Dozens of House races also remain uncalled Wednesday, as does control of the chamber.Dozens of House races also remain uncalled Wednesday, as does control of the chamber.
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11/09/2022 06:40 AM EST
Control of both chambers of Congress is still up for grabs Wednesday morning, with the Senate coming down to a quartet of uncalled toss-up races — and the possibility that a runoff in Georgia could once again decide the majority.
And while Republicans still have the inside track to retake the House, a large number of the most competitive House seats remain uncalled, after the GOP failed to capture numerous swing seats the party expected to flip on Tuesday.
Here are all the major outstanding contests, and where some of the ballots that still need to be counted could come from.
Democrat John Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning, giving his party 48 seats. That means Democrats can keep the Senate by winning two out of four remaining battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Arizona and Nevada are the biggest question marks, with significant numbers of votes still to be counted in both states.
Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is facing off with Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada. Laxalt leads with more than 70 percent of the expected vote counted. But the state’s two most populous counties — Democratic-leaning Clark County, home of Las Vegas, and battleground Washoe County, home of Reno — won’t start counting mail ballots received on Election Day until Wednesday at the earliest, The Nevada Independent reported. The two counties make up nearly 90 percent of the state’s population.
Additionally, ballots that have a postmark from the United States Postal Service by Election Day, but are delivered to election officials by Saturday Nov. 12, will also be counted.
Arizona, too, still has many votes outstanding. Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has the edge, but his lead over Republican Blake Master is expected to shrink dramatically. As of early Wednesday morning, around 60 percent of the vote was counted in the state.
Election officials there have long warned that this would be the case. In Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, mail ballots that were returned close to Election Day will not be tallied until Wednesday at the earliest. Additionally, ballots that were cast at polling places and could not be read by tabulation machines — reportedly a widespread occurrence in Maricopa — must now be tallied at central voting locations.
