How Election Week 2022 Went Down

Laxalt, the Republican Senate candidate, has fully denied the results of the 2020 election, and the Republican candidate for governor, Lombardo, has raised questions. The Republican candidate for secretary of state, Marchant, has also fully denied the results of the election, and he’s running for an office that has some authority over how elections are conducted.

ABC News is projecting that the Republican incumbent in Nevada’s 2nd District, Mark Amodei, will win the race in that district. The remaining House races remain uncalled, but the Democratic incumbents were leading. With 63 percent of the vote reporting, Cortez Masto maintains a slight lead in the Senate race, 50 to 47. The governor’s race is much closer, with Sisolak slightly ahead at 49 percent to 48 percent for his challenger, Lombardo. But in this seat, the only one in Nevada that our forecast saw as safe Republican, it looks like Amodei will cruise to reelection, as he has 61 percent of the vote with 49 percent reporting.

Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran, one of the most vulnerable incumbent House Democrats this election, is currently neck-and-neck with Republican Eli Crane in Arizona’s newly redrawn 2nd District, trailing Crane 51 percent to 49 percent with 58 percent of the expected vote reporting. O’Halleran was one of the potential Democratic casualties of Arizona’s redistricting process, which saw O’Halleran move from a seat with a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of R+6 to R+15. As a result, O’Halleran got just a 33-in-100 chance to defeat Crane, according to the final version of our Deluxe forecast.