Democrats inched closer to holding on to the levers of power in the Senate as Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, the party’s incumbent, defeated Blake Masters, a venture capitalist endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump, according to The Associated Press. The contest was prolonged by the counting of hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots, with the process once again fomenting false claims of election fraud on the far right, which was largely rebuked in the midterm elections.
Mr. Kelly’s victory in his battleground state, one that has been a hotbed for the election denial movement, means that Democrats need to win just one of the two remaining Senate races that are undecided to keep control of the chamber.
Democrats appeared on the cusp of securing control of the Senate over the weekend, as the counting of mail ballots in Nevada brought Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democratic incumbent, within 1,000 votes of overtaking her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, for the final seat the party needs to maintain its 50-50 Senate majority.
All eyes will be on Clark County, home to Las Vegas, which is a Democratic stronghold. Ms. Cortez Masto has led mail ballots tabulated after Election Day there by nearly two to one, a margin that would be more than enough to overtake Mr. Laxalt if the trend continues among the approximately 25,000 mail ballots that remain to be counted.
The bulk of the remaining mail ballots in Clark County are expected to be reported on Saturday (though...
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday rejected the claims of Congress MLAs from Tamil Nadu being shifted to a resort in Bengaluru post Assembly elections. He further said that ...