>> shepard: steve harrigan reporting live from georgia. in arizona, the democratic candidate for senate taking a narrow lead for the first time in a race that is still too close to call. the judge is the starting to hear arguments in a lawsuit from the gop side. dan springer reporting live from phoenix. >> shep, we'll got a lot more votes later on today. so far only a few thousand have trickled in. they haven't changed the lead. kirsten sinema surged into the lead and appears to be in good shape to turn this senate seat in arizona blue. the key is what she did yesterday in maricopa county. she extended her lead by 27,000 votes, her lead now 6,000 votes but nearly all of the almost 500,000 votes yet to be counted are here in maricopa. the sinema camp released a statement saying trends will continue in kirsten's direction and she will be arizona's next senator. martha mcsally. she's just as confident that the trend will change back in her direction. there's still 500,000 votes to count. nearly all are in maricopa. that's where legal drama is

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steve harrigan reporting live. >> shepard, this was suppose to be an easy senate race for the republicanssippi has not sent a democrat to the senate since 1982. but cindy hyde-smith has made a number of missteps in addition to the one you referenced about the public hanging and told a group of college students that it would be a good idea to make it harder to vote for liberal folk. the comments were made in jest and her opponent is taking them out of context. >> i also recognize that this comment was twisted and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me, a political weapon used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent. >> espy is having ethical challenges under his own. he's come under criticism for accepting $750,000 in lobby fees from the former leader of the ivory coast who is now on trial for war crimes. espy has attacked hyde-smith in her comments about the public lynch saying her comments are reprehensible. >> i don't know what is in your heart but it came out of your mouth. it went viral. >> president trump carried mississippi by 18 points in 2016. the fac

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steve harrigan reporting live from atlanta. >> reporter: shepherd, the fight is still going on here in georgia. the tone is getting sharp, indeed. brian kemp, the republican's team, is saying abe bram's failure to conceit is a to democracy. to force those counties to accept provisional ballots which were rejected for what they say are arbitrary reasons. as it stand now, kemp has about a 59,000 vote lead. he has got 50.3% of the vote. if that were to dip below 50 percent, that would mean a runoff vote on december 4th. how many votes are still out there uncounted. the kemp side says 17,000, mathematically impossible for the democrat to win. the abrams side says there could be as many as 30,000 votes out there. by 5:00 p.m., that's when all the georgia counties are scheduled to certify their votes unless a lawsuit against in the way. >> steve harrigan reporting from atlanta. >>> congress is back in d.c. for a brand new session. the year is nearly over. the fights clearly are not. what lawmakers will need to do to prevent a partial government shutdown. >>> top democrats are telling preside

steve harrigan live in atlanta. steve, thank you. there is also plenty of uncertainty in florida tonight. a hand recount of ballots for senate moves towards resolution one vote at a time. correspondent peter doocy is in lawyere law der hill florida. there are outstanding mail ballots with improper signatures that could be fixed by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. that is according to a spreadsheet just posted by bill nelson's lawyer. 5700 is less than half as many as they need to win because their vote total isn't exactly being beefed up by the recount. >> at the hand recount there was a lot of head-scratching like who did this person prefer when he or she voted for both rick scott and bill nelson or what exactly does this bubble on the right mean? then, did this person know that none of the candidates live in the magic kingdom when writing in mickey mouse? things got hazy in columbia county when a vote for willie nelson could be for bill nelson, despite the confusion, ronna mcdaniel saw nothing improper in broward county. >> i sat at a table doi

phil keating in riviera beach, steve harrigan in atlanta. >> reporter: stacy abrams acknowledged she lost the governor's race to brian kemp. kemp got 2,000 million votes, he narrowly avoided a runoff election by getting 50.2% of the vote. abrams was fighting hard trying to get 17,000 additional votes forcing a runoff election next month. she says there was no legal means to do so. in her concession speech she said it wasn't really a concession. >> watching an elected official, baldly pinned his hopes for election on suppression of the peoples democratic right to vote has been truly appalling. let's be clear. this is not a speech of concession. >> reporter: itself didn't sound like a concession speech. abrams said you are supposed to say nice things about your opponent in the race but she was having none of that saying georgia failed the voters, the state failed democracy. she blamed brian kemp, the chief elections officer, secretary of state, she said was his fault and he ran a vicious campaign. kemp early on referred to abrams's failure to concede as, quote, a temper tantrum. a diff

let's begin with steve harrigan. he is in a great town of tennessee. steve?r: dana, just a beautiful day here in franklin, tennessee. really been a tough fight in the state. president trump carried the state by 26 points in 2016. both candidates have been criss crossing tennessee trying to get in some last minute campaigning. marsha blackburn has had three visits from president trump during the campaign. she said she is confident in victory today. >> we are working hard. i'm going to be your next senator. >> reporter: phil bredesen said he's encouraged especially from support of younger voter. he said he's tried to make the race about local issues. >> my race is in no way a referendum on donald trump. >> do you think voter doss? >> reporter: this has been the most expensive race in tennessee history. $80 million spent. $50 million is from outside groups trying to influence who controls the senate. dana, back to you. >> dana: in the red state of indiana, voters are deciding between joe donnelly and his candidate mike braun. jeff flock is in the hoosier state.

steve harrigan in atlanta with the latest. >> neil, wore likely to find out something in the next couple hours here in atlanta. it's not clear. stacey abrams the democrat, that trails by 50,000 votes is scheduled in speak in an hour. will it be a concession speech, doesn't sound like it or an extreme legal challenge to this entire vote? will the abrams campaign as they'd have discussed issue a legal challenge saying this vote in georgia was so corrupt and so irregular that it affecting an outcome and asking the judge to overthrow the vote and have a recount. it would be a high bar. they talked about it. as it stands right now, the republican brian kemp in the next few hours, he could be certified as the winner of this election. he stands at 50.2% of the vote. that would have to go below 50% for a run-off vote in december. abrams would need 17,000 votes. the tone here is changing. it's getting worse each day. the latest from kemp saying that abrams' behavior, not conceding, is a ridiculous temper tantrum. we could see news in the coming hours and tempers growing shorter. back to you. >> t

we have fox reporter steve harrigan join us from there. they need one of those two. is it looking in tennessee, tonight, steve? reporter: on surface this wouldn't seem like much of a fight. president trump won this state in a landslide by 26 points in 2016, but it has become a fight with the two candidates crisscrossing the state on the last day of campaigning. records being set for early voting, 1.3 million. that is is triple what it was the last midterm elections. records being set for spending as well. $80 million spent much more than double the previous high for a senate race here. trump campaigned here and campaigned hard for marsha blackburn, the republican candidate. he made three visits here to try to make sure what has become a close race goes to the republicans. the competitor, phil bredesen, he is former governor, popular. he is trying to describe himself as a problem-solver. he says he is getting a boost in the youth vote after endorsement from taylor swift. connell, back to you. connell: steve, thank you. good reporting there. one more for you, guys. we'l

train to steve harrigan, thank you very much. eric: president trump and make pencil being chattanooga tonight. congresswoman but are in across the finish line. she joins us now from chattanooga. first i want to point out we did reach out for an interview with your opponent, former governor bredesen but declined the opportunity this weekend and is welcome to come on another time. tonight you've got the president and the vice president come a doubleheader. what is your view on the fact we saw thousands of people lining up now even though the rally is still six hours away? >> i have to tell you there is so much excitement about his beard people are looking forward to welcoming the president and the vice president here in east tennessee in chattanooga. the lines are very long. there's a lot of energy. thousands of people have sought to get reservations to get in that arena tonight. this is going to be a great event and help us with our message that tennesseans want to make certain that we have more constitutional judges. we secure th

steve harrigan is live in chattanooga. why is this race, steve, important to the president? >> he made his third visit to tennessee last night to support marsha blackburn. the seat is important to him and this race is a lot closer than expected and that's why he is here pounding away for marsha blackburn. he got a huge crowd last night. 10,000 people. most of them outside waiting for 10 hours to get inside that stadium. the president talked about the strong economy but he got his biggest roar of approval when he mentioned the caravan. >> president trump: democrats want to invite caravan aftercare van of illegal aliens to pour into our country. i don't think so. i am telling the caravans, the criminals. the smugglers, the trespassers marching toward our border turn back now because you are not getting in. >> president trump said a vote for marsha blackburn is a vote for me making this tennessee senate race a referendum on his presidency, sandra. >> sandra: why is this closer than expected? >> you wouldn't ordinarily think a senate race in tennessee would be close. they haven'

steve harrigan live in tennessee at a polling station. how is this one shaping up, steve?as been a battle for weeks here in tennessee. enough so that president trump has made three trips to tennessee to back the republican marsha blackburn running against a different kind of democrat here. former governor phil bredesen. he is popular and the man who brought professional sports teams to nashville. a low-key guy who has taken odds with the democratic leadership calling them elite and some of their ideas stupid saying he is willing to work with president trump and may be why trump has come down here so often despite the fact he carried the state by 26 points in 2016 and it's been 28 years since tennessee has sent a democrat to the senate, bill. >> bill: an idea of the strategy on each side. how does it look to you? >> we're seeing two very different stieltion. bredesen is an old school, low key deal maker guy. marsha blackburn calls herself a hard core conservative proud to be politically incorrect and both candidates are trying to shape the race according to their own issues