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Donald Trump complains about election fraud – but his candidate in Nevada admits that the chances of victory are decreasing.
During the night, thousands more votes in the state are expected to have been counted.
Should the Democrats win, the battle for the Senate is over.
The turmoil in the mid-term elections in the United States continues.
On Saturday morning, several media outlets confirmed that Democrat Mark Kelly is winning in Arizona over Republican Blake Masters.
Thus the score was 49–49 in the senate election. With Vice President Kamala Harris calling the shots when the polls are 50-50, Republicans must take home both remaining states:
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There, a second round of elections awaits on December 6, as none of the candidates reached a majority. Democrat Raphael Warnock got 49.4 percent, Republican Herschel Walker 48.5 percent and Libertarian Chase Walker 2.1 percent. The latter is not eligible in the knock-out round.
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With 94 percent of the vote counted, Republican Adam Laxalt led Friday night by just 862 votes over incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. The lead has been shrinking day by day as more votes have been counted.
On Saturday night, the registrar of elections in Clark County – where Las Vegas is located – announced that the remaining 22,000 postal votes in the district will be counted overnight. It is expected to happen at 01 o’clock, Swedish time, at the earliest.
In addition, the examination of the thousands of votes that have been declared insecure in the polling station due to, for example, a missing signature or that the person entitled to vote went to the wrong polling station, continues. Many of them, but not all, can be accepted as valid.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Adam Laxalt acknowledged that the situation is difficult.
“Several days in a row, the counted postal votes have continued to give the Democrats higher margins than we expected. It has reduced our chances of victory,” he wrote earlier on Saturday.
He also singled out the remaining mail-in votes in Clark County as crucial.
“If they continue to lean clearly toward the Democrats, she will beat us. Thank you for all the prayers from the millions of Nevadans and Americans who hope that we can still win the Senate and begin to take our country back”.
From Donald Trump – who openly endorsed Adam Laxalt before the election – it sounds different. He continues to spew out unproven allegations of election fraud.
“Now they’re finding all sorts of votes in Clark county, Nevada. They are doing everything they can to steal the election from Adam Laxalt,” he wrote on Friday in its own app Truth Social.
Adam Laxalt has – like, among others, Blake Masters in Arizona and Herschel Walker in Georgia – questioned Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, writes NBC.