In both Nevada and Arizona, it is extremely even and it is still too early to declare winners. In Nevada, Republican challenger Adam Laxalt narrowly leads incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Mastro. Laxalt, the state’s former attorney general, had, according to CNN, a prominent role in Trump’s attempt to change the 2020 Nevada presidential election results.
— We believe that dead voters have been counted. We are also confident that there are thousands of people whose votes were counted, even though they have moved from Clark County during the pandemic, Adam Laxalt said at a press conference at the time, demanding that a federal court stop the counting of “erroneous votes.”
In Arizona, the incumbent senator, Democrat Mark Kelly, has the lead. But Republican challenger Blake Masters chimes in. In former venture capitalist Masters’ campaign video ahead of the midterm elections, he said he believes Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
Senate candidate Blake Masters during a campaign rally in Chandler, Arizona in August.
In later debates, he toned down his rhetoric, something that, however, changed after he spoke with Trump on the phone. In the conversation, which was captured in a Fox News documentary, Trump urges Masters to “go harder” on the election denial.
After Tuesday’s midterm elections, the Democratic side has 48 seats and the Republicans 49 in the United States Senate. In addition to Arizona and Nevada, votes also remain to be counted in Georgia, where it is already clear that a second round of elections awaits in December. If a party wins both in Arizona and Nevada, however, it does not matter for the balance of power how it goes in Georgia.