The Democratic nominee will be governor of Arizona.
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Washington According to forecasts, Democrat Katie Hobbs has won the contested gubernatorial election in the US state of Arizona. According to forecasts by the TV channels NBC and CNN, the 52-year-old prevailed against Republican right-wing candidate Kari Lake on Tuesday.
Hobbs served on the state government for the 2020 presidential ballot count contested by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Backed by Trump, Lake is among those who have repeated his unsubstantiated claims that US President Joe Biden only won the presidential election through massive fraud.
Former Republican governor Doug Ducey was unable to run due to a term limit. Arizona is considered a contested state in the USA, which has changed more and more from a once republican stronghold in favor of the Democrats.
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In the election on Tuesday last week, governors were voted on in 36 states. It is the most important office in a federal state, comparable to a prime minister of a federal state in Germany.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are about to regain control of the US House of Representatives after the midterm elections. As of Monday night, the party had secured 217 seats, just one mandate away from taking control of the parliamentary chamber, according to a count by the AP news agency. The Democrats had 205 seats at that time.
Democrats may expand Senate majority
How the majority in the House of Representatives will look like in the future will probably only be clear in a few days or weeks. Because the outcome of a number of contested races in California, for example, is still open, as the counting of votes there continued.
President Joe Biden’s Democrats were able to defend their majority in the Senate in the midterm elections. Your camp in the chamber currently has 50 seats, that of the Republicans 49. Should the runoff in the last open Senate race in Georgia go in favor of the Democrats, they could even expand their majority in the Senate. So far, the vote of the Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris had been decisive in a stalemate.
About a third of the 100 Senate seats were up for vote at the midterms and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives. There were also votes on numerous other offices.
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