As a result, Ms Lake, who promoted the hoax that Donald Trump won the 2020 US election, is called out. At her acceptance speech, Ms Hobbs pledged to work for all residents of the state “in this moment of the divide.” Ms Lake seemed to imply that the outcome was erroneous and that some of the votes cast in her favour had been disregarded.
Nearly a week after the votes were cast, the battle for control of the House of Representatives is still closed. Republicans’ chances of taking control of the House of Representatives have significantly diminished; they must now win at least 218 seats. According to race forecasts from CBS News, the party has currently won 215 seats while Democrats have won 211.
Ms Hobbs appealed for togetherness in a midterm election that further exposed the sharp ideological divide in America and pledged to work for Arizonans who did not support her. Even in this time of divide, she asserted, “I think there is so much more that unites us.”
In the course of her campaign, Ms Lake, who had Mr Trump’s endorsement, told them that the former president shouldn’t be required to run in the 2024 election because “he won the last election.” He would “come back with a vengeance,” she said. No proof exists that the 2020 election was rigged.
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With her loss, Ms Lake now joins the exclusive group of Trump-supporting election sceptics who suffered defeat last week. However, a News analysis of the results revealed that at least 125 election sceptics had triumphed in House, Senate, and governorship contests.
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Thank you, Arizona.
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— Katie Hobbs (@katiehobbs) November 15, 2022
All seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for election in the midterm elections for Congress. The Biden administration had anticipated that the president’s programme would be put on hold if Congress lost its majority. The House has not yet been called, but the Senate is still under Democratic control.
Democrats would “keep our positions” if the two parties share power in Washington, but people shouldn’t “expect much of anything,” President Biden said on Monday. The results, Mr Biden said in a press conference while he was in Indonesia for the G20 summit, had “sent a very powerful message around the world that the United States is ready to play” and intends to continue being “fully engaged in the world.”
A “strong rejection” of electoral fraud, political violence, and voter intimidation, he said, was present. However, he cautioned that Democrats would be unable to pass legislation codifying abortion rights, a top demand for liberal voters, in the absence of a House majority.
The majority of the 11 House elections that are still undecided, including California and Arizona, are in western and southwestern states. Newly elected members of Congress have already started arriving in Washington for orientation, including the first representative from Generation Z and the first out-gay Republican.
Democrats’ performance this year is thought to be the greatest for a sitting party in at least 20 years. According to history, the party in power normally loses seats in a midterm election. Before the party’s internal elections on Tuesday, this has put the top Republicans in the Senate and House at risk of losing their aspirations for leadership.
Both Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are allegedly working hard to win the support of their peers to succeed Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House in the upcoming Congress.
As former President Donald Trump, who has shared some of the blame for a bad performance, prepares to announce his second presidential bid later this week, divisions within the party have been on full display recently. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, a previous ardent Trump supporter, said it would be a “terrible mistake” for the party if the former president were to be the nominee in 2024.
“Donald Trump has proven to be untrustworthy, unfaithful, inept, boorish, and a host of other traits that have turned off a lot of Republicans and independents. He can be defeated by a candidate running from his basement, “, according to Mr Brooks.