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To push a car uphill. >> and alabama won by 28 points and he lost that too. im not making any predictions for house or senate. im saying no matter how you look at it, even if saccone does go ahead and wins, its really, really bad news. >> i agree with both of you. its both. the reality is conor lamb, there are going to be a lot more conor lambs on the ballot because democrats are energized, more candidate are running. why? its a med term presidential election. its always a bad election for the p...

In, rick saccone will get more votes out of here, that 53% might not be enough if that holds. and the key is to check here. were up to 93%. and this margin has held pretty consistently. >> in allegheny county. >> and again, a fewer percentage of precincts still out, a smaller number there, but more people live here. so when they come in, if these margins hold, conor lamb will get some more votes when they come in. but to pull it back out, 703 votes at 94%, as i said, espresso time. >> theyre goi...

>> reporter: what we are being told by the election director here in allegheny county is that they expect to be done tabulating all the absentee votes by minlgt. thats two hours from now. its a very interesting procedure here, anderson, when we came in, all these people held up their hand and took an oath to be honest. they had to swear to be honest before they started counting the votes. we also were told that we would have to take a similar oath when we came here, because were in the room with...

Together, were building a better california. real nail bite ner this special election in practice. look at it roupt. 98% of the vote counted. conor lamb, the exact, he is ahead by 75 a votes over rick

Districts, because not everybody returns them. >> correct. what time do you think well know if these last ballots come in in the next few minutes, what more will we know -- >> by about 11:15. >> so were talking about half an hour from now? >> yes. >> this is the absentee blallot. they pencil in rick saccone, conor lamb, the libertarian. excuse me for one second. i dont mean to be rude to you. you have a lot of hard work to do. they go into those green machines. and you can see its very quiet rig...

Is out there to decide this race. the commissioner saying he thought all the precincts were repo reporting. so well see if theres any change in allegheny county in the next half hour as we wait for the absentees. but this was conor lambs biggest test. stay above 56, 57. he did that. the question is, is it enough, the margin of error to offset what were seeing here. still at 93% in washington county. this is -- until we get to the absentee ballots, this is the biggest question mark of outstanding...

Presidents out selling the economic successes, thats going to influence a lot more. the rest of these races in the fall, theyre not going to have the opportunity to pay attention to every single race. >> assuming he sticks to that message tomorrow, by the way. kristen, we havent heard from you. >> i just disagree -- it may be true that the average person isnt thinking about it, but the people who are going to be running are going to be thinking about it. >> yes, big-time. >> and the people in th...

The candidate, rick saccone. telling them, hey, by the way, theres an election on tuesday, that that information shared by president trump, bringing the spot really helped. wolf blitzer? >> lets go over to john king and see where these votes are outstanding. i want to also point out, 96% of the vote is in. the libertarian candidate, drew miller, hes got 1,280 votes. hes got more votes than the difference right now. conor lamb, the democrat, still ahead of rick saccone, the republican, by only 91...

Th you wait until you get all 4,000? >> thats right. they have to be downloaded on a disk and placed into the system. >> where is the outstanding vote in the county as far as the regular vote? we have 86%. >> i did not look. i cant answer. >> is there a specific pattern each election, or does it vary each time? >> i think generally, you know, the districts that are geographically further away from the reporting centers take longer to get there. >> good luck the rest of the night. we appreciate i...

Welcome back. were covering the special election in pennsylvanias 18th congressional district. almost half of the vote has now been counted, about 47%. conor lamb, the democrat, maintaining his advantage over rick saccone, the republican, 53.8% to 45.6%. hes got a 7,600 lead right now, conor lamb, the democrat, over rick saccone. lets go over to john king at the magic wall. hes doing really wall, conor lamb, just south of pittsburgh in allegheny county, where almost half of the vote, projected v...