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This was the 1998 senate race. harry reid was the incumbent against john enton. harry reid one by 401 votes in the 1998 election. its possible as close as this is, its not even the closest senate race weve seen in the last few decades in nevada. >> your math is excellent. john berman, thank you very much. once again, were awaiting those new votes, the new count in nevada. they could come at any minute now and could potentially set the scene for whos going to be in charge of the u.s. senate. wh...

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...

Evidence of that. and yet, laxalt has said none of that. its not quite a concession, but its essentially some of a rave, but its a concession for the math thats out there. now, we dont know, we gotta wait for the votes to be counted, but all the trends are going against him. and he clearly realizes that. >> thats not something that donald trump candidate would do to kind of send that message out, first of all, on twitter, and second of all with this kind of like, its getting tight, and well see ...

I suspect were coming back to you. vaughn hillyard, such a great analyst and reporter on all things, but specifically, when it comes to arizona and its politics. thanks, my friend. >> and a gem of a human being. i want to bring in symone sanders, host of msnbcs simone. we are watching things right now, or watching governors ways out of arizona, were watching the senate race out of nevada. also house races are being called in realtime. you saw whats happening out of washington. if you are democra...

That they have, you know, ran better races the cycle, and it is, the math is borne out. the math is mapping -- i want to say one thing about the senate, because as we talk about this, and we could learn nevada, nevada could make a difference. katherine cortez masto could be perceived, or she could be defeated. if she keeps her seat, i think it is the fetterman camp for white house and democrats. and ive heard a lot of people talk about georgia and say, georgia does not necessarily matter as much...

651,156. that is 48%. so ill leave that to john. hes far better at math than i am, but this is the latest result we are getting from maricopa county, the most populous county in the state of arizona. this is the race that we still have, that is still -- ill leave it to you to decide, but the numbers now just dropping, john. >> so thats the total, the total now from maricopa county, which, again, hasnt been recorded in our wall yet. so you can see, katie hobbs went from 667,833 to 708,629, to 52%...

I think theyve even got into tuesday to look at some of the provisionals. i hope that doesnt happen. immae n im not trying to scare anyone, but if it stays super tight we will have more counting and waiting to do. >> elizabeth, we have seen adam laxalts lead continue to shrink and shrink over the past couple of days as more votes have come in. what more are you learning about the mood in the laxalt campaign? >> well, according to your inside sources, wolf, the mood is not great. that doesnt surp...

Thats the expectation. something like youre saying in terms of the number is what i think democrats are expecting to get the. if she does, you can do the math. you can see what that would do in terms of putting her ahead of laxalt and again, as are saying, theres a lot of land where we see red counties, but there arent that many books left. laxalt could get a few out of here. while shaw county, does not look like -- again, its a blue county, and the vote by mail, in particular, has been decent f...

In georgia. when you dig in to nevada, this is what were waiting for next. we are waiting for clark county, the largest county population wise in nevada by far. its about 73% of the entire population. we are expecting them to release the count from 22,000 votes. now, i want to do some math for you. in clark county in general, its split about 52% to 45%. 52% for the democrat catherine cortez masto, the incumbent, 45% for adam laxalt. in the vote thats been counted after tuesday in the mail-in vot...

John. dont go too far away. i want to get some more on this very, very tight and critical senate race in nevada right now. joining us now, elizabeth thompson, the editor of "the nevada independent." thank you for joining us. first of all, tell us what you are looking for when these new numbers come in. >> well, if catherine cortez masto can land 65% of the ballots that are about to drop in clark county, she will be very close to the finish line if not over it. my team has got a bunch of spread s...