Chuck Schumer has now extended an invitation to Senate orientation to Republican Dave McCormick, but Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has not conceded.

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 for the Senate in a state that was reliably Republican for those seats until Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Ruben Gallego's win is the fourth straight for Democrats after decades of defeats and comes in a disappointing cycle for the party elsewhere.

Gallego is making the jump to the Senate from the House, where he was first elected in 2014. Gallego was a strong fundraiser and ran ads focused on his personal story and military

Gallego defeated Republican Kari Lake, and is a five-term House member and an Iraq War veteran with a compelling up-by-the-bootstraps life story that he featured prominently in his public appearances and ads.

Ruben Gallego is projected to beat Republican rabble-rouser Kari Lake in the race to become Arizona’s next U.S. senator after Lake seemed to struggle to win over moderate and independent voters. Gallego,