Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Ruben Gallego hold leads in close contests.
Two Democrats have small leads in the U.S. Senate races that have not yet been called.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) is inching ahead of Republican challenger Sam Brown. As of early Nov. 7, Rosen
had 47.6 percent of the vote, compared with 46.7 percent for Brown.
Ten percent of precincts have still not reported results.
“We feel good about the results we’re seeing, but there are still thousands of votes to be counted. Our democracy takes time, and I’m confident that we will win as more votes come in,” Rosen
said on social media platform X.
Brown
said in a video statement: “We'll see what the final results are. But this has been quite a journey. Just filled with so much love, appreciation, joy.”
In Nevada, ballots that arrive by mail
can be counted if they arrive up to three days after Election Day.
“We have had teams here overnight, pretty much 24-hour operation to get all the mail ballots processed,” Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo told reporters in an update on Nov. 6.
In Arizona, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.)
holds the lead over Republican Kari Lake in the race to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), a former Democrat. Lake ran for governor in 2022 and lost.
Gallego has received 1.23 million votes to Lake’s 1.18 million, with 69 percent of precincts reporting. The latest batch of ballots from Maricopa County broke slightly in favor of Gallego.
Officials in the state’s most populous county
said some 550,000 ballots still needed to be processed.
“This race is going to go down to the wire!” Lake
wrote in a Nov. 6 social media post.
She encouraged people to volunteer to cure ballots.
“We are closely watching as results come in, and we’re feeling very optimistic,” Gallego
said in a Nov. 6 post.
The other outstanding race in Pennsylvania
was called on Nov. 7 in favor of Republican businessman Dave McCormick. McCormick was projected to have unseated Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). McCormick had 49 percent of the vote to Casey’s 48.5 percent.
That projected win takes Republicans up to 53 seats after the party flipped seats in Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia. No GOP incumbents have lost, either.
Automatic recounts will happen in Arizona and Pennsylvania if the final margins are less than or equal to 0.5 percent of the total number of votes cast. Nevada has no automatic recounts, but a candidate can request a recount with no required margin.
