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So shes just a little bit under performing, even though she -- she netted more votes out of this batch. it is not quite at the level she needs in order to overtake hobbs here, at least from what we saw in this batch out of maricopa. >> john berman, let me get your statewide assessment right now, what were seeing in this contest. >> im sorry, wolf. im having a hard time hearing you because my key is open somewhere else. i think if you are talking to me, wolf. >> yes. >> i can show you again where...

290,000 in arizona is going to come out of maricopa obviously. look now at the new need percentages for the candidates. kari lake needs in the range of 55% to 57% of that outstanding vote. now, you remember we just broke down the percentages of what she got in this maricopa batch. it was not that. it was just below that, right. so she got about 52%, i believe it was, out of this batch. she needs 55% to 57% of everything outstanding to win. she did not meet that target. katie hobbs, of course, is...

Five votes to report here. adam laxalt got three of them. catherine cortez masto got two of them. i will write down the percentages. that was 60% of the batch. she got 40%. all joking aside, what did that do? in the senate that changed -- in the senate race lead it changed his lead from 862 votes to 863 votes. his margin just went up by one single vote. thats how closely everyone is watching this race right now. wolf, you know, we are sitting here and it is saturday night. let me tell you how we...

651,156. as im looking at this, you can see kari lake gained about 43,000 votes and you can see here that katie hobbs gained about 41,000 votes. so in this batch it looked like kari lake picked up slightly more votes. we will break this down. the thing is this is how kyung gets the numbers. we write them on and then we do math behind the scenes to try to figure out exactly what that means. what you can see is this seems to have shrunk katie hobbs lead, but only by a little bit as far as i can te...

This batch. let me give you lakes raw number and then do the percentages. lake got 43,797 votes in this batch. the percentages here, hobbs got 48%. im just rounding down a bit. lake got 52%, rounding up a bit. >> all right. so you can see it right there. that was this latest batch. 48% for hobbs. 52% for lake. a net of about 3,000 votes, which, again, kari lake did better in this batch. she needs to do better in just about every batch, and she probably needs to do better than this to close the g...

Ballots there in maricopa county. i do not believe what she did just there would constitute that type of a gain, but it was a better batch for kari lake than we have seen in some of these releases, and better than katie hobbs in this case. >> yeah. but the democrat, katie hobbs, is still ahead. let me bring david chung in here -- >> i can show you. it is updated on our wall. it is updated in our wall right now. so 708,629. 52.1, 47.9. so the lead did shrink there a very little bit. sorry to inte...