rip independent voters. they were turned off by trump stone, his involvement, they

were turned off by his continued election denialism. his support for january 6th, and his handpicked candidates that were in this race. they were not resonating with people. the constant thought of the election denial was in the thought of independents minds and he is going to take credit for some of these republicans that one, but we could've won much more if we had more moderate candidates and those who tries to the election. one quick thing, the reason why some of these republican candidates who our handpicked by trump, j.d. vance in particular, is because of mitch mcconnell and his senate leadership. they contributed over $300 million to this candidates take them across the line, and it is attributed to mitch mcconnell and not donald. trump >> that is a good point. so military, you, the question is november 15th. is supposed to be a big surprise. not likely a surprise to most, but a surprise announcement

from president club trump at mar-a-lago. as -- we have not made that projection yet at cnn, but if that happens, what does trump to? >> in terms of what it means for georgia? >> i think trump should stay home. that is always the answer. he's got enough problems to deal with, he should stay home. there is no reason why dr. oz should not have won that race. he was doing well, he was doing well with independents. >> most voters thought that he did not even since live in the state long enough. >> at the end of the day, i think that everybody went home, and i do believe that the fearmongering did not work. on both sides. democracy on the left, election fraud on the right. what i believe happened was that both sides failed. one side failed to talk about the real issues that people were facing, and still i

believe inflation, the economy, gas prices. and then republicans failed to have an articulate message on how they're going to fix it. so when you go to the polls, you do not have, you have this idea of, what is going to happen here. do i have someone that i trust to fix these problems, or do i just go home? i think that is what i feel happened. >> all right, i've got to get my colleagues here. standby everyone, the votes are still being counted at this hour. it is a nail-biter in some races, keeping us from calling which party will control congress. we will be right back. we without the right people in place. i couldn't keep up until i found ziprecruiter. ziprecruiter helps us get out there quickly and get us qualified candidates quickly. they sent us applicants that matched what i was looking for. i've hired for every role, entry-level technicians, service advisors, store managers. ziprecruiter helps me find all the right people,

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now tonight, we built upon though gains two years ago. and it is clear that we are going to take the house back. >> all right. so that is the democratic side. now let's look at the balance of power over on the senate side. that chamber still hanging in the balance. the republicans still hoping to gain control. and at this moment, all eyes are on three senate races. three senate races. wisconsin, nevada, and georgia. they're still no projections here. this is -- take a look at what's happening in nevada. this is incumbent catherine cortez masto. 50.1% to adam laxalt, the republican challenger. 47.0%. he started surging in the polls very late into the game. we'll see if that momentum will carry him through. the democrat leading in that race right now. let's get you to wisconsin. democrat mandela barnes, still trailing ron johnson. ron johnson 56.6% of the votes.

he is the incumbent, mandela barnes. democratic challenger 489.2% of the vote. there is georgia up on your screen. everyone watching georgia really closely. the republican herschel walker there with 48.8%. trailing just a little bit with 96% of the estimated vote in. raphael warnock, the incumbent, 49.1% of the vote. but here, if no one gets a 50% in this race, that could go to a runoff ahead of election there's, saying it probably will be a runoff. cnn not declaring there yet. we still have a lot of runway to go before we make that declaration. let's go on to pennsylvania. a huge night. john fetterman is the projected winner for the senate race in pennsylvania, defeating the tv doctor mehmet oz. standing by right now our very own doctor of the magic wall here. and that is none other than mr. john berman. john, where are we? >> i wanted to leave this up here in the house.

just where they're ahead, they would get the majority, but barely, don, like by two seats. that's nothing compared to what republicans were happening tonight. they're on path to get the majority again, but barely. when you think about the competitive race this year, we think there are 82 competitive races. democrats leading in 49. republicans 33. republicans need to win 30 of these to take control again. they're on path to do it. but just barely. we'll come back to the house in a little bit, don. let's focus on the senate now for a while, because i think that's where a lot of the main interest is. so you look at the u.s. senate. you can see democrats leading in 51. republicans leading in 49. in terms of what's called, it's tied 48-48. you can see the four remaining states to call are georgia, which by the way gabe sterling who works in the secretary of state's office says is going to go to a rundown. i'll come back to that in a

second. wisconsin and arizona. in wisconsin, ron johnson is ahead narrowly. we haven't called that race yet. in nevada, we have 65%. we just got some more vote in from nevada. catherine cortez masto, the democrat is ahead by about three points there. and in arizona -- >> it's tightening. >> tightening ever so slightly. and in arizona, 56%. and mark kelly's got a lead of about 15 points. now what i wanted to show you here is how this could change over the next several days. and why we would expect it to change in maybe tighten. mark kelly's got a lead here, 56% in. but let me take you back to the presidential race two years ago. that was mark kelly's race there. this is the presidential race. yes, joe biden won by about 10 thousand votes. it was close. but we can do a timeline here. or i can walk you through the chorus of the evening. let me go back to the very beginning. so at 10:15, at 10:15, which was the first time we saw votes, joe

biden was ahead by 218,000 votes. that was with 72% in. he was ahead. that feels comfortable. by 5:00 a.m. he had grown it. the next day it starts to drop, 93,000. by thursday, it's down to 68,000. then on sunday, it's down to 18,000, less than a 1-point lead. it's not called until a week after that. the reason i wanted to show you that is yes, right now, you have mark kelly in the lead there by 15 points. but that could shrink. it shrunk for joe biden as more votes came in. right now for mark kelly, only 56% was in when we showed the first joe biden lead. there was more. there was more vote counted more quickly in arizona than two years ago than now. >> it also depends where the outstanding votes are. >> it does depend where the outstanding vote. but in arizona, maricopa county makes up about 60% of the vote.

this is the swingingest of the swing counties. they have 55%. so we know that a lot of that vote is going to come in maricopa county. >> the swingiest of the swing counties. >> john berman, thank you very much. appreciate you. let's get back with john, because john has all the numbers going inside the vote. let's get to athena jones. hello to you. we heard from john fetterman moments after he beat mehmet oz. what did he say? >> well, he talked about how important it was to campaign in every county in the state of pennsylvania. 67 counties. this is something that one of the first thing he said when he spoke to his crowd of supporters. saying i didn't expect that we would turn every single one of those counties red. but it was important to have the conversation in those counties. heavy also talked about being proud of what he ran on, things like protecting a woman's right to choose, raising the minimum wage, fighting for a union way of life. and protecting or he said standing up for our democracy.

but as we've been saying for the last several days and weeks now, this senate seat in pennsylvania was democrats' best opportunity to pick up a seat that's currently held by the retiring gop senator pat toomey. this was the most expensive race in the country by a long shot with nearly $375 million spent on this race. and democrats succeeded in flipping this seat. now we are in bethlehem. this is in northampton county. you're talking about swing counties, swing states. this is a swing county in a swing state. this is a county that has generally been known as a bellwether county, one that ends up usually tracking with the statewide result. and that's what we saw again in this election. fetterman won here in this county by more than 6,000 votes. so once again, as northampton went, so went pennsylvania. now how did he do it? he did have a lot of help. he had big help from big names like president joe biden who was here, campaigning for him as well as former president barack obama, vice president kamala

harris, and that big endorsement from oprah winfrey over the weekend. and in fact we just learned a few minutes ago that president biden sent fetterman a congratulatory text this morning, one of his many congratulatory calls. that's one of the ways they managed to pull it out in pennsylvania. >> all right. athena jones live, appreciate that. kaitlan, we have been covering these elections since the start of our show, "cnn this morning." and the candidates, the former president have been all over the place campaigning for particular candidates. >> yes, but president biden only went to certain places. he has been very busy tonight, busier some white house aides had been expecting, certainly some democrats when it came to congratulatory calls. one was a text to john fetterman. you can see here. many calls president biden was making tonight. so let's talk about all of this. white house officials were saying we are not so hopeful about the house. we'll see what happens with the senate. and with fetterman, the president got what he wanted with a fetterman victory and

josh shapiro for the top of the governor's race. >> in this century, the presidential approval has been a driving force, especially in senate races. in 2018, republicans did not win a single senate seat in the state where trump was at 48 or below. in 2010, democrats lost 13 of 15 in states where obama was at 47 or below. tonight it is possible that democrats are going to win a bunch of states where biden's rating was equivocal or not really so good. in pennsylvania, i think it was 46. arizona, georgia, nevada, all down in the low 40% range. so i think what we saw in many ways was what i call in october a double negative election. a majority of voters said they disapproved of biden, and that did exert a downward pull on candidates. but the impact of that was bounded by the fact that a bigger number of voters were unfavorable toward trump.

and that allowed democrats to hold together more of the anti-trump coalition from '18 and '20 than you would have expected from the attitudes about biden and the economy and certainly allowed them to dodge the worst and maybe even get a surprisingly good outcome. >> fetterman is running above biden in 2020 in pennsylvania in the race we saw tonight before it actually calls for him. >> in the end, pennsylvania voter just liked fetterman. there were so much doomsday predictions after his debate. he stumbled in the debate. he had health problems because of the stroke. but in the end, a, he was always leading in most of the polls you had. president obama, former president obama go in and campaign for him. that was one of the states that biden could go to as well because he is a scranton kid. so in the end, it ended up all working out for democrats. and listen, democrats were sort of cautiously optimistic going in to tonight. they are gleeful now tonight given that i think they expected

a, to have lost the house by now, that it would be much more definitive that the house was gone. it's not quite clear. and then, what we're seeing so far, from some of these races out west, nevada, cortez masto looks stronger. >> and she is the most endangered incumbent democratic senator right now. >> with all the individual aspects of any one of these candidates, i think that the core story is that even despite 75% saying the economy is only fair or 55% disapproving of biden, the core anti-trump coalition of '18 and '20 held together more than 20. democrats won women. they won young people. they split college educated whites and won them in the key states, and especially the erosion among nonwhite voters. >> didn't happen, right? >> was not nearly as big as republicans anticipated. democrats still won. there was a lot of talk before the election that they were going see, i think the phrase from axios was a political realignment in realtime along

noncollege white voters. democrats won two-thirds in the national exit poll and more than that in many of the key states. yes, there was erosion around the edges of the coalition, which you would expect with 9% inflation. but the story was more of the democratic coalition held together, and that allowed them to cut their losses in a year when the basic structural views about biden and the economy would have predicted blowout. >> so much of this had to do with mehmet oz being the candidate for republicans. i have gotten a number of expletive-laced texts from republicans who believe dave mccormick would have been able to beat. >> because of donald trump. >> that race was a margin of about 900 votes. i do wonder one thing. the white house will be listening to closely, does this change the conversation that it had been having conventionally around democrats about whether or not biden should run in 2024? >> i think if you're biden, you're sort of overperforming. and listen, if it looks like donald trump is going to win, i think the conventional wisdom is that biden is still the

strongest candidate against donald trump. it likes like he is probably going to announce. >> there is a question here for republicans for donald trump. there were five states that made joe biden president. five states that flipped from trump '16 to biden in '20. it is possible that the donald trump chosen nominees in all five states are going to lose. they lost in wisconsin. they lost in pennsylvania. they lost in michigan. walker is not certain in georgia. and it's possible they will lose both of those seats, the governor and the senator in arizona. a normal political party would look at that and say maybe this isn't the formula to get us back those states. do any republicans get up, if that's the outcome and say donald trump led us down the wrong path? >> i don't know. >> i think you're going the hear him say look at ron desantis down in florida who absolutely crushed it, did quite well among all the groups that typically vote for democrats. we'll see. so far republicans have not been able to quit donald trump, despite what happened in 2020, despite what happened tonight. so we'll see.

>> 201818. >> clearly not the general election voters. we'll keep watching all of the races very closely. we're still waiting to see what happens in georgia, what happens in nevada, and also what's happening in that arizona governor's race. >> right on. very interesting conversation with you guys over there. i have victor blackwell here with me. he is at the voter desk. he is following information around the country. >> specifically maricopa county where the largest tranche of voters are in that state. we're expecting a batch of votes to come in at the top of the hour. of course we've learned from state officials and officials in maricopa county specifically that they're not expecting to complete the count of all the votes from until friday. so this will stretch for several days. we know that there was this problem earlier in the day that actually went to a judge to have to figure out what to happen in that case. there was some printing issues, tabulation centers. they affected about 60 out of 223 voting sites. republicans asked for voting to be extended beyond the 7:00 p.m.

local to 10:00 p.m. a judge determined that there was no evidence that any voter who wanted to come and vote was denied the opportunity, or that this would have any major impact on the integrity of the vote. so denied that request. but what we know is as we're looking at this very crucial race for the senate and for the governor's office, that we are expecting votes to come in at the top of the hour. kari lake, the republican nominee for governor in arizona, she in a speech said that made some connection between her debunked claims about a stolen election in 2020 and linked it to the mistakes, the problems that happened today. of course, there is no evidence that any of this was nefarious at all. and she tweeted just a couple of moments ago something that seems benign here. she says the party is not stopping until the last legal vote is counted. but earlier in this evening we did hear her try to make that connection between her lies throughout the season and the problem that happened that was corrected earlier today in arizona. >> yeah, they always say the

last legal vote to be counted. but they have to remember, a judge legally said that there was no issue and did not keep the polls open. there were no issues with the voting. john berman, take us inside what's happening in arizona. >> realistic is or the was talking about the state of arizona. 56% of the vote has reported right now. and mark kelly, the incumbent democrat has a lead of about 15 points. what victor just told us, we can expect them to report the counting of more votes in maricopa county. it makes up about 60% of the overall vote in arizona. the majority of the vote there. right now mark kelly holds a lead of about 20 points there. all right? let me write that down. i'm going put "d" plus 20. "d" plus 20 in maricopa county with 56% in, which mirrors the state. i want to take you back two years and show you where that lead was roughly about now for joe biden at this time. that's why i'm going to leave that up there. so let's go back to the presidential race. and we'll hit the clock right

here. and i'll take you back to roughly 5:00 a.m. wednesday. let's go to 10, 10:15 p.m. that was with 77% reporting. joe biden only led in maricopa county with 77% in by 10 points. right now, with 56% in, mark kelly's got a 20-point lead. >> wow. >> so let's wait and see how much vote for maricopa county comes in. if you get a higher percentage of a vote, and mark kelly has still got a leap, maybe not 20, but still more than joe biden, that might body well for mark kelly as the night goes on. see what i mean? i'm trying to show you how this could develop as the night goes on there. that's one thing to look there. we're waiting for that vote in maricopa county. let me show you quickly wisconsin. we did get some more vote in wisconsin as well. we put up the -- let me put up the senate race there now. in wisconsin, you see ron johnson's got a lead of 1.4%.

93%. and we have not called this race. why? there is still some vote to be counted in milwaukee. just 79% of the vote counted in milwaukee. mandela barnes has got a lead there of almost 40 points, which is just about where joe biden was. unclear whether there is enough votes left in milwaukee for him. it's hard to tell whether there is enough vote for him there to close that gap. 38,000 votes right now the lead for ron johnson here. but that's where the votes still remains. so mandela barnes could tighten. i'm not sure whether he can tighten enough in georgia, which we haven't talked about it in a while. we haven't called this race. but what we have heard from the secretary of state's office is that it is likely to go to a runoff. raphael warnock is in the lead. but he's only got 49.1% of the vote. the key number here is 50. if no one gets to 50, plus one, as you pointed out, 50% plus one, it goes to a runoff. that runoff would be on december 6th. right now, according to

secretary of state's office, that's where this is headed, eastbound though raphael warnock holds the lead and could expand this lead. but maybe not get to 50%. you got about 5% left in fulton county, which is heavily democratic. cobb county leans democratic 88%, and some of the other counties. dekalb, about 10% left to count. raphael warnock could build on his lead, but it would be tough. >> my math says about 12,000 votes. joe biden won. >> so raphael warnock leads by 11,000 votes. you want to play this game? joe biden won by 11,000 votes. it looks very similar. >> i got the math right! >> you have a great memory. like a steel trap they say. >> the phone call. it sticks in your mind. john berman, appreciate it. thank you, sir. so we are waiting on these undecided senate races as votes are still being counted. plus, news on the big governors races all across this nation. this is cnn special live

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hello, everyone. don lemon here. this is continuing coverage of cnn's election night in america, and we have a cnn projection. here we go. democrat josh green will be hawaii's next governor. he is a projected winner. he is going to hold as a

democrat there. that is a hold for democrats in hawaii. in the meantime, democrats managing to outperform in some races for governor all across the country. first up, you can see michigan there with democrat -- democratic governor gretchen whitmer winning her reelection bid against trump endorsed republican tudor dixon. democrats have flipped two gubernatorial seats so far, one in massachusetts with a historic win by maura healey. she will become the nation's first out lesbian governor. maura healey, the nation's first out lesbian governor in the state of massachusetts. and in maryland. let's take you to maryland now. that's where wes moore defeated the far right republican dan cox to become the first african american elected governor there. overall, though, gop still holding on to some top jobs in the majority of the senate with a history-making victory of their own in arkansas.

that's where sarah huckabee sanders is projected to be the first woman elected governor. remember her father was a governor there as well. so this is an interesting story for her. republicans also winning a few other big races. florida's ron desantis, georgia's brian kemp, greg abbott in texas all defeating their democratic challengers. the wall all red there except for the surrounding blue framing. so there you go. cnn's john berman. i walk over to the magic wall. here we go. can we talk about arizona? >> let's talk about arizona. katie hobbs is the secretary of state there. and kari lake is this election denying republican who has the support of donald trump, media hating. >> former anchor. >> former television anchor, not that there is anything wrong with being a television anchor, don. she is trailing katie hobbs by almost 11 points. one thing i do want to point out, just 56% in. we've been talking about the arizona senate race. she is outperforming the senate

candidate blake masters, who was 41.4%. let me put that up again. she is at 44.7. she is running about three points better. she is about three points better. and that could be the difference in this state, which has been decided by very close margins in the past when you're talking about, for instance, the senate race there two years ago. mark kelly won just by three points when he ran three years ago. if you extrapolate that out to the governor's race this year, that three-point difference for kari lake that she is running ahead of blake masters, that could be decisive. we're going have to wait and watch how she does there. >> is she outperforming trump? >> she is -- well, no. not yet. because trump, you'll remember, trump in this state two years ago got 49%. but that was with 99%. and the problem right now where we are in arizona, at this point in the night, it's just impossible for us to tell where she is relatively speaking. the other governor's race that i

think is interesting that tells an important story tonight is in new york. now we have called this race for the democrat kathy hochul. but look how close it is right now. >> yeah. >> that's about a six-point margin in a state that joe biden won two years ago by you could see 23 points. it's a 23-point biden state. right now the democratic gubernatorial candidate is about six points ahead. even though the democrats will maintain the governor's mansion, it may have had an impact on the house races. we're watching the house races in new york very closely. put the competitive seat filter in here, you can see of the ten competitive seats in new york state, republicans lead in eight of them. democrats in two. you go back to 2020. it was eight democratic, two republicans. so republicans may be on track to flip a number of seats. you know, it's a six-point seat

swing in the state of new york alone. and if i take this off right now, you talk about that six-seat swing, that's the margin, right? you give those six seats to the democrats, and they would be on track to maintain the u.s. house of representatives. so what's happening in new york could be decisive in terms of the house. it might be the governor's race that is riding that even with republicans losing. >> can you look at suffolk county. >> why do you care so much about suffolk county? >> because i live in suffolk county. but also because of lee zeld dip. >> this is suffolk county. this is a seat that is actually about tied between democrats and republicans two years ago. he's got a huge lead there. he has a huge lead in suffolk county. i'll go back to the presidential race so, you can see that right there. you can see, donald trump and joe biden were tied neck and neck and in the governor's race right now lee zeldin way, way ahead of kathy hochul there. >> you know what i'm noticing

here? >> what are you noticing? >> there is a cup of coffee here because john berman is the man of the hour. >> cheers. bottom's up. >> john berman, thank you very much. we're getting new projections and the votes are still being counted in the undecided senate races. the control of congress still up for grabs. this is election night/morning in america. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com.

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and there you see it. there is a cnn projection. and it is in michigan. elissa slotkin, the democrat there has won reelection in michigan's seventh congressional over tom barrett. this was a tight race. republicans had hoped to pick up. they did not. the democrats will hang on there. and you may also remember republican liz cheney campaigned for elissa slotkin in michigan, and elissa slotkin is the projected winner there. and oregon's fourth district democrat val hoyle wins another hold for democrats there. another hold for democrats in oregon. now let's take you to the balance of power. where it is happening now in the house of representatives. republicans remain in the lead. but it is tight. they remain in the lead with 195. 218 is the one that's needed. democrats 176. they picked up three.

republicans, eight pickups so far. so let's head out now to cnn's sunlen serfaty. house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in on the performance of democrats tonight. what is she saying? good morning. >> that's right. good morning to you. speaker of the house nancy pelosi out with a new statement just in the last hour acknowledging in essence that democrats in the house tonight have done much better than expected. didn't get quite the shellacking that many democrats on capitol hill were bracing for. she says in a statement, quote, while many races are too close to call, it is clear that house democratic members and candidates are strongly outperforming expectations across the country as states continue to tabulate the final results. every vote must be counted as cast. many thanks to our grassroots volunteers for enabling every voter to have their say in our democracy. and republicans on capitol hill, don, are certainly sweating this out much more than they had

expected. the fact that these races are tighter than expected, that numbers, as they currently stand right now, of course, have republicans on the path to winning a majority in the house. but it's not done yet. and certainly the majority potentially be narrower than they had expected. we heard from house minority leader kevin mccarthy in the last hour. and he claimed premature victory of sorts, taking an early victory lap. he said that he predicted that republicans would win the house. he did not comment on that smaller than expected margin that they likely would have. and he said he read in essence the results as a mandate of sorts for house republicans going forward saying, quote, work begins now. we need to set america back on track. so, don, some dashing of expectations, high expectations that house republicans had going into tonight. still many key races of course in the house yet to be called.

>> sunlen serfaty at our nation's capital. thank you. we appreciate that. poppy harlow, let's go head over to poppy now. a lot has been said about what would happen this election night in america. there are a lot of narratives. just not what people thought. >> you've been saying it the whole time, don. it's the voters. it's all about how they vote. republicans can celebrate some big gains from latino voters, particularly tonight, this morning in florida. for the first too imin two decades, miami-dade turned red. it was republican ron desantis. home to a cuban population. democratic stronghold won by desantis, is osceola county, with a heavy puerto rican population. it's not clear whether the latino vote is tracking in favor of the gop outside florida. we've got great folks to talk about this, and a lot more. maria, this is what you wanted to talk about. >> yes. >> but, but, but, democratic

strategist, you didn't want to talk about the florida part. >> well, what i said, i will leave florida out. >> we can't. >> meaning that i concede that in florida we continue to lose ground with latinos. and we absolutely need to do a much better job there. i think the democratic party needs to focus on florida in a way that we certainly did not this time around. but i will say that nationally, the latino vote is a huge story line for democrats, especially because one of the big narratives coming from republicans is that they were going to try for this red wave to include the latino vote nationally in texas and arizona, in nevada, in colorado, in california. and that just not -- it has not borne reality as of now. we wouldn't be where we are with our margins holding on right now. and we know there is still a lot more votes to come in, if we weren't breaking 2-1, 3-1 in arizona with latino voters. >> i hear you. i do.

but i think the question is, is florida an example, alice, of what may be come for the rest of the country or more of the country? there was that "wall street journal" reporting out just this week that showed that latino voters were breaking more for republican candidates this cycle. much more, more than double than where they broke for trump and a similar pattern for black voters. >> and maria has been touting the latino vote for quite some time. it's impressive to see them come out in the large numbers that they have. i think florida sets a tone for what's to come ahead based on what ron desantis did. in his way of campaigning, he didn't need donald trump. he kept donald trump at arm's distance. he focused on the policies that are important to the people of florida. he talked about how he helped create jobs. he increased tourism, how he handled natural disasters, and his ability to galvanize voters, independent voters on the policies. that's important. and hearing from republicans, not just people that aren't trump supporters, but trump

allies. i'm getting a lot of the same expletive texts s as kaitlan is. they're telling me that donald trump is an anchor on the party. it is time to turn the page on him. they're tired of donating money to the republican party to pay his legal bills. they're ready to move on. my take on this, donald trump went into tonight expecting to be the king maker. he has lost his kron and it's time for him to get off the throne. >> you're a former republican congressman. you called today's election an opportunity to change the nation's trajectory. what does that look like? >> first of all, people have to get away. republicans have to get away from donald trump. if you look at all of the gubernatorial candidates, all of the candidates he supported lost. and the ones that he actually went after and attacked, brian kemp, ron desantis, they won. he is not a crutch. he is actually, you know -- he actually hurts these candidates.

i believe he hurt dr. oz in pennsylvania. i just -- it's time for new leadership. and to talk about, again, the things that americans really care about. and i do believe that florida is an example of what we are going to see. and it's going to continue to break republican as long as we still have a president that -- i'm sorry -- still has not been able to handle the inflation issue, has not been able to handle the gas prices continuing to go up. energy independence is a big issue for the united states. >> as a democrat here, i wonder what you make of all of that. and then also, if you flip to it the democrats, fetterman coming in ahead of where biden was in 2020, i think the question on that side is that because of the candidate he was and who he is, or is that indicative more broadly for the party?

>> florida aside, and governor desantis should be congratulated for a remarkable success there. you know the most powerful emotion in life, the most wonderful, it's not joy. it's relief. it's relief. democrats feel such relief now. why? because it's across the country. john fetterman ran a great campaign. by the way so, did josh shapiro, the new governor-elect of pennsylvania who is a rising star. >> who told us on the program this week by the way this isn't about biden. this isn't about the national party. this is about pennsylvania. >> yes. and it was. and i've worked a lot in pennsylvania. i think fetterman really embodied sort of the best of that state, which is grit. yeah, he got knocked down. but he got back up. and he said that. that was his closing message. >> yeah, he said that today. >> and that resonates with pennsylvanians. pittsburgh hates philly and philly hates pittsburgh and the rural hates the cities. but the one thing pennsylvania agrees on, they hate new jersey. and donald trump dropped in some knucklehead from new jersey.

>> let's stay away from name-calling here. >> knucklehead is an affection at term. >> the exit polls did show that most voters in pennsylvania did not think that mehmet oz lived in pennsylvania t state long enough. >> thank you, donald trump. >> stay tuned. we just received a huge vote count from nevada that is a critical state right now. stand by. it is next in our special live coverage.

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welcome back, everyone. i'm don lemon, and we have a major key race alert, and it's in nevada. more votes have just come in the senate race has gotten significantly closer. look at those margins right there. democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto is -- or cortez masto, i should say is leading, but is still within one point. catherine cortez masto still leading there. head over now to the magic wall with mr. john berman. boy, it is tight, john. >> let's go into nevada right now. leading by 0.6%. but don, it's just 4500 votes. the democratic incumbent's lead right now is 4500 votes. and i want to point out there are some counties we haven't heard from at all here. now look. let's talk about nye county in nevada. it's a tiny county. it just makes up 1.5% of the

vote. but we have zero percent in. let's look at what donald trump did there. donald trump won that county by 10,000. so just that county alone in theory you can see the republicans wipe out the leaden joyed right now by the democrats there. let's go back to the senate, back to nevada. you can -- i can poke around and show you the other counties here. leon county here. zero percent reported. two years ago the margin here for donald trump was 12,000. so, again, just what these counties that haven't reported, you could see that margin made up completely. the most important county in nevada in terms of margins is clark county, home to las vegas, which makes up almost 75% of the vote. there is 84% reporting right now, which feels like a lot. but our friend harry enten just told me that the bulk of the uncounted vote in clark county is mail, is mail vote which has been heavily democratic. and they can count until friday. they only have to mail the ballots by today.

those ballots can actually come in still, and they don't have to be counted until friday. so it's very possible that cortez masto can expand where she is in clark county, which is hugely important. and again, if you think about the state as a hole, 72% in 0.6 celebrating them, i can show you two years ago roughly where it is at this time. if you go back, the first votes came in, and you saw donald trump way ahead there. but by where we were now, 8:00 a.m. the next day, it was very close. there was only 0.8% separating them with 85% in. so that margin isn't that different than where we are now. >> so what's the margin again now? it keeps changing. >> the votes in nevada. >> earlier, late, depending. >> so 72% in. and there is 4500 votes separating them right now in nevada. >> wow. >> it's close. again, we have this county i

show you'd before, which hadn't reported at all yet, nye county just reported in. 81% in. that just happened as we were speaking. remember, this was all gray. not two minutes ago. now you can see adam laxalt with a 5,000 vote edge with 81% in. actually, it flipped. he is now ahead. so that put him ahead. so now for the first time we see adam laxalt ahead in nevada. that's key. 74% in. adam laxalt has taken the lead in nevada. that's all because of this one county, nye county, that we just told you about there. again, i warn you, though, that 75% of the vote in the state in general is in clark county. gentlemen, they have 84% in, but the bulk of that we're told is mail ballot which skews democratic, and they can count that for some time. let's look at washoe county also. this is also a county which catherine cortez masto is leading by more than a point. only 50% reporting in this county. a lot more to count here.

joe biden won this county by 4.5 votes. this could be a while. >> three counties here. >> now we're two counties that have no votes. you have line county. zero votes counted. two years ago just so you see in this county, donald trump netted 12,000 votes out of 12,000 vote lead there. so that matters. there is no question that the republicans will pad their lead there. and the county we haven't heard from is douglas county, a heavily republican county two years ago. donald trump a 10,000 vote lead there. 10,000 vote margin. so yes -- >> i'm being told to go back to the main board, that it's flipped again. >> let's go back to the main board. let me go back to the u.s. senate. let's check it out. i'm still seeing red here. i'm still seeing red in nevada. you can see adam laxalt with the lead of about a point. a point right now, 74% in. maybe we're getting more votes, and it could switch back to blue. i think it will switch a few more times.

when we start seeing these county votes in, and we get more vote from washoe and clark county, this is going to be a nail-biter. we're going to be counting votes in nevada for some time. >> nevada and georgia and elsewhere. >> talking about georgia again. just so people remember. just so people know. we haven't seen new votes reported yet from georgia. raphael warnock with a lead there. but the reason that don is saying we're counting votes in georgia for some time is no one is at 50%. if no one gets to 50% plus one vote, there will be a runoff december 6. that looks like where we're headed. >> big blue counties atlanta, there were lots of red dots all across the state there we go. >> so 96% reporting. telephone 4% remaining, what you see here is the places where there is blue, that's where there is democratic vote left to be counted. the places where there is red dots, the bigger the dot, the more the vote. you can see there are much bigger blue dots, but there are more red dots here. probably at this point according to the straight secretary of state's office won't give anyone

50%. so this looks like it's headed to a runoff. >> thank you, john berman. we've still got a long ways to go, kaitlan collins and a lot to talk about. >> we're going to be spending many more hours together. let's talk about nevada, the race they were just looking at closely there over on the wall. obviously that's a state that president biden won by just 3 points. senator cortez masto is one of the most endangered incumbent democrats. she is up against adam laxalt, who of course signed on to that lawsuit to challenge the 2020 election. he's been an interesting candidate because remember of course he later scrubbed his election, his website of his mentions of trump, of his mentions of disputing the 2020 election. what are you watching for there, ron? >> he has been a little more generic republican than some of the controversial trump candidates. like in new hampshire and pennsylvania. and elsewhere. and he has been able to surf what has been a wave of economic discontent. there is almost no state that got hammered more by the shutdowns in the pandemic or

inflation after. nevada is a state where democrats actually have an operation. richard daley would appreciate what harry reid built in nevada. and they have won a lot of close races. the folks, there jon ralston the guru of the nevada early vote, he points out as harry and john did that what's left is going to be largely clark county mail votes that benefits democrats. so no one can predict how this goes. but history would suggest this is a place where democrats can win close races. >> yeah. yeah. listen, democrats were worried about catherine cortez masto because she -- this is her first term. this is her first time running for reelection. harry reid isn't around anymore. but certainly his machine is still around. they were worried about the high gas prices out there. and also looking at latino voters to see whether or not this demographic realignment would actually show up, particularly around working class latinos. we saw it in florida. we may see a little bit of it in nevada. but listen, those unions.

>> culinary workers. >> the culinary workers unions that democrats have been so good at organizing, i think we're going to see that tonight. but listen, republicans were so bullish on nevada. i mean, they were bullish on the senate race. they were bullish on the governor's race, as well as the congressional seats as well. we don't know what's going to happen, but democrats right now feel better about this race. >> real quick, i talked this week to the secretary treasurer of the unite here. and she had a great phrase. she said we are within the margin of effort in nevada and arizona and in pennsylvania. and that is kind of the mind-set that has made that state more competitive for democrats than obviously it was earlier in the century. >> and that's something the white house is watching incredibly closely. they are celebrating the victories that they've had so far. surprising night for some of them. democrats have been panicking. the house, though, we are still watching so closely of what is going to happen there, what it's going to look like. it's not the night that kevin

mccarthy thought they were going have. we're all watching new york i think really closely. obviously, the gerrymandering, the redistricting that happened there, we talked to sean patrick maloney challenger this week. he is a freshman republican assemblyman. he may potentially beat him. he has put him in this tight race. that matters if you're watching at home, sean patrick maloney is the chair for house democrats, their campaign chair. he is the one responsible for making sure they keep their majority. what do you think that says for the rest of the seats that are up in new york still? >> it's extraordinary, right? who would have thought that if the democrats lose the house because of the results in new york state -- there are two ways to look at this. one is lee zeldin ran better than expected. maybe not better than expected in the end, but he ran better than republicans have done in recent years and that helped republicans win a number of the house races. there is another way to look at it. which is that a democratic court in new york state threw out a democratic gerrymander while a

republican court in florida upan each more severe ron desantis gerrymander. and those two decisions by these two courts may be the margin that flips the house. >> i think that's right. democrats obviously pulling their hair out. the idea that sean patrick maloney might go down. you saw kevin mccarthy mention this in his speech, because this would be a big get. democrats sort of shot themselves in the foot with that original redistricting map. and we see now -- >> essentially because they overreached. >> they overreached, exactly. went to the court, and now these districts are much more sort of balanced. >> florida he overreached even more and he went to the courts and the courts said fine. maybe they made the right decision, reading the state constitution. but that could ultimately be the last little nail that switches the house. >> and also what the postmortem on that essentially is, the argument there. even though democrats are having a better night than they

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it is the top of the hour, everyone. i'm don lemon. this is cnn's continuing coverage of election night in america. at this hour, control of congress still at stake and the balance of power in the house has been decided. many of the races really just too close to call. but now i want to take a look at where we are. this concerns the balance of power in the house. first in the house, the party with the at least 218 seats, that will be the majority in the house. republicans leading with about 195 seats at this hour. they need to win 19 competitive seats to gain control. democrats have 176 at this point. let's check the senate now. the balance of power there. the chamber still hangs in the balance. republicans still hoping to gain

control of the senate and at this moment all eyes are on four senate races. wisconsin, nevada, georgia, and arizona. there are still no projections in those races. in nevada senator katheryn cortez masto, the democrat, leading at this hour and wisconsin democrat mandela barnes trails ron johnson. in arizona they're separated by about 140,000 votes. let's head to georgia. herschel walker and raphael warnock, they are very, very, very close and we've got new votes in. we'll head to john berman in a bit. if no candidate gets to 50% of the votes, that race could go to a runoff. secretary of state there already projecting that. in pennsylvania, huge night for

john fetterman. cnn projects he has beat mehmet oz. fetterman had a stroke, and then an endorsement by oprah winfrey. >> every county, every vote. every county, every vote. >> every county, every vote. >> that's exactly what happened. we jammed them up. we held the line. i never expected that we were going to turn these red counties blue, but we did what we needed to do and we had that conversation across every one of those counties. and tonight that's why i'll be the next u.s. senator from pennsylvania! >> john fetterman there in his victory speech. standing by, john berman

watching the votes and john blackwell is looking at technical and legal issues. harry enton is digging through the data in the states and we have the major take aways tonight. poppy harlow along with her political team of experts and commentators will join us as well. of course, our reporters are standing by live coast to coast covering every single angle. let's walk over now. very important man of the hour, mr. john berman who will take us behind the scenes. where do you want to start? >> arizona, just got a bunch of new votes counted in arizona. mark kelly's lead is this rinking. he's ahead by 118,000 votes. an hour ago it was 200,000 votes. that's the way it goes. they're counting maybe more election day votes in maricopa county, this is a county joe

biden carried by 2 points. mark kelly leads by 2 points. outperforming joe biden but the margin getting smaller and smaller. pima county, markup there. this was a county that went to joe biden by 18 points. and, again, we saw mohave county, vastly republican county, now blake masters leads there by about 30,000 votes. the margin much tighter in the senate race. the governor's race, katie hobbs with 51%, kari lake with 42. narge begin is shrinking but kari lake is outperforming blake masters. 45.4 and kari lake is 48.7. that could be the deference between winning and losing, that

3 points there. i want to give you a sense of where we are in the process of counting votes. mark kelly with a lead of 118,000 votes with 66% in. let's go back to the presidential race two years ago and i can give you the clock there. at 5 a.m., what time is it now? 4 a.m. at 5 a.m. they had 82% in. they had more of the vote counted at this point but joe biden led, let's do d plus 5, right? is my math there right? d plus 5 there with joe biden with 82% in. let's go back to where we are now. so joe biden was d plus 5. there was more vote counted but mark kelly is plus 7 right now. so, again, we'll see where we are with more of the vote counted. if he can stay at d plus 5 or higher, he should feel -- >> d plus 5 or 4? >> 5 i asked you to fact check me. >> not going back.

>> mark kelly where he wants to be we think right now but let's wait to see as more of this is counted. still could go either way. nearby in nevada right now, just 615 votes separate adam laxalt and katheryn cortez masco. these are heavily republican . donald trump won these by 10,000 votes each. we have 0 votes in. adam laxalt will pick up votes there. clark county, almost 75% of the vote. the vote remaining is largely mail vote which they can count until saturday and that skews heavily democratic. we may not know in nevada for some time. we did get new votes counted in georgia. what was the last time we spoke between the two men? it was 11,000 votes. now raphael warnock leads by 18,000 votes but he's grown his lead, he's grown his lead. he leads by half a percent.

the issue is he's only at 49.2. the magic number in georgia is 50% plus 1 vote. if raphael warnock doesn't get there there will be a runoff on december 6th. the way things are going right now, if the way things are going, that could be decisive if adam laxalt was able to hang on. ron johnson we haven't called wisconsin but he's been ahead by a point for some time. if mark kelly hangs on as the democrat in arizona, then control of the u.s. senate will go down to the runoff in georgia on december 5th. >> the warnock -- >> they're trying. it's a long way to go. .8 pers .8%. i can show you where that vote is if you want to see. the bigger the dot, the more the vote. so there are some votes still in democratic areas there but that

would be an awfully big margin to make zblup thank you very much, john berman. let's head over to victor blackwell. give us a context of what's going on in nevada. >> let's start there. where are the votes? when will we get the results? in nevada we have covered concerns over drop boxes and security there. we know the drop boxes will not be counted. past election day. they could take until thursday to count and where are they? of course the most populus counties, clark county where we've got las vegas, the most populus county is the state and then up here in washo county where reno is and in douglas county. no way to know how many ballots have been dropped into those boxes. and while we're here, let's take a tour through. wisconsin, we're told there are fewer than 12,000 votes to count

in milwaukee county. these votes will be coming out with the next tranche of reported votes. 12,000 in milwaukee county. in arizona, the estimate in maricopa county, most populus couldn't dwli with the biggest tranche of voters, it will take until friday to count all of those. at the top of the hour getting new results from arizona and the very tight governor and senate races there and in georgia where the prediction from gabe sterling with the secretary of state's office, that's a prediction from the state, not a projection from cnn is that that race between warnock and walker will go to that december 6th runoff. what we're learning from columbia county, a big amount of votes still out there is all the early votes from columbia. it's about 33,500. as we saw from the math john showed us, still so many votes

out in the atlanta metro area we are waiting for. that's where we're getting that from. >> victor blackwell, we'll check back. john berman, since he invoked your name. >> raphael warnock with a lead of half a percent. let's see where raphael warnock is outperforming what joe biden did two years ago. remember, joe biden won by 11,000 votes. it was very, very close. we can compare how the two are doing. well, okay , so raphael warnock is outperforming him basically where democrats need to outperform, need to do well, in the atlanta metro area. warnock in ferreras-copeland is at 73% of the vote. in cobb county, raphael warnock leads by 53%.

so raphael warnock, that's where he seems to be doing well. i can show you exactly where the vote is at this point too. 96% reporting let's take it down to about 95. well, i can take it down -- let's go to 90. >> you love this, don't you? >> i do. here. these are the counties that don't have 89% of the vote counted yet. you can see there aren't many. most of the state has already counted at least 89% of the vote. these are the counties that have less than that. you can see, for instance right here, clay county, heavily democratic county. at 87%. raphael warnock you would imagine would expand his lead some there. the rest of the counties, it gets pretty call. i like sumter county, why? hometown of jimmy carter. plains georgia, raphael warnock with a small lead.

that's at 87%. some of these counties down here raphael warnock could grow a little bit. an 11,000 count vote. he's outperforming what joe biden did there. there are some republican parties here. ecchols county, some votes there. not much room for hitcherschel walker to expand. raphael warnock can have time to expand. >> this is probably going to go to runoff. we may not know for weeks. >> we may not know until december 6th. georgia could be decisive. there are still four outstanding races. georgia, could go to december 6th. wisconsin, we haven't called

that. nevada. the margin is just 615 votes and arizona which right now mark kelly is leading by 118,000 votes. if it ended right now, if everything ended right now it would be 50-50. take that off the stand. it would be 49 for democrats. they need to win that in a runoff to maintain control of the u.s. senate. ron johnson leading in wisconsin. these two seats we have a lot of vote to count there. we're not going to know, don, for some time. >> magic wall. we're going to give it a break. it needs a break. >> that's magic. >> so stand by, john. stand by, everyone. we have more projections in the house, in the governor's races and both chambers remain up for grabs. this is cnn's live coverage of election night/morning in america.

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pulled ahead of katheryn cortez m masto, the incumbent there. she has been leading all night. as of now he has pulled ahead. arizona, mark kelly 52.4% to blake masters, the republican trying to win from the incumbent. 45.4%. that has shrunk just over the last couple of minutes. we're going to head to georgia now. georgia. everyone is watching that race in georgia. this is where raphael war not has 49.2%. walker has 48.7%. the secretary of state in georgia is saying it is likely to go to a runoff. wisconsin, we head to wisconsin where ron johnson is 55.4%.

mandela barnes, under that. 94% of the estimated vote in now. that could shrink a little bit but we have to see where the outstanding votes are. why don't we head over to john berman. can we start here in wisconsin? >> did i hear you ask where the outstanding vote is? >> you did. >> milwaukee. 82% reporting there. mandela barnes has a big lead of 41%, which is outperforming joe biden who won that by about 41%. the issue for mandela barnes is ron sqjohnson leads by 32,000 votes. is there enough votes left. 32,000 is a fair amount. okay. the counties here that have color on them are counties that

still have 6% of their vote to count. not much, but some. is it enough to make up 32,000? hard to tell. you'd rather be ron johnson right now with this lead of 1.2% than mandela barns. we got some new votes in nevada. votes counted in nevada. remember, last time we met here adam laxalt was leading by 615 votes. now it's 14,000. where did that come from? douglas county. no votes counted before. now 75% reporting and he has a 7 point 1/2 thousand vote leading there which is outperforming donald trump. donald trump won this district by 42%. adam laxalt doing what he needs to do. washo county, this is also very interesting here.

adam laxalt leads in washo county. this is kind of a swing county. joe biden won but he won by 4% or so. if adam laxalt were to win, it would be big. a lot of that is mail-in which skews democratic. also in clark county. notice, by the way, look at the map. you say catherine cortez masto, how could she win? 84% in. she's got a lead of almost 5 points. the remaining vote is all mail vote there which, again, skews

democratic and they can -- >> mail-in vote. >> mail-in vote skews democratic. they can count that until saturday. you can see the margins here right now she's up by about 5 points. overall, remember, the statewide lead for adam laxalt is 14,000. could she make up 14,000 votes in clark county? we'll see, don, over the next -- >> this is why we caution people even before that this could take some time. here we are, this is close. >> very close. >> lots of votes to be counted. thank you very much, mr. john berman. that gives us a lot to talk about. >> yes, speaking of taking time. they did not start processing the mail-in ballots until election day. now we're watching ron johnson and mandela barnes. he said he was only going to serve two terms. he said given the political landscape he was backing off of the pledge and he's locked into this race with mandela barnes.

>> i think it's much closer than any democrat thought it would be, any republican thought it would be. going into this it was thought ron johnson was a vulnerable incumbent. they did think mandela barnes was the person to challenge him. you saw republicans attack mandela barnes as a progressive. they dumped a lot of ads on him. >> he wanted to defund the police. listen, you have democrats really rush in. biden campaigned there as did barack obama. it's a tight race. >> barnes kept his distance from biden. >> i think that's right. i think that's right. that worked to a certain extent. we don't know what's going to happen in this race, but i think it just goes to show that democrats overall tonight overperforming what their expectations were and able to put this coalition together that defeated donald trump. >> that's really the story,

flight wisconsin i think embodies two things we saw tonight. one is that while there was some -- definitely some fraying at the edges in the anti-trump coalition that turned out in 18 and 20 which you would expect for 19% inflation. approval rating at 41%. by and large that coalition held together. mandela barnes won women, college educated and black voters and he won young voters. that was the coalition that came together against trump and trump republicans. it largely held to a greater extent. the fraying at the edges may be enough to tip the house and senate. that's the reason why the idea of a red wave was overblown. people talked about a dobbs mirage. he won 71%. barnes won 71% of the voters,

majority of voters in wisconsin who said abortion should be legal all or most of the time. gretchen whitmer won 80% of voters who said abortion should be legal all of the time. even though people in michigan, next door, said the economy was strong. the idea that abortion, i think, reinforced the concerns that this trump -- anti-trump coalition had about where this party is going and it allowed dem droots avoid the worst. >> i think all of that money they spent on those ads around abortion was an argument about the republican party being extreme, right? so it really ginned up support against the biden coalition, anti-trump. maybe they're spending too much time and money on ads against abortion, but it worked in a lot of these states where it was really able to, i think, remind voters of what they didn't like about republicans. >> especially in michigan, they

had the measure on the ballot. >> made it more important than anywhere. >> tudor dixon said you can vote for whitmer's position without voting for her. >> the exit poll. it had whitmer winning 66% of college educated white women and 96% of black women. not a typo as far as i know. >> right. >> 96%. i mean, the gender gap was real in this election, both nationally and especially in the key states. jonsson toughing it out is a statement. >> talking about how expectations were wrong. i talked with democrats who thought whitmer herself was in trouble. we were watching to see what happened in wisconsin. nevada as well. we've been focusing on the senate. the house has not been decided yet despite what you heard from kevin mccarthy projecting that

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okay. so this is a cnn projection. cnn can project that five additional house races here, five additional house races. first, we're going to go to iowa. that will be a republican hold there. that is where marionette miller meeks will win over christina bohannon. wisconsin 3 we have a republican

pickup with derek van orden. and new hampshire 1 we have a democratic hold there. incumbent chris papis winning over carol leavitt. also in new hampshire, ann custer in district 2 holds that seat against republican robert byrnes there. so, list jen en, let's talk about te balance of power. republicans are getting closer but they are still short about 218. that is the magic number. let's go to the magic wall now and john berman to see where everything is landing now. >> the number you're looking at here, don't be alarmed. this would give republicans control of the u.s. house but

not in the numbers they were hoping for. this would be at the low end of the gain they were hoping for. take a look at the competitive seats. the competitive seats there, you can see democrats leading in 47 of the competitive seats. republicans leading in 35. i would remind you, however, that republicans only need to win 30 of the competitive seats to take control. right now they need 35. so they're doing what they need to do to take control of the u.s. house. i think one of the most interesting stories, democrats will be kicking themselves for some time to come. in new york. ten competitive seats in new york. republicans lead in eight. lead or we've called eight. democrats lead in two. those boundaries would have given democrats an 8-2. so republicans have completely flipped in these competitive seats and that includes for now, we have not called this race, projected this race, sean

patrick maloney the chair of the democratic national campaign committee is trailing mike lawlor in the 17th district. republicans would love to knock off maloney. he is trailing 98% in. there's still some vote to be counted. >> and, listen, he's going to get it from his own party. a lot of consternation about funding election deniers. >> however, however, if you want to talk about that, sean patrick maloney, he's going to take the blame for the bad redistricting in new york. funding election deniers, let's talk about that. the most prominent race that happened in was in michigan's third congressional district. indirectly democrats backed election denier john gibbs and peter myer who was a republican incumbent who voted to impeach donald trump, he lost in the primary and democrats may have helped get that defeat.

john gibbs won. the democrat is leading there. it may have worked. that funding may have worked for the democrats there. they may get a pickup, what has amounted to a pickup in that district while we're talking about michigan, let's also talk about elise lockton. 99% in. this is a seat democrats desperately wanted to keep and they have. liz cheney, republican liz cheney went out and campaigned for alyssa slotkin there. a couple other places we're watching. worth noting right now, in wisconsin, this district we just called for derek van orden, this is r plus. this was the one rural seat. democrats are losing control

more and more of these rural districts that they had held historically. there just aren't that many left. >> thank you, john berman. i want to get to victor blackwell at the voting desk. you have news out of arizona. >> yeah, specifically out of maricopa county. 61% or so of the state's population. the largest tranche of voters. the elections office said they are done reporting until later tonight. the 223 voting sites, they say they have all reported. now they're moving onto the early ballots. overnight, this is a tweet from their office, overnight they're now preparing the tens of thousands of early ballots dropped off today for signature verification in the morning and they will post more results wednesday night. it's wednesday across the country now. yes, we went from early morning into the evening. >> you're looking at me. i don't know. >> so that's going to happen later tonight. we know also that the office says that it will take until friday to report everything but

the signature verification, what does that look like? well, they have to scan all of the signatures from these tens of thousands of ballots, prepare them. it's called staging for verification throughout the day. then we expect the largest tranche of those early votes to be reported. it's interesting that they say at this hour the 223 voting sites they all reported because there was that technical issue. they promised that there would not be a problem with getting those votes in. those votes have come in so all of those votes in. 90% a cross the state waiting for the all important maricopa county, don. >> victor, we have a lot of people talking to us. working the magic wall. i'm trying to keep the trains running on time. what were you saying? >> all of maricopa county has been processed? >> that's what they're saying. the tweet from the office, they say election day ballots from all 223 sites have been

reported. they've now moved onto the early votes ballots trying to verify the signatures there. >> all right. that's interesting, okay? let's look at maricopa county which makes up 60% of the vote in arizona. let me backtrack here so people can see where we are in arizona. mark kelly with the lead of 6 1/2 points in the state with 66% reported right now. victor was just talking about maricopa county which includes phoenix. his lead there is almost at 8%. joe biden won the district by 2. what victor just reported, all of the in-person voting has been counted. what do we know about the vote nationally. that skews republican. in maricopa county theoretically their best votes for the republicans have now been processed and mark kelly still holds a lead there. a little quirky in arizona .

they have a very robust mail-in ballot process. you can drop off your mail ballots through election day, you can walk in rather than pull a vote in person. that counts as a mail ballot. sometimes in arizona what happens, the people who put in their mail ballots later tilt a little bit republican. so it's hard to tell exactly how democratic the remaining mail vote will be. we know the mail vote tends to skew democratic. that might be good news for mark kelly. >> what would that poor tend for the governor's race? >> that's much tighter. 2.2%. katie hobbs is under performing mark kelly, kari lake is overperforming blake masters. masters 45.6%. a 3-point difference. i can't stress this enough.

3%. >> that's a huge difference. >> could be the ball game in arizona. you could see a split ticket there. i think we got new votes counted in nevada. i believe the votes we just got in is lyme county which is the biggest of the rural counties. the third largest county, third most populus county but it only makes up 1.8% of the vote. 71% in. adam laxalt has an edge of 8 thourkts votes. the overallstate wide vote is 22,000. we know we have a lot of vote to count. can catherine cortez masto make up that difference? >> nail biter. >> it will be. we want to go to nevada now. four key senate races remain undecided at this hour. control of congress up for

grabs. we'll get to nevada when we come back.

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did you hear those cheers? that was from john fetterman when cnn declared john fetterman to be the declared winner. we're going to talk more about john fetterman, how he won pennsylvania. listen, a lot of people counted him out after that debate but didn't seem to affect him. he won. >> no, it didn't. he seemed to won. >> he did seem to win. when we think of pennsylvania we think of the great lake battleground, we think of white voters without a college degree.

when we look at the voters, it is in fact those white voters without a college degree. they make up 47% of all the voters in pennsylvania. there's this big question, could john featherman perhaps win back some of the white non-college educated voters. let's take a look at how they voted. what you see is you see that mehmet oz did in fact win among white voters without a college degree. it's just a 24 point margin. i can tell you that back in 2020 in pennsylvania donald trump carried white voters without a college degree by over 30 points. john fetterman's idea that i can shrink the margins seemed to work out. now, of course, there was also the question that both mehmet oz and john fetterman had weaknesses in the electorate. the idea essentially that oz's weakness was that he was from out of state.

he was a carpet bagger. we asked the questions, has oz lived in a state long enough to represent it effectively. the vast majority or clear majority said, no. 56%. that cost oz. fetterman had something that concerned people, his health. could he serve effectively because of his stroke? what we found 50%, the plurality at this said, yes, he could serve effectively. mehmet oz's weakness cost him the race and john fetterman's weakness did not cost him the race. >> appreciate that. want to toss it over to my colleague poppy harlow. after that debate i thought people would be more empathetic to john fetterman. >> yeah, you have. >> the media and pundits were being harder on him than the voters. turns out it may have been true. >> i think you were right on that, don. i mean, you also said, wait, wait, wait. listen to the voters. let's talk to our experts about

this. paul and marie. i'll get to you, paul. i want to talk about what featherman tells us. what do you think he tells us about party or does he not? voters weren't enamored but they got behind fetterman. >> i think there's a couple of reasons. f fetterman won against all odds but i think it's -- it's 4 in the morning. but i think it does tell us something. there was a narrative democrats did not focus on the economy. fetterman did. he talked about minimum wage. he talked to the unions, that's huge in pennsylvania. working class. he talked about this. everyone has talked about this. he's been able to make that up for white working class voters, which is a huge part of the democratic coalition. has been historically.

jump won them but for us, john fetterman got them back. the other thing i'm hearing and tracking the latino vote, fetterman came out in support of so many of the policies that latinos support, latinos gave him 3 to 1 and gave him a big, big majority and what interestingly fetterman did during the campaign was he focused a lot on his wife's immigrant story and that really, i think, helped him out. >> what do you think? >> maria's right. his wife saved her life. >> he said that. >> god bless him. >> she saved the campaign and she stepped in when the lieutenant governor was unable to campaign. three lessons. first, it's the working class, stupid. just what maria said. harry showed us the data. democratic party, i've been saying this for over a decade, used to be the party of the factory floor, now we're the

party of the factory lounge. john fetter man is the factory floor. margins matter and authenticity is everything. he's real. a lot of people thought dr. oz was fake. >> so, mia, you've been talking a lot about beyond who won tonight, what it means for committees of power. >> right. so as we're thinking about who is going to be speaker, who is going to be minority leader, it's really about who's going to chair these important committees where the work gets done. >> set the agenda? >> right. who sets the agenda. maxine waters and financial services being the chair versus representative patrick mchenry. these are -- i mean, this is where the work gets done before the votes get out, before you get the policy on the floor for a vote. it's really important and so kevin mccarthy right now is

thinking about all of these things. he's thinking about all of them. >> were you excited about marjorie taylor greene taking the -- >> right. >> that's what -- >> she wants oversight. >> right. she wants oversight. let's talk about georgia. it's your state. we don't know what's going to happen to georgia. it's looking more and more likely like it could go to a runoff vote. >> right. >> talk about that. that's unique to georgia and what do you think the libertarian candidate, what does that mean in a runoff? where do those votes go? >> first off, it means all eyes are back on georgia. walker is at 48.7. war not at 49. 2.

no one's reached 50%. more than likely we'll go to a runoff. looking at the history, my old professor writes about this. this goes back to the 1960s around the civil rights era. the segregationist representative from macon was frustrated with the fact the white voters voted in blocks and he came up with you have to get 50% or we go to a runoff. today we have two african americans that could potentially go to a runoff vote. enter chase oliver, libertarian candidate who presented himself as a goldilocks candidate. not too red, not too blue. exit polls from "the atlantic journal constitution." a lot of his voters may go to warnock. they went to him because they were frustrated with walker. they did not like trump. they went to warnock. if we go to a runoff, this could potentially benefit warnock. >> predicting a runoff. chase oliver said if a runoff oc occurs, it's a lesson to them. watch closely. we'll get back to you guys very

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first black governor. in massachusetts, democrat maura healey becomes the first out lesbian governor in u.s. history and the first elected governor of the state. mark wayne mullin will be the first native american senator in oklahoma in almost 100 years. and in pennsylvania, democrat will become the first black woman winning the 12th district there. we are closing in at 5 a.m. on the east coast. votes are coming in. stand by and we'll bring you a key update for those races. for twice the goodness, twice the flavor, and twice the choice. sirloin salisbury steak and all-natural salmon. perfect for lunch or dinner.

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hello and welcome, everyone. top of the hour. i'm don lemon and what an election night. what an election morning in america. cnn's special coverage has been following all those historic wins, major upsets and some races that could take days, if not weeks, to crown a winner. this is the state of play right now. we're going to get the balance of power in the house. control of the house is up in the air right now. 218, that is the magic number this morning. that's how many seats both parties are hoping to win, okay? so let's take a look. democrats on the