(12 Nov 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Phoenix – 5 November 2024
1. Wide of Democrat Ruben Gallego walking to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Ruben Gallego, (D) Arizona:
"Growing up the way that I did, the son of immigrants, I would never thought I would make it this far. To be here, here on this stage tonight. And while we’re still waiting for results to come in. I believe that when all those ballots are counted and every Arizona vote is counted. A poor Latino boy who grew up sleeping on the floor, will be headed to the floor of the United States Senate."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Tempe, Arizona – 5 November 2024
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3. STILL of Gallego meeting with voters
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ARCHIVE: Phoenix – 31 October 2024
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4. STILL of Gallego and wife Sydney Gallego listening to speech by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris
STORYLINE:
Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority.
Gallego’s victory continues a string of Democratic successes in a state that was reliably Republican until Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
Arizona voters had rejected Trump-endorsed candidates in every election since, but the president-elect won Arizona this year over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Gracias, Arizona!” Gallego wrote on the social platform X. He planned to speak to his supporters during a news conference Monday night.
With Gallego’s win, the GOP will have 53 seats in the 100-member Senate.
Gallego is a five-term House member and an Iraq War veteran with an up-by-the-bootstraps life story that he featured prominently in his public appearances and ads.
He will replace Kyrsten Sinema, whose 2018 victory as a Democrat created a formula that the party has successfully replicated ever since.
Sinema left the Democratic Party two years ago after she antagonized the party’s left wing. She considered running for a second term as an independent but bowed out when it was clear she had no clear path to victory.
Gallego ran ahead of Harris, suggesting a substantial number of voters supported Trump at the top of the ticket and the Democrat for Senate, a pattern seen in Sinema’s victory and both of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s wins in 2020 and 2022.
Ticket-splitters also were decisive in the Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada Senate races this year, which Democrats won even as Trump won their states.
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