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good afternoon. i'm erin burnett. this is cnn's special coverage of election night in america continued yet again. right now control of the senate could come down to two states. arizona and nevada. with. s of votes already counted, the senate races in these two states of still too close to call. and then there's the third pivotal senate race. georgia. already we know headed for a runoff. that is on december 6th, but there may be more clarity in the coming hours. more votes going to be coming in tonight. so first, let's look at arizona. the race there between democratic senator mark kelly and republican nominee blake masters. right now mark kelly, incumbent, ahead by 99,638 votes but you see what is so important there. only 76% of the estimated vote is in. a lot more veotes to come in in arizona. and razor-thin race between democrat hobbs and's republican lake, also up for grabs. that one is incredibly close.

margin only 16,000-plus votes for katie hobbs, but there are 665,000 more votes that need to be counted and why the races are way too close to call. where those are. 400,000 of those outstanding votes are maricopa county, phoenix. 148,000 down in pima county, tucson. we're standing by in the next minutes to bring you press conferences when they happen. now let me show you the situation in nevada where all eyes are on the crucial race there. that is the democratic senator catherine cortez masto against adam laxalt, republican challenger. neck and neck. only 16,000 votes. just shy of that separate the two. give you context there. 120,000 votes still need to be counted in nevada. so that is too close to call and we are expecting more results on that tonight. now, these two races are so crucial, because if democrats

can pull off a win in both of them, democrats control the senate. that means control the senate regardless of the outcome in next month's senate runoff in georgia. reporters are on the ground in these crucial races as america waits for the outcome. gary tuchman in nevada. josh campbell in arizona. i want to start in nevada, though, with you, gary. you're in las vegas near the election, where they're counting these outstanding ballots. what is it? about 120,000 in races simply too close to call? >> reporter: that's right, erin. mail-in ballots continue to be counted in all 17 counties in nevada. there's nothing unusual about that whatsoever. the race wasn't close, 50%, percentage's point difference, either way, votes still counted because they have up to saturday for ballots to arrive. that's the rules here in the state of nevada. here in clark county, where people are keeping their eyes on, because 75% of the population of nevada lives in this county where las vegas is

located. just told in a news conference, still about 50,000 votes to be counted. those votes come from the mail and also come from buckets, baskets put in polling places, boxes, we saw a basket in one place with a lock on it, but 300 boxes throughout this county, and that's what's being counted right now. now, in addition to the 50,000 there are 5,555 provisional ballots. 7,155 ballots that need to be cured. a total of 12,710 ballots that could be counted. so a grand total more than 62,000 votes that could still be counted in this county and then the other counties also. now, as i mentioned. not a big surprise at all's still counting. 1.8 million registered voters in nevada. every one sent a mail-in ballot. here in the county most popular way to vote. postmarked by tuesday, arrive by saturday. not a big surprise. former president of the united

states donald trump on his truth social app said that clark county has a corrupt voting system. i can tell you that the people here, the election bosses are not at all happy about that disrespect. >> certainly not. certainly not. all right. gary tuchman there in nevada. head now to arizona we're waiting for more results as well, which could be coming soon. there, what? 600 thousand plus votes and counting. josh, i know right there, they are counting these ballots. they're going to update us. we anticipate a couple press briefings at least over these next few hours to get more information on the count. what are we still waiting on? >> reporter: that's right. two key areas where i am here now in maricopa county. the largest highly populated area in the state of arizona, and south of us, second most populace county a pima county. starting with maricopa. p waiting on 400,000 ballots

including 290,000 ballots received in envelopes by voters, but actually didn't submit by mail. brought them to polling places which is fine. heard different reasons why people decided to do that. some hadn't made up their mind who they wanted to vote for. others thought more secure to physically hand that to an election worker. that means it's going to take time to vote. again, waiting for 290,000 ballots there in maricopa county. south near tucson waiting on 160,000 votes there and told that could come maybe later next week. still a lot of ballot counting yet to be done. you mentioned, waiting to get updated by election officials both here and in pima county scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time hour. expecting here in maricopa and additional batch of ballots released tonight. yesterday, 62,000 ballots updated. see what tonight brings's the razor-thin majorities, you mentioned, with mark kelly up over 95,000 votes over black

masters. katie hobbs 13,000 votes over kari lake. >> put that in context of 600,000 outstanding, don't know winners yet. josh campbell, thank you. as i said, getting press conferences from both arizona and nevada throughout the next hours. right now to john king at the magic wall. look at these two states and these vast troughs of votes still outstanding. where does the fight for control of the senate then stand at this hour? >> let's go into the states individually. first, before i do that make a key point. we've called, 49-48. where we are right now. current united states senate is 50-50. i can give you a scenario. with know georgia will have a runoff december 6. a scenario which republicans could have control regardless of georgia. a scenario of democrats regardless of georgia, or scenario georgia decides the

senate. go through that in a minute. these states follow-up from gary and from josh. number one in nevada. when i went to bed early this morning kind of middle early morning i guess, hard to remember when on day three, adam laxalt leading's bring up washoe county, northwest corner of the state. 15% of population. clark county, vegas is there, much big uger. important, erin, in terms of nevada politics and viewed as the swing county. winner often wins state-wide. catherine cortez masto income went leading. look at that. what we're talking about in terms of closeness of the con contest. statewide, rather ahead than behind at any point. gary noted 120,000 or so more ballots. adam laxalt obviously in the lead by 15,000 right now statewide. masto has to make

it up. red rural county most votes are in. smaller, anyway. clark county, 74% of the vote statewide. 64% of the population in the ballpark statewide. cortez masto behind statewide, ahead in clark county where most votes are still to be counted. not done here. reason for democrats to think math allows us to put it out. over as josh just said. the state-wide count now. mark kelly shy of 100,000 votes, but with hundreds of thousands more to be counted. be patient. got to walk through this one. >> so there's the senate, you talk about, and patience is a huge virtue in this situation we're in right now. obviously democrats have chance to hold the senate even without waiting for the georgia runoff. do the math. right? get two, you've got it? >> what we're doing. a lot of math. doing math for at least, well, december 6th, final math here.

question, how consequential? to georgians, it's consequential. in terms of races called. 49 republican seats. 48 emic seats on ballot this year and those called. what happens? mark kelly holds his lead in arizona, not guaranteed, but doing a hypothetical. if he holds his lead there and senator cortez masto can come back and take the lead and win nevada, then be for democrats, georgia would be gravy. democrats only need 50 to control the united states senate because they have vice president harris. so georgia then would be, can we get to 51? senator harris could leave washington more. wouldn't have to be around to break all the tie votes. one consequence. democrats is win majority, protect their majority, yes, without georgia. however, put on the table. republicans can also win the majority without georgia. senator laxalt holds on and blake hafters masters back in a.

trailing now, still counting hundreds of thousands of votes, could get to 51. georgia, maybe democrats to 49. republicans to 52. these two races determine how consequential georgia is december 6th and why we'll count the votes. a democrat or republicans, live in those states or care about balance of power where i work in washington, tense times and tense days before we know the answer. >> definitely tense days. we said, 600,000 votes outstanding anticipating more coming in tonight, but not all. this is a case where you're going to need virtually all to make these calls. >> thank you, john king. republican senate candidates in nevada and arizona in their lot with trump and election die kneers. gist ahead, what happens if they win?

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president's midterm. 40 years. best midterms for governors since 1986. [ cheers ] and experts said we couldn't beat the odds, but we did beat the odds. >> well, all eyes of course still on arizona and nevada. as we've made clear control of the senate could hand just these two states. never mind that georgia runoff. both states the republican candidate for senate questioned the 2020 election. cnn's brian todd joins me with more. brian, obviously this has been a real question whether the election was a referendum on the democratic agenda or republican denialism. tell us more about the candidates in arizona and nevada and their record on denying the 2020 election? >> reporter: right. focus on the most prominent election deniers and start in the states deniers can still win those important races for senate, governor and secretary of state. one of the most well-known and aggressive deniers in arizona

republican kari lake. still in a tightly contested race for governor. she's falsely declared president biden's win in 2020 was stolen demanded this year that biden's 2020 win in arizona be decertified, an impossibility. another denier republican blake masters still in a close race in arizona for senator. go to nevada. a tight race could put denier adam laxalt in office as a u.s. senator. laxalt made several fall claims about the 2020 election saying it was rigged and baseless claims about integrity of the vote count in that state. but also very important races, erin, for secretary of state in arizona and nevada that have not been called yet. these are critical, because the secretary of state basically runs the election process in most states. in those two states, aggressive election deniers are still in the running. in nevada jim marshaunt could be on the cusp of victory insisting it was "almost statistically impossible that joe biden won in

nevada in 2020." flat out wrong and claimed since 2006 installed by the deep state cabal. and also in race for secretary of state calls for arrest of democrats involved overseeing the 2020 election's these are men, erin, who could be running elections and certifying results in those crucial states. >> all right. so amazing to think about this situation there. obviously those are the votes outstanding. who are the, try to look at whether this was a referendum on election denialism overall, obviously there were many who denied the 2020 election running across the country for various positions. secretary of state, senator, congressperson, who were the prominent deniers already won or lost? >> reporter: one of the big winners among deniers, j.d. vance. going to be the next republican senator from ohio. vance claimed that the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump and claimed people were voting illegally on a

large-scale basis both completely false claims. among the prominent losers among deniers, don bolduc, from new hampshire. doug mastriano from pennsylvania. his campaign chartered buses to donald trump's rally in washington january 6th and mat triano photographed on the capitol grounds that day but never charged with anything. >> all right. thank you very much, brian. so now bring in our panel. today stead herndon political reporter "new york times" joins our senior political analyst ashley alison. former coalition director forebiden/harris president's campaign and jonah goldberg eder in cheer of "the dispatch." and ashley many deniers did lose. not all. even prominent ones we don't know. many did, though. few that have not been called obviously you've heard brian go through highly consequential ones including secretary of state in arizona and nevada. are you surprised those races are still so close? frankly, those could be states

where votes appear to be split between election deniers and maybe democrats, a strange thing to imagine. >> not surprised to get splitting happen in this election cycle. seen it in other states, but nevada and arizona always take a long time to count. it's unfortunate. we see states like pennsylvania who i expected to go a little longer in pennsylvania. but they got it done quickly. florida got it done. my home state of ohio, michigan, wisconsin. you also look at who their secretary of states are. pennsylvania lee chapman, strong secretary of state. michigan you have jocelyn benson, strong secretary of state. in ohio you have la roche. don't always agree on his approach how to vote but people running really strong elections. some reason nevada and arizona take a long time to vote but i appreciate they're taking the time letting every vote count. we'll see what happens.

>> yeah. one of the most vocal election deniers in a race too close to call. look, i don't know what she would do win or lose, one can imagine bizarre situations. win by two votes, okay, lose by two, rigged. i don't know. talking about congresswoman boebert. what she said about the 2020 election. >> the members who stand here today and accept results of this concentrated coordinated partisan effort by democrats, where every fraudulent vote canceled out the vote of an honest america decided with extremist left millions of ballots mailed out illegally right in front of all of our faces. that right there is what rigged this election. >> right now, jonah, ahead by 794 votes. our graphics put you are, our dynamic. that number changes constantly. right now she's up by 794 votes. she could win. >> could win, and a couple

things. first of all, i personally think she's a couple fries short of a happy meal. right? a kind of crazy person. she was in congress for 2020. and my point is that i -- i repudiate all election denying's i don't think anyone should be doing it. it's irresponsible, but the big of the election denier in the entire country in our lifetimes was donald trump. and he couldn't pull off stealing an election. people make this leap that everyone who's an election denier will be 100% to cheating once they actually get the job. seen a lot of people who, brian bolduc changed his mind a couple times. looked at facts, wanted to be seen mainstream all that. my only point is, look, i don't trust kari lake or these it secretaries of state. shame on them for what they are doing, but it is not obvious. i think biden's framing of democracy was on the ballot was ridiculous, dangerous. it's stupid, but just not

obvious that just because you denied the election we are going to be capable of stealing one next time around. courts still exist. journalists still exist, and i just think it's one of these things that it's not proven. doesn't mean we have to celebrate or not worry about it, but keep an eye on them. just doesn't necessarily mean all of these people will try to steal an election. remember the guy tried to steal hardest failed because the institutions of democracy held. >> right, they did. >> that's a, also a rosy view of 2020, i would say that, institutions of democracy held on by a questionable amount and i don't think, something like january 6, we cannot gloss over. no, no, no as a real blow positive heart of transfer's of power. a violent access and be clear, wasn't denial hur republicans in races. a view of extremism voters took from that party. not only a denying last results. talking mastriano and boebert, embraced the term christian

nationalism, gone further in terms saying that the church should be directing politics of the state. i think all of those things added up to a view that hurt some of those people in this election. i think it's right that for voters, it is not a clear line to say that, oh, you question results from 2020 you're inherently donald trump. there is conflation of that. when i talk to republican voters that's not a distinction, not a line, not a truth they put together. i do think it adds up to a view republican party moved into an extremist lens that hurt them in places. >> yet in arizona, again, doing the john king hypothetical. you could end up in a world where mark kelly is your senator and kari lake your governor. >> yeah. >> whoa. amazing to imagine those two things, same place. >> normally i like ticket splitting, think it shows a degree of independence of judgment. kari lake it different. >> but skins frenschizophrenia.

different than -- been a local e news anchor 20 years. known across the state with high name i.d. in a different way than people who had no business r running for senate except parrot donald trump's election lies. voters prefer out of touch to out of their mind. >> yeah. right, right. we should say, jonah, tudor dixon. bring her up in the case of michigan. remember election denial c conceded. seen it from both sides in tight races seen concessions. stacey abrams, tudor dixon. mundane, but i think we should. >> all celebrated. people a forget and antibody, even polls, 77% think a threat to democracy. half of those thought gave them

democrats. right or wrong, not saying. few people out there actually saying democracy is bad. they're just saying they think -- because of our age of polarization and conspiracy theory that the other side cheats. >> and i just -- >> do you think democracy is on the ballot as well as other things? i think it is fair to think that if someone is saying, if you saw boebert on the floor of congress saying all of this is a conspiracy, they could do things. not successful doesn't mean you wouldn't try to cheat? >> she's terrible for the republican brand literally said over the summer jesus should have asked god for an ar-15 to protect herself from the government. a lot of theological violence. coming up, control of the senate up in the air. dive into the outstanding vote count in that arizona race with our political director. and top official in arizona's maricopa county, arizona 600,000 votes

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all right. this is cnn special coverage of election night in the america. thousands of votes not counted with control of the senate hangsinhangs in ing in the balance. maricopa and pima in tou tucsond

kelly ahead of masters just under 100,000, between them. 600,000 votes, i say barely, or outst outstanding. let's talk about that. david, what are the votes, where are the votes? are we sure sum total of outstanding votes? >> erin, i want to present the latest information that we have right now in arizona about the outstanding vote. >> yeah. >> i can't see thepresent beingi can't see it. votes uncounted and what we look at with that, okay, then what would blake masters need of the uncounted vote, remaining vote? what percentage of that would he need to overtake mark kelly? what would mark kelly need? masters needs range somewhere between 52% and 56% of that

outstanding roughly 665,000 votes that are to be counted in arizona. mark kelly, who's obviously ahead would need less in order to keep that and win. he needs about 42% to 46% remaining vote to secure victory in this race. so it's just a guide as you see more arizona vote come in later today, what are the percentages between the candidates? highway is that vote splitting and's is masters hitting the need number to take over and win. >> we know many democrats were concerned president biden's low approval numbers could hurt them. in arizona, trying to figure out what people thought when e thwent into the polls what to do ke exit polls in arizona tell you? >> in arizona, president's rating as nationally is under water. arizona voters, 43% approve of

joe biden's job performance. 57% disapprove. like a tick below where he is nationally, makes sense in a more purple battleground state. what about the opinions of biden's policies? whether they're helping or hurting the country? 52% of arizona voters say biden's policies are hurting the country. majority. slim majority. 34%, helping. 14% not making a difference. just say you would think, well, that's got to be good news for blake masters yet he's running behind. yes, but mark kelly carved out a separate identity from joe biden a bit. maybe not as much a weight. we hasked about election confidence. hotbed of election denialism. look at this. 43% of arizona voters are confident the state's elections are fair and accurate. nearly three quarters of arizona

voters somewhat or have confident elections are fair and accurate. asked, did you think joe biden legitimately won the 2020 election? just see the divide in american politics here now. 63% of arizona voters say, yes, biden legitimately elected. 35%, a third of electorate in arizona does not believe, wrongly, that joe biden was legitimately elected. so what about the views of donald trump in arizona? battleground state. how does it compare to biden's approveal rating? views aren't great for donald trump either. 42% in arizona. 57% unfavorable in ballpark where joe biden's approval ratings are. so donald trump is also upside-down in this critical battleground state. >> amazing just to look at that and see, when we match it up, finally know the outcome, how does it fit or not fit with some of those exit polls? right? sure some will be confounding. david chalian, thank you very much. go to bill gates now. the republican chairman of

maricopa board of supervisors and chairman gates, appreciate talking to you again. talked many times over the past couple years and here we are again with you in the midst of a big count's and all eyes of the nation on you. you are going to release more votes tonight. from maricopa county, how many ballot results do you expect to release this evening? >> erin, thanks for having me. we're not sure on the exact number. we did 62,000 last evening. it will be more than that, but not significantly more. >> okay. more than 62,000 significant he more and understand relative to denominator total outstanding's how many are still outstanding in maricopa county in total including the number you expect to release tonight? >> currently outstanding, just a little over 400,000 ballots. >> all right. so let me ask you just drill down on that a little bit more. because i know you want to be as

transparent as possible. yesterday morning there were about 300,000 votes left to count in your county. you told us. later that rng month, that number went up. 400,000. as you said, you did release results last night of about 62,000 votes, but then today told sara sidner you know, of course, out there with you. our reporter who's covering this. you said still about 400,000 votes wreeremaining. can you explain for us to explain better why were the numbers appear to keep changing? >> yes. absolutely. it's a great question. so when i gave that 300,000 number, that would have been yesterday morning. that was based on an estimate of the number of people who dropped off early ballots on election day. that was consistent with the high numbers we had seen in the past. well, yesterday we determined how many ballots had been dropped off by people, early ballots had been dropped off on

election day. it was a number we'd never seen before. 290,000 ballots were dropped off on election day. that's 70% more than the previous record. so that's why i was low on those numbers yesterday. that was an estimate. i told the folks that, but it surprised us and gets us to a little over 400,000. we're very confident with that number now and from this point we're going to go down as we have the numbers released this evening, and then you'll be seeing those over the next few days. >> right. okay. so tonight the 400 minus, as you said, more than 62,000 votes, a little more than that, but you'll anticipate releasing tonight. so, look, you're in the sense, two incredibly narrow races. right? senate race with mark kelly is very close. but your governor's race is up in, much closer. only 17's,000 votes right now.

you know it separate katie hobbs and kari lake. a 0.8 percentage difference. kari lake had strong criticism how long, she says long, that it's taking to count the vote and in your county. here she is. >> they're draging their feet and they're it slow-rolling results and trying to delay the inevitable. this is just can an embarrassment and the people of arizona are sick and tired of elections being run like we're in some banana republic. >> i have very little faith in some of the people's operating that, that maricopa county elections. i think they're incompetent. >> you're obviously supervisor in charge of the maricopa elections's what do you is ay to kari lake out there saying this today as the count? >> well, i can understand why kari lake might be surprised by how long this is taking, because she probably hasn't followed elections the way that i have for the last 20 years in this state. i was actually one of the

lawyers in charge of republic observation of elections for years. i can remember 16 years ago. i sat outside of that same counting center, was there in a close congressional race. i was there for days, waiting for the final results. that's how it works here in arizona. when folks are dropping off 290,000 ballots on election day, in a ballot envelope, those don't magically get counted. we have to verify those. i'm sure kari lake cares about only eligible votes being counted just like i do, just like all of us, republican and any good american, or any good arizonan would. so here's the reality. those ballots from tuesday, 290,000, needed to be brought into our center, and have to be signature verified. each an every one of those making sure the signature on the outside of that envelope is the same signature that's in our

voter registration files. that takes a while. experts examine this. a lot of work involved in this. we're going as fast as we can but accuracy matters. >> it does. to get every single one right. bill gates, thank you very much. appreciate you taking time. heard it from him. anticipating more than 62,000 votes coming out in these next hours. thanks again xbr. as we wait to get more results from arizona, asking a senior data reporter about this when we come right back. book your appointment today. and switch to the network america relies on. verizon. ♪ ♪ a bunch of dead guys made up work, way back when. ♪ ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪ ♪ we'll build freelance teams with more agility. ♪

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night in america mesh continued. so much second guessing going on for republicans about why they're performance in house and senate races did not match their lofty expectations. some blaming former president trump.

josh hawley blaming republican leaders in washington. joining us with other reasons. harry, what do you think happened and why don't we start here in the senate. >> reporter: candidates. bad candidates. extreme candidates. you know, we asked an interesting question in our exit poll essentially said okay, democratic candidate senate races views too extreme and also republican candidates as well. we found in all but one state, any of the competitive states, more people said republican candidate was extreme than the democratic candidate was extreme. this, we've talked about this the entire time. right? president biden has this low approval rating but gop candidates in minds of voters not particularly strong and i think that's ultimately what happened in the senate. bad candidates and cost republicans. >> right. and be be in that space, that void, have you put in good candidates? maybe things would are dramatically different than we're talking about. okay. what else did you find scouring through exit polls of the information we do have that

stood out? >> national house exit poll. look among independents. >> house races? >> house races. among independents dents who they voted for. democrats by 2 percentage points. small margin bumt historically for president's or opposition party. every single house election mid-term, overwhelming opposition party by double digits. this time around, despite the fact independent voters did not like joe biden voted for the president's party. in my opinion what happened was republican candidates is so interested in appeasing their base completely forget salve the middle and middle said, forget it. going with democrats even if we don't like joe biden. >> look at the margins in line with history 20 points different. >> 15. >> yeah. >> that would be a red tsunami, would would have been a red tsunami but not what happened. >> exactly right. just matched recent history

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renewing his promise to work across the aisle with republicans, adding though that compromise in his view goes both ways. >> i'm prepared to work with republicans. but the american people have made it clear, they expect republicans to work with me as well. [ cheers and applause ] >> john avlon and astead herndon are back with me. i just raise a point here. a congressman told me recently, a democratic one, it would be better for republicans to pick up 20 or 25 seats because then moderates on the republican party would have some influence. that if it was an eke it out sort of win the crazy extremists would control mccarthy. that's the scenario we're looking at if republicans do indeed take the house. >> that's absolutely the scenario we're looking at. and it's a kind of weird irony of this election where the electorate does i think to president biden's point, made a kind of clear statement about the way the republican party was moving but at the same time because of that slim majority it is up to kevin mccarthy if he does take the speakership to

kind of rein his caucus in to match that. i don't think that's a given, though. we have seen republicans in close elections over the last four o'five years not use that as a chance to moderate. so yes, the party's kind of having this open question right now thinking maybe donald trump dragged us down, but that could just be about election denialism. that could just be about donald trump as an individual. there is no guarantee that the kind of grievances he embodied goes away or the willingness to bipartisanship shows up. >> no. they'd already talked about what their agenda would be. now we'll see. but it was a lot of investigations and possible impeachments of the president and his party. john, you have talked and spent so much time focusing on independent voters, right? so harry just talked about how independent voters really broke with every historical trend that exists and voted for the party in power as opposed to the opposition. what do you make of this? >> this is what i've been obsessing over because it is absolutely fascinating. harry laid out the historic numbers but typically a midterm

election is a double-digit opposition swing to the party in the midterms. didn't happen. here you see they voted for democrats by two points. and i think that accounts for the evaporation of the red wave because they were not able to capitalize on independent voters. democrats won moderate voters 56%, and they were 40% of the electorate according to our exit polls. so if you lose the middle, if independents turn against you because they don't trust you, because they think you're too extreme, that is a clear resounding warning. and just a contrast between the two parties right now. and so republicans are going to have to recognize that this is not just about trump and the election denialism, although that's the marquee point. if you let the inmates run the asylum it's going to continue to compound this problem. >> amazing. somehow by stunting the red wave you end up with extremists having more power? that is the -- >> i mean -- >> the ultimate bizarreness of american politics. all right. thank you both so very much. and in just over an hour we're going to have news conferences from arizona's two biggest counties about those vote totals, right? where i told you about 600,000

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the final votes in the final states are being counted as we speak. welcome back to cnn's special coverage of "election night in america" continued. i'm erin burnett and we are standing by for a new batch of votes to be posted from two

states, arizona and nevada. these are the two states with senate races still up for grabs that really will probably determine who controls the senate. of course it could go all the way to that runoff in georgia. but get ready because of the most populous county in arizona, maricopa, is expected to release more results there. the top official there, bill gates, in maricopa county just telling me that they're about to release results of a little bit more than 62,000 ballots that could provide more clarity in that senate race between the democratic senator mark kelly, who currently holds a lead over the republican nominee blake masters in the counting. masters just a short time ago in a fund-raising e-mail writing that he is "expecting a contested road forward and legal battles to come." and in arizona overall there are 665,000 votes still outstanding. so a lot more to be counted. about 400,000 of those are in maricopa county. 148,000 are in pima county. that is where tucson is. and o'fiblz for both counties

are going to be holding news conferences over the next hour. now, let me bring you to nevada. this is the other one we're watching here. adam laxalt currently ahead. but as you can see, only 84% of the vote is in right now. the democratic incumbent, catherine cortez masto, is lagging. but 120,000 votes still have to be counted. so we just don't know. we are expecting more of those votes to come in tonight. and as you can see, both parties still within reach of controlling the senate. the democrats win arizona and nevada, they'll have 50 seats without georgia, which of course is heading to that runoff now on december 6th. right now kyung lah's in arizona, gary tuchman is in nevada, jeremy diamond is at the white house. i want to begin with you in arizona, kyung. and obviously we've got anticipating an update here. you've got some more information on some of these votes outstanding right now. >> reporter: well, erin, you just got exactly how much they anticipate that they will be releasing tonight. we're getting a little more

clarity on exactly what kind of votes are being counted and will be released as far as the overall tally. we are being told by maricopa county the elections department that the types of ballots that are going to be included in tonight's release are ballots counted from saturday night, sunday, and most of monday. so these are ballots, early ballots, before actual election day, and we also got an update from the tabulation process. so what is happening as of just about 30 minutes ago. that 17,000 so-called box 3 ballots, they're actually being processed behind me. that process has just begun. those box 3 ballots will not be included in tonight's tally. they anticipate the elections department anticipates that that will be a part of tomorrow's tally. so it is still happening. it is slow. but the county says the reason why is they want to make sure this entire process is accurate, and we keep getting these

updates almost hourly from the county. and we anticipate a little bit more information when bill gates does hold his news briefing with reporters here at the elections department. i'm also getting a flurry of responses from the various campaigns. on the republican side the kari lake campaign says for them the conditions haven't changed, their position and pofltsture h not changed until they start counting those tuesday ballots, which again will not be a part of tonight's release. at least that's the anticipation. the mark kelly campaign, we did get a statement from the campaign manager, who says "we remain confident that we will win this race." and as far as katie hobbs, their campaign, even though it is so close with the kari lake campaign, says that they are still feeling very good. erin? >> this is incredible to watch, a race like this that's going on. as we know, 665,000 votes outstanding. absolutely amazing. kyung lah, thank you very much, from maricopa county. let's go now to the white house where president biden is

obviously incredibly closely watching the results from both arizona and nevada. jeremy diamond is there. and jeremy, i understand the president spoke this afternoon to staffers at the dnc. what was that about? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, erin. if you just listened to the top of the president's remarks today, you would be forgiven for thinking that democrats swept the floor in these midterm elections. there was a celebratory atmosphere. you heard the president express that sense of vindication once again, about defying the historical odds in these midterms, arguing that americans support his agenda. the reality of course is that democrats are likely to lose the house. and that is a reality, erin, that democrats here at the white house are very clear-eyed about, very much gearing up for. and that's why in the second half of the president's speech you heard him talk about how he would deal with republicans. listen. >> regardless of what the final tally showed, i'm prepared to work with republicans. but the american people have made it clear, they expect republicans to work with me as well. but i've also made it really

clear that if republicans try to repeal the power we just gave medicare to reduce prescription drug costs, i will veto it, i will not allow it to happen. if republicans try to walk away from the historic commitment we just made to deal with the climate crisis, i will not let that happen. if republicans try to cut social security or medicare, i will not let that happen. >> reporter: and now, erin, when i asked the white house press secretary earlier today where exactly the president would be willing to compromise she couldn't point to any specific areas. but the president was very specific in trying to draw those red lines talking about the issues that he would veto. and so the big takeaway from the speech today is that this is a president gearing up for the very high possibility of a republican house who's trying to project strength, who's trying to show the leverage that he has as he prepares for the possibility of divided government and the many negotiations to follow. erin? >> jeremy, thank you. so now to john king. he is at the wall. john, so here we are waiting for some updates. and we do expect that we're going to be getting live updates

from both nevada and arizona as well as, you know, a significant chunk of votes from arizona tonight. but when it comes to the house, neither party has reached 218 seats. and that's what it takes for control. now, the way everybody's talking about this, obviously we understand republicans are much closer to that mark than democrats right now. as you see it, right? >> yes. but -- and let me add the but. and let's walk through it. it is mathematically possible -- i wouldn't say probable. but it's mathematically possible democrats hold the majority. and the fact we're having that conversation on thursday after tuesday election day, this is not the conversation, and this is not the map that kevin mccarthy and republicans expected out of this election. so right now republicans are leading in 222 races. democrats are leading in 213. if we were done right now, republicans would have a gain of ten seats and they would have a very narrow house republican majority. if it ended right now. but we're not right now. look at the races we have called. republicans have 209 to 192 for

the democrats. so republicans, you need 218 for the majority. so they're just eight seats away from winning a house majority. but that would be a very narrow house majority, even if they got to the 222. but they could get higher than that. it could be lower than that. if you look at the map i want to walk through it a little bit. 209 right now. called races. then you come over to the uncalled races and democrats are leading in 21 and republicans are leading in 13. and erin, they run coast to coast. jared golden's district in northern maine, this district has ranked choice voting. this is going to take a while to figure out. he's just shy of 50% as they're counting the vote. if he can end over 50% ranked choice voting doesn't kick in. could be a long time before we get that. and you can go from northern maine all the way to southern california, to alaska. so we have more races to count. the final tally is going to take days. it could even take a couple of weeks. will we know a house majority in the next day or two? it's possible. it's possible if the republicans win those nine-plus seats they need to get it. if the democrats are going to

defy history, that will be the mail balloting in california, that will take a while. >> look, voting in america has changed. and that's not a sign of bad things. it's a sign of reality. it's changed. more early voting, absentee voting, all of it. and that has changed when we find things out. so when you take a total here of leading for democrats, leading for republicans, 34 uncalled, what are some of the races that are extremely close that you're focused on? >> let's look at some of them. look, they run coast to coast. but people at home will know some of these names here. again, here's the current state of play. republicans leading in 222. that would be enough if it finishes. but we're not there. so you mentioned uncalled races. let's come here and look at them. and again, you see right there democrats are leading in 21 of these races, republicans leading in 13. one of the more prominent republicans who is leading but just barely in her race is lauren boebert, a trump acolyte, very feisty member you might say, controversial member of the house republican conference. she's only ahead by 794 votes. former aspen council member adam

frisch. this race has been a seesaw in the last 24 hours or so. but congressman boebert leading at the moment. about 96% of the estimated vote in. i was going through the map a little earlier through the counties. there are some blue counties on this map where there are some votes up. but there's some red too. this is going to be count the votes and get to the end. it is likely to end here, erin, within the recount race. i just want to move out to california for a second. you talk about these uncalled races. i just want to bring up this district here in central california. david val-dayo is one of the remaining impeachment ten. david valadao is ahead but only 30% of the vote counted. california has i ahistory, it's a lot of mail-in ballots. it can take days and days to count. he's leading the the moment. just one we're keeping an eye on. let me pop this up in southern california. the democratic progressive katie porter. she's very active in committee hearings, asking tough questions about the banking industry, challenging republicans on many

questions. she's leading right now 50.5 to 49.5. close. a very close lead there with about 60% of the vote in there. again, the mail-in ballots coming in. so there are prominent members of both parties coast to coast where we're still counting votes and the balance of power hangs in the balance and the fact, again, the probability is republicans will get a small majority. the fact that it's a mathematical possibility the democrats hold on to theirs is striking given the headwinds in this election. >> absolutely so. all right. thank you very much to john king. so we're going to go to north las vegas in just a moment because we talk about all the different ways people vote. in nevada you've got a lot more ballots arriving by mail. they're allowed to do so if they come by saturday. our gary tuchman is there on the ground to talk about the closest races including the one in nevada that could tip the scale of power in the senate. verizon'w welcome unlimited plan for just $30 a line. (julian) verizon for $30? (cecily) yeah. (julian) touchdown! (vo) everyone can get verizon for just $30 a line. now's the time to switch. verizon.

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former president trump, the former president calling clark county's voting system, the home of las vegas, corrupt. the county's registrar says he is misinformed. our gary tuchman joins me now from north las vegas. and gary, i understand you're expecting another vote batch at some point this evening. do you know -- any sense of what that might be? i understand the total outstanding is what, about 125,000? >> reporter: it's unclear, erin, how high that number will get. it's about 120,000. that's the estimate. but what's unique about nevada is you can send in your mail ballots as long as it's sent by election day, it can arrive by saturday. s about an unknown number of ballots in the postal system right now but we're expecting an election result update later this evening. there are literally tens of thousands of ballots being counted right now in all 17 counties in the state including inside this building at the clark county election headquarters. this is by far the most populous county in the state of nevada. 75% of the population lives here. here's what we know right now.

there are still 50,000 ballots to be counted. those ballots either have been mailed in or were put in drop boxes on election day. and then there's an additional 13,000 ballots that are either provisional or need to be cured. a lot of people sometimes don't sign their ballots, all they have to do is sign it and then it can be counted. there's a possibility of up to 62,000 ballots still to be counted in this one county in addition to the ballots that get sent in on friday and saturday. now, as you were just mentioning, the former president of the united states donald trump on his truth social app said, "clark county has a corrupt voting system." there's absolutely no evidence of that whatsoever. and the people who run the election department here were very upset about what he said. listen. >> obviously, he's misinformed. two years later. about the law and our election processes, which ensure the integrity of elections in clark county and the state. we couldn't go any faster now even if we wanted to.

>> reporter: tomorrow's a federal holiday, veterans day, but the people inside here, the clark county elections department, will be working like any normal day. erin? >> thank you very much. doing everything they can to get those votes counted. i want to go to elizabeth thompson because she is the editor for the "nevada independent." he had she has been looking at the numbers in these races from every angle. and i know elizabeth, you and your team know so much about this. so how are you able to help us out here? just on the basic -- gary talking about as long as you mail it by tuesday and it arrives by saturday it can count. when you look at the past, you look at history, when we know there's 120,000 ballots still outstanding in nevada, do you think that number changes markedly over the next few days or not? >> it very well may. that's the most interesting thing. it's the big question in nevada, is we know how many mail ballots are in hand that have not yet been counted. we think it's around 110,000, maybe as high as 125,000 as your

reporter said there from another location, las vegas. we just do not know how much mail is still out there. in addition to that, a complicating factor is we have a high percentage of non-partisan voters, and also it's clear from the numbers so far that we are seeing a lot of ticket splitting, voters going for a republican in one race and a democrat in another. all of these unknowns make it virtually impossible to predict where we are going to be by this weekend. >> just really incredible, right? you don't know the -- you don't actually know the denominator. there's ticket splitting. i mean, it's unbelievable when you think about it in this context. so let's put the senate race and superimpose it on this conversation. adam laxalt leads senator catherine cortez masto right now by 15,687 votes. we'll get hopefully another data dump right now. but the spread right now is less than two percentage points. we're estimating 120,000 ballots outstanding. you're saying it could be anywhere from 110 to 125.

but when you look at what's been coming in and you look at the math of what it would take for catherine cortez masto to win or adam laxalt to make it impossible for her to win, which way do you think this race is heading? >> yeah, that's such -- that is the question of the hour, right? because so much hangs in the balance. look, the returns that we got this morning showed that catherine cortez masto, the incumbent, was winning 2 to 1 in that particular data dump. in that holds for the future, right? the data dump we get later tonight, the one we hope to get tomorrow, maybe two. if she can hold from this point forward at that two to one, or 65% ratio, she will pull ahead and she will win. but going back to what you and i were just talking about previously, we don't know how many mail ballots have not been received yet. we know where we're at percentagewise in the rural counties, which run red, versus

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welcome back to cnn's special coverage, "election night in america continued." control of the house and senate still hanging in the balance at this hour. many in the gop of course thought this election would be a big red wave. many in the democratic party did as well. but that is not what has materialized. and now some in the gop are pointing the finger squarely at former president trump, who endorsed some of the candidates on the ballot. some of his highest profile candidates including dr. oz in pennsylvania lost. join meg now retiring republican pat toomey of pennsylvania who just saw democrats flip his seat, that was the seat at stake that john fetterman will now occupy. senator toomey, thank you so much for being with me. as you watched this from a perspective of one, only you really could see this the way you did, it was your former seat, you know your seat so well.

why do you think oz lost? >> well, it's actually still my seat for another couple of months. but i get the point. first of all, let me be very clear. i think dr. oz ran a very good campaign. i actually think he was a very good candidate in a lot of ways. so the question that i think arises is why did a good candidate running a good race in what should be a very good environment not prevail in a state like pennsylvania, which is very, very competitive, always close, or almost always close? and i think a big part of the reason was that at the top of the ticket in the gubernatorial race we had an ultra maga candidate who never appeared to even attempt to expand beyond a hardcore base that was very, very committed to him. but he ended up losing in an epic beatdown. >> yeah. >> and it's very, very hard for candidates who are down ballot. and dr. oz -- you know, so our

gubernatorial republican lost by like 14 points. dr. oz kept his race to within three. it's really hard when that's what's happening. by the way, we had three house seats that i thought we had a very good chance of picking up in pennsylvania. we lost all three of those. and again, i think it was a combination of a real problem at the top of the ticket but also president trump inserting himself into the race. he came to pennsylvania, you know, late. i think it was the saturday before the election -- >> he rallied with oz. >> it was never going to be helpful -- well, yeah. mastriano was his big interest. but still, the point is we were in a moment, we were in a cycle, we were at a time when it's good for republicans for the race to be about president biden, who is not popular, whose policies have failed, and instead president trump had to insert himself, and that changed the nature of the race and that created just too

much of an obstacle. and by the way, it's not just pennsylvania. all over the country there's a very high correlation between maga candidates and big losses. >> yeah. >> or at least dramatically underperforming. >> i mean, it is amazing, senator -- >> that's the truth. >> you're going through three house races, a gubernatorial race and a senate seat. five crucial races that can be put on the doorstep from your analysis of former president trump. i mean, that's a pretty terrible record just in your state. >> you need to add to that -- you need to add to that control of the general assembly in our state capital of harrisburg. we're probably going to lose control of the state house, which republicans have had for some time. so yeah, this is a huge problem. and i think my party needs to face the fact that if fealty to donald trump is the primary criteria for selecting

candidates we're probably not going to do really well. >> so is this going to break the trump fever? i mean, i say it i guess incredulously a bit, but we keep hearing oh, this will be it, this will be it. here we are losses after losses after losses handed to your party. will that be enough? >> so here's my theory on the case, is that there is not going to be one discrete moment at which the fever breaks and donald trump becomes irrelevant. that's not likely to happen. what i think is his influence wanes and a debacle like we had across the country tuesday night from a republican point of view accelerates the pace at which that influence wanes. you know, there's some interesting data points already. a year or two ago if you asked republican voters do they consider themselves more traditional republicans or donald trump republicans, he had a huge lead. that has flipped. and that's telling, i think. and i think that's going to

continue. >> senator, i really appreciate your time and your taking the time to share your thoughts and the nuance with us. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. senator toomey, as he said, is still senator of course until the new year. everyone's back with me now. so interesting. >> yeah. >> and not afraid -- look, he's not -- he's always been a moderate. he's not afraid to make his point here, but he's talking about if this doesn't break the fealty what will. >> i think he's being too cautious about that. look, pat toomey, i wouldn't call him moderate. he ran the club for growth. but he is -- in the era of trump he has stood up to trump in a principled moderate way and been a responsible conservative senator from the keystone state. >> yes. >> look, i think he called out trumpism for what it is. it's the toxic mold of american politics when it comes to moderates. and we saw that again last night. but while toomey deserves a great deal of credit for calling

out trump consistently and saying this guy is a loser for our party, he is a drag on the ticket, there's the underlying assumption that this fever's going to break slowly, that everything's basically fine, that trump's an aberration. there's not a lot of evidence for that right now. i think instead there's a moment where trump is wounded because people recognize how dangerous he is, divisive he is and bad he is for close elections even in a midterm. but now republicans have to step up and start filling that void, including and especially folks who want to run for president. because otherwise it will revert to the mean. we've seen this movie before. two weeks after january 6th kevin mccarthy went to kiss the ring. >> from the grab 'em tape all the way on. it's amazing. i like how he elaborated on what i was saying. three house seats, governor's seat, senator's seat and he was clear to point out the state house in harrisburg. >> mm-hmm. >> i mean, that's just like being punched 50 times. they lost everything. >> so the argument you always

hear from the maga people is -- it reminds me of like the salesman who says sure, we lose money on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume. right? they seem to think that the maga candidates because their support for them is so intense it will outweigh the numerical superiority of the people who don't like it. and we saw this in this election. look, joe biden has every right to celebrate what happened on election night. but his approval rating, you know, was not good. this was an anti-trump party coalition more than it was a pro-biden coalition. at least at the margins. and there were other things going on as well. so i don't know if it's likely that this spells the end of trump. but i do know that it hasn't been this possible for a very long time and it's going to require institutional actors to step up and figure out how to do this. a lot of it depends on how desantis handles things. a lot of it depends if trump

announces on the 15th and it looks like it's going to hurt the georgia runoff, if it's going to hurt herschel walker, that could be the kind of thing that erodes even more support for this entire approach to politics. >> it looks like that is going ahead, his 15th announcement. >> it does look like it's going ahead. i do think it will be interesting to see what the response is to that. we know before election day happened donald trump was basically looking at all of the republican kind of -- the republican leaders to see if they were going to pre-endorse him for 2024. they thought this was going tore a coreonation after a republica wave that would lead him directly to the nomination. i think we're already seeing that's not going to happen. even if he does announce on the 15th there is a lot of other republican candidates that see this as their window. the problem is if the base, if the voter is with them. because donald trump did not make these people -- make his voters belief-e wasn't dictating beliefs. they actually reflected a lot of those beliefs.

i think it's election denialism -- >> yeah, you can't sell somebody something they don't want to buy. >> absolutely. will those new candidates that come up out of this, will they reflect those same grievances that donald trump has or will they try to pivot in a different, more moderate type of way? that's the open question. >> and he'll be making the announcement at mar-a-lago in florida. the lone site of the great republican victory such that there was one in this cycle, which was ron desantis's re-election. >> i'm not one for giving republicans political advice, but i will say i think that if donald trump announces, to john's point, and there are other candidates that step up the more that step up the better donald trump's chances are because you see 30% of the republican party, i still think are maga republicans, extreme maga republicans. they still did vote for some of these candidates and some of them still did win and still could win. so you have that part of the base. and then if you get a kemp, a youngkin, an abbott, a desantis,

70% of your party might split four ways and then does trump prevail? >> you just set up a debate stage right there. all right. all of course going to be staying with us as we continue our coverage. we're waiting to learn which party does get control of the house. and for updates out of nevada and arizona. the gop race for speaker is already under way. the back room dealing is under way. inside reporting from capitol hill next.

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tonight new reporting from our manu raju about the power struggle beginning to brew on capitol hill around the

speakership. okay, so right now yes, it is true, control of the house is still up in the air. but the gop is preparing to win it. that's what they think is going to happen. and they're jockeying for the top spot. so if the gop wins, it would be by an extremely slim majority. that will not make it easy for minority leader kevin mccarthy and his drive to become speaker of the house. manu raju is at the capitol tonight. so manu, these are the machinations that when we see the outcome, right? this is the function machine where when we come out of it with a speaker if it is a republican house will be crucial to all americans, to how legislation goes in this country. what are you learning about behind closed doors tonight? >> a hard right faction of the house republican conference has been meeting all day behind closed doors and part of their discussion has been exactly how to deal with the speaker vote that is coming up. next week there will be a first vote. that is when they will nominate their candidate for speaker. and that vote just -- kevin mccarthy just needs a majority of house republicans to support the nomination.

but the key vote is in january, and that's where mccarthy would need 218 votes on the house floor in order to become speaker, and that is why the margin is so significant. with a narrow house majority just a handful of defections could be enough to scuttle or complicate mccarthy's bid to become speaker. and he's speaking to i anumber of these conservatives. they are holding out their support for kevin mccarthy because they want him to commit to a number of rules changes, some of which would give them power to essentially oust a sitting speaker if they don't agree with what he is doing on the floor. scott perry, who's a member of the house freedom caucus, contained to reporters just moments ago that he is not committing yet in supporting mccarthy's speaker bid. >> we're supporting any leadership team or any members that wish to be a part of leadership that are interested in more fairness for members and a more member-driven conference

as opposed to a leadership-driven top-down strategy. that's what we're supporting -- that's what we're looking for. so we're not excluding anybody. we're saying anybody that's interested in doing that we're interested in having a conversation with them. everybody. >> other republicans were month explicit including bob good of virginia who sailed, "there will be a challenge to mccarthy for speaker. ." some others indicated that mccarthy simply does not have the 218 votes. that's what chip roy, a xhoongs from texas, saying no one currently has 218 votes to currently become speaker, meaning that mccarthy's work is cut out for him. he's been behind closed doors talking to members, reaching out to them, fanning -- sending his allies all across the conference to try to lock down support. his team is still confident that he will get there but he has some work ahead of him. erin? >> manu, thank you very much. and i want to go now to the republican who took one democrat out of the leadership picture entirely, defeating him at the polls. the winner of new york's 17th

congressional zrirkdistrict mic lawler narrowly unseating sean patrick maloney. maloney's obviously been in congress for a long time and he was also the chair of the democratic national campaign committee, responsible for getting democrats elected. so the congressman-elect lawler joins me now. and i appreciate your time. you just heard manu raju reporting about the speakership that may be up for grabs in the house if republicans do indeed have this win. do you plan to support kevin mccarthy as speaker? >> yes. i will be supporting kevin mccarthy. i think in my race in particular i can tell you he was extremely supportive. he came and campaigned with me and for me. and you know, i'm a big believer you stick with who brought you to the dance. and i will be supporting him. >> well, you know, it's good to hear a clear answer. and i'm sure he's glad to hear that there is still some loyalty in this world. i want to ask you about your win

because it was significant, congressman-elect. you have defeated congressman sean patrick maloney, who actually was in charge of getting congressional democrats elected. republicans did flip a number of democratic house seats in new york. right? so the governorship stayed democratic, but some of these house flips to republicans in new york state, many are saying could be responsible for the gop taking control of the house if that indeed happens. why did the democratic party miscalculate in new york? >> well, the democrats have nobody to blame but themselves, and especially sean maloney. back in january of this year he sent a memo to state democrats demanding that they gerrymander new york's congressional maps and knock republicans down to three members. they did that, and ultimately a democrat-appointed court of appeals threw out the maps, ruling them unconstitutional and gerrymandered and appointed a special master to draw a fair set of maps.

and that's exactly what we got and why on tuesday new york voters elected four new republican members and driving our total to 11, which is the highest in years. so there will be 11 republicans going down to washington in january, and ultimately that will be the decisive factor in republicans taking back control of the house. >> which is i think important to say, right? when you talk about new york, seen as a deep blue state, and kathy hochul did retain that -- the governorship obviously. by a small margin. but still she won. we've talked a lot about trump, whether he's going to run in 2024 and his role in what were and has been so many defeats for your party on this election cycle. would you support his candidacy if he indeed announces he's going to run? >> look, the former president will make his decision whether or not he will run. and ultimately the voters both

within a republican primary and obviously a potential general election will decide. i think the issue here for me is obviously the challenges that we're facing at a country. and they are great. right now one-party rule has created a mess. and my objective is to go to washington to deal with those challenges, whether you're talking about inflation, whether you're talking about crime, whether you're talking about our porous southern border or our energy crisis, and the challenges obviously across the globe in ukraine and beyond. that's my focus. i think the politics of 2024 will certainly play itself out in the coming days and months ahead. >> they certainly will. and it's going to be a choice you're going to have to make. you're going to have to publicly make it. i mean, i guess the bottom line is if trump announces do you want it just to be his? do you want it just to be the coronation, he's the guy, or

would you prefer somebody else? >> look, as i've said earlier today, i mean, i think obviously there are a lot of rising stars within the party. ron desantis had a great night the other night. i think as we move forward i'd like to see new voices in the process. but again, ultimately the voters in the republican primary and/or obviously the general election are going to be the ultimate and final say in this process. >> all right. congressman-elect lawler, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead, more than 100,000 votes still waiting to be counted in nevada's tight senate race. we believe 120,000 or so but we don't yet know because some are still in the mail. we're going to break down what we do know about how different groups are voting, next.

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all right. our special coverage of election night in america continues. as we mentioned earlier, cnn estimates about 120,000 votes remain to be counted in nevada. 84% of votes are already in, and it is a race that is too tight to call. in the senate, republican adam laxal has about 15,000 votes over the incumbent. back with me now, david chalian. as we wait, and we're going to be waiting for a while, possibly, what can you glean from the exit polls? >> well, before i get to the exit polls, i want to give a bit of information about what you were just saying about the

outstanding vote. we have about 120,000 votes outstanding, and they aren't our decision desk does a calculation of what an estimate, what would the democratic incumbent need of the remaining 120,000 or votes outstanding in over to win. she would need 53% to 56%. obviously laxalt only needs about 41% too 44%. so look to see if they're in range of what they need to win. >> it's interesting when you see how they're coming in, when you become mathematically sure when way it will go. what do the exit polls tell you about the demographic breakdown, who is voting and where they're voting from in the nevada senate

race? >> take a look. we look at young voters, they make up about 12% of the overall electorate, a smaller of a share than two years ago, but split cortez masto, lacxalternate, bu senior votes, look, 65 and older, they look up a larger share of the electoral, 32%, and laxalt is winning 56% to 42%. obviously latino voters are key in the state of nevada. they make up about 12% of the electorate, again, a smaller their than the 17% from two years ago, cortez masto winning them, though, right on target of what biden was doing with the latino vote when he won the state. white voters with a college degree, 26% of the electorate. this is 51% laxalt, that is a

really slight edge, but one that may be helping in hits current position. white voters, the trump base of an electorate, 62% to 35%. they make of 41% of the electoral, erin. >> thank you very much, david chalian. in just minutes we are expecting to hear an update from the arizona race. officials will be speaking live. hundreds of thousands of votes are still uncounted. the out come of arizona as well as nevada could determine the fate of the u.s. senate. our special coverage continuing, after this. year on business internet. help your business stay ahead with the reliable connection your business deserves. book your appointment today. and switch to the network america relies on. verizon. ♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan,

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america continues. all eyes on, i'm anderson cooper, and i'm erin burnett. we're good deal to hear from pima county and maricopa county, the two most pop populous counties in arizona. >> a bit more than 400,000 in maricopa, and approximately 148,000 in pima county. the race is still too close to call, with mark kelly leading. we're expecting more results where catherine cortez masto trail adam laxalt, but is closing the gap. nevada and arizona, if democrats win both, they hold the senate, even with a loss in next month 'georgia runoff. let's go to kyung lah. the hope is wield be more

clarity on a tally. what's going on? >> reporter: we're waiting for the chairman of the maricopa county board of supervisors to come out and update us. we heard from his handler, just minutes away from coming here to the podium to give us the latest numbers. she did say he 'looking at some final numbers. we expect there will be just a bit more information when he comes to the podium. what we can tell you is the election department says we're getting more clarity about exactly what tonight's numbers will look like when this county releases what they have counted so far. it will be ballots from saturday night, sunday, most of monday. these are early ballots that were received by mail before election day. these are what are known as the late earlies. these are ballots that were mail-in, filled out, and then received here at the elections

department before election day. the same-day -- tuesday ballots, people who voted in person on tuesday, they are not going to be a part of tonight's release. we do know as well, anderson, there has been the count -- the count of the so-called box 3 ballots. these are the 17,000 ballots that people who went to the vote centers on election day and the printers -- the appropriator error that happened, there's about 17,000 of those ballots that were not tallied on election day. they're being tallied right now, but they will not be a part of tonight's vote release. expecting much more information from that. the person we're anticipate ingo hear from is supervisor bill gates. earlier today, he talked about why this is taking some time. it is taking time, because this is a slow process, but also because of the volume that were

received. i'm seeing the -- we're actually seeing him walk his way around the room, chairman bill gates, we anticipate he'll have a bit more information, new information. i'm just going to drop down here. so this is a board that has been sharing information as they have --. this is the -- you see them standing back here, as well as maricopa county recorder. >> now we have all of you in this room today. thank you for your patience for being here in this room. it was not designed to hold this many people. we know there's a lot of important races. we appreciate your time and patience. today i have chairman of the board of supervisor, chairman bill gates. most of you have met him at, and

recorder steven richards today to talk more about numbers, what we have seen, and the number of early ballots dropped off on election day. we hit a record here, as we have discussed over the last couple days. with that, i turn it over to chairman gates to say a few words. >> great. thank you so much for being here. really truly to be joined by our partner steven richer from the recorder's office, our county recorder. at the board of supervisor, which i chair, we have five of us on the board. our responsibility within the elections process is for tabulation and running election day operations. i want to talk about how many votes have already been counted. we've had over 1.1 million votes counted and recorded here in maricopa county in the 2022 general election. we have about 400 to 410, more o

be counted. in the 8:00 hour tonight we'll be reporting numbers. that's the 8:00 hour. don't expect it at 8:00, sometime between 8:00 and 9:00 is when we'll see our latest reporting numbers. it was be more than the 62,000 last night, but not significantly more. if you're interested in that, pay attention at the 8:00 hour. so why is it taking the amount of time it's taking? a lot of people are talking about this. first of all, it's very standard. this is how things work in arizona and have for decades. this is due, in part, because the mail-in voting and recorder richer is going to talk about this. we anticipated 90% -- 95% to 99% of the ballots to be counted by

friday. that's tomorrow. i'm hear to tell you the goal posts have changed. the reasons the goal posts have changed is because, wonderful news. the great participation we had on election day. in particular we had 290,000 mail-in ballots dropped off at our vote centers on election day. that broke the previous record by 70%. so we saw great involvement, and as recorder richer can talk about more, there's a process under arizona law that we have to go through, signature verification, and that takes a while. when those ballots came in on tuesday, that means his team couldn't even start until wednesday. that's part of why we're seeing those goal posts change a bit. we have a little told folks we would be working through this three-day weekend. veterans day is tomorrow, that's a hole did i here, but we will

be working tomorrow, saturday and sunday to move through the ballots so we can get through the 400,000 to 410,000 that we're still working on. there were 17,000 -- we have counted for the votes for the people who showed up on elects day and we have about 17,000 left from election day. these were the ones not read by the tabulator, put into door three. we're starting on that tabulation in and out. that's part of the full 4 hundred,000 to 410,000 amount. for those people demanding that we work -- that we move faster with the count, i want to be very clear about the work that's already being done by the permanent staff here at maricopa county elections. they are already working 14 to 18 hours a day. they are making great

commitment. they knew what they were getting into, but there's a plan we have already put in place. that involving them working that many hours in a day. we can't go any further than that. we are doing what we can, and still maintaining accuracy. we've heard a lot of people talking about other states recently, and the fact that they allegedly count the ballots faster. one, for whatever reason people love to talk about, is florida. florida is a beautiful state, love disney world, love going down there. i just wanted to address a couple things on that to make sure we understand what's going on. we have different laws in the state of arizona than in florida. florida does not allow for mail-in ballots to be dropped off at voting locations on election day. they don't allow it at all. we do. we had 290,000 dropped off here. also, florida early voting

closes the sunday before election day. in arizona, we allow for drop-off through and on election day. also, florida has a shorter period for voters to cure signatures. it's also very important for us to realize that no county or state is done with counting right now. people say, how can that be? here's the issue. we have so many close races that everyone is still paying attention to maricopa county. the other states like florida, those races were blowouts. nobody is paying attention anymore. i don't say this to criticize any other states, but just for people to understand, this is how we do things in maricopa county. we follow the law. these are the laws put in place by the state legislature. finally, i do just want to say thank you so much, as we approach veterans day, to all the veterans, for all they have

done to protect this precious right that we're all enjoying it. with that, i turn it back to fields. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we're monitoring this press conference in the chiefs of maricopa county. the key headline there, he said the original goal don't to count 90% to 95% by friday, but that goal post has changed because they had 290,000 ballots dropped off on election day. they have to open even one, verify the signatures, and says that's a number that's 70% higher than any other election day. it's going to take longer. john king is at the magic wall. john, this is interesting. they're saying, look, it's going to take longer. they're still expecting to release tonight, though, the chairman said, more than 62,000 votes from his county, maricopa,

which is the most populous in arizona. how does that fit into the big picture? >> you see we were just scribbling notes on the wall. 400,000 to 410,000 more votes. that means more time. it's frustrating, of course, to the candidates, to staff, if you're mitch mcconnell or chuck schumer, it's frustrating to a lot of people. we want finality, but we need to trust the process. it took time in arizona in 2020, they got it right at the end. that was held up after recounts and lawsuits, but we need to trust the proust. the two the country is waiting for, now 99,000 ahead, that's why the number is so important. we'll get 60,000 tonight. we'll see. the last senator kelly's lead

expanded last time. both democrats had their leads grout a bit. as they release 6 on,000, then maybe it's 20,000 next time or 100,000 next time, has the trajectory changed? are there new ballots, telling us anything different? right now if you're mark kelly, you have a 99,000-vote lead. you're in the lead, but you know there are 400,000 more votes. 410,000 more, so there's plenty much votes to change this race, which is what i'm trying to say. so this is in the senate race. please jump in. this one is closer, so 4-- there's more of a possibility that it could change. the question is, in 2020 when we were waiting, the votes followed

a certain pattern, right? in arizona, it was interesting. both democrats increased their leads. in arizona, biden had a lead that was shrinking as they released more votes. he held on in the end and won the state, but there was a lot of hope in the trump campaign, which was first criticizing the process, and then they started to voice open. in the end biden won. that's the process we have to wait for again. >> as you point out, just because the first batch of votes seemed to expand for democrats, we'll see what happens tonight. there's a lot of votes outstanding. it's very clear they're going to work through the weekend. john king, thank you very much. next, some perspective on these developments out of the arizona. anderson and i will be right back. ♪ there's no place like unknown. unreal.

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they're expecting to get -- they had about 290,000 mail-in ballots on election day, which is a new report, for -- and our panel is here with us. david, does it make sense this election system? >> in the break -- a great throw to us. i was just complaining we heard bill gates why are you compares you to florida. we do it differently here. people in america, watch their home, scratching their heads, say if they can do it florida, why not here? gloria points out correctly that it's a -- i think at large we

would like to see our elections decided on election day. >> but then they require everybody to show up on election day, which is what donald trump wanted, but people want to vote by mail, and this notion of late earlies, which we've been talking about, are people who walked in with their ballots. they were all done, but they were late. so they're figuring out a wait to count them, maybe they shouldn't. who knows, i agree with. >> florida was reformed by the bush years, and it wasn't good. it is now it is a state-by-state decision, and some states, for example, the legislatures decided you can't count these ballots under the polls close, so that slows the system down. so, yeah.

it's the state of the art things, but politics comes into play. >> we're talking about democracy, right? and conspiracy theorists, go to -- >> i think the point is it's high time for arizona to consider reforming how to handle their elections. there are rampant conspiracy theories being circulated about what's happening in arizona. it gives fuel for the lack of trust in elections. we know this is being done right, they're following the law, but the average american isn't sitting here watching, saying, okay, that makes sense. >> the cyber ninjas just need to get involved. >> one reason the theories are spreading is that the republican candidate for governor, kari lake, is spreading them. she was on television intimating something untoward was going on. she said before the election, if i don't win, you know, it's going to be because of fraud. you know, this is a -- this is a

disease that has spread. i'm wondering your level of concern right now. >> well, that would make for a lot of sad pandas in the party. in nevada goes the other way, that would be a huge disappointment on an otherwise disappointing night. so the republicans i talk to with laxalt feel very confident. i know david friends feels confident -- >> i don't think anybody really knows for sure. i don't know why you think that's a rabbit out of the hat. everybody those laxalt watch gus to win. >> obviously the laxalt thing is not done yet. the election didn't turn out a way a lot of republicans thought it would turn out.

this will put a bit of a positive -- >> earlier mitch mcconnell wouldn't answer, when he was asked if he blamed former president trump for the republican midterm results. who do you think is to blame? >> well, i mean, look, it's pretty clear to me. i can read a spreadsheet. donald trump is killing the republican party with independent voters. everything about the data says the ruling party should have been thrown out by independent voters, yet they sided in all these key races, and in all these suburban house races, they sided with the democrats despite not believing in biden, thinking his policies were hurting rather than helping, but they sided to take that pain. it's not mitch mcconnell's best interests to see that today, because he has to worried about

the runoff, raise money for walker and all that. i've talked to dozens of republicans and they're all reaching the conclusion. >> it's an extraordinary conclusion to reach that people, independents, were willing to take what they felt was the economy pain because of democrats in order to do something they thought was better for the country. that's a story of heroism. >> now people, it could get worse. it's not like the republican proposals were inspiring. you had some that jumped out and didn't like it, and jumped out talking about social security reform and medicare. if you were in economic pain and you hearty the republicans feel your pain, bur they're going to add to it, that also doesn't help. there's a lot of things going on, but this particular meltdown i'm seeing, i do think it's extraordinary. it's not just people like yourself who are super well known and talking about t. that

was shocking, but there are grass-roots conservatives, people i went to high school with, to college with, reaching out saying we are done with trump. maga is done, we believe in some of these causes. we do not believe in -- one of my friends said. megaphone is killing us, talking about trump. there's something happening out there. will it last? i don't know, but there's something seriously happening out there. >> my concern is that the reports of his demise are overstated. i looked up some of the "new york post"/"wall street journal" articles after january 6th, and it was very similar. nearly every prominent republican said i'm done with him. mitch mcconnell will not break to him if there's a runoff? georgia. he to at least keep the party on track. >> but what about --

>> the grassroots is already -- >> you don't know anything about whether the base will break with him. if the "wall street journal" writes an editorial, it doesn't mean that the base is going to break. >> guys, look, i agree the elite would have been so happy to get rid of donald trump years ago, but think tried to run away and they have to go back, but something else is happening. it's the grassroots you're start to go hear from. >> in pennsylvania they're picking up the local paper and figuring out they're represented by john fetterman, and i think that's worse. >> your point is well taken. the statehouse in pennsylvania fell. you lost these three congressional toss-up seats. to your point earlier about independents, independents broke big time for democrats. i don't know necessarily know about the social security. i think they were afraid of extremism. >> i think it was a basket of things. this was a basket of things.

i this it started with the dobbs decision. remember, there were two mass shootings at that point. the january 6th hearing was going on. in the midst of this trump re-emerges in the center ring of american politics, embracing a bunch of candidates who were not the best candidates for his party, as has been proven at this point, and people began -- these independent voters, who a few months earlier were saying, gee, i'm worried biden is getting tugged to far to the left, and then thinking this is getting crazy. i think that's carried through november. >> there would be a presidential primary. you only have to think about republican voters in that. so the question is, you knee, the mar-a-lago search by the fbi, that didn't seem to affect anybody. donald trump portrayed himself as the victims in mar-a-lago search. his money, his pac raised money after it, the supporters stuck

with him. so the reason i'm skeptical and i think, alyssa, i don't want to speak for you, but i think you need to extort of wait -- >> that's what i would say about the post and the journal, that make impact donald trump's ability to raise big money that you need to run for president. stick around. more for the georgia runoff that could -- republicans are already bringing in big-name hip with the name of senator ted cruz. and we'll have more after that.

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special coverage. we're constituent waiting to find out which party will take control of both of house and the senate, but one thing is clear right now. some who supported donald trump as leader of the republican party no longer do. the question is, how big is that some? rupert murdoch's media company is now blaming the former president for the -- thes yesterday the newspapers a playeded ron desantis's victory. and saying his candidates failed at the ballot box, which of course is the truth. it also said he has a perfect report of electoral defeat. back with us is our panel. except for his win for the white house, his first and only win for the white house. alyssa farah pointed out

something very important. you saw some of the same murdoch publication turn against him. everybody went running back after a while. is this something different? >> as i was saying earlier, i don't know whether it's likely that this is different. waiting for the party to pitch him is like waiting for geaudeau. but the fact you're getting a lot of fox personalities who maybe aren't identifying them by name, but clearly laying down the argument, i think there's a certain sense a lot of the animal spirits on the right are fed up with a lot of this stuff. it's interesting, sarah longwell does these focus groups with trump supporters, and it's interesting -- this is a while ago, but the number one reason why a lot thought they may not want to vote for trump again is

he would be a lame duck. i think there's a lot of republicans who are just looking at this as a much more pragmatic thing. there's the entertainment ring of the right, which is about monetizing outrage, and it will be very different for them to leave go. when you look at ron desantis, many in the republican party, you know, it's harding to throw someone out when you don't have a replacement, so here's our replacement, and ron desantis just won big. trump seeing it -- just posted -- ron desanctimonious, his news name, is playing games. fake newssh and he says i'm only focused on governor's race. in terms of loyalty and class, that's really not the right answer. he's hitting desantis again and again and again. desantis, though, is saying

nothing. >> yeah, because you couldn't reply to norma desmond screaming in the attic. he's 80 different kinds of disturbed and divisive and frankly pathetic. he's being exposed as weak. this is the emperor's new clothes moment. you know how you pick replacement is not through some coronation, it's actually a primary, a contest of ideas, and a fact-based debate, as opposed to denialism, and what's threth threatened the republic. >> still up for grabs. >> yeah. >> look, all of this, you have the next couple weeks. we'll find out over the next few days, we hope, who has control of the senate. it could come down for a few weeks, but hopefully days.

but then you have the former president trump going to make that announcement at mar-a-lago, which he clearly wants to run. we'll see whether he does. what does this do to bide are not? >> i think biden is going to wait. before election day, when we thought he might make the announcement the night before in ohio, we weren't sure how well dems were going to win, but biden is feeling good. i would ride this wave, see what happens in georgia. if we win the senate in nevada and arizona, i would way, do the holiday, talk to your family, announce in the beginning of the year, on or say you're not, and give a solid year and a half for your field to open and people to get out there and do the marketplace of ideas. >> can i say, i don't think we're giving biden enough credit. yes, this was a rejection of

republican extremism, not an endorsement of biden-ism. octobe ob objectively good. the exit of afghanistan was disastrous, but i think the guy deserves some credit for pulling off an act that defying political gravity. as well as a legislative record and bipartisan record, which is pretty strong. we'll see the decisions he makes. it's significant what he pulled off this election. still to come, the georgia runoff campaign is unway. ted cruz campaigning with herschel walker tonight. harry enten will join us tonight, which party has the advantage in georgia, which again could control the u.s. senate.

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♪ welcome back. with the georgia senate runoff just 26 days away, rafael warnock kicked off his campaign in atlanta, and senator cruz is with herschel walker. which party has traditionally done in runoffs? georgia? >> republicans. seven out of ten times, but that, interestingly enough, does not include 2021. >> reporter: the democrats

actually performed their 2020 baseline, so i think the question is, which does it look like more? 2021 or prior history? >> why did the 2021 break tradition? >> two reasons, i think. first off, look at the turnout in the 2021 hundredoffs compared to the 2020 general election, and compare the runoff to the general in other senate runoffs. normally there's a tremendous drop-off in the turnout, right 1234 far fewer people turn out. in the 2021 situation, however, the turnout nearly matched. >> i think it was 91%. >> yeah. >> 1% was the turnout that came back? that's incredible. >> 91%. when the senate was on the line. it's more than that. it's also the voters who decided to actually come back out, right? georgia is a southern state. voting is very racially polarized. what we saw in the runoffs in

2021, black voters who traditionally sat out and turned out in longer numbers, compared to white voters. so i think that's a question this year. will black voters turn out in this runoff? >> who would benefit if control of the senate wasn't on the line. >> this is interesting. if you look at runoff -- excuse me. if you look at the exit poll, is senate control not important to your votes no those voters were far more likely to favor rafael warnock. if in fact senate control is not on the line, i think it would benefit warnock. i like the graphics, too, very clean. >> i worked on those for you. >> obvious graphics are very confusing. >> no, no, it's election time. i have to up my game. >> you did. you did. up next, the potential biden reelection bid, next. of possibis in the all-new lexus rx.

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back with our special coverage. election day in america. president biden took a victory lap of sorts even with the mid-term votes to be counted, the balance of power in limbo, looking ahead to the 2023 election. questions when president biden might announce he's running for re-election if he should. what do the exit polls show? >> we asked whether or not they wanted to see president biden run in 2024, it's pretty much a

resounding no. 67% of americans voting in the u.s. house of representatives election this week said, no, they don't want him running for a second term in 2024. 30% said yes. democrats only. that's a key factor in his processing, i'm sure. now a slim majority of democrats nationwide, 52%, say, yes, they do want joe biden to run again. 43% do not want to see joe biden run for president in 2024. >> as the chatter for the bid for desantis, where do the numbers show? >> one way to keep the chatter going, have a resounding victory. the exit polls show his approval was 59%. disapproval at 41% among florida voters. that's a good place to start. then we ask, do you want to see your governor run for president? florida voters in this election,

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everything from biden's son hunter to the raid on mar-a-lago. brian todd is joining us. they have made no secret what they are intending to do. what more can you tell us where republicans have their sights set especially if their margin in the house is quite narrow. maybe giving republicans more to say. >> that's possible, erin. hunter biden is the republicans prime target. they will be in line to chair the house oversight committee. they will demand documents, financial statements and they want to haul him in front of that committee. they plan to focus on hunter biden's business dealings and they want to link him to his father. hunter biden has denied wrongdoing and it's unclear what evidence they have uncovered on him. he's allegedly made a false statement about a gun purchase. he's not been charged with any

crime. another big investigation that house republican have their eyes on. a probe of the fbi search of donald trump's mar-a-lago estate back in august. the likely future speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, issued a warning to attorney general merrick garland telling garland via twitter to, quote, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. he was referring specifically to a republican controlled house investigating the search. and mccarthy in that same tweet said that the justice department had, quote, reached an intolerable state of weaponized weaponization. another likely target of house investigations under republican leadership. that's president biden's homeland security security alejandro mayorkas. they want to go after him over the problems at the southern border. some have talked about impeaching mayorkas. this is steve scalise who could soon be the house majority

leader talking about alejandro mayorkas. >> securing america's border and holding them accountable. we will give secretary mayorkas a reserved parking spot he will be testifying so much about this. that's the kind of oversight we're going to be doing. >> a reserved parking spot. >> right. exactly. making it clear. all right. so now in addition, i know, brian, there's some intrigue, you know, surrounding some of the biggest people in the house and their committees. something that could be highly influenced by the margin that republicans have if they are able to secure the house. >> reporter: that's right. this is all about personalities. kevin mccarthy is going to kick adam schiff and eric swallow off the house committee and to remove elon omar from the house foreign affairs committee. that could be possible retribution for the democrats

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