here's the state of play at this hour. control of congress is hanging in the balance. first we're going to get to the house, republicans and democrats both hoping to hit that 218, that magic number to clench the majority here. democrats have won 178 seats, republicans have won 198 seats. same in the senate. democrats and republicans both have 48 seats this hour. it is too early to call some key races but we're going to talk about what's happening. nevada, wisconsin, arizona and georgia. that's where we're looking closely. cnn has not made any projections at this hour. in nevada, republican adam laxalt inching ahead of katherine cortez masto. in wisconsin, mandela barnes

trailing ron johnson. and in maricopa county officials say they're done reporting votes until later tonight. you're looking at a time lapse of votes being counted in maricopa county. democratic senator mark kelly is in the load as it stands. and in georgia, herschel walker and raphael warnock neck and neck. if no one hits 50% plus one, we could be in for a runoff. that could take time. despite all of this, republicans in the senate and house are feeling optimistic. >> what i hope is i'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and all of you are -- maybe even late tonight and we'll learn there is a new republican majority in the senate. >> we need to remember, we don't come together to celebrate the concentration of power. we come together to rejoice in the dissipation of power.

>> tonight we built upon those gains two years ago, and it is clear that we are going to take the house back. >> but here is what the house speaker is saying. she's waiting on the votes to come in, she released a statement writing it is clear that house democratic members and candidates are outperforming expectations across the country, this is current house speaker, nancy pelosi, that's what she's saying. we want to head to the wall and mr. john berman keeping us informed. give us the state of play. >> the u.s. senate right now stands at 48/48 in terms of the races projected with the remaining senate races in georgia, in wisconsin, in nevada and arizona. if you look at who's ahead in these states, you got a 50/50 tie. let's go through this quickly and talk about it. i want to start in pennsylvania which we didn't show there, we projected this race overnight. i have a feeling you might have

gone to sleep before this was projected. john fetterman cnn predicts will win by a reasonable margin. word that he outperformed what joe biden did two years ago, almost everywhere. john fetterman did a really good job in a lot of red counties, i want to point that out in case you wake up not knowing who won in pennsylvania. let's talk about the other key races. let's go around the country to races that aren't called. ron johnson with a narrow lead, 94% in. there is still vote to be counted in milwaukee, 82% in. mandela barnes leading, he could make up maybe some of the 32,000 vote margin there. can he get all of it? we have to wait and see. it is a tall order. in nevada, counting all night long, at 80%. adam has a lead of 22,000 votes

this flipped early on katherine cortez masto, the incumbent democrat was ahead. clark county, the most populus county in the state, 84% in. all the votes they have left, mail in votes which tend to skew towards the democrats. are there enough votes in clark county for the incumbent democrat to make up the margin? possible. we have to wait and see. mail-in ballots in nevada can arrive and be counted until saturday. to arizona, mark kelly there with a lead of about 6% over blake masters. 67% in, 107,000 votes. mark kelly's lead has been getting smaller as the night has become morning. maricopa county is the crucial county in this state. joe biden won it by 2%.

mark kelly you can see has nearly an 8 point lead there that could bode well for him. they have counted all the election day vote in maricopa county, which tends to skew towards the republicans. just mail-in ballot left to count. however i should note in arizona some of the late arriving mail ballot can be more republican. >> how much of the vote is out overall, 67 -- >> 67% in so far. there's a lot more to count and they will be counting. we'll be following that. we know from the presidential race two years ago, the republicans tend to make up ground as vote is counted in arizona, can they make up enough to close that gap? we have to wait and see. i ended here in georgia because in georgia, with 96% reporting, you have raphael warnock with 49.2% of the vote. why is that important? in georgia, if no one gets to 50% plus one single vote, there

will be a runoff and that runoff will be december 6th. the secretary of state's office tells us they believe this is headed to a runoff. raphael warnock is ahead, his lead may even grow some because of the votes still remaining in cob county, 93% in. fulton county 95, more votes to count there. these are very democratic counties. his lead may grow, but the secretary of state's office does not think it'll get to that 50% plus one. what would that mean overall? the reason i put this up here is if things remain where they are, imagine this blue state isn't there, 49 democratic seats, 50 republican seats. the democrats need to win that runoff on december 6th to maintain control. they need 50 seats, vice president kamala harris would break the tie. we may not know who controls the u.s. senate until december, don. >> leave georgia up there. the reason why, i want to get to a political reporter, patricia

murphy, she joins us now. good morning, we appreciate you joining us. you have been listening to us and our assessment of the wall, what say you? >> i think you guys are exactly right. we'll probably keep thanksgiving interesting here in georgia. we have a razor thin margin between raphael warnock and herschel walker because of that state law that says a candidate needs to get over 50% of the vote. neither looks like they'll pull in enough votes from anywhere in the state to get over that. right now it's still to close for us to call. we're not even calling it as a runoff yet. this has been an unbelievably tumultuous race between the two. raphael warnock has been able to outperform the rest of the democratic ticket here in the state for a lot of reasons. if this comes down to control of the u.s. senate, raphael warnock has been here very recently, georgia has been here recently,

the same scenario happened in 2021, we could be here again in 2022. >> raphael warnock at 42% of the vote, about half a percentage lead. if you look at the governor's race, brian kemp, the republican, we project he has won. so there's roughly a 7.5% difference between the governor's race and the senate. it could show you the weakness of herschel walker has a candidate or the strength of raphael warnock as a candidate but there is a big difference there. historically, patricia, there's been a sense that runoffs favor republican candidates. i should say historically because that was the case until two years ago when both democrats won the runoffs there. is there any sense who might be favored in a runoff in georgia? >> i think we really need to find out what happens with the

rest of the senate races to know. if this comes down to a true referendum on the biden administration, if this really is all about control of the u.s. senate, that is going to tend to favor herschel walker. we're seeing all kinds of our own internal polling that shows even republican voters are concerned about herschel walker as a candidate. worrying about his past allegations of violence, worrying about his readiness for the job, fitness for the job. but they are willing to look past some of those short comings of herschel walker if it comes down to controlling the senate, if it comes down to putting the brakes on the biden administration. we're seeing this interesting dynamic of crossover voters between brian kemp and raphael warnock. we have an unusual senate race here in the state and it looks like it's going to continued to

be unsettled. >> thank you very much. you make very good points there. she said the atlantic journal of constitution has not called it. same for cnn, not called the race, not calling for a runoff. but apparently voters in georgia willing to look past a lot of herschel walker's short comings if you look at what's reported about the abortions and so on and so forth. let's go to victor blackwell at the voting desk with news on arizona and nevada. >> let's check out west. two of the four states we're watching for questions about control of the senate. and in maricopa county, of course, as john just said, 61% of the votes there in the state we know that they have completed the day of voting, but right now they're working through, sorting through the early ballots, the ballots dropped off. actually video tweeted by the

maricopa county elections commission of the machines scanning the signatures of those ballots. we have video of the machinery working to show they are scanning the ballots. what will happen over the next several hours. they'll compare the signatures on the ballots to what they have on file to determine the validity of the ballots, they'll be added to the count. we're told we will not get an update from maricopa county until this evening. now in nevada, the question is when will we get the votes from the drop boxes? we know that in clark county here in the south, where las vegas is, washau county in the north and douglas county, much smaller, we have to wait until later today or tomorrow to get

the votes. none of the votes from the drop boxes were count on election day. so we're standing by to add those to the overall report. >> to sum up what you were saying, be patience. >> easy. it's going to take a little while. >> they have a lot more to do here, a lot to count. now back to mr. john berman at the magic wall. nevada. >> the republican with a 22,000 vote lead. he's talking about the mail-in ballot in clark county. how much mail do they have to count? we don't know. we just don't know how many ballots they have. clark county is a big county, las vegas there, 75% of the vote in the state it makes up. this is a county that joe biden won by 9 points. katherine cortez masto may be under performing. she has a five point lead there. is there enough to make up the

rest she needs to in the state. it has to in clark county. looking at the map it's the one she's leading right now. the other county with the second largest population, she's trailing adam laxalt by 5 points. she may not be trailing when the counting is done, depending on how much mail is left to count. but she needs to grow her margins in the mail, just what victor was talking about there. that's going to take some time to count because the mail in nevada just needs to be postmarked by election day, it can arrive today, tomorrow, friday, and they'll count it until saturday. this could take time in nevada, let's go to arizona we were just talking about that. right now here's the lead, you can see mark kelly, the incumbent democrat with a lead of 6 points, just 67% in maricopa county, 61% of the

vote. this sort of mirrors his overallstate lead, because it's the biggest county, also a swing county, democrats won it, joe biden won it, the mail-in ballot will be counted -- victor told us we won't get another update until tonight. >> wednesday night. >> yeah, it is wednesday morning. so we're not going to know more until tonight. we may not know more about arizona. patricia murphy was talking about what this means overall. if we don't know more about nevada and arizona, we don't know who controls the u.s. senate because look, if it stays like it is and again, cover this up, it would be 49 seats for the democrats, 50 for the republicans, it comes down to the runoff in georgia. if somehow democrats are able -- if katherine cortez masto retakes the lead in nevada, it wouldn't matter in terms of control of the senate.

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up with the republicans in the majority in the house. but the race for control of the house not over yet. you can look at it right there. republicans have 198 seats, they've won 198 seats. still 20 seats away from the 218 magic number that is needed to take control. and right now republicans are leading in just 21 competitive seats. the democrats playing defense, on the defense there. they lead in 24. so there's lots to discuss, kaitlan collins as it comes to the balance of power in the house and the senate as well. >> and a lot of those competitive seats they're going to be looking at for kevin mccarthy are in california, in his home state. it might take awhile before we know the results there. also, president biden is waking up to a lot of results that came in overnight. congress still hanging in the balance. mj lee is at the white house for us. president biden was making a lot of phone calls last night before he went to sleep.

congratulatory calls that the white house wasn't expecting that he would be making last night compared to what the numbers look like right now. >> as the results were coming in late last night, there were two things that biden advisers felt convinced of. one is they felt like the races across the board were very competitive and two they felt like democrats had probably avoided a blood bath that so many had predicted and feared. and what they are waking up to this morning is really reason for that optimism to basically hold up if things sort of stay on track. you know, one thing is, of course, that the democrats' chances of keeping the senate, that still remains a real possibility, that door is still open. and second white house officials and advisers have been glad to see some of the democratic governors and house front l

liners, seeing them win the competitive races overnight. of course the outstanding question for the white house and all of us is what is the fate of the house and how many seats do the republicans end up picking up. because what happens with the senate whether whether democrats keep the senate or not and how big the margin ends up being in the house that has huge implications for the ability for president biden to govern in the next two years. >> seems to ensure gridlock and chaos with questions on the debt ceiling, funding the government, funding for ukraine. i want to know how democrats are seeing president biden's role this morning, because he strategically went to certain states, avoided others given his approval rating going into this. there had been criticism of the white house on the messaging front but how are democrats feeling about it this morning? >> reporter: it's been so striking heading into election day yesterday, democrats were ready to pounce. we heard a lot from various democrats, including a lot of

house members, who were really ready with their finger pointing and the blame game to begin. one house progressive member that i spoke with yesterday -- again, emphasis on yesterday because this is before we know what we know this morning. this is what they told me, they said we knew the economy would be bad, and they, being the white house, didn't an economic message at all. so i think this just reflects the key criticism that we have heard when it comes to this president and this white house, this idea that there wasn't a clear enough economic message and that the president didn't spend enough time talking about economic issues. now, white house officials, of course, have been defensive about their strategy and messaging. they would say there's no universe where president biden wouldn't have talked about abortion rights issues given what happened with the supreme court. there's no universe he wouldn't have talked about threats to democracy when nancy pelosi's

husband is getting hit in the head with a hammer. so they are going to continue to be offensive with their strategy as we see results start and continue to come in today. >> we'll see how it changes the conversation maybe about biden running again in 2024. back to our panel. we are now joined by al schmidt, the former city commissioner of philadelphia. safe to say you're having a different election experience this morning than you were in 2020, you were the main target for trump given you were the only republican who oversaw the election and how it was conducted in philadelphia in 2020. what are your main takeaways this morning? >> both are sleepless nights whether you're interested in elections or running them. i say from philadelphia there's two really significant takeaways. one is, we've had a lot of lessons learned since 2020. election directors across the commonwealth know how to count

ballots faster without compromising the integrity of the process. the other thing which is why we're knowing results faster. in 2020, about half our voters in philadelphia voted by mail. and in this election, about 25% voted by mail. those are disproportionately democratic voters so we had a lot of democrats vote in person in this election that voted by mail in 2020. >> mj was talking about the white house's reaction, happy that john fetterman defeated mehmet oz. but also the governor's race, what's your reaction given mastriano was someone that questioned the results of the election last time. >> and he targeted philadelphia saying the vote count was underhanded or corrupt, which, of course, was a pair eranoid

fantasy. but i think what's interesting is shapiro's campaign and fetterman's campaign were so different from one another and had the same goal, that was to bring in voters other than their democratic base. whether it was shapiro reaching out to republicans or fetterman reaching out to the white collar workers. >> we've seen the politics of division narrowly win victories. it was can these election deniers who can win a partisan republican primary with donald trump's endorsement can they cross over and win an election in a purple state, the answer today seems to be no. we'll see what happens as we move west in the key races. >> like with kari lake. >> like with kari lake.

but what we have right now is that donald trump is a drag on the republican voters. >> when will republican voters realize that. i think republican leaders have thought that for a while but they've been following their voters who have an attachment to donald trump, they bought wholesale, essentially this idea that 2020 was an illegitimate election, they bought completely into the big lie. so listen, republicans are waking up to a different referral than they thought they were going to. this was supposed to be the most favorable political environment for republicans in decades, right. and it turns out that it wasn't the case at all. >> instead it might be one of the most favorable for a sitting president whose party typically does not do well in midterm elections. pennsylvania's own, michael smerconish is also with us this

morning. what are you making of what you're seeing in these numbers, especially for the white house and what this means for democrats? because typically the white house is bracing for some serious losses here. that is exactly what they would expect given it is the sitting president, his approval rating is not great. what is your reaction this morning? >> all politics being local, i of course am philly burb based. yesterday i was with you from bucks county i said welcome to the swingiest of counties in a swing state. what's amazing to me as i sk scrutinize the numbers is how john fetterman was able to outpace those numbers. in an area you thought would be on the margin, he blew about mehmet oz in bucks county montgomery county. i'm reluctant to give the number on cnn because i can't believe how high it is.

josh shapiro is a resident of montgomery county, so that may account for the boost. if i was the white house i'd look at the philly burbs and take a lesson with how successful shapiro and fetterman were in a final analyst. >> when it came to mehmet oz, i heard from a lot of republicans about how upset they were mehmet oz was the candidate because they thought david mccormick, they thought he could have actually taken on fetterman. were you surprised at all by fetterman's victory? >> i think another aspect to that that's important is while the former president endorsed oz, he was really not a favorite of trump voters and groups in pennsylvania. so they sort of came along,

reluctantly, till the end and backed him to the hilt. there was a lot of thought that mccormick would have been more competitive. >> did that have to do with the criticism from the fetterman ka campaign, he's not really from here, doesn't live here, when he was talking about a steelers game in the last few days of the race, there was no steelers game that week. >> your polling and research shows that issue about not living in pennsylvania is a pretty significant one. and as i know michael and others have said, it's not just not living in pennsylvania, it's living in new jersey, which is a different matter. >> and not being a man of the people, right. that's what fetterman and his hoodies and tattoos exuded for so many people. even the stroke made him more human. i think voters were empathic with his struggles. >> and the risk he took participating in the final debate. i think there's a lot to be taken from a populous democrat

reaching out to working class voters, playing inside the base and someone not living in a state most of their life, you would think that would hurt. and the deal that troz made wit trump to get this. republicans narrowly one the suburbs nationally, that may be more obvious in places like new york than pennsylvania. >> that's something we'll track closely to see what it means for what 2024 looks like. thank you all, stand by, we have a lot more to look at. we are waiting on key senate races this morning. these are undecided races. they could determine which party controls the fate of the senate. senate majority leader chuck schumer, and senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell are watching i can guarantee. we'll have more on cnn's special

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we are thrilled, thrilled at the unexpected high turnout. we are thrilled that the three ballot initiatives got passed. and i never thought i'd be so happy about fox news, but i'm glad they called this election too. >> all smiles there in michigan. democrats managing to outperform in some races for governor across the country, there you saw in michigan with democratic governor, gretchen whitmer winning her election bid against trump endorsed tudor dixon. mara heelly will become the

nation's f out lesbian governor. and in maryland, wes moore dwon to become the first african american governor there. the gop still holds the top job in the united states with history making of their own in arkansas. that's where sarah huckaby sanders won. and brian kemp, greg abbott in texas all defeating democratic chall challengers. headed to the man of the hour, mr. john berman. >> in states we're also focused on the senate race, nevada right now, the republican is leading the incumbent democratic

governor. he's got a lead of almost 5%, 39,000 votes there. 80% in. it's the same situation as the senate race, let me show you. in the senate race a smaller lead. so the sheriff is outperforming adam laxalt by 18,000 votes we're still going to have to wait for clark county where the mail ballot received yesterday and going forward has to still be counted. in arizona it's kind of a similar story. you have kari lake, the republican trailing katie hobbs. she's behind about 30,000 votes but she is over performing the republican senate candidate blake masters. he's at about 46%. she at 49.1%. she is running ahead of blake masters and that 3% difference may very well make the difference in arizona. >> john berman we have a lot of

road behind us but we have a lot in front of us as well. thank you very much. john will be checking on the numbers throughout the hours here on cnn. we're getting in more votes in the undecided senate races that decide control of the chamber. stand by everyone. there's more news on cnn right after this break. science proves your best sleep is vital to your mental, emotional, and physical health.

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we made promises to the people of florida and we have delivered on those promises. and so, today, after four years, the people have delivered their verdict. freedom is here to stay! >> ron desantis winning and declaring victory. let's go to cnn's data reporter, our senior data reporter harry inton at the battleground desk. here's the question. you saw what happened with governor ron desantis, resounding victory.

so did support for trump cost the gop votes? >> i don't think there's any doubt that it did, don. you know, donald trump, let's start off with just the straight fact. donald trump is not a well-liked politician. look at how his is unfavorable rating is nationally. 58% unfavorable. just 39% faifvorable. and look how the voters decided to vote, overwhelming for democrats. i think there's another way to look at this. essentially let's say who were the people that turned out to vote and who did they say they supported back in the 2020 election. normally you expect high republican turn out with a democratic president. look here, amongst those who turned out to vote, they said back in the 2020 election, they favored biden 48% to trump's 44%. that margin basically matches what we saw two years ago. if we look at those who said they supported joe biden two

years ago, how did they vote? it's a huge margin for democrats, 92% to 7%. basically those people who said they voted for biden two years ago, stuck by the democratic candidates for the house and this was despite the fact look how unpopular joe biden was. he had just a 41% favorable rating. when you put it together and you say joe biden the incumbent president is quite unpopular, how did democrats win -- or at least do better than expected? it's because donald trump was in the minds of a lot of voters and they decided we don't like that guy either. >> thank you very much. let's head to poppy harlow my colleague. lots of monday morning quarterbacking and conversations happening about where do we go from here from both parties. >> for sure. and a big announcement pending from the former president. let me begin with sarah

matthews. you worked closely with former president trump you were his deputy press secretary until you resigned on january 6th when you didn't see him come out and condemn the violent protesters. so when you see what we just saw and what harry laid out there, what is your message to republicans this morning that may -- that are considering do we stand by trump anymore? >> i think last night was the biggest indicator that donald trump should not be the republican nominee in 2024. he cost republicans winnable seats by boosting poor quality candidates. you look at the political environment, you have record inflation, increased fears over crime. the worst border crisis in history, an unpopular president and republican performance still underwhelming due in large part to the candidates that trump backed. they weren't up to quality. i think this is lessons learned

for republicans that trump is not a national winner, a, and, b, candidate quality matters. we need to look into that. >> remember when mitch mcconnell said candidate quality matters? tom, to you. a lot of the focus, especially in the closing arguments from democrats and president biden chose to close on democracy. democracy matters. he chose that over the economy. a lot of pun dents said that might be the wrong closing arguments. we don't know who's going to take the house but this certainly isn't a red wave. what does that tell you? >> it dove tails with what sarah told you, when you have trump pushing bad candidates, democracy matters. the president got -- president biden got a lot of unsolicited advice talk about the economy instead of what's at stake. i would say the candidate who came out with the strongest message about that was somebody

like tim ryan and it didn't really flying in ohio. i think actually, between donald trump and the president making this kind of an argument, i think a lot of voters seem to hear it. >> michael, to you, looking at biden and the question of, you know, if it is mccarthy, and this is another question we'll get to with you sarah, whether the republicans take the house if mccarthy can secure the gavel. if that's the case, you worked in the biden white house, you were the press secretary for first lady jill biden. how can the two of them work together effect effect effectivn they work together effectively for the american people? >> reporter: i think with what joe biden has passed, you cannot say he's not been successful. in two years he's accomplished enough to last him two terms in office. he did not -- this shouldn't be

about what president biden does to govern. right now the question is going to be whether kevin mccarthy can work with him. can kevin mccarthy corral his caucus and can they pass a -- can they increase the debt ceiling or -- >> that is such a crucial question. >> are they going to hold it hostage like they did before. are they going to vote for a government funding bill? those are the only two things kevin mccarthy needs to do. it doesn't have anything to do with president biden, it's the responsibility of congress to pass that. >> nia is smiling at me. >> i think the real test, at least for republicans, they -- republicans desperately need a leader. >> who is that this morning? >> that is, can kevin mccarthy -- with all the data it shouldn't be, with all the evidence it shouldn't be. i mentioned every single g gubernatorial candidate he endorsed lost.

>> we don't know yet. we don't know arizona. >> it's looking that way. >> we don't know arizona. >> we don't know arizona, but we do know that he went after ron desantis and ron desantis won. big. we know he went after brian kemp and brian kemp won. we know that he rallied for dr. oz and it didn't work out for dr. oz. so i'm just asking kevin mccarthy, my friend, if he is ready to be the republican leader that republicans need. and that will tell us how well he can actually govern and work with the administration to get the policies, the free market policies that americans so desperately need. >> we'll get back to you guys very soon. thank you. we're standing by to get votes from four key senate races, a night of historic firsts for

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not only did candidates win their races last night, many also made history. republican and former white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is going to be the first woman elected governor of arkansas after she won the office that her dad held for over a decade. new york governor katy hochul defeated republican lee zeldin becoming the state's first elected female governor. she has been appointed to the position last year. in my home state of alabama, republican katy brit becomes the first elected female senator from the race after she won. 25-year-old democrat maxwell frost is the first gen z member of congress, he's 25 years old, succeeding democrat val demings. she vacated the seat to run for senate, a race she lost last

night. democrat wes moore becoming maryland's first black governor. in addition to that, anthony brown is the first black person ever elected attorney general in maryland. in massachusetts, maura healey is the first openly lesbian governor in u.s. history. republican mark wayne mullen is the first native american senator from oklahoma in almost 100 years after he won a special election for the seat left over for the retiring republican senator. and in pennsylvania, democrat summer lee is the state's first black woman elected to congress, she won the 12th district last night. not only history being made we have votes coming in for the four undecided races for whether or not the democrats or republicans hold the senate. we will continue with the

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majority. democrats have won 178 seats, republicans have won 199. and right now, republicans are leading in just 21 competitive seats, democrats playing defense here, they lead in 24. same situation for the senate. democrats and republicans both have 48 seats this hour. it is too early to call some of those key races but we're going to talk about georgia, wisconsin, arizona, nevada, cnn has not made any projections at this hour in those senate races. in georgia, republican herschel walker and incumbent democratic senator raphael warnock are neck and neck. if no one hits that magic number of 50% plus one, we could be in for a runoff. in wisconsin, mandela barnes, democrat, trails republican ron johnson. in arizona, democrat mark kelly is leading. and in nevada, republican adam

laxalt is inching ahead of democrat incumbent katherine cortez masto. >> we are exactly where we want to be in the race. we have a lot of our votes coming in across the state yet to be tabulated. we are going to win the race. >> we are not done yet. here is one thing i know, our positive energy got us to where we are today. and we are going to make sure that positive energy continues to flow this week. we are going to get this done. >> john berman joins us now from the magic wall. no gloating, everyone urging restraint. >> nothing is decided in the u.s. senate. as it stands it's 48/48, four races we have not projected. they are in georgia, in wisconsin, in arizona, and nevada. how do you like this trick when i did it before. let's see who's ahead in each of these states.

if it ended right now with whoever is ahead, it would be 50/50 which is how we woke up yesterday morning, a 50/50 senate, kamala harris breaks the tie. democrats maintain control. let's sweep through each of the contests. i'll start with the one i didn't show there, which is pennsylvania. if you went to sleep early last night, you may have missed it. cnn projects that john fetterman will win the race, which we thought might be decisive here. it turns out the other races might be decisive. john fetterman did well everywhere here, outperforming joe biden. a really strong campaign from john fetterman leading by 2.5 points right now. in wisconsin right now you have the incumbent ron johnson leading there by about 1.2%. 31,000 votes. there are still votes to count in milwaukee, just 82% in.

mandela barnes, the lieutenant governor, the democrat has a large lead there. hard to know whether or not he can make up the 32,000 vote margin with milwaukee. >> you heard ron johnson coming out saying, listen, we think we're in a good spot, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. >> you'd rather be ron johnson than mandela barnes with a 31,000 vote lead in wisconsin but more votes to count. around the country, in nevada, we did hear from adam laxalt as well, leading by 2.2%. 22,000 votes right now in nevada. you can see all the red here. he is leading every county but clark county, clark county by far the most populus with 75% of the vote. some of the margins enjoyed by adam laxalt in the rural counties. he has a lead of 50%. that's 8,000 votes. in these rural counties he has

huge leads there. there it comes down to clark county, the most populus county, 84% reporting right now. the remaining vote is mail vote. all the election day vote has been counted. the mail vote tends to favor democrats in nevada. as long as it's mailed by election day, it can be received today, tomorrow, friday, counted by saturday. we don't know how much mail vote is left. watch this space. nevada still up for grabs. arizona next door, mark kelly ahead by 105,000 votes with 67% reporting right now. that lead has shrunk. blake masters has closed the gap overnight. kelly was ahead by more votes. masters is making up some of the margin. maricopa county mark kelly j enjoys a lead of 8 points there. right now mark kelly is over performing joe biden.

all the election day vote has been counted here as well, only mail votes, the late arriving ballots in arizona tend to be more republican. victor blackwell reports we're not going to get more numbers from maricopa county until tonight. so it could be some time before we know there. i want to end this wrap up in georgia. >> of course. all roads lead to georgia. >> raphael warnock right now leads by 18,000 votes but the number to look at is this one. he's only got 49.2%. the key number here is 50. if no one gets 50%, there will be a runoff on december 6th. the first week of december. that runoff could very well determine control of the senate. if you're curious about whether or not warnock can get to 50, hard to know. hard to know. you can see 96% reported, where is the remaining vote in georgia

right now of that 4%? the bigger and bluer the circle, the more vote left there. it's in an area around atlanta which does favor raphael warnock, but hard to see it being enough -- >> there are a lot of small red dots. >> yes. the secretary of state's office said it believes there will be a runoff there. in terms of why that matters nationally. if i take this out, imagine that, you know, georgia doesn't exist, the democrats go down to 49, and republicans have 50. if you have a runoff here, and republicans win here, they would control the senate. if democrats win in the runoff, they control the senate. so as things stand, georgia could be decisive. >> we want to head down to georgia, john. and i want to get to my colleague, this closely watched race between herschel walker and raphael warnock. jeff zeleny is there for us, following things in georgia. specifically marietta, georgia. this race is likely headed for

the runoff. that's what the secretary of state's office is saying. we're not projecting it. good morning to you, jeff. >> reporter: good morning, as daybreaks in georgia, both campaigns are planning for a runoff. we will wait and see as these remaining 4% of the votes are counted as john was just saying there. but the campaigns are not waiting. party officials from the democratic party and national republican party are not waiting either. the next four weeks could be critical in terms of who controls the u.s. senate. looking at the numbers overnight. here in cobb county, this is a critical area that tells the story of this race. it tells the story of the underperformance of republican herschel walker. the governor's race in georgia was called early. republican governor brian kemp had a commanding lead and defeated stacey abrams. but herschel walker under performed governor brian kemp significantly by more than

160,000 votes. so both candidates overnight had this message for their voters. >> we know that, once again, the people of georgia showed up and said loud and clear that you want a senator who's going to do the work for georgia. you want someone who every day is going to wake up and work for all of georgia. and that's the work i have committed myself to doing from day one. somebody who understands that we, in the words of dr. king, are tied in a single gar met of destiny, caught up in an enescapable network of what affects one affects all indirectly. >> i'm like rickey bobby, i don't come to lose. if you can hang in, hang in

there a little bit longer. just hang in there a little bit longer because something good it takes awhile for it to get better. and it's going to get better. >> so herschel walker saying something good takes awhile to get better. but the reality is, he is trailing senator warnock now. so headed into the next four weeks, the votes from last night must be counted first and they will be counted. but officials are not expecting there's enough for either side to determine a winner. before we declare this a runoff, let the votes be counted but the campaigns are preparing for this as though control of senate depends on georgia and it might. but it's pretty ironic that the beginning of this election cycle, think back to january 2021 when raphael warnock won in the first place in the heels of president biden narrowly carrying georgia it's likely

ending in georgia as well with both parties turning all of their attention back here to georgia. >> got to give it to him for that rickey bobby reference there. jeff zeleny, thank you, appreciate it. kaitlan there's a lot to discuss, a lot of monday morning quarterbacking, and also in georgia this could go to runoff so we might not know for weeks. >> it could be weeks. at least it'll be in december this time and not january. who better to discuss this than jeff duncan, the lieutenant governor of georgia. do you think a runoff is going to happen? >> statistically it looks like a runoff. only a handful of votes left, i think 4% in the metro area. so it feels like a runoff. you said you were not going to vote for herschel walker or raphael warnock. does that change if the balance of power in the senate depends on this race? >> my answer was i didn't

respect herschel walker yet and he did not earn my vote and i was not going to vote for raphael warnock. but we have four weeks. i think a lot of republicans are waking up this morning what could have been. what could have been if we picked a better candidate, that could have put real ideas out there. >> and brian kemp had this victory despite the fact that trump once predicted he was going to go down in flames at the ballot box. what message does that send, do you think? >> i think it sends a message to the country, along with other states, that this is a pivot point for the republican party. this is a time that donald trump is in the rear view mirror and it's time to move on with the party, candidate quality. turns out mitch mcconnell knew what he was talking about with candidate quality. we saw it in georgia, if they would have woke up 12 months ago and took the lead of what real republicans and real republican

policies mattered we'd be in a different place. >> we're waiting to see who controls the house, too. it seems like it's going to be republicans. do you think trump had the worst night by far of anyone else last night? >> i wouldn't want to deliver him the news last night or this morning of the candidates that they supported. but it's time to turn the page, i'm ready to move on. i think donald trump's moving from a movement to a distraction for the republican party now. >> we'll see if others agree. he had a hold on the primary voters just not the general election voters. he was not in georgia for the last several weeks, neither was president biden noticeably. do you think that changes if there's a runoff, will we see president biden or former president trump in georgia? >> it was actually months. i don't think we saw any campaign that wanted donald trump or joe biden for that

matter. i don't imagine anybody thinking that donald trump would be a tailwind to herschel walker's campaign. i can't imagine that anyone would think that would be the cal calculus, except one person, donald trump. >> if there is going to be the runoff they're hoping to avoid and whether or not kemp not being on the ticket if that affects how walker does. >> there was 200,000 folks by quick math this morning that were ticket splitters that voted for brian kemp and not herschel walker, voted for raphael warnock. this runoff could be two separate scenarios, the balance of the senate, hundreds of millions of dollars pour in. if it's not the balance of the senate, it's back to small donations. >> i wondered if brian kemp heard from voters that were splitting the ticket for him.

he said he would leave it to the focus groups. >> thank you for joining us. >> absolutely. the white house is watching very closely what is happening in that nevada senate race as well. also, of course, arizona, the races there when it comes to kari lake and who is the governor of arizona. >> republicans are watching and listening to things like what the lieutenant governor had to say about the former president getting into this race and exactly what he means going forward for the republican party. thanks to both of you. we have talked a lot about democrat strategy, funding election deniers here. harry inton, did that pay off? >> i think it did. if you look across the board, a bunch of races where democrats decided to fund the election deniers and they pretty much went all in and undefeated. let's start in pennsylvania governor, which is one of the markey races. look at this, shapiro over

mastriano. but also michigan, i think it's a fascinating race, peter meijer was the republican incumbent there and voted to impeach donald trump and people were like how could you do that? but it seemed to pay off because look at this, john gibbs the republican candidate losing by 13 points. new hampshire, the senate race, this is another one. look at the margin, maggie hassen up by 10 points. some of the late polls had it close but maggie hassen with a double digit victory. one race it didn't work, the arizona governor's race we have not called anyone. kari lake is about 2 points behind katie hobbs. but that was the exception to the rule. new hampshire, the second district there. this is a race that is not close at all. look at annie custer. i once lived in that district and you can see right here, annie custer with a large lead

over robert burns. double digits again. down to maryland's governor race. maryland is a blue state but obviously larry hogan, the incumbent republican governor, more towards the middle. republicans go a different direction with dan cox. and look wes moore, with a double digit margin. and we see a very wide margin in the illinois race. jb pritzker over bailey. across the board it seems the democratic strategy worked despite critics, especially some in the media. >> a lot of consternation about that. thank you very much. poppy harlow, speaking of strategies, both democrats and republicans are going to be trying to figure out how do we do better next time? what's next time going to be like. >> to harry's point, let's bring in the panel. to you, tom, it worked. okay.

harry showed us it worked. if it worked, does it make it right and should democrats keep doing it? >> i think it was a dangerous gamble. i'm not sure that we have all of the results. arizona is still out. i think there are a lot of democratic candidates in state and local offices that needed help. this is -- i gamble now and then, this is like going in and, you know, putting all your money on red, spinning the wheel and making it and saying it was a smart bet. the best you can say is that it worked out. >> this time. >> this time. >> michael, you liked it? >> i did. i liked it. i thought, it's risky, of course, but all strategies are risky. a couple years ago, claire mccaskill ran and did the same thing in her contest with todd akin. she got the candidate she wanted. it's smart politics, no one was complaining back then. >> what do you think, sarah?

>> it's a gamble and seemed to pay off for democrats so far in the races called. but at the same time it's extremely irresponsible. >> you're someone who left the trump white house because of the lies, the election denialism that led to violence and death at the insurrection. so to see candidates prop up those lies, doesn't matter from either party. >> dint want to see election deniers win. i'm curious to see what the results will be in arizona. but democrats have been saying, you know, this whole campaign in 2022, that democracy is at risk. but then they took the chance of backing some of these election deniers. i think that's irresponsible. but it seems to have paid off. >> quickly. >> to michael's point i think it's one thing to do that when there's the political breathing room to do it in a year like say 2012 when democracy is on the

ballot, you have people running on a platform of the constitution. >> claire was running in missouri that was hardly a democratic state. and her opponent was, you know, calling it legitimate -- calling legitimate rape and now we've seen the consequences of having pro life senators, confirmed pro life judges that have a lot to do with that in this election. >> abortion was clearly a big driver, too, in these races. don, back to you. >> thank you very much for that, appreciate it, poppy. the big headline this morning, control of congress up for grabs, control of the house and senate undecided. this is election morning -- morning after on cnn.

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i'm don lemon. the big news this morning, control of the house and senate still up for grabs right now. in the senate there are four undecided races, including two out west in nevada republican

adam laxalt is leading incumbent catherine cortez masto. and in arizona democrat mark kelly is leading republican blake masters. we'll start with rosa in florida this morning. what are you seeing and hearing on the ground there? >> reporter: democracy is at work here in nevada, don. as you mentioned, this is a tight race. we were all expecting for this to be a very tight race in the u.s. senate and that's exactly what we're hearing. both candidates optimistic still about their chances of winning here. as you know, senate incumbent catherine cortez masto, the first female senator here in the state of nevada and one of the most endangered democrats here in nevada in 2020, president biden won only by 2.4% margin.

her challenger adam laxalt, the former attorney general here in the state of nevada he also led the failed attempt of overturning the 2020 election. he won the endorsement by former president donald trump. a lot of people very energized here that i talked to yesterday about voting here in the state of nevada, i'm in clark county where more than 70% of the state's more than 1.8 million voters are located. now this election is like no other, don, because in 2020, nevada imposed a universe sal mail-in ballot. that means everybody got a mail-in ballot in the mail unless they opted out and decided not to. so so long as that ballot was postmarked by election day, that ballot is going to be counted until saturday. so here we are, don, still waiting. more ballots still to be counted. democracy at work here in

nevada. >> thank you rose flores in nevada. john berman joins us from the magic wall. she's right here. we'll put a yellow dot there. adam laxalt ahead by 22,500 votes leads by 2.7%. r plus 2.7%. why do i want to show you that? i want to quickly compare that to the governor's race in nevada. a competitive governor's race there. so the republican candidate, joe lombardo is actually ahead by almost 5%. so the republican adam laxalt is under performing the governor candidate on the same ballot there. that difference could be decisive there. keep this up for a second, i want to compare it to the presidential race two years ago, joe biden won by 2.4% over all. so there's the difference that was democratic 2.4, now it's

republican plus 2.7. back to the senate race and look what matters most now. clark county, 84% reporting. this is where the democrat, catherine cortez masto needs to make up the margin, trailing by 22,000 votes all the election day vote has been counted, the mail-in vote is what needs to be counted now, it can be counted until saturday. >> we want you to stand by, mr. john berman because we want to look at what's happening in arizona. mark kelly has a sizable edge so far against republican blake masters. and that's where we find sara sidner this morning live in phoenix. good morning to you. kelly took an early lead. the question is, will kelly be able to hang onto that with the mail-in ballots from maricopa county in the hours ahead? >> reporter: that is the big question. it's not just mark kelly. we're also seeing democrats

ahead just slightly in the governor's race as well as the secretary of state race. there are folks that argue that the secretary of state race beyond the senate race is a very important issue because all of the republican candidates from those three big races are all election deniers. in other words, they do not believe that donald trump lost in 2020, and the secretary of state, as you know, don, is the person that certifies the election. so in the next presidential election if mark finchem wins would be in a position to say i don't believe the results if they go against the person he wants to win. so it is one of those things a lot of people are watching arizona. the count has been going. just now over 60% of the count has come in. the races are close but so far the democrats in all of those races are ahead. and they're feeling very good this morning. they are feeling very happy about what they're seeing. but again, there's still a good

number of votes that need to be counted. as you likely know, here in maricopa county, the most populous county in the whole state and usually about 85% of people vote early. which is why you're being able to see some of the counts because these are the early votes coming in. a lot of people vote by mail, a lot of people vote by dropbox, some people came in early. so we're able to see results literally an hour after the polls closed. there have been issues here with voting equipment that happened. the county officials apologized for it but said every single vote will be counted, just be patient. don? >> that is good advice. thank you sara sidner. we appreciate it. the democrats, they may be feeling -- she said optimistic but not so fast. >> yeah. you can see mark kelly with a lead of about 6 points right now. in the gubernatorial race, katie hobbs less of a lead, 2 points.

but there's more votes to come in. we learned in arizona two years ago -- this is mark kelly, d plus one. du d plus six right now. the presidential race from two years ago. i want to wind the clock back. when there was 72% in, joe biden had a lead of some 218,000 votes. that was the first votes on election night. by the next morning, where we are now, that lead was cut to 130,000 votes. by wednesday, noon, down to 93,000. you can see it keeps on shrinking. thursday, just 68,000. sunday it was 18,000. and then ultimately, a week after election day, 14,000 by the time it was done, just 11,000 so the lead got smaller and smaller. kelly is at .6 now. you can expect it to shrink. does he have enough of a pad, that's what we have to wait and

see. >> you say arizona is different, especially when it comes to mail-in ballots? >> it can be. in maricopa county, 61% of the vote right now. we know the election day vote has been counted, only mail vote left to count. one thing we did see, mail vote tends to skew democrat around the country, in arizona, some of the ballots arriving that day can be more republican than other parts of the country. >> we have been focused on the senate but the house is still undecided this morning. that is significant since so many predicted an early red wave. make sure you stay with us, because this is cnn special election coverage. (vo) with their verizon private 5g network, associated british ports can now precisely orchestrate nearly 600,000 vehicles passing through their uk port every year. don't just connect your business. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarter. we call this enterprise intelligence.

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so overnight the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy thought he'd wake up with republicans in the majority in the house. but the race for control of the house not over yet. republicans have won 199 seats, still 19 seats away from the 218 needed. right now republicans are leading in just 21 competitive

seats, democrats playing defense, they lead in 24. to mr. john berman over at the magic wall to help us make sense of the balance of power in the house of representatives. >> just to reiterate what you said. these are the races we projected winners, republicans at 199, democrats at 178. you can see we projected winners in 14 competitive seats for republicans, 23 for democrats. in terms of the competitive seats, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to take control of the house, democrats need to win 53 to maintain control. so republicans need to figure out a way to get 16 more seats here. now where are they ahead? they're ahead in enough of them. they're ahead in 35 of the remaining seats which would give them 221. a majority. but nowhere near the majority i think that kevin mccarthy was hoping going into yesterday, into election day. i want to put a different filter on here and take a look at the

competitive seats in the country right now. and focus in on a couple things. start with colorado. because i think this is fascinating. this is lauren boberts seat here, not even what we considered competitive into election day. lauren is trailing, she's an election denying, very conservative republican. democrats would love to unseat her. i'm not sure they thought they had a chance, they have a chance to unseat here. let me look at the counties so people can see where is the remaining vote here. let's go down to 90%. these are the places that have, you know, more than 10% left. this is garfield county, a democratic leaning district, slightly, only 86% in. down here, not a very big county, this is a republican district. you have 88%. there's not a ton of vote left.

we'll see if she's able to make up that mar bgin and maintain t seat. where could control of the house be decided? what if i told you that new york state, the very blue state, may be where it all comes down to right now. there are ten competitive districts we think in the state of new york. right now republicans lead in eight of the ten competitive districts. if you go back two years, joe biden won in eight of these districts. so it's almost a polar opposite of what you might think going into election day. democrats trailing in so many of these districts, including sean patrick maloney, the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, right now 3,000 votes or so behind. it's very close, but 98% reporting. see if there's enough for him to make up the margin. can you imagine if control of the house of representatives came down to new york state. >> usually blue new york state.

thank you john berman we'll check back in a little bit. there's lots to discuss this morning. >> there is. what is to talk about, what john was noting there. the pickle that democrats have gotten themselves into when it comes to new york and something we've been talking about for a while here. which is what the map looks like. the big question is on the other side for republicans, if the margin is smaller than what kevin mccarthy thought it was going to be last night. how much more difficult does it make his life going forward? >> much more difficult. let's get real, the benchmark for elections where the president is below 50% approval rating in the midterms is 46 seat gain, that's the benchmark going back to 1982. that's not going to be where republicans are. this is going to be much tighter and that's going to make the loudest members of his caucus more powerful because he's going to need every vote he can get. the other thing to keep in mind

it's those extremists and the election deniers on the ballot because of republican primaries and trump's endorsement that make, i think, independent voters swing to democrats. which is unheard in out year elections. so redistricting, republicans redistricted in texas, florida, ohio. but democrats tried the same thing in new york, overreached, got blow back and that's why the districts are competitive, not extremist candidates and a map that's more fair and favoring republicans today in new york. >> what does that look like if that is it. the hurdle is not just getting people in line for policy initiatives and what they're going to be doing with the republican majority. it's first becoming house speaker be kevin mccarthy. >> it's going to be a messy process because you are going to have the loudest what used to be the tea party caucus, which -- i don't want to say the crazy caucus but the marjorie taylor greene, a wing of the party they

are going to be trying to wrestle power, the microphone from the more moderate folks in the party. i think one thing we'll see is lots of investigations into the biden administration, into the origins of covid, into the last days of afghanistan. and i think the question for republicans is, that's certainly something that their base wants, but do they risk overreach? do they -- >> let's answer that question, yes. >> -- risk highlighting the niche base issues that independent voters don't care about, moderate voters don't necessarily care about that. so does that in some ways enhance biden's standing as a moderate if you have a more kind of extreme wing of the republican party launching all these investigations when americans are caring about bread and butter issues. >> i read through the statement

that marjorie taylor greene issued saying she was going to make sure she holds her party accountable. we can expect her to be a vocal voice as well. >> don, these are going to be critical decisions by the voters that determine what a potential republican majority in the house could look like. >> and someone we can talk about that with is mark mckinney, former adviser to george w. bush, and senator john mccain's campaign. mark, good to see you, thank you for joining us this morning. let's talk about election deniers we have talked about that a lot. what kind of night was it for them? >> good morning, don. with you all, i am sleep walking confidently through uncertainty this morning. >> good morning. >> the one net takeaway i have this morning is that democracy was on the ballot and democracy won. because almost across the board, don, election deniers lost. and a lot of cases like

mastriano in pennsylvania lost big. bad night for election deniers, bad night for donald trump. pretty good night for president biden. reporting from the white house last night it was clear midway through the evening that they were feeling good about the possibility of holding the senate, which didn't seem like that was possible a week or so ago. that abortion turned out to be a very relevant issue that it hadn't lost the steam, it had a lot of heat, and in the blue states that joe biden went into, they did well. so joe biden, there was a little bit of wind that joe biden brought to the table. >> stand by. let's bring john in. before we get to joe biden, let's talk about the election denier part of it. >> here's pennsylvania. doug mastriano he had his clock cleaned by josh shapiro here in pennsylvania. and josh shapiro may have had coattails in the senate.

you can see the difference that made there. look at -- let's look at new hampshire, again, looking at new hampshire senate race. don bolduc, a lot of people thought he had a chance, an election denier, switched, went back to it. maggie has san that's a clock cleaning. >> the president visited new york, i'm not sure how well new york did. but the governor pulled it off in the state that's still yet to be determined about other races in the state. >> the governor's race in new york, yes, a narrow victory for katy hochul. much narrower by the way than four years ago, andrew cuomo won by 23, 24 points. now you have katy hochul narrowly ahead. i don't think there's any state that joe biden went to more than pennsylvania, right. pennsylvania he was there all the time over the last two years and a lot over the last few

weeks. again, josh shapiro with a convincing victory and john fetterman as well. >> can you weigh in on new york, surprising that in blue new york you have in the governor's race, listen i know she did win. people thought it would be closer than that because of the polling. but something has shifted. the ground has shifted here in new york state. >> well, listen i think there's a lot of lessons across the board for both republicans and democrats. the democrats are suffering from a lack of strategy in the gerrymandering that went on in new york, and we're seeing the results of that. but it also shows that, you know, that the republicans saw a scalp in sean patrick maloney went after it, spent a ton of money and went across enemy lines for a general and may get him. that's one of the few bright spots for republicans today is in new york. which is so counter to

conventional wisdom. the thing i love about this morning is so much was wrong about what we all thought and the media thought was going to happen today, which, of course, makes this morning so interesting. and elections so dramatic and entertaining. >> you know, mark, donald trump, right, had a bad night, not just to the election deniers and the people he endorsed do poorly but ron desantis in florida who may run against him in a primary, what do you credit the enormous victory that desantis had there too? . >> if you spent any time in florida, it's clear the information to about ron desantis that he's sort of a strategic donald trump, he has a really good instinct for the cultural pulse of the country and the republican party. and, you know, he went after disney, just left and right across the board and he's one of the first guys to really, you know, put a spear into the covid

situation down in florida and opened up a lot earlier than other governors. so he's got a -- you know, he's the guy that a lot of republicans are putting their money on and then that equation changed a little bit with trump, starting with mar-a-lago where republicans kind of rallied to trump. but i'd say the very net takeaway from last night was donald trump had a terrible night, ron desantis had a great night. and that's an equation that republicans are talking about a lot this morning. >> i have to run but we talked about election deniers. was it a good night for trumpism or bad night? or to be determined. >> a bad night. it's a bad night. a lot of people are saying it's time to put trump in the rear view mirror. >> thank you we appreciate that. >> kick it don. >> he made history last night and this morning he's talking about his big win. we'll talk to the first member of gen z who is headed to congress. that's next.

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it was certainly a history-making night last night. 25-year-old democrat max wwell alejandro frost will be the youngest member of congress. he will also serve as the first afro-cuban member of congress and he joins me now. democrats to you. a whole lot of history made there. as i understand it, not long ago you were not even going to run and then a call to your biological mother changed everything, is that right? >> yeah, 110%. thanks for having me on. i was asked to run early last year by organizers here in orlando. the first thing i said was no.

but communicating with people, people were excited about it. i was at a crossroads. hearing from my biological mother and that she had me at the most vulnerable time in her life made me decide to run for congress. >> president biden called and speaker nancy pelosi. i wonder what the president said. >> the president said he was too young to be sworn in. he asked me if it was the same situation. i said no, you had me beat on that. i'm already old enough to are sworn in on january 3rd. it was great to talk to him. he was elected at a very young age, too. he understands that experience. >> a big issue you've run on is guns. you've called your generation the mass shooting generation, representing orlando and what

specifically will you push for on gun control regulation? >> the leading cause of death for children went pr car acci from car violence to gun violence. most republicans and most nra members are for universal background checks. for me it feels like the new purpose of bipartisanship and what people call bipartisanship as far as gun violence is concerned is what the nra accepts. and universal background checks is something we need to pass. >> you talk a lot about in your words changing florida. we just saw you win your district. we also just saw a resounding victory by florida governor ron desantis. what to you make of that victory and can you work with him together? does changing florida mean working with him? >> yeah, well, look, what we saw was not a red wave.

what we saw was there was a blue deficit. cr democrats did not turn out the way they needed to. as democrats we need to have year-round organizing, that's something we're going to do every day, to build power. that time when election time comes around, you're not persuading people to vote, you're reminding them. i'm excited do that work. >> 25 years old, mr. congressman-elect, thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> all right. we'll be right back. with models that fit any lifestyle. and innovative ways to make your e-tron your own. through elegant design and progressive technology. all the exhilaration, none of the compromise. the audi e-tron family. progress that moves you.

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republicans predicted a red wave. that did not happen. it was more like a ripple. and it's still playing out so we're going to see. the chances of democrats keeping the senate is still a real possibility. so here's where we are right now this morning. the battle for the house majority down to the wire here. so far democrats 178 seats. the magic number for them to keep control is 30. republicans leading with 199, the magic number for them to take control is 16. so the house minority leader kevin mccarthy already claiming victory being even though ballots are still being counted. and in the senate, the chamber still hangs in the balance. republicans hoping to gain control. here are four key races we are watching. we're watching the battle, watching wisconsin, arizona and georgia. in nevada, the republican is inching ahead. the race is very, very close

there. in wisconsin the democrat, mandela barnes trails ron johnson. and in arizona incumbent democratic senator mark kelly currently in the lead right now but we're watching it very closely. hang on for that. in georgia, republican herschel walker and senator warnock locked in a very close race. it appears a runoff next month is likely on the horizon there. first we want to get straight to john berman. he is at the magic wall for us. john, hello to you. thank you so much for joining us. where are we as far as the house of representatives now? >> just very quickly, to reiterate what you said, republicans now at 199, democrats at 178. in terms of where republicans are ahead, they're ahead in 221 and democrats ahead in 214. this would give republicans control but barely.

not the night they were hoping for. again, we have a lot of races still left to count, we're watching the results come in. let me siwitch over to the senate. in peterms of races called it's 48-48. those yet to be called, georgia, wisconsin, arizona and nevada. again, if i tell you who is ahead in each of these states right now, that would be we would be at a 50/50 senate, which would be okay for the democrats because the vice president kamala harris would break the tie. but let me walk you through each of these states starting with what i didn't show you again. pennsylvania, john fetterman's lead has increased. he was ahead by 2.5 points. he's now ahead by 2.8 points. cnn predicted john fetterman will win the race in pennsylvania. we thought this might be the decisive senate race.

he ran an amazing race. you can see john fetterman did particularly well in some. red areas there. quite a race for him. this is a democratic pickup, which changes the overall landscape and makes it slightly easier for them to maintain control. let's look at wisconsin. ron johnson is ahead there by about 1.8%. we haven't seen that many more vote counted lately. we are waiting on milwaukee in wisconsin, the most populous of the counties. mandela barnes has a lead there, just 82% in of. remaining vote. would it be enough to give him 31,000 votes to make up that margin? it would be tough for him to do that. to nevada right now. 80% reporting. a adam laxall.

this flipped overnight. if people got some sleep, we didn't, people may have have gone to sleep with masto ahead, now she is trailing. clark county, 75% of the vote, 84% in. they counted all the election day votes. is there enough to make up the margins? >> we saw sarahsid seidner. she said democrats are feeling confident. those mail-in votes in arizona can be different. >> this was a county that joe biden won -- in nevada, won by 9.4%. rosa flores is there. she's underperforming against what joe biden did in nevada. so, again, we'll see if the

mail-in ballots skews democratic, as it tends to. maybe there is enough remaining vote for her to make up the margins there. let's go to arizona. mark kelly, the incumbent democrat there is leading blake mas masters 68% and 100,000 vote margin. we saw this in the presidential race two years ago with joe biden who ultimately only won by 10,000 votes. a victory is a victory. he had a larger lead earlier in the week as the week progressed and more votes counted, donald trump got closer. that's what democrats hope will happen in arizona, that mark kelly will be able to hang on. maricopa county, 68% reporting, a county that joe biden carried by two points, you see kelly ahead by about eight points. we've been told all that's left is a lot of mail in ballot.

will that skew towards the democrats? we don't know. let's finish in georgia as we have been. why? well -- >> there's why. >> right now warnock is ahead. the key number in georgia is 50. you need to get to 50% plus one vote or it goes to a runoff. the secretary of state's office, we just heard from the lieutenant governor of georgia, it looks like this going to a runoff. the campaign, our jeff zeleny is reporting, is preparing for a runoff. just 96% in. where is this vote? the bigger in the blue in the circle, the more the vote. there is a lot of votes for democrats but experts saying they don't believe it will be

enough to get warnock to 51. if you take out georgia here, then democrats are only at 49. if you take out georgia, right? but if they have the runoff and they're able to win georgia that, would give them the 50, kamala harris would break the tie, they control the senate. >> didn't we warn everyone, they're not going to know? >> if for some reason mark kelly is able to hang on in arizona and masters was able to retake the lead in nevada, then the runoff would not matter in terms of control. >> we're going to get to vick t victor blackwell. and the situations are fairly similar as well. >> yes, similar between what we're seeing in maricopa county

and nevada. in maricopa, they are checking the signatures on the dropoff ballots that have been sent into those offices. listen, we're going to be in a posture for several hours where we are waiting for those votes to be tab lated, the ones that have been dropped off. i think we have video of them being scanned, those signatures on those ballots. they're going through and have to determine if the signatures on these ballots match the signatures that they have on file. this was tweeted out by the elections department in maricopa county. we're expected get these added sometime this evening. so at 8 eastern, we have quite a while before we get the votes added from the largest county in arizona. in nevada, these are the drop boxes. again, in these two states, when john says that we don't know how many there are, that's because the elections departments in these states, they have not told us exactly how many of these

ballots can be added and how just a few thousand votes one way or another can really change the direction of these races. but these were not counted on election day. they're getting these out and going through the process with these as well. we have seen the election day votes being added, we're still waiting for these other votes in maricopa county, the largest county in arizona and in the largest counts in nevada, clark county, douglas, a smaller county there, those to be added as well. it's going to take some time. i've been saying it since 2 a.m., don. be easy. it's going to take a little while, but the process is working smoothly. we're not seeing any hiccup. there were challenges on maricopa county on election day. officials said there would not be any disrupting in the counting these happening as it should but it's going to take time to get the drop box and the

dropoff ballots counted in those two states. >> we have the magic wall here but john and i were fascinated by the video you ran to watch those ballots being counted. >> it's like watching a cool robot. >> it is fascinating. just look. >> it is a figurative and literal machinery of the vote. it's how it happens. >> and it's how it's supposed to happen. as vick tore was saying, in nevada, the law in nevada is the mail-in ballot just needs to be postmarked by yesterday. it can arrive today, tomorrow, over the next few days, counted by saturday so we really just don't know how many mail ballots are left to count here. >> you know what that means, caitlin. you know how candidates are. they're saying "there's still a

chance? >> we'll see how that goes. president biden called to congratulate john fetterman. the white house is still waiting to see which party is going to control the house and the senate, given a gop majority in the house will undoubtedly make biden's presidency more difficult. and m.j., what are you hearing from officials this morning? >> well, i can tell you that one race, that one man that the white house is in an especially good mood about this morning is john fetterman. this is a candidate of course that has now allowed democrats to pick up a senate seat by defeating republican candidate mehmet oz. a white house officially told my colleague overnight, quote, the president had a great time with the senator-elect on saturday. so this is a not-so-subtle reminder from this white house that the president did campaign with fetterman at the very end

and that ended up standing out because, remember, at the very end he ended up going to a lot of these blue or easier areas like maryland, new york, california and it was rare to see the president actually physically campaigning alongside some of the most vulnerable candidates. fetterman ended up being an exception to that. it won't be a surprise if we see white house officials and the president trying to take credit for an important win by democrats. >> up next, we are going to speak to republican congresswoman nancy mace. she won her reelection bid last night. that only came months after trump endorsed her challenger in the primary. we'll wait to see what she has to say about what the takeaways are from last night. you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going.

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back to our special coverage of the mid-term elections. republican kathy mace took on a democrat and won. the district has been seesawing between republicans and

democrats. joining us is congresswoman nancy mace. coming into last night, what were the expectations coming out of that, it was not the red wave that some were predicting. i was wondering if you were surprised by that in. >> it's a place where republicans are outnumbered 2-1 by democrats and independents. my polling had us down in single damage it's leading into the final couple days of the race. we worked really hard in the last two weeks to get a message to talk about inflation, talk about crime and also to talk about abortion. that was a top issue for us in this election. when roe v. wade was overturned, i leaned into it and talked about my experiences as a victim of rape. we won by a double-digit margin, outperformed every poll out in the field. i only won this district by one point only two years ago.

>> yeah, i remember that well. so what do you have to say about your other republican colleagues? did you expect them to perform better across the board than they did last night? >> i did. seeing the turnout that we had, i thought that's the way the rest of the country one. but i see my district as a bellweather. it's important to really showcase your independence, your independent streak and we did that in the months not only in the primary but the months leading up to the general election. what was overwhelming last night to see that message and independent voice that really resonated with voters not just on republican sides but on both sides of the aisle last night. >> we're waiting to see if there's going to be a republican majority in the house and what that looks like.

will you support kevin mccarthy? >> i have given my support to kevin mccarthy. i do think republicans will have a majority. i've been very cautious on our majority. i represent i think a snapshot on the rest of the nation. i really hope when we get into the next legislative term, we look at what is going to bring our nation together. we are so divided right now. political violence is real, the divisiveness is real. i want to work together on areas like inflation, like the supply chain, protecting women's rights and the right to life. i am someone who has reached out across the aisle to work with democrats on ano number of issu. my door is open, i'm willing to work with anyone willing to work with us. >> i didn't hear you mention impeachment here. there are members of your party who want to pursue that for members of the biden administration, maybe even

president biden on day one. what do you think of that? >> it's not something i support without an investigation. people has been weaponized. we need to focus on economic issues. inflation is killing us. we're all still paying a lot for a gallon of gas right now, at the grocery store prices are sky high. and so we need to focus on the supply chain, focus on the economy, focus on jobs, focus on crime. crime is a huge issue, but also when it comes to life after roe, how can we work together and get us to where the majority of americans want us to be and that's what has resonating in our district and swing districts across the country last night. >> if it's a smaller republican majority, do you think it will make it tougher to govern? >> i think with the divisiveness in our country until we're willing to take a stand and

reach across the aisle, it's going to be difficult for anyone to govern. we've seen a lot of partisanship. i've seen it on both sides of the aisle. that's something that as a nation, we have to get beyond that. we have to get beyond twitter and we have to work hard and deliver for our constituents. and when you have a diverse district, diverse with democrats, independents and republicans like mine, that means we got to reach across the aisle, even if we get attacked on social media, we need to do the right thing even when no one is watching. >> trump endorsed your primary challenger back in the primary. you obviously defeated her and went on to win and win last night. some. other candidates that trump endorsed also did not have successful election nights last night. what does that say about the power of a trump endorsement in the republican party in 2022? >> i've always marched to the beat of my own drum.

we saw that with brian kemp last night. we've seen ron desantis, he had enormous gains last night in florida. i think south carolina's first congressional district is a lot like florida in terms of the issues that were addressed in the elections, the diversity of the population there, the migration and movement and growth that both states have had. so when you look at those that really have worked to be centrist on a lot of issues important to americans, that's where we saw big wins last night. i'm excited what the future holds and what the majority will look like next session. >> congresswoman nancy mace, thank you for taking time to talk about all these important issues. >> thank you. >> the votes are still being counted as we said. right now in arizona, it is still under way. poll workers had to move fast to fix a problem with the polls there. we'll talk to the man in charge of those issues next.

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are you willing to continue this fight? are you willing for incompetency to play itself out and the victory to come at us? >> i know that we're all eager to find out who won each of these incredibly important races, but we need to be patient and wait for every vote to be counted. >> gubernatorial candidates there from arizona. maricopa county in arizona experiencing glitches with some tabulation scanners malfunctioning at about 20% of their polling stations. state election officials say the issue was resolved, pointing to a technical county with ink. they say it did not compromise the results of the election. yet kari lake questioned the process there. let's discuss with someone who knows about it. joining me now to talk to us is maricopa county supervisor chair

bill gates. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for joining us. should voters in maricopa county, should they be concerned about their votes and whether their votes will be counted? >> well, thanks for having me. and, no, they should not be concerned. as you just mentioned there because of the great work of our poll workers and our technicians to determine what the issue was. we were able to get those tabulateors back online and you're right, the issue was with the printers and with the ink. but here is the bottom line for everyone. everyone who showed up yesterday with a valid i.d. because we have a voter i.d. law here in arizona, they had the opportunity to vote a ballot and that vote is going to be counted. and here's what we know now, now that we've looked at the numbers. about 7% of the ballots that were voted yesterday on election

day went down into what we call box three. so they were not run through the tab tabulator. they will be counted. >> we heard there was a tweet that said all election day vote had already been processed. is that different than being counted? has all election day vote been counted at this point? >> not all election votes have been counted. we've had a little bit somewhere around 210,000 or so but those 17,000 have yet to be counted. we will be starting that process today. >> so 17,000 election day votes, in-person election day votes as distinct from mail ballots? >> that's right. so we have about 90,000 mail ballots. these are ones that came in after friday but before

yesterday. those are yet to be counted and then also we don't know how many mai mail-ins came in yesterday. under arizona law, our resident can take a mail-in ballot and drop it off on election day. we do believe estimates, probably about 200,000 more. we will know by about mid-morning today and we'll be able to report an exact number. >> you said after friday but before yesterday. does that change any of the calculations that you're making here? >> no. but it does give us a breakdown. 17,000 in-person election day votes to be counted in maricopa county. about 90,000 mail-in ballots that were received by friday and then a certain number and i'm not sure i fully understood, 200,000, that arrived between yesterday. you don't know that. >> yeah, roughly again those all came in late last night from our

different locations. they're at the central tabulation center. we'll have firmer numbers mid-morning today. >> because of that technical issue, there was this lawsuit to keep the polls open an extra three hours, a judge denying the request that the polls that close on time there should be extended. what do you say because there are people, even the candidates, who are using this to try to cast doubt on the integrity of the voting process there? >> we've been dealing this for the past couple of years. a lot of misinformation out there. we apologize for the inconvenience that people had to deal with yesterday. we certainly did not want to have that happen. but this -- what happened yesterday should not be used to question the integrity of the election. again, everyone who was checked in who showed up with a valid

i.d. had the opportunity to vote and those vote are going to count. the 17,000 or so that i mentioned that didn't go through the the tabulator, this was transported down to the central count facility. and like i said, today we will start the process of counting those at the central count facility where all of our early ballots are. and, by the way, in a majority of arizona counties, day-of election votes are counted just that way. they're counted at the central count facility, not out on site at the vote center. >> from the maricopa board of supervisors, bill gates. >> that's a lot of votes out. you said it doesn't really change the calculation? >> it's hard to tell. you have 17,000 election day.

that's what e.d. stands for here in this case, don. let's do 90,000 mail that will arrive by friday. and then another number that was indetermined. undetermined, he said it could be as much as 200,000 of people who walk them in or arrived yesterday. so just don't know. i will tell you here you would think this 17,000 votes election day favors republicans, would you think this 90,000 mail that arrived by friday favors democrats and then that remaining number, which we don't have a hard grasp on yet, who knows. >> john berman, thank you very much. in the meantime, governor ron desantis cruising to reelection. what his victory now means for the political future and several potential 2024 rivals.

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world. we will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die! >> okay, everyone. don lemon here. the 2022 mid terms may be giving us a big clue about the 2024 republicans presidential primary. the perfect person to talk to about that, harry enten. where does governor ron desantis play in to 2024? >> let's start with the big elephant in the room is donald trump. a lot of voters are second guessing whether or not he should be their standard bearer in 2024. why? look at this exit poll we did nationally. look at how many voters had only a favorable opinion of donald trump. 38%. just 39% of voters nationally had a favorable opinion of donald trump. 18% of the neither biden nor

trump number at the bottom of your screen. look at how they decided to vote for the election, they went for republican candidates but only 17% of the margins. they had an unfavorable view of joe biden but yet they only went 17%. look at desantis, a 58% approval rate in the state of florida. that was much more popular than donald trump was nationally. looking ahead to 2024, the idea in florida do you want ron desantis to run for president? it's a pretty close match. 45% say yes. the majority said no but compare that to donald trump among floridians. donald trump and ron desantis both live in the state of florida. look at how many floridians want donald trump to run for president in 2024. just 33%. in the state that knows ron

desantis and donald trump well, ron desantis is the choice for 2024. given that large victory last night, i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of republicans nationally start doing the same way. >> didn't donald trump give up his new york citizenship -- residency, to become a florida resid resident? >> he did and it turns out they don't want him. >> what you're going to hear next might blow your socks off. pull up "the new york post." we just heard desantis say when florida was a refuge when the world went mad and you say -- >> you're so bad, poppy. >> you said it! >> i was in florida then a bit. it was kind of true. it was kind of a refuge. but being lolook, ron desantis

terrible president. i'm not for him for president. there is a little rethinking about how the country handled covid, were schools and businesses closed too long? that is legitimate and just a nonpartisan issue we should think about for the next pandemic but, look, what's going to have that -- >> i'm a little bit surprised -- >> donald trump is going to announce he's going to run for president. we're going to sit back and enjoy this fight between the two of them. and i have to say given the election results, joe biden, you know, the happy warrior, you know, despite the headwinds, despite his approval rating, he's going to find new found energy in being the donald trump foe again. that's going to be interesting as well. >> or the desantis foe. we'll see where this goes. you worked for the trump white house, you left on january 6th.

is desantis the future? >> i think so. you look at the huge night he had. i think that should send a massive signal to the republican party and show what he's capable of. i mean, donald trump we saw in that one poll that floridians don't want to see him run in 2024 but desantis is someone who potentially could be a formidable opponent for joe biden if he runs again in 2024 and i think that desantis has a good message on covid as we are saying, that he kept florida free and wasn't it about lockdowns and that's something where he can push, whereas he can say trump listened to the bureaucrats in washington like dr. fauci, who wanted it lacock down. >> i think we're all making an assumption that donald trump can be pushed out of the way a little more easily than he's

going to be pushed out of the way. this begins a lot of knife fighting in the party because so many people in the republican party invested in him as a cultive personality. it's hard to back up from that to say, well, now i know longer support the president. we heard the lieutenant governor of georgia say it's time to get past trump. well, good luck with that. donald trump's entire political life is that people can't get past it. >> didn't voters just get past trump, a lot of them tonight? >> i think that remains to be seen. >> a primary is different than a general. so he prevailed in the primary a lot. just not in the general. >> that's a good point. >> for somebody who worked -- >> worked in the biden white house. >> yes. it's the third time i've seen this. kevin mccarthy a year ago said they were going to win 60 seats

in the house. >> he said 20 a few days ago. >> the goalpost keeps changing. but what i would also say is that republicans have to make a choice. i think desantis is offering that choice but do they want to follow donald trump down another path of losing them the house, losing them the senate, maybe twice, losing them the kwous. >> but desantis plays into that, too. i think democrats will have a message. i think the big untold story right now is how women came through and this abortion question. it really mattered to voters. it was a big issue in the house. exit polls showed that people wanted to vote on the economy but often voted on abortion and other things and, you know, that is going to matter because that is what a president is in charge of -- supreme court appointment. it still matters. and i do think that will push back and i think that helps us.

it's important. guys, you've been great. thanks for a long night. it made it easier being by your side. she's down the hall. i'm going to come give you a hug after. >> we are also watching to see results we are waiting for. j.d. vance did win his seat, defeating tim ryan by nearly 7 points. ryan did make a point about democracy in his concession. >> i have the privilege to concede this race to j.d. vance because the way this company operates is when you lose an

election -- you respect the will of the people. it can't be if you lose someone stole it. >> tim ryan saying he had the privilege to concede this race. it's sad where you have to watch for these concession speeches now but what do you make of that? >> no, i think it is sad. it used to be the norm among candidates that they would come out and concede, whether they were presidential candidates or candidates for dog catcher and now we have this i think republican chattering class that likes to sew all sorts of doubt into final results. we'll continue to see that. one question is whether or not donald trump starts to do that with these elections that we've seen over the past day or so.

like does he start to sew doubt because he wants to take credit, he wants to act like everything is rigged. we'll see what happens. but good on tim ryan. of course he was going to do that. >> of course he was. this is still normal. democracy depends upon people acknowledging losses. and that's what tim ryan did and that's what most people do. it's the extremists, the election deniers. most of them lost when they were at the top of their ticket. we have to see what happened in arizona. tim ryan ran a really good race. there were almost 400,000 folks had split their tickets and voted for ryan. we need to track each one who said they'll accept the results if they win and they won't if they lose. it's uniquely dangerous to

democracy. it speaks to them saying this kind of extremism is too much. this is destabilizing to who we are. and moderates also went to democrats. a lot of them will win lower ballots but the top of the ticket having a bad night i think is a repudiation of donald trump. >> stacey abrams did not concede her last race to brian kemp. she did concede last night. when it comes to j.d. vance, he thanked a lot of people, dozens of people, one of them notably was not former president trump who of course backed him. >> he is a senator because donald trump backed him in that primary and you can see him possibly already trying to form his own identity that, you know, form some distance between him and donald trump. good luck with that. i think in the coming days we

have to see what donald trump does. i think the battle between him and ron desantis is going to be very interesting. he's already saying this is going to be bad for desantis if he runs and knows stuff about desantis he's going to reveal. >> it's interesting to see what other republicans say about the effect he still has on this party. both of you, thank you for spending so many hours here with me this morning. no one i'd rather sit next to. we still have four senate races determining the balance of power. the votes are still coming in, are still being counted. we have the latest as cnn's special coverage continues. we're going to take a short break. don't go anywhere. financial solutionsincoln will help you get there. as you plan, protect and retire. ♪

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we can sit around, the pundits can say what they want and do what they want and this politician can say that. the people have their say and the people have spoken. the votes are still being counted but it wasn't what many people thought it was going to be. >> where is the wave? >> it shows you the american people can always surprise you, you have to see what the issues are, listen to what people are saying. abortion kept democrats in this fight, inflation and the economy did show up as a really big issue. we are not done yet, we still have to make sure to figure out who is in control of the senate, who is in control of the house. >> do we go to december? >> we will be there every morning with people telling you what is going on. abortion was a bigger issue than the polls were saying and the economy, it's the economy, stupid, it was a 92, but now it's on the people that are elected to solve for folks and to come up with solutions on the economy and to actually do things that they promised. >> do you know what was on the ballot and people said it was a bad message from joe biden and the democrats? democracy really was on the ballot. >> oh, that's such a good point, it was. >> especially when you look at

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