down to 12,000 this is nail biting time any any headquarters in a close one. you look at the gray areas on the map all of the gray areas this is where we doesn t have votes. small rural counties. not a lot of people in the counties. the question is are there enough? all of these counties that you see with no red or blue, the gray no votes yet. all of them went for bevin all republican rural counties andy beshear is doing better in the counties even if losing to the mike scheel s point he just made. 957%. 12,000 votes. the question is, how much does bevin win assuming he wins the rural counties what s the margin? enough votes? the only thing we wait for the democratic side for more potentially decent votes is you have 96% in jefferson county you have late pri singts and you see the margin andy beshear counts on votes there. other areas of the map are flew you see franklin county 100%
there. this is the cushion if you will. brought him back when he trailed when the votes came in. again it s a pattern we have seen in recently recent elections urban areas closed in suburbs the democrats winning bib. you find the same over in fayette county lexington, the suburbs around lexington look at the margin for andy beshear look at that 65-33. go back in time yes the democrat won in area four years ago but the margin much greater tonight. again, more the democratic strength in the cities turnout and in the suburbs as well. pop it out a little bit more. i want to show you we thoed showed this earlier. come up here, the cognitive kentucky, cam campbell county pb cincinnati, hoi ohio these are the suburbs of cincinnati ohio. eight point toledo there for behear. back in time matt bevin won by a significant marj j four years ago. more proof of the suburban shift, run if you will away from the republican party in the trump era. it s not all trump. matt bevin has been a very
800 votes it s not going to do it if he tries to make up what is now an 11,000 vote deficit. i want to show you a couple of places you come over mccracken county here in the western part of the state. you see it here. matt bevin the republican incumbent winning by almost 10 points. with 75% in dwhaes left? does he keep the margin? is it enough? s in a frustrating time mr. axelrod and mr. sheems have been through in campaign headquarters on the close ones. you call in all the local precinct captain. you try to figure out when in small company county comes in for example. mat bevin won pretty convincing byly but 2,400 votes. you pull it back out now come back in heerp to the race. this is back in time. come back to where we are now, 96%, 11,000 votes, the question is in the small rural counties both where we have no votes and the ones still waiting for the count to be finished, living steffon county 8 2% in that s a
big margin on bevin. when the rest of the people vote how much more can you get? when you have eight or ten little counties, the math is possible. it gets hard. he has to thread the needle with the rest of the vote coming in. but this is a red area of the state. s that s where the outstanding vote it we will wait and i want to check one more time if you re in democratic party headquarters you think you have more coming in jefferson county, the last of the big reliable areas a little bit more likely coming in for andy beshear this is brew the coffee wait it out and count them time. doing that all night on cnn. we continue to monitor what s happening in kentucky. other races we are following. we ll be right back. at bayer, we re more than a healthcare company.
as you can see by the totals there is on the screen 96% we are waiting for the last votes to be counted in kentucky where democrat andy beshear holds a narrow lead in the raise for governor. about 11,000 votes right now. president trump campaigned in lexington for the incumbent governor last night. certainly not just a referendum on the preponderate but the shifting vote in suburban areas might say something about miss shifting appeal there. back now with the team starting with john king. john. and anderson right now matt bevin is moping and hoping and hoping that these counties in western kentucky, rural areas that he won last time four years ago not only come in red when the votes come if but come in red by convincing mrj margin. you see some of them right in hered harden county. nothing so far. back in time it s a small county. you see the vote totals last time he won with 57 plus% of the votes. the question is can he run up a percentage like that and also run up the numbers becau