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Senator, democrat and republican. >> reporter: the math gets a little bit better for the white house starting in january, hallie. republicans will have expanded their majority in the senate. so even if you have c consciencious voters. notwithstanding, theyll have a stronger hand on that chamber of capitol hill when it comes to appointments in january. >> garrett haake, thank you. elliott williams, former deputy assistant attorney general under the obama administration and jeff mason, white house...

Democratic votes, the governors race, theyre running about the same. come back to the senate race. move up here. only half of the vote. in broward county, 9.4% of the voters. it could be a higher percentage of the state tonight if turnout is high. looking at at least 9%, 10% of the states vote coming out of here. only 50% in. so, again, welcome to florida politics. if youre rick scott, youre happy to be ahead. youve run for governor twice. youve just won barely twice in republican years. youre r...

The first one is just the ugliness of the politics there. its just not easy to have the person in control of the election in a state, which is almost always the secretary of state, running in that race, as well. we saw that with chris kovac in kansas. he lost to brian kemp. was there voter suppression or not? thats having a shadow over that race. now, the provisional ballots, that is argued by abrams as an outgrowth of arguments by kemp and how this race was handled. that was getting ugly. lets ...

Carolina just moments from now. thats trump country. wolf? >> yes, were getting ready for some more poll closings, but things are beginning to shape up in some of these states already. >> starting to get a sense of the early house map. can the democrats get that net 23? and you mentioned, let me just show you, the races over there where people are leading, its misleading because republicans are leading in some of these safe republican districts and democrats are leading in safe democrat district...

The breach. >> and it worked in 2016 with his largely white coalition and he thinks it can work again in 2020. thats a bet. thats risky math given that every moment every weve been sitting at this table, even the states he won are becoming more divorce. your commonwealth of pennsylvania. can the president win pennsylvania again? he does have a booming economy, which could change everything in this calculation. if youre just looking at demographic, census, the math, every day it gets more difficu...

Expectations for democrats over the past month. in september chuck schumer was saying, i think we could win the senate. i get the math. i get all of our contingencies, but the party in power is not supposed to do well. and this party in power is especially not supposed to do well. i think what it shows is democrats have not figured out trump. trumps fear mongering and fear and loathing message, which was abhorrent to people like me, was not abhorrent enough in places like florida, texas, missour...

Lot of democratic votes still to be continunted. welcome to florida where you have a roller coaster in the competitive race in florida. broward county, democrat shy of 70% -- >> theres a lot of -- only a third of the vote is in. >> a lot of votes to be counted. youre republicans, youre happy. you pulled into the lead after a couple hours of being behind. however, youre doing the math, this is a giant basket of votes. thats still a lot of votes there. lets come all the way up. palm beach actually...

Where they have female candidates, as well. theyre desperate, hoping the senate math gets better. that would be a plus four if that holds. now, another disappointment, nia just talked about this. democrats came into the night thinking they could pick up six, maybe eight. some democrats thought even more governorships. republicans are leading in connecticut. republicans won ohio. republicans won iowa. this is a disappointment for the democrats. theyre plus five right now. thats a disappointment. ...

Night but said he is confident math is in his favor to win the election. >> how long will it take to count the absentee ballots? >> reporter: the december 4th runoff, thats the mark. that is the outstanding question is how long it the take. 99% of the precincts already reporting. the local paper, the "ajc," saying 100% of precincts reporting. a hail mary here. the tens of thousands of absentee votes. shes counting on metro atlanta, which is predominantly progressive, to try to get her over the m...

Count, but we have a very strong lead. and, folks, make no mistake, the math is on our side to win this election. >> right now 99% of the presents are reporting. there is about a 68,000 vote differential between kemp and abrams. he needs to get below the threshold. a lot of this was about the trump effect. but it was about voter suppression. abrams didnt mention kemp by name but said there were people out trying to take our voice away, eluding to allegations of voter suppression. kemp denying th...