Kelly’s victory over Blake Masters means the Democrats need to keep either Nevada or Georgia to hold upper chamber
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly has won re-election, putting the Democrats one seat away from holding the upper chamber in midterm elections and dealing another blow to former president Donald Trump’s far-right faction of the Republican Party.
A key swing state that helped give Joe Biden the presidency in 2020, Arizona was a prime target of Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Both Mr. Masters and Kari Lake, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state, back the ex-president’s conspiracy theories.In a post on his Truth Social website containing an unfortunate typo, Mr. Trump baselessly claimed that the Arizona Senate election had been rigged, too. “They stole the Electron from Blake Masters,” he wrote.
He also favours stopping U.S. help for Ukraine and once floated the outlandish notion that the FBI was somehow responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. In the vote for secretary of state, Democrat Adrian Fontes, a Phoenix election official, defeated Mark Finchem. A state legislator who fought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Mr. Finchem was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and is a former member of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia.
In Nevada, Republican former attorney-general Adam Laxalt is virtually tied in the vote count with incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. About five per cent of ballots still have to be tabulated.
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