incumbent mimi walters. mike pence said he thought the democrats failed to make sizable gains. >> we made history by expanding our majority in the senate. we won some great elections in governo

mimi walters has voted with president trump 99% and in doing so, she has sold us out.i voted to pass trump's tax plan and raise our taxes by thousand of dollars. she is a traitor to orange county on taxes. [applause] >> mimi voted for trump-care [booing] >> which, for those of us with pre-existing conditions, would have meant no care at all. she did the bidding of polluters and big oil to push hard to drill off the shores of our beautiful beaches. those are the stone cold facts. time and again she has turned her back on orange county and she has turned her back on you. she has shown us who she is and now it is time that we show her the door. [cheering] [chanting: katie] ms. porter: it is time we had a representative who fought for orange county 100% of the time. a representative who will fight for tax fairness. a representative who will champion affordable quality health care. and a representative who will protect our air, water, and our beaches. as a teacher, is a feeling i -- i have a feeling i already know the answer, but i ask you, are you ready for a representativ

mimi walters in original county, she has about a 7,000 vote lead. democrats are really hoping that they can make that up. we know this is probably less than half the total votes cast in this. >> the top two primary in june, walters did lose a lot of ground. here's one people are wondering about. dana recoohrbacherrohrbacher. it looks as if harley rouda has the lead. >> we started this morning. we'll finish up by pearl harbor day in california. >> okay. we'll be here waiting with you. the new look house is defined by a flood of women in congress. i want to bring back in my panel. this has been, if you'll forgive the cliche, the year of the woman but it actually was. >> i think more on the dem side, certainly. you look at the women who are winning and they're a pretty extraordinary class of women. mimi walters is having a tough fight. we'll see if she manages to squeeze that out. but it is a fight with a member of the progressive scene. they haven't necessarily fared as well in the actual contest. this will be a good deciding class. they start to figu

when we started the hour mimi walters was ahead. new votes were reported.er porter has fuld ahead by 261 votes. we're not done. still counting votes in california. but again, another district where as the count continues it has trended toward the democrats. we have not called this race yet but this was a top democrat target of a republican incumbent, dana rohrabacher, been in congress a long time. he's been criticized even by republicans for his closeness to vladimir putin and the russians. the democrats made a big challenge here in what has been for a long time a safe republican district. the democratic candidate you see harvey rouda now 10,500, almost 11,000 votes ahead. that's a big lead but we're still counting votes. we're being cautious. the election was a week ago. we're safe as these votes come in. but another district, as they count them the trend is toward the democrats. i just want to show this other one up here because we haven't focused on this one, the 10th district. but this is another republican incumbent jeff denham a moderate. hillary clin

i watched mimi walters fall behind. let's hope that picks back up. millions of dollars spent against her. i think that is wrong that someone picked upon gender. i'm proud of the history -- reporter: [inaudible] mr. mccarthy: no. he picked against republicans but he spent a great deal of money against republican women. the $3 million he spent on top of karen handle, the money he put into california. no. that's a contributing factor. you look at others. i think we have an opportunity to rebuild. i'm proud of the history of the republican party. proud of the history of the republican party, what it's built on. the very first republican president was abraham lincoln. i think we stick to our principles and goals and you'll see this party continue to grow and be the majority that represents all of america. in gender, faith, reality. we'll be back. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> house republica

mimi walters up by 7,000 votes. we talked about the district with the republican star. what we are seeing is that she is coming to fruition. i want to the move to a couple of other races. these were places where democrats were high on their candidates. steve knight, the incumbent republican in los angeles county. it katie hill. he is 68 votes ahead. the broader point is democrats thought they had pick up opportunities and star-like candidates. that might still happen. >> what are district is the 25th? >> northern l.a. county. steve knight was of a police officer and represents the district and is well-known in the district. steve knight is also a conservative. >> is it a conservative demographic. >> it's suburban, but the demographics are shifting heavily. you pointed this out, but this makes a similar point. this district is 40% latino. the democrats have been eying this for a long time. jeff den ham tried to figure out a solution on daca. josh harder raised $7 million. raised a ton of money and democrats thought it was a pick up they could have. still get it. def has

story in the 45th district in california, where there's an incumbent republican congresswoman, mimi waltersho now trails her democratic challenger, katy porter. porter is now up by just under 4,000 votes or so over mimi aware that. i should tell you mimi walters has started saying democrats are stealing the race from her. there may be literally millions of votes left to count in california, in part because the state is so darn big but in large part because so much of the state now votes by mail and it takes a while for the ballots to get delivered. there may be over 3 million ballots yet to be counted in california. in utah tonight, republican congresswoman mia love continues to make up ground on her democratic challenger ben mcadams. mia love has already been proclaimed the loser of this race by president trump, which was weird. right now she does trail in that race but she trails by less than a thousand votes. we also have a hard fought, high profile contest in the georgia governor's race. that remains too close to call. and of course we have florida. perhaps the biggest fight of all, wit

we were ahead, we lost jeff denham, behind in mimi walters. jimmy valid tail, and you look at dana robot >> laura: we have to learn that one fast because that's a big one. congressman scalise, i want to talk about what's going on on the democrat side before what might happen going forward. you all can vote in these speakers' races. would you support nancy pelosi? >> [laughs] i think they deserve nancy pelosi as speaker, but i sure don't want to see it. i went through two and a half years of nancy pelosi as speaker when i came in not long after kevin and she was bigger and you saw what she did to the country. they rammed through obamacare with the famous, you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. they did cap and trade -- >> laura: but there are more radical than she could be. >> you saw the left. that court jester in new york was protesting in nancy pelosi's office because she does not think nancy pelosi is liberal enough. that's how far left of center the party has moved. if they govern that way, that's not how the campaign. all the

kevin mccarthy and mimi walters sponsored the repeal of the gas tax in california and they failed miserably. one of my colleagues, the new governor of minnesota, campaigned on a gas tax increase got one of the largest margins in history it and the new governor of michigan, red to blue. she also said, six the roads. americans get it. it is not politically toxic. i think there is a bridge that mitch mcconnell is interested in , a couple of billion dollars, we cannot do it with existing funds. >> see the entire interview with oregon representative peter defazio here on c-span. you can also here on c-span radio or watch it online at c-span.org. part ofdent trump spent his saturday meeting with california officials and looked at some of the damage caused by wildfires. as he left the white house in the morning, he spoke to reporters and took questions on a number of topics. president trump: were going to california. we are making two stops. we are going to the two areas you know well, and it is a shame. it seems many more people are missing than anyone thought possible. i want to be with the fire

and mimi walters sponsored an initiative in california to repeal the gas tax increase. they failed miserably. tim waltz, new governor of minnesota, campaign on a gas tax increase and turned that state from red to blue. he got one of the largest margins in history. the new governor of michigan, red to blue. she also said fix the damn roads. americans get it. it is not politically toxic. i think there is this bridge that mitch mcconnell is really interested in, in couple of billion dollars. we cannot do it with existing funds. >> you can see the entire interview with oregon congressman peter defazio sunday at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on c-span. you can also hear it on c-span radio or watch it online at c-span.org. spent part ofp his saturday meeting with california officials and looking at some of the damage caused by the wildfires. as he left the white house in the morning, he spoke to reporters and took questions on a number of topics. president trump: we are going to california. we are making two stops. we are going to two areas that you know very well. it is a shame. it see

when we started the hour, mimi walters was ahead. new votes reported.ie porter has pulled ahead by 261 votes. we're not done. still counting votes in california. another district where as the count continues, it's trended toward the democrats. the democrats are ahead here. this makes democrats incredibly happy. we've not called this race yet. this was a top democratic target of a republican incumbent, dane pa rohrabacher, been in congress a long time. he's been krit sighcriticized b republicans for his closeness to vladimir putin. made a big change here in what's been a safe district. the democrat, harley rouda, 11,000 votes ahead. closing in on that. that's a big lead. we're still counting votes. we're being cautious. the election was a week ago. another district, wolf, as they count them , the trend is towar the democrats. i want to show this other one up here. we haven't focused on this one, the 10th district. this is another republican incumbent, jeff dedham. a moderate. hillary clinton carried this in the election. the democrat pulled ahead in rece

the "associated press" has declared democrat katie porter the winner over mimi walters in the 45th district that includes parts of orange county. now, walters is calling for a voter fraud investigation saying discrepancies in provisional and vote by mail ballots happen. >> they are making accusations against each other's camps that there have been ballot tampering among those observers. and there's been no evidence of that whatsoever. >> some other races are still undecided. the orange county registrar of voters office has increased security until the last ballot is counted. >>> and election day 2018 still going on in florida. looking at the broward county elections center where there's a manual recount. you see all those counters right there. it will be a while before it's certified. john lawrence reports. >>> reporter: being two minutes late isn't always a big deal except for when it is. >> i have taken responsibility for every act in this office, good, bad or indifferent. i have always held myself accountable. >> reporter: florida's broward county submit its machine recount information a

. >> mimi walters, now a congresswoman, in a tight race, she is not going to be putting he money behind a gas tax repeal she was six or ten months ago. >> the measure that would allow cities to expand rent control and a whopping 60% of thete surveyed said no. i mean, then a different poll by the public policy institute of california said renters are rejecting this measure. why is that? >> even re fascinating when recent polling showed that people support the idea of rent control but don't support proposition 10. number one, the no side spent three times more than the yes side. i think that plays a huge rol what you talk about advertisements, getting the message out there. the ballot lanage is confusing. it's talking about repeal and not, you know, expansion of rent control. ipe think somle may say, am i voting to repeal rent control of those add into the fact that, yeah,very poll is not doing well. >> prop c, the local measure in francisco. salesforce ceo supp it. twitter's ceo jeff dorsey opposes. you havelehis ba of the tech titans going on. where will this end up? this is the homeles

, that i think quarter is -- i think porter is going to win, katie porter versus congresswoman mimi walters. >> a couple of stretch district where eyes -- districts where eyes have been opened, iowa four with steve young, and alaska's don young down a point, which i don't think anybody saw coming. eyes have been opened, iowadan:y carefully. public polling in iowa district four shows a competitive race. they are both races to watch come election day. i can't tie you what is going to happen with either of them, but as you look at republican spending patterns over the last 10 days, part of the reason the large battlefield was critical to us is that in prior cycles, republican super pac money was able to keep democrats in 20, 25 seats. fighting in that small of a large battlefield wasbattlefielr democrats to break out given the gerrymandered districts. have seen them -- in north carolina, in michigan districts they never thought they would have to fight it, so those are indicative of places where the battlefield has grown so much, republicans have to spread themselves so thin to defend what wil

if mimi walters goes, all seven go and i think democrats are -- >> sorry? we don't want to forget what's happening in the states. guernatorial elections, big story tonight. >> i think republicans will lose most of the big gubernatori aal races. >> the ones that trump carried and made him president. >> governor's offices do a lot of party building, infrastructure building for the long run. it's been helpful for the republicans. >> can we stop talking so we can say happy birthday to you? because we're running out of time. >> so rude. >> and i don't want to get off the air without saying happy birthday. >> on your birthday, too, very fast, before the cake, before the fireworks, republicans helped or hurt by the president? before we get results. >> i think republicans will have been helped in some of the senate races, in particularly in the states trump won in 2016. they will really have been hurt in the house. the president has done best. so they can focus on the economy. when the economy has been the story, the president's approval rating has gone up. that's

mimi walters/ -r- california: "you have to work really hard for every single vote."it all comes down to today for the 2018 midterm electionsall 435 house seats are on ballots across the country. 35 out of the hundred senate seats, and 36 of the 50 governors.as of monday morning, at least 31 million people had voted early... blowing early voting numbers from the last midterms out of the water.both democrats and republicans hope that means good news for them.president donald trump: "the republican agenda is the american dream and that's what we're doing. we're bringing back the american dream."and when it comes to politics, the last minute push tends to mean last minute attacksoprah winfrey/ media mogul: "i heard people were making racist robo calls in my name against stacey abrams who i'm 100% for in georgia. i just want to jesus don't like ugly"sen. bernie sanders/ -i- vermont: "what this election is really about is whether we feel comfortable... having a president who is a pathological liar"but whatever drove people to the polls over the last few weeks, there's hop

the "associated press" has declared democrat katie porter the winner over incumbent mimi walter in the 45th district that includes parts of orange county. now walters is calling for a voter fraud investigation claiming discrepancies in provisional and vote by mail ballots. orange county's registrar of voters says there is no evidence of fraud. >>> here's a live look at broward county, florida, where a manual ballot recount is under way to decide some very close races there. the highest profile race going on to a manual count is for a u.s. senate seat. republican governor rick scott has a lead over democrat bill nelson. after a machine recount, scott's lead is at less than .25% below the legal threshold in florida triggering an automatic manual county. >>> another pesticide could soon be phased out because of health concerns. iane king hall of "cbsmoneywatch" has that story and more in your friday morning business report. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kenny. happy friday. lawmakers on capitol hill grilled the department of veterans affairs over delayed payment to veterans und

more votes in the 45th district of california, an orange mimi walters has been unseated.emocrat katie port erwins that seat. it brings the net gains up to 36. >> unbelievable. all of it from florida to california. steve kornacki, thanks for coming on. >>> coming up for us, the cia reaches a conclusion on the killing of jamal khashoggi. we'll talk to a reporter who broke the story about what could happen next. we're back with that after this. . we're back with that after this. (music throughout) and your favorites are even bigger. with the big, juicy 18oz center-cut sirloin. and the ultimate great barrier combo. food this big is only here for a limited time. and now, get a $10 gift with every $50 in gift cards. douglas! we're running dangerously low on beans. people love your beans, doug. they love 'em. doooooooooug! you want to go sell some tacos? progressive knows small business makes big demands. doug, where do we get a replacement chili pepper bulb? so we'll design the insurance solution that fits your business. it's a very niche bulb. it's a specialty bulb. and your f

two other house racesmocr katie a 261-vote lead over republican representative mimi walters. she had been the trailing incumbent. >>> and in the 39th district, in orange county, gil cisneros tightened the gap with young kim. superta senate. >>> hundreds of evacuated animals are still waiting for their owners affected by the woolsey fire. number of the pets and livestock have been displaced. many of the animals are in shelters and waiting to be identified and claimed. volunteers say the animals are finally starting to settle in. their first few nights were difficult for the pets. >> first couple days, you could just hear horses constantly calling, the roosters at nighttime are crowing. roosters don't crow at night. >> the same situation also playing out in butte county. no word on how many horses, dogs and cats just waiclaid. > former first lady michelle obama kicked off her bookrnfrey. mrs. obama received an ovation and oprah spoke highly of the new book which she recently added to her book club. >> i have to say that from the first page of this book until the last, you did i

. >> reporter: republican congresswoman mimi walters is not just on defense, but offense, to save herthis district red. is it a fast and furious fight to try to convince those last holdouts? >> you have to work really hard for every single vote. every vote counts. we are making contact with every single voter and making sure that those people who support me turn out to the polls. >> reporter: republican volunteers arrive early. >> the number of people we're looking at here is pretty surprising, given that it's 10:00 a.m. on a saturday. >> yep. >> reporter: and young people. >> yep. there's a lot of enthusiasm. we've seen that in our offices across the country. that's what's leading to those 30 million voter contacts in an election cycle. >> reporter: in this last weekend, get out the vote means get to the people, especially in tos toss-up races. arizona senate candidate martha mcsally. >> get your protein here. >> reporter: serving her last message with pancakes, locked in a tight race. >> this is a very important election. >> reporter: both parties sending out their heavy hitters, cr

mimi walters, republican incumbent, has now fallen behind her challenger, katie porter. walters had been leading until just a few hours ago and in the 10th district, republican incumbent jeff denham, he's fallen further behind. our decision desk has not called this race but i can tell you tonight the associated press has now called this race for the democrat for josh harder, that would be a democratic pickup. again, right now we have the democrats picking up 31 seats but in these outstanding seats here, they lead in a lot of them, the prospect of democrats getting upwards of 40 seats looms very large right now, brian. >> it's unbelievable how much of this still rolls on. steve, i can't thank you enough for walking us through it. >> thanks. >>> president trump made another attempt to discredit this electoral process today. he wrote on twitter, and we quote, "when will bill nelson concede in florida? the characters running broward and palm beach voting will not be able to "find" enough votes. too much spotlight on them now." it's important to note there is no evidence of f

look at the mimi walters race. she's a great member of our team and they're spending tens of millions of dollars there and then you go to the ed royce seat retiring, a great candidate on the republican side and we can surprise a lot of people by holding that seat so all across-the-board you're seeing a lot of tough races, big high profile races like in florida where the president was last night, getting record crowds. look you're still seeing record crowds of people going to see donald trump, when he comes to speak as president and literally 10,000-plus people waiting outside in these big high packed arenas. maria: we'll be talking with ron desantis cominging up in the program about florida in that gubernatorial race. it's good to see you congressman we'll be watching thanks very much. >> a lot of enthusiasm let's go win tuesday night thanks maria. maria: congressman steve scalise joining us coming up next he challenged nancy pelosi for the house democratic leadership position after the last election will he do it

two republican candidates, young kim, in the 39th district of california and a republican named mimi waltersn the 45th district who slipped behind her democratic runner katy porter, we know votes come in late in california, we know that. in both cases, they're both alleging fraud, simply because california takes a while to count votes. >> well, not only does california take a while to count votes. but we shouldn't forget the day after veterans day that we have statutes that say that military voters, all voters overseas, most of them tend to be military voters get ten days after the election for their ballots to come back from overseas, and be counted. and if we're going to stand up for military rights and veterans rights and taking the time to get their ballots in and make sure they're counted seems like the least we could do as a democracy for the men and women defending us overseas. yeah, i do think this new playbook the republicans have of trying to say that the normally orderly process that's frustratingly long, but the process that makes it right, that that process is fraudulent or cont

and democrat katie porter is now 4,000 votes ahead of republican incumbe incumbent mimi walters.e pence said he thought the democrats failed to make sizable gains. >> we made history by expanding our majority in the senate. we won some great elections in governo governors' offices around the country. i think it's because the american people see the results. >> but the results actually tell a different story. in fact, democrats gained at least 34 house seats. at this hour, seven still undecided seats remain along with flipping seven governors' mansions, 336 state legislative seats for a total of 380 in the trump era and multiple state house claimers. >> the republicans try to claim that people are illegally voting by wearing disguises. the president said, quote, the republicans don't win. that's because of potentially illegal votes. when people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote, they go around in circles, sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. up from continued, if you buy a box of cereal you have a

he's in -- look at this, mimi walters, six votes ahead, 99% reporting. not a ton of great news if you're a house republican. you feel good about that. move up one more -- you talk about new members of congress, kim running to replace her former boys, ed royce, up by 5,800 votes -- >> the first korean woman in congress ever. >> yep. absolutely. there's a couple of other close races in california. biwant -- but i want to check another one. right now washington -- this has not moved for a while. kim schrier opened up the 11,000-vote lead. the retiring republican, dave reichert, democrats always thought they had the opportunity to take him out. somehow he always survived. the fascinating thing about this district, it's the classic suburban-rural divide. all suburbs, anti-trump, very resistance. over here, all rural, very red. both party thought they had good candidates. clearly, democrats leading now. also a clear pickup opportunity. again, what we're talking about here is not whether democrats have the house. it's what the marge since going to be. when you

here, one of the uncalled orange county races, the republican incumbent mimi walters has fallen behindmore than 6000 votes. the associated press, i should ot gone that far yet, but you can certainly see where this looks like it's going. that would be a democratic pickup in orange county. that would leave only one republican seat left in orange county, which is this one, the 39th district. look what happened there tonight. every night some more votes are being reported out here, and tonight for the first time, the democrat gil cisneros has taken the lead over young kim, the republican in this district. cisneros now leads the trend, clearly favors him. the trend favors democrats in the late voting races. if this holds, and if the 45th district holds, there will be zero republican members of congress from orange county, california, bastian of reaganism once in the next congress. that would be another major milestone. a couple other races uncalled still. democrats could be at about 39 seats when this all shakes out. probably a few more days from now. also in florida, you mentioned the fias

katie porter has defeated mimi walters.ocrats have picked up a net 36 seats in the house of representatives with five races still to be called. and with no rall when is and lock her up chants to keep him distracted, donald trump is isolated and growing more furious by the day. and the worst republican mid-term losses since watergate are just one reason why he's so miserable. frank rich writes in new york magazine that a he lost the mid-term he thought he won, b, the mueller investigation has moved faster than his efforts to thwart it. c, any of his fantasies notably the funding of his border wall are doomed, and d, in his pouting in paris elevated his international image as a buffoon to a whole new level of notoriety. trump plans to travel to california on saturday to view the damage caused by the catastrophic wildfires ravaging the state. 74 people have been killed in those fires. more than 1,000 people are missing, and these are new numbers just announced a few minutes ago. of course, the president's initial instinct was

. >>> tonight, mimi walters, the latest republican to lose a house seat to kati porter.turns what used to be a reagan country stronghold out there in orange county, california totally blue. you can see the shift between one cycle from 2016 to 2018. wow. like many republicans, walters was hurt by her votes and long stand position against obama care and ford gutting the law. here she was taking selfies in the rose garden party with trump at the white house. we'll show you those in a second. there she goes. that was something she was touting at the time. that clearly hurt her and it's part of what you see on your screen now. the 36 seats up from our projection of 35. the democrats biggest wave election since water gate with women voters and women candidates. before the election we interviewed eight first time women candidates. of those, three have won their races. joining me now -- >> there's never been a native american woman in congress. >> connecticut as well as never sent an african-american woman to congress. >> i'm a working single mom of three young children. it's ve

. >> reporter: republican congresswoman mimi walters is not just on defense, but offense, to save her and keep this district red. >> is it a fast and furious fight to try to convince those last holdouts? >> you have to work really hard for every single vote. every vote counts. so what we're doing, we're making contact with every single voter and making sure that those people who support me turn out to the polls. >> i volunteer at the congressional leadership fund and we're just calling voters. >> reporter: republican volunteers arrive early. >> the number of people we're looking at here is pretty surprising, given that it's 10:00 a.m. on a -- >> ten o'clock a.m. on a -- >> ten o'clock r10:00 a.m. on a there are young people up. >> there's a lot of enthusiasm and we've seen that across this country and that's what leading to these 30 million voter contacts in this election cycle. >> reporter: in this last weekend, get out the vote means get to the people, especially in toss-up races. arizona senate candidate, martha mcsally -- >> get your carbo and protein load here. >> reporter: is se

mimi walters who is the representative now now you see the incumbent widen her lead, 7,175 votes now.> irvine is an inland orange county district up ker middle class a lot of diversity there whether or not it's anglo, latino, vietnamese, a lot of different people in the district now. >> the headline right now is montana. let's take a live look at the numbers. it's been a little while since we've spoken directly about president trump. i want to go ahead and talk about him here. he's been out to this state i think four times since becoming president. he's invested in this race. clearly it's made a difference. >> the one thing you've been able to see tonight in the senate races is that donald trump is able to motivate and ener advise base voters. month month is a really good example of that. in texas with ted cruz it was the same thing. when the president showed up, he was able to make that difference beholding them to the president when they get to washington. >> when you look at voting numbers when it comes to senate races democrats with some 108 million votes more, republicans picking

republican incumbent mimi walters nbc news says she's fallen short. she's been unseated. democrat katie porter wins that see the bringing the net gain for democrats in the house up to 36. 36 is the current net gain for democrats. and it could still climb a little bit higher. >> unbelievable all of it from florida all the way to california. steve, thanks very much for coming on. coming up for us, the cia reaches a conclusion on the killing of jamal khashoggi. we'll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story tonight about what could happen next. we're back with that after this. next we're back with that after this. today is the day you're going to get motivated... get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you'll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else. if you don't like a book, you can exchange it any time, no questions asked. automatically roll your credits over to the next month i

the 45th, mimi walter is the republican incumbent.me i think a lot of people know, dana rohrbacher, 30-year incumbent. he is in the district. orren county. you think about it as democratic conservatism. the polls are very tight here. one of the most closely watched races in the nation. there is also the 49th district, the 50th district as well. duncan hunter jr., is he going to be in trouble in the 50th because of the scandal, lawrence. >> steve, if there is a wave, and democrats have been heavily targeting seven districts, if there is a wave, how many more districts in california could be in play for democrats? >> i mentioned duncan hunter there, but this is sort of our wave watch screen, i guess, around the country, additional districts. here's some more in california. tom mcclintock in a real wave scenario. i would keep an eye on this district because david valadao, a republican, this is a clinton district. this is one of those if you have surge latino turnout, if it breaks heart for the democrats, that would be safe. that would be

after that, he visited headquarters of republican congresswoman mimi walters. cox has long focused his campaign on the housing affordability, the high cost for californians, the high cost of living. he said californians are really struggling. and, he wants to fix it. he wants to fix the mix management -- mismanagement that he says is running rampant in our state. he is driving home that campaign slogan, help is on the way. cox says he is the one that represents change, while gavin newsom represents the status quo. and we talked to his campaign spokesman who said, we are cautiously optimistic. we think it's going to be a lot closer than people think. hopefully, john cox says, he will pull off a november surprise. he says things are still looking good for him at this point and he says look, i'm confident about a win tonight, despite what the polls say. he does know gavin newsom is in the lead and of course gavin newsom as well hoping to pull off the win tonight. for more on that we go to heather holmes in los angeles. heather? >> reporter: look, they are indeed p

now says that democratic challenger katie porter has turfed out incumbent republican congressman mimi walterscally that the associated press has called this race. nbc news has not called this race. we will let you know if that changes, but the a.p. is now projecting this as the final result. in the great state of maine, you may have heard democratic candidate jared golden has unseated republican bruce. it gave democrats 35 seats in the house, the most since the aftermath of watergate. again, if that california katie porter race turns out to be called in the end, that will bring that number up to 36. >>> beyond the continued pile up of democratic wins, all eyes tonight remain on georgia and florida. the georgia governor's race democrat stacey abrams is trying to get enough votes to force a runoff election against the former secretary of state republican brian kemp who has been a very controversial stuard steward of this election which he has been a candidate. a judge ruled georgia has to count absentee ballots. if voters forgot to fill in their birth date, with that judge ruling, there will be

as of saturday, orange county's republican representative mimi walters had a one-point lead over democrat katie porter in the 45th district. and in the 39th district republican young kim is in a close contest with the democrat. in central valley's 10th, democrat josh carter holds a small edge over republican representative jeff denim. thousands of votes still need to be counted before results are announced. >>> superintendent of public instruction is still too close to call. political newcomer marshal tuck's lead over tony thurman is narrowing dramatically. tuck there with 50.2% of the vote is just ahead of thurmond. we are expected to get an update tomorrow. >>> a massive caravan of migrants still making their way through mexico towards the u.s. border. the caravan is continuing to push north any way it can. sometimes jumping into trucks or riding on flatbed trailers. one group arrived at the tijuana border yesterday. 76 people happened to be from the lgbtq community. they say they left the caravan after being discriminated against. mexico has offered refuge, asylum, or work visas. some

michig mimi walters voted there and voters told me there they were annoyed and they were worried about economy voting for that and worried about their taxes going up. this is a district that has never been held by a democrat. and so, and they went back 90 years so those are the things that they were concerned about so the economy, health care. so as long as democrats talk about, yep, you know what? tax cut, they're blowing a hole through the deficit and you know what? mitch mcconnell will cut entitlements, medicare, medicaid and vs. because they're in a deficit. because of the tax plan and what democrats are doing and that's what i'm seeing. in texas and california and georgia and where i was last weekend. >> john, i don't think it's a mistake that president trump is not talking about the economy. i actually think it's a miscalculation on our part. when he goes out to these rallies, he's in parts of the country where the economy isn't serving them and riles up that base on immigration and other cultural issues and we know he's got their votes but then i think he's got a silent voter we

orange county, scoredt katie porter has an upset, beating out republican incumbent congressmember mimi walters and flipping another house seat for the democratsts. porter is a consumer law expert and a protege of senator elizabeth warren. democrats have so far picked up 36 congrgressional seats, with a handful of races still uncalled. the trump administration announced sanctions against 17 saudis on thursday over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi, who entered the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey, on october 2 and was never seen again. the sanctions did not include the crown prince or any top saudi intelligence officials. this came as saudi arabia's public prosecutor announced indictments against 11 saudi agents, saying it would seek the death penalty against five of them. meanwhile, reports emerged thursday of efforts by the trump administration to extradite exiled turkish cleric and opposition figure fethullah gulen in order to placate turkish president recep tayyip erdogan and reduce possible turkish pressure on the saudis. he lives in the poconos in the united states. more migrant

you can look at mimi walters in 45. you can look at the opened seat in 49. there is a possibility the bulk of these california districts we've been talking all year are going to break to the democratsi in the end of this thing. >> we could end up, ballpark 38 seats swung. >> i get up to 39 without -- you can get to 39 very conceivably for democrat.ou >> steve kornacki, thank you so much for that. joining me from broward county, florida, ari melber, host of the beat with ari melber.a, i'm glad you're down there. what is the latest out of florida on the recount? >> the bottom line on the recount is the count is going on. so i was back behind me in that supervisor's building -- >> fake news, fake news. >> we see energy including some people around here tonight.lu but the recounts are continuing. so what you basically have is a process somewhere, the machine counting is going to continue until thursday. and if the deadline thursday shows that it is within a quarter point, then you get into that manual recount, which is t even more crucial, chris.s >> so you've g