A Week After the Midterm Elections, the Blue Wave Continues to Grow
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On Monday, almost a week after the polls closed on Election Day, Kyrsten Sinema was the declared the winner of the race for Jeff Flake’s vacated Senate seat in Arizona. Sinema will be the first Democrat Arizona has sent to the Senate in decades, and she won the seat with a moderate platform that avoided hot-button progressive issues like universal health care and the abolition of ICE. John Cassidy joins guest host Eric Lach to discuss what races like the one for Senate in Arizona say about the future of Democratic strategy in red states.
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| 1:03.8 | On Monday night, almost a full week after the polls closed on the 2018 midterm elections, |
| 1:09.5 | officials in Arizona announced that the Democrat, |
| 1:11.8 | Kirsten Sinema, had won the state's open Senate seat. She's the first Democrat elected to the |
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| 1:22.6 | In contrast to progressive insurgent candidates, such as Beto O'Rourke in Texas, |
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