Democrats Inch Ahead in Yet-to-Be-Called US Senate Races

Two Democrats and one Republican have small leads in the only U.S. Senate races that have not yet been called.

Ten percent of precincts have still not reported results.

"We have had teams here overnight, pretty much 24-hour operation to get all the mail ballots processed," Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo told reporters in an update on Wednesday.

Reb. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) holds the lead over Republican Kari Lake in the race to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), a former Democrat. Lake ran for governor in 2022 and lost.

Gallego has received 1.23 million votes to Lake's 1.18 million votes with 69 percent of precincts reporting. The latest batch of ballots from Maricopa County broke slightly in favor of Gallego.

In Pennsylvania, Republican Dave McCormick held a slight lead with 48.9 percent of the vote. He's challenging Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who has received 48.5 percent of the vote with 2 percent of precincts not yet reporting.

Casey's campaign said in a statement early Wednesday that it is confident the incumbent will prevail once all the votes are counted.

President-elect Donald Trump has been declared the winner of Pennsylvania.

Automatic recounts will happen in Arizona and Pennsylvania if the final margins are less than or equal to 0.5 percent of the number of votes cast for both candidates. Nevada has no automatic recounts, but a candidate can request a recount with no required margin.

Republicans have already wrested control of the Senate from Democrats after flipping seats in Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia while losing no seats.