BREAKING: Democrat Mark Kelly projected to win Senate race in Arizona
Democrats are closer to maintaining their slim majority in the Senate since the junior senator held his seat.The 2022 midterm voting period ended Tuesday night, but the public still awaits results from ongoing ballot counts that could determine the balance of power in both chambers of Congress.Sen.
Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and Navy combat pilot, who is married to former Rep. Gabby Giffords, ran a well-funded campaign with nearly $80 million fundraised to Masters' $12 million. In a tranche of TV ads, Kelly told Arizonans he's focused on job creation, protecting abortion rights, and securing the southern border, supporting barriers on the southern border "when appropriate." He said he stands up to President Joe Biden and Democrats "when they're wrong.
Kelly, meanwhile, used Masters' words from the primary trail against him, claiming Masters would support a federal abortion ban, privatizing social security, and spread baseless doubts about American elections since he has alleged, without evidence, that the 2020 presidential race was corrupt. Kelly also argued that Masters would be beholden to Trump, who Arizonans rejected in 2020, though by his slimmest of losing margins. In the final days of Kelly's campaign, he included in his stump speech a mention of a phone call Trump made to Masters after their Senate debate, when Trump told him he should've gone harder on the "rigged" election conspiracy theory.
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