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And here’s as good of an explanation as any:Lerxst1992 said:Halifax2TheMax said:A lot of demographic data here on but one NY district that flipped from blue to red, granted it’s from 2020. That said, how much did redistricting skew it toward red and how did the demographics change as a result? Higher average incomes? More white but less citizens? More unemployment and crime? Need to see 2022 demographics to compare.
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-17-nyLong Island always had usually 3 of 5 seats dem, sometimes 2. Now due to census it’s four seats and all are to the GOP and none of the races were close. It’s never been like this. Maybe Hochul was weak but the crime message resonated 100% here, and trump has always been stronger than the average blue region here. The AOC liberal extremism gets zero momentum ten miles from her home
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/nyregion/republicans-election-ny-suburbs.html
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GOP-controlled Arizona county refuses to certify electionBy JONATHAN J. COOPER1 hour ago
PHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused on Monday to certify the 2022 election, despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.
State election officials have said they will sue Cochise County if the board of supervisors misses Monday's deadline to approve the official tally of votes, known as the canvass. The two Republican county supervisors delayed the canvass vote until hearing once more about concerns over the certification of ballot tabulators, though election officials have repeatedly said the equipment is properly approved.
Democratic election attorney Marc Elias pledged on Twitter to sue the county. Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs's office has previously said it would sue if the county misses the deadline.
“The Board of Supervisors had all of the information they needed to certify this election and failed to uphold their responsibility for Cochise voters,” Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for Hobbs, said in an email.
Elsewhere, Republican supervisors in Mohave County postponed a certification vote until later Monday after hearing comments from residents angry about problems with ballot printers in Maricopa County. Officials in Maricopa County, the state's largest, containing Phoenix, said everyone had a chance to vote and all legal ballots were counted.
Election results have largely been certified without issue in jurisdictions across the country. That's not been the case in Arizona, which was a focal point for efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election and push false narratives of fraud.
Arizona was long a GOP stronghold, but this month Democrats won most of the highest profile races over Republicans who aggressively promoted Trump’s 2020 election lies. Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for governor who lost to Hobbs, and Mark Finchem, the candidate for secretary of state, have refused to acknowledge their losses. They blame Republican election officials in Maricopa County for a problem with some ballot printers.
Navajo, a rural Republican-leaning county, and Coconino, which is staunchly Democratic, voted to certify on Monday. In conservative Yavapai County, supervisors unanimously voted to canvass the results despite their own misgivings and several dozen speakers urging them not to.
Republican supervisors in Mohave County said last week that they would sign off Monday but wanted to register a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County. In Cochise County, GOP supervisors demanded last week that the secretary of state prove vote-counting machines were legally certified before they would approve the election results.
State Elections Director Kori Lorick has said the machines are properly certified for use in elections. She wrote in a letter last week that the state would sue to force Cochise County supervisors to certify, and if they don't do so by the deadline for the statewide canvass on Dec. 5, the county's votes would be excluded. That move threatens to flip the victor in at least two close races — a U.S. House seat and state schools chief — from a Republican to a Democrat.
There are two companies that are accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to conduct testing and certification of voting equipment, such as the electronic tabulators used in Arizona to read and count ballots.
Conspiracy theories surrounding this process surfaced in early 2021, focused on what appeared to be an outdated accreditation certificate for one of the companies that was posted online. Federal officials investigated and reported that an administrative error had resulted in the agency failing to reissue an updated certificate as the company remained in good standing and underwent audits in 2018 and in early 2021.
Officials also noted federal law dictates the only way a testing company can lose certification is for the commission to revoke it, which did not occur.
Lake has pointed to problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, where printers at some vote centers produced ballots with markings that were too light to be read by on-site tabulators. Lines backed up amid the confusion, and Lake says an unknown number of her supporters may have been dissuaded from voting as a result.
She filed a public records lawsuit last week, demanding the county produce documents shedding light on the issue before voting to certify the election on Monday. Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich has also demanded an explanation ahead of the vote.
The county responded on Sunday, saying nobody was prevented from voting, and 85% of vote centers never had lines longer than 45 minutes. Most vote centers with long lines had others nearby with shorter waits, county officials said.
The response blamed prominent Republicans, including party chair Kelli Ward, for sowing confusion by telling supporters on Twitter not to place their ballots in a secure box to be tabulated later by more robust machines at county elections headquarters.
The county said that just under 17,000 Election Day ballots were placed in those secure boxes and all were counted. Only 16% of the 1.56 million votes cast in Maricopa County were made in-person on Election Day. Those votes went overwhelmingly for Republicans.
Maricopa County supervisors heard from dozens of people angry about the printing issue, some demanding the county hold a revote, though there is no provision in state law allowing that. The county was expected to certify later Monday.
The Republican National Committee and the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general, Abraham Hamadeh, filed an election challenge in his race, which is slated for an automatic recount with Hamadeh trailing by 510 votes.
Ward has urged supporters to push their county supervisors to delay certification votes until after an afternoon scheduling hearing in the Hamadeh case.
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Associated Press writers Terry Tang and Anita Snow in Phoenix and Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections
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Carry Swamp sounds like a real Karen.mickeyrat said:GOP-controlled Arizona county refuses to certify electionBy JONATHAN J. COOPER1 hour agoPHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused on Monday to certify the 2022 election, despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.
State election officials have said they will sue Cochise County if the board of supervisors misses Monday's deadline to approve the official tally of votes, known as the canvass. The two Republican county supervisors delayed the canvass vote until hearing once more about concerns over the certification of ballot tabulators, though election officials have repeatedly said the equipment is properly approved.
Democratic election attorney Marc Elias pledged on Twitter to sue the county. Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs's office has previously said it would sue if the county misses the deadline.
“The Board of Supervisors had all of the information they needed to certify this election and failed to uphold their responsibility for Cochise voters,” Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for Hobbs, said in an email.
Elsewhere, Republican supervisors in Mohave County postponed a certification vote until later Monday after hearing comments from residents angry about problems with ballot printers in Maricopa County. Officials in Maricopa County, the state's largest, containing Phoenix, said everyone had a chance to vote and all legal ballots were counted.
Election results have largely been certified without issue in jurisdictions across the country. That's not been the case in Arizona, which was a focal point for efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election and push false narratives of fraud.
Arizona was long a GOP stronghold, but this month Democrats won most of the highest profile races over Republicans who aggressively promoted Trump’s 2020 election lies. Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for governor who lost to Hobbs, and Mark Finchem, the candidate for secretary of state, have refused to acknowledge their losses. They blame Republican election officials in Maricopa County for a problem with some ballot printers.
Navajo, a rural Republican-leaning county, and Coconino, which is staunchly Democratic, voted to certify on Monday. In conservative Yavapai County, supervisors unanimously voted to canvass the results despite their own misgivings and several dozen speakers urging them not to.
Republican supervisors in Mohave County said last week that they would sign off Monday but wanted to register a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County. In Cochise County, GOP supervisors demanded last week that the secretary of state prove vote-counting machines were legally certified before they would approve the election results.
State Elections Director Kori Lorick has said the machines are properly certified for use in elections. She wrote in a letter last week that the state would sue to force Cochise County supervisors to certify, and if they don't do so by the deadline for the statewide canvass on Dec. 5, the county's votes would be excluded. That move threatens to flip the victor in at least two close races — a U.S. House seat and state schools chief — from a Republican to a Democrat.
There are two companies that are accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to conduct testing and certification of voting equipment, such as the electronic tabulators used in Arizona to read and count ballots.
Conspiracy theories surrounding this process surfaced in early 2021, focused on what appeared to be an outdated accreditation certificate for one of the companies that was posted online. Federal officials investigated and reported that an administrative error had resulted in the agency failing to reissue an updated certificate as the company remained in good standing and underwent audits in 2018 and in early 2021.
Officials also noted federal law dictates the only way a testing company can lose certification is for the commission to revoke it, which did not occur.
Lake has pointed to problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, where printers at some vote centers produced ballots with markings that were too light to be read by on-site tabulators. Lines backed up amid the confusion, and Lake says an unknown number of her supporters may have been dissuaded from voting as a result.
She filed a public records lawsuit last week, demanding the county produce documents shedding light on the issue before voting to certify the election on Monday. Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich has also demanded an explanation ahead of the vote.
The county responded on Sunday, saying nobody was prevented from voting, and 85% of vote centers never had lines longer than 45 minutes. Most vote centers with long lines had others nearby with shorter waits, county officials said.
The response blamed prominent Republicans, including party chair Kelli Ward, for sowing confusion by telling supporters on Twitter not to place their ballots in a secure box to be tabulated later by more robust machines at county elections headquarters.
The county said that just under 17,000 Election Day ballots were placed in those secure boxes and all were counted. Only 16% of the 1.56 million votes cast in Maricopa County were made in-person on Election Day. Those votes went overwhelmingly for Republicans.
Maricopa County supervisors heard from dozens of people angry about the printing issue, some demanding the county hold a revote, though there is no provision in state law allowing that. The county was expected to certify later Monday.
The Republican National Committee and the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general, Abraham Hamadeh, filed an election challenge in his race, which is slated for an automatic recount with Hamadeh trailing by 510 votes.
Ward has urged supporters to push their county supervisors to delay certification votes until after an afternoon scheduling hearing in the Hamadeh case.
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Associated Press writers Terry Tang and Anita Snow in Phoenix and Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections
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And here’s as good of an explanation as any:Lerxst1992 said:Halifax2TheMax said:A lot of demographic data here on but one NY district that flipped from blue to red, granted it’s from 2020. That said, how much did redistricting skew it toward red and how did the demographics change as a result? Higher average incomes? More white but less citizens? More unemployment and crime? Need to see 2022 demographics to compare.
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-17-nyLong Island always had usually 3 of 5 seats dem, sometimes 2. Now due to census it’s four seats and all are to the GOP and none of the races were close. It’s never been like this. Maybe Hochul was weak but the crime message resonated 100% here, and trump has always been stronger than the average blue region here. The AOC liberal extremism gets zero momentum ten miles from her home
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/nyregion/republicans-election-ny-suburbs.htmlThat’s a good article but I didnt see them raise 2021 local elections, which were also big wins for the GOP. This is not quite a short term issue. It may take a long time to get these voters back as republicans have a ton of blue state voters not trusting Dems.0 -
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Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.0 -
Because Maricopa certified their election and Kari Lake is going to lose.Lerxst1992 said:The Juggler said:
Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.
Can't disagree with you more regarding what happened in congress too. They have the slimmest of majorities. They will be fighting themselves for two years while investigating bullshit the majority of the country does not care about. That is not to their advantage at all. If they were smart they'd pivot to the center but the fringe wackos control the party now and that will never happen.Post edited by The Juggler onwww.myspace.com0 -
It’s a slim majority so they can’t be screwballs all day every day. House dems will pull in less wacky republicans on some bills and those same republicans aren’t going to attach their name on far right stuff.Lerxst1992 said:The Juggler said:
Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.0 -
In fact, there may be floor votes for Speaker. I bet it's been 100 years since that took place. Early on, McCarthy was making concessions to the radical element. But enough of them have defected and said they will never vote for him, that he may be forced to make concessions to moderate Ds to win. Now i think he'll walk on coals before he does that, but I'm 100% sure McCarthy will do whatever it takes to be Speaker.The Juggler said:
Because Maricopa certified their election and Kari Lake is going to lose.Lerxst1992 said:The Juggler said:
Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.
Can't disagree with you more regarding what happened in congress too. They have the slimmest of majorities. They will be fighting themselves for two years while investigating bullshit the majority of the country does not care about. That is not to their advantage at all. If they were smart they'd pivot to the center but the fringe wackos control the party now and that will never happen.
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The fucking snake won’t honour any concessions he says he’ll make to dems. I hope he goes down in a ball of flames. Have fun passing by the POOTWH’ers in the halls of Congress. No dems should vote for him.mrussel1 said:
In fact, there may be floor votes for Speaker. I bet it's been 100 years since that took place. Early on, McCarthy was making concessions to the radical element. But enough of them have defected and said they will never vote for him, that he may be forced to make concessions to moderate Ds to win. Now i think he'll walk on coals before he does that, but I'm 100% sure McCarthy will do whatever it takes to be Speaker.The Juggler said:
Because Maricopa certified their election and Kari Lake is going to lose.Lerxst1992 said:The Juggler said:
Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.
Can't disagree with you more regarding what happened in congress too. They have the slimmest of majorities. They will be fighting themselves for two years while investigating bullshit the majority of the country does not care about. That is not to their advantage at all. If they were smart they'd pivot to the center but the fringe wackos control the party now and that will never happen.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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Well you have to decide who you're weakest opponent would be and help that person.Halifax2TheMax said:
The fucking snake won’t honour any concessions he says he’ll make to dems. I hope he goes down in a ball of flames. Have fun passing by the POOTWH’ers in the halls of Congress. No dems should vote for him.mrussel1 said:
In fact, there may be floor votes for Speaker. I bet it's been 100 years since that took place. Early on, McCarthy was making concessions to the radical element. But enough of them have defected and said they will never vote for him, that he may be forced to make concessions to moderate Ds to win. Now i think he'll walk on coals before he does that, but I'm 100% sure McCarthy will do whatever it takes to be Speaker.The Juggler said:
Because Maricopa certified their election and Kari Lake is going to lose.Lerxst1992 said:The Juggler said:
Cue up all the maga tearsmrussel1 said:Why would they cry when they won the house and can investigate Biden all day long?Historical trends and off base media predictions at the end of day do not matter. They won, they control investigations, can veto any budget item and shut down the govt as much as they want.
Can't disagree with you more regarding what happened in congress too. They have the slimmest of majorities. They will be fighting themselves for two years while investigating bullshit the majority of the country does not care about. That is not to their advantage at all. If they were smart they'd pivot to the center but the fringe wackos control the party now and that will never happen.0 -
guess I drop this here...gift article...Herschel Walker, Running in Georgia, Receives Tax Break for Texas Residents https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/herschel-walker-taxes-georgia-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSVUZACbIRp8_qRmHmfnE2_s8i2XlJyiYTXNdxuAWDpLF507daLEmaNY0xTuaTZpdPa8mX7py0upbdQRLejWfn6Glyt4DMjln7sW6RH831JbAGu1hrme7MzLobbgvlef64hjdaX26X_HazXQqJw5uqJRnclug22cahfuQSp4D0dh42fgmBp9_VG1AMHHM56-0fk04bNaWbRjc6R01W_VZUVzTnd2c6bEBeWZCGA6MDSM_sStntoQqaJ5AN73_LhUgZML-nb0Qb2drJ4yoDJc6LJPGtHxAYGlQrKv01mLKzUYF7g
A spokesman for Mr. Walker’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
According to the Texas comptroller, Mr. Walker’s use of the tax exemption while running in Georgia is legal. The comptroller’s website states that you may still receive the tax break after moving away from home temporarily, if “you do not establish a principal residence elsewhere, you intend to return to the home, and you are away less than two years.”
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2022 Midterm elections Colorado Lauren Boebert Election recounts Aspen Congress Government and politicsBoebert's race against Frisch in Colorado goes to recountAssociated PressToday
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Secretary of State has ordered a recount in the congressional race where Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert led Democrat Adam Frisch by just 550 votes in an unexpectedly tight race.
The Associated Press has declared the race too close to call and will await the results of the recount. The recount, which was expected, was formally announced Wednesday.
The race garnered national attention because Boebert was largely considered a lock for reelection after redistricting made the sprawling 3rd Congressional District that covers much of western Colorado more Republican.
Over a week after the polls closed, Boebert claimed victory and Frisch conceded the race. Frisch, a former city councilman from the posh ski town of Aspen, acknowledged a recount is unlikely to change the results.
In Colorado, an automatic recount is triggered when the margin of votes between the top two candidates is at or below 0.5% of the leading candidate’s vote total. That margin was around 0.34% after all the ballots were tabulated.
After testing their tabulation machines, 26 counties in the district will rescan ballots while San Juan County — which hand counts ballots for all elections and recounts — will run a manual recount. The process must be completed by Dec. 13.
Boebert, a Republican lightning rod and one of Congress's staunchest supporters of former President Donald Trump, claimed victory in a tweeted video from the U.S. Capitol.
In a virtual press conference announcing his concession, Frisch argued that the thin margin is its own small victory after his campaign was largely considered futile by the political establishment. He added that he hasn’t ruled out another bid for the seat in 2024.
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Arizona certifies 2022 election despite GOP complaintsBy JONATHAN J. COOPER10 mins ago
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing victories for Democrats over Republicans who falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged.
The certification opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. Republican Kari Lake, who lost the race for governor, is expected to file a lawsuit after weeks of criticizing the administration of the election.
Election results have largely been certified without issue around the country, but Arizona was an exception. Several Republican-controlled counties delayed their certification despite no evidence of problems with the vote count. Cochise County in southeastern Arizona blew past the deadline last week, forcing a judge to intervene on Friday and order the county supervisors to certify the election by the end of the day.
“Arizona had a successful election,” Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said before signing the certification. “But too often throughout the process, powerful voices proliferated misinformation that threatened to disenfranchise voters.”
The statewide certification, known as a canvass, was signed by Hobbs, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, a Ducey appointee.
When the same group certified the 2020 election, Ducey silenced a call from then-President Donald Trump, who was at the time in a frenetic push to persuade Republican allies to go along with his attempts to overturn the election he lost.
“This is a responsibility I do not take lightly,” Ducey said. “It’s one that recognizes the votes cast by the citizens of our great state.”
Republicans have complained for weeks about Hobbs' role in certifying her own victory over Lake in the race for governor, though it is typical for election officials to maintain their position while running for higher office. Lake and her allies have focused on problems with ballot printers that produced about 17,000 ballots that could not be tabulated on site and had to be counted at the elections department headquarters.
Lines backed up in some polling places, fueling Republican suspicions that some supporters were unable to cast a ballot, though there's no evidence it affected the outcome. County officials say everyone was able to vote and all legal ballots were counted.
Hobbs planned to immediately petition the Maricopa County Superior Court to begin an automatic statewide recount required by law in three races decided by less than half a percentage point. The race for attorney general was one of the closest contests in state history, with Democrat Kris Mayes leading Republican Abe Hamadeh by just 510 votes out of 2.5 million cast.
The races for superintendent of public instruction and a state legislative seat in the Phoenix suburbs will also be recounted, but the margins are much larger.
Once a Democratic stronghold, Arizona's top races went resoundingly for Democrats after Republicans nominated a slate of candidates backed by Trump who focused on supporting his false claims about the 2020 election. In addition to Hobbs and Mayes, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly was re-elected and Democrat Adrian Fontes won the race for secretary of state.
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This story has been corrected to show that Fontes ran for secretary of state, not attorney general.
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