Sinema’s lead is now up to 28,673 over McSally. Fingers crossed that this holds through the remaining couple of hundred thousand votes to be counted.
Very likely as most votes to be counted come from places with more Blue voters, such as Maricopa county [Phoenix and surrounding areas] and Pima County [Mostly Tucson]
It is official now: the Putin boot licker and science ignoramus is toast:
Sinema now leads McSally by 29,832 votes.
And there were two lead changes in the AZ Secretary of State race today. The GOP candidate is back on top, but by a mere 259 votes.
ETA: Dave Wasserman (Cook Political Report) projects Sinema as the winner, says this race has been over for days.
Some idiot Tweeted, "WOW. The AZ election official destroying evidence to cook the books for @kyrstensinema defended narco-terrorists.
Now it’s all making sense why he’s stretching the rules for Kyrsten “I Don’t Care If Americans Join The Taliban” Sinema."
An Jeff Flake replied (remember, this was his seat): “There is no evidence of election officials “cooking the books” in Arizona. Such careless language undermines confidence in our democratic institutions.”
Twitler says Florida ballots are “massively infected”: Donald Trump: End Florida recount with ballots 'massively infected'
Since he’s something of a pathogen in the American body politic, he should know.
Her lead is nearly 40k and has done little other than expand.
I think winning the House was the easy part; the more complicated task is going to be uniting the party behind a presidential candidate. There are different ideas of what the democratic party should be, and which face should represent it. In the end, they’ll have to agree to be anti-Trump first and face of the party second.
The Republican candidate has conceded in the Arizona US Senate race: Kyrsten Sinema victory flips Arizona Senate seat to Democrats | CNN Politics
2016 was the first time since Carter in 1980 that it was hard to unite the party behind the candidate. And the only reason it was hard in 2016 was that Bernie was a dog in the manger about the whole thing.
Bernie will be a footnote in 2020. I don’t see a reason to expect difficulties in uniting behind a candidate.
Katie Hobbs, the Dem nominee, now leads in the AZ Secretary of State race by over 5,600 votes.
A FB post claims that Chatham County, Georgia ‘reported no mail-in ballots’. It shows a tweet by ‘Tiff Whit’ that says, ‘My absentee ballot just showed back up in my mailbox today. It says “return to sender… not deliverable as addressed… unable to forward”. How is the pre-addressed PO Box not a deliverable address?’ There is a photo of the envelope, marked 11PM on November 2nd, with a label that ostensibly has the return stamp. (I don’t see anything that shows it has been returned, though I suppose the poster would not have taken a picture of it if it hadn’t been.)
I tried to find a news article about this, but was unsuccessful. Has anybody fact-checked this?
I read a story about that on my phone this morning, but I can’t find it now.
Utah 4th district the Dem challenger was up by 7k votes last Tues but now his lead is just 1k. The rest of the votes are coming from more Dem areas so he may be able to hold on and win.
Maine incumbent Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin is suing because he’s losing in the ranked choice voting system, calling Maine’s ranked choice vote count system unconstitutional. Funny he didn’t complain before the election.
A county judge in Florida ordered the recount extended for 5 additional days in Palm Beach.
Actually, if I understand correctly, he did complain; he was the only candidate who refused in advance to voluntarily accept the results of ranked choice.