♪ ♪ ♪ good evening on this critical election night in america. it is now 8:00 p.m. in the east, 5:00 p.m. in the west. at this hour, polls are closing in 16 states. including the key battlegrounds of pennsylvania, florida, and new hampshire. the polls have already closed in ohio and in georgia tonight. all eyes on the high stakes senate races there, and let's take a look tonight at the numbers coming in already. you can see in florida, at this hour, abc news can now project that ron desantis has been re-elected at governor. talk will turn to whether or not he runs for president in 2024. now to the senate in florida. senator marco rubio is taking a third term, he will return to the senate, it was a race against congresswoman val demings. one-time police chief in orlando, considered a very solid condition. a lot of talk about her as 0

potential running mate for joe biden. but marco rubio easily wins re-election to the senate. in georgia at this hour, the results, 31% of the vote in, still very early, raphael warnock with an early lead. the incumbent over herschel walker, but this is expected to tighten as the night goes on. in pennsylvania tonight, the polls have just closed, we're tracking this, the numbers expected at any moment. our first batch of data. john fetterman up against mehmet oz. the whole country aware of this race. we'll come back to that in a moment. up to the north in new hampshire. maggie hassan won the last time by just about 1,000 votes. 7% of the vote in, very early tonight, a sizable lead over don bolduc, an election denier until he said biden did change, a little bit of whiplash there in the state. but the polls in new hampshire have grown very tight going into election day. this is going to be a race we watch very closely tonight. we're watching north carolina at this hour. cheri beasley up against ted budd. beasley in the lead, but very

early. to ohio we go, the democrat there, congressman tim ryan, ten-term congressman, trying to get elected to senate in ohio, which has gone republican the last couple of presidential cycles, up against j.d. vance, supported by donald trump there, tim ryan with an early lead, but again, it's very early. governor mike dewine winning his race for governor in ohio. those are some of the races we're following at this hour. our entire team standing by live in the studio and across the country. abc news sel b kbc news electio america starts right now. this is an abc news special. election night 2022. tonight, the stakes could not be higher. who will control congress and state houses across the country? the key races that could determine everything, from your wallet to safety in our streets. even our climate. a woman's right to choose. and president biden's agenda. it's all on the line tonight. so many americans casting their vote early.

a record 45 million engaging in democracy like never before. results already coming in. our correspondents are live all across the country, ready to break it all down. your voice, your vote. election night 2022. now reporting, david muir. >> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on this election night in america. we are witnessing what could be one of the most defining midterm elections in u.s. history. millions of americans across the country tonight determining who will control the senate, who will control the house. the key issues, the economy, inflation, abortion rights, crime, and immigration. and in recent days, president biden arguing protecting our democracy is also on the ballot. of course, the president and the democrats hoping their handling of the economy so far, their efforts to respond to inflation will be enough to convince americans to stay the course. but this white house knows americans are feeling this, the prices they're paying for everything from gas to groceries. will the voters turn to the

republicans on the economy instead? the party in the white house, as you know at home, almost always faces a tough midterm election with very few exceptions. we'll dive into that tonight. and take a look at this. these are the two numbers you will hear over and over. in the senate, republicans need just one seat to take control of the senate in the house, republicans need a net gain of just five to take back control of the house. again, republicans need one seat in the senate, five seats in the house to take back control. we'll be tracking it all, 35 senate races, 36 gubernatorial races, and all 435 house seats up for grabs tonight. abc b kbc news powerhouse poli team here in the studio and correspondents across the country tonight. what they are hearing from the campaigns, what they're seeing on the ground. i'm joined here at the desk by jon karl, cecilia vega, linsey da davis, martha raddatz. rick klein, rachel scott, nate silver from fivethirtyeight. the exit polls are telling a portrait of america tonight. >> and they are what we thought

they were going to be. gas and groceries. i crisscrossed the country, south carolina to south dakota and asked the candidates, what's most important to the voters in your state? they all said at that time, it's the economy that was aneck doal, now we have the numbers bearing it out. look at the numbers. 32%, most important issue. followed by abortion. talking about more than a quarter people saying that was top of mind for them. and then crime, gun policy, and immigration. but i do want to focus for a moment on the inflation, because again, we haven't seen numbers like this since the '80s. and that doesn't bode so well for the democrats, because by and large this election cycle, you have people who are saying by 54%, we trust the republicans to handle inflation compared to 42%. so, we're talking about a 12-point margin there. and of course, the name that looms large that's not on the ballot, joe biden. take a look at his approval ratings here. 45%, now, by and large, that's pretty much in line with what

we've seen for presidents in the past midterms. it's exactly 45% is what donald trump had in 2018 and i know you're asking, who had the lowest ever, david, you want to know? >> please. >> 27%, that was harry truman back in 1946, just one year after he dropped the atomic bomb. but it might as well be just that bad for biden. he had a number of democratic candidates that didn't want to campaign with him, especially in nevada, arizona, and georgia. >> always that delicate dance. and we've seen that in so many of the very close senate races, where they were basically tied going into election night. i want to get right over to the big board with rick klein. we're tracking several of the states that viewers are going to watch very closely here tonight. rick, you and i have been talking about three states in particular, georgia, pennsylvania, and nevada. why are these three states just so important tonight? >> yeah, david, tell me who is going to win two out of three and i'll tell you who is going to control the senate. here's why. georgia was so pivotal in the last election. it could easily be the majority

maker all over again. the race there isn't just about who gets more votes, it's also about who gets to 50% to avoid a runoff. pennsylvania is the best opportunity that democrats have for a pickup anywhere on the map. they have a retiring republican senator in a state that joe biden won two years ago. john fetterman and dr. oz getting all that attention. and nevada out west, that has been seen as the best opportunity for republicans to knock off an incumbent democrat. >> the first latina senator, catherine cortez masto. very tight race there. for those watching, a couple of sleeper races that didn't get as much attention, north carolina, new hampshire, could be very telling. >> and the first numbers in out of new hampshire, maggie hassan with a little bit of a lead opened up with not a lot of the vote in. so key for the democrats to hold onto. if they lose that, it is very bad news. we're keeping an eye on what cheri beasley is doing in north carolina. this is mostly early vote and mostly vote from democratic parts of the state. i would expect the margins to narrow, if ted budd doesn't take

it over entirely. and looking at ohio tonight, where tim ryan has a lead in the early vote. we are just getting david, our first taste of numbers in pennsylvania, i just checked, it's the pittsburgh area, which happens to be john fetterman's hometown. and it's all early vote, so, don't expect this to last, but we're seeing that roll in. >> it's going to be a very long night ahead. grateful to have you and everybody else here, as well. let's dive into georgia. this is the race between raphael warnock and herschel walker. very tight. and so far, warnock performing slightly above the benchmark where he needs to be? >> exactly. keeping an eye on the most populous counties, because that's where most of the voters are in the state. fulton county, the atlanta area, most of the vote we've had in so far is the early in-person, that is going to skew heavily democratic. look at how joe biden did there, aout 72% of the vote. warnock is ahead of that. and for our purposes, what does he need to do to break even? what does he need to do in this part of the state in he needs to

get about 72%. right now, sitting at 75%. >> this is really fascinating. this is a new tool for ■viewers to follow along the night with us. this is the benchmark, where he would need to be performing to have a decent night. and he's outperforming. >> both candidates, we see the number there, we can do it in every battleground state tonight. >> big governor's race in georgia, as well. the rematch between brian kemp and stacey abrams. brian kemp outperforming herschel walker at this point? >> yeah, and i just looked at the numbers and looks like so far tonight, of course, both democrats are leading in those early returns, there are about 60,000 people who voted for brian kemp and didn't vote for herschel walker. either they voted for warnock or voted for the third party candidate or didn't vote for anybody at all. that's a big problem for republicans. brian kemp, we see it in the pre-election polls, is much better positioned to be re-elected than herschel walker is. >> georgia on my mind, we're going to be talking about georgia all night long. i want to go to rachel scott, who covers congress for us. we already have returns coming in tonight. >> we do.

and this is where things stand at this hour. you'll see the map start to nil in as we start to get some projections. david, you mentioned it at the very top. five, remember, that is the number that we are tracking tonight. this is what republicans need to net by the end of the night in order to take the house. i want to take you over to the race grid, because we've done all the homework for you. all 435 house seats are up for grabs, every two years. we have crunched it down to what will decide control of the house and you're seeing it listed on your screen here. the left, seats held by democrats. on the right, seats held by republicans and look. we're already starting to get some results in tonight. republicans flipping three seats held by democrats right there in florida. >> and in georgia, looks like they picked up a race here, the democrat has won in that race? >> yes, that is lucy mcbath, gun control activist here. she was able to hang onto this seat. this will be a good sign for democrats, they wanted to hang onto this seat. she's actually running in a different district, had to introduce herself to verbecause

redrawn in georgia. >> three flips by the republicans already tonight. when you mention that number, that five seat, historically speaking, that is a very low hurdle for republicans to have to meet tonight. >> it really is. when we look back in history, we kind of did some homework and seen how former presidents fared when it came to their approval ratings and how they did in the first midterm election. in 2010, former president barack obama, 44% approval rating, lost 63 seats in the house. >> called it a shellacking. >> he said the losses were humbling. in 2018, donald trump, lost 40 seats in the house. so, tonight, voters will decide whether democrats will gain seats or lose seats in the house. >> what's so interesing, they are in the low 40 range. we have seen this before, historically speaking, we just have to see how it bears out. and if you are looking at george w. bush, we should point out, we don't want to take this away from him, but this was shortly after 9/11. he didn't lose seats in the first mid determine, it was the second one where he said it was a thumping, right?

i want to go to virginia, you were talking about this race earlier and we should bring our viewers up to speed. these are the races early on. this is virginia 7 and this involved a representative of congress, take us through it. >> abigail spanberger, who barely won in 2020, she actually flipped this seat in 2018. she's a moderate. she's one of actually five democrats that did not vote for house speaker nancy pelosi. now running in a very tough race. we have 77% of the vote expected in. let's take a look here. most of this is election day vote, which is likely why you are seeing the republican in the lead here, because most republicans do vote on election day. this is going to be a tough race. but david, whiy we watching thi race? if they are able to flip this seat, they are on for a good night. >> and elaine lurluri awe, a democrat in virginia, she's on the january 6th committee.

her opponent is in the lead. >> her opponent is in the lead. getting some election day results in right now, 58%. she's in the lead. 51% of the vote expected in. so, it's still a little early tonight, but you're right, david. she knew that her role on the january 6th committee would possibly turn off some of the conservative voters in this district. she said she has no regrets. these are two veterans running against each other in a district where 1 out of every 5 constituents was in the military. >> we'll come back to this often throughout the night. rachel, thank you. i want to bring in senate silve. we come to you with the probability. and i wanted to show people at home, right now, we've put florida in the republican column for marco rubio and where does the probability stand now? >> it is impressive that rubio won so quickly, but it didn't shift numbers so much, because it was baked in. but georgia, if they were to go for herschel walker, a much bigger change. that would go to 80%, based on

that one call alone. what if they win pennsylvania? as rick said, it starts to become very, very difficult for democrats. they lose their best opportunity. >> let's just -- let's give them to the democrats and -- >> put georgia over there, throw pennsylvania over there, and those two seats swing everything most of the time, now, 89%. >> which explains why there's been so much attention on georgia and pennsylvania. new numbers here on georgia coming in yet, rick? >> yeah, we haven't seen that much, but i'm keeping an eye on the ticket splitters, because you keep watching the margins right now to see warnock with a ten-point margin over herschel walker. again, we don't want to read too much into this, because most of the vote we've gotten in has li been early vote and overwhelmingly from democratic parts of the state in the atlanta acrea. in the governor's race, brian kemp in his race very close too

stacey abrams, only three points behind. that is a big story line, we're seeing it in new hampshire, ohio, governors and different candidates doing differently. >> according to the numbers, kemp outperforming herschel walker. walker hand-picked by donald trump. >> this is incredible. rick mentioned there are 70,000 people in georgia who we already know voted for kemp, the republican candidate for governor, the republican governor, who did not vote for herschel walker, the republican senate candidate. this you you have to say, comes down to, in part to donald trump. donald trump recruited herschel walker. herschel walker was living in texas at the time. said come back to the place where you played college football decades ago, run. got him to run against the other republican leadership in the state and in washington wanted somebody else to run. trump got walker to run and kemp, on the other side, you k know, was targeted by donald trump for defeat. he recruited a candidate to run against him.

so, the trump candidate is running considerably behind the candidate that defied donald trump. >> cecilia vega, we have a few seconds left in this break and i wanted to just ask you real quickly before we go where the white house is tonight. i know they put a hopeful face forward in front of the public. >> well, they are bracing for potentially big losses. they are hopeful about the senate, but they have long been aware democrats in general aware, but very privately, that the house is theirs to lose. president biden yesterday said he is hopeful on the senate, but he knows the house is going to be tough. >> and martha, you traveled this country, and you asked about, you heard president biden talking about democracy being on the ballot at the 11th hour here in this election. people care about democracy, they do voice their concerns, but it all came down to the economy. everywhere you went. >> it truly did. and especially in nevada. i was in nevada about ten days ago. everyone i asked about democracy or any other issues, would turn it right back around to the economy. how much their groceries cost, about those gas bills and especially in nevada, the

hospitality industry, where they are restaurant workers, people who clean rooms, they care about this. they've got unions, the culinary union going door-to-door, trying to bring out that vote. you've talked about harry reid's machine there. >> his machine on the ground. that's a little later in the night, but we can't wait for nevada, too. we are just getting started here on election night here on abc. going to check back in on georgia, pennsylvania tonight, new hampshire, ohio, all of these key senate races. the polls have thousand closed, the numbers are coming in. our entire team here. we'll be back with live coverage here on abc right after the break. my name is douglas. i'm a writer/director and i'm still working. in the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by people who are all younger than you. i had to get help somewhere along the line totay competitive. i discovered prevagen. i started taking it and after a period of time, my memory improved.

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the east. polls have thousand closed in arkansas. we have results coming in from a number of key races. abc news can project the republican there, very popular governor chris sununu. he was seeking his fourth he's stood up to trump and critical of him before. he's also been asked if he's going to run for president in 2024. he said he doesn't know, but tonight, voters in new hampshire re-electing chris sununu. governor there in their state. and the question here would be, do the wins of mr. sununu carry don bolduc? >> we know over the last 20 years, when there is a governor's race and senate race in the same state, when the governor wins, 85% of the time, the senate candidate of the same party wins. so, chris sununu winning early, winning by a significant margin, should help don bolduc a lot. the flip side is, if don loses, he's in that 15% of people in the last 20 years who had his

governor win the race at the top of the ticket and he doesn't win the senate seat. >> wasn't able to pull it off. we know maggie hassan won by 1,017 votes last time around. early numbers and show her with a sizable lead, but that was expected? >> yeah, and only about 10% of the vote in, so, we need to be patient on new hampshire. this call is more about sununu's strength than it is about anything relative in the senate. but i'm interested to see how maggie hassan is running ahead of where she needs to, including in the southeastern part of the state. that is part for her to keep the margins up. >> what's the benchmark show us? she's outperforming joe biden in new hampshire. >> way ahead, but very early. >> maggie hassan taking an early lead against don boll dducboldu. he was one of the candidates denied the election. >> as soon as he got the nomination, he suddenly became a believer in the 2020 election. >> just getting started here on abc. our live coverage continues in a moment.

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lie election coverage on air online and streaming on the abc seven bay area app. now from abc. seven your voice your vote. and good evening on this very important election night. i'm dan ashley in the abc seven newsroom voters are showing up. despite today's rain polls are open until eight pm about another 2.5 hours. you can vote

in person if you're using a mail in ballot, drop that off at any polling place or a ballot dropbox by eight o'clock mailed ballots must have today's postmark and be received within seven days. in order for your vote to council. keep that in mind. voters in the bay area's biggest city or choosing a new leader, abc seven news reporter amanda del castillo is live in san jose with the mayor's race, amanda yeah. dan, longtime politicians. cindy chavez, a newcomer, matt mayhem are seeking the mayor seat. their separate campaigns provided video of the two hitting the polls earlier this morning. top priorities for both include homelessness, affordable housing , public safety and combating crime. this is expected to be a tight race to replace current mayor sam liccardo, who is turning out after eight years. chavez and mehan have both addressed the topic of experience. travis has dedicated more than two decades to various public offices. this includes having served as the city's vice mayor, she says. it's experience necessary to get things done. on

the other hand, mehan is fairly new to public office elected to san jose city council in january 2021. he says he is able to bring a fresh approach to local leadership, saying he can offer change now. of course, we are down to the wire with only hours until the polls close will be keeping an eye out here on development happening in the south bay live in san jose and ended up with studio abc seven news we will amanda. thanks very much. every voter in california gets a mail in ballot. you got yours, no doubt and millions have already been returned about 23% statewide. this ballot tracker is available on our website, abc seven news .com if you'd like to keep up with that yourself, of course, we'll continue to update that for you. here. let's go live now to abc seven news reporter jr stone at san francisco city hall jr. well dan, the energy is electric out here at san francisco city hall . over the course of the last couple of hours. you can see all these people out here it has gotten busier and busier. and that is certainly good news as

people come out to let their voice be heard now those from the department of elections tell me as you look at some of this video that going into today, 30% of those mail in ballots had already been turned in. if you look back to the 2018 midterm elections, we were at 28% of those mail in ballots turned in, so definitely some improvement in that area of those early ballots that were cast before today and also keep in mind. we will start seeing results later today, but those will be results from the ballots that came in prior to today. they are not going through those ballots today. they are not counting the ballots. today those results will be prior results and it could take in some of these races. 234 days to get the final results so certainly exciting out here reporting live in san francisco j. r. stone abc seven news, okay, jr. thanks very much exciting. and as we've said today, patients will come in handy us for all of these races,

but in san francisco's jr just explained the votes that are cast today will not be counted today. governor newsom cast his ballot today in sacramento alongside first partner jennifer siebel. newsom governor newsom is expected to win a second term fairly handily. the governor is up 20 points in the polls well over his republican opponent, brian dalli. new some defeated recall measure last year, as you were called recently instead of campaigning for reelection, he's been focused on abortion rights and boosting fellow democratic candidates. now we have nearly a dozen members of the abc seven news team working on elections tonight for you bringing you live coverage around the bay area on the races and the issues that can make a difference where you live. we will be live streaming local results as soon as the polls closed from eight until 11 o'clock, then you can watch that with our abc. they area app on your smartphone or your smart tv. you can watch the app in livestream as you watch abc coverage here on channel seven. we'll keep you updated

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welcome back to abc bbc ne live coverage, now 8:30 here in the east. polls closed in arkansas, as well. we have results coming in. let's look at what we can project at this hour. again, florida, governor ron desantis has been re-elected as governor of florida. the conversation immediately turns to whether or not he runs in 2024. everyone is ready to jump in on that one. alabama, kay ivey, re-elected there in alabama. in tennessee, governor bill lee re-elected to a second term there. the races we're watching at 8:30, of course, the georgia senate race tonight, between senator raphael warnock, the incumbent, up against herschel walker. the republican. as you can see there, 42% of the vote in, right now, raphael warnock with a sizable lead,

rick klein is going to tell us why the numbers appear the way they do at this point in the night and how this could tighten as we go forward. pennsylvania tonight, the first numbers coming in, john fetterman, the democrat there up against republican dr. mehmet oz. they both want to take over for pat toomey. some of these numbers from the pittsburgh area, which we know fetterman is from. which explains why he's taking such a sizable lead early on up against dr. oz. in north carolina tonight, cheri beasley, the former supreme court chief justice in that state up against republican congressman ted budd, also with a sizable lead. 55% of the vote, she's up 52% to 45%. in ohio, it's gone republican the last presidential cycle and the one before that, as well. congressman tim ryan, the democrat there, out with an early lead over j.d. vance, supported by donald trump. 29% of the vote in. very early in ohio. if he was able to keep this lead, that would be a major story. to the northeast, new hampshire in new england tonight. maggie hassan seeking a second term in that state, opening up a widening lead here up against

don bolduc. 60% to 38%. she won this race last time with just about 1,017 votes. she knew the polls got very tight in the last few days before the election. so far tonight, in the early numbers, she's doing a decent job in new hampshire. want to bring it back to georgia. you told me in the break, we're beginning to see a blue mirage, which we have to bring the viewers up to speed on. >> look, david, there's two big things you are watching. where the vote comes from and what kind of what we're talking about. starting with the what kind, about 60% of the vote in georgia expected to be early or absentee and seeing warnock winning that by ten points. what this means is that walker has to win the election day vote with a 60/40 not impossible, but it just tells you how he has to make it up. when you look at where the vote is coming in, a couple of suburban counties coming in. warnock is hitting his numbers in cobb county, just north of the city, gwinnett county.

most of that vote so far is early and that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to hold up. when you see a lead for john fetterman early on, when you see a lead for tim ryan, when you see a lead even for cheri beasley, this reflects the fact that more democratic parts of the state are reporting early and that it's early vote. >> i want to go back to georgia for a second, because of this benchmark that we have. i want to show viewers at home. show many the metro atlanta area tonight, just how raphael warnock is performing against the benchmark, where he would need to be in order for this to end well for him tonight. 72%, the benchmark from fivethirtyeight? >> yeah, that means that warnock, fulton county, huge part of atlanta, atlanta is 50% of all the vote in the state of georgia, fulton county, the biggest county and warnock would need to be getting about three-fourths of the vote, north of 70% to break even and he is there. again, the question about whether this is going to tighten a little bit. we're seeing a lot of people not voting for walker who voted the top of the ticket. >> and how is warnock doing

against joe biden's numbers? >> of course, joe biden won and you're seeing warnock ahead of him there and in some of the other parts in and around atlanta. >> let's swing it over to governor christie. you are getting information on the ground? >> yeah, earlier, david, we said that walker was initially trailing 3%, 3.5% behind kemp's performance, that's now increased. and they're now consistently seeing across the state walker trailing kemp by five. now, that becomes a huge problem for walker. if you trail kemp by five, that puts you probably somewhere in the 47%, 48% range. that may still lead to a runoff, but if he stays consistently five points behind brian kemp, herschel walker is in big trouble. >> looking at the potential for split ticket voting in georgia. >> that's exactly what it is. republicans are voting kemp at the top of the ticket and right now, they are saying consistently throughout georgia, they are seeing walker's totals in those same votes being 5%

behind kemp. >> donna brazile? >> i'm happy that georgia is on the map. we couldn't find a southern state to even run credible campaigns. but since 201, stacey abrams and the terrific job she did on the ground game, she put georgia in play for the 2020 presidential, of course, the democrats won two senate seats, tonight, what you're seeing the democrats coming out, but also independents favoring democrats, at least right now we know on the senate side. >> donna with us all night long. i want to get out to steve osunsami, lives in georgia, covers that state for us. a little deja vu for us tonight. but in this race against rar y'al warnock and walker, the warnock team has to be happy so far. >> yes, you know, they were cheering here tonight, as they saw the numbers, but they are also realizing that the numbers continue continue to drop. i think that -- i want to underline a point that there is

a big difference here between how many voters saw raphael warnock and stacey abrams and so some of the differences you're seeing in the two races have a lot to do with the candidate and also have a lot to do with the incumbents. in the georgia governor race, one thing i want to underline is that brian kemp gets a lot of sunshine from some voters on the left for his performance during covid-19 and his easing of the restrictions before other states. there are a lot of black small business owners, for example, who i know personally, who told me they are voting for brian kemp, because they worry that stacey abrams, for example, were to win office and we were -- would find ourselves in another situation, how she would perform and the decisions she would make. so, a lot of split ticket voting on both sides of the aisle. >> steve osunsami in georgia for us tonight. steve, thank you so much. i want to put back up on the board, the two races from florida, which we called very

early tonight. we took note of that here in the studio. the governor's race, ron desantis re-elected, but mario rubio, easily beating val demings. potential running mate for joe biden, the first female police chief in orlando. very strong candidate, but marco rubio sailing to re-election there in the senate. let's get right to ron desantis, cecilia vega. you are just back from florida and the conversation almost immediately turns to what he is going to do in 2024. >> i'm surprised it took us this long to say 2024 tonight. no surprise in calling ron desantis for this one. it solidifies his standing in the party. when you talk to democrats, folks inside the white house, they're going to tell you, they believe ron desantis is a smarter version of donald trump. that's what they say privately behind his back. they see him as a clear political threat and we know he's been a huge thorn in the white house's side. we saw that thawing after hurricane ian. president biden right there with

ron desantis and that visit to florida, but that was a rare moment in this, what is a pretty nasty relationship, given all the issues that we've been covering with the bussing of the migrants and all of that. and then you heard biden on the campaign trail call ron desantis donald trump incarnate. but the name calling goes on both sides. you see former president trump very much view ron desantis as a political rival. but this is about solidifying desantis' standing in the party. he's very popular. republicans want him to have influence in the party. >> the other major story, because we called it so early, i know your home is miami, there's going to be questions in democratic circles, have we lost florida to the republicans? we've seen what it's done the last couple of presidential cycles. >> they have. they've been very slowly losing

florida to the republicans. and when i see those numbers, blue, miami-dade on that map, miami-dade is probably the bluest county in the state, i mean, i see it every day, the blue ocean there and it's very blue, but this time, it looks like it's going red. and really, it's the democrats that have themselves to blame for this, because they really have not fought back. you know that miami is one of the centers of disinformation, especially among latino voters. the majority of residents in miami-dade are latinos. and they don't fight back. it seems almost as if they have given up on florida and now a lot of people just consider it not a swing state, but a red state. and for the first time, possibly, the latino vote will go republican, because even though we talk ed a lot about that in 2020, joe biden still won the latino vote in florida. just by a much smaller margin than the election for hillary

clinton. so it looks like it's turning red and the la tee knows have a lot to do with that. but one thing we have to be careful, it's not indicative of the national latino vote. florida is a very small fraction of the latino vote on a national level, so, we have to be careful not to read too much into this. this is just florida. >> not a monolith vote. we always remember that with the latino vote. it is segmented in different regions of the country. it's defined very differently depending on where you are in the country. these numbers are very telling and it backs up what you just said in miami-dade. who hass watched florida nyone - politics. for rubio to win by 60,000 votes -- joe biden two years ago got 53% of the vote. he lost florida. he still got 53% of the vote in miami-dade county and the fact that marco rubio is running up the numbers -- rachel has the numbers up for desantis. double digits in miami. >> just blown away how much

desantis is outperforming in the bedrock of florida. not only here, but also take a look in orlando. in orange, as well. former president donald trump, 37% of the vote back in 2020, look at ron desantis, 46% of the vote. >> just today, donald trump in that interview warning, if you wll, ron desantis not to run for now, otherwise he could be hurt by running. >> and look, he is -- you talk to people close to trump and they will tell you that he is ready to come down hard on ron desantis. but how do you do that now? ron desantis just won decisively re-election in florida, despite the fact that donald trump never endorsed him. didn't capable with him. they were -- there's like a cold war between the two of them and yet ron desantis wins. somebody who was created by donald trump, but now has gone beyond donald trump, but look at this. florida, florida, florida. florida has always been, for our lifetimes, the decisive swing

state, or at least one of a handful of decisive swing states and now it's florida, florida, florida, republican, republican, republican. heck, they haven't elected a republican -- democratic governor since 1994. >> 1994. that's why jon karl is here, he's got -- i want to get to victor oquendo live in florida. there is going to be a lot of soul searching within the democratic party. the question, have they given up on florida, did they give them enough attention? >> well, david, we are here inside of ron desantis election head quarters and this room is just ready to explode. and as joyous as everyone is here inside this room right now, they are feeling the exact opposite way on the democratic side of the ticket right now. i spent the day talking to a few democrats, let me just give you a couple bullet points of what i was told. the democratic party in florida knead needs to clean house. there has been a failure of leadership and we are getting our butts kicked. they acknowledge how the republicans are more disciplined, they show up to the

polls, voter turnout very low on the democratic side. they feel that they have dropped the ball here in the sunshine state. especially on voter regi registration. and they have serious concerns about the future of the party in this state. remember, florida, it turned blue for barack obama twice. much different story right now in 2022. david? >> very strong performance from ron desantis in florida, as well as marco rubio tonight. the picture from florida. new numbers from georgia, pennsylvania, new hampshire, ohio, we're going to have those numbers for you as we continue our live coverage here. midterm election 2022. your voice, your vote. we'll be right back here in a moment. my father didn't know his dad. she knew that i always want to know more about my family history. with ancestry i dug and dug until i found some information. i was able to find out more than just a name. and then you add it to the tree. i found ship manifests.

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now 8:46 here in the east on election night 2022. we're following a number of key senate battle grounds, any one of these races could actually determine who controls the senate. the end of the night or the end of the next couple of days. again, republicans need a net gain of just one senate seat to take back control of the senate. let's look at the races, where they stand at this hour. in georgia, raphael warnock in the lead, 51% to herschel walker's 47%. 47% of the vote in in this race. we're starting to get a clearer picture here. lead, not too big, but a lead that the warnock campaign's very happy with at this hour. to pennsylvania we go, and of course, the numbers are very early in pennsylvania. 8% of the vote, in a region

fetterman is from. expected to do well. there tim ryan up against j.d. vance. both trying to fill rob portman's seat, who is retiring from the senate. tim ryan in the early lead, but again, these are expected numbers from the metropolitan areas in ohio coming in first here tonight. and to the northeast, new hampshire, a race we're following, it looks like maggie hassan has taken a sizable lead. the polling had gotten very tight in these final days. she has a lead over don bolduc, who was an election denier and said that joe biden did win the election. again, maggie hassan taking a lead there in that state. coming back out here into the election center and we have rachel scott over at the board following what could be bell weather races in the house. again, they need a pick up of five seats, republicans to take back control of the house. this is virginia, where glenn youngkin won as governor. and a couple of districts he did well in. >> david, i've had my eye on two

districts in virginia, starting with virginia's seventh district here. this is a place where glenn youngkin won and where president biden won. you have abigail spanberger, former cia officer and a very tough race here, but take a look. 90% of the vote expected in, the republican is ahead here. this district is actually very close to washington, d.c., they're really betting on more liberal parts of virginia to carry abigail spanberger through. right now, she is down. >> and in the other race you're watching, elaine luria, a member of the january 6th committee, she's well behind tonight. >> probably only one of the places where campaigning on expanding the defense budget is a thing here, because two veterans, former veterans running against each other. 70% of the vote expected in, we're still waiting for some early by mail returns, but right now, you see the republican ahead in this race. >> i want to go over to martha raddatz, these are navy vets competing against one another at a time when joe biden is really on the ballot here. >> he truly is.

and i think you just go back to what you just said, january 6th. you have the two veterans going against each other, elaine luria, a nuclear engineer and kiggans, former helicopter pilot going right at each other. very different kinds of campaigns, no trump endorsement on these races. and kiggans has really walked that line that so many republicans are. she doesn't out and out said the election is stolen by any means, but she talks about, yes, joe biden was elected, and i wish she hadn't been elected. but i do think this all comes back to january 6th. you have a lot of veterans down there, 1 in 5 of the voters are veterans in that area. it's norfolknorfolk, a navy bas. and those two women, 18 races where there are two veterans going against each other. >> incredible to think about. elaine luria said it could cost her her job, but still would have been worth it to have been on that committee, but mary bruce, if this 11th hour

argument about democracy being on the ballot this year, when you look at a race like this, questions whether or not that strategy would work. >> and it will show a lot to democrats about if that strategy will work at large. what's interesting about these two races, these are democrats that came in in that wave in 2018. you recall that night, so much conversation about the pink wave, the wave of democrats that were coming in. this is a real test about what is going to happen to those voters throughout the night in these two races. remember, these were two women propelled to victory by those voters who were sick of donald trump, they wanted a change, they wanted to get off the trump train. are they going to stay off of that, are they going to stay with democrats, are they going to go back to the republicans? that is why democrats are watching these two races. if they are flipping the seats back red, they will tell democrats they are going to lose the house. >> they wanted a new chapter after donald trump, but joe biden isn't the answer. >> exactly. is that going to be a lasting trend or go back to republicans after what they've seen just in the last two years?

>> virginia is really interesting because glenn youngkin won there as the republican governor, you talked to him in the last couple of days and would see many of the republican candidates outside d.c. and in virginia are using his playbook. >> i was with the governor as he was campaigning for vega, running against spanberger, the playbook is, basically, donald trump's policies, you know, very conservative, but without the drama of donald trump and not really embracing donald trump. there's another important point here, though. kevin mccarthy, the presumptive speaker if republicans win, has gone out to recruit candidates in these races, and he's had a priority here to recruit women, to recruit minorities and to recruit veterans. and in these races, what have you seen? two women, one of them also a veteran. and one of them also a latina. so, this has been mccarthy's strategy, because he noted in 2020, republicans picked up seats, picked up 20 seats. every republican that knocked off a democrat was a woman, so

that -- we may be seeing some of that strategy. >> and they only need five seats to take back control of the house. cecilia, what is the relationship between president biden and kevin mccarthy? >> oh, where do we begin? there is not one. there's not much of one. kevin mccarthy hasn't been to the white house in a very long time. there's reportedly one phone call to the white house from kevin mccarthy, he had to get patched through, they had to call back to confirm that it was him, but look, kevin mccarthy has said he doesn't necessarily want to launch all of these investigations that many -- or impeachment, at least, challenges that republicans in his party or caucus are calling for, if they take control. but remember, president biden won this office because he campaigned on being someone who could work on both sides of the aisle. this is going to be the biggest challenge for him, depending on what happens, if he can continue to keep that promise going, given that he does not have very much of a relationship with the potential future speaker of the house. >> and the biggest challenge for

kevin mccarthy is what the republican house looks like, if they gain back control of the house. what the makeup is, if he has a fraction in his party or if he has moderate republicans like he is or make some deals. we heard about marjorie taylor green, who would return to a committee post. >> this is not going to be easy, to corral the trump-leaning members of congress. and of course we have seen kevin mccarthy fall right in line with donald trump. he is a big supporter of his, you know, he broke with him very, very, very briefly right after january 6th, turned right back to him. >> but in an important moment. he came out and held him accountable. >> yes. but how he is going to corral this group of republicans, which is likely to include some more establishment republicans, but increasingly a lot of very maga republicans, and if the senate flips, that's a whole other consideration. >> how does he do it, kevin mccarthy? people don't realize, he's a campaigner, and he's been helping so many of the

republican candidates. is he ready? does he have the formula down based on what the makeup is of the house? >> i think he really does. first of all, donald trump has now endorsed him for speaker, which is a big deal. the big question is, would trump turn on him? kevin mccarthy is the speaker if republicans win control. barring something massive and unforeseen. he's worked that conference, he's raised more money than we have seen republican leaders in the house raise in the past. and he has gone out there and he's worked all these races, he's recruited these candidates, he's earned their rloyalty. but it will be a tough conference to lead. >> if the house gains back control, a lot of questions about nancy pelosi's future. she acknowledged that after the attack on her husband, what kind of leadership post she would have if she wants it at all at this point and we'll dive into that discussion as we contine here, as we approach 9:00. our coverage here of the election night 2022, a crucial midterm election night. several key senate battlegrounds, we're watching the numbers come in and we'll

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now open in northern california. ♪ welcome back, as we hit the top of the hour. 9:00 here in the east, 6:00 p.m. in the west and the polls have closed in 15 more states, including here in new york, arizona, michigan, texas, and now wisconsin. several key states there. the polls now closed in 41 states total, nine more states in the west still open. let's run down the numbers as they come in. look at the races we're following at this hour. the arizona senate race, of course, as soon as we get numbers on this, mark kelly being challenged by blake masters. arizona governor race, the democrat, katie hobbs, the secretary of state there, her challenger, kari lake, a former t television news anchor, donald trump backing her solidly. to colorado we go, the senator

there, the democrat, michael ben net, seeking a third term, hoping to return to the senate, up against a moderate republican, joe o'day, not seeing eye to eye with the former president donald trump there, trying to make the case that colorado should elect a moderate democrat. as soon as we have numbers, we'll bring them to you. the senate race in wisconsin also pif at tonight. mandela barnes challenging the republican senator ron johnson, seeking a third term, waiting for numbers there. the wisconsin governor race, governor tony e vvers being challenged by tim michaels. gretchen withitmer, in michigan in the early lead up against her republican challenger, tudor dixon. in new york state, a lot of eyes on kathy hochul, the incumbent, will she be able to earn her first full term, her challenger focusing on crime here in new york state, we're expecting numbers here in new york on governor hochul's race any moment.

abc news can project at this hour that chuck schumer has won re-election as senator, the democratic leader in the senate, returning to the senate. we'll see at the end of the night if the democrats still control the senate, but chuck schumer returning. in georgia, tracking this race as we have been since early in the night. the senate race there, very close. rar y'al raphael warnock in the lead. some signs about warnock's race up against walker. a dead heat. 49.1% to 49.1%. the senate race in pennsylvania, john fetterman and dr. oz. a sizable lead over dr. oz, but we're talking about the southern portion of that state, where fetterman is from, we'll watch that closely. in north carolina, cheri beasley opened up an early lead, that's tightened significantly since we last checked last half hour, republican congressman ted budd tightening that race, now 49-48. in ohio at this hour, congressman tim ryan looking to replace rob portman.

j.d. vance, the backing of donald trump. tim ryan appearing to hold his own with 39% of the vote in. we're going to dive into the counties in ohio here. in new hampshire, maggie hassan holding onto that lead, it's tightened a bit, but only slightly. 58.7% to 40%. our entire team standing by, abc news election night in america continues right now. live from new york city and across the country, election night 2022. now reporting, david muir. >> good evening for those just joining us on this least night in america. the night shaping up to be one of the most defining midterm elections in u.s. history. a tug of war, a battle for control of the house. we have been saying this all night long, republicans need a net gain of just five seats, historically, that's a very low hurdle for republicans, couple of flips, rachel scott has reported on them already and we're keeping an eye on several key races in virginia that are turning out to be bell weather

races on how democrats might do the rest of the night. the future of president biden's agenda at stake. we're going to be looking at the key races all this half hour. i want to get over to rick klein at the wall. you've been diving into two races, pennsylvania and ohio. and we've been talking a lot about the split tickets, whether or not people would vote for somebody for governor and then change, vote the other party for senator and pennsylvania was a big question with josh shapiro, such a strong candidate for governor there. >> we're seeing it play out, almost the mirror image of what we're siege tonight in georgia. the numbers right now, don't read into this. this is mostly early vote. but what we do know, when you see john fetterman racking up big numbers, look at that margin, 400,000 votes so far. we know the same voters on the same night are also voting for governor. look at this. look at what they are doing for josh shapiro. 432,000 votes. so, that is -- that's 25,000 you 30,000 votes that are being cast at the top of the ticket, josh shapiro expected to beat doug mastriano. going to be tighter in the

senate race. >> ohio, you were looking at this, a close race here, tim ryan holding his own at this point in the night here. >> look, in the governor's race, we know mike dewine is running away with it, not really a surprise. >> very popular republican governor. we called him some time ago. he won easily, re-election. the question would be if split ticket voters who would then vote for tim ryan. >> and the answer to that is almost certainly yes. a large amount. so, most of the vote we have is the early vote. these numbers may not hold. but i'm keyed into a couple of places where donald trump won counties like this, just west of cleveland on lake erie. our benchmarks have tim ryan needing to get about 52% of the vote and he's doing just that. over in his hometown of youngstown, that's another one. donald trump won this county. tim ryan doing ten points above the benchmark. a lot of vote to go, but it is very clear that tim ryan is doing what he needs to do to potentially win as a democrat in ohio at the same night that a

very popular incumbent republican is cruising to re-election. >> this is really fascinating. tim ryan is an example of one of these democrats who kept president biden at bay. he asked, would he have president biden campaign with him, he said, no, it's not about who i'm campaigning with, but who i'm campaigning for. >> you have to pay attention to candidates that win in places that donald trump won. he's getting what he needs to get this the big cities. and so far tonight, he's holding his own in the rural areas. >> tim ryan's playbook, it's an interesting to watch him keep the president at bay and try to talk about pocketbook issues this entire race. >> yeah, it hasn't just been about the president, it's been about democrats. he's taken on the establishment, he's taken on some people would argue the progressives. he was absolutely the perfect match. he is a blue collar union supporting democrat in that kind of state where we used to win, you know, he will set a path forward, hopefully for the

presidential race in a couple years. win or lose. >> this was a guy who actually took on house speaker nancy pelosi when his own advisers and friends said don't do that. > look, tim has run a traditional old school democratic campaign. he campaigned in the rural counties as well as the suburbs, he understood that in order to make up the deficit that democrats have in that state, he had to go out there and separate himself from the national democrats. i think he's run a fantastic campaign. i was in ohio a few weeks before president biden came and announced some key investments. while many of the democrats did not show up, tim ryan did. >> i want to ask you a are seei ticket, particularly in pennsylvania, that's quite telling, josh shapiro doing much better than john fetterman. >> how about we start with the from misthat candidates matter? we spent so little time talking about that, we talking

atmospherics and poll numbers, but look, has triano is an awful candidate. so, josh shapiro is a good candidate. he's running against an awful candidate and now so you start with this big gap and if you are dr. oz now, you've got to get so many of those people to cross over. and i want folks to remember, there's a democratic incumbent in pennsylvania, republicans have dominated the gubernatorial scene for the last 20 years. for most of the last 20 years, they've had more republican governors in the country than democrats. think about this, in the last 20 years, only five democratic incumbent governors have been defeated. only five. in 20 years of races. so, it's still very hard to defeat a democratic incumbent governor when they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. hasn't happened much and you are seeing it in pennsylvania. if you don't have a good candidate, it's not going to happen and dr. oz may really be upset at the end of this, if he comes up short, at how badly mastriano did at the top of the ticket. >> you saw him talking about how, i'll be a moderate in washington and trying to voter

vote for him. >> true, but the problem is, oz has trump's endorsement. right? so, you know, somebody like mike dewine can do that, right, effectively, somebody like brian kemp can do that effectively, but if you're dr. oz and you not only have had trump's endorsement, but had trump come in for you the last weekend and you stood next to him at a rally, it's very hard to sell to the swing voters, david, that, well, but i'll be different if i go to washington. >> very early in the night, but if dr. oz doesn't pull this off, they are going to be questioning if having former president trump there in the final day or two was the right call. >> they're going to be questioning that, they're going to be questioning trump endorsing mastriano. and by the way, all the people with mccormick in the primary are all going to be saying, if trump hadn't endorsed oz there, mccormick was the candidate, mccormick would beat fetterman easily. >> dr. oz wins, trump takes credit. >> he won't take blame if he

loses. it will be oz's fault. >> eva pilgrim is live in pennsylvania, covering this race, in fact, both races for us. eva? >> yeah, i mean, exactly what you're talking about there, david. the split ticket voting. we heard from so many voters in the last several days that we've been crisscrossing through pennsylvania that they just felt like the republican candidate mast triano was too extreme. and when you look at his campaign, it's completely unconventional. his campaign manager is a pastor, with no campaigning experience. and that's the way that his campaign has been run. and so, when people start to look at the other races on the ticket, there are questions. and particularly what chris christie just said, that idea of trump coming and dr. oz campaigning with him, a lot of the voters we talked to weren't sure where dr. oz stood on those issues. and there were questions about, ws he moderate, was he extreme, what would he really do once he

got into the seat, if he was to win? and particularly amongst suburban voters, when i was talking to them, especially women, on that issue of abortion, that kept coming up. they kept saying, that one issue was what swayed them to fetterman, because quite frankly, a lot of voters that i talked to weren't thrilled with either of these candidates that they had to choose from in this senate race, and many people telling me, they were choosing the lesser of two evils, the person they thought would do the least amount of harm, david. >> really interesting, and eva, elections officials there in pennsylvania have been warning, urging caution to all of us that this could take quite some time in pennsylvania. >> exactly. because those mail-in ballots take so long to count. and it is a process that they can't start until election day at 7:00 a.m., they then have to take them out of the first envelope, make sure that that envelope is correctly dated and signed, then open the secrecy

envelope, then flatten out the ballots, put them in a stack before they can scan them once they get enough that they can scan them. we've seen some promising news out of pennsylvania, as far as those mail-in ballots go, allegheny county, 155,000 mail-in ballots have already been processed. so, that's good news. of course, we are watching philadelphia to see how long it takes them to get those ballots counted through, but they have a livestream up, they want people to know that the process is safe and secure and you can watch it on livestream if you are at all in question of it. >> but instead, stick with us, watch the livestream off to the side on your computer. eva pilgrim live in pennsylvania. we'll come back to you shortly. we've been saying all night long, 36 gubernatorial races. we have news coming in, one includes a flip, the other include as name you'll well know. we'll be right back.

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welcome back to abc news live coverage of this crucial med term election. you can see the tallies there, all the republicans need is a gain of one seat in the senate to take back control. again, in the house, they need five seats. dnls would be happy with a 50/50 senate again, where the vice president is the tiebreaking vote. we'll see at the end of the night where this math stands. we've been telling you all night long, we're tracking 36 gubernatorial races across this

country and we have results coming in, including massachusetts tonight. the retiring moderate republican governor charlie baker very popular in massachusetts, the democrat has won that race, making history tonight. maura healy, the attorney general, the first lesbian governor, the first woman elected governor of massachusetts. we'll have more on her in a moment. in arkansas, this is a name you will know very well. the republican winning there, sarah huckabee sanders, the governor of arkansas. cecilia, jon, you worked with her during the trump years. she's now the governor. she follows in her father's foot steps there in arkansas. arkansas senate, john boozman will go back to the senate. jerry moran headed back to the senate. south dakota tonight, john thune, projected winner there. not a surprise. he was one of three incumbent republicans that former president trump did not endorse.

in alabama tonight, katie britt, the former chief of staff, by the way, to the retiring senator richard shelby, she goes from chief of staff to the senator herself. she'll serve alabama in the senate. in oklahoma, the only state with two senate races, james lankford, re-elected for a second full term and markwayne mullin has been elected there, as well. and in vermont tonight, peter welch looking to trade his role in congress to head to the senate instead. she's won his race, the eight-term congressman, now the senator from vermont. i want to bring it over to martha raddatz, we both covered massachusetts politics for many years at wcbb and maura healy is a big story in massachusetts. >> it's a big story, because as you know, the governor there has been republican for most of the past 30 years. but maura healy, the projected winner there, she will become, as you say, the first elected female governor and also the first openly gay governor in massachusetts. but let me just tell you a

little bit about her opponent. he continued to tie himself to donald trump, donald trump lost by 36 points in massachusetts, as you know, david. it is a deep, deep red state. maura healy, an a.g., sued trump many, many, many times, about 100 times. this is my favorite quote, she loved being a.g., but her second favorite job was a cocktail waitress at a beach casino. >> and i can relate. i can relate. >> the part we can relate to, played for harvard basketball. >> i can't relate there. i have no sports analogies this evening. everybody else is going to have to take care of that. >> it is a deep blue state, but they have had a history of electing republican governors. >> mitt romney. >> and charlie baker was a hugely popular governor there. and, you know, the to popponent republicans put up didn't have a

chance. >> and what do you think about sarah huckabee sanders? >> she grew up in the governor's mansion. it's astounding to see her go from a junior person on the trump campaign, junior person in the press office at first, rise up to be the press secretary and become governor. i mean, she is, you know, a star that was -- that was made by donald trump in terms of, you know, republican politics, but in arkansas, she was already obviously very well-known. >> he was a fan of her. >> and she stuck with him. the ads that have come out of her campaign have been fascinating to watch. there is -- love letters to donald trump. and highlighting her time in the white house. you see shots of her walking with ivanka and the first family and her in the white house with the former president. so, no surprise there. and the campaign frankly has been no surprise in terms of the issues she talked about. things like school rights, covid rights, things like that. >> cecilia, jon, thank you.

a name the country will know, taking the questions, the reporters in that room, the two of you included. real quickly before we go to break, rick, an update on georgia at this hour? >> we've seen a lot of votes come in, it's about 100,000 votes and counting that brian kemp has that herschel walker is missing. those split ticket voters looming very large. a lot more coming in in atlanta. almost all of these places, we're seeing raphael warnock outperform the benchmark. a little bit ahead of where he needs to go. the key for him, this is where the democratic voters are, i'm going to be keyed into the suburbs north of the city. some of these places are republican, but we're seeing -- we're seeing warnock cut into the kind of margins even more republican areas, people leaving that name blank or splitting their ticket. >> really interesting, only 64% of the vote in, but this tracks with what governor christie was hearing that brian kemp is outperforming what herschel walker is doing among republicans and this could be a state where we're talking about

split ticket voters. >> it has an impact, at least now with the early returns. 51% for warnock, based on what we have so far, if you go over to the governor's race, just about the exact opposite. brian kemp north of that 50% mark. in georgia, 50% matters. that's the only way you avoid a runoff. >> we could be facing a runoff. but the runoff is four weeks from now -- >> mercifully, one month instead of two months this time around. if control of the senate is on the line, it's going to be a very big deal. i talked to people in both parties who feel like it's almost an inevitability. herschel walker, south of where he needs to go to avoid it. brian kemp, a little north of it. the numbers will change a lot. only about 65% of the expected vote. >> you were telling us, georgia, georgia, here we are, you at the board in front of georgia. we have news, the governor in

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lie election coverage on air online and streaming on the abc seven bay area app. now from abc . seven. your voice your vote. hi, everybody. i'm dion lim in the abc seven news room and a quick reminder polls close in less than two hours. you must vote in person or turning your ballot by eight o'clock tonight

. we're moving on. there are three top candidates looking to finish out the term of recalled san francisco district attorney chase boudin, abc seven news reporter stephanie sierra is that a watch party set to start soon for interim d a. brook jenkins, stephanie. yes deon brooke jenkins, the current interim san francisco district attorney has become a polarizing figure in san francisco politics . we have to remember within a nine month period she went from working as assistant d. a under her progressive predecessor, chaser boudin to them, becoming one of the main faces in the recall fight against him to then assuming the job herself now it's been four months since her appointment from mayor london breed, and during that time we have seen much of the main message of her campaign, which is to hold violence and repeat offenders accountable. we've seen that with her new policies implemented, bringing stricter penalties to drug dealers and juveniles and certain heinous cases. now she's facing three

opponents, including a criminal defense attorney and a civil rights attorney, both of whom share more progressive ideologies. but the big picture here, dion as we all know, many san franciscans are fed up with the state of the city right now, and they want change whether it's with open air drug markets. or rampant rise in property crime. they want solutions, and it will be up to the voters to make a decision on tonight on whether they want that to be a prosecutor who builds themselves as tough on crime or one that is more progressive. dion. that's the big question tonight. yes, certainly is many of those criminal issues ones that we cover in our efforts to build a better bay area. stephanie sierra, many thanks to you. now voters in oakland will choose a new mayor in this election. libby schaaf is termed out. so let's go live to abc seven news reporter answer hassan. he is live for us in oakland. answer when will we know the winner here? that's a good question. i just spoke to an official with

the alameda county registrar voters office. he says it could be up till thursday before they know and here's why this line of cars. these are people who are dropping off their ballot. polling stations close at eight pm now at eight pm, he says they will start to release the results from early voting in the oakland mayor's race. at nine pm they'll start to release the results from in person voting. but the data will only be italian voters first pick they will not be able to start counting people's ranked choice votes tonight, so that process could take until about thursday . so again around eight pm, will start to get some early results. but according to officials, it may not be until thursday until we know who is oakland's next mayor. reporting live. hassan abc. seven news. certainly lots of math involved in that rank choice. all right. answer. thanks now every voter in california gets a mail in ballot and more than five million have already been returned. that is about 23% this ballot tracker is

available at our website, abc seven news .com. some counties have been processing ballots as they come in. abc seven news was in martinez today at the contra costa county registrar of voters office where the machines you see coming away. the county has more than 700,000 registered voters before election day about 25% had already been returned, and a quick programming note due to election night coverage. jeopardy and wheel of fortune won't air at their usual times. the new episode of jeopardy will air at three in the morning with wheel of fortune following at 3 30. a reminder we will be live streaming local results as soon as the polls close that is from 8 to 11 p.m. you can watch that with our abc seven bay area app on your smartphone or smart tv.

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♪ welcome back to abc news live coverage of this midterm election night. a critical midterm election. you see the numbers up on the board, and we repeat this all night long, that the house, republicans need just a net gain of five seats in the house. a number of flips already that rachel has reported on that will take some time as we move across the country, to see what this house could potentially look like under republican control. if they're able to get the five seats. that's a very low bar historically. in the senate, they need to pick up just one seat at the end of tonight, of course, it could be more than just tonight if we're talking about georgia again like we were not so long ago. we have a number of races we're tracking at this hour. in colorado today, we have projected the governor there, jared polis has been re-elected, among the first democratic

leaders to loosen covid restrictions, ahead of the game there. made history four years ago as the first openly gay man to be elected governor there. very popular in colorado. he's been re-elected. phil scott seeking a fourth two-year term there, he has been re-elected governor of vermont. in south carolina, the republican governor there, henry mcmaster, seeking a second full term, re-elected. in rhode island, daniel mckckee has been re-elected. senator john hoeven, he's been re-elected in north dakota. and in michigan tonight, we continue to track this race, a race getting national attention. the governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer with a lead over tudor dixon, 13% of the vote in. very early, 53% to 45%. a difference of a little less than 50,000 votes there. welcome back to our powerhouse political team right here in the studio. i want to bring in linsey davis, who is tracking the exits and a

telling exit poll out of michigan tonight about a very key issue that is also on the ballot. >> and gretchen whitmer, who donald trump called that woman from michigan. take a look. this is the top pru iority for michigan voters, 45%, abortion is their top priority. that's quite different from what we saw nationally, it was actually economy that was the first issue and then, here you have inflation, 28%. and so, michigan is 1 in 5 states that has abortion on the ballot, the only state that actually has a key race attached to it. >> really interesting. the first state, actually, where we've seen abortion rights ahead of inflation and the economy. let's go to juju chang, who wis covering the race in michigan. juju? >> hey, david, i'm here in detroit at the motor city casino, we're at gretchen whitmer's election night headquarters with 1,600

cautiously optimistic revelers around me. polls closed here at 8:00 and you show the early results, giving a tip to gretchen whitmer, but i was speaking earlier to the senior senator here, she said they're on track to break the midterm election turnout, she's been on the phone with local election officials, she's seeing two-hour lines at the university of michigan, lots of young voters. and energized and as you say, the big gretch may be lifted by prop three. so many voters who are interested in voting for abortion rights are heading to the polls. now, her opponent, tudor dixon, is one of those trump anointed former business people, conservative pundits and the dobbs effect may be lifting governor whitmer and down ballot issues, as well. i talked to one woman who went to high school with gretchen whitmer, a life-long republican who voted for president trump twice, she told me and hadn't even voted for governor whitmer, but felt so strongly about

abortion rights that she was crossing the line. now, we're hearing stories like that to women i talked to, because we traveled around from grand rapids to ckalamazoo to here to detroit, trying to get a sense of what the voters are thinking. and what you might be seeing is that tip towards abortion rights tonight, david. >> juju chang with us tonight. juju, thank you, in michigan. as soon as we have more on the race for governor there, we'll come back tow. i want to go to rachel scott, because abortion is on the ballot in a number of states, not just michigan. >> abortion is on the ballot in five states. california, michigan, and vermont are efforts to protect access under the state's constitution. then you have montana and kentucky, these are measures to further restrict access. david, i want to point out here, all the orange that we are seeing on this map. this comes just months after roe versus wade was overturned. this is where there are current bans on abortion. across the country right now. obviously we know that this also

comes after kansas, the conservative state was the first state to have abortion on the ballot earlier this summer, the conservative state voted to protect access to abortion. since then, we have seen a wave of women in key battleground states register to vote. democrats are hoping this is a driving issue for them. >> we saw there earlier, mary bruce, nate silver at fivethirtyeight showing us when roe was overturned by the supreme court, how the gulf between democrats and republicans in the polling suddenly was quite significant, and then tightened again as we got closer to election day with the number of weeks having passed since then. but i know that you had been talking in recent days, interesting to see tonight if those who are driven by abortion rights will show up in a way they haven't shown up in previous midterms, which would still make them statistically very significant tonight. >> and that is certainly what democrats, what this white house is hoping, is that even though you saw that sort of dropoff in the polls that the economy was replacing it at the top, as the top issue that voters were most concerned about, that abo

abortion -- >> we have a race coming in right now, michael bennet has won in colorado, the senator there, the democrat in colorado, the incumbent has been re-elected. we told you that the governor was re-elected, now the senator, michael bennett beating joe 0 day, the republican in that state, the construction company executive, joe o'dea taking him on, hoping to be a moderate republican. the debates, you know, they were civil in the beginning, but the last debate, there was some fireworks. joe o'dea said, looking forward, he would like to have somebody new on the ticket in 2024, and michael bennet said almost the same thing. >> look, joe o'dea was very critical of donald trump and donald trump gave it right back to him. ron desantis endorsed joe o'dea just a few weeks ago and trump criticized desantis, saying it was a big mistake to support him. so, this was a moderate republican trying to win in a state that has become increasingly more democratic. >> i see nate silver just over your shoulder here. what does this does to the

probability tonight, if we give colorado, which we thought would go to the democrats tonight, based on the polling in recent days, but -- >> because this was the probable result, but still, helps democrats a little bit, from 40% to 37%. we might not have a red tsunami. new hampshire looks good for hassan so far, the gop could easily win the senate, but you're not going to see a gigantic coalition coming in. >> let's just say maggie has son holds on in new hampshire, she's off to a decent start tonight, what does that do for the democrats? >> now they might go to 50/50, maybe a little above. 5 51-49. if new hampshire were called, we are back to a total jump ball in the senate. >> let's go to rick klein to see where we are in new hampshire. do you have a second to pull that up, to show if maggie hassan actually holds on? >> fig for you, david. let's see what we see in new hampshire right now. >> you won't say that at 2:00 a.m. >> maggie hassan with a significant lead.

this is a state that mostly votes on election day. it's pretty decent with reporting. that's one of the consequences being first in the nation to the primaries. right now, she's up everywhere, that includes some more of the republican leaning parts of the state. joe biden did decently here. maggie hassan a little bit above that. here in southeastern part of the state, again, maggie hassan, a little bit above. even leading where don bolduc is from. and the benchmarks here are important. these are parts of the state that frankly a republican needs to do very well in. these numbers could change as the nights go on, a lot of people i've been talking to tonight, they feel really good about where she stands. >> that's really interesting. not only outperforming joe biden, but outperforming the benchmark of where she needs to be in multiple counties. >> yeah, and you would expect it in a place like concord, manchester and these are where the voters are, this is the most populous part of the state and she's doing it. this was a real scare for democrats. could still get tight, but a lot of democrats are liking what they are seeing.

>> the reason we are spending so much time on new hampshire because of what nate silver showed us on his board. if they pull off new hampshire, we're back to a 51% chance for democrats, 49% for republicans, just shows how every single one of these senate races are so important for really both sides in this. we have another call tonight. we can project in ph.d m. history made in maryland. wes moore becomes governor there and byron pitts, he makes history, and this is quite the story. >> oh, david, absolutely right. he becomes the third black governor elected in the united states, following doug wilder in virginia and deval patrick of massachusetts. and david, i think he instantly becomes a star in the democratic party and perhaps a north star for the party. martha's talked tonight about how important veterans are in this election cycle. he's a veteran, he served in iraq, he was a paratrooper. member of the 82nd airborne, a rhodes scholar, an author. as a proud son of maryland, born and raised in east baltimore, this race, we can say that wes

moore didn't win because he was black, and he wouldn't have lost because he was black. i think this is a case, i have friends and family there, democrats, republicans, independents, in this race, we talked about the quality of candidates. for many people, he was just seen as a better candidate. think about this. the republican governor of maryland, very popular, said of the republican nominee, he called him, quote, a qanon whack job. that doesn't help the republican party candidate in that state. and so, i think wes moore becomes an example for the democratic party and his is a wonderful american story in some ways. humble means, he's the son of jamaican -- his grandparents are jamaican immigrants. when he was in high school, failing, in trouble, going down the wrong rode, his jamaican grandparents mortgaged their home to send him to the military academy, because they believed in the power of education, the american dream. so, i think a lot of people, certainly the folks who voted for his opponent, they'll be

disappointed, but i think generally speaking in maryland, this is a win that most people feel good about. >> yeah, and it's a flip, of course, larry hogan, a very popular republican in that state, and linsey davis, i know that you went running with him, i should exbrplain this. >> he's fast. >> you are fast, too. you went out with a number of candidates, you know, just running alongside, to ask a few questions and that was a very eye-opening interview for you. >> one point that he wanted to make is that no party has patriotism and he was saying that often republicans try to claim that they are the patriots and he was saying, look, i am a patriot here. i went out and served in afghanistan, i left my family on behalf of this country. something i wanted to piggy back off of with byron, because i think it cannot be understated here, when we think about the country's 246-year history, of course we did have pbs pinch back from donna brazile's state of louisiana back in

reconstruction era in 1872, but he was not elected. so, it really is so killsignifi, we're only now as of tonight getting our third black governor. really significant. but when i did have the chance to ask him, you know, is there a weight to that, knowing you would be the third, and he said, obviously this would be history making but i'm not running to make history. he wants to make environmental injustice history. >> making history in maryland. lily, the director, if we can go to break on that video of linsey running with wes moore. you look pretty good there, linsey. he looked like he was breathing a little hard. >> he slowed down at the end for me. >> you look pretty good there. all right, our live election night coverage there, this critical midterm election. there you go. all right. you let him win. you let him win. he did win tonight and he made history doing it in maryland. we'll be right back after the break.

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i want to head over to the big boards with rachel and rick, becaus rachel, we've been talking about these flips all night and that magic number of just five seats. you gave us the historical context of this, very low bar and we have a key flip right now. >> a key flip right here in georgia. this is the sixth district here. it is projected for dr. rich mccormick, an e.r. doctor, conservative. he outperformed where former president donald trump did in this district. let's take a look at where things stand right now. you mentioned it, david, republicans only need to net five seats by the end of the night in order to take the house. take a look at how many they have so far. three right here in florida, they just added another one in georgia. you can see on this race grid here how much defense republicans are playing, how much defense democrats are playing throughout the night compared to republicans on this side. right now, they have netted four, they need five by the end of the night. >> this grid really shows you, democrats are on defense tonight when it comes to the house. far more than the republicans are going into the night.

rich mccormick, i know rick, you have the election denier graphic up here, which gives you the number of people running in this country tonight who don't believe joe biden won in 2020. >> it is an astounding figure and means people who are potentially going to be running the next election in charge of overseeing the next election. many of these house members are incumbents return, after having voted not to certify the last election. we have a newly elected attorney general in florida who denies the legitimacy. the governors of alabama, south carolina, and the former white house aide sarah hawk ka bee s huckabee sanders in arkansas. and where this matters is in the state houses, because these are people that could oversee the next election. i'm going to keep an eye on nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, that still have people that deny the legitimacy of the election. >> in arizona, kari lake, doing very well leading up to election night, running for governor there against katie hobbs, of course, and she in the last 24 hours, questioned the results of

tonight before they even came. >> yeah, lawsuits flying there, as well. trying to tell people that there's issues with the vote without any evidence and she's already said to our colleague jon karl and others that she may not concede defeat if she loses tonight. that's a key thing to watch. we're looking at the vote count, we don't care what the candidates say about it. >> rick, thank you, i want to bring up what rachel brought up, that this rich mccormick has won, a navy veteran and an election denier still does not believe joe biden won the election. >> absolutely does not believe that. and you know when you look at this and you look at those numbers of election deniers, you've talked to much, we've all talked about how consequential this election is. that is one of the reasons. if you flip the house, if you flip the senate, that's one thing, but you'll have election deniers in office. that's why joe biden talked about democracy so much, why he thinks it's so important. right now, 552 republicans for statewide or congress, 199 fully

deny the 2020 results, 61 raised doubts. you have the rich mccormicks, you have don bolduc in new hampshire, i know he took it back, but he said in august, i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that donald trump won the election and damn it, i stand by it. that was him in august. the letter he signed said, our nation is in deep peril, the conflict is between supporters of socialism and marxism versus supporters of constitutional freedom and liberty. those were some pretty strong words. and you've got all these veterans and we talk about these veterans, they're on either side of that, quarter of them, quarter of the election deniers are veterans. >> and dare i say regionally, depends on where you are and whether or not they're doing well. they did well in the georgia district. you bring up don bolduc. if we can show where new hampshire stands right now. as martha points out, he was an election denier, he acknowledged that the narrative wasn't

working in new hampshire, eventually saying that joe biden did win. but then, of course, their final debate, he talked about bus loads of voters being wrought into new hampshire illegally. the moderator said, where's the evidence of this, he said, i believe it and maggie hassan said, that right there is election denying and this is stoking the big lie and you have to wonder, with her doing much better than perhaps what people thought going into tonight, whether or not it worked against him in this case. >> it may well have, because new hampshire, as you know, is a little fussy about things like this. and he so doubled down on this in the beginning that the democrats helped fund his race by running ads because they wanted him to win because they thought he would be easier to defeat. >> they've been questioned about that heavily. i want to bring it to terry moran, reported extensively on election deniers in the country. just astounding when you look at rick klein's board, terry, at the success of many candidates across the country who to this day say donald trump actually

won in 2020. >> absolutely. and as martha points out, there are hundreds of candidates at every level. it's become an article of faith. a loyalty test in the republican party. and it's dshreally extraordinar. it's not a backwards looking issue. because republicans, majorities of them say they do not trust american elections, this is an extraordinary thing in our history. we fought about elections a lot. the civil war was basically a disagreement start ed when lincoln was elected. the white house southern voters decided they didn't want anything to do with lincoln. but they didn't say it was fake. this distrust of the very process that is seeded through facebook, sometimes by our foreign enemies, is something new in american history. and history shows that once countries get that kind of cynicism, that kind of dark, disbelief of the very institutions, it's very hard to get it out. >> i've got to ask jon karl about this, because jon, you spent some time in arizona, you interviewed kari lake, who is

doing very well in the polling in her race for arizona governor. she's an election denier, solidly backed by the former president donald trump, but blake masters, who is running for senate against mark kelly in that state, fairly popular incumbent, got a phone call from donald trump, saying, you need to do more of what kari lake is doing. >> this happened right after their debated and masters did a little bit of what bolduc did, where he acknowledged that joe biden was the legitimately elected president of the united states. that is a sin for donald trump. you do not do that. he called him up, he said, you can't do that. and we'll see how this plays out. but there have been -- rick alluded to it, there have been issues in the voting in arizona. they had issues with the tabulation machines in maricopa county and kari lake is making loud complaints about the way the election is run. there has been the one issue. now, officials there said they promise every vote will be counted, every vote will be counted. but she, you know, if she loses,

she is not going to go quietly. >> you pressed her a number of times, would she accept the results? >> and she fell back on this phrasing that if they are fair, transparent, and accurate, i will accept them. and i said, what if you go through all of your challenges and you lose them, will you accept it? and she -- it's only who determines if it's fair, accurate, and transparent. and it's kari lake, in her mind, what will determine if that's the case. >> cecilia? >> this is race that has democrats concerned. you saw president obama there in arizona making the closing arguments. really for the democrats enkaps lapts the concerns about what they're calling the mega-maga republicans. and let's not forget, kari lake is being called a potential trump vp pick. the potential trickle down for this is huge. >> cecilia vega with us. thank you. and we are just getting results in from south dakota, kristi

noem has been re-elected tonight. >> a huge supporter of donald trump, somebody who has been mentioned as a trump runnin mate. she brought donald trump out to mount rushmore for a july 4th fireworks celebration while he was still president, you know, certainly -- it looked like it was going to get close, but south dakota is a state that donald trump won by some 30 points. >> sthe he's a real hero in republican circles. >> she is certainly in the trump part of the republican party, she's a big star. >> all right, jon karl, thank you. it is now coming up on 10:00 in the east. we're going to check in back with a number of our key senate races. obviously, new hampshire, pennsylvania, we're going to be checking in on north carolina, georgia, which remains a state where raphael warnock is performing perhaps a little better than the polls showed going in. we'll check in with all the pivotal races that could determine control of the senate right at the top of the hour,

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keeping a very close eye on some of the biggest races in our area, including a history making race in the east bay, abc seven news reporter julian glover is live from the alameda county registrar's office, where history will be made no matter which candidate for district attorney is victorious tonight, julia. yeah you got that right, dan. this race truly comes down to the future of public safety and accountability here in alameda county and the two candidates for district attorney pamela price, terry wiley, offering two very different visions. want to step out of the way here and show you democracy and action. there has been a steady trickle of cars dropping off those mail in ballots here at the elevator county registrar's office. pamela price is the reform candidate, of course, campaigning on progressive policies like indian cash bail. as she served as a civil rights lawyer for decades here in the county prices facing off against terry wiley, a 32 year veteran of the office, who now serves as chief deputy, d, a campaigning on a more pragmatic approach to the job, they do

agree on some issues like never seeking the death penalty and increased transparency in the office. but they disagree on what to do with the crowded santa rita jail. here's what each candidate plans to do on day one if elected. i need to immediately identify people were prosecuting who are incarcerated simply because they maybe they ran afoul of the law because of their mental illness. i think i would change the culture of the district attorney's office. i would and, you know, look, i have a different life experience . nancy o'malley. wiley is distancing himself from his current boss named o'malley, who's retiring after 13 years. his d. a. he said he would change the culture by tripling the number of asian american prosecutors. now we should point out this is prices, second run for the da's office came up short in 2018 against o'malley, and as you can see a steady trickle of cars coming here, casting those ballots. as you mentioned dan history will be made here tonight in alameda county will send it back to you.

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♪ you're watching live coverage of election night 2022 on abc news. we are back in the studio here with the powerhouse political team. it's now 10:00 here in the east. 7:00 p.m. in the west. the crucial midterm elections nw taking shape tonight. we've been saying this all night long, the battle for control of the house and the senate. and the future of president biden's agenda. all at stake tonight. polls now closing in three more states at this hour, including the critical state of nevada. we've been talking about this for many nights. the democratic incumbent there, catherine cortez masto seeking a second term, she was the first latina senator in the u.s. she fights name recognition in that state because of the transient quality of the population. a tough night against adam laxalt. the polls nearly tied, if not giving him a slight edge on

election night. this is all going to come down to ground game there, the culinary union, for example, in the final days, knocking on doors for catherine cortez masto. as soon as we have results there, we'll go back to that. in utah, this is an interesting race. senator mike lee seeking a third term in the polling, showing he had a lead this against evan mcmullin, because this is interesting, the democrats did not run a candidate, they got behind the independent there. we've dive into that here in a moment. we continue to follow the very close race in georgia tonight, where senator raphael warnock is seeking a first full term, his challenger herschel walker, 49-49, we've been saying this for several nights, 77% of the vote is now in. look at that. less than, i mean, 39, 42, it's 3,000 votes between these two candidates. again, if neither one of them breaks 50%, this will again go to a runoff. it is deja vu, we're all watching georgia again, just as

we did not so long ago when raphael warnock beat kelly leffler. i want to get to steve osunsami. steve, what are you learning there on the ground? >> well, i keep watching these votes as they come in and i've seen the lead switch back and forth between herschel walker and senator warnock. there's no telling what's happening tonight. i think, again, the key counties to watch, are the blue democratic counties surrounding atlanta, that's dekalb, majority black county that i happen to live in, clayton, fulton, douglas, gwinnett, all the counties that surround the metro area, to see if they will give senator warnock enough votes to either win this or make it into a runoff. out here at this event here tonight, they're having a lot of applause as they've seen some of the numbers, everyone is optimistic. as i'm sure herschel walker's camp is optimistic. chris christie said something

earlier that i sort of want to underline. he said if herschel walker wins tonight or makes it into the runoff, that it will be the first time that brian kemp has helped him over the finish line. i will absolutely second that. there is a lot of shine that herschel walker's campaign is getting from the kemp campaign, because the races are entirely ifferent. david? >> steve, thank you. we've been talking here all night long with governor christie about this notion of split ticket voting and perhaps that's what we're watching unfold in georgia, watching that very closely, folks who might have voted for brian kemp, but voted for the democrat raphael warnock. kemp outperforming walker at this hour. let's head to pennsylvania, let's look at the board, the numbers coming in, 52% to 45%. 41% of the vote in. john fetterman in the lead, 52-45. i want to get right to eva pilgrim, who spent years covering pennsylvania politics at wpvi. we're glad she came to abc news, but you're back in home territory.

>> yeah, and we're watching specifically the counties around philadelphia, the suburban women voted. both campaigns were really hard going after them. how those women vote will likely determine how this election, this senate race turns out. and one of the things that we have heard from the campaign here, fetterman's campaign, is that they are feeling cautiously optimistic. they're looking at the rural counties and looking at how oz is performing versus trump previously. so, we're keeping an eye on that, as well tonight, david. >> eva pilgrim in pennsylvania. the fetterman campaign cautiously optimistic at this hour, but still early in the game in pennsylvania. we head up to new hampshire now, where senator maggie hassan, the incumbent there, is looking to try to hold onto her senate seat. the polls tightened significantly in the final days before the election, but tonight, at this hour, anyway, with 38% of the vote in, she holds a sizable lead, 57-41. i want to get to mary alice parks, who is in new hampshire

tonight for us, and i love what maggie hassan told you, new hampshire voters are wicked independent. >> yeah, wicken independent. six years ago, she won her race by 1,017 votes. her team is still bracing for a race that could be that close. they are liking the numbers they are seeing, but they said it still could be a very long night. and her challenger, he came out here, he addressed the stage here and the crowd here. he led the crowd in some country music. and he said he's still holding out hope. every team, both sides, really bracing for the fact this could still be a nail biter. if she pulls this out, i'm thinking a lot about my conversation with voter just today and how many women came out of the group and said they were voting on the issue of abortion. they did not believe that government had a role to play here. this is the live free or die state and they hit that idea of freedom and wanting to make sure that a woman had a right to choose. david? >> again, as mary alice parks

reports, maggie hassan only won by 1,017 votes in 2016 when she was elected, hoping to win re-election tonight. we want to go to ohio now, where the democrat tim ryan is up against j.d. vance in that state. both of them trying to fill rob portman's state. tim ryan, look at this, this is a change since the last half hour that we checked. 67% of the vote in. like kle rick klein is at the big board, we'll talk to him in a moment. we're going to ask rick to show us the counties that explain why he's now in the lead and north carolina, the senate at this hour, you've got cheri beasley and representative ted budd in that north carolina senate race. before we go to north carolina, you have it up on the screen, lily? ted budd in the lead there, as well, 50-47. again, this could be another case of the blue mirage in the beginning, we'll ask rick, he's standing by on this. first, alex presha is in ohio and alex, there had been so much talk that tim ryan was holding on early in the night here,

still early in this race, but doing better up against j.d. vance than some thought he would. this was very tight going into this race, which for a democrat in ohio was something that they liked seeing, but again, they want to win tonight, like j.d. vance does, too. >> that's right, david. i'm here at the gop watch party tonight, and the theme tonight has been taking care of business. they've been playing that song all night. obviously an early win for governor mike dewine projected as the winner, but in the last half hour, we've seen j.d. vance overtake representative tim ryan, that is a race that has been closely, closely watched here and many voters that we've talked to for the last week telling us that that race comes down to the economy. >> alex presha in ohio. thank you so much. and as i mentioned, not just ohio. look at north carolina. the senate race that we're talking about earlier. didn't get a lot of attention, the race was fairly close. cheri beasley had a lead in the beginning of the night, now ted budd, the republican congressman from a rural district, supported

by former president trump, now in the lead, 50-47. another one of these cases where rick is going to break this down for us. i want to get to stephanie ramos in north carolina. cheri beasley's camp was excited early on, but they knew this was the possibility, the way the night unfolds, given where they're bringing the votes in first. >> exactly, david. as you can see, the line dancing has stopped for the moment, much more serious tone. they know that it's close, but folks here are keeping hope alive. i have to tell you, the folks that we've spoken to here and across the state of north carolina have maintained their key issues. abortion rights, inflation and preserving democracy. i can tell you last night, i spoke with a couple at the beasley campaign rally, her last rally, and they said they voted for beasley because they called the republican opponent, representative ted budd, just downright scary. and they said they -- that is their most important issue, preserving democracy and civility. david? >> stephanie ramos, part of our team out all across the battlegrounds, across the u.s. tonight, in each one of these

key senate races. steph, thank you. we do have some projections that we can share with you at this hour. abc news can project that in louisiana, john kennedy, who was seeking a second term, has now ben re-elected to the senate. there will not be a need for a runoff there. senator john kennedy returning to the senate. in oklahoma, and the governor's race, kevin stitt will serve another term as governor. a tough battle, in the end, kevin stitt won. there had been some debates that made news, that viral moment talking about crime, but kevin stitt wins. in the senate race in maryland, the incumbent senator chris van hollen will return to the senate. i want to go back to the two states, ohio and north carolina, rick, you've been watching them really closely and you had also cautioned the viewers early in the night that depending on how a particular state counts the vote, it could look like an early lead for a particular candidate and it would appear that's the case in both ohio and

north carolina, it's now flipped. >> yeah, this is the reality of how people vote in america and how votes are counted in america. and you're starting to see a lot more election day vote come in. just to give you a sense about the political gegeography, thes are the biggest counties in the state, they are really blue. but everything else in there, very red. that's how j.d. vance is mounting a lead over tim ryan. what's interesting to me, when i look at the big population centers, i see tim ryan coming close but not quite to where he needs to be in the fivethirtyeight benchmarks, even out in cincinnati, which is far from his home base, that's where vance is from. and holding his our in youngstown. but man, there are a lot of republican voters that are coming out tonight. registering disapproval with this president, you're seeing a lot of places where vance is outperforming his number. even know they're smaller counties, those numbers really add up. >> i'm looking at the percentage that's in, in ashland there, a rural county, 95% of the vote in, but some of the metropolitan areas where tim ryan is performing better, 52% of the

vote in. could be a long night in ohio. >> yeah, and this is going to be a reality in a lot of places. we've seen a bit of a blue mirage early on, then you see a red wave hitting over that, and now we're kind of seeing how the vote comes in in some big cities, not just in ohio, but also in wisconsin and pennsylvania, to see if there's enough democratic votes. just taking longer to count. that's the reality of voting in america. >> donna brazile, the fact that tim ryan still in this game and you see the metropolitan areas with a lot of vote coming in? >> i'm familiar are franklin county, i'm familiar with cuyahoga county, but as you well know, there's some other pockets of democratic support, lucas county -- i think this is going to be a good night for tim, because typically, those big cities, those urban areas and even some of the counties outside those areas will pick up votes as the night goes on, so -- tim should be proud of

himself. >> what do you make of this, governor christie? we saw governor dewine win earlier, and you have to believe the win will help j.d. vance. >> it will. you have to really be a bad candidate to have a governor win by that much and be underneath him and not wind up winning. i think that's why vance will win. but this ticket splitting thing is interesting. right now, herschel walker's running 150,000 votes beh hhind brian kemp in georgia. 150,000 votes. by the way, john fetterman's running 135,000 votes behind josh shapiro, right? and oz is running 100,000 votes ahead of his gubernatorial candidate mastriano. right? so you look at this and you're seeing that voters are smarter than everybody gives them credit for. they make qualitative judgments. they look at georgia, they look at brian kemp, good job as the governor, fought donald trump, protected election integrity, we're voting for him. herschel walker, they have some

doubts. 150,000 fewer. on the flip side, you look at fetterman and shapiro, shapiro, very strong candidate, fetterman running 135,000 votes behind him. maybe it's the health issue, maybe it's some ideological issues, maybe both. but voters are smarter than people give them credit for. >> when you talk about doug mastriano, though, this is someone who was involved in january 6th, helped getting bus loads of people there, if i'm not mistaken. josh shapiro, much more moderate in that state. not surprising this would be a scenario, perhaps, of a state with split ticket voters. >> well, sure. once you decide that doug mastriano is your nominee, it's not surprising at all. i mean, that's -- that's the issue. and so, you know, that's the problem, the -- josh shapiro is a good candidate, but could you have perhaps the former republican u.s. attorney in philadelphia who was a candidate in that race, i suspect he would

have run significantly better than 42% of the vote statewide. he's someone who said he investigated, you know, the election and didn't find pennsylvania on the election. that led donald trump to support mastriano and not him, but you telling me he wouldn't have done better than 42%? i don't know if he would have beaten josh shapiro. >> this should have been a year in pennsylvania, should have been a really good year for republicans, given the environment, given the unpopularity of joe biden, given anxiety about the economy, about inflation. i mean, tink about it this way, if -- if it looks like -- shapiro wins here, this will be the first time that democrats have won three consecutive governors races in pennsylvania since the 1840s. of before there was a republican party. that was the wigs. >> and real quick before we go to break. the exit from pennsylvania, you were checking about this issue of dr. oz not -- i know he has a

house there now, but this became a big issue. >> correct. exactly. that, as well as fetterman's health and both of them are interesting. if you look at the question here, has oz lived in pennsylvania long enough to represent the state, look, overwhelmingly 56%, this is republicans and democrats said no. now, again, he did -- he said that he rented a house, his in-laws house in 2020, bought a house one month after he announced. but one thing just being a south jersey girl that was significant, outside where the philadelphia eagles play, the fetterman camp put a huge billboard up last month saying, dr. oz is a cowboys fan. now, those are fighting words for philadelphia, a fellow cowboys fan -- >> we all picked up on that. >> and if you look at fetterman's health, if fetterman in good enough health to represent the state, not so much of a difference there, 50%. so, kind of squeaking it out. he had a stroke in may, there were polls in september that showed him 10% up and that has really gone away.

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bringing her newborn to the senate floor. she returns in illinois. the governor's race, j.b. pritzker seeking a second term, he actually traveled the country a bit, spent a lot of money on his own race. re-elected there. we're also talking house races that are bell weathers across this country. remember that key number, republicans need to pick up just five seats in the house. republicans spent a lot of money trying to defeat marcy kaptur in ohio. she's got quite a heat. 65% of the vote in. i want to get it over to rachel scott. her closing argument in this race, rachel, was, let's meet in the middle. quite an effective ad. she said, we need to stand for the pledge at games, but she also said election deniers is nonsense. >> really casting herself as a moderate, because she's running in a state that former president trump won twice and her district was actually redrawn, congressional maps redrawn every ten years, running in a more conservative district. look at where things stand right

now. kaptur is the longest serving woman in the house. 56% of the vote right now, she's ahead about 24,000 votes, compared to j.r. majewski. this is someone that was at the capitol on january 6th. >> david. >> incredible when you talk about how different the district is, it went from a significant democratic lean to a republican lean and she's still well ahead tonight. >> still well ahead tonight and we are seeing redistricting really play in a lot of these races. just look at florida. we talked about the early flips that we saw. democratic seats that rep republicans were able to win. i want you to keep an eye on this area, from tallahassee to jacksonville. look at what this district looked like in 2020. you see the blue part? that was florida 4. in 2022, you see that congressional map redrawn, personally approved by the republican governor ron

desantis, it broke up so many of the black voters across this state and now it is divided into three districts, david. >> rachel scott on the story in the house, again, historically speaking, the president in party, the one in the white house has a tough midterm election. the question is, how many seats could the democrats lose. we're going to check in with mary bruce, with new reporting from sources up on the hill. democratic sources, their take on the senate. and of course, that interview with governor sununu of new hampshire, the popular governor who won re-election. though the senate race in that state has not been decided. this could be another one of those key states with split ticket voters voting one way for the governor, another way for the senate. curious to hear his take, right after the break. don't go away. our live coverage continues in a moment.

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lie election coverage on air online and streaming on the abc seven bay area app. now from abc . seven. your voice your vote. and we are tracking the latest local results here in the abc seven news room. good evening. i'm liz kreutz. polls closed in less than an hour at eight p.m. that's the deadline to either vote in person or turn in your

ballot after eight. we're going to start seeing local results, and we will bring those to you live right now. let's go live to the bay area county with the most ballots, santa clara county , abc seven news reporter zack puentes is in san jose with some races to watch sack. yeah, that's right, liz. we're at the santa clara county office, registrar of office of voters here right now. we've been seeing a lot of people come through here to drop off their ballots, voting in person and again. this is just one of the spots where people can drop off ballots or vote centers throughout the county. we just got it behind the scenes look moments ago as ballots are being tabulated already. the register voters office here in santa clara county said that they were going to be counting until 11 pm and resuming tomorrow at eight. if more counting is needed, which is likely one of the closest races is that race for san jose mayor and another race. being closely monitored throughout the county is the race for the next santa clara county sheriff. whoever wins will be the first new sheriff since 1998. so those are some big local races happening on top

of the other races and issues that voters are going to be voting on here in santa clara county. the registrar is expecting a 55 to 65% voter turnout. so again, the polls are going to be closing at eight and at that time we're going to expect to see the votes coming in the ballots coming in by the couriers here throughout the county, 133 votes centers and, of course, the main office right here now we're going to be here as those ballots come into the registrar office of voters at eight p.m. so we'll check in with you. then right now live in santa clara county, zach fuentes, abc seven news and homelessness and crime. big issues in those races, zack. thank you after decades in politics pence peninsula congresswoman jackie speier is not seeking re election to the house of representatives, abc seven news reporter tim johns is live with a look at the race to fill that seat, tim. yeah, that's right. liz. congresswoman spear stepping down after nearly 15 years on the job, setting up one of the most closely watched races here in the bay area. now she is going to be replaced

either by cemetery, county supervisor david can import or california state assemblyman kevin mullins. but no matter who steps in to fill that seat, they will have some pretty big shoes to fill. talk to local voters earlier today, here's some of the reasons they told us that they came out to make their verses heard. we drove in and as well, the first thing she's like i want to vote, but i'm not 18 yet. you know, and i said, well, you will, you know, i said so, yeah, for definitely everything i do is really about setting a good beer. good role model for her and inflation, i guess are the two biggest ones. i work in san francisco. so i you know, a lot of see a lot of that going around, and, uh price of everything's getting so high. polls will be closing in just about half hours to be arguing with starts to expect to see some of those results coming in. we will, of course, be tracking them for you. i'm live in san mateo county tonight. tim johnson. seven news, tim. thank you. and in 30 minutes, we will be live streaming local and statewide election results on our website and the abc seven bay area app. this will be from 8 to 11 p.m. and if you're

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you're watching abc news live coverage of the midterms 2022. a critical night here in america. again, we've been reporting all night here. republicans need a net gain of one seat in the senate to take back control of the senate. they need a net gain of five seats to take back control of the house. at this hour, we can project another key race that made national headlines. this is the race for texas governor. we can now project that governor greg abbott, the incumbent, has been re-elected to serve a third term in texas. of course, he was up against the democrat bet toe o'rourke, who ran for senate in that state, then ran for governor. come up short tonight. greg abbott will continue as governor of texas. as we told you earlier in the state of new hampshire, the very popular governor there, chris sununu has been re-elected for a fourth two-year term.

he will serve that fourth two-year term. and we are lucky to have him here live for our coverage. governor, welcome. first of all, congratulations, and how do you think the republicans are doing tonight, you're watching the returns, as well, will they meet expectations tonight? >> i think so, i mean, you know, nationally, at least, we're looking to, again, take that net one plus seat, maybe it will be one or two. it will be interesting, because i think we all know that we're likely to get lawsuits in maybe pennsylvania, maybe a runoff in georgia, maybe lawsuits in arizona, so, i'm not sure if the dust is all going to settle tonight, but here in new hampshire, we had a great night. doing really, really well, so, as you can see, people are getting excited, having a lot of fun, but we still have results to come in, so, the expectation is, did you engage with the voter, did you listen to them, connect on their level, on their issues? and i think the republicans did that very well. >> governor sununu, you brought up the net gain of one. i want to you you about don

bolduc in your state. you once called him a conspiracy theorist type, not a serious candidate. you eventually endorsed him in the end. how do you scare that for people watching tonight? >> well, look, primaries are all about party, we know that, and we have our favorites and we have it out and we had our primary in september. but what i have to do as governor is bring that party together. and i can tell you while i may have differences with a candidate here and there, getting rid of the democrat delegate out of new hampshire, that's what we have to do. the democrats don't engage, so bringing something fresh and new to the table, though we might not agree on every issue, something fresh and new for the state of new hampshire and for the country is really important. >> you know there's a bigger issue here, and you have a national profile. you know there are nearly 200 election deniers on the ballot. many of them have won tonight. what does that portend for the future in this country?

if you are embracing don bolduc, who said that joe biden did not win the election and it was only until this fall that he changed course. are you not at all concerned that there are 200 election deniers on the ballot in this country? >> well, i'll tell you, i think you're wrong by saying that's a bigger issue. that is not a bigger issue -- >> i didn't say it was a bigger issue. i said it is an issue. what do you think for the future of this country, do you think it's healthy to have election deniers on the ballot? >> look, obviously the election in 2020 was fair and square and biden won and we're moving forward from that. i know the press likes to talk a lot about that, and you're right, it isn't helpful. because those issues aren't what's connecting with the average voter. so, the more we talk about it, the more we're not connecting with folks on their level. you have to have the hearings and figure out what happened, that's just -- >> i know you are celebrating your victory tonight, going to be a lot of talk about whether

or not you could potentially run for president. i want to ask you about someone else who said he will announce next week, next tuesday. you were asked about former president trump announcing before christmas and said it was a terrible idea. why so? >> yeah. well, because once the dust settles on this election, you know what america wants? they want to take a break. they want to get back to watching football games and enjoying thanksgiving, do some christmas shopping. anyone who is thinking to drive a big policetical message after the insanity, the craziness of this election title, i think is missing the opportunity and what is really important to folks. folks want to take the break. if he announces or not, it doesn't matter. it's not going to keep anybody out of the race. not going to surprise anybody. that secret is the worst kept secret in the world if he is going to announce. i think he'll announce, it will be a blip on the radar, and we'll all move forward and enjoy thanksgiving and the holidays and really get back as a nation

to figure out where the presidential stuff goes in early to mid '23. >> any chance you'll run in 2024? >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you, what was that -- >> yeah, exactly. any chance you'll run? >> look, my focus -- i'm sorry, you're breaking up, i don't know, it's all -- people are having too much fun. >> those supporters are so loud in new hampshire. >> i love new hampshire. >> i know you do. >> i love the state and i love being governor. >> once you get through thanksgiving and christmas, as you say the former president should do, as well. come the first of the year, it's in consideration? you haven't ruled it out? >> i tell you what, i -- i got -- i balance budgets, i know washington doesn't. i have a mental health crisis, opioid crisis, that's where all my attention is going to go. i don't think anybody is going to jump into the presidential race. everybody is going to have a message. i think the message needs to be politics doesn't have to be so

divisive. it can be a positive message. it's not rainbows and unicorns all the time, but you need the leadership in this country that brings out the best in people, that inspires folks in that positive way. hopefully we get a little more than that and you'll see other candidates emerge. >> and just before i let you go, you're not ruling it out? >> oh, i'm not even thinking about it. i'm not even thinking about it. i don't rule anything in or out, i don't make promises, i don't break promises. >> all right. governor sununu, who has been re-elected in the state of new hampshire, say hello to the supporters behind you and appreciate you taking time for us tonight. >> did i dodge that well enough? >> you did, you dodged. we'll see you in 2024. thank you, governor. thank you, governor. chris christie, what do you think of that? obviously he's not saying he's not considering it, he's just not ready to go there yet. >> chris is a smart guy, and that's why he won by as much as he did tonight. and so, look, there's going to

be -- this idea that somehow, you know, donald trump is going to drive a whole bunch of people out of the race if he announces next week is just silliness. in my view. because anybody who wants to be president, if you -- if you're going to not get in because someone else announced? then you probably don't have what it takes to be president to begin with. so, i think chris is doing the right thing. he just won, he's not going to answer your question. because he probably hasn't even talked to his wife about it yet. let alone talked to the people in new hampshire who just sent him back. and we talked earlier about trump and what would happen tonight if some of the candidates he endorsed won and some of them lost and i said to you, i predicted to you he would take all the credit if they won and none of the blame if they lost. here's his quote on tv tonight. about tonight's results. well, i think if they win i should get all the credit, if they lose, i should not be blamed at all. >> all right. governor christie. >> so, i don't know.

i think i know the guy. >> i think you do. we're going to come back to this conversation, i took notes, 10:37, took us 20 minutes to 11 here in the east to talk about who is running in 2024. i think we all thought we'd get there sooner than that. we have a long night ahead. abc news can project in missouri, in the missouri senate race, ere iic se iic schmitt wi the senate race in missouri. i want to get right over to rick klein at the big board on arizona, because this is another race that the country has been watching, not only mark kelly against blake masters, but kari lake up against katie hobbs in the race for governor. >> yeah, just starting in the senate race. arizona's gee yoography isn't h to learn, maricopa county is most of the state's population and right now, you are seeing mark kelly racking up big numbers there, which is in line what he needs to do in the benchmark. but we're seeing very little of the election day vote. we've got nothing at all from

tucson down to the south. that is where mark kelly is frofk, from, of course, his wife gabby giffords represented the congress. kari lake, the republican gubernatorial candidate, you're seeing katie hobbs with a lead. now, i'll tell you, a 10 or 11-point lead for a democrat in arizona in early returns doesn't really tell you much. because there's so much day of vote that's out there, another state where we talk about a blue mirage. very much keyed into the possibility of seeing these early returns. but again, racking up big votes in the early vote in maricopa county. more than hitting the benchmarks right now, but it's very early. >> let's take us through, because this has such interest across the country, this particular race, because you have two very different candidates being considered, really, in both races, both for the senate and for the governor. when you look at how joe biden performed since we know he won the state, narrowly, but won,

how is katie hobbs doing up against biden versus the benchmark that she needs to hit to win tonight? >> yeah, you see her ahead of both of those things. maricopa county used to be thaertthe heart of john mccain county. the fact that democrats were able to turn that around and joe biden was able to win the biggest county in the state in 2020 was a very big deal. >> kari lake, how did trump do last time around, how is she doing compared to the benchmark of what she would need to do in maricopa county? >> as a republican in the biggest county in arizona, you got to run even in maricopa county. she's not there right now, but again, we need to be keyed into is the vote that's still outstanding. most of the day-of vote, the people that are actually voting on election day, that is still out, even though arizona, most of the vote actually is early, we're getting just about no vote of the people that voted today. >> let's go back to the senate race, mark kelly and blake masters. very early, but it's helpful for people to see how he's doing up

against joe biden's performance, how he's doing against his own benchmark and likewise, blake masters with donald trump. >> he's up ten points. if you want to take a more rural county in northern arizona, hom points over the benchmark. that's a decent margin, though we don't have that much vote in yet. and nothing in tucson, which is where mark kelly is from. >> very early there, but a lot of attention paid to this race. in the meantime, we go to arizona, whit johnson is covering both races for us. and whit, what are the campaigns saying about how they feel going into the night? >> well, david, here at republican headquarters, they are very energized, most 0 the republican ticket has been campaigning in one place. there are hundreds of people here behind me. they have an overflow area. but david, really, what we've seen in the final days is a campaign of fear on both sides. republicans saying that democrats are destroying the country and you need to vote like your lives depend on it, like the lives of your children

depend on it. democrats saying that democracy itself is on the ballot. and what we've seen is this barrage of campaign ads, the candidates really trying to just scare the votes out of people, saying a vote for the other side, warning of dire consequences, but david, i want to go back to something that was just noted earlier this evening. the tabulation issues in maricopa county. it's worth talking about here, because the county officials confirmed that they did have these issues at 60 different locations, they say that it was related to problems with the printer, they were able to fix that and they insist that no voters were turned away, that they had multiple voting options to be able to cast their ballots. as a result of this, the republicans actually filed a lawsuit. they quickly assembled a hearing, the republicans were asking for an extended voting period tonight. a judge took a look at this and actually denied the suit. so, in the end, the polls closed, we saw that first batch of results coming out, but so much at stake, both for the

republicans and the democrats in this race, david. >> whit, excellent. we'll come back to you shortly. mark, if we can put up the slates for the senate race and the governor's race, first the senate, mark kelly. this is with 51% of the vote in. mark kelly leading 58% to 39% for blake masters. again, this is maricopa county. this is also the mail-in vote they count first in arizona, which, in the past has leaned democratic. and in the governor's race, hobbs, 57 %, with 50% of the vote in, to kari lake's 49.2%. jon, this is attention grabbing. >> very important note of caution here. it looks ike katie hobbs is really building up a lead over kari lake, it looks like mark kelly's really building up a lead over blake masters, it also looks, by the way, like mark finchum, another person at the capitol on -- >> secretary of state. >> also losing from a slightly bigger margin.

but look, they count the early mail-in vote first in arizona. and there was a big emphasis in this race by a lot of the republicans especially, pro-trump republicans, to say, we are going to vote on election day, we don't trust mail-in voting. so, there's going to be a lot more republican votes to be counted in arizona. but even so, david, this is going to become a very int interesting race to watch over the course of the night, because you are seeing a significant lead with a significant chunk of the vote in over 50% of the vote in, for the democrats, but don't bank it yet. there is certainly a bit of a blue mirage here in arizona. >> and kari lake told you in that interview, they call it election day for a reason. she was encouraging day-of voting. >> in 2020, 91% of arizona voters voted early by mail. in the primaries in august, 85%. this includes the majority of republicans.

but kari lake's position is that there shouldn't be that kind of early voting. that you should vote on election day and that you should have your results by election night. >> all right, we have news coming in, jon, thank you, news coming in on two key house races tonight, again, republicans need a net gain of five. these are two, one is a flip, one is a democratic victory. we're going to dive into both of them with rachel scott. she's standing by at the board, right after the break. our live coverage of election night 2022 and, again, those numbers from arizona are going to be very interesting to watch over the course of the next hour. the race for governor, the race for senate there and what these numbers mean. they're early. and it's great that jon points out, they count the mail-in vote first. we'll be right back after the break. don't go away.

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to the senate. first elected -- first elected to congress 60 years ago, 40 years ago when it comes to the senate. mark, can we go with this? okay, we have breaking news in new hampshire. the senate race, abc news can now project that maggie hassan has won re-election. again, this is the race we've been watching tonight, didn't get a lot of attention going in, she won by 1,000 votes in 2016, tonight, that margin much greater. maggie hassan, the incumbent in new hampshire, will go back to the senate. and if you remember, nate silver at the board earlier, nate, we have colorado and new hampshire, suddenly, we're in an even ball game between the democrats and the republicans. >> yeah, this is just what we looked at earlier is a jump ball right now. 51% democrat, 49% gop. >> rick, can we dive into new hampshire? how is she performing up against, say, biden and against the benchmark that she needed to perform? >> i'm looking here at the manchester area, because that's an area where republican basically has to run even and guess what? that is not what don bolduc was able to do.

maggie hassan opening a pretty significant lead. same thing here in the southeastern part of the state. that is -- that is an area where a republican needs to win, period, full stop, it has not happened. donald trump came a lot closer to joe biden, again, in a state he lost. and i'll tell you, this is going to be on trump, because in a nontrump world, it's probable that governor sununu, who we just had on our air, runs for this seat, or someone else gets nominated who has a much better chance. basically republican establishment cut don bolduc loose. maga tried to save him and doesn't appear it's going to be enough. and this will be seen as a republican possibility that was left on the table. >> and we were reporting since early in the night, remember, don is the candidate who said that joe biden didn't win over the summer, it wasn't until after labor day at some point that he said he did win. he also in their final debate, the moderator had to step in, because he said they were bringing bus loads of illegal voters into new hampshire, the moderator said, do you have evidence, he said, i believe it. and maggie hassan said, there you have it right there, that's

election denialism. martha raddatz, you covered new england politics for many years, so did rick, by the way, and -- >> fellow new englandered here. >> this might be a state they didn't buy that. governor sununu acknowledged that voters do care about the truth. >> and once you heard how strong a statement he made, you know, let me read it again. i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying donald trump won the election and damn it, i stand by it. and then shortly after that, he says, no, wait a minute, i don't. and he said, i've done more research. but i also think we have to look at what maggie hassan talked about abortion a lot. she really focused on abortion. and bolduc said on her focus on abortion, because he said he is anti-choice, your views are not consistent with the average granite stater, number one, number two, get over it. this is about the economy.

as we've said, the economy is a big, big deal, but abortion clearly played a role, as well. >> and we have exits out of new hampshire, which actually underscore the importance of some of the issues in new hampshire and maggie hassan, any time she was interviewed in this race, she talked about the economy, pocketbook issues and going into the winter, i didn't miss an interview where she talked about heating oil, home heating oil. these were issues that hit home, in many cases, not talking about what the rest, the national discourse was. >> exactly. she hit on everything she needed to hit on. >> linsey? >> if you look at the exit polls here, this is really significant. look at the moderate voter. she actually outperformed herself from the election in 2016 by 12 points. she won moderates by 27 points in this election. this is somebody who obviously prides herself on being one of the most moderate senators that there is and it looks like people are willing to take her back. >> mary bruce has been talking with sources up on the hill at the white house.

republicans and democrats. you were telling me during the break that democrats suddenly think they might be back in the game to try to hold onto the senate. >> they are feeling pretty good right now. optimistic that that massive red tsunami, that wave they were fearful was going to knock them out, that is not what you're seeing. in colorado and new hampshire, they are still in this game. and sources also onhe fp side, on the republican side, sources in the house, sources close to kevin mccarthy and his inner circle are saying that they are also feeling good, based on what they saw down in florida, on the margins they were winning by down there. and just to return to what you were talking about in new hampshire for a second, an the importance of abortion, we were getting at this earlier, that even though poling had shown that perhaps abortion had ticked down in some polls that the economy was really top of mind for most voters, i think there's a question among democrats that i talked to about whether that's the concern, the importance that voters put on abortion is underreported. people don't respond to pollsters necessarily in the same way they will on the economy on an issue as personal as abortion and you might be seeing that. >> before the break, let's get

to mary alice parks live in new hampshire. mary alice made that sam point, that abortion rights, though perhaps it had been quieter on that front, as far as being a top of mind issue, was a significant issue for voters in new hampshire. >> yeah, absolutely, david. and like you guys were talking about, senator hassan leans into that issue in the last few days, she kept talking about this as an issue of freedom and that played well up here. the other issue that you were just mentioning, the cost of energy, home heating oil being double just in the last two years. senator hassan would go out there and the trail and say, i know the cost is too high. but she stood by democrats investments in renewable energy. she still wanted to take on big oil. she basically tried to say she was hearing voters pains, but she didn't believe that the answer was just a green light to more drilling, but this was a really interesting point on energy. she stood by her guns, she, like you said, likes to be seen as a

bipartisan senator, not a flashy one, but a workhorse and she was one block at a time, one day at a time convinced she would pull this out in the end, david. >> mary alice parks. and mary bruce said from her sources on the hill, they're relieved they're not seeing big picture here, a red wave at this point in the night. certainly in maggie has son holds on, that is something the white house is going to cheer about. and you learned that president bi biden is calling the winners tonight. >> he's calling a number of winners. he's been watching the returns from the white house, no surprise there. but he's put out a lot of calls. maryland, colorado, illinois governor, virginia, he's just making the calls. and look, this is a person with a lodge-standing friendship with a lot of these, but -- a little bit of confidence here. >> you hear the music. we hear you and we hear the music, too. j.d. vance has won in ohio. he will replace rob portman, the republican, that's a hold, in ohio, j.d. vance beats tim ryan

in the senate race in ohio. boy, we have a lot to talk about. it's coming up on 11:00 in the east. a lot of breaking news happening in the last couple of minutes. j.d. vance beats tim ryan in ohio, a state that has gone republican, obviously in the last couple of presidential cycles. a lot of questions about whether ohio is ground for democrats just like florida, the conversation we had earlier tonight, how quickly they called florida for the republicans, the strength of the republican party in florida. and of course, the other, the opposite headline is maggie hassan, the democrat in new hampshire holding on, she goes back to the senate. we'll be back.

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well, we told you it would be a long night full of surprises. we're back here at 11:00 in the east, 8:00 p.m. in the west with polls closing in four states. just two states still voting, alaska and hawaii. wouldn't it be nice to be in hawaii right now? here's a race we're looking at this hour. this is the pennsylvania's govern's race. we can predict a winner. josh shapiro has won am a lot of attention on him. at lot of attention on the state. could he help john fetterman, or will there be split ticket v

voting? we can tell you with 71% of the vote in, josh shapiro, the new governor. j.d. vance will be serving in ohio in the senate. he's the projected winner. j.d. vance projected to winner in that race. to georgia we continue to follow this very close race tonight. all eyes on georgia. the incumbent rafael warnock slightly behind herschel walker. 85% of the vote in. pretty much a dead heat. we'll continue to follow this. the governor's race, much different from the senate race. governor brian kemp with a healthy lead over stacey abrams. 53 to 45. the question again, brian kemp's apparent success, will he help

herschel walker across the finish line, no pun intended, as well. california tonight, gavin newsom, to polls closed, we can confirm he'll serve again. recall the first time he was elected. now re-elected. a lot of attention on gavin newsom because of his willingness to take on ron desantis, greg abbott in their own states with ads. questions whether he could run in 2024. he said in an interview with our matt gutman he is not running. what he said about joe biden and his own prospects for running as president. alex padilla stepping in after kamala harris elected vice president. he'll serve a first full term in the senate serving the state of the california, making history there as well. a lot of news to get to.

i want to get to pennsylvania governor josh shapiro. what does this look like? >> i'm focused on the suburbs of philadelphia, because these are staggering numbers for a democrat. you see our 538 bunch mark, you need carry bucks county with half the photo. josh shapiro is -- he's doing this elsewhere in the state, out in the pittsbrgh area he's running ten points ahead of where he needs to be. this is a key bell we twether i erie. he's got about 2.1 million votes so far in what's been counted, and there's a lot of votes still out. just happens to be more lopsided there. john fetterman at 1.9. so we're talking about those who

voted for shapiro, not for fetterman. that's a big difference. because this is a race we don't have enough information to project on. >> 49-48 john fetterman against dr. oz. this is extraordinarily close. obviously not performing as well as josh shapiro, but still performing, and there were a lot of questions about john fetterman, stood on the stage, showed pennsylvania and the country what it's like to recover from a stroke while running a campaign. these numbers are incredibly close. >> they are. fetterman had the stroke. the debate was a tough debate, as he acknowledged himself. but this was really nationalized this race. it was like, control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania, which it could come down to pennsylvania. so, the case was made, you've got -- to democrats, to independents that were unhappy with the direction republicans were going -- that if you want a democratic senate you've got to

vote for fetterman. >> very close. 49-48 in pennsylvania between john fetterman and dr. oz.. i want to bring in rachel scott. you've got a tale of two stories right now. >> we really do. i want to start with a race we have had our eye on since the beginning of the night. this is virginia's seventh district. about bail spanberger, the projected winner. this is a test case. this is a bellwether not only for the political environment but on the issues. she ran this race in 2018. won again in 2020. president biden won this district, but so did glen youngkin. she made abortion rights a key of her campaign. candidates won another key district, kansas' key district, another 2018 democrat who was elected then, made abortion rights a central focus. on the other hand you have

republicans. they have another flip here in tennessee. we talked all night about how five is the number we're looking at. republicans need net five races by the end of the night in order to flip the house. they've already netted five, but too early to call. democrats are possibly run up the score. there are other key races we're watching, but clearly democrats on a lot of defense tonight. >> let me ask you, nate, because you do the math for us, thank goodness. is it mathematically hobble the democrat hold on to the house? >> for sure. at this time gop is winning all the seats that are lay-ups but not tough races. these were predicted before the election. only one called so far, virginia seven. look where we classify them as tossups iowa, democrats very slightly ahead. this michigan race, slightly ahead. unclick that. rhode island, slightly ahead. pennsylvania, slightly ahead. >> wow, that's really telling. >> democrat winning the majority of those.

it may not be enough. they not only have to win all these, they have to win some of these to save the house. but it might be a long night. might be a very narrow kevin mccarthy majority. >> very narrow. >> rachel, just for viewers who are watching that might not have seen that contextual board you put together, helps explain historically speaking the party in the white house faces a tough midterm. president trump lost 40 seats. obama lost more. >> they called it a shellacking when he lost 63 seats in the house. his approval rating then was 44%. president biden's approval rating is under 41%, and this is why democrats are facing head winds. >> you heard the tone. abc news can project brian kemp has won in the state of georgia. brian kemp outpacing herschel walker, though herschel walker holding a slight lead over rafael warnock.

the story is brian kemp. shortly after 11:00 in the east. he'll stay as the governor of georgia. jon karl you and i talked the about this race. this is someone who stood up to former president trump, stood up to the election results in georgia, stood by officials in georgia, and he survives and he's re-elected with a larger margin over stacey abrams. >> governor kemp signed the certification of president biden's victory in the state of georgia and denied donald trump, told him flat no when we called on him to call a special session of the legislation to overturn those votes. donald trump was so mad he -- david purdue to run against him in the primary and kemp destroyed him, beat him decisively. trump went to georgia earlier this year during the primary, david, and he said georgia might be better off if stacey abrams won. >> that was incredible for

donald trump to say not so long ago. let's goat steve osunsami who nose georgia better than any of us in the studio. you were telling me before we came on the air that governor kemp earned the trust of some of the voter who might not have voted for him last time around, and we saw that in the numbers tonight, he did better, the margin of victory over stacey abrams than we saw last time. >> reporter: as the two of you have been discussing, when brian kemp stood up to donald trump, he became a little bit of a heroic figure to some democrats, because he not only stood up to donald trump, but he stood up and survived, at great political risk, that decision to stand up to donald trump. there are a lot of people watching him during the election of 2020 and wondering what he was going to do. first he was silent. then he came out and said, no, joe biden won this election. he had death threats to his life. his wife was threatened.

his family felt unsafe, needed extra security during all this. essentially, though, the point to underline in all of this is that it made it much harder for democrats, and in particular stacy abrams to demonize him. he's still a conservative who's known in some political circles as shock gut. he's still anti-abortion but stood up for what some might say was righteousness during the 2020 election. the other point i'll keep make over and over again, that brian kemp won a special day in the hearts of some democrats because of how he dealt with the government shutdowns and opened up this state earlier than others, and many small businesses were able to survive because of that. it's why you're seeing some of that split vote, i would argue, and why, you know, kemp was sailing to victory tonight and stacey abrams we're told just

called him to concede. >> steve osunsami in georgia, competing against the noise in our background, which all of our campaign reporters always do. steve, thank you so much. one of the points steve made was a lot of the people of georgia appreciate kemp's efforts to get that state back open and running again. governor kristi, i want to bring you into this. you had sourcing that abrams called to concede. >> at last week's show, in 2021 we were all asked for predictions in 2022. . i said brian kemp was going to be re-elected governor of georgia. an incumbent governor who's been competent is very difficult to beat. he won, as jon said, that primary by 50 points. he deposit get 50 points. he won by 50. and tonight he's beating stacey abrams handily. it shows you what the power of

competency is. and then remember, the old political saying, the enemy of any enemy is my friend. suburban women outside atlanta rejected donald trump in 2020, but he stood up and went after brian kemp and brian kemp stood up to him. he became the friend of suburban women in atlanta. and one more point, david. every trump endorsed candidate for governor tonight, for either an open seat or challenging an incumbent has either lost or likely to lose. >> in the senate, too. >> that's just the governors. >> we have another race? virginia 2, elaine luria. she was up against jen kigens. jen kiggans will serve in the house. the democrat losing in this district. and we knew this was going to be

a potentially -- one that could flip. and she knew it, too, given her role in front of the country on the january 6th committee. >> david, there's no way around this. this is going to be a gut punch for democrats. they wanted to hang on to this district. this is a district president biden won by about three percentage of the votes. governor glenn youngkin won by ten points. tonight, luria to be defeated. kiggans coming in with 52% of the sloet. this is going to be a defeat for democrat. she was on the january 6th committee. knew it would turn off the conservative voters in this area. bottom line, she said she had to regrets. >> abigail spanberger in the neighboring district, how is she faring? >> she is projected to hang on to this district. this is another one republicans were hoping to flip. good sign for democrats they were the i believe to hold on to this one, but it does border

liberal parts of virginia. this one way more conservative in district 2 for elaine luria. >> nate, where are we on the map? how close are we to a potential flip of the house? >> only 2 of the 33 races called, which is why there's nothing written in stone. it is funny they're both in the same state. shows you how much local raruation there is between upscale and rural districts. but it's going to be a long night. there are 33 of these, including alaska for example. we're not going to know any time soon. >> nate silver, thanks. not going to no any time soon. does that mean saturday? we all remember when we were sitting here saturday. >> i have a dinner red zservati on thursday i'm worried about. >> we're going get you to dinner. can project the new york race for governor. kathy hochul has won in that race. we all know she step in the for

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ted budd, the republican congressman will serve north carolina in the senate. he beats sherry beasley. that's a hold, but a significant victory. that will remain a republican seat in the senate. back here in the room i want to get to nate silver at the five 38 board. it's been moved over automatically. what does it do to the probability. >> it's going to be, let's see, 63-37. base on the called races, gop. pennsylvania feels good, the governor's race was called for them. if fetterman were to win, it would flip to 50/50. actually, much more than that. if oz were to win then you have a front-runner in the race, the gop. >> rick klein? >> what i'm struck by is that sherry beasley wasn't able to perform what joe biden did in some parts of the stating and

suggests lack of enthusiasm. joe biden lost north carolina any way. we can see beasley a couple points behind where she needed to be. she was able to perform well in the research triangle, university cities and towns. the bottom line is it's a republican state, and in a year that was going to be as bad for democrats as we thought a midterm like this would be, it's difficult to overcome that. and ted butdd to a profile that was not objectionable enough. had trump support. cheri beasley was a prized democratic recruit. this is a point i think donna will speak to later today. people will talk about points left on the table for democrats. they are going look at this race, look at tim ryan and think, maybe they could have boosted the turnout, because this was closer than they thought it would be. >> donna, what do you make of

that? beasley performed well. former chief justice of the state supreme court. >> you can't be expected to win the super bowl by just starting to play yesterday. you got to invest in those states. the reason why we're still holding out on georgia is because the party invested. if you invest, then you can reap and harvest on election day. she's going fall short but you know what? now the democratic party has a plan to build for the future, especially in days like north carolina and ohio. >> while you look at this as a missed opportunity with a candidate of that quality? >> absolutely, but it was always a risk to begin with. i know we have a democratic governor, but this is a state where they're dealing with redistricting battles. you know what i love about north carolina? democrats are going to do well in congressional seats. it's not going to be quite the blood bath we thought. i think democrats need to learn lessons from ohio and north

carolina for the future. >> donna brazil tonight. another story in north carolina's state legislature. want to go back to the boards. in new york, the race for governor, projected just before the break, kathy hochul will serve her first term, easily beating lee zeldin who challenged her. governor mark gordon seeking a second term, we elect in the wyoming. in iowa, governor kim reynolds will serve a second full term. she has been re-elected in iowa. in idaho, governor brad little, the republican re-elected as governor. the senator there, mike crapo. our coverage continues here on abc news. midterm 2022. as you can see there on the board at this hour, nine

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on our website, abc7news.com. we have been posting updates since 8:00 and we will continue to do so until 11:00 tonight. california governor newsom is seeking a second term, he is against challenger brian dally, we see that he has a significant lead, abc news projects gavin newsom to be the winner. the governor appointed to -- appointed him to the position and now he is running to be elected to it. we will get you those numbers as it is they come into our abc7news room. we have our team of reporters scattered across the bay area and an art -- and our -- we are joined live in oakland to explain how things are little

bit complicated there. >> yes. any minute now the alameda county registrar is supposed to release early numbers from early voting. here in oakland, because of ranked choice voting, the numbers that we are going to get will only be from people's first pick. so it may be a few more days until we get the complete rinks choice voting numbers and. -- ranked choice voting numbers in. maybe when some of these early numbers come in we will get a better understanding of who is in the lead. abc7news. >> thanks. in the meantime, voters in the city are also choosing a new leader. we are joined in san jose with the mares race and -- mirrors

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i want to get to cecilia vega. seems like yesterday -- we have been at it a long time. '92 she was elected. >> been in congress almost 30 years now. this was a race that was supposed to be a shoe in for democrats. this is certainly their turf, but ended up facing a tough re-election. a lot of democrats watching districts to see if they could flip it in hopes this would put more pressure on democrats across the map. doesn't look like we're seeing this. in washington they haven't seen a republican take a national seat in that state in two decades. patty murray seems comfortable. >> rick, can you show us how patty murray did? did tiffany smiley have a chance? >> she goes into the race and you think this is a prized recruit. tried to steal patty murray's playbook and run as a younger version of her.

you're seeing murray do what she nodes to do in seattle and olympia. this is still going to be a blue state. one of the things we're seeing is blue states are holding. there was a big worry about cathy hoke on the other side in new york. you saw democratic stars flocking to save her. people were high on tiffany smiley, but take a look at the borrowing ruling. energized a lot of voters. just to the south in california we had the referendum, which appears to have passed. murray ran on that heavily and it look like it paid off in a bluer part of the country. democrats were worried about that. worried about their base showing up and it seems to have happened tonight. >> mary bruce told us to watch tonight, abortion rights. it appears to be the is character because martha raddatz, tiffany smiley, her story, the story behind her, married her high school sweetheart.

he was a veteran who was injured. she quit her job to treat her husband. very compelling. >> and i know voters looked at that very hard, because her husband was severely wounded in 2005 by suicide bomber's shrapnel in his eye. the army said you were done. they fought for him to stay in the army. he was the first blind active duty officer. but as you said, she wanted to be the new mom. patty murray weaponized the fact that she had been in the senate 30 years. it's time for somebody new. didn't working but compelling story. >> mary? >> point about patty murray. she is known as one of those women in the senate who just gets things done. she's not the loudest voice in the hall, but she's someone who works across the aisle often, and it reminds me of a point our deer friend and colleague cokie roberts used to make. i know we're all missing her on a night like this. women in washington work

together, and they do get things done. which, let's be honest, sometimes the men don't in washington. i think it's important to remember, four years ago we were hear, two years ago, talking about the pink wave. there are fewer women candidates today than last cycle. wick, just 24 serving in the senate. 123 in the house. that's just 28%. while that's a record, it is a reminder, we are 51% of the population and still vastly underrepresented. >> when you look at a state like washington, where tiffany smiley basically sold herself as a younger mom, like, i'm the mom now, we need a generational change. but on an issue that includes abortion rights, if that's the issue you're voting on and there is a clear dividing behind between the two candidates, tough think, that's something worth report out in washington state with patty murray. they were clearly different sides of the issue. i'm curious michigan, where we stand at the governor's race.

gretchen whitmer we can know, abortion rights on the ballot with governor whitmer. she's a national figure because of her sparring with former president trump during the pandemic. remains a national figure. that race right now, 51-46 with 39% of the vote in. still early in the night, but she holds a lead over tudor dixon. >> overperforming her margins in the suburbs in and around detroit. right where she needs to be in the an arbor area. detroit is going to take a while. always does. that's a ridiculous lopsided number. only 9% of the voting in that county. she came into the night as a potential big star and seems to be playing that out right now. i think the reputation she built, even looking at some of the counties donald trump was able to do better in, she seems to be more than holding her own against tudor dixon. i think there's a template there for her as a leader and also something to be said for the

abortion referendum. that made clear the stakes she wanted to underscore as a candidate. >> story line a merging when you look at maggie hassan. gretchen whitmer holding on, patty murray. people are going to be looking at how powerful the abortion rights issue was in each of those three states. let's go back to the stat, the control room. oregon senate, ron wyden we can now project has been re-elected. not terribly surprising. now, the oregon governor's race is a race that's getting national attention. there are three candidates. the two on your screen and a third, a former democrat running as an independent, but believed to take some of the vote away from tina cotek. very close race. the democratic governor candidate leading christine

drazan. listen, it's not been called but you thought this was a possibility for republican given the situation on the ground. >> 3,100 votes between a democrat in oregon and a republican? yeah, that's far from being called and far from being over. christine drazan is a really good candidate. the biggest issue there, david, is homelessness. homelessness is far and away the biggest issue in oregon. if you take time, as i did a couple weeks ago to go through portland, sit breathtaking. the amount of homelessness that's going on. they blame the incumbent governor who's term limited and leaving now. tina kotek was a speaker of the house and an ally of the governor. that's the key issue in the race. not that inflation doesn't matter or abortion didn't biggest issue there is homelessness, so

interesting to see how that goes. >> thank you very much, chris. we continue to watch that. back in the east, the senate race, richard blumenthal racing for a third term has been re-elected in connecticut. ned lamont has been re-elect as governor in connecticut. we were talking about the michigan governor's race. gretchen whitmer with a lead over tudor dixon with 41% of the vote in, about three points separates the two. and in kansas, the race for governor, still we cannot call it at this point with 84% of the vote in, though the incumbent holding on with a lead there. we are joined by delaware senator chris coons, as we know, a good friend of president biden. senator coons, first of all, thanks for joining us. i know you're watching all the returns come in. how do you think the democrats are faring? are they meeting expectations tonight? >> certainly. by historic standards we're having a strong night.

typically a president in his first midterm loses 27 seats in the house and four seats in the senate, and from everything i'm seeing so far, close colleagues of mine, friends, incumbent democrats, are having a strong night. let's take two quick examples -- michael bennet in colorado, maggie hassan in new hampshire. both of them, their last elections two years ago were very close. michael bennett is going win by -- maggie has son won by a thousand votes, tonight, 60,000 votes. in both cases they ran on accomplishments they have had in the congress as democrats and they were able to win and win strongly. >> when you say record of accomplishments, what was the common denominator in the messaging? we have seen from linsey davis in the exit polls that every one of the races with the exception of very few, the economy and inflation are the top issues. in these two races you speak of, new hampshire and colorado, did

they make the case on the economy? if so, what was the message, and should that have been used to cross the country as we continue to watch other races battle themselves out? >> yes, i think they first focused on hearing voters, hearing they were struggling with rising costs of grocery or at the gas pump and pointing out things we pass in the congress as democrats is responding to easy to concerns. reducing the cost of prescription drug, reducing the cost of energy or health care. we have a plan and path forward. we've passed an inflation reduction act. republicans have no concrete plan. by focusing on the kitchen table issues and responding to the concern of their constituent, these two strong at democrat have been re-elected. >> what are you hearing, has john fetterman pulled this out tonight? >> i'm very hopeful. he's a strong candidate. it is of course a razor thin

race. i'm struck that dr. oz in the last two weeks changed his messaging on the air waves here in the philadelphia region to one of conciliation, working across the aisle, trying to fight extremism. that was a sharp break from his previous messaging in this race. i do think john fetterman, as someone who's a credible pennsylvaniaen, current lieutenant governor -- >> we just showed how close that race is. also in georgia. in pennsylvania, it's a one-point game, rafael warnock, herschel walker. open up a slight lead. >> i'm surprise at the outcome in georgia so far. reverend warnock has a strong record of delivering accomplishments, of working across the aisle. he had a piece of legislation with ted cruz that made it into law and played a critical role

in enacting a cap on the cost of insulin. so someone i've come to know well as a colleague i thought would be running well above his opponent given the struggles he's had, but this is a neck and neck race and may go to a runoff. >> senator coons, do the democrats hold on to the senate tonight? 50/50? runoff in georgia in how do you pull it off? do you think you will? >> i think it's going to be very close, but i think in the end we will beat the historic trends and hold the senate tonight. >> i know it's the other chamber. do the democrats keep the house? what are you forecasting there? >> look, i think it would be very difficult for us to hold the house, but i think we will be well below the historic average of losing 27 seats. already there's a number of seats in the east, virginia 7, for example, with abigail

spanberger -- in all three cases democrats winning those seat tonight, so i'm encouraged by the early signs but the margin in the house is so tight and the historic average so strong that if we manage to hold it. be a significant outcome, big win for democrats. >> you saw chris sununu win in new hampshire. i know he's your friend. do you think president biden run again in 2024? >> i do, but first i know president biden will take time with his family and reflect on the first two years of his term and what the path forward look like. i'm hopeful he will run for re-election and have the strong support of many of us if he does. >> always appreciate your time. i know you're watching the returns with all of us.

appreciate it. >> cecilia, it was interesting. quite honest, at the end of the night, he says historically speaking it would be hard to think they still control the house. >> and you heard the president say exactly that even just yesterday. that is the reality that is setting in, and frankly when you talk to democrat leading up to tonight, they all conceded privately that the house was -- that they were likely going lose the house. there was a hope they could convince folks to turn out. last-minute pushes. you saw the big names hit the trail. you saw the president in new york and pennsylvania over the weekend. the most trips this midterm to pennsylvania, but in the enyou're hearing the conseeings coming in. it is surprising to hear them hopeful about the senate. we'll see. >> when we come back, for those of you watching in the west we'll check back in in key races in arizona. we'll check in with nevada to see if we have any numbers there yet. those are also races on the

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up on midnight. still early in the west. for those watching we're going get back to it. arizona, important across the nation, because this senate race is one of several that could determine control of the senate. look at the numbers coming in so far. 58% of the vote, mark kelly, the astronaut, married to former congresswoman gabby giffords. we're also tracking the arizona governor's race at this hour, a race that got national attention, and at this point, 51% of the vote in, hobbs, who became a -- she's ahead of carrily lake, former phoenix television anchor, supported by donald trump. election denier, even questioned this election before the results came in. in nevada tonight we're watch thlg senate race, another one

that could be key. so many of the headlines said that catherine cortez masto was one of the most endangered democrats facing a challenge from adam laxalt, a family with deep political roots, grandfather was friends with ronald reagan. we have a report on the ground that catherine cortez masto is suing to try to keep the polls open. correct me if i'm wrong. what's the detail? >> reporter: david, they're basically pushing to try to get polling locations in clark county open for longer because they were printing li-- clark county encompasses las vegas. this is a county that catherine cortez masto won, was able to

win in 2018 but my winning this county and the state, nothing else. so this county counts for 75% of the votes. hugely important. typically leaned democrat. she has a lot invested in clark county and is pushing to make sure the polls stay open so as many as were in line can vote. with election denier on the ballot, this is sure to cause issues. >> are there report of people still in line right now? >> reporter: well, david, that's what we're working to find out, because this lawsuit as we're reading through it, it doesn't say how long they're asking for those lines to stay open and doesn't quantify how many people may have been in line. but also saying some of these polling places didn't open at 7:00 a.m. as they were suppose to, and by law, polling places have to be open for 12 hours. so we're working to find out how many more people could vote, how long they're going keep the polling places open. hard to overstate how important

clark county is, especially for katherine katherine cortez mass koe. >> the news how are, catherine cortez masto cueing to keep the polls open. martha raddatz, you were in nevada. you were just reporting in recent days that the ground game there, they're going door to door. members of the culinary union. this is how she won in 2016. obviously she's making the case tonight that these polls should be allowed to stay open because there are lines of voters, as janai's reporting. >> we were right there in las vegas, and they were going door to door, this culinary union, knocking on almost a million doors. now, not everybody answers, but they hang literature on all those doors. they're making the case for catherine cortez masto. these are hotel workers, restaurant workers, really trying to get out that vote.

and to her advantage, tough harry reid machine still operating there. harry reid, the former senate majority leader who die in the 2015. a huge ground game going. that still works. >> and everyone said, if she were able to pull this out it would be because a that ground game. i want to bring it back to the legal desk, pierre, kate shaw, dan abrams. you heard, catherine cortez masto suing to keep the polls open. janai norman trying to report if there were line a people waiting to vote. we don't know that. i want to be clear for people watching. but how successful are the cases at the 11th hour to keep lines open? >> if they're in line, courts will allow the extension of ordinary deadlines so a voter in line is able to cast a ballot, and in general it's typical to you can tend hours if there is some technical mall if you think or issue that might impede access to the ballot. so it sounds from the very early

information we have that this effort is likely to succeed, but -- >> two things about that. first of all, we saw a challenge like this in arizona from the other side. we saw republicans saying if there were problems in maricopa county they want to ballots. that was earlier in the day. that was rejected. two is the question you asked, is this moot already in if people aren't there still waiting online -- remember, the polls closed at 7:00 p.m. local time. then this may not have any real impact any way. this is the sort of thing where you need immediate relief, meaning a win in two hours from now may mean nothing. if you're going win this you need immediate releff. >> i think the thing that's remarkable today is what you're seeing is pretty typical. things happen on election day. people are in line, there are issues with voting machines and different things, and we're seeing the play out across the

country, but by and large from the sources i'm talking to, thiss a typical day. >> thanks so much. just recapping what janai norman reported on the ground from nevada, that the campaign for senator catherine cortez masto is seeking to keep some of the polls -- this is our understanding based on janai's report -- open in clark county. unclear how many. unclear if there were peep waiting in line. but what is clear is how important clark county is to cortez masto and adam laxalt. that is the home to las vegas. this is an economy where inflation, jobs are top issue in this race, and we have reported often on the ground game in nevada and if in the end she was going make up any ground, this incumbent, the first latina senator, was in clark county. we'll be right back. a lot more to come.

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♪ good evening and welcome back to abc news live coverage of the midterm elections. consequential night here in america. midnight here in the east. just 9:00 p.m. in the west. thank you for watching across the country tonight. polls closing at this hour in hawaii, alaska, the only state with polls still hope. but we still have so many unanswered questions across this country tonight. the midterms are coming into greater focus. let's dive into the results. two key numbers to keep in mind at home. the senate, the republicans need a net gain of just one senate seat to take back control of the senate. they need a net gain at the end of the night. still early, believe it or not. they need five house seats to take back control of the house. there is -- doesn't appear to be a wave we're witnesses. certainly not in the senate and in the house tonight, when you take into context the history of

what a president in power faces in the midterm, this is an interesting night. and we're going to dive into why it's not necessarily matching history. doesn't mean the democrats aren't going to lose the house, but right now, a lot of stories that tell sort of a split story across america tonight. so, before we explain that, let's dive into some of the races and this will make more sense to you at home. the democrat in ohio one, the democrat greg landsman winning there. that is a switch. he beat steve shabbot. that's a big victory. ohio nine tonight, the democrat, congresswoman marcy kaptur, they targeted her, her district had been changed. chef was reintroducing herself in a republican-leaning district, but the democrat, the incumbent holds on. let's go to the middle, the people in the middle, the moderates of this country, their voices need to be heard. ohio 13 tonight, the democrat

has won in district 13 in ohio. in north carolina, in 13, we're looking at this race, it's on our radar, we're not projecting a winner in north carolina 13. we are now, wiley nickel, this is a switch. north carolina, a switch to the democrats. 99% of the vote in. that's significant. we'll get to rachel on that. and in florida 10 tonight, maxwell frost has won there, gun control activist, he beat calvin wimbish. president biden called to congratulate him. the president has been calling democrats across the country who pulled off upsets but who faced tough challenges and still pulled it out tonight. this is not necessarily the picture based on history we thought we would be at given this moment in the night. dun mean republicans aren't going to take the house, but it's still up in the air. >> yee, and big picture here, david. you have two republican seats that have flipped to democrats. you have six democratic seats that have flipped to republicans. you gave us some of the

projections there. one key thing that i'm seeing here is, you have a lot of trump allies that are being defeated. this is tim ryan's old district. up here, you have majewski, at the rally on january 6th. kaptur is the winner. >> a lot of people didn't know her in the district, because it was redrawn. and she reintroduced herself at a moderate democrat. >> exactly. in a place that is just so red and so conservative, trying to appeal to the middle. and another one here, where you have greg landsman. >> all right, rachel scott, who is tracking congress for us. what does this look like at this time of the night? republicans are still favored to take back the house, but what does it look like? >> north carolina 13 is not even on our list of core races here. next category over called likely and democrats won it, so, that shows the playing field is

expanding into republican territory. i would still certainly bet on the gop to keep the house, but there are many more pathways, if they can have a larger range of targets than we're showing here. >> to take back control of the house. >> to retain control of the house, right, democrats. >> oh, say that again then. >> what i'm saying is that democrats now have more opportunities to either flip gop-held seats or hold seats that we thought they were going to lose, so, they need to win the vast majority of these, but if they have additional options out down here, then it becomes more viable. i wouldn't bet on it, but it becomes a more likely position. >> earlier in the night, when you talked about aaron judges, democrats had a 17% chance of holding onto the house, which is low, but not impossible, where do you think we are at this hour? "the new york times" says it's about 30 some percent. a solid gop advantage, but it may be capped at a narrower

republican majority. >> mary bruce, did we think that we could be talking at midnight in the east about the possibility that democrats would be holding onto the house here? >> i don't think so. democrats really -- as cecilia mentioned, they thought the house was pretty much gone. i think democrats are feeling very good about this night. do they think they're going to hold onto the house? i don't think so. but they think they're doing better than they thought they would. i keep thinking about your conversation with senator coons. he kept saying over and over again, they were beating the historic trend. repeatedly, he said that. making the point, you know, that even if democrats don't win back -- don't -- excuse me, don't retain the house, they are still doing better than they expected and the way he said it is to make the argument that means that joe biden is doing better than everyone expected. >> that's what we're sensing. these story lines are still emerging, but jon karl, make no mistake. history would tell us that the republicans at the end of the night will be in control of the house, but not by the numbers we

were looking at earlier in the night. ⌞> this is not the night that republicans thought they were going to have. they are losing races that they were certain they were going to win. the north carolina 13 seat, this was bo hinds, 27 years old, a former football star for north carolina state, big trump guy. they expected he was going to win there. he's lost there. they were expecting they were going to win a seat in rhode island. we're going to have a republican in rhode island. they lost that seat. they thought they would beat spanberger in virginia, they lost that seat. they thought they would beat marcy kaptur in ohio, they lost that seat. yes, republicans still have a lot of ways to get to the five seats they need, but if they win control of the house, this will be a very narrow majority. >> governor christie, does this surprise you? >> a little. a little, but i think there's a lot more to come in. i just talked to three candidates in new york, 17, 18 and 19, i think all three of

those are very optimistic they're going to win, including knocking out maloney. in new jersey 7, which hasn't been called yet, tom kane jr. is 15,000 votes ahead of the incumbent democrat, that hasn't been called yet or flipped. oregon 5, up by five points in oregon. so, i think there's still a lot more to go. i think you're going to get into, you know, significant double digits, 15 to 20, by the time we get done with the night. >> 15 to 20. well, the math is certainly still there and on the republican side, but not nearly as great as history tells us. so, we got a long night still ahead of us. certainly not where we thought we would be, perhaps, based on history. wisconsin, the senate race. what are we looking at? >> mandela barnes is still in this hunt. he's down by 70,000 votes to ron johnson, but looking at the benchmarks, he's coming close to his marks in dane county, where the bulk of the democratic vote

is. mandela barnes is doing a touch better than joe biden and just a little better than his benchmark, where he would need to be. that's really important. in the wow counties right outside milwaukee, these are always going to be tough for a democrat. mandela barnes coming close to his numbers, maybe a little bit behind of where he would like to be at this hour. but take a look at where the outstanding vote is. we've only got 60% of the vote in out of the city of milwaukee. mandela barnes is doing two-thirds of the vote there. keep in mind, look at that right there, he's right now winning 83,000 votes out of milwaukee, but he's losing the state by 70,000, that means there's a lot manufacture barnes voters there, that number could shrink as we get more. again, only about 60% of the vote. that is the bulk of what is out in the state of wisconsin. that's going to be heavily for mandela barnes. he was battered by ads hitting him on his positions on crime and other things. ron johnson wasn't able to put him away with as much ease. >> alex perez standing by live

in wisconsin, and alex, this state is no stranger to very, very close elections. >> yeah, that's right, david. wisconsin is one of those states that is often a swing state. very close to 50/50. so, it comes down to the very last vote and that's what we're seeing here. everyone really watching everything as it's happening. watching those returns as they come in. now, ron johnson here, incumbent seeking his third term, some would think he would have an edge here, but he's been fighting hard to retain his seat here against mandela barnes, seen as a rising star in the democratic party. johnson really focusing much of his time, especially the last few weeks, hitting home some of the same issues we've seen in other republican races across the country. economy, inflation, and crime, arguing that he's the man to sort of handle these issues moving forward. and david, looking at our exit polls here in wisconsin, it seems voters believe that he could handle those issues more handedly moving forward here, so this race still too early to

call, david, but all eyes here on the johnson and mandela barnes race, of course, as we know, up for grabs here, at stake, control of the senate, so, everyone is paying attention and watching very closely, david. >> all right, we're watching right here with you, alex. thank you. i want to get over to linsey davis, who is tracking the exit polls, what's wisconsin tells us tonight? >> take a look. if you look at the latino vote. you have mandela barnes who is clearly outperforming with 84% of the vote. ron johnson is doing 18 points worse than the last election. the same trend we're seeing with younger voters for ron johnson. first of all, mandela barnes with 63% of that age group. ron johnson coming in 15 points worse than the last election. >> when you look at those demographics, that's really telling in some of the counties where we don't have the full vote yet. he's still in the hunt, mandela barnes, up against the incumbent, ron johnson. >> yeah, one of the things about

wisconsin, they have a vibrant democratic party organization. you compare it to what we're hearing about florida, lackluster, not there. if you are going to look at one state party that has really rebuilt itself and they have diligently went after the youth vote and i think you're going to see that come through. now, whether mandela barnes can carry enough of milwaukee, enough of madison and the suburbs there, but this is far from over. and i will tell you, ron johnson is wildly unpopular. and so, for ron johnson to even be this high, it tells you that's a difficult situation for mandela barnes, but i think the youth vote and a great party organization is going to carry him over. and a better organization in the rural areas in wisconsin. >> still in the hunt. both sides of this. mandela barnes and ron johnson. too close to call in wisconsin. again, this is one of the key senate races, everyone has factored in to determining whether or not republicans are

able to take back control of the senate. when all is said and done here. i want to bring in linsey on -- to revisit what voters across the country are saying as far as top issues and who they trust to better handle them. >> as far as states that we have exit polls for, only two states that actually say abortion is top of mind, that's pennsylvania and michigan, they are roe, roe, roeing your boat. other than that, it's economy. across the country, the number one issue. and in particular, when you look at this, 76% are saying that the condition of the economy is not good. if we take just a little bit of a deeper dive, 47%, that's nearly half of voters who are saying that their economic situation is worse now than it was two years ago. now, of the 40 years that abc news has been keeping track of exit polls that's the highest number of dissat faction since

1982. voters are saying they trust republicans to handle inflation by 55%. >> fascinating. rebecca jarvis is with us tonight. i just wanted to ask you this question, because we've watched some of these races that are going to be determining who controls the senate. new hampshire, maggie hassan was able to hold on in new hampshire. michael bennet able to hold on in colorado. and so while linsey paints a picture of the americans in the exit polls saying they trust republicans on the economy, in a couple of the very key states, they decided to stay the course with the democrats. so, there's going to be a lot of monday morning quarterbacking about perhaps messaging that works in the end in a couple of these states that didn't get enough attention. >> well, and david, if you look at the economy, it really defies simple explanations right now. on the one hand, you have the inflation. american families spending $457 more a month on the same goods and services as they were a year

ago. you have gas prices, which are now $3.80 a gallon nationwide. that's down dramatically from the summer, but it's still 40 cents more than it was a year ago. and then you have the jobs picture. an incredibly strong jobs market, historically low unemployment, and two job openings for every job seeker. when you look at what could this all mean, especially in a divided congress, that's grid lock, that equates to no tax cuts, potentially no tax cuts and no major new spending and ultimately, the big policy decisions come down to the federal reserve and interest rates, if the fed hikes interest rates, as it continues to do, that sends the cost of borrowing higher, that makes it more expensive, but the boss to linl here, david, even though consumers continue to say they are pessimistic about the economy, they also continue to spend money. not on tvs or clothing anymore, but on experiences. dining out, travel, that continues to hold up even in the

face of this inflation, david. >> all of it is fascinating. rebecca, thank you. that number that linsey pointed out that you say is the worst in how many years that we've been keeping track? >> 40 years, since 1982. >> people unhappy, saying they are worse off economically. and yet in some of these cases, they are staying the course. that's going to be part of the analysis. we have a couple of key senate races ahead, one of them, in pennsylvania. we're going to check back in with rick klein. john fetterman versus dr. oz, why this is so close and where both candidates might have a shot here at the end of the night. we'll take a look into these counties in a moment and what they tell us. be right back. - [narrator] if your business kept on employees through the pandemic,

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our live coverage of election night 2022. it's now 20 minutes past midnight here in the east. we know it's just after 9:00 in the west. thank you so much across the country for staying up with us here tonight. and a lot of story lines emerging, a lot of things, we always say expect the unexpected and that's what's happening tonight. those key numbers. republicans, if they want to control the senate, they need to pick up just one seat. democrats would be happy keeping it 50/50 with the vice president at the tiebreaking vote. and to pick up the house, to take control of the house, republicans would need a net gain of five house seats. still not there with the math yet. there's certainly a possibility of that, and history would tell you that that would likely happen, but what's remarkable tonight is we're not close either way to calling it for

either side. seeing a number of these house races go in ways we simply weren't predicting tonight. let's look at some races. illinois 13 tonight, the democrat in this race, nikki budzinski has won that race. that is a switch. that is now a democrat picking up a former ly held republican seat there. texas 28, representative henry cuellar, held onto his seat tonight. late in the game campaigning from democratic leaders in that race, helping henry cuellar hold onto that seat. texas 34, a fourth term for vicente gonzalez. a new district, the lines have been redrawn, so, not necessarily a pickup either way or a hold, i'm being told not to define it that way. a mixed bag tonight in the house. >> it is a mixed bag. let's just start with what republicans need in order to take the house, that magic number of five. we're talking about the results coming in, this is where things stand at this hour.

remember, david, it's going to be a race to get to the number 218. so, right now, you see democrats with 184 seats, republicans, 207. which is why this is not really heading the way that republicans really want it, with big wins early on, you just talked about illinois 13. she said that abortion was the defining issue here. really leaned into that argue nlt arguement. >> all right, stay on this story, as well. let's come over to rick klein. time to check in with pennsylvania. john fetterman, dr. oz. what are we looking at here? >> john fetterman up by 50,000 votes. i'm having a hard time seeing how dr. oz makes that up with the outstanding vote. i'll tell you why. philadelphia is the biggest chunk that's out there. that is a heavily democratic city. a lot of election day vote there. we know we're going to get it at some point. there's some early vote by mail. but is it going to be

overwhelmingly for dr. oz? i have a hard time believing it delco. our fivethirtyeight benchmarks have him hitting his hmarks. similar story in chester county here, the ring counties outside philadelphia. 50% -- not quite getting to where he needed to do in the benchmarks, but again, places where democrats are likely to pick up votes. montgomery county, well above where he needs to be. this is a tough, tough match-up. dr. oz spoke a couple of minutes ago, he said, there's votes out there, i just don't know if there is votes for him. >> john fetterman still in the fight. president biden, oprah win free's 11th hour endorsement, did that make a difference for him in the end? our coverage continues here on abc news right after the break. more coming in, we'll check this, track the races in arizona in a moment.

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watching we've been live streaming updates since 8pm and we will continue live streaming until 11 now congresswoman jackie speier who we just heard from a moment ago in our streaming show chose not to run for your election david canepa has already conceded the race to kevin mullen who also just a few minutes ago on our streaming tv app was speaking and accepting his victory tonight here listening. we have to defend our democracy we have folks in this country who will only honor election results if they go their way, that's not how it works in american democracy. that's how we settle fights at peacefully at the ballot box. so defending our democracy protecting voting rates, which are also under attack in red states across the country making sure that we are building climate resiliency. like we've done here in california. we have led when it comes to climate change policy, but really building an economy that truly works for everybody right here on the peninsula.

we're the epicenter of the affordability crisis affordable housing challenges. we have a shrinking middle class. so we need to build an economy that works for everyone. so those are the kinds of things. i'm going to be pushing of course protecting reproductive rights and freedoms, which are under attack. newly minted congressman kevin mullen defeating david kennepa tonight and results and here current california. governor gavin newsom. no surprise easily winning a second term tonight with 62% of the vote right now against republican challenger brian dalley 21% of the vote is in right now and rob banta appointed by the governor to be california's attorney general. so he's the incumbent in this race 61% of the vote looks like he is has been elected now to fill that position over nathan hockman one has passed. it'll add the fundamental right to reproductive freedom into the state constitution winning handily tonight 69th percent of voters saying yes right now with 34% of the vote in and

proposition a 28 provides funding for arts and music education and public schools funding from the general fund for k through 12 schools right now. yes as 63% of the vote who know on prop 28 34% of the estimated vote total now in and prop 29 requires on-site license medical professionals. auction data, it's the third time the californians have had to vote on reform for dialysis clinics right now. we're still waiting for the results, but we have 30% voting. yes 70% saying no, so it does appear that this proposition may not pass proposition 30 provides funding to help reduce air pollution and prevent wildfires through a tax on personal income over two million dollars right now 43% of those who have voted 34% of the estimated vote have our voting yes on proposition 30 no has 57% and that's an

interesting one because governor newsome is against it. whereas the california democratic party was for it. that's exactly right, which is interesting. let's go now to abc 7 news reporter jr. stone. he is live in san francisco jr. dan just getting some of these results in san francisco these early results. i want to fast forward to proposition i and proposition j, which basically would either allow vehicles on the great highway in jfk drive or not allow them and so far voters are saying no, it's 60% to allowing a lot of those vehicles on those roadways and with proposition j. so far those voters are saying yes, we like keeping that close that jfk dry clothes in golden gate park. so those two are gonna go down to the wire now back to you in the studio. all right. thank you, jr. and and results live stream is going to continue all through 11 pm tonight to tune in and join us download our abc 7 bay area app on your smartphone or smart tv or watch us on our website abc7news.com. abc7news.com.

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tonight, this has national implications, obviously, and you know this. both the senate race, mark kelly and blake masters and explain why we are sort of stuck at 57-40 here. >> election officials told us they would do whatever they can to process the early vote that comes in and get out as much as they could, especially the stuff that got there early enough and put that out at one big release of data. that's what they have done. now, they're waiting to start coe lating everything else

before they have another massive release. they were stressing there was nothing wrong with the process. there's a lot of conspiracy theories flying out there, they are debunking all of them. the numbers are not going to be the same at the end of the night. this reflectis most of the earl vote. that being said, mark kelly with big leads in phoenix and tucson. >> the early mail-in vote tends to lean democratic. not entirely surprising he would have a sizable lead here. >> and a state that has a rlot f early vote and absentee vote. >> but we're going to have numbers by the end of tonight, before tomorrow? >> we're going to get an update, but not a full count. >> this is really incredible. let's look at the governor's race, kari lake versus katie hobbs. hobbs is the secretary of state, gained national not prnotoriety because she certified that election that joe biden won. similar numbers here. >> it's a surprise. a lot of democrats were expecting that kari lake would

outperform where blake masters was and republicans certainly saw the same polling as anyone else. the fact they're tracking as much as they can is probably a good sign for democrats, because mark kelly has always been seen as a better candidate than katie hobbs. that might be a good sign. just watching the biggest county in the state, maricopa county, you have someone like katie hobbs running above where she needs to go, by that big a margin, as it changes, that's a decent sign for the numbers we have so far. >> whit johnson standing by live in arizona and whit, we don't need to tell you that the nation is watching arizona tonight and waiting. >> absolutely. and you know who knows that, as well? kari lake, who is running for governor. just moments ago, she walked out on the stage here to "american woman" by lenny kravitz. she immediately launched right into her familiar election grievances. she said, we're going to have a big night and don't let the cheaters and crooks let you

think anything differently. she said the system we have now does not work. we the people deserve to know on election night a winner and a loser. we've heard these things from her in the past. she's made election denialism central to her campaign. she went on to call out what she called the incompetency of not only the 2020 election, but of the primary election, back here, and we were in the state in august and she even dropped hints that she thought there was fraud in that election when she was going up against other republicans. so, we have heard this from her in the past. i do want to note another thing that she mentioned, because she brought up some of the issues with those tabulation machines that we were talking about and it's worth noting, we have an update, it's very similar to what janai was talking about in nevada, but the reverse. here in arizona, it was the republicans who filed the lawsuit against the county, wanted to extend the voting period. a judge looked at it, said no, it was denied. so, the polls closed. but they did allow people who

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live from new york city and across the country, election night 2022. now reporting, david muir. >> good evening and it's great to have you back with us here for our election night coverage here on abc. 12:37. rejoining our coverage, and we're grateful for that. we continue to follow those key numbers. remember, control of both the house and the senate at stake here tonight. republicans need a net gain of one senate seat, the math hasn't gotten there yet tonight. they need a net gain of five house seats. the math not there yet, either. but working in both directions. it's been a split story across the country. new hampshire, maggie hassan holding on, in colorado, michael bennet holding only their senate

seats. but other questions. in ohio, j.d. vance has won, he beat the democrat tim ryan. in arizona, still too early to call. and in pennsylvania tonight, john fetterman against dr. oz, another key senate race, virtually a dead heat tonight. rick klein was showing us how much of the outstanding vote is in the philadelphia area, which would tend to bode well for the democratic candidate. so, we continue to follow that very closely. we also follow tonight the issue of abortion rights across this country going into tonight. we knew the economy, inflation, abortion rights top of mind in many places. let's go through what we have so far. abc news can report that in michigan, they voted 54%, voting yes to proposal free. they will provide a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, the right to make decisions about all matters relating to pregnanpreg. so, they voted yes tonight. that's passed in michigan. the california proposition, proposition one, also has passed tonight by a vote of 69% to 31%

there, a yes vote in california supporting amending the state constitution for abortion rights. in vermont tonight, proposal five in vermont, also passing. 76-24. a yes vote there in vermont supporting amending the vermont constitution. let's get right over to rachel scott, tracking this all night long and this has been an issue across the country, where they are amending constitutions, it's passed tonight. >> i'm going to circle the states where that has passed, protecting access to abortion. california, michigan, and vermont. and just take a look at the map here. this is the landscape after roe versus wade was overturned. the orange here are all the states that have banned abortion. the result is you get abortion deserts across the country. this has been a defining issue for democrats. it's proven to be, especially seeing these three measures passed. there's two measures on the ballot to restrict access to abortion. that's going to be in montana and kentucky. still don't know the results of those yet. but i can tell you that if kentucky does move to restrict access to abortion, this would add just another state to the

already sweeping ban that we're seeing across this region. >> blocks tell the story of the country tonight in both directions on this deeply personal issue. i want to bring in juju chang, live in michigan. not only covering the governor's race there, gretchen whitmer's race being challenged by dixon, but this abortion rights proposition on the ballot that we now learned has passed tonight. >> absolutely. and the folks who have brought that issue to the voters say that tonight's result show that michigan has paved the way for future efforts to restore the rights and protections of roe v. wade nationwide. there are a couple of days in which abortion has become operationalized in michigan. some of it we knew coming in, we knew that female voters were out registering male voters by a factor of 8%. and that democrats were ou outregistering republicans by 8% m and we covered a new kind of

plitical organizing with red wine and blue, it was a social gathering where they would harness the social networks of suburban women who were energized around abortion, asking them to text their friends and family, to get out to vote. and using abortion as an animated issue to get women out. now, this has lifted a number of democratic candidates, including governor whitmer, you can see behind me, the stage is being set for her to come out. she's enjoyed a comfortable lead in the polls, but still, it's very tight. wayne county has yet to report. some of the down ballot issues have also come in and the down ballot candidates have come out. the attorney general, the secretary of state, they've all pre prevailed. and many see abortion as the issue moving forward to get energized voters in the blue states ahead, david. >> and youjuju, review the numb with you of where the governor's race stands tonight. this race, gretchen whitmer

facing challenger tudor dixon tonight. as you can see, gretchen whitmer leading 50% to 48%, a two-point race with only 55% of the vote in. it's been hovering around the same number for quite some time. i don't know if you are hearing anything from the campaign or not or what you are sensing on the ground there, juju. >> what we're hearing is that wayne county, which includes metropolitan detroit has yet to report, obviously that's a predominantly african american district that goes very blue. but you know, we've also pointed out throughout the evening, david, that michigan voters in the exit polls said that abortion, unlike other states, was the number one issue on their minds. putting it at 47% compared to 28% for inflation. and that was also seen in some of the senate races, maggie has san's race, as you pointed out, but honestly, i think the dobbs effect, this supreme court overturning rojas definitely an mated michigan in a way to get out the vote tonight, david.

>> juju chang, incredible reporting as always from michigan. juju, thank you. i want to bring in linsey davis, who has been tracking the exit polls nationally and out of michigan. i'm curious, the comparison, how they match up or not? >> i want to just add onto what juju was saying, because we're seeing that abortion is not just energizing those in blue states, but in red states. this was kansas that started the trend this summer in voting to support and protect reproductive rights and michigan, again, as she just suggested, 45%. talking about half of michigan voters said that abortion was the top of mind. their number one issue. the same is true in penn pennsylvania. now, nationally, we don't see that. nationally, we see abortion about a quarter, just a little more than a quarter of those voters said that that was their issue, but where this is really interesting, david, in voters between the ages of 18 to 19, 44% said that -- 18 to 29, 44% said that abortion was their top issue. that's more than double their

concern about inflation. >> and you have to wonder, had abortion rights been hon the ballot in proposition form in other states, if you would have seen more numbers like what you saw in the exit polls in michigan. it's really interesting. >> as cecilia pointed out before, too, had this election happened more closely to the supreme court overturning roe versus wade, would we have found a different result, as well, more pro democrats? >> i want to bring in kate shaw, who covers the supreme court for us. and listen, a couple of weeks, obviously, makes the difference when you look at the polling, nate silver showed us earlier the sort of gulf between the two parties when roe was overturned and then as we got closer to the election, the race tightened significantly. but in states where abortion rights were on the ballot, you know, the exit polling reflects that. >> right, so, not every state allows for this kind of direct democracy, where you can put these kinds of questions directly on the ballot to amend the state constitution, but lots of states do allow that to

happen and you have to wonder why more states didn't sort of push to put abortion explicitly, protections for abortion or, in either direction, on the ballot in order to drive turnout. but you're seeing in michigan, that was the core of the message. it was on the ballot independently and at the center of all of the campaigns and i think we're see what the results look like. >> all right, kate shaw, thank you very much. rick klein, i wanted to come back to you for michigan. juju said wayne county, they haven't received the treturns yet, or all the returns. is that why we don't know who is going to win this race for governor in michigan? >> we have less than half of the vote in there. we know this is heavily democratic territory, but remember two things you have to keep in mind. where is the vote that's not in and what kind of vote are we talking about? both of those things matter. so, the democrats would tend to benefit from the fact that there's so much vote out from a democratic city, for the fact there's so much election day vote that needs to be reported

is something that would tend to benefit the republicans. so, our team is going to be very cautious in making all of these projections, they don't want to get too far ahead of the data. 130,000-vote edge. clearly governor whitmer is in a better position right now, especially when you look at the benchmarks that she's seeing around the state. this tells me that some of the parts that she's gotten back so far are probably more democratic than the rest of the county, so, i think waiting on some of the other results in wayne county is almost certainly what's holding this decision up. >> the race for governor in michigan. let's go back to pennsylvania and do georgia, as well, for those who are rejoining us in the east. we have the whole country back with us on the air and these are races that still have not been called. in pennsylvania, you were telling us moments ago that john fetterman is still in the hunt here. >> yeah, it's a similar story. a lot of the vote is out out of philadelphia. now, that is going to be democratic vote, based on where it's from, but because of when it's from, it's possible that it's more heavily republican, so, that's why we're going to be cautious. ¥6,000 votes seems like a lot.

it's possible to make that up, but if you look at where things are out right now, they are still in some democratic strongholds. as i go through county by county, as i look at where john fetterman is with the benchmarks, i don't see how the votes get there, but again, there's no upside in being too aggressive on a call like this. just looking out in western pennsylvania, where john fetterman is from, he's overperforming where he needs to go, this is a county that is always on the map. joe biden was able to bring erie county back to the democrats when he won. guess what? john fetterman is doing a little bit better than the benchmark would suggest, better than joe biden. i talked to the fetterman campaign. they said their map is basically the biden map and they seem to be recreating that and maybe a little more than that. right now, seem to be on track for doing a little better. that's joe biden's hometown, john fetterman is doing three points better than joe biden did. >> love hearing that tonight. listen, if he gets a win out of pennsylvania, he won't mind that number you just cited. the reason you think, and we're being conservative on this and careful, but you're talking

about day-of vote. this is still today's vote. sometimes that can lean more republican, but it's still in heavily democratic areas that we're waiting for the vote to come in. >> and specifically in philadelphia, we had a republican lawsuit that was meant to create another barrier to e quick report that would create some more procedural hurdles of matching the data before it was released. the commissioners there that oversee the election decided just this morning they were going to be more cautious in releasing that vote and that's why we are seeing the delay out of philadelphia. otherwise, i think we'd see a lot more vote in right now and if the vote was like the other vote, you'd be seeing big numbers presumably for john fetterman. >> incredible race to watch. now, let's go to georgia, rick, and where that stands now. >> yeah, so, in georgia, right now, just in the last 10, 20 minutes or so, we've seen the numbers flip. raphael warnock has about advantage over herschel walker. and what you're seeing, with this warnock campaign, he's hitting the benchmarks just about everywhere. you can look right here in

fulton county, just a touch above this is big, big votes. we heard steve osunsami talking about gwinnett county. it was the data from this county, just north of atlanta, these northern suburbs that have gone sew democratic recently, that is such an important thing for the warnock campaign. we're also seeing him overperform slightly what he needs to do in savannah. i'm looking at these numbers right now and i'm saying, 12,000-vote edge, that's nothing, but the race is to 50, and that's going to be hard to get based on what's out there now. we're talking about 94% of the expected vote in right now. going to be hard to get past 50% and that would mean a runoff. >> rachel, you are tracking georgia, because you traveled through covering this campaign. you want to show us the counties you were in? and this would appear, i mean, you guys reported this together night after night on "world news tonight," that we'd be looking at pennsylvania and georgia this late in the game and here we are, dead heat in both of these states. >> we've been laser focused on this race, because it just has been so tight, it couldn't get

any closer than this georgia senate ration. i was on the ground in this state right as those allegations against herschel walker broke that he paid for a woman's abortion. we started in atlanta, we followed him all across the rural parts of the state and interesting strategy that he was doing here, trying to firm up some rely bly red parts of the state. rural voters, voters that would back him. interesting talking to voters right here in cobb county, for instance, where republican and independent-leaning conservatives told me they saw this more so as a choice. they saw it as choice between the democrats running for the senate or republicans running the senate. they doesn't agree with everything that herschel walker said, even some of them that had abortion at the top of their list maybe had some issues, maybe were turned off by those allegations, but they saw this as a clear choice between which party is going to be in control in washington. >> jon, let's widen out big picture here. it's now 1:00 a.m. in the morning, almost, ten minutes

from now, and we're dealing with not necessarily -- when it comes to the senate, anyway, any massive wave on either side, i mean, it looks like, we said at the inbing of the night, crucial midterms in a divided america and look at pennsylvania, look at georgia, 49-49 in both states. >> here's what i would tell you, big picture. i can't tell you if the republicans are going to win the senate, they might, i can't tell you if they're likely to win the house, sure looks like they could. but what i can tell you is the biggest loser tonight is donald trump. his candidates, his hand-picked candidates, lost in states republicans thought they could win. in new hampshire, with bolduc, in pennsylvania with mastriano, the fact that you have his hand-picked candidates for senate in pennsylvania oz, in georgia, herschel walker, you know, both struggling. again, we don't know what the results are there, but these were states republicans thought they were going to be able to

flip. and on the flip side of this, who won tonight on the republican side? it was republicans who went up against donald trump. it was brian kemp in georgia winning. it was chris sununu in new hampshire, really tough critic of trump, who didn't have trump's endorsement, who won h handily. it was ron desantis who won by a huge margin in florida. so, the people that stood either opposed to donald trump or not with help from donald trump have won. those that donald trump brought to this race have so far either lost or are losing. >> so, a followup to that, let's drill down to the congressional districts. you're talking about the big ticket races and that's absolutely true, but we are still dealing with a number, rick, pull up the election deniers, dealing with 100 or so election deniers winning in the house of representatives and again, this is not a race for senate or a race for governor, but this is still representative congress as far as people who -

don't believe joe biden won the election in 2020. >> yeah, but i have to say, though, even on this point, and that's an alarming number, no doubt, but in terms of the offices that really matter for the min straiting of elections, the election deniers are not winning by and large. if you look at mastriano, pennsylvania, he appoints -- the governor of pennsylvania appoints the secoretary of stat. he lost. mark finchum running for secretary of state out in arizona, visited, you know, was there at the capitol on january 6th, we haven't called that race yet, but he's trailing badly. the secretary of state candidate in michigan for the republicans, another election denier, lost. so, you know, yes, a lot of these house members who voted to overturn results are getting re-elected, not surprising, but in the races that really matter in terms of administering elections, so far, not a big wave there. >> terry moran, does this mean, though, when you look at the

house of representatives, when it comes to election deniers, it's a hyper local issue in america and depends on the community you're representing. >> well, maybe, but i think a lot of those are incumbent republicans already. it is a loyalty test within the republican party, but i'd like to mention a name that hasn't been mentioned here. liz cheney. it turns out that there are small but significant number of liz cheney republicans that cannot go along with the craziest end of the election denying business. and that can hurt people like kari lake. that can hurt people like doug mastriano. and there is that segment of the republican party that did not go along with trump certainly in 2020 and that are growing farther and farther away. it is a bad night for trump and while it's not a good night for liz cheney. she's not going to be in congress, her influence, and she really is a stand-in for all of the ordinary republicans who are not that way and don't like people who are that way and won't go out and vote for them. >> very interesting.

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propositions. so for the very latest, let's get to our very own abc 7 news reporter loose peña with all the details loose. dion we're getting the first results of several propositions on the ballot tonight. we can confirm proposition one has officially passed prop 1 makes abortion a fundamental right for every californian now take a look at the numbers. you can see over here in the numbers. you can see 69% voted. yes, 31% know also moments ago. we heard from governor newsom after proposition one passed. he thanked california's for the support. we also heard from an anti-abortion organizer who says they will continue to fight against abortions. we are a freedom state that we support the rights of women and girls who reproductive care reproductive rights now are shrine in the constitution in the state of california. all we can do is continue to work as hard as we can on individual levels to you know, save people from this horrific practice, that would be legalized. we're also keeping a close eye

on the other propositions that we solds are also coming in for these propositions as well proposition 26 and 27 are not passing so far these propositions would have legalized sports betting in california. we spoke to a political science professor from sonoma state university who projects these groups will come out and try again for these measures in the 2024 ballot. based on pauline and what we're seeing that both of these ballot measures are going to go down now look they're the most expensive ballot measures ever in california history. you add those two up you add the other five up on the balance seven on the ballot altogether and you're going to see ballot measures spending alone. that's over 750 million and we'll approach a billion dollars only the us presidential election just more expensive than california ballot measures driven by 26 and 27 this particular cycle. all right having a hard time hearing loose peña but her comprehensive overview of those

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live from new york city and across the country, "election night 2022." now reporting, david muir. >> it is morning here in the east, 1:00 a.m. the polls have closed in alaska, the 50th and final state. when the sun rises, americans will be waking up to surprises, but still questions that need to be answered. we're take racking all these ke races, many undecided. 10:00 p.m. in the west, 1:00 a.m. in the east. in new hampshire, maggie hassan, the incumbent, held on to her seat. in ohio, j.d. vance beating tim ryan filling the seat of rob portman. in florida, the senate race called early on, senator marco

rubio, a very good night for the republicans in florida. governor ron desantis winning decisively in the state of florida. ted bud beating sherry beesly, a hold. in pennsylvania, too close to call, john fetterman with a slight edge over dr. mehmet oz. as rick klein was showing us earlier, much of the outstanding vote is in the philadelphia area when tends to lean democratic. at the same time, much of the vote that hasn't been tabulated is day-of vote which at times can be more republican. that's why we're being very careful with the state of pennsylvania. but it's looking like john fetterman is still in the hunt against dr. oz. the question is, can dr. oz eke out enough votes in the remaining votes in the philadelphia area? we haven't called pennsylvania tonight. georgia, senator raphael warnock, the democratic incumbent, with a very slight

lead over herschel walker. these races were tight, look at where they are. 49-48. essentially tied in georgia as well. the arizona senate race tonight. the incumbent, senator mark kelly, seeking his first full term, astronaut, combat veteran, married to former congresswoman gabrielle giffords, up against blake masters. this has been holding at 54% of the vote. authorities in arizona say they continue to tabulate, they're following their process, say we haven't got new numbers in a while, so this remains at a stalemate. mark kelly with a lead but a lot of outstanding vote to be counted. in nevada, the senate race, all eyes on senator katherine core pez masto, the incumbent. this is the first time we're starting to see numbers. the first major batch of numbers. 44% of the vote in and the incumbent holding the lead there against her challenger, adam laxalt. many were labeling her as one of the most endangered democratic incumbents. she's the first latina senator.

they also said this would come down to the ground game, remembering the harry reid machine in nevada. they went door to door, the culinary union in those final days. if she's able to pull this out, a lot of people will turn to that nevada machine that had been built, helped bring her to the senate in 2016. bill it helper on eke it out tonight? or will the remaining vote bring adam laxalt into more even standing? wisconsin, ron johnson seeking a third term. 50-49. the lieutenant governor, mandela barnes, 35 years old, giving ron johnson a very big challenge tonight. 88% of the vote in. again, we should dive into the areas where that vote is still outstanding. r rick kline, 49-50. what are we waiting on? >> milwaukee, milwaukee, milwaukee. 77% of the vote in in milwaukee, but this is a heavily democratic area. mandela barnes is beating where joe biden was in this very close

race. and just as tellingly, right on the mark with the benchmark, which means either he's going to continue to pile up votes out of milwaukee, which always, always, always takes a long time to count. it's a perennial part of covering an election. we're seeing in waukesha, washington county, you see most of the vote in, as in much of the rest of the state. i've been struck by numbers we're seeing up in the green bay area as well. mandela barnes is almost getting where he needs to go even in tough red part ftds the state. until we see more out of milwaukee, it's going to be hard to project the state. it is such a big city. if you want to take a look, these are the population centers. they happen to be the biggest democratic areas. dane county is heavily for barnes around the university of wisconsin. this is a tougher county in waukesha, but again, barnes is at least holding his own in so many of these suburbs and racking up big numbers in

milwaukee. >> heidi heitkamp, you said barnes was still in the game, 49-50. we're waiting for outstanding votes in the milwaukee area. >> yeah, this is all about a very unpopular second-term senator running in a state that is legitimately purple and great organization on the ground. what we're hearing is the youth vote is going to play a huge part of this. and i have to say, all these races, we've been told abortion isn't important, abortion isn't important. i think what you're seeing over and over again is women are coming out, men are coming out, and abortion is on the ballot. and that's what you're seeing there. johnson's a hard-liner, right to life, running in a state that literally is not. >> that reminds me of what linsey said in the national exit polling. 18 to 29, abortion rights is a key issue on this midterm election. we know in wisconsin there is a large youth vote also helping to

bring mandela barnes to where he is tonight. outstanding votes, a number of these states it's now 49-49. we've got wisconsin, dead heat. this could also be the senate race that determines, in the end, control of the senate. pennsylvania, this is fascinating. i know they're being extraordinarily careful with this. again, john fetterman, dr. oz. 49-48. the outstanding area is philadelphia. >> yeah, and that's just it, david. this is where it gets hard to see how oz makes up votes. take a look at the vote we have in already. we've got about three-quarters of the election, but also a lot of early by mail votes. you would expect these numbers would actually grow for john fetterman out of philadelphia, unless there's some quirk in the type of vote, the way it's being processesed, the way it's coming in. delco is another big county outside philadelphia. fetterman territory. we've got a decent sample, a large enough sample to know it's coming in for the democrats.

again, the key with these things, it becomes about two different big questions. who or where is the vote out of? what type of voter we talking about? in both those cases, you've got to be cautious. right now who the vote is would tend to benefit the republican. but the where the vote is, these are blue parts of the state. and the point that i've been making all night, david, that is john fetterman is holding his own just about everywhere. the fact that he's able to run up big numbers in the philadelphia area, the western part of the state, two-thirds of the state right there. he's competitive in some parts of the central part of the state. this is a clinic and he is following the model that joe biden was able to enact to win the state back from donald trump. >> outperforming joe biden in his own hometown? >> yeah, look, it tells you a lot right there in scranton. you look at the biden numbers, a couple of points ahead of that. lucerne county, you've got wilke wilkes-barre. john fetterman not necessarily winning but doing well enough to tap into something real.

>> okay, so we've been talking about pennsylvania. nate silver, if you were to give pennsylvania, hypothetically, 1:00 a.m., to john fetterman, let's just see what it does to the democrats' chances. >> at 39, this would bounce up i anticipate to 68. >> still a ways to go. if dr. oz pulls it out in pennsylvania? >> that would flip it completely around and put republicans pretty high, i would think. 82. democrats have much reason to feel good about pennsylvania for the reasons you and rick were talking about. >> all right. they're still counting votes in pennsylvania. i know you're looking at nevada. we got our first major batch of numbers coming in. you've been reporting on this because katherine cortez masto got a lot of attention, whether warranted or not, as being one of the most endangered senators. the polling going in was very close. adam laxalt started to get a lead in these final days by a point or two. so far, tell us where we're seeing the vote coming in.

>> so i'm paying attention right now to the area just outside and around las vegas. this is clark county here. you can see she's overperforming where president biden did in 2020. let's look at the fivethirtyeight benchmark, overperforming as well. heidi heitkamp was talking, i was thinking about voters i met on the ground in nevada. we drove about 150 miles to caliente outside of las vegas. and i met a conservative republican who said that she was on the fence. she didn't know if she wanted to vote for lax sr. alt because abortion rights was her number one issue. she was considering voting for the democrat. and this is exactly the type of voter that cortez masto is betting on in this race right now. she has made abortion rights a very key defining issue as laxalt has leaned into the economy. >> it's interesting. you were saying if she's going to win, it's going to be clark county. this is only 64% of the vote and she's outperforming biden and her benchmark. >> so far. so far she is. but again, it's still early.

only 44% of the vote expected in right now, david. in nevada, every single voter was mailed a mail-in ballot. still early. >> rachel scott watching the numbers from nevada. abc can now project, is in a major headline, 1:10 a.m. here. john fetterman, abc news projecting will win pennsylvania. this is a switch. there's going to be a lot of talk about the 11th hour help that john fetterman received from former president obama, from president biden, from oprah winfrey, who she introduced the country to dr. oz on "the oprah show" for many years. in the 11th hour she offered her endorsement, not to dr. oz, to john fetterman. also, this whole debate about whether or not when you got on that debate stage, showed what it's like to recover from a stroke, whether that would hurt or help. he argued to the last day, making his campaign speeches, that he'd grown more empathetic. this allows me to understand people, families, and what they

go through when they get knocked down. >> david, it's not just switch, it's the first switch of the night. and it makes a big, big difference in the battle for the senate. as you can see, the democrats now have a real path. and you can see lots of other things in front of it. but look, that's the first time we've had a switch all night. the other ones we projected, those are republicans holding republican seats, these are democrats holding democratic seats. democrats had to hold serve tonight, just hold the seats they already had. now they're winning a seat that had been held by a republican. now they're in a commanding position with other states on the map. if they're able to hold on in arizona, that would put them at 49. then one little seat away. it could come in nevada or it could come in georgia where there's at least the possibility of a runoff. but regardless, this is an enormous pickup for them. a big boost for democrats. as you mentioned, one of the few places joe biden personally went, invested a lot of energy, a lot of attention in that state going head to head with donald

trump. >> yeah, that's going to -- a lot of people are going to ask, people kept joe biden at arm's length. this was a state where john fetter han said, come home to pennsylvania. the president said, i know pennsylvania, john fetterman is pennsylvania. let's find out what the exit polls said about john fetter han. linsey, what voters in pennsylvania said today, wow, this is quite a headline. abc news projecting john fetterman, a switch, major headline, a switch to the democrats in the senate for pennsylvania. >> very significant. we look at, again, pennsylvania and michigan, the only states that said abortion was number one before inflation. abortion was an issue that dr. oz was a little bit slippery on. he wouldn't really -- kind of dodged often just as much as governor sununu did, played that dodge game whether or not he would support lindsey graham's federal abortion ban. and fetterman's health in the end not enough of an issue. the question for pennsylvania voters, is fetterman in good

enough health to represent the state? by a slim margin, but he did make it to the 50% mark there. his medical doctor did release a note saying that he was fit to run as senator. and then with oz's views, again, initially he was running really closely to trump. really celebrating that endorsement that he got. at a certain point he really moved away and said, i don't consider myself to be maga, i consider myself to be more of a moderate. but again, we saw earlier, we don't have it pulled up, but in the end it seemed to matter to a lot of voters that they didn't believe that oz lived in pennsylvania long enough. i think that really played a big role here. >> you have to wonder if the oz campaign's going to look at the last two days and ask themselves, was it smart to have former president trump right there in pennsylvania? they did bring in susan collins the next day, a much more moderate republican. donald trump was there with dr. oz in is final argument when dr. oz was trying to tell voters, i'd be a moderate republican. i want to get to eva pilgrim

live in pennsylvania. she knows pennsylvania very well. any reaction from the fetterman campaign tonight? >> reporter: the fetterman campaign is in a good mood, the crowd cheering as numbers coming in a short time ago. i think we're going to -- prp [ cheers and applause ] cheering now, celebrating. this was not something they were expecting to get a result on tonight. a lot of people were expecting that this was going to go on for several days to say pennsylvania, local officials, bracing people for the fact that this vote could take awhile. to have a result tonight is a big win for this campaign. linsey talking about the fact that a lot of people didn't view oz as a true pennsylvanians. talking to people in suburbs around philadelphia, think about the families that live in those collar counties, they've lived there for generation after generation. those are counties where kids go off to school and they come back

to raise their family. generation after generation. they are entrenched in those communities. and people repeatedly told me he was not a pennsylvanian. that was something that came up repeatedly. the other big thing that came up with those suburban women, moms, was the issue of abortion. even if they weren't big fans of the policy that fetterman supported, that issue of abortion was what swayed them to vote for him. and the other group that i heard that from as well were fathers. repeatedly telling me the same thing. they had children, they had daughters, they were concerned about that issue, david. >> that point is really landing, eve, have a thanks so much. from the exit polls from linsey showing abortion rights, the top issue in pennsylvania, not only for women but for men. you were just looking at the images there up on the big screen. former president obama, president biden, arm in arm with john fetterman in those final

days. and also josh shapiro, a strong democrat who won by a larger margin earlier in the night. going to be talk about how he helped john fetterman get over the finish line as well. donna brazile, not diminishing the victory from john fetterman, incredible that you have a man who was once mayor of braddock, lieutenant governor, suffers a stroke, gets up on that debate stage knowing he'd have to read closed captioning to survive the debate, and he won tonight. >> i was emotional watching it. chris and i were there in october. mr. oz and mr. shapiro -- but mr. fetterman was not there. i was concerned he would not have the energy to continue the race. but you know what, you cannot knock down big john. he knows how to stay in touch with the people. he had a great social media campaign. a great ground game. and john fetterman campaigned saying, come, come, come. >> donna brazile, let's listen to john fetterman. he's at the podium right now, the new senator from pennsylvania.

[ cheers and applause ] >> i -- [ cheers and applause ] yeah, i -- i'm not sure really what to say right now, my goodness. >> we love you! >> i am -- >> we say you're a winner! >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> here's to the working class! we did it!

>> yeah, i -- >> we love you, john! >> so -- i am -- i'm so humbled. thank you so much. really. thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] what is it, 1:30 in the morning and you're still here hanging in? we want -- >> we love you! >> we launched this campaign almost two years ago. and we had our slowing began. it's on every one of those signs right now. ever r every county, every vote. every county, every vote. and 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.

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from abc 7, your voice, your vote. dan: good evening once again on this fascinating election night. liz: we are breaking into our live election coverage to bring you this update. alameda elected the first

black district attorney. dan: we are live in oakland at the watch party. reporter: lots of energy and an electric feeling inside the watch party. he is leading by five percentage points over his opponent, pamela price. you see terry wiley there. with nearly 133,-000, wiley is leaving. 52-47, both candidates trying to replace retiring da nancy o'malley after 13 years on the job. price served as a civil rights lawyer for decades. she is facing off against terry wiley, 32 year veteran now serving as chief da campaigning on a pragmatic approach to the job. no matter who wins, alameda

voters will make history electing the first black district attorney. we are here at terry wiley's watch party, he is leading pamela price by 6000 votes. dan: in san francisco's race for district attorney, brooke jenkins has a solid lead over her competitor. liz: the latest results, brooke jenkins taking the lead at 48% against her challenger at 34%. earlier tonight jenkins spoke to her supporters. >> thank you you to all of the people in the das office. they have suffered through four das in four years. now they can rest, they can serve the city and county of san francisco and not worry that their hands will be tied. they can advocate for victims the way they know they should without feeling there will be

repercussions. dan: brooke jenkins tonight. let's go to the south bay and the race for san jose's mayor. reporter: you have cindy chavez running to replace the mayor terming out of office. ballots are still coming in and votes are being counted. a small lead for matt mahan. it is not official yet but we spoke to him about what collaboration between the santa clara supervisor will look like regardless of the outcome of the election? listen to what he said to us an hour ago. >> after elections, election officials have a responsibility to come together to understand what the electorate is telling them, then work to solve problems. i'm committing to focus on solutions we need. reporter: still a tight race

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abc news "election night 2022" continues. here again, david muir. >> there you go, now you hear me, we're good. these are the numbers on the floor, let's take a look. the story of the night. control of the senate still not determined. remember, we said this at the very beginning of the evening. the senate, republicans need a net gain of just one seat. this is basically 50, the race to 51, for republicans. 50 for the democrats, because obviously vice president kamala harris is still the tiebreaking vote. they would be happy with 50 seats plus kamala harris.

republicans need to get to 51. they need a net gain of one seat to take back control of the senate. we have this major headline out of pennsylvania, john fetterman flipping pennsylvania. he is the new senator from pennsylvania. he heads to washington. a lot of this is still up for grabs tonight with very close races, particularly in georgia. it's a det he'd. in nevada, early numbers coming in. arizona, we're waiting for more results. all these very close senate races. let's take a look at one race we can project. abc news ready to project the utah senate race. senator mike lee seeking a third term. the republican in that state, he was facing a challenge from evan mcmullin, the indiana. democrats team is up with the independent, but mike lee heading back to the senate. all eyes across this nation watching this race. raphael warnock with a slight, i mean slight edge over herschel walker, 95% of the vote in. to nevada, we do actually have some numbers to group date this. katherine cortez masto, 54%. adam laxalt, 43%.

approaching half the vote in. and clark county isn't fully accounted for. clark county largely believed to be the place because it's the home of las vegas, many union workers. if katherine cores remasto is able to pull this out given the polling, it would likely be clark county. this race has a long way to go. nds, the incumbent senator mark kelly seeking his first full term. you can see there leading blake masters. a sizable lead early on. we're waiting for more information on the areas where this vote is coming from and who is left to be tabulated. mark kelly, got to be happy with at least an early lead with blake masters. another very close race is in wisconsin. the senate race there. ron johnson, the incumbent, leading but very slightly, a little more than 1% with 88% of the vote in. the vote that's still not fully accounted for is the vote in and

around milwaukee, which obviously is a largely democratic area. so this race obviously still too close to be called. i want to bring in rick klein at the big board. first of all, let's just take these one at a time. at this point, the story of the night is all about who is going to control the senate when this is all said and done. in georgia, we've watched them go -- walker was in the lead for a short amount of time. raphael warnock in the lead by a percentage point. what are we waiting for? >> this is the state that joe biden won by 11,000, 12,000 votes. warnock winning by almost exactly the same margin. the key is really there's two different ways that warnock has to win. he has to beat herschel walker in the actual vote, he has to top 50% to be projected the winner tonight. i am really struck by how he is performing in the atlanta area. this is, of course, the place where democrats want to do really, really well. and they're almost exactly hitting their numbers. nate and his team, really smart people, they're hitting the numbers almost exactly. these numbers were there earlier in the night, i swear to you. he's doing exactly what he needs

to do. dekalb county, atlanta, the atlanta environs. north of the city, these are places that republicans often romp in. the fact that warnock can take almost one-third of the vote in forsythe county, that's a big deal for his campaign. that shows you why he's able to show at least a numeric lead with north of 96% of the vote in. >> he's doing well in deep red counties, really says something, keeping him in the game. take a break from the senate race to bring you, abc news ready to project in michigan, the race for governor, gretchen whitmer, will remain the governor. she was seeking another term, she has won, beating her opponent 52-46%. abortion rights also on the bat local. a lot of people are going to dissect how powerful those things were together. the race for governor and the proposition that passed tonight. i want to get back to the senate races now. rachel, i know you were diving into nevada at this hour what we know so far? >> yes. so less than half the vote in so

far. these are very early results that we are seeing. but with 44% of the vote in right now, you are seeing the incumbent democratic senator katherine cores remasto with a slight lead. this is a race that has tightened in the final stretch. we're paying a lot of the attention to clark county where las vegas is. mostly 70% of voters actually live there. adam laxalt, i was on the ground covering this race in the final stretch. he was really campaigning in the more rural parts of the state. >> drill down on this. how is he doing versus trump, how is she doing versus biden? clark county, we can do that first. but go to the more republican county in a second. >> let's start with clark county. right now katherine cortez masto, 55%. she's overperforming where president biden was in 2020. take a look at adam laxalt, republican. he's underperforming the number. >> 60% of the vote in, still significant vote in the las vegas area to come in.

>> exactly. if this continues he's going to need to make up ground here in more of the rural counties. these are a lot smaller. take a look. right now 95% of the vote in. he's still underperforming where former president donald trump was in 2020. >> we want to go back to arizona. thank you, rachel. rick is digging into arizona. we're kind of holding at 54% of the vote here. they say there's nothing wrong in arizona, that this is part of the process? >> i know it's supposed to play the smart guy but i don't have the answers. this is one i don't know. we don't have that much visibility into what's holding things up other than they're saying this is the process they intended to follow. that meant they were going to release most of the votes that were cast well in advance of election day, then get out election day votes. then the wait would come for things that came late in the mail. sunday, monday, tuesday. might even be arriving, as long as it's postmarked in time, beyond that. maricopa county is the heart of this state. it's about 60% of the voting population.

they're saying they have just about all of the election day vote in. they're waiting on some of this early by mail vote. that would tell you a little something about the margins. the thing is about maricopa county, this is a place that is a battleground. it is a lot of people that moved into the state, the fastest-growing county in the whole country. it was a place where john mccain used to win with huge margins. it has now become a very closel. fivethirtyeight, you can see it would be a tie. the fact that mark kelly is up, it depend on this the rest of the vote out there. i would expect the margins start to collapse as numbers come in. that's a pretty big number right now. 17 points. >> talking about election day vote, that tends to lean republican day of, right? >> it does. >> mail-in, about 90% of people? >> they're not a lot of it in arizona, but yes, you'd expect advantage there. we know that the republicans have been spreading lots of false claims about elections and election security in arizona. that is definitely going to be part of this. if you look at where mark kelly

needs to be, this is his home county, pima county. tucson, that's where his wife, gabrielle giffords, was a congresswoman. he's running above where he needs to be in those places. these redder parts, not as many people live there, these are smaller counties. that's where blake masters is picking up his vote. >> waiting on arizona, nevada, georgia. look at the big wall. these are the numbers. the race to 50 for the democrats, they have a net gain of one. the race to 51 for republicans to take control of the senate if they'd like to, which they obviously would. the night is still young. but john fetterman, the big headline this last hour, the lieutenant governor in pennsylvania, the new senator from pennsylvania, that is a flip. yvette simpson watching coverage from our washington, d.c. bureau. what do you make what was you're seeing? how do you label it? what do you make of the john fetterman win? >> i think if republicans had their way, this would not be the day they were having. we'll consider that a victory. there were certainly some races that were a little too close for comfort, but the fact that john fetterman pulled it off is such

a victory. mandelabarnes. we could see wisconsin, we're holding out for him. sherry beesly, a race where we had a little more investment. i think when we get out of this race as democrats we're going to say, where can we make more investments going into 2024? release some strongholds, especially in the southern states? we're seeing a lot of the losses -- >> before we get to 2024, let me ask about wisconsin. it's still so close tonight. if this is a race where, in the end, mandela barnes does not win, are there going to be serious questions for the democrats why they didn't do more to help him? >> absolutely. he's a lieutenant governor, he's won in the state before. you think about all the hype around john fetterman, rightly so. mandela barnes also deserves that hype. a little bit more investment. he was running against an incumbent. look how close he's gotten. i think we will be asking these questions if he does fall short. whether he does or not, i think we need to talk about making sure we're making these investments with candidates like mandela going forward.

>> sarah isker, worked with the bush administration. there was talk about the potential of a red wave. i think everyone acknowledges here there doesn't feel -- particularly when you're looking at the senate -- like there's been a wave for either party. what do you make of what you're seeing? >> this is a shocking night for a lot of republicans. what i'm hearing is that they were expecting a red wave, if not a red tsunami. they were looking at states like colorado, washington state, those races were called early after the polls closed. and so i think you could see this as a cross-wave election in which you had certain dynamics working against democrats. the economy, gas prices, the president's approval numbers. but you also had a cross-current working against republicans. whether it was trump, abortion, or simply not making the case that they were a party ready to lead. so the result has been a lot of incumbents win. it looks like the status quo wins out. voters were just happy with the

status quo. when in fact, i think turbulence under the water looking at these numbers in a few days. >> a cross-wave election, i'm not sure i've heard that before. i get what you mean. i think both parties are going to be asking questions about what it is we witnessed unfold tonight. sair, thank you. i know mary bruce, as we continue to look at the senate numbers, we should stay focused. this is the story of the hour, who is going to control the senate. we wait to see where the house lands given sort of the contextual history of modern times, the party in power in the white house generally loses seats. republicans, a net gain of five seats. the math, nobody has been able to project anything for the house. you have a statement from house speaker nancy pelosi? >> she is saying democrats have strongly outperformed expectations. as we've been discussing, this is not the night that republicans were expecting. it's not the night the democrats were expecting. they had pretty much conceded they were going to lose the house. they were hopeful about the senate. but the fact that you are not seeing that red wave that red tsunami, this is a big deal for

democrats. i think it's a big deal for nancy pelosi. it's a really big deal for joe biden. i think you're going to see him, when we hear from him, which we expect will be at some point tomorrow, that he's going to have a lot of the touting to do. there's a lot of the question about the strategy that he had played out leading up to this election. whether he was focused not enough on the economy, too much on the bigger picture of what was at stake in our democracy here. i think you're going to see that the president, given especially the bad night donald trump has had, joe biden is going to be feeling pretty good about all of this. >> mary, thank you. linsey davis, you're seeing some evidence of how democrats might have picked up some independent voters in the house? >> sure. take a look at this, david. independents tend to be able to vote for the winning side. if this is any indication, any ability to read the tea leaves, you have the independent voters who just by 2 points are voting more toward the democratic candidate. 49% to 47%. so this really is evidence of democrats really being able to hold their own. and perhaps why we're not seeing

that red wave that many anticipated, with the exception of joe biden did say, was it just this week, that democrats are going to surprise the living devil out of a lot of people. and perhaps they've done that. the man who just one day, yesterday, became the -- 50 years ago, the youngest u.s. senator. really keeping that hope alive. >> what are they saying at the white house? how is the president feeling? i'm sure he's been making calls to people who won tonight. he's got to be happy. >> he stopped the calls, he made a lot of them. in text exchanges from here on the desk with friends of the white house, people inside the white house, getting increasingly more exclamation marks inside these text messages. one of the last ones ended with "whew." breathing a bit of a sigh of relief. not counting their chickens just yet. they feel very good. i think what we're going to hear a lot of in terms of the spin, and it is a fact, they're

framing this as biden is having a better midterm night than any president since bush. that is a big thing for them in terms of the history we're looking at here. just look at the storylines that we were coming into tonight with the president's approval rating. the economy, that lag in enthusiasm on abortion. the trump factor. was this a referendum on biden's approval because of those low approval ratings? i think mary said we're expecting to hear from the president tomorrow. i expect we'll see that pep in the step we often see from joe biden that he likes to get that little shuffle going. >> it stopped me when you said he's having, according to your sources, and the math might bear this out, the best midterm election for a first-term president since george w. bush, at least at this point. and remember, that was right after 9/11. this country was going to war. he's fighting all the historical norms with inflation at a 40-year high. obviously the economy's a tale of two economies. you've got two jobs available for every one american available to take the job. but people are feeling this.

gas prices, groceries. for them, in some of these cases, to stick with the democrats does speak volumes. i think people are going to try to figure out what really drove voters? >> i'm struck by a tweet that the former press secretary jen psaki put out, democrats have a florida problem, but republicans have a trump problem, that seems harder to solve. i think that's what we're look at in terms of how this biden administration decides they can govern, legislatively, looking for potentially a split congress if they end up losing the house. what this means, we keep talking about it, this is a very real part of this conversation what this means for 2024. does this push him to decide to run again? >> it does feel like a lot of this tonight was a biden/trump sort of rematch, even before a potential rematch in 2024. there was a lot of the people unhappy with the current state of affairs, but still for some reason deciding to stay the course despite the headlines about the economy. >> donald trump just teased he's

going to make an announcement, a big announcement next week. presumably about running for president. what donald trump has done today what donald trump has done in these midterms, he's given the democrats a lifeline. you look at the big losses. as we talked about, david, the big losses that -- in places where republicans thought they were going to win. most of those in places where donald trump was directly impl implicated, either because he chose the candidate, he supported the candidate, his visit to pennsylvania on saturday i think is going to be talked about a lot. you know, oz wasn't too thrilled to have that visit, i am sure. but he had to be there because there would be no candidate oz if it weren't for donald trump. so yeah, i think this was a bit of -- round one of biden/trump, trump didn't win this one. >> governor christie what do you make of tonight? >> first, it's disappointing at the moment. in a macro sense. for republicans. because the hype beforehand was that it was going to be much

better than what it's being. now, if you come out of this in the next 48 hours with a, you know -- say in the next month in the senate side with a republican majority in the senate, and you leave in the next couple of days with a republican majority in the house, i think they'll be pretty happy. it's not going to be huge but it's going to be taking control. again, both of those chambers. but the issue that jon was raising is an important one. because i remember the 2016 campaign, i was in it. and i remember donald trump saying then, we're just going to keep winning. we're going to do more winning, so much winning that you're going to ask me to stop winning so much, you're going to get tired of winning. well, if you look at tonight and the time before this, we lost both houses of congress in 2018. we lost the white house in 2020. we lost two winnable senate seats in georgia in a runoff in 2020. and now tonight you're going to

have lost a pennsylvania senate seat, you look to be on your way to lose one in arizona, you lost in new hampshire, and you're in a runoff in georgia. you know, that seems like a lot of losing. and i think that the party's going to have to decide in the aftermath of this, even if we take majorities in both houses, are we going to be the party of me or the party of us? if we're going to be the party of me, and that me is donald trump, i think general election voters are sending my party a really big message. >> that's the question from chris christie for the republican party tonight. donna brazile? >> clearly i feel a lot better, because the challenge was to make this a choice, not a referendum against joe biden. there was a lot of the energy in the end from democrats, especially young people. early voting went as planned. for the three states that joe biden cared about, because of the electoral college in 2024 -- wisconsin, michigan,

pennsylvania -- governors who are firmly going to be able to control the process. so yes, it feels good. but clearly, there's some more danger signs. >> all right. we're going to check on these races that are dead even. the senate races that still could control and will determine who controls the senate. we'll be right back.

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indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪ we are grateful you have stayed with us tonight. "abc news live" coverage approaching 2:00 a.m. we are still on the air because there are still significant unanswered questions tonight. we started out the night with two key numbers. republicans need a net gain of five seats in the house to take control of the house. historically speaking, the party in control of the white house generally has a very difficult midterm. tonight the math isn't there yet, though, to say the republicans are going to take back the house. the math also isn't there yet to determine who's going to control the senate. you're looking at the numbers up on the screen. this is a race for the democrats to 50. 50 seats plus vice president kamala harris with the tiebreaking vote, and they will remain in control of the senate.

republicans as you can see, 47 seats. they need to get to 51 to take back control of the senate. all of this with georgia hanging in the balance. take a look, the georgia senate race, senator raphael warnock with a very slight lead. 96% of the vote in. over his challenger, herschel walker. 41.1-48.8, it doesn't get any closer than this. nevada, 54% of the vote in. the incumbent, senator catherine cortez masto, the first latina senator in the u.s., seeking her second term, largely believed to be an endangered incumbent but she leads adam laxalt at this hour. some of these results include the key clock county results. not all of them but that's the home to las vegas. if she's going to win this, the democrat would need all the votes of las vegas they can get, especially with the help from union workers and what we've been talking about here tonight, the harry reid machine that they did employ in these final weeks

of this campaign. to the next race that's still undecided tonight, the arizona senate race. mark kelly, 57-40. the challenger, blake masters, supported by former president trump, an election denier in that state. then saying joe biden won. there was encouragement from the former president to stick with the election denier story as the republican candidate for governor did, kari lake, a hugely supported by the former president. we're tracking that race as well. again, the senate race still an unanswered question with mark kelly in a commanding lead with 54% of the vote in. very close in wisconsin tonight. ron johnson trying to hold on to his seat. the incumbent in the lead by about 1 percentage points up against lieutenant governor mandela barnes, 49%. barnes looking to defeat jo johnson, very close. 93% of the vote in. in and around the milwaukee area, you can see as we go

through, these are unanswered questions. any number of the senate races could get to that magic number of 50 for the democrats or 51 for the republicans. what we haven't tonight is some massive red wave or blue wave across the country. instead we have witnessed what we have known for several years. we are in a deeply divided country. let's head back over to rick at the big board. rick, georgia tonight, we knew this would come down to georgia and most likely nevada. we're looking at both of those states tonight. >> 100%. we talk about 50, forget the numbers of 49 versus 48. herschel walker's number really doesn't matter at this point. what matters is whether raphael warnock or anyone gets to 50%. you have to get to 50 to avoid a runoff. this is what we're looking at this hour. our team thinks there's about 100,000 votes out there, mostly election day votes, in a and around atlanta and the suburbs. cobb county, 40,000 votes.

gwinnett county, 30,000 votes. debab county, maybe 28,000 votes. the thing is these are places that are favoring the democrats. so you got 100,000 votes, there's some share that go toward the democrat. maybe that number ticks up a bit toward 50%. but man, it's going to be a squeaker to get close to it. >> again, as rick klein points out, he's been saying this, if we don't get 50%, we are headed to a runoff in georgia. we'll be back with most of the country in just minutes. for those in the west, it's time for local news.

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