With the Republican Party crawling towards a slim majority in the House of Representatives, however, Congress looks to be heading towards gridlock
, and voters’ worries about crime and immigration. Yet the Democrats may lose only a handful of seats, handing them a historic success even in defeat.
Not everyone is done campaigning. Mr Masters has previously parroted Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He recently applied that flawed logic to his own race, alleging that some ballots were “mixed up”. “The most honest thing”, Mr Masters said dishonestly, “would be for Maricopa County to wipe the slate clean.” Bill Gates, a Republican election official there, called claims of a dysfunctional counting process “absolutely false” and “offensive”.
Meanwhile, the Republican candidate for governor, Joe Lombardo, triumphed over the Democratic incumbent, Steve Sisolak. That a Republican won the governor’s race while a Democrat won the Senate contest suggests that some independent voters split their ticket. Mr Laxalt comes from a long line of politicians, but he helped chair Mr Trump’s 2020 campaign in the state, and questioned the integrity of that election.
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