With Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly's win in Arizona, control of the Senate may come down to Nevada. Here's where things stand.
Republicans are still on a path to win control of the House, but by smaller margins than they were hoping. Democrats have a longshot chance of retaining control, but they would need some races where Republicans are leading to shift in their favor for that to happen.Jerry Fallstrom/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Republicans are still on a path to win control of the House, but by smaller margins than they were hoping. Democrats have a longshot chance of retaining control, but they would need some races where Republicans are leading to shift in their favor for that to happen.All eyes are now on Nevada, where tens of thousands of votes remain to be counted in the Senate race.
Many of the outstanding votes in Nevada could be reported Saturday and change the trajectory of the outcome. Currently, Republican Adam Laxalt is clinging to a very narrow lead over Nevada incumbent Democratic Catherine Cortez Masto, but most of the vote that remains to be tabulated is in Clark County, where Cortez Masto is ahead.Laxalt currently leads by about 800 votes. About 38,000 of the 50,000 or so votes remaining to be counted statewide are in Clark.
With the win in Arizona, if Democrats can pull off Nevada, they would retain control of the Senate without needing to win Georgia, which is officially headed to a Dec. 6 runoff.Several races in the West were called Friday, and so far, Democrats have mostly swept. The AP, which makes the calls NPR reports, called all three competitive House races in Nevada, for Democrats, for example. Those were seats Republicans had hoped to flip.
At this point, Republicans are still on a path to a slim majority, anywhere from 1 to 7 seats. But there are still millions of votes to count in California, so final numbers likely won't be known for days at least. Remarkably, Democrats do have a longshot chance at retaining control, but they would need some races where Republicans are currently leading to shift in their favor for that to happen.Republicans 49, Democrats 47, Independents 2, Uncalled 2s.
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