her opponent is sarah gideon, the speaker of the maine house of representatives.led by anger against collins, in the first week of her campaign, the 48-year-old raised $1 million. in south carolina, a republican incumbent lindsey graham is up against jamie harrison. lindsey graham is seeking a fourth term. as head of the judiciary committee, he has led the republican push to confirm three of president trump's nominees to the supreme court. during the 2016 primaries, he called trump a xenophobic racist but has since become one of the president's staunchest allies. as chairman of the south carolina democratic party, jamie harrison was one -- was the first african-american to hold that role, growing up on food stamps and pubc housing. he says his humble upbringing would make him an important and underrepresented voice in the senate. in north carolina, the races between tom tellis and cal cunningham shared tellis is running for a second term but is consider the underdog in the race. tellis recently contracted the coronavirus and was criticized for not wearing a mask a

collins senator susan declaring victory in a race against her democratic rival, sarah gideon. we take into a live picture of the white house this afternoon with lots of vocal reaction to the election results so far. the race distilled still to be decided. we are expecting to hear from joe biden this afternoon at about 1:45 p.m. eastern and we will have live coverage here on c-span. both he and president trump spoke to supporters last night. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. ♪[hail to the chief] [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much, thank you. this is without question the latest news conference i have ever had. [laughter] >> we love you. >> thank you. i appreciated very much. i want to thank the american people for their tremendous support. millions and millions of people voted for us tonight. isery sad group of people trying to disenfranchise that group of people. and we won't stand for it. we will not stand for it. [applause] i want to thank the first lady, my entire family and vice president pence and m

i'mitting here right now, that sarah gideon was a blank slate. there were some ads, ethical ads against her that raise questions that were never answered, at the blank slate having tough questionsvisked about it she looked t other way when there was a child predator in the state legisture while she was speaker? or i don't know what the heck their business was back, behind on taxes then. but for someone with a longtime relationship lik susan collins had, and the other bnk slate with real questions being asked, that can matter. we started seeing collins separate yourself a little from the cory gardner, marth mcsally back in the early part, middle part o the summer, that she was clearly -- collins was not hded whereas mix sally and gardner wer and where thom tillis look like wheree was untilhe scant. yes, candidatesatter some but not like they used to. brownstein, , it's the colorf the jersey, the nam on the jersey. >> i like that. if i can onl get to the blue wall, get my little nkel every time somebody uses that. >> think about south carolina and

democrat sarah gideon. >> i'm personally excited to see sarah as our next u.s.d to actively advocating for health care with her. and i look forward to pressuring her on changing her opinion on medicare for all. >> a year and a half ago, you would never think susan collins is vulnerable. because she has sided with donald trump a number of times and because maine people are used to elected independent minded senators i think many maine voters have come to the conclusion that susan collins has lost the independent quality, and it created an opening nor the democrats. >> reporter: marie's group handed over the donations to their campaign. >> $4.1 million was raised with over 120,000 people from across the country and maine saying we have had enough of you susan collins. you did the wrong thing. >> reporter: marie hopes the political winds are shifting and that tuesday will usher in a new balance of power. >> if the democrats were to take back the senate and the republicans lose, it will be totally tied to donald trump. either because his unpopularity or their relati

in maine, for example, susan collins pulled out a win over sarah gideon who is a democrat but there were other ballot candidates who drew away from that and they were opposed to each other. they were not similar at all, they had a green party candidate and another libertarian candidate so they took away several percentage points from the two leaders. that's how you get into these runoff situations or in the case of maine, they have a ranked choice but susan collins got above the 50%. people look at florida back in 2000 and say ralph nader cost that state and cost him the presidency. advocate andumer he ran as an independent in florida. he pulled away several percentage points that could have gone -- and you can also look at the clinton-bush race and 92 and ross perot and how much he took away was double digits potentially from george h w bush. third-party candidates are big factors in presidential elections. we don't talk it very -- we don't talk about it very much in his races but they are a big factor here. there is an argument we need to broaden parties and more than just a democrat a

. >> a huge hold in maine with republican susan collins defeating democrat sarah gideon in a critical race for the balance of power in the senate. south carolina senator lindsey graham has the fight of his political life but held on against democrat jaime harrison. >> i've never wanted my job more than i do now. i never appreciated my job more than i do now. speak republicans picked up a seat in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating doug jones. senator mitch mcconnell expressed hope that he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i'm going to be the majority leader or the minority leader. i've been both. the majority is better. >> pickups for democrats in colorado with john hickenlooper defeating cory gardner. >> it's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us and come together to move forward. >> in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. >> we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> democrats lost numerous seats in the house, many they won two years ago. in iowa, new mexico, and florida. donna shalala and debbie

amy coney barrett's confirmation but susan collins is trailing against democratic challengers sarah gideonna, and tom tillis versus cal cunningham, it is playing out similar to the presidential race with tom tillis attacking cal cunningham for lack of media experiences and backing tom tillis on healthcare. also a lot of headlines because cal cunningham apologize for a 6ing scandal, tested positive for covid-19 last month, alabama is one race that republicans expect to flip in their favor, former arbor and football coaches a big -- alabama solid pro trump country. a lot of races to watch, it is anybody's guess what's going to happen. mitch mcconnell doesn't even know what's going to happen. he gave democrats a 50-50 shot at gaining control of the senate. we have to wait and see on always friends. >> thank you for your senate analysis and we will be right back. dolph lundgren, you've got a one-sixty i.q., a master's in chemical engineering and you're technically a genius... and it appears you're quite the investor. i like to trade. well, td ameritrade has pros ready if you need help, say tal

so the idea of, what did sarah gideon do wrong in maine? she was just getting whooped the whole time and the pollsters were wrong. there's not a story to tell about what the campaign did wrong. it's a story about the polling miss. >> i think in the case of public polling, that's right. so many people are reliant, the analysts that all of the networks use are reliant on taking those as cues. inside, we knew that florida was razor-tight. that it was as tight as we saw. and we were adjusting and making cases on that. why do you think you saw the president and vice president in michigan the day before the election? because we knew that that was going to be extremely tight. i can't speak for all the public polls. but if you know they're tight and you're doing it right, you can run a good campaign. >> shawn and matt, thank you. i think it's an important conversation for a lot of things as we go forward. thank you for doing that. >>> ahead, there's a mob, group of trump supporters protesting outside the building in maricopa counting, demanding the

collins is fight forking the fifth turn but the democratic challenger, maine speaker of the house sarah gideonight fight. it will come out to turnout. collins has unapologetically exercised well-known independent streak throughout the race refuse to go back trump's reelection. trump's signs are easy to flag in redder congressional district where president trump picked up one of maine's 4 electoral college votes in 2016. the president's recent last-minute visit to battleground could motivate the very voters that collins needs. >> it has made people more enthusiastic on the republican side. i've stayed out of the presidential politics this year. i've been one to have targeted races by chuck schumer, he's poured an enormous amount of money into my state and made me his number 1 target. molly: vp joe biden is leading in statewide polls and the first time in decades registered democrats outnumber republicans and independent voters in maine. signs that bode well for gideon who will need big numbers in first state congressional district in coastal area that's been solidly blue for decades. >> we have

susan collins of maine has won reelection by defeating a democratic challenger by the name of sarah gideon even look like it will be close. this hour, and we will check in with you this afternoon mike. where are we today? >> the balance of power is still being sorted out but that went by susan collins and the blue state of maine is significant. >> i feel as if this is an affirmation of the work that i'm doing in washington to fight hard every day. [cheers and applause] to fight hard every day for the people of maine. >> two flips for democrats, john hickenlooper winning colorado over cory gardner and mark kelly winning in arizona over martha mcsally. a flip for the g.o.p. in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating democratic senator doug jones. sent majority leader mitch mcconnell sounds hopeful he will be holding onto the majority leader role. >> it appears that as of today, at this moment, that we are in a pretty good position in north carolina and maine. we may as i said earlier no later in the day how that turns out. if my math is correct if we win in north carolina and maine i am stil

republican senator sewers san collins has a lead over democratic challenger, sarah gideon.e'll talk 1:00 what we hear from susan collins. democrats thought this year to flip the senate. the deck was stacked against them in 2016. they had to defend some seats on republican turf. the shoe was on the other foot here. 23 republican seats, defending seats, many seats were defending in battleground states. let's go through the races right now. democrat john hickenlooper, defeated gop colorado senator, cory gardner. former football coach tommy tuberville handily defeated doug jones in alabama. fox called mark kelly unseated senator martha mcsally. mcsally is not conceding. gop senator joni ernst was victorious. the confirmation of amy coney barrett may have given ernst a boost especially in catholic dubuque. democrats have a chance to win a seat in georgia but not until next year. gop georgia senator kelly loeffler is headed to a run i don't have against democrat after farrell warnock on january 5th. for the house of representatives, democrats were forced to defender close to 30 s

. >> a huge hold in maine with republican susan collins defeated democrat sarah gideon in a criticalace for the balance of power in the senate buried in south carolina, senator lindsey graham had the fight of his political life but held on against democrat jamie harrison. >> i've never wanted my job more than i do now. i never appreciated my job more than i do now. >> republicans also picked up a seat in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating democrat doug jones. senator mitch mcconnell expressed hope today he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i'm going to be the majority leader or the minority leader, as i told you, i've been both. majority is better. >> two pickups for democrats in colorado with john hickenlooper defeating republican cory gardner. >> it's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us and come together to move forward. >> and in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. >> are state doesn't need a democrat senator, a republican senator. we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> in-house, democra

. >> gop senator susan collins says that her democratic challenger sarah gideon has now called to concedeat collins would hold on to her senate seat in maine. collins said that gideon was gracious in their phone call after what had been a hard fought and at times bitter campaign the upshot here is that this means that the pathway for democrats to take volof the senate has narrowed significantly. they still need to flip three republican seats collins saying now that hers won't be one of them kelly. >> all right ylan mui, thank you. >>> the nasdaq is riding hide on a monster rally despite the fact that we still don't know the outcome of the presidential race the big tech is all up big with facebook in the lead soaring 8%. are investors right to bet that no blue wave means no major tech regulation coming? joining me is paul hickey, the co-founder of the spoke investment group paul, good to have you what do you make of facebook's move >> i think facebook and big tech in general is a few factors. the first is that you're less likely to see the growth of the group under a biden presidency, not

. >> a huge hold in maine with susan collins were defeating sarah gideon in a critical race for the balancer in the senate. lindsey graham had the fight of his political life, but held on against democrat jamie harrison. >> i have never one to my job more than i do now. i've never appreciated my job more than i do now. >> republicans also picking up a seat in alabama with defeating the democrat doug jones. mitch mcconnell expressing hope that he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i will be the majority leader of the minority leader. i've told you, i've been both. majority is better. >>> two pickups are democrats in colorado, with the john hickenlooper defeating cory gardner. >> the time of the politics of this era is behind us. and coming together to move forward. >> and in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. to speak of does not need a democrat senator or a republican senator, we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> in the house democrats lost numerous seats, many that they won two years ago. in iowa, new mexico, and flori

if sarah gideon is ahead, we can be reasonably confident that democrats will end up contr controlling for least resi resistance is arizona, colorado and maine. >> as one person said to me if the democrats are counting on the georgia run-offs to get them the majority, that's not messagingwise, a place they want to be. dave wasserman, thanks. it's going to be an interesting night/morning. >>> after the break, i'll speak with ohio governor dewine. >>> first a look at new york city where voters have been lined up to cast their ballots. not quite as busy as we're used to. we've been asking to voters what they'll be thinking about when it's their turn behind the curtain. >> this is my first time voting so i'm really excited. that's why i came here early. >> well, i wanted to vote because i think it's important to have a voice. and so you don't get this opportunity but every four years. >> floim hareedom hangs in the . we're this close to changing this country for the rest of my life and for my kids' lives. >> i just think i want to make sure that things are taken care of and that we don't w

runningast, she is against sarah gideon, who happens to be speaker of the state legislature, who has been very unresponsive during the midst of this pandemic, not particularly visible. the contrast in that campaign couldn't be more clear. susan collins, amidst all these headwinds, has put herself in position to succeed on election day because of her discipline. >> dave was just on here, senator. he mentioned alaska. are you nervous about alaska? marine. united states i don't get nervous about fellow marines. dan sullivan is kicking down doors where they are not open. he is taking nothing for granted from day one of this election cycle. when this global pandemic did interrupt the longest period of economic expansion in american history, which was cultivated and sustained through republican policies, he was ready. of course, he's running against a candidate who is nominally independent, but really liberal, a supporter of bernie sanders and hillary clinton in the past, who was recruited for that position by chuck schumer. we've seen dan sullivan be a really good fit for the state. he is

in maine, susan collins, republican, survives a very rigorous challenge from sarah gideon, the houseaker. this is a big win, talking to her campaign, they are very pleased. no one thought, lots of people didn't think she would win and they didn't think she would win by this much. this is a big deal for republicans. mitch mcconnell is breathing a sigh of relief. amna: what does this mean for the balance of power in the senate? lisa: this takes a seat of the board for democrats they were trying to get, and this is actually looking at the house. amna: let's talk about that, because a number of races are yet to be called in the house. democrats hope and -- they can open up their majority. lisa: there are 435 members of congress. each one is important and individual. 203 are democrats and have won the races. 188 republicans have won the races. we have 44 races left in the house. as the night was going on, the presidential race was so pivotal , i think what was lost last night is something very big in the house, democrats expecting nancy pelosi to win 5, 15, 20 seats. they are going to los

of the most vulnerable republican incumbent senators announcing that the democrat in the race sarah gideon. gideon confirming that. that all but assures as we count up that democrats won't be in a position to win back control of the u.s. senate. they believed that was still possible when this election counting began last night, and they out raised -- this is important, incumbent republicans in many key races. democrats also retaining control of the house, but nbc projecting that republicans will hold over 200 seats. that's also more than many had expected, including some republicans leading into this election. we're now joined by someone who was not in cycle or on the ballot last night, senator sherrod brown from ohio. we should note nbc projects trump winning that state. a busy time, so first of all, senator, thank you for joining us. >> of course, thanks, ari, good to be with you. thanks. >> great to have you k baback. you and i have spoken before. let me pay you a stylistic compliment to open this up. you are known for telling it like it is. you're not, i would say, the typical plastic

the state house speaker, sarah gideon, 36.7%. -- sara gideon, 36. chip roy serving his first term being challenged by wendy davis. is a familiar name to political junkies. she served in the state senate and held that filibuster for 13 hours back in 2013 over antiabortion legislation. she ran for governor in 2014. this is a tight race, 50 reporting. -- 68% reporting. kai, from california, in our support president trump line. >> hi, how are you tonight? peter: what made you call in? >> well, i am in california, known as liberal and crazy, but there are some of us here who are really trumped supporters, and we are ready for president trump to continue if you are -- continue four more years to continue to make america great. peter: in the news, there were several trump car parades and boat parades out in california. did you participate in any lyrical activities in this 2020 election? i did not,, unfortunately, this year, but i have quite a few friends and family members who got involved, and gratefully, my job was not affected by covid, so i have been w

race is not called, susan collins in the fight of her life versus the speaker of the main house sarah gideonht now the margin looks to be pretty comfortable for susan collins. in michigan john james who is running a second race against incumbent gary peters is up significantly although the race hasn't been called. lindsey graham hold onto his seat in south carolina which some people thought could go democrat this year. give me your thoughts on those races. >> reporter: i think the overall theme of what we saw in the senate races is there is a strong voice to stop the radical change that the american left wanted to engage in. by virtue of republicans almost certainly at this point maintaining their hold on the u.s. senate that will serve as a fort to anything like adding new states, packing the supreme court, dramatic tax increases, green new deal, the massive radical agenda the democrats wanted to enact, no matter what happens with the white house, probably going to be for did by virtue of what happened with the united states senate and likely the case for mitch mcconnell to remain senate ma

this is based on a concession from sarah gideon hurd. she is conceding the race to susan collins. that call. based on the concession we are projecting republicans will hold that seat in the senate. taxes are in play. what it could mean for vice president biden's big tax plan even if he wins the presidency. we will speak with rohit kumar of pnc. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power ." former vice president biden has some big plans for taxes on corporations and not individuals. it is far from clear he will win the presidency. even if he does, he may have to deal with this senate controlled by republican. what does that mean for tax policy the next four years? welcome now rohit kumar. served as deputy chief of staff to mitch mcconnell, which will count for another few years here. he got reelected. thank you for being here. what is it mean for the vice president if he is in fact elected president? a republicanl with senate might constant tax legislation. rohit: that's right. that is you broke with senator collins now projected to

too early to tell whether republican susan collins will survive the challenge from democrat sarah gide gideon they believe the best chance of flipping a seat is mark kelly, leading against martha mcsally, but nbc still says that race is too early to call. democrats need to flip at least three seats on net to take control. right now they're bracing for a slim majority in the senate if they're able to capture it at all. they were disappointed in the house where they were hoping to cement and expand their control of the chamber instead the opposite is happening. they lost democratic congressman peterman and they failed to trip republican wagman seat in the missouri suburbs this all means that the hope for democrats of pushing through a large legislative agenda is likely to be even more uncertain than it was before. >> ylan, appreciate that i don't know why i said good morning. i forgot i went home for a couple hours but it feels like noontime. >> it's an endless morning. >> no doubt about that >>> let's throw up the map one more time just to put a button on this conversation bottom line, still a

of the big needs as well right yes absolutely so you have maine susan collins running against sarah gideon that's a very big race you also have joni ernst in iowa a conservative who is facing a tough challenger you also have in montana dane's verses steve bullock the former governor there the governor there as well as very popular and those are a lot of the contested seats we're seeing also thom tillis conservative in north carolina that's another seat that we're going to keep an eye on as well as in alabama doug jones is probably going to lose to head football coach. in alabama as well so that's going to flip from democrat to republican as expected right as expected no surprises there fair all right so we have our team correspondent sweet out of our studio in los angeles joining for us with what's going on there natasha. ok even to you as polls are getting ready to close here in california authorities are boarding up businesses even enacting a curfew and while there's a chance we may not know the outcome of the election this evening officials say they want to ensure safety and a possible

on the basis of these wrong polls, seri gideon, sarah collins is challenged, took millions of dollars. bad polls have their uses. it's an amazing sell amazingly corrupt system. >> the money was spent in kentucky against mitch mcconnell where they thought they had a chance. those guys both won handily. it was a fool's errand, very expensive. >> tucker: $100 million in south carolina. thank you very much. >> you bet. be on the moment they realized that this election wouldn't be the landslide they predicted, some news anchors became highly agitated last night. that was one of the highlights. an agitated cable news anchor, it's like christmas again did again. we are here to respond, we will be right back. ♪ >> sean: the data guy had it all figured out. there was going to be a blue wave and they fed this critical information to the cable news guys and they were convinced that biden would sweep. >> a lot of democrats are hurt tonight. a lot of hurt out there. there is a moral victory and a political victory. they won a moral victre. we wanted to see a repudiation for this direction of the c

on the basis of these wrong polls, seri gideon, sarah collins is challenged, took millions of dollars. bad pollsha have their uses. it's an corrupt system. >> the money was spent in kentucky against mitch mcconnell where they thought they had a chance. those guys both won handily. it was a fool's errand, very expensive. >> tucker: $100 million in south carolina. thank you very much. >> you bet. be on the moment they realized that this election wouldn't be the landslide they predicted some news anchors became highly agitatedth last night. that was one of the highlights. an agitated cable news anchor it's like christmas again did again. we are here to respond, we will be right back. ♪ >> tucker: the data guy had it all figured out. there was going to be a blue wave and they fed this criticald information to the cable news guys and they were convinced that biden would sweep. >> a lot of democrats are hurt tonight. a lot of hurt out there.ut there is a moral victory and a political victory. they won a moral victory. we wanted to see a repudiation for this direction of the country. >> tuck

, it's on twitter, in south carolina jamie harrison, african-american man, lindsey graham bit, sarah gideonin texas lost to john cornyn in texas. they lost every single time. we picked up at least one female u.s. senator, are you hearing about that? by the way, speaking of female u.s. senators, where is kamala harris? joe biden literally yesterday had her off to the side silenced as he was saying the voters will not be silenced. i don't want the voters to be silenced. why is presidential running mate about to make history silenced? steve: you were talking about all of the money the democrats side put up for republicans and the republicans prevailed. you are leaving out michael bloomberg, he spent 100 million bucks to make sure that donald trump didn't win florida and donald trump won florida in such a big way. going back to earlier topic about pollsterring. we had this conversation about 4 years ago about the trump voter that was hard to quantify because they didn't want to say, yeah, i'm for donald trump. now they refer to it as the shy trump voter. that is a real thing, but those -- >> it

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and you look at susan collins up in maine, she's in deep trouble right now being challenged by sarah gideonote you put who was number one as your choice but you also put who was number two and number three and four, there are four people on the senate ballot right now. if someone doesn't get 50% they go back and tabulate the second choice. >> there's the tight race in south carolina, lindsey graham seeking his fourth term running against jaime harrison. a lot of money poured into that race for jaime harrison. what are you peck eexpecting ton there? >> at this point i think republicans feel better about this race than they did say three or four weeks ago. if you remember we saw lindsey graham whenever he would be doing an interview, he would ask for donations because he knew he was being hammered so hard. lindsey graham faced a tough re-election to south carolina, some folks didn't think he was conservative enough. at this point he has tied himself to the trump train, saw him as one of the biggest supporters and advisers on capitol hill. he will have a bit of a fight tonight. if he loses sou

in maine, for example, susan collins pulled out a win over sarah gideon who is a democrat but there wereallot candidates who drew away from that and they were opposed to each other. they were not similar at all, they had a green party candidate and another libertarian candidate so they took away several percentage points from the two leaders. that's how you get into these runoff situations or in the case of maine, they have a ranked choice but susan collins got above the 50%. people look at florida back in 2000 and say ralph nader cost that state and cost him the presidency. advocate andumer he ran as an independent in florida. he pulled away several percentage points that could have gone -- and you can also look at the clinton-bush race and 92 and ross perot and how much he took away was double digits potentially from george h w bush. third-party candidates are big factors in presidential elections. we don't talk it very -- we don't talk about it very much in his races but they are a big factor here. there is an argument we need to broaden parties and more than just a democrat and repub

leads over collins sarah gideon and in michigan, john james the republican, up th ere. 53.6%, 68% reportingthe incumbent democratic senator gary peters. on that and in north carolina, another race that hasn't been called, the incumbent republican senator thom tillis. --7 to calcutta and him cal cunningham, 47.9. nothing yet from the north carolina race. host: richard, let's hear from richard in waco, texas on our support president trump line. >> how are you doing this evening? i've been watching the whole thing from the start and i do not believe it is going right because of what trump just said on his statement. if you check the numbers that have voted, the percentage, and compare them to the number of what is still to be had as voters, i could still not overtake the numbers of what they have now leading. it could not overtake his lead in all five states. said, whyas they have has the voting stopped tonight? why is everybody stopped calculating votes? host: what do you think the answer to that is? caller: they are trying to drag it out. they are trying to drag it out so more votes can be f

you see susan collins with a slight lead over her competitor, sarah gideon, democrats still hopeful thathat seat. there are a lot of other seats out there, and there is talk about whether democrats are able to inch this out in the senate. joining me is former senator and democrat richard gephardt. he knows the sword can cut both ways. mr. gephardt, thank you for joining us. democrats thought they were going to gain seats in the house. didn't eke that out, actually lost some seats. and the senate is getting farther and farther away from their grasp. this is not the night that the democrats were hoping for. it's not the night that the polls showed. >> well, we're a closely divided country. we have been for some time. and that's what you're still seeing. now, the democrats thought they could pick up seats in the house. and they thought they could win the senate. we'll see what happens when all of the votes are counted. my main concern right now is whether or not we're going to count all of the votes before candidates decide what the election is. so, i've been part of a group of 40 farmer fe

party candidate who is getting some votes and actually campaigned telling people they should put sarah gideone does not hit the threshold, 40,000 votes ahead, if she doesn't hit that percentage threshold, it's possible there are voters who picked sara gideon as their s.e.c. choice, that will be for her. arizona that is a bright spot for democrats. mark kelly, the former navy captain, astronaut. you can see right here he is really outperforming martha mcsally, republican incumbent for the senate seat that was once john mccain's. mark kelly is actually outperforming joe biden in arizona. a bit of a reverse coattails there as he might be pulling joe biden along in the vote as well, but it's look very good for democrats in arizona. >> pretty good, the reverse coat tail. senate all in not turning out the way many democrats thought in terms of the lack of a blue wave there. what about in the house. >> the story of the house similar to the senate, a bit of a status quo. we have seen some pick ups if you look at numbers there by each side. you see democrats picked up two seats, republicans picked up

republican senator susan collins is trying to fend off a challenge from democratic sarah gideon in al control of the senate. it is too early to make a projection on that race at the moment. the other big senate race of the hour is alabama where incumbent democrat doug jones faces a strong challenge. too early to call that contest, which if two rebel prevails could be the first senate flip of the night and that would leave him with only three pickups in the future if they were to do that. >> bret: there you see the balance of power, fox news can project republicans will keep their senate seats in tennessee and oklahoma while democrats will keep their senate seats in illinois, maryland, new jersey, and delaware. all of the other senate races in the states where the polls have now closed are still too early or close to call. the same for gubernatorial races. we will give you any surprises in that as we get them. >> martha: let's take a look at the electoral map right now. 56 for president trump, 91 for joe biden. it's almost as if you're playing the what if game and we are easily fillin

sarah getting in. the and control of the senate could come down to something called ranked choice voting. if neither candidate scores 50.1%, the voter's next choice kicks in and that could boost gideon. it's possible senate control isn't clear until next year, january 5th, 2 days after the new congress begins. both of georgia's senate races could go to a runoff if neither candidate scores a majority. republican senator david perdue is locked in a battle with democrat john all soft and republican senator kelly leffler faces g.o.p. congress when doug collins and democrat rafael warnock. that race almost certainly have storm runoff and which party controls the senate if there is a tie? it's a misnomer that it's automatically the party of the president. it's because the vice president can break ties in the senate. in 1881 vice president chester allen arthur broke three ties in a briefly deadlocked senate, 38 heaven 38. in 1953 and 1954 there were so many deaths that the senate majority switched 12 times. democrats eventually had more senators than republicans. if the democratic leader lyndon johnson allowed republican leader william nolan to operate his majority leader even though the g

. ♪ ♪ collins senator susan declaring victory in a race against her democratic rival, sarah gideon.ke into a live picture of the white house this afternoon with lots of vocal reaction to the election results so far. the race distilled still to be decided. we are expecting to hear from joe biden this afternoon at about 1:45 p.m. eastern and we will have live coverage here on c-span. both he and president trump spoke to supporters last night.