The outcome of many Arizona races remained unclear late Tuesday, but there were a few things worth noting as voting ended.
As expected, the outcome of Arizona's top races remained unclear early Wednesday, but there were a few lessons that both parties will be rehashing as voting ended.Election complaints won't go away
That suit failed, but the drama around properly tallying votes seems likely to linger as a source of conspiracies and grievances, especially if Republican candidates fall short of the red wave that many expected. No violence marring the day Arizona's top races remain unsettled, but the public seems to have passed an important initial hurdle.There was a noticeable fall-off in support for top Republicans after Kari Lake, the Republican gubernatorial candidate.
State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, for example, actually had nearly 80,000 more votes than Lake among early returns. Unlike Lake, that put Yee ahead of her Democratic opponent Martin Quezada. For their part, Republicans effectively ceded 14 of the 60 House races and four of the 30 Senate races by failing to even recruit challengers.
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