{"id":1643420,"date":"2022-09-16T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643420"},"modified":"2022-09-16T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:15:06","slug":"arizona-takes-center-stage-in-race-for-us-senate-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-takes-center-stage-in-race-for-us-senate-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Takes Center Stage in Race for US Senate Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-takes-center-stage-in-race-for-us-senate-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Political vitriol is at a fever pitch around the country as the race for control of Congress enters the final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\">Senate<\/a>, 35 seats out of 100 are up for re-election on Nov. 8, with Democrats currently controlling 14 of those seats and Republicans controlling 21.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of the 35 seats up for re-election are considered \u201cSolid Republican\u201d by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/senate-race-ratings\">Cook Political Report<\/a>\u2014nine are \u201cSolid Democrat;\u201d three on each side lean \u201cD\u201d and \u201cR,\u201d and one is \u201cLikely R.\u201d Only four are considered a \u201ctoss-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These \u201ctoss-up\u201d seats have drawn the nation\u2019s eyes as they\u2019ll determine who controls the U.S. Senate going into 2023. One of those seats is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a>, where Republican candidate Blake Masters hopes to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.<\/p>\n<p> Fight for Control <\/p>\n<p>Right now, Democrats control 48 Senate seats, and Republicans control 50. However, there are two independent seats, and they caucus with Democrats, effectively dividing the Senate 50\/50 and giving Vice President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote. She votes with the Democrats, giving Democrats a working majority.<\/p>\n<p>Because the margin of control is razor-thin, if Republicans net just one of the toss-up seats on Nov. 8, they\u2019ll gain control of the Senate with 51 seats. For Democrats to solidify their Senate control, they\u2019ll need to successfully flip a \u201cLeans R\u201d or \u201cLikely R\u201d seat.<\/p>\n<p>From 1952 to just before the 2020 elections, Arizona was considered a reliably \u201cRed\u201d state despite Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) defeating incumbent Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) in 2018. In 2016, Donald Trump won the state by 3.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/US-Capitol-GettyImages-1242354619-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> The U.S. Capitol in Washington on the evening of Aug. 6, 2022. (Anna Rose Layden\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>But in 2020, President Joe Biden won the state of Arizona by 0.3 percentage points. And in a November 2020 special election, Kelly successfully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political vitriol is at a fever pitch around the country as the race for control of Congress enters the final stretch. In the U.S. Senate, 35 seats out of 100 are up for re-election on Nov. 8, with Democrats currently controlling 14 of those seats and Republicans controlling 21. 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