The Democrat pulled out a come-from-behind victory to flip a formerly Republican seat.
Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has defeated Republican Rep. Martha McSally in the battle for the open Senate seat in Arizona, giving Democrats their second Senate pickup of the cycle.
Sinema had 49.7 percent of the vote to McSally’s 48 percent when The Associated Press called the race Monday evening. Though McSally led narrowly on Election Night, Sinema took the lead in the race two days later and continued to pad her edge as the state counted outstanding votes through the weekend and Monday.
Sinema’s victory gives Democrats their second pickup of the election, and limits Republican gains in the chamber to just one seat so far, pending a recount in Florida and a runoff in Mississippi. Her victory guarantees Democrats will hold at least 47 Senate seats.
McSally, in a Twitter video Monday evening, said she called Sinema to concede the race and congratulated the Democrat for becoming Arizona’s first woman elected to the Senate after a “hard-fought battle.” She thanked her campaign staff and voters who supported her.
“We sure wish it came out with a different result, but I’m so thankful for you,” McSally said.
Sinema, in her victory speech Monday night, said she was grateful to McSally for her service, but said there was a clear choice in the race between them.
“Arizonans had a choice between two very different ways forward: One focused on fear and party politics, and one focused on Arizona and the issues that matter to everyday families,” Sinema said. “Arizona rejected what has become far too common in our country: name-calling, petty personal attacks, and doing and saying whatever it takes just to get elected.”
She also praised late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) several times, calling him “irreplaceable” and saying “his example shines a light on our way forward.”
In addition to being Arizona’s first female senator, Sinema is the first Democrat to win a Senate election there in three decades. She will replace outgoing Sen. Jeff Flake, a first-term Republican who announced last fall that he would retire after repeated clashes with President Donald Trump.
Sinema, a three-term House member, announced her campaign a month before Flake left the race. McSally, a former fighter pilot first elected to Congress in 2014, jumped into the race following Flake’s retirement announcement.
McSally kept close to the president as she navigated a Republican primary against two well-known immigration hardliners: former state Sen. Kelli Ward, who challenged McCain in a 2016 primary, and former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by Trump last year after being convicted on criminal contempt charges.
McSally ultimately dispatched both Republican challengers, winning slightly more than 50 percent of the vote in the late-August primary. But Sinema had already staked herself to a substantial lead in most public polls after running millions of dollars of ads on TV throughout the summer touting independence and bipartisanship. Republicans hardly countered the spending as they fought to boost McSally in the primary.
Sinema focused relentlessly on health care throughout the race. She sharply criticized McSally for supporting the failed Republican health care plan in the House in 2017, saying McSally abandoned those with pre-existing conditions by supporting a bill that weakened protections. But she also tacked decisively to the center, distancing herself from the national party, including being the first Democratic Senate candidate to pledge not to vote for Sen. Chuck Schumer as Democratic leader.
McSally and her Republican allies painted Sinema as too liberal for the state, highlighting her past as a Green Party activist. They attacked her late in the race with a stream of videos showing past jokes Sinema had made aimed at Arizona, and ran TV ads scrutinizing Sinema’s antiwar activism during the George W. Bush administration, including one in which she was wearing a tutu while protesting. McSally accused Sinema of supporting “treason” during their sole debate.
But the attacks weren’t enough to diminish the lead and reputation Sinema had created through the earlier months of the campaign.
The race saw tens of millions in outside spending flow into the state, flooding the airwaves with largely negative ads on both sides.
Democrats are likely to continue to target Arizona in the 2020 presidential election and in future statewide contests. Sen. Jon Kyl is currently Arizona’s other senator, having been appointed earlier this year to replace McCain, who died in August. Kyl has not pledged to serve the remainder of his term, but Kyl or a potential replacement would have to run in a special election in 2020, and again in 2022.
Sinema is the first Democrat to win a Senate election in Arizona since Dennis DeConcini in 1988. Other than DeConcini, no Democrat has represented Arizona in the Senate since Carl Hayden retired in 1968.
source: politico.com
Big mistake Arizonaans-just wait and see. This young “lady???” is a liar and totally misrepresented herself in the pre election. How could you vote for someone who called you meth heads?
Maybe she was correct when she said ” Arizona is the meth lab of America ”
It should not have even been a race. they took the health care scare and lies hook line and sinker. Now if you want to fight for the taliban just head to Arizona and they will supply with the means to get to the battle. She said ICE were criminals.. Lets see just how hard she pushes her socialist/communist state of Arizona against the Republic. May be she is the Ft. Sumter. California, Washington , Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. Maybe Brigham Young will inspire Utah to join the new Comfederate States of Amerika. The south has risen again.
All I want to know is the truth. So, here is my question. How did this flip given what the state of Arizona reported two days after the election?
Two days after the election the state of Arizona reported McSally had a lead that was insurmountable, if narrow. Arizona election officials reported 99% of the precincts had fully reported. The state reported a lead for McSally that exceeded 1% of the vote by a considerable margin. Even if we assume that 1% of precincts who had not reported overwhelmingly voted for Sinema that would not be enough to flip the result unless the 1% of precincts that had not reported had a turnout that was many times larger than other precincts. But no one claimed then, or now, this was the case. So again, what happened?
It was voter fraud for sure
Makes absolutely no sense! 170,000 outstanding ballots still to count.
She is a disgrace to hold any office. Hidden videotape shows that she had a different agenda and the folks In Arizona and the senate will regret her taking this seat. Watch and see. Was thinking of moving there, but off the table for me.
Super!!!!
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Is Sinema an open-borders Marxist Democrat?
She’s a WITCH and said it on live television! Can’t believe Arizona voted for her!
Yes, or even worse
Yes Enema Is An Open Borders Socialist
In a very big way.
talk about election fraud, why would anyone vote for a Communist?
I think Arizona will be sorry!!
Arizona sells out the United States again. I hope they enjoy their no walls.
AGREED! BUT, I Believe, America is going to be ‘VERY SORRY’, in the next 2/ yr.s! ALL, Americans know, or are ‘GOING TO KNOW’, that the, ‘CHEATING’, will be exposed-but it will be too late, to fix! The Dems. began, their ‘scheme’, with the Kavanaugh Trials-which was exposed, by his ‘Innocence’! Dems., ‘FEINSTEIN’, desperate to keep her ‘seat’, which she did, was the First Step, in the Dem.s PLAN, to, “PULL EVER STUNT”, to ‘eviscerate’, ANY Supreme Court, nominee, put forward, by the Republicans! THEN, they decided, to ‘Put forth, Women Candidates, no matter, how, ‘Truly Terrible’, they were, to ‘run’, against Republicans! When, it was becoming ‘obvious’, in the election, that Repubs, were going to win, Sinema, began to ‘fix’, those votes! This, mid-term election, has become a ‘SICK, CHARADE’! And, ALL, Americans know it! MUCH WORSE, than, 2000! America has been ‘SABOTAGED’! NONE of US, can trust our election results, any longer! The ‘POWER OF THE VOTE”, has been ‘STOLEN’, from, We, the People! It began, when “illary’, was promised to win the 2016 election, if she would “Just Back Off”, to allow ‘Bamy, to win! It was ALL, a “FIX”, to make the Dem. ‘Party’, look, ‘GOOD’, to America, by electing a Black Man! When that, ‘woman’, STILL LOST, the Dem’s, “WENT INTO, DESPERATION, DESTRUCTION”, MODE! AND, THEY HAVE CONTINUED. TO, “PURSUE THEIR PROGRESSIVE AGENDA”! Cheating, stealing, lyingl & hiding, IS the DEM. “MANTRA”! And, ‘obviously’, they are winning! This will be a very SAD, ‘Chapter’, in our Country’s HISTORY!
After she said these things about the state and it’s constituents, she’s elected:
-Arizonans are “crazy”
-Arizona is a “meth lab”
-Arizona is famous in a “Lindsay Lohan” not good way
-“I don’t care” if Americans want to join the Taliban
And they complain about Florida having a hard time getting a couple of counties to tally votes correctly. I think this is a bigger story when people elect someone who has spoken in these terms. She’s sort of like Hillary, talks behind your back as some of these comments were made while addressing people in Texas and warning them to stop their state from becoming another Arizona.
SO SAD! I lived many of my growing up years in Arizona, except the first seven years of my life. Our family moved there from St Louis, in 1957 In the old days, Arizona was such a safe , comfortable, happy, leisurely place to grow up and live. So many liberal left wing democrats moved to Arizona from California, and Chicago and illegal immigrants not bothering to enter the LEGAL way are residing their now. Growing up in Arizona used to be so safe and a lovely place to live. And, it no longer is the place it used to be!
satan is continuing his attack on our USofA
Enema Won In Arizona By Means Of Democrats’ Favorite Method Of Being Elected To Public Office Voting Fraud And Vote Tampering Which Is Largely Being Treated As An Legitimate Victory As Is The Case In Florida.
Crooked vote counting. Did they also come up with some unforeseen Democrat votes, but wouldn’t you know it, no Republican votes. Time for the FBI to step in arrest any person involved with fraudulent or froged ballots.
She rots my guts. She will open AZ’s border and Latins will take over the SW USA as desired by globalists to start turning north America into 1 entity instead of 3 nation states. CA, NM & NV are largely Latin with politicians supporting their interests so AZ is the last piece of the puzzle. The blacks want the SE USA hence the big push for Adam’s for gov in GA and gillum for gov in FL
It’s not fair or just, to ask American taxpayers to foot the bill to support Immigrants, or the Whole World, Most of men and women who wants to help everybody, doesn’t want to pay higher taxes to support them? I’ve been to other countries. Alot say, They don’t have food, medical, shelter, and the Rich Americans living high, don’t care? They’re Jealous and hate Americans! To come over here and to vote, and make America as poor as they are? Civil Rights Groups should start with the thousands of Homeless people in our streets first, before they want to take the whole World? I wish that they would get Obama to help our Veterans that fought for everybody’s freedom? Obama weaken our military, and left the others to suffer a horrible death. Civil Rights is for every human being, not just the chosen few? God said “If My people, who are called by my name? Would repent from their sins, and turn toward me? I would Heal them, and their land!”. If America is what it is, because of the God we serve? Looks like:Instead of coming to America for help? Stay, where they are at, and try our God? Prove! My God!
I am sick and tired of the way the democrats have made a game out of this election. A very dishonest game. Yes you give me several days Nd I will get a bunch of ballots and mark them and I bet the Republicans can win in Florida and Arizona. And the disgrace is. They are not people that a democracy needs to be crepresenting us. This is not who we need. They are
Extreme socialist or communist. They
Have the extreme leftists idea. They are not The USA ideas at all. People if we do not stay on top of this our country I’d doomed!!!!!!!
Bullshirt RECOUNT.
The state of Arizona will be forever blue. It will become a 3rd world country just as California is becoming because of their liberal ignorance. It’s a good thing Arizona has little to do with America’s economy.
time for all states to come up with a system for voting. each state should have an envelope that is of an outstanding color that requires verification stamping along the route starting with where it was mailed. it should be postage free as is our representative’s correspondence. when it reached the precinct the post office gets a signed verification that it was received that has the time posted. this would be kept as archived records for six years. set a standard for ballot design so no doubt who the voter is voting for. federal and state areas clearly labeled. all proposals must have clear language yes must mean the voter wants the proposals enacted. a portion of the ballot that holds a number that matches the ballot. to be removed and kept by the voter as proof they voted and if questioned the ballot could be recovered If electronic then a receipt indicating how they voted would be printed containing the number corresponding to the machine registration. with all ballots the same for each state it could be taught in schools about how to fill out a ballot and what is required to vote————–Grampa
She said the people of AZ were crazy and she was right. How could any sane person vote for someone who supports the evil Islamist terrorist? No more vacations in AZ.
Sinema is a liberal pinhead who is clown puppet who will not be able to do anything for Arizona or the country she a disgrace to the Great State of Arizona.
I understand, but what pisses me off is Arizona Republicans easily could have won. BUT THEY DIDNT TURN OUT ENOUGH! So have fun the next 6 years. Will probably lost the other seat too.
Examine every vote. I donT believe she won there is fraud somewhere . She will destroy Arizona.
Human feces and used hypodermic needles coming soon to the streets of Arizona. Make Arizona California!
Arizona voters are really STUPID!!
Arizona votes are really STUPID!!