Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is projected to win reelection in Arizona. Democrats are now one seat away from retaining Senate majority.
While Georgia’s race will not be settled until a December runoff, Democrats are cautiously optimistic they can clinch the majority sooner as more mail ballots are counted in Nevada’s tight contest.
Arizona once appeared ripe for a GOP pickup, with especially high inflation and a backlash in the state to the Biden administration’s border policies. Masters sought to cast Kelly as a rubber stamp for Biden.
Internally, this strategy came to be known as the “surge” — a bet that expending resources early would be worth it because it would help define Masters for general-election voters. In Georgia, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock ran just slightly ahead of Republican nominee Herschel Walker, a former football player. But neither candidate met the 50 percent threshold required to avert a runoff.
While Republicans long expected to retake the House, a goal they have yet to clinch, they faced a more uncertain fight over the Senate. Republicans held onto competitive seats in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin in Tuesday’s elections, while Democratic incumbents prevailed in Colorado, New Hampshire and Washington state.The GOP only needs to net five seats for a majority in the House and have expressed confidence they will prevail there.
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