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In, rick saccone will get more votes out of here, that 53% might not be enough if that holds. and the key is to check here. were up to 93%. and this margin has held pretty consistently. >> in allegheny county. >> and again, a fewer percentage of precincts still out, a smaller number there, but more people live here. so when they come in, if these margins hold, conor lamb will get some more votes when they come in. but to pull it back out, 703 votes at 94%, as i said, espresso time. >> theyre goi...

Allegheny county, critical for conor lamb to keep this margin. why? because as more vote comes in, were now up to 88% in westmoreland county. i said earlier saccone needs to get closer to 60%. president trump had 65% plus in this county. rick saccone, to off jet what conor lamb is doing, hes got to run up a better margin here. theres still more of the vote to come in. youre looking here shy of 10,000, a little short of that. its hard to beat the margin here. were still at 33% in washington count...

Wide, 50.5. this is the difference, right here. suburbs south of spartanburg, the lower slice of allegheny county in this district, again, more democrats, more suburban, more people. conor lamb racking it up here by a healthy margin. rick saccone winning the other more republican counties, but not by as big a margin and there simply arent as many people. >> if we go back to the 18th congressional district as a whole, there you see 91% of the vote is now in. and the lead has narrowed. only 15,049...

Both campaigns will tell you conor lamb has to be above 55% or above in this district to compete. then the turnout could come into play. but right now, thats about -- >> and in allegheny county -- 68% of the vote has been counted. >> does conor lamb keep that margin, number one, stay above 55? and, number two, wheres the turnout, more populated precincts? whats the math? he needs to run up the margin because youre starting to see rick saccone, this is more republican. this is the part of westmor...

Count in allegheny. were up to 97% right now. the key for the lamb campaign is have to be above 55. every inch you get above, now were up to -- >> its gotten tighter right now. the conor lamb lead over rick saccone is only about 3,500 votes. its just gone back up a little bit. 4,174 votes. 78% of the vote is now in. 51% to 48.4%. conor lamb, the democrat is ahead of rick saccone. this is a district that donald trump carried in 2016 by almost 20 points. >> he carried it by 20 points and he won ev...

My view. washington county needs to stay red for rick saccone to win and he needs to win -- hes got to get that number closer to 60%. well see. theres two thirds of the vote out. we dont know what precincts they are. we dont know the answer to that question, at least i dont at this second. watch this. we expect when that changes, sometimes when youre stuck at 33% for a long time, well get a lot of votes quickly. for rick saccone, that margin needs to change in washington county. one of the reaso...

To 42%. this is where conor lambs margin of victory is coming from, right up there so far. what he needs, as the rest of this vote comes in, he needs to keep the margins like this. because he needs more votes here, even though theres only 9% left, he needs more to offset what weve seen happen as the vote starts to come in, came in later from the rural areas. the piece of westmoreland county thats in the district, 57% to 42%. again, you see the lead there. saccone leading by just shy of 10,000 he...

Its a republican county. this piece is about 34% of the registered voters in the district. we have nothing yet. t if youre in saccone, when they do come in, you need it to be red and you need your margin to be similar to the conor lamb margin here. hes at 60/40 if you round the numbers. rick saccone needs that here. as we count the votes, come back to the district. were almost at 20% the bulk of what we have is in here. rick saccone is leading down here. were at 45% already. very small. its much...

Over. but only at 8% so far washington county. again, this is the biggest basket of votes. biggest basket of democratic votes. also suburban votes. a big drop here, 27%. rick saccone 54-45. hes leading here. thats good for him. but i just want to show you something. president trump 65% to 31%. if you look at the presidential race, turnout will be nowhere near the presidential race. this is a med term election. an off year special election. if you think about it, president trump won the district ...