arizona governor s race, where election denier kari lake is trailing the democrat katie hobbs by some 30,000 votes. let s take you to nevada, where cnn s rosa flores has the very latest from las vegas. reporter: the stakes were high, the margins were razor thin, but in the end, the democratic incumbent prevailed. catherine cortez masto gets to stay as the senator from the state of nevada, and with that, the democrats get to keep and maintain control of the u.s. senate. here s how it all went down. the republican adam laxalt was in the lead for days, and then on saturday evening, clark county released a batch of about 23,000 votes and here is how those votes were divided. catherine cortez masto receiving about 14,000 of those votes, or 60% of the vote. laxalt received more than 8,000 votes, or about 35% of that
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 in the senate, democrats can control the chamber with vice president kamala harris casting any tie-breaking vote. however, it could be several days before we know who will hold power in the house of representatives. democrats hold 204 seats right now to republicans 211, and the magic number needed to control the lower chamber, 218 seats. there are still plenty of ballots left to count in nevada, but those votes are expected to trend towards democrats. cnn rosa anoflores has more. reporter: boris, amara, the stakes were high, the margins were razor thin, but in the end
reporter: boris, amara, the stakes were high, the margins were razor thin, but in the end the democratic incumbent prevailed here. catherine cortez masto gets to stay as a u.s. senator from the state of nevada, and with that the democrats get to keep control of the u.s. senate. here s how it all went down on saturday. clarke county issued a tabulation of about 23,000 votes and here s how those votes were divided. catherine cortez masto received more than 14,000 votes or 60% of that batch. adam laxalt received more than 8,000 votes, or about 35% of that batch. that put catherine cortez masto in the lead statewide by more than 5,000 votes. at that point cnn called the race. her campaign taking to twitter to say, quote, what did people get wrong about this race? the first latina senator knows her community better than anonymous sources. the daughter of a teamster knows
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