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President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party retained its Arizona Senate seat, US media projected, leaving Democrats within one seat of retaining control of the upper house of Congress.
Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, bested his Republican challenger Blake Masters, and CBS reported.
His victory brings the number of Democratic senators to 49. Two seats are still up for grabs: Nevada, where the recount is still underway, and Georgia, where the runoff is scheduled for Dec. 6.
If both parties ended up with 50 seats each, and thus maintained the status quo, the Democrats would retain control of the Senate thanks to the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Masters, the defeated candidate in Arizona, has yet to concede defeat.
On Friday night, former President Donald Trump wrote on his social network that some voting machines had not worked in Arizona, and that the result was “a scam and voter fraud.” “Redo the elections!” he urged.
The Republican “wave” so expected by their supporters was not such and, although the final results are not yet known, the Democrats seem to have managed to limit the damage.
Several days after Tuesday’s vote, control of Congress remains uncertain. The Republicans seemed poised to win a majority in the House of Representatives but still had seven seats to go.
