Sen. Mark Kelly was projected on Friday to defeat Republican challenger Blake Masters and retain his seat in the U.S. Senate after the 2022 midterm elections, boosting Democrats’ chances of keeping control of the upper chamber of Congress.
“Thank you, Arizona,” Kelly said in a short message to Twitter late Friday. He had been projected as the winner by The Washington Post, NBC News and CNN.
With Kelly’s win, Democrats are just one seat away from keeping their control of the Senate as the parties watch the results from a close race in Nevada, as well as the showdown between Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker which will head to a runoff on Dec. 6.
Kelly, who led polls for months, campaigned for reelection as a moderate who promised to protect abortion rights but breaking with President Joe Biden on immigration.
Masters, a venture capitalist, has previously embraced lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Former President Donald Trump.
Trump was quick to blame Masters’ loss on alleged voter fraud, writing on his Truth Social platform that “voting machines in large numbers didn’t work but only in Republican districts.”
“People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands. Even Kari Lake was taken to a Liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren’t so lucky,” Trump wrote.
“This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the Electron from Blake Masters. Do Election over again!”
The Republican National Committee and the Arizona Republican Party sent a statement to reporters late Friday suggesting that “deep flaws” in Maricopa County’s election administration damaged the credibility of the election.
Democrat Adrian Fontes was also projected to defeat election denier Mark Finchem in Arizona’s secretary of state race to replace fellow Democrat Katie Hobbs, who ran for Arizona governor in a tight race against Kari Lake — who fell further behind in the vote count.
Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats are also vying for control of the U.S. House, with CNN projecting that Democrats now have 203 of the 218 seats needed to control the lower chamber.
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United Press International you did a great job by writing a greatly biased article. Oh how I love the communist press! Democracy as defined by communists: Voting is fair with all of the fraud we communists perpetrate on the voters and the “Trump election deniers are traitors to our communist party”! Isn’t communism great for all of the sheep that vote for a communist society and in the end, these sheep cut their own throats by voting in a society that fails the individual.
According to the last Statistic, about 35,000 more people voted for Senator than cast a ballot for Governor,,,,,Just who does that? Obvious a repeat of the 2020 election when tons of mail-in ballots showed up with only Biden’s name on the ballot, no votes for the other candidates,,,,,,ditto copied of course.
AND note, that since late Wed, the GOP has been sitting at 211 seats for the house AND STAYED THERE..
BUT the dems have gone up from 188 or so on Wed, to now 204..
SO IT SEEMS once again, that ONLY DEMS are ‘winning’, when it comes to counting mail in votes..
When is this going to end ? How many elections are we going to allow the radical left to steal from us ???
Unfortunately, without some severe bloodshed, to PUNISH These traitors, i honestly CAN’T see how it will ever end..
AND that fact alone, is making me more and more wonder, WHY THE HELL even bother voting, when the dems SO OVERTLY STEAL THE ELECTION time after time, and keep getting away with it!??!?!?!
If the present is any indication, it will end when there is nothing left for the left to take from American citizens. They will control everything and everyone, those who dare complain will be “reprogramed” and we will be living in Orwell’s 1984 or something even worse.
When something like 48% of citizens not only want but allow changes made to what was once the freest nation the world has ever seen it will change the entire world along with it. They can and will drag us into the trash heap of history and quite possibly another 800-1,000 years of another Dark Ages. This is the result after of the fall of Rome and it may well be ours.
What we have allowed government to do t us and our children is despicable, what we have allowed them to do to our Grandchildren is criminal!
Or so we’re being told.I think there are clear signs of election tampering when you look at Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania—perhaps among others. The unprocessed ballot count in Arizona was constantly changing and we are now almost a week past the election.
The powers that be are flashing a middle finger at us American citizens. We can’t even cast a vote and trust that it will count where it is supposed to nor that there won’t be any underhanded chicanery going on within the system to alter the final outcome. It is enough to make you want to throw your hands up and just throw in the towel.
A hand recount is needed here. If this is not done, the election is a farce.
ITS A farce period.
WHEN 3rd world nations, can require everyone to vote IN PERSON, the DAY OF THE ELECTION, WITH ID, and still manage to get EVERY Vote tallied by the end of the following day, or EARLIER.
HOW In gods name, can’t WE as a nation with such tecnology we have, DO THE SAME???
Another George Soros purchase. I agree with the previous writer who commented that there should have been a hand count. We in Arizona know that Kelly is bought and paid for and the border is going to continue being a problem by this Biden rubber stamp man
why is soros still breathing? he is a nazi and has interfered in our elections.
BECAUSE the dems keep winning, and thus he stays protected.