look at these two states and these these vast troughs of votes still outstanding where does
the fight for control of the Senate then stand at this hour so let's go into the states individually
first well before I do that you make the key point so we've called we have 49-48 that's where we are
right now the current United States Senate is 50 50. so I can give you a scenario we know Georgia
will have a runoff on December 6th there's a scenario in which Republicans could have
control regardless of Georgia there's a scenario where Democrats could have control regardless
of Georgia or there's a scenario where Georgia once again decides control of the Senate we'll
go through that in a moment let's first just look at these states and let's follow up on what you
were hearing from Gary and from Josh number one in Nevada when I went to bed early this morning
kind of middle early this morning I guess it was it's hard to remember when you're on day three uh
Adam black salt was leading in Washoe County I bring up washu County because it's a swing
County northwest corner of the state it's about 15 percent of the population Clark County where Vegas
is is much bigger but this is important Aaron in terms of Nevada politics and that it's viewed as
the swing County and the winner here often wins Statewide Court Catherine Cortez Master the
Democratic incumbent leading now but look at that 48.8 to 48.6 that is what we were talking about in
terms of the closeness of the contest here come out to Statewide 49.4 to 47.6 if you'd rather be
a head than behind at any point in the race but as Gary noted 120 000 or so more ballots Adam
laxalt obviously uh in the lead by 15 000 right now Statewide Senator Cortez masto has to make
that up for her the advantage is if you go to the red rural counties most of the vote is in they're
smaller anyway and Clark County is 74 percent of the vote Statewide 74 of the population it
will be somewhere in that ballpark of the vote Statewide Senator Cortez masto is already ahead
in Clark County so she's behind Statewide a little bit but ahead in Clark County that's where most of
the votes are still to be counted so we're not done here and there's reason for the Democrats
to think the math allows us to pull it out and then when you come over as Josh just said this
is the Statewide count right now Mark Kelly just shy of a hundred thousand votes but with hundreds
of thousands more to be counted let's be paid we got to walk through this one all right so there's
the Senate as you talk about and patience is a huge virtue in this situation we're in right now
um obviously Democrats have a chance of holding the Senate even without waiting for the Georgia
runoff though I mean that's I guess that's if you do the math right you get two you're you've got it
that's what we're doing we're doing a lot of math and we'll be doing math we're going to be
doing math for at least well December 6th we'll be doing the final math here the question is how
consequential is it obviously to the citizens of Georgia their next United States Senator is
consequential but let's get to the point you were just making here's where we are right now in terms
of the races we have called again 49 Republican seats 48 Democratic seats those on the ballot
this year and those already called so what happens out here if Mark Kelly holds his lead in Arizona
not guaranteed but we're doing a hypothetical if he holds his lead there and Senator Cortez masto
can come back and take the lead and win Nevada then for the Democrats Georgia would be gravy in
the Democrats only need 50 to control the United States Senate because they have vice president
Harris so Georgia then would be can we get to 51 and Senator Harris could leave Washington a
little bit more she wouldn't have to be around to break all those tie votes that's one consequence
of that so yes Democrats can win their majority protect their majority without Georgia however
I just want to put on the table Republicans can also win the majority without Georgia if
Senator black South holds on and Blake Masters comes back in Arizona he's trailing right now
but we're still counting hundreds of thousands of votes Republicans could get to 51. and Georgia
maybe Democrats get to 49 or Republicans get to 42. that's why this is so consequential
these two races out here will determine how consequential Georgia is on December
6th that's why we're going to count these votes and if you're a democrat or a republican whether
you live in those States or whether you care about the balance of power here where I work
in Washington uh this these are tense times and they will be tense days I believe before we know
the answer they are going to be definitely tense days as we said with 600 000 votes outstanding
we do anticipate more coming in tonight but but not all and this is a case where you're going
to need virtually all to make to make these calls all right thank you so much John King