right now, jack ciatterelli leading in the suburbs. but, and here's the most important but, 75% of the vote reported statewide, the question is, are there enough votes out there in blue areas for phil murphy to come back? the answer, this is not definitive. but there are more than enough. essex county, newark, 72% of the vote. look at the giant lopsided lead. so if the margin stays close to that, and the rest of that vote comes in, right there alone, there's more than enough votes to make up the lead that the republican candidate has right now. ditto almost in the sense of hudson county, which is jersey city, the suburbs are surrounding it. again, about a quarter of the vote still to count. look at the big margin. so if phil murphy continues to run with a lead in that ballpark, there are a lot more votes to come in for the democrat here. not quite as big here. only 20% of the vote here, 19% left estimatedunion county. but look at the margin. if that holds up close to that, as the rest of that vote comes in, you get the point i'm making

republican jack ciatterelli had been leading the incumbent phil murphy for most of the night. but the race is now virtually tied. ciatterelli is projecting confidence, though. and murphy telling his supporters that every vote still needs to be counted. ciatterelli is doing the same thing, as well. let's get straight to the magic wall. >> it does not get closer. 49.6, 49.6. >> let's do the math here. separated by about 1900 votes. >> that's right. with jack ciatterelli still almost 2,000 ahead >> so what happened here if >> this is a state biden won by almost 16 points a year ago. biden, underwater popularity, not helping. democrats thinking that murphy would get re-elected easily. defies history. he was running to be the first democrat in 40 years to be re-elected governor to the state. let's look at bergen county, most populous county in the state, right across from new york. earlier tonight, ciatterelli was in the lead. that was blowing people's minds. we can see that murphy has pulled ahead, 86% reporting. there's still probably some room for that movement. that's one of th

. >> this is jack ciatterelli. he once led an effort to ban squaring. >> [ bleep ]. >> this is new jersey. we can't left that [ bleep ] win. >> we extended the bleeps to make it more bleepy. still, only in new jersey. love you, nmg. -- nmg. new jersey and virginia are the only two states that schedule their governor's race for the year after a presidential election. there is a lot of attention to those two governor's races. nobody is expecting the guy who wanted to ban swearing to win in new jersey. that means that the virginia one will be the big one. it is the house of delegates. for the house and state legislature where every seat it up. the sent isn't up tomorrow. that's in 2023. if democrats want to hold on to unified governments, they can do the same thing, they need to hold onto the house of delegates and the governorship. that governor's race is turning out to be a nailbiter. some of the dynamics are at play. trump lost to biden in virginia by more than 10 points. then the republicans picked a candidate to

both youngkin and jack ciatterelli in new jersey both outperformed trump in the united states. dana, what's the lesson in the united states? does it make trump less relevant? >> no, it doesn't make trump less relevant, but it makes it clearer for people running in places that the state is more blue, like these two states, that trump is a drag. they got lucky, for whatever reason, that the former president didn't insert himself more than he already did. >> i wonder why he didn't. >> it's interesting. what i was told by somebody who is a source close to the former president, that those are two places where even he didn't th think he won in 2020. there are a lot of states where he actually didn't win, but he's pretending that he did. so he didn't feel -- he didn't have the same kind of impulse to pressure republicans to be like him. there certainly was that there, but he kind of let it go. the other thing is, you can't underestimate the relief among republicans who are the glenn youngkin kind of republicans, especially the strategists, that the former president doesn't have twitte

a dead heat between incumbent democrat phil murphy and republican challenger, jack ciatterelli.nn projects that republican glenn youngkin wins the race for governor of virginia, beating democrat terry mcauliffe. let's get some analysis from cnn's senior data reporter, harry data enten. okay, data. >> thank you. >> yes, you like that, right? >> hde now. >> what -- what do you know, data, about this -- the outstanding votes in virginia? what can you tell us? >> yeah. i mean, look, as we pointed out, they tend to in overwhelmingly democratic counties one of which in fact we believe the most votes out of the percentage of votes that have come in is mercer county. trenton is in mercer. princeton is in mercer. and we believe -- at least i believe looking at the numbers, patrick murray who is a pollster down at monmouth university also believes if you check out his twitter that there is a lot of vote by mail that hasn't been counted there. i don't need to tell you who the people who vote -- who voted vote by mail tend to favor. it's phil murphy. it's the democrats. so it's not just tha

cnn is projecting phil murphy wins reelection beating republican challenger jack ciatterelli in a racet no one ever expected to be as tight as it was. democrats pointing fingers at each other after their party's shellacking in the off year election. will they learn from their mistakes and try to head off a blood bath in next year's midterms? some answers from a pennsylvania democrat that represents a swing district and could be vulnerable in 2022. you're going to hear from her and a shocking and entirely unproven theory about what may have happened on the set of alec baldwin's movie "rust" leading to the shooting death of a cinematographer. the allegation, sabotage. i want to bring in bakari sellers and liam donovan. good evening to both of you. i hope you got some sleep, bakari because i haven't caught up after being on the air until 4:00 a.m. liam, you're a lucky man. i'm sure you got sleep last night. >> i have a 2-month-old, so i did not get sleep. >> you probably got less sleep than us then. okay. governor murphy celebrating the narrowest of wins. take a listen to his message. >>

yesterday's new jersey gubernatorial race between democratic governor phil murphy and republican jack ciatterelliains too close to call. in fact, as of our taping time, both candidates were yelling "you take it." "no, you take it." [ laughter ] house speaker nancy pelosi told reporters yesterday that while she did not announce a vote for president biden's $1.75 trillion economic agenda, she believes disputes around it could be resolved by the end of the day okay, it could but will it? i feel we've been waiting around for this budget bill for longer than we were waiting for "avatar 2. [ laughter ] build back better is basically biden's unobtainium. [ laughter ] and if you don't get that joke it's because we've be waiting forever for "avatar 2. [ laughter ] unobtainium jokes used to land [ laughter ] senate majority leader chuck schumer said yesterday that lawmakers have reached a deal to lower prescription drug prices for seniors so, now they just need to draft it up, print it out, and send it to joe's desk for approval nope, wrong joe. there we go. [ audience groans new york mayor - [ laughter ]

because what i am able to deliver for you is going to be certainly better than what my opponent, jack ciatterelli that we say four more years because the crowd is screaming four more years and there is phil murphy. let's listen in. >> you know, we just had the most new jersey experience. i was on my way someplace and it took us longer to get there than we planned. as a matter of fact, some might say it took 44 years to get here. [ cheers and applause ] that's right. i am humbled to be the first democratic governor re-elected in the great state of new jersey since my dear friend, the late governor, brendan burn, did this in 1977. thank you, new jersey! thank you for putting your trust in our team for another four years. thank you for saying we need to keep moving forward on our shared journey to a stronger and fairer new jersey. in new jersey, we know how to make forward work from the middle out and the bottom up. and we know how to move forward and accomplish big things. we are a national leader in raising the minimum wage. in making millionaires pay their fair share to give working families and

officials around the country are taking note after glen youngkin's success in virginia and after jack ci ciatterelli's and news article is "virginia and new jersey voters like their trumpism without trump". let's start with defining trumpism. you said, i'm defining trumpism in the same terms the former president himself first outlined when he road down that trump tower escalator in 2015 -- anti-institutional cold-blooded identity politics shrouded in bigotry and racism. you believe they learn from the former president's example, what was that example? what was that lesson, i should say? >> that lesson is that unfortunately is a very powerful political message. i think that trump made great hay not by delivering on policy, not by bringing people together, but by trying to frighten people into supporting him because he was going to stand in the way of these big oppressive institutions one by elites that were oppressing his supporters. he not only touched the third rail that the gop had been dancing around for decades, he climbed on it and danced on it and did it for four years. but because he was an inc