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David details the counties to watch for outcome clues on election night.
Transcript:
Hey. This is David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. And with less than a week to go until election day, everyone's asking us what places will you be watching on election night for the earliest indications of which way this thing's headed. And so I decided to put together a list of a baker's dozen of counties that I'll be watching for clues.And these aren't all bellwether counties in the swing states. Some of them are just counties that either side is counting on to make progress relative to four years ago in order to win statewide. And keep in mind that in twenty twenty, the election, even if Joe Biden won nationally seven million more votes than Donald Trump, it came down to just forty two thousand nine hundred eighteen votes across the three states of
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