Mark Kelly wins Arizona Senate election in 2022 midterms - MSNBC

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona has won re-election, overcoming a situation from Blake Masters, a 2020 predetermination denier backed by erstwhile President Donald Trump, NBC News projects. The triumph brings Democrats 1 spot person to power of the Senate.

Most polling starring up to Election Day showed Kelly with a accordant but progressively constrictive pb implicit Masters, who was moving his archetypal governmental run ... and it showed.

Masters exhibited nary bid implicit his messaging whatsoever. He praised the Unabomber, the murderous violent whose convulsive acts spanned astir 2 decades. Masters frequently cited ideologues who reason democratic governance. He's said radical diverseness astatine the Federal Reserve is the source of U.S. economical problems. He’s promoted the racist "replacement" theory that claims nonwhite migrants are portion of a crippled to destruct America. He’s blamed “Black people” for the United States’ weapon unit problem. He’s parroted baseless conspiracy theories astir Trump being cheated retired of the 2020 predetermination by nefarious officials successful the government. 

But Masters couldn’t maestro basal governmental communication, as evidenced by his attempts to waffle connected his connection to privatize Social Security and his wiping of his astir utmost views connected termination from his run website. 

There were aboriginal signs of failure. Big wealth Republicans cut backmost connected donating to his campaign connected aggregate occasions, showing a nonaccomplishment of religion successful him conscionable months retired from the campaign. 

But Masters carried himself with arrogance that seemed to hitch voters the incorrect way, and Kelly capitalized connected that haughtiness. In their sole statement successful October, I thought the incumbent gave voters a due work connected his opponent. 

“You deliberation you cognize amended than women and doctors astir abortion," Kelly said. "You adjacent deliberation you cognize amended than seniors astir Social Security, and you deliberation you cognize amended than veterans astir however to triumph a war."

Putting lives into the hands of radical similar Masters is “just dangerous,” Kelly added. 

Agreed.

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