welcome back to our viewers here in the group aunited state around the world. i m alison kosik in new york. let s return to our top story, results from tuesday s midterm elections. and we now know that the democrats will keep control of the u.s. senate. cnn can project that catherine cortez masto will win re-election defeating republican adam laxalt. that gives the democrats at least 50 seats, enough to control the chamber with the vice president casting tiebreaking votes. next door in arizona, democrats had a big victory with mark kelly winning re-election. and in the lower chamber republicans are just seven seats away from taking the majority there. but the race is far from
honorable republicans and democrats who are doing the important work of making sure that arizonian s voices are heard and their votes are counted as quickly and as transparently as possible. blake masters indicated that he would be open to conceding after every legal vote is counted. so the county tells us there are about 185,000 to 195,000s remaining. the anticipation sunday evening another release of votes of about 80,000 here in this county. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. with us live from sydney to talk about the midterms is director of research at the united states studies center. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. so what are the takeaways that you have from the midterm elections? i m curious what surprised you about the way the votes went.
if you look at the numbers, that margin has shrunk just a tad, but not enough to determine if there is a clear winner at this point. but the lake campaign releasing a little information about what it is like inside their campaign headquarters saying that they believe it that these numbers offer a glimmer of hope. the campaign saying, quote, there is 100% path and because the vote is still going on, that there is so much we do not know at this stage. but we do know, cnn has projected a winner in the u.s. senate race in arizona, mark kelly, the senator, will maintain his seat. the race was called in his favor by cnn. today thanking his supporters who backed his race. you are all the reason that we are successful. and i also want to thank our state s election officials.
arizona and nevada, democrats will have a majority in the senate and i will once again be majority leader. this election is a victory, a victory and a vindication for democrats, our agenda, and for the american and for the american people. the nevada win comes on the heels of another democratic senate win in neighboring arizona where mark kelly prevailed over blake masters. but with the arizona governor race still hanging in the balance, some republicans are falsely claiming that the vote counting is taking longer than it should even though it is not. county election officials say the protests will not disrupt how ballots are counted. folks here in the building are aware of what is going on outside. there is a crowd that is peaceful out there right now. we have every reason to believe that they will continue to be