AZ Dems Hold Narrow Leads As Counting Continues

The Associated Press reports:

Democrats padded their narrow leads in key Arizona contests on Thursday, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor were still too early to call with about a fifth of the total ballots left to be counted.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly led Republican Blake Masters by 5.6 percentage points, while Democrat Katie Hobbs had a much tighter lead of 1.4 points against Republican Kari Lake in the governor’s race. Democrats also led in the races for secretary of state and attorney general.

Election officials in Maricopa County, which includes metro Phoenix and more than 60% of voters, expected to begin reporting results Friday from a crucial group of ballots — nearly 300,000 mail ballots that were returned on Election Day.

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ARIZONA GOVERNOR MATH

Democrat Katie Hobbs leads by 26,879 votes.

~494k votes left (based on @Garrett_Archer‘s estimate/subtracting Maricopa votes counted)

Lake would need to win the remaining votes by 5.44% to pull ahead. This one could be extremely close.#AZGOV

— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) November 11, 2022