Domain Registration

Democrat Mark Kelly projected to win Arizona Senate race, flipping a seat

  • November 06, 2020

Mark Kelly will win Arizona’s Senate race, NBC News projected Friday, flipping the second seat of the 2020 election for Democrats.

As of midday, Kelly had a lead of 3.4 percentage points over Republican Sen. Martha McSally, 51.7% to 48.3%, with 91% of the total votes counted. Kelly has won 1,600,332 votes thus far, an advantage of 103,133 votes over McSally, whose total stands at 1,497,199 votes.

The expected victory would make Arizona the third state where a Senate seat changes hands this year after Democrats won GOP-controlled Colorado and Republicans carried Democratic-held Alabama.

Both parties will have at least 47 seats entering the next Congress.

Kelly, 56, is a former Navy captain and astronaut, and he is married to former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who survived a gunshot to the head in 2011. Giffords went on to become a leader of the gun violence prevention movement.

McSally, 54, also has a military background, having served for more than 25 years in the Air Force, where she became the first woman to fly a fighter jet in combat. 

Kelly maintained a lead over McSally in nearly every poll since he first entered the race, a reflection of what both Democratic and Republican strategists said was his overall strength as a candidate.

Kelly’s campaign also vastly out raised McSally’s, although both candidates raised record-breaking sums for an Arizona political race. By Sept. 30, Kelly had raised a total of $82.8 million for his campaign, compared to $50.9 million raised by the McSally campaign.

Throughout his campaign, Kelly touted his political independence over any ties to the Democratic Party. After decades as an independent, in 2018 Kelly registered as a Democrat for the first time.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/06/arizona-senate-election-results.html

Related News

Search

Get best offer

Booking.com
%d bloggers like this: