The Campaign Update: Hey, Don't Give Up On The Senate Or Kari Lake Just Yet

Sure, the odds still aren’t good, but where’s the fun in just giving up before being absolutely, positively forced to do so?

Here’s the current state of affairs:

• With Ron Johnson’s confirmed re-election in Wisconsin this morning, Republicans have now won 49 Senate seats to 48 for the Democrats.

• Also now confirmed is that Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Ralph Warnock will head to a runoff on December 6, as neither was able to put together 50% of the votes in the election.

• Two races remain outstanding:

  • Nevada: Republican Adam Laxalt leads incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto by 49.9% to 47.2% with 79.9% of precincts reporting. For mysterious reasons known only to the Democrats running the vote counting process in Clark County (Las Vegas), any further vote counting has been delayed until Friday. If you are calling shenanigans on that, well, you aren’t alone.

  • Arizona: Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly leads Republican Blake Masters 51.4% to 46.4% with 69.3% of precincts reporting. Most of the outstanding votes are in - where else? - Maricopa County. There is hope, however, that many if not most of those outstanding precincts might be in the heavily-Republican areas where Democrat-run voting and ballot printing machines suffered mysterious “glitches” on Election Day.

Here’s the thing about all this: If Laxalt can hang onto that lead in his race with Cortez Masto, that puts the Rs at 50 Senate seats already won before either of the other two races are decided. Even if Masters can’t make up his 5% deficit to Kelly, Herschel Walker, Heisman Trophy Winner and member of the College Football Hall of Fame, could become an All-American hero one more time by winning the GOP’s 51st seat come December 6.

Yeah, the odds probably aren’t great in either Arizona or Georgia, but I refuse to give up hope until I’ve been given no alternative.

Then there’s Kari Lake, whose election chances seemed pretty dead in the water when I went to bed near midnight last night, and not much better when I rose from that same bed at 5:00 a.m.

But take at look at her now:

Again, there is no real way to be sure which precincts remain outstanding, but in addition to the possibility many will come from the aforementioned delayed heavily GOP areas, news reports imply that they are also likely to mainly be ballots cast on Election Day, when more Rs tend to vote than Ds.

The biggest problem here, of course, is that Democrat Katie Hobbs also happens to be Secretary of State, and her office oversees the state’s election process. And we know that no one in the corrupt media is doing much to keep her honest in any real way. So, it’s up to the Republicans and their poll watchers and lawyers to try to police the situation.

It may be Saturday before we actually know about these final two races, but until then, hope springs eternal here at The Campaign Update.

That is all.