Jimu News reporter Qu Jing
According to CNN's report on November 12, the Democratic candidate for the Senate of Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto (Catherine Cortez Masto) defeated her Republican competition with 48.7% of the vote. Rival Adam Laxalt, who won the Nevada Senate election.
It also means Democrats have locked in 50 Senate seats. And even in the second round of the Georgia election, which is scheduled to be held early next month, the Republicans were able to turn against the wind and win the 50th seat. Democrats can also take control of the Senate with a run-off vote from Vice President Harris .
Election workers inspect mail-in ballots on November 12. (Source: Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun , Associated Press )
Democrats seal the victory ahead of time
Local time Friday night, Democratic Senator Mark Kelly at Arizona That makes the Nevada race all the more important.
Before the Nevada result, Democrats will have 49 seats in the Senate, and Republicans will have 49 -- meaning Democrats only need one seat to secure a majority in the Senate.
Therefore, the Nevada Senate race has become a "match point" to decide whether the Democrats can win the Senate.
If Cortez Masto wins, Democrats will keep control of the Senate in light of Vice President Kamala Harris' run-off vote. If Laxalter wins, next month's Georgia Senate runoff will decide which side of the two parties has a one-vote advantage in the Senate.
Adam Laxalter is the former attorney general of Nevada who has called the 2020 presidential election "rigged" and filed a lawsuit on behalf of Trump seeking to overturn Biden'2020 Nevada victory. Currently, Cortez Masto is just a few hundred votes behind him, with most of the remaining uncounted votes in Democratic-majority Clark County, including Las Vegas . Democrats believe those votes will give their candidates a lead.
Laxart said he wanted to keep his edge and was declared the winner. But he also acknowledged in a tweet Saturday that the outcome could be variable as Cortez Masto has outperformed Republicans' expectations in the Clark County count over the past few days.
"This narrows our win window," he wrote on on Twitter , acknowledging that the race ultimately hinges on Clark County votes.
The thing that Laxarte feared the most happened. In the final stages of the vote count, Democrat Cortez Masto reversed course and took the Nevada Senate seat.
Previously, American media analyzed that the ownership of control of the Senate may depend on the results of the second round of Georgia on the 6th of next month, and with the Democratic Party winning Arizona and Nevada, the results have been announced in advance.
CNN's online voting for Nevada's Senate seat election is also very close.
Nevada is deeply divided
Nevada is a deeply dividedswing state, one of the most racially diverse states in the United States, and a working-class state predominant states, where residents are particularly hard hit by inflation and other economic turmoil. About three-quarters of Nevada voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and about half see the economy as the most important issue facing the country, according to a VoteCast poll of 2,100 voters in the state by the Associated Press.
Voters in the state have a negative view of the economy, VoteCast found that nearly 80% say the economy is not doing well or badly, only about 20% say it's doing well, and about a third of voters say they of households are economically disadvantaged.
But that doesn't necessarily translate into anger at Biden or his party, with roughly half saying inflation is the most important problem facing the US, but there's no doubt about whether the rise in prices stemmed from Biden's presidency, or whether There are other factors beyond their control, and voters are at odds.
According to VoteCast, 70% of voters in Nevada want abortion to be legal in all or most circumstances, and Cortez Masto and other Democrats have rightly placed defending abortion rights at the center of their campaigns.
Republicans, however, are mercilessly throwing out economic-bashing views. They think it's time for a leadership change. To that end, they're trying to capitalize on voters' lingering frustration in 2020 as the pandemic-induced collapse of the Las Vegas tourism economy.
Clark County registrar Joe Gloria said in a Saturday news conference that all remaining 22,000-odd ballots will be tabulated Saturday night: "We know this is a big deal, and it's all over the country. There are people concerned about this result. We know people need to see this number. We will not delay it any longer.”
But she also said that state law requires ballots to be accepted by Saturday, which Nevada has done during the 2020 pandemic. The switched all-mail system took several cycles to adjust the count, "even if we wanted to, we couldn't have done it sooner."
Election workers are counting the ballots (Source: Associated Press)
The fortunes of the Democratic Party are taking a startling reversal
Control of the House of Representatives is still up in the air for now. But it is clear that even if the GOP wins a majority, it will be much smaller than its leaders would like. The unexpected result has already drawn rebuke and speculation from Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who had hoped to emerge from these races with a clear mandate to become the next House Majority Leader. The Democratic streak on Friday night marked a stunning reversal of fortunes for a seemingly deeply troubled party in Tuesday's election. Candidates like Kelly and Cortez Masto, struggling with President Biden's low approval ratings, an unfavorable economic environment, inflation and high oil prices that have families across the country struggling to save money, And these trends tend to lead to a negative cycle in the first midterm elections for new presidents.
But it's a complex cycle, with many different cross-flows of information influencing voter behavior. The Supreme Court's June decision to overturn abortion rights angered many voters across the country; Republicans have also been hit by Trump's decision to support far-right candidates loyal to him, often too extreme to appeal to swing voters who decide the election blow. Ultimately, many independent voters and moderates appear to reject candidates they see as too extreme or too closely aligned with Trump, while Democrats are swarming to protect their incumbents.
When Masters lost Arizona, prominent Democrats including ex-President Obama swooped into the state in the final days of the election, warning that the fate of the country's democracy was on the ballot; Grand Canyon State of voters also rejected Trump-backed Republican state Rep. Mark Fincham's bid to become Arizona's top election official.
CNN also predicts that the highlight of the Republicans will be Nevada, where voters elect Republican Joe Lombardo as the state's next governor and drive out Democrat Steve Sisolak. The popular Clark County Sheriff Lombardo reminded voters of their uphill struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Nevada's unemployment rate peaked at nearly 30 percent. Despite the rebound, Lombardo has argued that Sisolak's policies were too conservative and hindered the state's economic recovery.
And in response to questions about the 2020 election, some Republicans, including Masters, have tried to spark controversy over vote counting in Maricopa County, Arizona, saying the county's The counting of votes is unreliable and progress is too slow.
(Source: Jimu News)
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