Weekend Wrap: Here are the top Phoenix news stories from Nov. 8-10
Nov 10, 2024, 9:10 PM
Arizona Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) walks offstage with wife Sydney after speaking at an Arizona Democratic election night watch party on November 5, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
PHOENIX — From Donald Trump becoming just the second president in U.S. history elected to serve non-consecutive terms to an ongoing tight race for Arizona’s open U.S. Senate seat, here are the top Phoenix news stories from Nov. 8-10.
Democrat Ruben Gallego stretches lead over Republican Kari Lake in tight Arizona Senate race
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego padded his lead following the latest ballot drop over Republican Kari Lake in the race for Arizona’s open U.S. Senate seat on Sunday afternoon.
Maricopa County released the latest results of more than 97,200 ballots and added to Gallego’s lead.
The latest batch left Gallego ahead by 66,693 votes, a difference of 2.2 percentage points (50%-47.8%) with about 92% of the vote counted, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office results page.
Donald Trump projected winner over Kamala Harris in Arizona
Four years after Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since 1996 to lose Arizona, he reclaimed the state’s 11 electoral votes.
The Associated Press called the Grand Canyon State for the former president on Saturday, pushing his projected electoral vote haul to 312. That surpasses his winning 2016 total of 304 electoral votes against Hillary Clinton.
Trump has been leading Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in Arizona since election night on Tuesday. But The Associated Press’ data analysts weren’t convinced that his lead was insurmountable until they saw more results.
When the call came down, Trump was leading Harris 52.6%-46.4%, a margin of 184,935 votes, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office results page.
Republican Juan Ciscomani neck and neck with Democrat Kirsten Engel in race for Arizona’s CD6
Republican U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Democratic challenger Kirsten Engel are neck and neck in the race for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District as of Sunday evening.
Ciscomani leads Engel by 2,093 votes, and it’s been a nail-biting race ever since the first ballots dropped on Tuesday evening.
Initially, Engel held a slim lead over the incumbent and Ciscomani ultimately picked up ground as more results rolled in, but Engel took a narrow 68-vote lead after another ballot drop on Thursday afternoon before another ballot drop put Ciscomani back in the lead.
Ciscomani leads Engel 49.1%-48.5% with nearly 360,000 votes tallied on the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office results page.
Arizona’s 9 congressional seats are up for grabs; who is winning each race?
One Arizona congressional race remained highly competitive as of Sunday evening, while the state’s eight other U.S. House contests were pretty much settled.
Republican incumbent and first-term Rep. Juan Ciscomani is battling to retain his seat in CD6. After trailing her for much of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, he broke ahead of Democrat Kirsten Engel for parts of Thursday before taking a 2,093-vote lead Sunday evening with over 360,000 ballots tallied in a rematch of the 2022 race for the southeastern Arizona district.
Peoria man charged with first-degree murder of 2-year-old child
A Peoria man is facing a murder charge for the death of his 2-year-old stepchild, authorities announced Tuesday.
Officers responded to the area of 108th and Olive avenues on Oct. 24 after Hein Lwin, 26, reported that the child was choking on a cloth, according to the Peoria Police Department.
Police and fire personnel performed life-saving measures, and the child was rushed to a hospital.
