Mark Kelly, an astronaut and retired naval captain, defeated Arizona Republican Senator Martha Musclay early Wednesday morning, turning a key seat in the Senate for Democrats’ efforts to fight for control.
This is the second time that voters in a traditionally wealthy state have rejected Ms. Cusley, who allied herself with President Trump who enjoyed his Senate prospects in 2018 and never let go, as he bullied the president and his allies.
Mr. Kelly, who created a national profile as an advocate of gun safety after the shooting of his wife, former Rep. Gabriel Giffords, fled as a practical outsider. At the center of her campaign was the condition that she could appeal to voters in a rapidly changing state – especially the crucial polling stations. Maxley disagreed, including with women, minor voters, and Latino, who have become increasingly powerful part of the electorate. Recent years.
His predicted victory in months of statewide elections was crucial for Democrats in a Democrat to retake the Senate. The most expensive and closely watched contest in the nation was the first time Arizona voted to send two Democrats to represent the Senate since the 1950s, underreporting the state’s immigrant demographics and politics, once known as the Conservative Party.
Mr. Kelly leaned heavily on his autobiography on the trail of the expedition, playing his role as a NASA space shuttle pilot and retired naval captain and presenting himself as an independent thinker. He always sidestepped questions about more liberal policies in favor of progressives in Congress, focused like a laser on health care, and Ms.
Ms. Telling Maxley had a compelling story of its own. The first woman to fly an American warplane in combat, she sued the Bush administration for wearing an abaya while on duty in Saudi Arabia and spoke forcefully about being raped by a male top official last year.
But it was weakened by the competition, which lost its first run for the Senate in 2018, and suggested that Gov. Dr. Dugsey appoint him to the seat vacated by the death of Senator John C. Cacan earlier that year.
In that membership, Ms. Maxwell abandoned his centrist reputation of winning a landslide victory in a crowded Republican primary and enthusiastically accepting Mr. Trump as a woman in Congress, a strategy he had set out to maintain in a special election against Mr. Kelly. Mr. McCain’s term is pending.
Even though she was clinging tightly to the President, the feelings are not always reciprocal. Mr. Trump has repeatedly asked his advisers if his candidacy is adversely affecting his own prospects in Arizona, and at his campaign rallies in the state, Mrs. In the final days of the race, during a rally in Goodyear, Mr. Trump told the senator that he had one minute to speak, urging her to be “fast, fast, fast, fast.”
“They don’t want to hear this, Martha,” he said as he ran to the stage.
There were also implementation errors on its part. Ms. Maxley joked in Australia that he came under fire in August after supporters suggested a “quick meal” to donate to his campaign. This comment suggests an abundance of funding between his campaign and Mr. Kelly. He became a fundraiser juggernaut by tapping the donors’ web from his time leading up to the mourning of the Gun Control Foundation and enthusiasm online enthusiasm.
But perhaps the most obscure ins. Ms. Maxley faced was the increasingly powerful coalition of mediators in Arizona’s ruby-red activist base and suburban areas, and the president’s divisive rhetoric and various voters of the dynasty to handle the epidemic. In a discussion with Mr. Kelly in the final week of the race, he declined to say whether he was proud of his support for Mr. Trump.
The extent of the suburban uprising against Mr. Trump dwindled Tuesday night, as Republican David Schweikert, representing a district outside of Phoenix, seeks to thwart the Democratic challenger in an area that has long been considered a safe Republican.
