primary. everyone who comes to my office, don't ask for endorsement. mindless and comes from the people. >> reporter: the secretary of state office tells us a majority of ballots had been cast ahead of election day and recent poll point to the front-runner being martha mc sally who is turning her attention to the likely democratic primary winner. >> when we were in harm's way in uniform, kiersten cinema was protesting in a pink tutu and denigrating our service. >> reporter: those candidates are competing to replace jeff flake and serve alongside whoever replaced the recently passed senator john mccain whose successor will be announced after his funeral.