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Edges in this county. fulton county, were up to 67% now. get rid of the circle so doesnt distract people. 67%, hes still above 80%. as the rest of that comes in, as possibly herschel walker does better than 19%, of course it is, of course it is. the question is, is it enough when you get to this point? so, you come back out, 15,373 votes again. again, most of the vote outstanding. not all of it. you can look at this way as well to understand. it there are some small pockets of votes. the red cir...

Remains in majority. >> after a grueling-year-long campaign only one seat flipped. john fetterman in pennsylvania. and act vising a new organizing tool ahead of yesterdays runoff. thousands of georgians paid to plug warnock in conversations with their friends and family. what can you tell us about that? >> its called relations organizing or paid relations organizing and its become a much bigger part of the democratic playbook and pioneered during the 2021 runoffs in georgia in the jon ossoff rac...

Extraordinary the success that theyve had. so are a lot of people voting because they are saying, this is going well for me and i want more of it. >> yeah, i mean it come -- incumbent on campaigns and candidates to convey that message, and i think the warnock campaign is pretty ace in that regard and i do think it is necessary but not sufficient, i think the two ladies that are on this meeting with me are really as pivotal, you know on the ground organizing and this happened in the state of geor...

About the policies that people want to see over the long term. and that is what this long term relational organizing is about. campaigns come and go, we are going to be here, three 65, 365, regardless! teaching people the importance a voting and we connect them to the electoral process. >> we often hear that people get motivated to about because they are angry, because they are last, out because they want something different. rachel, in many instances, tonight, were people voting for raphael war...

0 the estimated vote in, incumbent democratic senator raphael warnock is up with 50.1% of the vote, trailing just barely behind a, with 49.9%, just 0.02 percentage points behind, republican herschel walker. that is a lead right now of warnock of 9026 votes. now, why does this race matter? lets talk about the overall balance of power in the u.s. senate. democrats currently hold 50 senate seats, including when they picked up in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. republicans have 49. theyre ho...

From the voters kwouyouve been speaking to, was that messamessage effective at all? >> reporter: erin, it was at least to republican voters. that was a central message he was trying to deliver. even though control of the senate was not at play as republicans certainly hoped it would be at the time of the runoff, it certainly provides an opportunity for republicans to effectively control half of the committees in the senate to slow down nominations for the white house and make things for difficul...

Period, there is no doubt that the warnock campaign had a momentum and money on their side. in fact, democrats outspending the republican side here more than two to one, just dramatically on television. but the walker campaign believes that heavy election day turnout, that they are seeing across the state particularly in the northern parts of georgia via conservative areas is keeping them in this ball game. they believe the election aid turnout im told by one adviser is stronger than we expected...

Little change. herschel walker goes back in the lead. this was a competitive race. midnight walker still in the lead there. then you get to 2:00 a.m., warnock back in the lead. and then you come to the next morning and warnocks lead is a little bit more but still less than one point there at 49%. and heres where we ended up. we ended up there and thats why were in the runoff. early on you see a lot of blue on the map. if youre in the warnock campaign thats great. lets be patient. lets watch thro...

Or lost in gilmore county. its the 57th largest of 159 counties. theres not a lot of people here. but did people turn out to vote? did people turn out in these conservative counties? or did they just turn out last month because they were excited for the governor? wheres the turnout, and is the number up like that? is herschel walker getting 80% in these small rural counties? that will be the test of whether the election day vote is what he wanted. let me come over this way to gwinnett this time....

States government, its more thing. its one more thing for donald trump to have to deal with even if the justice department -- its symbolic and the just department can say were not going to deal with this right now, we have our own investigation going on, we have the special counsel, et cetera, et cetera. but, you know, it is really important given all the work they have done, all these other people have been prosecuted for storming the capitol. how can you leave people like the presidents attorn...