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Major Races To determine control of the Senate Arizona And Nevada Hundreds of thousands of votes that have yet to be processed have yet to be called as the two states vie to count them.
It may still be hours – or days – long enough Votes are counted in those states to determine who won the Senate and governor races in both states. There are many more Major Congress contests The uninvited California and Colorado will determine how the House will fare when the new Congress convenes in January.
The unofficial results — and uncertainty about who will control Congress next year — didn’t stop Republican fears about the results of the election, where an expected Republican wave never materialized. The lackluster GOP results have raised new questions House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthyA new layer has been added to the 2024 feud between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Here’s what you need to know when counting:
The biggest reason for the delay is the way each state handles votes outside of the ballots cast at the polls on Election Day, including both early votes and mail-in ballots.
In ArizonaFor example, about 600,000 votes are still to be counted. Most of those, about 400,000 votes, are in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, which includes Phoenix.
Of those ballots, about 290,000 were dropped off at polling places on Election Day, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday on CNN. Those ballots must be processed before being counted, causing delays in tabulation.
“We now have what we call a late start, so these are the early ballots we’ve had over the weekend, or specifically the 290,000 ballots that were dropped off at our polling centers on Election Day,” Gates said.
Additionally, Maricopa County has about 17,000 ballots that were attempted to be counted on Election Day but were not read by the tabulator due to a printer error, and those ballots still need to be counted.
In Arizona’s second-most populous Pima County, officials said about 159,000 ballots had been counted as of Wednesday evening, and the county did not expect the count to be complete until Nov. 14 or 15.
More than 54,000 of the uncounted ballots are still being processed by the registrar’s office. The district expects to tabulate around 20,000 votes per day and will release the results at 6pm local time each day.
In Nevada, state law allows mail-in ballots to be received until Saturday, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, meaning counties still receive ballots that need to be counted.
Clark County, the state’s largest, which includes Las Vegas, received more than 12,000 postmarked ballots from the post office Wednesday, Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria said.
Additionally, counties in Nevada have tens of thousands of mail-in ballots that are dropped into drop boxes located at polling places on Election Day. Clark County said it had nearly 57,000 mail-in ballots in its Election Day drop boxes.
Washoe County, which includes Reno, received 18,500 votes from polling centers and post offices on Tuesday, as well as about 4,000 additional ballots by mail on Wednesday, according to Jamie Rodriguez, the county’s interim registrar of voters.
Bethany Drysdale, a spokeswoman for the county, told CNN Thursday that about 20,000 votes still need to be counted. “There will be more mail in ballots today, but we can’t estimate how many,” he said.
Rodriguez told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that the county is still adjusting to using mail-in ballots and receiving more than they did earlier this year.
“We didn’t expect a large number of ballots to come in — to see two full-sized ballots, a little bit more than we expected, and I think it’s a little more difficult for us now than it was in the primary,” Rodriguez said. .
The lackluster performance of several Trump-endorsed candidates in battleground states has raised new doubts about Trump’s potential 2024 campaign launch, which is expected at an event scheduled for Tuesday.
Meanwhile, DeSantis’ landslide re-election victory in Florida is fueling calls Take advantage of his speed And challenge Trump for the 2024 nomination.
Presidential jockeying isn’t new after a midterm election, but the potential 2024 race in the Republican Party is particularly noteworthy after Trump announced he would make the announcement at a Florida rally the night before the election. Next Tuesday.
The Trump-DeSantis feud has been simmering for months now, but it could explode into the open now that the 2024 primary season is officially underway. A Trump adviser told CNN Wednesday that DeSantis “already had a moment, but the focus quadrupled after Tuesday’s election.”
McCarthy Even after Tuesday’s better-than-expected performance by Democrats, Republicans still hold a majority in the House, moving quickly to lock up the votes needed to win the Speaker’s chance in the next Congress. CNN has yet to take over the Republican Party room.
But the final size of the Republican majority could determine how difficult it will be for McCarthy to become speaker, as a narrow Trump majority could prompt House independence caucuses to stand in the way of McCarthy’s leadership aspirations.
A source familiar with the deliberations of the House Freedom Caucus told CNN Wednesday morning that there are about two dozen current and incoming members who would vote against McCarthy unless he makes concessions. They are actively discussing mounting a nominal challenge to McCarthy in next week’s leadership elections, the source said, in an effort to give the GOP leader more influence over how the House is run.
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