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The Story: The majority (D) leadership in the U.S. Senate made a valiant effort this week to enact voting rights reform, packaging together two bills...

Doug Ducey on Tuesday to fill the state’s other U.S. Senate seat. McSally will serve for at least the next two years in the seat that was held by longtime Arizona Sen. John McCain until his death in August. “With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona’s interests in the U.S. Senate,” Ducey said in a statement. Ducey had appointed former Sen. Jon Kyl to the seat in September, but Kyl, after serving for several months, announced plans to resign at the end of the year. “I thank her for taking on this significant responsibility and look forward to working with her and Senator-Elect Sinema to get positive things done,” Ducey said. McSally will serve until the 2020 election, when voters will elect someone to serve the final two years of McCain's term. The intense interest in the seat was a factor in Ducey's convoluted decisions. McSally is a two-term congresswoman who was long considered for the Senate by the state's GOP establishment. The first female combat pilot, McSally rose to the rank of colonel in the Air Force before entering politics. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

And things are unlikely to change as long as the political rhetoric continues on both sides. I know two or three other people did the exact same thing," he said. He voted for Trump in 2016 and said he will vote for him again in 2020. She is the first Democrat Senator from Arizona in years," Arnold said. "I think what has to happen is somehow the general public needs to retake control of the political process so it's not the political elites, the political actives, in both parties that are determining who our candidates are supposed to be," Wert said. While she lives three hours from the border, she has been there several times and said we don't need a wall to separate the U.S. from Mexico. "Immigration is definitely going to be around, health care is definitely going to be around because nothing is going to happen in the next two years because the Democrats and Republicans aren't going to work together, and the Democrats certainly aren't going to try to work with Trump," Wert said. But she said 99 percent of the time she sides with Democrats and their views. She hopes people start backing away from Trump's divisiveness. I know a lot of people who are lifelong Democrats that started voting Republican."

This is the final part of our four-part series about the results of the 2018 election in the US. Today we look specifically at...

Good Wednesday morning. _____________________ • What seemed like a mixed midterm result for the G.O.P. • President Trump is considering firing Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security who has long been a target of the president’s displeasure, according to three people close to him. But there is no question that the first lady, Melania Trump, no longer wants her at the White House. Though the outcome is unlikely to change, Mr. Gillum has made it clear he is not going away. • Representative Kyrsten Sinema’s victory marked the first time a Democrat has been elected to the Senate from Arizona since 1988. Read more about Ms. Sinema, and here are six takeaways from her historic race. • Despite a dismal election last week, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California looks set to become House minority leader. But only a week after the election, he has dropped the issue almost entirely. Check back later for On Politics With Lisa Lerer, a nightly newsletter exploring the people, issues and ideas reshaping the political world.

Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is the apparent winner in the Arizona Senate race, narrowly defeating Republican Rep. Martha McSally, according to NBC News. McSally conceded the race in a video statement on her Twitter account Monday evening. » Subscribe to…

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] Nearly a week after Election Day, here we are again, still waiting for results in five statewide elections. Three of them are in Florida, of course, the result of a state law mandating the recount of races with tight margins. That’s not exactly how the president and Florida Republicans see it. Here’s a recap of where things stand today: • The first full, statewide vote recount in Florida history started on Saturday for races for governor, Senate and agriculture secretary. But if the machine recount comes back with a margin of .25 percentage points or less, the state will begin a manual recount. Most of the attention is focused on the Senate race, where unofficial election results show Mr. Scott leading Mr. Nelson by just .14 percentage points. A majority of voters in the state cast early ballots and vote by mail, and counting their votes can take time. The tweet also belied the fact that the fires — the Camp Fire in Northern California and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California — did not begin on forested land, but rather on what’s known as the wildland-urban interface, the edges between communities and wildland.

Republican Rep. Martha McSally concedes to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in race to replace Sen. Jeff Flake. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

State election officials may not have a winner for several more days in the close race between Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema; Dan Springer reports on the tally efforts. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated…

Buoyed by the suburban vote, they retook the House and won victories in Rust-Belt states that helped send Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. But Republicans won at least three close races in the Senate, setting up a majority that will allow them to have a major impact on the federal judiciary. And in Georgia, Stacey Abrams could still force Brian Kemp into a runoff in December if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote. We’re sending you this special edition of the Politics & Policy email newsletter for the midterms. And in Texas and Tennessee, neither the insurgent energy behind Beto O’Rourke nor the middle-of-the-road appeal of former Governor Phil Bredesen could overcome the Republican lean of the electorate.” ? Read on. ‘He was a cause, not a candidate,’ said one top Democratic strategist.” ? Read on. ” ? Read on. If only a third of them exercise that right in 2020 and beyond, that is 420,000 new voters in a state where the governor’s race was decided by 74,000 votes out of slightly less than 8 million cast, and where Trump won by 113,000.” ? Read on. On Tuesday, Democrats didn’t get that help.”? Read on. Sign up for our daily politics email here.