Arizona Senate race could be GOP's toughest to keep
by Susan Ferrechio
| August 21, 2019 12:01 AM
Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat is emerging as the toughest for Republicans to hold in 2020.
Sen. Martha McSally, the Republican incumbent, must defeat a challenge from astronaut and gun control advocate Mark Kelly, and she must succeed in a state that rejected her Senate bid in 2016.
Democrats are beginning to feel confident they’ll win Arizona and ultimately retake the Senate majority, which Republicans currently hold by a 53-47 margin.
McSally was appointed to the seat late last year following the death of Sen. John McCain. Former GOP Sen. Jon Kyl served as an interim replacement for three-and-a-half months before McSally's appointment.
The winner in 2020 will finish McCain’s term, which ends in early January 2023.
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