(D) Key Race Projected
ABC News is reporting that Catherine Cortez Masto is projected to win Nevada’s Senate race, defeating Republican Adam Laxalt. That gives Democrats 50 seats and a Senate majority with Vice President Harris’s vote, regardless of what happens in the Georgia’s Senate runoff in December. This projection comes as Clark County (Las Vegas) reported about a batch of 23,000 newly-tallied votes, which Cortez Masto won 60.7 percent to 35.5 percent. This report gave Cortez Masto a statewide lead of 48.7 percent to 48.2 percent — or about 5,000 votes — with 96 percent of the expected vote reporting.