What S Left To Measure In Maricopa County Arizona

Control of the U.S. Senate could hinge on Nevada and Arizona, two states where Republican wins could showcase some of the country’s most prominent election denialists, even after other candidates who had boosted falsehoods were rejected. of former President Donald Trump on the 2020 election. Tuesday’s midterm elections. Those two western states — perennial battlegrounds in presidential years — were still too early to call early Thursday morning, while a third Democratic-held seat, Georgia, will move to a December runoff, according to projects of CNN. Republicans must pick up two Democratic seats to win the majority. As ballots continue to be counted across the country, Republicans appear to be inching closer to the 218 seats that would give them a majority in the House, though it is much narrower than they expected. The Senate race, however, is still full of unknowns — including whether it will again end up in Georgia after the Peach State handed Democrats the majority in 2021 with two runoff victories. It’s Nevada and Arizona that will determine how pivotal Georgia becomes. Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly held a lead over Republican Blake Masters as of early Thursday morning, while Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto trailed Republican Adam Laxalt. CNN had estimated late Wednesday that about 600,000 votes remained to be counted across the Grand Canyon State and about 160,000 votes remained to be counted in Nevada. Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general, co-chaired Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign in the state and filed lawsuits trying to overturn Nevada’s results in that election, which he said were “rigged.” Cortez Masto had argued that the lies and election conspiracy theories espoused by Trump and allies like Laxalt led to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Masters, a businessman and first-time candidate, released a campaign video while vying for the GOP nomination in which he said he believed Trump had won the 2020 election. Masters, like Laxalt, won Trump’s endorsement. After winning the Arizona Senate primary, Masters briefly appeared to distance himself from that extreme rhetoric — scrubbing his website, for example, of language that included the false claim that the election had been stolen. In a conversation with Kelly, he also admitted that he had seen no evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election. But the Republican nominee appeared to reverse course after receiving a phone call from Trump urging him to “step up” the election denial, a conversation captured in a Fox documentary. Continue reading here.

title: “What S Left To Measure In Maricopa County Arizona " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-02” author: “Florence French”

Control of the U.S. Senate could hinge on Nevada and Arizona, two states where Republican wins could showcase some of the country’s most prominent election denialists, even after other candidates who had boosted falsehoods were rejected. of former President Donald Trump on the 2020 election. Tuesday’s midterm elections. Those two western states — perennial battlegrounds in presidential years — were still too early to call early Thursday morning, while a third Democratic-held seat, Georgia, will move to a December runoff, according to projects of CNN. Republicans must pick up two Democratic seats to win the majority. As ballots continue to be counted across the country, Republicans appear to be inching closer to the 218 seats that would give them a majority in the House, though it is much narrower than they expected. The Senate race, however, is still full of unknowns — including whether it will again end up in Georgia after the Peach State handed Democrats the majority in 2021 with two runoff victories. It’s Nevada and Arizona that will determine how pivotal Georgia becomes. Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly held a lead over Republican Blake Masters as of early Thursday morning, while Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto trailed Republican Adam Laxalt. CNN had estimated late Wednesday that about 600,000 votes remained to be counted across the Grand Canyon State and about 160,000 votes remained to be counted in Nevada. Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general, co-chaired Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign in the state and filed lawsuits trying to overturn Nevada’s results in that election, which he said were “rigged.” Cortez Masto had argued that the lies and election conspiracy theories espoused by Trump and allies like Laxalt led to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Masters, a businessman and first-time candidate, released a campaign video while vying for the GOP nomination in which he said he believed Trump had won the 2020 election. Masters, like Laxalt, won Trump’s endorsement. After winning the Arizona Senate primary, Masters briefly appeared to distance himself from that extreme rhetoric — scrubbing his website, for example, of language that included the false claim that the election had been stolen. In a conversation with Kelly, he also admitted that he had seen no evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election. But the Republican nominee appeared to reverse course after receiving a phone call from Trump urging him to “step up” the election denial, a conversation captured in a Fox documentary. Continue reading here.