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Is out there to decide this race. the commissioner saying he thought all the precincts were repo reporting. so we ll see if there s any change in allegheny county in the next half hour as we wait for the absentees. but this was conor lamb s biggest test. stay above 56, 57. he did that. the question is, is it enough, the margin of error to offset what we re 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 votes. where are they coming from, how many are there? does it stick with this margin? how many can rick saccone make up? over here in westmoreland, we re at 99%. so i m waiting to see what happens in washington county, the rest of those votes and we ll be counting those absentees, optimistically, he said, before midnight. that would be nice. we ll see if that happens. it clearly underscores once again, every vote counts. it s clearly important. look at how close it is right now. 755-vote ....
President s out selling the economic successes, that s going to influence a lot more. the rest of these races in the fall, they re 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 haven t heard from you. i just disagree it may be true that the average person isn t 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 the democratic party and the republican party are going to be thinking about and they re going to be watching this and they re going to be making a lot of decisions about what they re going to do. so there are two thunings. one, the republicans will be looking at the trump coalition and what s going on there. and the democrats are going to be looking at, are we going to try to run people in the districts that are like the districts, because that s a big fight. if you don t think by the way, ....
The candidate, rick saccone. telling them, hey, by the way, there s an election on tuesday, that that information shared by president trump, bringing the spot really helped. wolf blitzer? let s 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, he s got 1,280 votes. he s got more votes than the difference right now. conor lamb, the democrat, still ahead of rick saccone, the republican, by only 918 votes. we don t have exit polling, so we can t say who they would have voted for the drew miller were on the ballot. but this is welcome to american politics, 2018, and for the foreseeable future, third party candidates. increasingly, especially in close races, you re going to see back to them. you can talk to hillary clinton about jill stein, that s up to you. but 918 lead. 49.9 to 49.5. that matters in the sense that we don t know exactly where it s coming from, but it s taking away. so ....
Th you wait until you get all 4,000? that s 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 can t 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 it. sure. we ll be around, jake and wolf, as the absentee ballots continue to come into this building. every vote counts. thanks very much. let s review right now, john. as we take a look at this 18th congressional district, 72% of the vote is now in. conor lamb, the democrat, he still maintains a 5,400 vote lead over rick saccone. three big pieces to this. the lead is because here, allegheny count, is a 13,000 vote here. 5,300 district-wide. 13,000 of it right here. as the final 15% comes ....
Welcome back. we re covering the special election in pennsylvania s 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%. he s got a 7,600 lead right now, conor lamb, the democrat, over rick saccone. let s go over to john king at the magic wall. he s doing really wall, conor lamb, just south of pittsburgh in allegheny county, where almost half of the vote, projected vote resides. more than 40% of the vote will come out of here. depending on turnout that could go a little higher. district wide, it s 7,600 vote lead, almost up to half the vote. let s go through what we have as you mentioned. this is the most important slice of the district is right here. it s the pittsburgh suburbs. the southern part of allegheny county. 57% to 42% right now. ....