mike: democrats have controlled secure of the senate with win in nevada while raphael warnock and herschel walker gear for runoff in gauger for final senate seat and control in the house remains undecided. and in maricopa county, arizona, thousands of ballots still to be counted lake and katie hobbs. fox team coverage with alicia acuña and jonathan hunt in las

vegas. jonathan, let's start from nevada. jonathan: we are at the headquarters of carpenter union where cortez-masto delivered victory speech. a live look as receiving line up there hugging some of the ardent supporters who turned out on sunday morning to congratulate her on this victory n. her remarks which concluded just about 5 minutes ago she said she knows her state and when pundits said she couldn't win, she knew she put it we'd prove them wrong. she also said that nevada has in her words rejected the far-right politicians working to divide us. now it was 6:20 p.m. last night that senator cortez-masto tweeted thank you, nevada. that was within minutes of officials hear in clark county dropping their final batch of

ballots. that showed that he surged against republican challenger laxalt into a lead, a lead for fox news desk to call race in favor of senator cortez-masto. now adam laxalt, republican challenger, had been leading on election night but slowly over the next couple of days senator cortez masto chipped away at the lead as more and more votes came in from here in clark county where 75% of the nevada population lives and which is, of course, a heavily democratic county. mr. laxalt has not said anything as yet in the wake of confirmation of his defeat and we have heard no rumblings as yet of any legal challenges to what has been, of course, a four-they counting of the ballots here in nevada. now mr. laxalt, you may have remembered was the leading republican voice on behalf of president trump in alleging wide-spread fraud here after the

2020 presidential election. he has not made any such allegations this time around and, of course, it would be difficult for him to make any allegations given that republicans actually won the governor's race here so he would in effect he would be calling into effect that race. mike, for, be known as the woman who gave control of the u.s. senate back to the democrats in the wake of the 2022 midterm elections. mike. mike: critical race, jonathan hunt starting us live in las vegas. john then, many thanks. with year's governor race still too close to call election officials are pushing back on misinformation surrounding the ballot counts. senior correspondent alicia acuña is live in phoenix with the latest. hi, alicia. alicia: hi, mike, maricopa county elections officials say and have been saying the pace of the count is a function of state

-- of a state statute and insist they are following the law. unlike some other states, arizona law allows voters to drop off their early ballots on election day while the folks who go in person on election day to vote get ballots counted immediately. the late ballots still need to be signature verify today ensure they are legal votes. this year the number of late earlies was like anything they had ever seen or expected. >> if unfair allegations are being made i'm going to respond to those because we don't want that misinformation out there. if people out there in the community think that we are slow rolling this, the vote, the release of the votes, then that start to create further concerns with the process. so i'm standing up for the process. alicia: left to count in the state of arizona, more than 266,000 in maricopa county. it's more than 194,000. as of the latest tally in the

governor's race, republican lake trails democrat katie hobbs by more than 34,000 votes but it's far from over. >> we just have to wait and let these guys get their act together and count them. i'm hoping that we will have some answers on monday but, you know, god is giving us a great lesson in patience. >> we are still waiting final reports but spirits in team hobbs are high, be patient and let the course and let officials do their job without fear or interference. alicia: in the senate race republican blake masters has not conceded even as democrat incumbent mark kelly is projected the win. masters is waiting until all the votes are counted and, mike, officials hearsay that could be tuesday or wednesday, mike. mike: patience, alicia acuña live in phoenix. thanks very much. with the democrats firmly in control of the senate all eyes turn to the georgia runoff with

money and celebrity fire power are pouring to support both candidates as they battle it out for the last unsided senate seat. charles watson in atlanta with the latest, hi, charles. charles: yeah, hey, good afternoon, mike. we are in the campus of moorehouse college, what you see going on behind me, multiplat multiplat nium recording artist. warnock is expected to join little baby on stage and focus on the senate runoff a little later today and this is what we are seeing warnock campaign play to go run up vote in urban centers where they have been able to find success and they with getting plenty of financial help, the committee just poured $7 million into this race to

support the grounded game, democrats believe that they've had a strong game in terms of voter contact. not only here in georgia this election cycle new places like nevada and arizona and they plan to do the same for the georgia senate runoff. on the other hand, republicans even though democrats have been able to secure control of the senate republicans are not willing to let this seat slip away. they are trying their hard toast try to get herschel walker elected. they've been spending a lot of money on the ground game. republicans say they have a strong presence here as well and they're investing in the same ground game that helped georgia governor brian kemp ease his way to victory against democrat stacey abrams. that's what we are seeing here. out on the campaign trail we are seeing two candidates trying to paint a distinct picture between the two in the case of warnock he has really been trying to paint walker as someone who is morally and intellectually unfit to serve and in the case of

walker, he has tried to paint warnock as a rubber stamp for president biden, listen to what they've been saying out on the campaign trail. >> gas is more expensive. two years ago was less expensive. border was secured, two years it was secured, now it's not. and it's only because of him. >> this race is about competence and it's about character. and when it comes to that, the choice could not be more clear between me and herschel walker. charles: tough words from both sides we are already seeing groups from the democrats as well as republicans push commercials and ads back onto air waves. this is expected to be a tight one, mike. mike: charles watson live in atlanta, thanks a lot. let's bring in today's political panel, with me terry holt former aid to john boehner and america

public affairs managing director and kevin walling, democratic strategy and former biden surrogate. gentlemen, welcome. so let's start senate side of the capitol. even with the runoff in georgia democrats have held the majority, what's the impact? >> it's a huge impact and we will fight for every vote in georgia because the 50-50 senate power sharing, reporting from the capitol, mike, if we flip that one senate seat, we get democratic majorities on each of the senate committees, that means more judicial appointments passed by the biden administration, by that senate, that means more promiddle class legislation coming out of the senate that will take to the house and fight it out there. so this is an important distinction made last night with that nevada call and the four weeks sprint that we have in georgia. mike: terry, on the republican side there were great hopes of winning in nevada, hopes about potentially winning in pennsylvania, they'll be plenty of time for finger pointing, but in your view what went wrong in

the senate side? >> we saw the early signs of this. back in the summer when roe v. wade was overturned by the supreme court, it energized the group of voters out there turned out to be playing a very important role in these races especially in the fetterman race and to a lesser extent but more so in key places all around the country. we just didn't anticipate the new voters that were coming in for the democratic party and when they did come in, they -- the democratic party was organized enough to leverage those votes and make a difference on election day. i tell you what, republicans are very -- are very likely unified in one thing about this election and that was that we just got beat and remember in 2020 we didn't -- we weren't -- a lot of republicans weren't admitted they got beat. a lot of people today are wondering what happened and, yes, we lost this election. mike: on the house side, the latest count 211 for the republicans, 204 for the

democrats, 218, of course, is the magic number to be the majority. kevin, what's your assessment of the house at this point? >> yeah, it's going to be very close either way. two seat, one seat majority for either democrats or republicans. i think it's going to come down to 3 seats in california and likely two seats in arizona that are still outstanding in terms of where the chips fall. but we've got a lot of votes still to count especially in california where half of those votes are in for some of the congressional races. but i think you see democrats across the board heading into these next couple of weeks. we have leadership election coming up, speaker pelosi is encouraging free and fair conversation about that leadership and you really have a lot of drama playing out on the republican side especially if president trump announces on tuesday from mar-a-lago he's invited a number of the republicans down with him to mar-a-lago, when that's the same day they are going to likely vote on leadership in the republican house and they don't know if they are voting for a speaker potentially or a minority leader come next week. mike: terry, 3 quarters of the country and polling says we are

on the wrong track, we have inflation problems, concerns about a recession, we have a crime crisis in a lot of american cities, we have a border crisis and yet republicans didn't get it done in the house. your thoughts? >> we have a brand problem. the republican party didn't have a coherent message in response to the biden agenda and the biden agenda let's face it, they had legislative victories that they could point to, they had a dynamic electorate with the abortion issue and republicans had -- well, i've heard said it said by a lot of others, candidate quality issue. we have a brand problem with our party at this point and it's going to take some serious reflection to figure out how we move forward given that our primary voters are so still tied to donald trump but then more and more party leaders see that at some point their needs to be

a divesture of the republican party from trump because at this point the only good trump does good for anybody is for the democratic party. running against trump is as reliable for the democrats as -- as it used to be to run against hillary clinton. mike: one place where republicans were red hot is florida, does that make ron desantis the guy to beat 2024? >> it certainly does. you saw ron desantis run up margins in key democratic areas like miami-dade, palm beach county. so that's cautionary tale. i think he did an effective job of gerrymandering that state as well. you saw up ballot votes with more republican seats, they flipped 4 congressional seats but to terry's point and very good one, i think the president campaigned out on the trail said don't make referendum on me, make this a choice election and at the end of the day you saw voters say, we might not necessarily be happy with this administration but we are not throwing our with republicans

just yet. mike: terry, is ron desantis empowered, emboldened and is former president trump weakened based on the results? >> that's exactly what it is. >> ron desantis came out and said what he's going to do. he led the state even under difficult circumstances and people are flocking to him. in fact, he should be a model for how other republicans organize their state. don't just take it for granted la latinos are going to vote for democrats. go after the voters, go after african-american voters and make sure that our tent, the big party, the big republican party tent is big enough to accommodate a win where we can get 60% of the vote. that's unifying people and bringing them together, not dividing them and that's recipe for good leadership. like we will see from ke mp in ohio and georgia. mike: terry holt, kevin walling,

have an awesome. >> you too. mike: exclusive interview with jim banks and mayor elect west moore, that's coming up in the next hour. stay tuned. votes still being counted in arizona as states brace for potential legal challenges from both sides of the aisle. more on that coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪

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votes in maricopa that were dropped the day of. mike: what do you say to those wondering what it takes so long to count the ballots in places like arizona and nevada? shouldn't it be quicker in 2022? >> it should be. this is an issue we have every two years in arizona. i remember the former secretary of state who is republican i describe the process and i think two years i described it as cluster slime. i'm running out of a adjectives. we should get florida election laws, copy them, delete forward and them arizona in. i mean, heck, even in italy, they can change votes faster

than in arizona and nevada. mike must being for those who are word, what can you say the folks who are worried the longer it goes the greater the chance of dirty tricks? >> look, we are monitoring the process and, you know, no one did more for election integrity in 2020. i personally argued with the u.s. supreme court and won that allowed states like georgia and arizona and florida to enact common sense integrity measures. observers from both parties monitoring the process and unfortunately, though, this is why we need to change our laws because the longer this drags out the more it fuels conspiracies and one of the things about incompetence is that, you know, sometimes even the perception that something nefarious is going on is enough to undermine people's confidence in the process and everyone whether you're a democrat, republican, independent, green party, libertarian, we all have to have confidence in the process because institutions matter and how we do things is

just as important as results. mike: let's talk about red hot issue in the state, border crisis, tucson sector for fiscal year 2022, 261,913 border encounters, 4597 pounds of fentanyl seized, how do you assays the border crisis right now in arizona? >> people are dying because of joe biden's incompetence. quite frankly i think it's an impeachable offense. when i -- what i see as former gang prosecutor, record amount of fentanyl coming into the country. two milligrams, couple of grains of salt can be deadly. hundreds of americans died from fentanyl an opioid related deaths. leading cause of death among young americans. people are dying and not only that, mike, the cartels have become empowered and they are making more money. i worry that we will see mexico a failed state, it's becoming a

narco state. i think we will also see increase in methamphetamine coming across our southern border, so every state is a border state. it's completely unacceptable what's happening and that's why i'm doing everything i can to try to hold joe biden accountable as attorney general and suing him over the border wall, suing over, you know, the remain in mexico policy, suing over we successfully stop from rescinding title 42. i'm using all the tools in my legal tool box but eventually until congress gets their act together and does something, whether it's, you know, impeaching mayorkas or cutting budgets or making sure there's a priority on securing the border, the problem is going to continue. mike: let's show our audience, we have a graphic showing the number of encounters with illegal migrants skyrocketing since president biden took office. if the president were to ask you from some advice, what could the president and his team do right now to start to get a handle on the situation there? >> first of all, the president and the vice president, i've written letters to both of them.

it would be nice if they started talking to republicans and even law enforcement officials about our ideas and suggestions. this really is, mike, a matter of policy. for example, years ago you had operation choke hold, operation streamline where there was a surge at the southern border with federal prosecutors and federal judges to make sure they were prosecuting people for illegal reentry and breaking law coming into the country aggressively prosecuting the drug crimes with stiff sentences and that had a dramatic decline in the number of people entering the country. just this year, just the year, equivalent of the populations of alaska, wyoming and vermont combined entering the united states every single year now under the biden administration. it's unsustainable and unfair to americans and not only costing us lives lost, it's costing us billions of dollars and it's fundamentally unfair. i'm a first-generation american. i know why people want to come to the country and it's about the rule of law and we as republicans especially after the midterm, we want to get back to focusing on entrepreneurship,

individual liberty and the rule of law because that's what affects whether it's immigrants or whether it's middle class hard working taxpayers, that's the message we need to focus on as republicans. i urge joe biden if he's watching, kamala harris, come sit down with prob prosecutors d attorney generals and let's address the issue before more americans die. mike: thank you so much for your time and your analysis today. >> thank you. mike: the balance of power of the house still up in the air with more than a dozen races undecided. we have fox team coverage upink lates after the break.hing ♪ ♪ ♪voya

mike: with senator katherine cortez masto successful reelection run for nevada seat the democrats have secured the majority in the senate but as of last night the house remains very close with 21 races still undecided. for more on this fox team coverage with alexandria hoff on

the latest of the balance of power in the house and c chad pigram. >> vice president harris will break a tie. they will have to go to 51 votes. democrats will still be able to confirm cabinet nominees probably most important if there was a vacancy on the supreme court, president biden will be able to get that through but the problem, without, unquote, from the democrats, pressure from the left going into a second term to get rid of the filibuster. keep in mind how tight it's going to be in the house and senate. president biden won't be able to get much done and that's why the left will continue that pressure to eliminate the filibuster. the votes aren't there just yet. mike: we heard about a red wave, never materializes and republicans are asking what went wrong. >> they are trying to unpack in capitol hill. i spoke with eric burleson, a

republican freshman elect from missouri taking the seat of billy long here and he said they have to see what -- what the mistakes were. were they too confident, overpromised here? listen to what he had to say. >> maybe republican voters got overly confident, maybe candidates got overly confident. it could be that. it could be that we fully have not realized the impact of mail-in voting system that we have. we as a party have not figured out thousand deal with that if that's the game that we are going to play, how to play by those rules. >> burleson was asked whether or not he would support former president trump that going to make announcement for president on tuesday night. on wednesday morning every report near washington will be on capitol hill dogging republicans up and down do you standby what the president said last night, do you support him, would you prefer ron desantis, that is going to be the litmus test for republicans an

privately republicans will tell you that they are very concerned about this because they think that, you know, they realize that president trump in certain quarters gets their people to the polls. the issue, though, that it hurts them at the ballot box in swing races. that's what we saw with underperformance in ohio compared to the governor's race versus senate races an other places as well. mike: upcoming leadership races. kevin mccarthy wants to be the next speaker to have house. he's gotten close before but it hasn't happened so far. >> he did not become the speaker of the house when john boehner left in 2015. the reason you and i talked behind stage, the term is that there would have been blood on the floor of the house but they can't settle on somebody to succeed john boehner and you had switzerland step in which was paul ryan. one thing that a couple of members have suggested to me and this is not out there at large, maybe kevin mccarthy could run

as a slate. what happened in 2015 is he tried to get trey gowdy former republican congressman from south carolina to join him on the ticket, essentially he would be speaker and he would be majority leader. gowdy wanted no part of that. it was suggested to me and this was only a suggestion that maybe they can bring in say jim jordan to run as majority leader. someone loyal to former president trump and would bring along the freedom caucus but one source said that you would have to break a lot of china in in the capitol if you were going to have that scenario and sideline say steve scalise. mike: does she stick around? >> he's going to still remain in congress. that's what she said. she didn't say she was running for leadership but she made the rounds on the couple of other shows this morning. listen to what she had to say. >> well, you know, what i'm not asking anybody -- people are campaigning and that's a beautiful thing. i'm not asking anyone for anything.

my members are asking me to consider doing that but, again, let's just get through the election. >> she wants to understand where the house votes lie, what the matrix is and what the final majority is. the democrats aren't going to have leadership elections until november 30th so she has a couple of weeks here to kind of sit on this. there's going to be pressure, though, from some wings of the democratic party to move her and jim clyburn, hoyer, all three are in their 80's, people like hakim jeffress and scenario where she stays, i was told before attack on her husband that she thought if-a narrow majority. mike: chad, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. mike: for the balance of power in the house, alex alexandria . >> republicans are 7 seats away,

right now they have secured 211. democrats have 204. the magic number being 218 and today new hampshire's republican governor chris snunu weighed in on why the party didn't make the sweep as expected. >> you can't govern if you don't win. all that matters is winning in november. a lot of the candidates i think forgot that. i think they went too far right in some of their primaries. i think they let the media and the other side define them. alex: 20 races are still undecided mainly out in west coast including arizona where democratic is one point ahead of republican incumbent david, that's just about a 450 vote difference. california has the most of all undetermined races in the state's 13 district, republican congressman john duarte is currently ahead of democratic challenger adam gray by less than 100 votes. moving south in the state to 47th district, progressive rep katie porter is up 5,000 votes from republican challenger scott

with 72% of the vote in. now there's a few reasons that california count is delay, this was the first midterm election where registered voters in the state were sent a mail-in ballots and as long as they were postmarked by election day are accepted for up to 7 days, mike, so we have some waiting today. mike: patience, a alexandria ho, thank you very much. joining me onset is president for the center of renewing america and former director of office and management ross welcome. >> thanks for having me. mike: let's start with house republican kevin mccarthy. he's been asking about challenges to him becoming speaker. let's play it. >> i'm not concerned. think about this. since i've been leader for the last four years we've only gained seats. it's the goal of winning the majority, we won the majority. i think i accomplished the goal that we wanted to. mike: so what about that? he's raised a ton of money, worked hard for republican

candidates, he's done just about every job in leadership in the house, what about kevin mccarthy? >> what republican voters are asking, i thought we put people in office to capitalize on every opportunity that exist and we had a red wave out there. they said that this was going to be a red wave. all of the commitments to him were based on the fact that this was going to be a red wave and yet we are on the other side of tuesday and it didn't turn out that way and the majority is very, very slim if at all and it's time for republicans to stand for something. they put out a commitment to america. i still don't know what they were committing to and as a result what we saw in this election is when people stood for things and fought, they won big. that's one of the reasons why kevin mccarthy right now does not have the votes and i don't think he will have the votes in january. mike: you have made reference to that term. what do you have in mind? >> i think that you need a paradigm shifting speaker. i think you need someone that's going to wake up every morning and think that we need to take it to the adversaries and i think that's someone like jim jordan, someone that comes from

conservative side and has an opportunity to be able to unite house republicans and do battle with the left, do battle with the deep administrative state that exists, woke and weponized against the american people but it doesn't necessarily have to be him. someone will rise up. i think what's important for next week when they have the cartel vote next week and it's not the real vote. the real vote is in january. when they have this vote, i think it's important for enough house republicans, house freedom caucus to stand and say, we are done with this. we are done with kind of the cartel speaker, the peacetime speaker. we want real change. we want to save the country in this late hour and we want someone else and then a lot of things can happen once you put down the current candidate in kevin mccarthy. mike: okay, so the next speaker of the house will likely have a single-digit majority. democrats control the white house and the senate, how much power does a speaker with a single-digit majority have?

>> a lot. they have the ability to do subpoenas, depositions but they also have the power of the purse. i think the challenge that republicans have had is they've never had a speaker that wakes up with smaller power that they would like and say how do i actually use that as the left would. nancy pelosi never has the problem. she thinks she's minority leader as she was. i'm going to do everything i can to use my power to do battle against the republicans. that's what a wartime speaker, wartime minority leader does and house republicans need that. the country needs that. house freedom caucus has an ability and opportunity to make history and i hope they take it. mike: it always struck me that democrats never seem to step out of line around nancy pelosi but republicans did not have a problem challenging john boehner and paul ryan. what about republicans who may be rebellious by nature? >> i think that's an aspect of republicans that their

leadership has not been aligned with their movement and they don't have that problem on the left. their leadership is aligned with their movement. and republicans have a leadership team that generally kind of tries to find ways to manage their members by meaning let's distract them from the real fights and that's part of what i'm getting at. it's time for a speaker or a minority leader that gets where the grassroots is and knows what time it is in this country and makes decisions on that basis. you're not going to be able to win every fight and the grassroots doesn't expect you to win every fight but what they expect you is to use every opportunity to the fullest. mike: ross vought, very interesting. thank you very much for your time. celebrations in the streets after russian forces withdraw from the southern city of kherson. more on that significant victory next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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mike: disturbing video out of istanbul, turkey, bomb exploded. footage catching terrifying scene. full of pedestrians when blast sent smoke. the turkish president is calling the explosion an attack and promising the culprits will be

punished. ukrainian forces entering kherson after nearly nine months of russian occupation and begin to go gap well the damage left behind including a critical lack of water and electricity, for more on the state of war in ukrainian advance joining me live is former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor, mr. ambassador, welcome. tell us what we are seeing in southern ukraine these days? >> so what we are seeing another success by the ukraines. the ukrainians have been pushing slowly but hard toward kherson. they now control kherson and -- and they are right here and this blue area is what the ukrainians have taken over, just very recently. and that gives them the ability to threaten the russians which continue to be in this area here. mike: choking off supplies. >> choking off supplies.

we will talk about the bridge and one of the supplies comes from here, comes from russia, across the bridge and up into here but others come down this way, so they are -- depending on supplies coming from russia. mike: interesting. let's go to the next map. there we have look at the river, the kniper river. >> the river is critical. you can see it on the map, exactly right. here is kherson and it is what they call the right bank, kind of the western part and -- and the russians have now pulled back across into that area and the river is wide there. it's -- you have seen the big bridge that's now damaged, even destroyed. so the ukraine is going to have a hard time going across the bridge, across the river because it's destroyed but there are other way that is the ukrainians can threaten the russians. you showed last time on the previous map that they control up here, the ukrainians and they can come down this way or the

ukrainians -- they also control here, of course, they can come this way. they don't have to go directly across that river that you rightly point out. mike: interesting. map number 3. here you go, you mentioned the bridge, what do you see here, sir? >> so this as i say is the easiest way. that has a railroad bridge associated with it. and when the ukrainians blue up the traffic bridge, the car traffic bridge they damaged the railroad bridge, the railroad bridge is how they get military supplies, military supplies from russia into crimea and then up into kherson. and that's -- that's the important part that the ukrainians have really damaged that source of supply. mike: let me ask you a question, a lot of americans say there's a lot of stuff going on in the country, worried about a recession, why is ukrainian so important to us? >> ukraine is important to us because if the russians can somehow win they threaten us. if the russians can take over ukraine, then the russians will

be able to threaten our allies, nato and effectively challenge us. this will be a expensive proposition if russians control ukraine. mike: have ukraines have fought better than you have imagined? >> they have been amazing and i will say that the russians have been terrible, incompetent but the ukrainians for the reasons that we just said, mike that is they're fighting for their territory, they are fighting for their land, they are fighting for independence and their freedom and we support that and they know if they lose there will not be a ukraine. mike: do you worry about a cornered vladimir putin? >> i don't. vladimir putin got himself into the corner, it's not really a corner. he has 11 time zones. he can go back into that russia. he can certainly pull back and that's what he should do. mike: save his face. >> save his face and move back.

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mike: democratic congresswoman karen bass has gained lead against carusso, former republican who switched to the democratic party before the election. christina coleman live in los angeles with the latest, hi, christina. christina: hi, mike, more than $100 million has been spent on highly contested mayor's race, most expensive in la history, the overwhelming majority of the money comes from carusso's own bank account. the billionaire real estate developer trailing veteran congresswoman karen bass by less than 2 percentage points. carusso recently tweeted as predicted this is a close race, hundreds of thousands of votes to come and as expected we are going to see different results each time. i continue to be cautiously optimistic. tackling crime has been a key issue for both candidates, carusso is a republican turned democrat promising to expand lapd's gang unit at 1500

officers on the street and address la homelessness crisis. >> i see a more compassionate los angeles where we move telephones of thousands of people off the streets and into housing and treatment. i see a safer los angeles where our kids can actually walk to school. christina: bass, long-time democrat is improving training for officers and bolster lapd homicide units an democrat heavy hitters have been campaigning for bass including vice president kamala harris, she told voters last week that bass is a fighter. >> karen bass has a long history of always being on the side of the people, fighting for the people, fighting for the people whose voices aren't in the room but must be present. that's who karen bass has always been. it's who she will always be and that's why she will be the next mayor of los angeles.

>> here in california with mail-in ballots, early voting begins weeks before election day and tabulations of those ballots could continue for weeks so it could be a little while before we know who run this very close race. mike. mike: patience, christina coleman, thank you so much. that's all for this hour of fox news live. fox news sunday with my friend shannon bream is up next. i'm mike emanuel. thank you so much for watching. have an awesome day. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the winter play was really coming together. until, disaster struck. luckily, replacement costumes were shipped with fedex. which means mr. harvey, could picture the perfect night.

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