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--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Wednesday, November 9th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- John Bickley: In a follow-up to this morning's episode, projected winners have still not been called in key Senate races in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada as control of the U.S. Senate hangs in the balance.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In Georgia, Senator Raphael Warnock will officially head to a runoff on December 6th against GOP challenger Herschel Walker.
--:-- John Bickley: In Arizona, GOP candidate Blake Masters has not been counted out yet in his race against Democratic candidate Mark Kelly.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In Nevada, incumbent Senator Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto is trailing GOP candidate Adam Laxalt.
--:-- John Bickley: But The New York Times reported that election officials in Nevada say they have been flooded by thousands of mail-in ballots and that it may take several days to count the votes and upload the results.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Meanwhile, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson has claimed victory in his close election against Democrat challenger Mandela Barnes.
--:-- John Bickley: As for the governor's races, in Arizona, Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Carrie Lake remain in a tight contest as counting continues. Both candidates had about 50 percent of the vote, with 70 percent of the vote counted. Final results are expected by the end of the week.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In Nevada, Republican candidate for Governor Joe Lombardo was ahead of Democrat Steve Sisolak by about five points as of midday Wednesday.
--:-- John Bickley: In a major upset, the Democratic Congressional Caucus Chair Sean Patrick Maloney of New York lost his race to GOP challenger Michael Lawler in New York's 17th Congressional District.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In Pennsylvania, the Keystone State's longest-serving state representative, who died last month, was re-elected during the midterms. At age 85, Democrat Anthony Tony DeLuca passed away October 9th after succumbing to a third battle with lymphoma.
--:-- John Bickley: And in other tragic news, Mayor Velma D. Hendricks of Melville Town, Louisiana, was up for re-election this year, but was killed as a result of a car crash on Election Day before polls closed Tuesday. Hendricks was 84 years old.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And in some non-election news, evacuations have been announced in South Florida ahead of Tropical Storm Nicole. The storm grew stronger Tuesday night with sustaining winds at 70 miles per hour. It is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 miles per hour off the east coast of Florida Wednesday night.
--:-- John Bickley: And WNBA star Brittany Griner has been transferred to a Russian penal colony after being sentenced to nine years in prison for allegedly possessing cannabis oil. According to her legal team, Griner was moved from a detention center on November 4th, but they do not know where the facility she will be transferred to is located.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
--:-- John Bickley: From all of us here at Morning Wire, we hope you're enjoying the show.
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