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Two Senate races remain too close to call as of Friday morning, with Arizona and Nevada continuing to calculate voter totals.
The Nevada Senate race, including incumbent Democrat Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown, shows Rosen ahead by just 19,000 votes with 95 percent of estimated votes counted, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Rosen currently stands at 47.9 percent with 660,201 votes, while Brown holds 46.5 percent with 641,067 votes. Over 5 percent of voters also selected other candidates or “none of these candidates.”
In Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego currently leads with 49.8 percent and over 1.3 million votes. Republican Kari Lake has gained ground in the latest update with 48.1 percent of the vote and 1,257,504 votes. Green Party candidate Eduardo Quintana also holds 2.1 percent of the vote with over 53,000 votes.
Arizona has still only tallied 78 percent of the state’s estimated votes as of Friday morning.
The Senate races heavily sided with Republicans in the 2024 election. The GOP entered the election with Democrats in control of the upper chamber.
So far, Republicans have won 53 seats with two seats outstanding. In West Virginia, Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin chose not to run for reelection. Popular Republican Gov. Jim Justice easily won in the state with 68 percent of the vote over Democrat Glenn Elliott.
In Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno flipped the seat held by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Moreno took 50.2 percent of the vote, winning by just over 200,000 votes over the incumbent senator.
Montana also voted for Republican Tim Sheehy over incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Tester. He won 52.8 percent of the vote, with Tester winning 45.4 percent.
On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Senate race was called, as Republican David McCormick was projected to win by approximately 35,000 votes and 95 percent of votes counted over incumbent Sen. Bob Casey. In Pennsylvania, an automatic recount is required if the total is less than .5 percent.
