Latest updates and results after Joe Biden hails ‘good day’ for democracy as Democrats outperform expectations in US midterm elections
Arizona Democrats are maintaining small but dwindling leads over their Republican rivals in the races for US Senate and governor, the AP reports. The races remained too early to call two days after the election, with some 600,000 ballots left to count, about a quarter of the total cast.
Protracted vote counts have for years been a staple of elections in Arizona, where the overwhelming majority of votes are cast by mail and many people wait until the last minute to return them. But as Arizona has morphed from a Republican stronghold to a competitive battleground, the delays have increasingly become a source of national anxiety.