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>> and he is also telling us that this county, northampton county, this is considered something a bellwether county it is one of two counties to president biden flipped in 2020, but has also gone with the will of the state. so that is one thing we will be watching. here one more thing i should know is that here in pennsylvania, election officials cannot begin opening early ballots until 7 am, so we are already seen john fettermans campaign warning his supporters that a lot of the mail-in ballots...

In his speech, the first issue the president said was at stake in these midterm elections -- you talked about it moments ago, that was a womans right to choose. lets listen to what he said and well discuss. >> just take a look what happened since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade red state after red state theres a race to pass the most restrictive abortion restrictions. they wont stop there. they want to pass a ban in the congress. if the maga republicans wouldnt control the congress, won...

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4,000, now sitting close to 100,000 votes. we move up here to new jersey, where now nearly 3/4 of the vote is in. and again, jack ciattarelli, the republican, continues to lead phil murphy by about a point and a half. 1.6 right now. i think one of the biggest outstanding pieces of business here, we have been talking about this, is in bergen county where weve got just about all of the same-day, all of the election day vote in right now. were waiting on absentee vote. were waiting on vote by mail....

Start of the night this was one of the closest things to a bellwether county in virginia. it voted for joe biden in 2020. it had gone for donald trump in 2016. it it had gone back and forth. the youngkin campaign wanted to win this one, wanted to have a little bit of a pad here. they got a lot of a pad. this is a nine-point margin now for glenn youngkin in virginia beach. 450,000 people. this is the largest independent city in virginia. youngkin absolutely hitting his number there. also right ne...

Bill, you have been digging through the date of and political reports, and follows closely, he needs to win by 12%y my benchmark. it had four turn out and won by 10% and needs to compensate for other types of suburbs to win. it looks like this to be close. >> i was just listening to the analysis and i do agree that youngkin has done a better job. and i will pop around the map with the time we have left here. again, i think a hundred thousand votes to out there but the fact that youngkin is hangi...

Smattering of votes. were looking for but dont really have completed counties to give you a comparison to 2020. giving you a sense of what were looking for as the vote fills in. virginia beach, this is the closest thing there is to a bellwether county or city. a small amount of the vote in right now. heres glenn youngkin, up 20 with the tally we have. this is a city that jihadi joed whon by more than five points. its a city that biden flipped from donald trump. theres about 450,000 people here. ...

Get over 80%. really needs to be 82, 83 to match the numbers from donald trump. let me just pop around here. you know, tasewell i know now. its not buchanon. its buchanon. just a little bit of a -- its a local thing. bret. >> bret: i know. you got to get right otherwise you get a lot of emails. >> bill: i heard you the other night in a very similar situation. youngkin about 85% here but still some votes come in. not a huge county here. 183 throughout the entire state. so we are starting to get s...

Hundred votes and youngkin at 565. a ways to go, still. >> martha: bill, take a luge at richmond again? >> bill: richmond city not to be confused with richmond county, okay? richmond county is over in this area here. we are early in the night for that county. expect youngkin to do well. this is richmond city it has been a strong area for democrats for quite a long time now. but there is no data just yet in the county that ranks 9 out of 133 counties. >> bret: its interesting to watch where you t...

Today and okay, they ricoh, 85.8, youngkin, hes holding his own in the ruled areas. that is one key, right? the other key is the suburban areas. and chesterfield to see if any more voters clicked in. hes holding his own in chesterfield with 55% of the vote. >> bret: bill, we have a long way to go, but right now would you rather be youngkin question >> bill: wow, that is the game, isnt it? i guess you could be right but the bellwether county, the predicted winners every time the last 40 years, on...