Mark Kelly wins Arizona race, puts Dems a seat away from Senate control

S201 ign enator Mark Kelly of Arizona won a tough campafor reelection Friday, The Associated Press reported, defeating his Trumpbacked Republican rival, Blake Masters, to put Democrats within one seat of retaining control of the Senate.

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Democrats hope to clinch the chamber when votes are fully counted in the Nevada contest between Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, and her Republican challenger, Adam Laxalt, who held a tiny lead late Friday but was expected to fall behind.

If Laxalt were to prevail, control of the Senate would hang in the balance until the runoff election Dec. 6 in Georgia between Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat seeking a full term, and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, a former football star.