Ruben Gallego speaks to supporters after US Senate race win
Ruben Gallego spoke to supporters after his projected win over Kari Lake for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Nov. 11, 2024.
Ruben Gallego was projected to defeat Republican Kari Lake on Monday night and, in January, will become Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator.
The Associated Press, NBC and CNN called Gallego’s victory Monday after another batch of Democratic-heavy votes from Maricopa County confirmed Lake could not plausibly overtake him, handing her consecutive high-profile statewide losses.
Gallego, 44, posted a message on the social media platform X that simply said: “Gracias, Arizona!”
Gallego was long favored to win the Senate race, perhaps even easily. But in the end, he narrowly won, likely with crucial support from Latino voters who were more splintered on the presidency, based on the AP’s exit polling.
He will succeed U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., whose popularity plummeted during the Biden era, leading her to quit the Democratic Party and, later, quit a reelection campaign that never really started.
Has Kari Lake conceded race for Arizona’s Senate seat?
Lake, the former Fox 10 newscaster, had yet to publicly concede the race. On Election Day, she told reporters that she intended to accept the results of the race. She never conceded her 2022 gubernatorial loss and spent years in court fruitlessly trying to overturn that election result.
During a weekend of poor results, a social media account for Lake’s campaign posted the message: “A movement of love: Of Family. Of Arizona. Of America.”
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Publish date : 2024-11-12 03:04:00
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