Arizona Republican Kari Lake, who is currently in a super tight race for the Senate against Democratic challenger Rep. Ruben Gallego, just got a fantastic update concerning her chances of pulling off a victory and heading to D.C. On Thursday evening, Lake’s campaign stated that she had picked up a staggering 57.39 percent of a 70,000 ballot drop in Maricopa County. This puts her extremely close to overcoming Gallego’s 0.7 percent lead. Currently, he has a 43,846-vote lead over Lake with 75 percent of the vote tallied up, according to a new report from NBC News.
Eduardo Quintana, a third party candidate has managed to siphon off more than that total with 53,596 votes. Which is exactly why we all pretty much can’t stand third-party candidates. They ruin everything. If you are considering a third-party run, let me offer you a word of advice: don’t.
Check out the details from Trending Politics News:
At 3.9 million residents, Maricopa is by far the most populated part of the battleground state. The Phoenix-anchored county was the site of a contentious 2020 recount battle when President-elect Donald Trump asserted that President Joe Biden did not actually win the state. Lake, who ran for governor two years later, echoed that message during her own recount battle against Gov. Katie Hobbs, refusing to concede and pursuing all legal avenues before court challenges were finally exhausted.
Since then, Lake, 55, has modulated her message toward the center, appealing to moderate voters who backed Hobbs in 2022. At 52.5%, President Trump ran ahead of Lake by 4.4%, forcing her into a tightrope walk to keep both MAGA and moderate voters in her camp. She leaned heavily into immigration messaging, accusing Gallego of voting with the Biden-Harris administration to open a porous passageway along the state’s southern border. Her campaign garnered support from Trump as well as a majority of Republican senators eager to curry favor with one of the most pro-Trump challengers of the cycle.
On Thursday Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick was declared the winner over Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), padding the party’s nascent majority and consigning the Democratic caucus to an even smaller minority. Republicans are now expected to hold at least 53 seats in the upper chamber, weakening the bargaining power of centrist members like Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME); assuming McCormick and other newly elected members like Tim Sheehy, Bernie Moreno, and Jim Justice are more agreeable with stringently conservative legislation, the GOP may be able to pass sweeping economic and social policies over the objections of both moderate senators. Lake’s race is the lone outlier yet to be called.
In other, yet still related, news, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, the current Speaker, is getting closer and closer to retaining the gavel for the upcoming Congress, completing the total control the GOP will have over both chambers and the White House. We could be getting ready to see a true golden age of the United States ushered in beginning with this Trump administration.
If Trump successfully implements his MAGA agenda and people see the benefits of the hard work he and Congress do during his administration, he will have set the table for Republicans to stay in charge for years to come. Pray it all unfolds that way.
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