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50.3%. 49.7%. but it is tightening in the past few minutes. it's tightened pretty dramatically. >> you know what's interesting about this, the conventional wisdom is andrew gillum, because he was a more exciting candidate according to the pundits was helping nelson and pulling nelson across the finish line although we obviously don't know who's going to get across the finish line first. right now, nelson actually has more votes than gillum so perhaps that conventional wisdom, like so much conventional wisdom, was completely wrong. >> we got a key race alert coming up right now. >> wolf, look a...

Governors races nationwide. democrats flipped at least six seats from the gop, but republicans managed to hold key seats in the midwest. the most contested race is still playing out in georgia. that's where stacey abrams refuses to concede this hour. she's hoping that absentee ballots will help close the gap and then force a runoff with brian kemp. cnn's phil mattingly has been crunching the numbers and has the latest. what's it looking like now? >> we've been talking about the divergent maps between the house and the senate. democrats looked at governors races as the place to put the stamp on...

Chris for us at beto o'rourke headquarters. we've gone back and forth to chris over the course of the night. you can see things filling in there. >> yeah, it's noisier. >> yes, for sure. these numbers, look at this. >> look at that. >> 49.7 to 49.7. >> come on. >> we're just looking at a difference of 100 votes. now it's a different of 1500 votes. this is with less than two-thirds of the vote. and chris made a good point there in terms of the polls closing completely across texas. this is just like -- is this the story of ted cruz? is this the story of beto o'rourke or is this the story of a n...

9:20 p.m. eastern time, we knew this was going to be a long night. we knew it was going to be a dramatic night. we just didn't know exactly where. here's your answer. florida senate too close to call. florida governor, too close to call. oh, and for good measure, let's go out to the lone star state where greg abbott has been elected governor, but where the drama right now is in the race for senate, ted cruz's senate seat in texas. too early to call. we are at 49.7 to 49.7, with coming up on 60% of the vote -- >> less than 100 votes between

50.3/49.7. 0.6 of one point. we said this earlier, but to remind everybody, one of the reasons you do not see a check mark next to rick scott's name is, there are still potentially some outstanding precincts here. even a slight, and i mean very slight, like one-tenth of a point improvement for nelson in that margin would bring that down to 0.5 of a point, and that would trigger an automatic recount. if you're at half a percent or less, automatic recount. nelson on the cusp of that. not all precincts in. we're still trying to make sense of that completely. it's still the possibility there this ...