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>> I'm Frederica Freyberg. You're watching live
election night coverage in Wisconsin.Live
footage from Central Count in Milwaukee shows
election workers busily counting absentee
ballots after an issue theretoday
. The statewide results atthis hour are
showing with 59%of
precincts reporting in the race
for president. Donald Trump leads with 50.3% of
the vote to
Kamala Harris's 48.3%. In the
Wisconsin U.S. Senate race ,Democrat Tammy Baldwin
sits at48.8% to Republican
Eric Hovde 49.2%. For more, we
turn to senior political reporter ZacSchultz, who's
at the Tammy Baldwin election night
headquarters in Madison. Zach, what do you make
of the resultsso far?
That's very well . We've got a
long way to go. What this doesshow
is what we thought allalong. It was
going to be a veryclose race. One
of the things that's interesting to look at
is what is that difference betweenthe presidenti
al race and theU.S.
Senate race? The question for a lot of
people was, Could Tammy Baldwin run
ahead of Kamala Harris if she
needed to in order to
win reelection to her seat, especially if
Donald Trump carries Wisconsin?
And right now, there is a slightdifference.
Another thing that we're going to be looking
at, obviously, is waiting for allthe
rest of those absenteeballots
to come in from a lot ofthe
big, bluer cities around Wisconsin. And
Janesville and Green Bay and Oshkosh
and Milwaukee, especially a lot
of ballots waiting to come in there
. And so we should expect to see
Donald Trump come out to a
lead over the next hour or
so. As more and more of these
precincts report, because otherwise, with
the number of Democratic ballotsyet to
be released out of thosecentral accounts, then
Kamala Harris will be way ahead. Sothat
should be what we should beexpecting. The
question is that comparing his performances insome
of these counties that
don't have absentee ballots left, comparing them to
2020 to 24, to see where he's doing
better or where he's doing
worse. any other results you're
following that stand out?>> This kind of.
Absolutely. I'm looking at three critical
state Senate races, actually, four of
them, the eighth and northernMilwaukee
area in Ozaukee County .Right now, the
incumbent, Duey Stroebel Republican,
is just a little bit behind. That's
one to watch. The green Bay
area Senate race. We're going to wait on
central count absentee ballots.And that one,
there's the Fox Valley Appleton race where the
Democrats could flip a seatwhere they're ahead
just slightly. The four teams northof Madison,
the Democrats aheadslightly.
So those are just someof the more
important races that we'll have to wait till
the end of the night. Fred.>> All
right. And it will be along night,
to be sure. Zac Schultz, thanks so much.
Be sure to visit Wisconsin Vote.org forup
to the minute election results. We now return
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