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The magic number is 218. terms of the state of play looking at competitive seats, we told you the beginning of the night we were keeping an eye on watching pretty much determined who was gonna be able to control the house of representatives. republicans have to win 22 competitive seats. democrats have to win 44 competitive seats. right now we are taking a look at those competitive seats and counting the votes and trying to figure out who is going to win. it is still seems as if republicans are on to a possible path to taking control of the house of representatives. but this is not the night, a...

So right now they are on track to be able to win control of the house of representatives. but we're not making that call yet. that is the status as of right now with the roads as of right now. but right now, leading in 26 competitive seats, they need to win 23. how about the democrats? democrats need to win 49 competitive seats, and they are leading in 40 competitive seats. so democrats not where they need to be. let's go back to the senate race, as i want to bring in casey hunt. casey, tell us what's going on. we have senate races where i need to know what's happening. >> we may be waiting a ...

See when they will wrap up. of course, these are all counties that are leading democrats. so, obviously that is going to perhaps shift things as we see these numbers coming in. >> very interesting. very interesting. >> to that point, 56% estimated vote count in gwinnett. it's a second largest county in the state. it's a shy of 9% of the. so that's why, a number, one it matters when it comes to -- it is a democratic county. warnock will get more votes. the question is, will he keep that margin, the big margin he has? you watch these come in and you go up from here. if you keep this margin, in t...

Projection. >> yeah, jake, two important -- this place -- but in actuality when the votes were counted it wasn't very close at all. incumbent democrat kathy hochul winning her first full term in office. she took over, of, course for disgraced former governor andrew cuomo after he resigned. she defeats congressman lizelle for -- next, an update for you from the state of minnesota. tim walz, the incumbent democrat, projected to win reelection their against conscience, in a physician who made some dubious claims about the covid-19 vaccine. two democratic combatants are holding on to the governor'...

For laura kelly with 83% of the vote in in kansas. meantime, the most unusual governors race you are going to see on the map tonight, a three-way race between tina kotek, a democrat, christine brazen, of republican, and former democrat turned independent betsy johnson. right now the democrat in this race is within 18,600 vote advantage -- 53% of the vote is in there. we send it back over to jake tapper. jake? >> thank you so much, for us. and i want to remind everyone of the competitive seats. there are 82 competitive seats. republicans have to win 23 of them and they are leading in 22 of them...