Election 2020: What we know and don't know about the results

The 2020 election cycle torpedoed through a nation upended by
the COVID-19 pandemic and grappling with partisan
animosity, but in Arizona the season culminated in an
election day marked by high voter turnout and sparing reports
of disruption at the polls. Voter turnout in Arizona
surpassed 2016 numbers, but was not fully known by the end of
Tuesday. Nearly 2.64 million early ballots were cast by Monday.
Those votes, combined with in-person election votes, are
expected to push turnout to record-breaking levels.  Full
results in some races were left undetermined by the end of the
night, including various Congressional Districts, state House and
Senate races and Prop. 208, an education funding measure. But
the Associated Press called the presidential race in Arizona for
former Vice President Joe Biden. It also said that Democrat Mark
Kelly ousted Republican Martha McSally from her Senate seat. This
week's episode of The Gaggle, an Arizona politics podcast from The
Arizona and azcentral.com, breaks down what we know, what we don't
know and what comes next. Here's what we know as of Tuesday
night:  Arizona went blue, voting for Democrats Joe Biden for
president and Mark Kelly for U.S. Senate.  Arizona passed
Prop. 207, legalizing recreational marijuana in the
state   Arizona entered battleground status nationally in
2018 after constituents elected Kyrsten Sinema, a
Democrat, to the U.S. Senate over Republican candidate Martha
McSally. Arizona had not had a Democratic senator since 1994 prior
to Sinema's victory.  In 2020, pollsters and political
operatives shifted Arizona to "swing state" status for the
2020 election, with Democrats betting on the population's changing
demographics to elect presidential nominee and former Vice
President Joe Biden. President Donald Trump and his campaign
worked fiercely to get out the vote among Arizonans, visiting
the state seven times in 2019. To find out more about how Arizona
became a swing state, listen to our podcast, "Rediscovering: SB
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