Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona Senate Seat

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona

UPDATE: Republican Martha McSally has conceded the US Senate race to replace retiring Jeff Flake. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema will be the next Senator from Arizona.

She is the first female to represent the Grand Canyon state in the Senate as well as the first openly bisexual US Senator.

Congrats to @kyrstensinema. I wish her success. I’m grateful to all those who supported me in this journey. I’m inspired by Arizonans’ spirit and our state’s best days are ahead of us. pic.twitter.com/tw0uKgi3oO

— McSally For Senate (@MarthaMcSally) November 13, 2018

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The Cook Political Report is projecting that Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema will win her US Senate race in Arizona.

According to the latest counts, Sinema has expanded her lead over Republican Martha McSally to 1.5%.

McSally lead on election night with partial returns being counted, but the next day many ballots were still uncounted in Democratic leaning areas of the state.

Sinema will be the first female senator from Arizona, and the first Democratic senator since Sen. Dennis DeConcini left office in 1995.

She will also be the first openly bisexual US Senator.

NEW: Kyrsten Sinema's campaign releases statement on the state of the Arizona Senate race, calling her lead "insurmountable." #abc15 pic.twitter.com/ujtqx7ZQbi

— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) November 12, 2018

Projection: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D) has defeated Rep. Martha McSally (R) in #AZSEN. This thing has been over for a while.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 12, 2018

Right before voting to repeal health care for 23 million Americans, McSally infamously said, "Let's get this f***ing thing done."

Welp, now she's done. https://t.co/0j6lzIVvmF

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 12, 2018

Dear .@GOP, the nightmare continues doesn’t it? pic.twitter.com/hjdlyf0VOa

— BlueVotr (@BlueVotr) November 12, 2018

Dems appear on their way to picking up close to 40 House seats.

If Sinema wins and Nelson loses, the GOP Senate gain would be R+2 -- when there were 10 Dem incumbents running in states Trump won.

And national pop vote is approaching D+7pts -- similar to '94, '06 and '10

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) November 12, 2018

The folks at ThinkProgress point out that Democratic House candidates are on track to win the national popular vote by as much as 7 points, yet Republicans gained seats in the Senate.

There are still two outstanding Senate races: one in Florida which is heading to a recount, and one in Mississippi which will hold a runoff later this month.