Kyrsten Sinema’s lead is growing in the Arizona Senate race, as the vote that is outstanding is coming Democratic-leaning urban areas.
Here are the latest results:
Friday Night #AZSEN Update: As expected, Sinema expands lead to 21,185 votes. These were more early ballots received by Maricopa County prior to Election Day. From this batch, Sinema 43863 votes (57.7%) to McSally's 32195 votes (42.3%). There are still about 380,000 ballots out. pic.twitter.com/J28IEcO20O
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 10, 2018
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Most of the outstanding vote is in urban areas favoring Sinema:
Another dump of Maricopa ballots and Sinema is now up by almost 22k votes out of 2m counted in #AZSenate. About 400k remain to be counted, largely in urban areas pic.twitter.com/6ZBJaFhB71
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) November 10, 2018
Opinions vary from it doesn’t look good for Republican McSally to it’s over:
Yeah these are not promising numbers for McSally. #AZSEN https://t.co/kURb0JmoDP
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 9, 2018
Crazy Things Can Happen, But This Looks Good For Democrats
It won’t be official until one candidate has an insurmountable lead, but given the trajectory of this election, it sure looks like Sinema is heading for victory over McSally.
Plus, Laura Ingraham is sad:
This is a total joke. https://t.co/3cb2h0wfbV
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 10, 2018
The midterm election is the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats. With recounts on the horizon in Florida, the fun might not be finished just yet, as Republican claims that there was not a blue wave are being stomped into dust. Here’s something to look forward to. In 2020 Republicans will be defending 22 Senate seats to 12 for Democrats. Republicans will be on defense soon enough, which means that they may live to regret all the seats that could have picked up, but didn’t in 2018.
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