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Dems steal a seat - US Midterm Elections

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00:00Hello everybody, I'm Scott Shuey and welcome back to Golf News' ongoing coverage of the

00:072018 midterm elections in the U.S.

00:10We're starting to see election results come in pretty quickly.

00:12Ed, what are you seeing?

00:14Yeah, they're coming in thick and fast now, Scott.

00:16A couple of very interesting early results being predicted.

00:21The Florida race for Senate is extremely tight, razor thin in fact.

00:2783% of the votes counted, Nelson, the Democrat incumbent, on 50.2% of the votes, whilst his

00:36Republican opponent, Scott, on 49.8%.

00:39I mean, about 29,000 votes separates these two, so extremely, extremely close there and

00:45we'll have a final result relatively soon.

00:48Also in the Texas race for the Senate, Beto O'Rourke, who many didn't expect to be able

00:56to beat Ted Cruz, again, extremely early, but he is slightly ahead.

01:03So a couple of very, very interesting races there.

01:06Another interesting race we're still looking at has been Kentucky's 6th District.

01:12Amy McGrath, who's a U.S. Marine and very progressive, was leading by only about 20

01:19votes against Republican Andy Barr.

01:22And this was supposed to be sort of a referendum on the entire race, watching who would win

01:25there, the Republicans or the progressive Democrats.

01:28So we're still watching that one.

01:29And of course, we'll all be coming back to watch the Beto O'Rourke versus Ted Cruz, because

01:33that was supposed to be one of the more contentious Senate wins.

01:36Now, I'll tell you one thing I do find interesting, they're saying that about 35 races have been

01:40called so far, with about 19 Democrats and 16 Republican seats called in the House.

01:48The interesting thing on that one is that we're still looking at generally Southern

01:51states and they generally tend to be more conservative.

01:55We're talking about everything from Texas to Florida and including Indiana.

01:59We haven't seen the results so far out of New York, New England or even on the West

02:03Coast where polls are still open.

02:05So we'll have to keep watching those because we're going to see a lot more Democrats win

02:09in those districts.

02:10So it's still a long way to go tonight, but some very interesting results so far.

02:14Yeah.

02:15And one last thing, the Democrats scored their first flip of the race in Virginia.

02:21It was largely expected, but they have stolen a seat in the House of Representatives from

02:25the Republicans and many are calling it a bellwether that potentially may presage the

02:31blue wave in the House.

02:33So let's see what happens there.

02:35All right, everyone, keep checking back with gulfnews.com.

02:37We'll be updating the results throughout the evening and thank you for watching.