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Both because republicans need 51. democrats only need 50 because they have the vice president of the united states. so with the democrats it's possible, wolf. it's possible democrats can clench the majority before the december 6th runoff in georgia, and some new votes just came in here in washo county. last time we spoke about this race adam laxalt the republican challenger was up. when the votes came in from washingtono nevada senate and bring it up, move it over a little bit here. let me find my pencil. it just has to pull away and, boom, this is what happened. this is swing county. republic...

Lead. and then, next, will come votes from this county. if you have been there. it was in reno. this is a swing county. this is the historical swing county inside nevada often even though most of the votes are in clarke county. it's a good place to watch and you can see why. cortez masto 50% to 47%. the first two days of the count, adam laxalt was ahead in the count, and she passed him. does she stretch is lead in the swing county and maybe catch up statewide or does he come back and build his lead a little bit? it's incredible. every vote matters. we're looking at the western part of the stat...

Clearly neck and neck between cortez masto and adam laxalt. and we just got douglas county, around 5,000 there. do we expect the rest of the outstanding vote to favor laxalt or masto? >> well, it depends where those votes are. as you have been discussing there for the last few minutes, right? so, up in wah show county, which is reno area ooeps, that's kind of a swing county. so, we're very interested to see the next data dump from washo so we can get a sense of whether cortez masto is trending ahead of laxalt up there, as we're sort of expecting. opposite story in clark county, where las vegas...

46-91, 43%. so she's trailing. you got to make up ground. that's how you do it. by 10 points in this installment. that's 10,000 votes right there. so what does that mean? that means in a swing county, number one, she's taken the lead and holding her lead 50% to 47%. often in nevada we talk a lot about clark county because that's where most people live. often nevada politics in this swing county the color of this county in the end is very often an indicator who's winning statewide. let's come back. 821 votes now and most of the outstanding votes are here in clark county. again, he's still leadi...

Chunk of that will go away when he get those votes reported. obviously there are some smaller counts in the red rural counts in the state. we're estimating about 94% in a tight swing county. we watched this throughout the course of this week go from a laxalt lead to now a cortez masto lead. washo is expected to deliver some votes. that could help catherine cortez masto potential little overtake adam laxalt there. those may come later in the evening. it's these two blue counties that have the most votes left to deliver, which is what's giving hope to the cortez masto campaign, that they can ove...