Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has defeated Republican Blake Masters in Arizona’s Senate race. Arizona has been one of many hardest-fought battlegrounds this 12 months, after each Kelly and President Joe Biden received narrowly in 2020. That marked the primary time the state had two Democratic senators since 1953 and simply the second time a Democrat had received the state’s presidential election since 1948. With Democrats having held the Senate by the narrowest potential margin for the previous two years, this can be a critically necessary win.
Kelly was elected simply two years in the past in a particular election following the 2018 dying of Sen. John McCain. Now he can have a full six-year time period.
Holy crap, what an incredible evening! The place will we even start this week’s episode of The Downballot? Effectively, we all know precisely the place: abortion. Co-hosts David Nir and David Beard recap Tuesday’s extraordinary outcomes, beginning with a clear-eyed examination of the problem that animated Democrats as by no means earlier than—and that pundits acquired so badly incorrect. Additionally they focus on candidate high quality (nonetheless actually necessary!), Democratic meddling in GOP primaries (good for democracy, really), and “smooth” Biden disapprovers (a lot of them voted for Democrats).