(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS/Getty Images)ĭemocrat Cisco Aguilar will win the contest for Nevada secretary of state, CNN projects, defeating Republican Jim Marchant, who repeatedly spread falsehoods about the legitimacy of recent elections in the state.Īguilar, a Las Vegas attorney and former aide to the late US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, will be the state's first Latino secretary of state. With Democrats' projected win in the Nevada Senate race, they now have 50 Senate seats to Republicans’ 49 seats.Įven if Republicans win the Georgia runoff, though, Vice President Kamala Harris would continue to cast the tie-breaking vote in an evenly divided Senate to guarantee the Democratic majority.ĬNN's Eric Bradner contributed reporting to this post.ĭemocrat Cisco Aguilar will win the contest for Nevada secretary of state, CNN projects. Raphael Warnock nor Republican challenger Herschel Walker surpassed the 50% threshold needed to win the race outright Tuesday evening, CNN projected, forcing a runoff election.

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'But, it's simply better, the bigger the number the better.' 'Because we are in a situation where you don't have to have an even makeup of the committees - so that's why it is important, mostly,' Biden said. He noted that the future of his agenda is 'always better' with 51 Democratic senators. In remarks to reporters tonight, President Biden celebrated Democrats' win in the Senate and said the party is now focusing on the Georgia runoff. 'And no Democrat will tell you that they are going to fight any less hard for that seat,' she said. 'But, I think that one vote actually does matter in so many ways because it doesn't give anybody the kind of leverage that say a Joe Manchin had.' 'They want to have a clear majority,' Borger said on CNN.

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