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Closely. now, we wont know anything. and i cannot stress this enough. we wont know anything for sure until saturday at noon because thats when the first unofficial results are due in all 67 counties in florida. but we have talked about this. we have talked about the razor thin margins in florida. i want to share these latest numbers with you because the margins have narrowed. in the senate race, rick scott 50.1%. bill nelson, 49.9%. thats a 0.2% margin with 99% of the results in. now, as you men...

And, yet, right now democrats are projected to -- weve already called two of them in northern virginia and in florida. flipping from republican control to democratic control. now democrats only need to flip 21 more and maits only 8:30. >> theyre leading in 15 of those districts right now. so theres potential that the democrats clearly have. lets look at how close the contest for florida senate, florida governor, are right now. well put the numbers up on the screen so our viewers can see them bec...

50.3%. 49.7%. but it is tightening in the past few minutes. its tightened pretty dramatically. >> you know whats interesting about this, the conventional wisdom is andrew gillum, because he was a more exciting candidate according to the pundits was helping nelson and pulling nelson across the finish line although we obviously dont know whos going to get across the finish line first. right now, nelson actually has more votes than gillum so perhaps that conventional wisdom, like so much convention...

Which is being tabulated now. mcsally seems to have done better. and down here, this is simena leading here. but that election day vote possibly in the maricopa county, which is 60% of the state, that could be key. the other issue is the governors race in georgia. theyre counting absentee ballots right now. will the breakdown be enough to pull kemp over 50%? if that happened, if that gets to 49.9, that race heads to a runoff. there is also the outstanding question of this senate race in florida ...

Opposite reaction. >> the gallop for his approval was under the average, it was 49.9%, hes fdr compared to trump, there were a lot of people who did more. >> in the last two years, its gone up, and its gone up since then. of course his objective here is to of course do no harm. but if we think this is just an anti-trump speech, it shows the smallness of trump, and the smallness of people defending him, because it was a pro democracy, a proi civi ivcivic engagement. you compare that to what trump...

The candidate, rick saccone. telling them, hey, by the way, theres an election on tuesday, that that information shared by president trump, bringing the spot really helped. wolf blitzer? >> lets go over to john king and see where these votes are outstanding. i want to also point out, 96% of the vote is in. the libertarian candidate, drew miller, hes got 1,280 votes. hes got more votes than the difference right now. conor lamb, the democrat, still ahead of rick saccone, the republican, by only 91...

Saccone, the republican. 49.9% to 49@5%. only 75 a votes separate these two candidates, not many. john king at the magic wall. i want to get to washington county right now. look at washington county. 93% of the vote. we have counted so far 93% of the vote. rick saccone ahead of conor lamb. but i want it to bring in larry spar, the director of elections in washington county. you and i have spoken. you have new up numbers. what does saccone have and what does lamb have. >> mr. lamb raies 22114. mr...

20 points. the previous republican didnt have an opponent the last two elections in a row. our panelists have been talking about how conor lamb has run a race for the district. when we get up to 91, they jumped from 88 to 90% here in washington county. and again, thats a lead in a republican county, but i would guess -- >> go back to the district as a whole. look at this now. the lead for conor lamb is now only 703 votes. 49.9% to 49.5%. look at how tight this race is with 94% of the vote in. >>...

An incredibly close race in pennsylvanias 18th congressional district. 98% of the vote is in. the democrat, conor lamb, is only 700 votes of rick saccone, the republican. drew miller, he is down, hes the libertarian, but take a look at this. more than 215,000 votes have been cast, 700-vote difference between conor lamb and rick saccone. 49.9% for conor lamb, the democrat. 49.5% for rick saccone, the republican. lets go over to john king at the magic wall. and once again, greene county, the small...

Ballots counted. 99% of the vote is in. conor lamb, the democrat maintaining a lead of only 847 votes over the republican rick saccone. look at this 11875 votes for conor lamb. 111028 for rick saccone. its about as close as it gets. they are counting absentee ballots. lets look with john king. they are counted in allegheny county, the biggest, 42% of the vote there. but we wait for the results from washington county and west moreland there are a few. >> a more than 3,000 total nystagmus the thre...