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"Idiot, and possibly corrupt, officials have lost control of the tainted Election in Arizona," Trump says

Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has held his Arizona seat as the race for control of the Senate continues.

President Joe Biden's Democrats edged closer to retaining control of the US Senate on Friday as three television networks predicted victory for incumbent Senator Mark Kelly.

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Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly won his bid for reelection Friday in the crucial swing state of Arizona, defeating Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters to put his party one victory away from clinching control of the chamber for the next two years of Joe Biden’s presidency.

‘I’m humbled by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work,’ Democrats Mark Kelly said on Friday.

The former Marine beat Mark Finchem, an ex-member of Oath Keepers militia who was at the Capitol on January 6

The senator defeated the Donald Trump-endorsed Blake Masters after a campaign in which Kelly pitched himself as a moderate

The Democrat narrowly beat Republican Mark Finchem, who has falsely called the 2020 election "irredeemably compromised."

Control of the U.S. Senate still had not been determined as of Friday evening, three days after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Heading into the election, Republicans needed to pick up only one seat to take the majority in the 100-seat chamber, which would allow them to block much of…

Blake Masters wasn’t posting the numbers of votes he needed in Election Day ballots as they were counted and released days later by officials in Arizona’s biggest county