Arizona: the ultimate purple state

On Tuesday heading into Wednesday, the presidential race was less
than 1 percentage point apart, and once again, Arizona is the
closest state in the country, for the time being. Republicans also
wiped out the narrow Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, but in
Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego appeared to be headed to victory.
Fox News has already called the presidential race for Donald
Trump. In Arizona, Democrats fared quite well, at least in the
unofficial results released Tuesday night. They could win key races
in the Legislature and pick up two congressional seats.  With
more ballots to be counted and a mandatory hand count audit on
Saturday still to come, most of Arizona’s political future is still
up in the air. This week on The Gaggle, a politics podcast by
The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, hosts Ron
Hansen and Mary Jo Pitzl are joined by political
reporters at The Republic to break down what went down on election
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