Democrat Mark Kelly won the Senate seat from Arizona – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

CNN. CBS and the New York Times report tonight that Kelly’s lead in the count is now so large that the election is clear in the state. Kelly beat the Republican candidate, Blake Masters. The census in the populous state of Arizona has taken a long time. still not all the postal votes have been counted, but Kelly’s lead has increased as the counting progressed. Kelly leads by more than 5 percentage points over the Masters. The rent is over 100,000 votes. Several hundred thousand postal votes are still being counted. All ballots are first counted by machine, and then counted by hand, under the control of at least one observer from each party. it takes time. Mark Kelly greeted his supporters on election night in his home state of Arizona. Photo: Alberto Mariani / AP A seat from the majority The Democrats and Republicans have now secured 49 senate seats each. There are two seats that have not yet been decided, from the states of Nevada and Georgia. The Republicans need both to get 51 seats and a majority in the Senate. The Democrats have a majority if they get one more seat. With 50 seats, they can secure a majority by using the extra vote for the vice-president. In Nevada, Democrat Catherine Masto takes on her Republican rival, Adam Laxhalt, who is still leading, by a much smaller margin than in Arizona. It also says that a large number of postal votes are in the count. Typically, there is a Democratic majority among postal votes in the United States. In Georgia, the difference between the two candidates is so small that there will be a re-election on 6 December. Former astronaut Kelly is a former astronaut who has been in space four times. He is married to former congress representative Gabby Giffords, who in 2011 survived an assassination attempt when she was shot in the head while campaigning. Kelly was first elected to the Senate in a special election to fill the seat left by Republican Senator John McCain who died in 2020. Kelly was then re-elected for a six-year term, and now re-elected. Defended the right to abortion In the election campaign, Kelly defended women’s right to abortion, and together with Gabby Giffords he runs an organization that fights for stricter gun regulations in the USA.



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