how to fight for working families or ccms, catherine cortez masto, a former ag, that crime attacks couldn t stick. the democratic incumbent here in nevada, catherine cortez masto, gets to stay as senator of nevada. boris, amara? . rosa, thank you for that. to arizona now where maricopa county continues to hold the biggest number of outstanding votes. while cnn and other networks have called that senate race for democrat mark kelly, it s still too early to call the governor s race. cnn has more from phoenix. reporter: the count continues in maricopa county. 85,000 votes released here in the county. still, more votes to be counted and still no clear answer on the governor s race here in the state of arizona.
race between democrat karen bass and republican rick caruso. cnn s camilla bernal has more. reporter: amara, boris, this is still a very tight race, but karen bass is expanding her lead little by little. saturday morning, she was up by about 4,000 votes. then we got new numbers saturday evening. she is now up by about 9,000 votes. look, this is a race between the establishment candidate. karen bass has been representing los angeles in congress for years now. she was endorsed by former president barack obama. she was on the short list for president joe biden s vice presidential pick, so she is essentially that establishment candidate here in los angeles, up against a billionaire, rick caruso, a real estate developer here in l.a. he is from the area. she is we he is well known.
families and a former ag, the crime attacks couldn t stick. the democratic incumbent here in nevada, catherine cortez masto, gets to stay as senator of nevada. boris, amara? rosa, thank you for that. to arizona now where maricopa county continues to hold the biggest number of outstanding votes there. while cnn and other networks have called that senate race for democrat mark kelly, it s still too early to call the governor s race. cnn s key young law with more from phoenix. reporter: the count continues in maricopa county. 85,000 votes released here in the county. still, more votes to be counted and still no clear answer on the governor s race here in the state of arizona. republican kari lake did manage to close the gap just a bit on democrat katie hobbs, who remains the leader. if you look at the numbers, that margin has shrunk just a tad,
the democrat gave a victory speech yesterday calling for unity. no one party has a monopoly on good ideas or the support of voters, but i have seen that when we seek to represent everyone, not just the people who voted for us, we re capable of extraordinary things. by claiming at least 50 seats democrats can control the senate with vice president kamala harris casting any tie-breaking votes. it could, however, be several days before we know who will hold power in the house of representatives. democrats colonelly hold 204 seats, republicans 211. the magic number to control the lower chamber, 218. there are plenty of ballots left to count in nevada, but those votes are expected to trend towards democrats. cnn s rosa flores reports.
time of year for christmas, although i prefer christmas. yeah. got to get that shopping under way. another year about to fly off the calendar. we have to take it by day day. we start this morning with a major victory for democrats because cnn is now projecting they are going to retain control of the senate. now the biggest unanswered question is who is going to control the house? the critical moment came last night when nevada s senate race was called for democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto. she had been trailing her republican opponent adam laxalt by nearly 862 votes, before the evening ballot drop finally pushed her over the top. in the meantime the ballot counting continues in arizona where the race for governor remains too close to call. democratic secretary of state katie hobbs maintains her lead for now over republican kari lake. cnn has already projected that incumbent senator mark kelly of arizona will win that race.