Arizona Senate race could play crucial role in confirmation

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If Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly wins a seat in a special election for the U.S. Senate, he could take office as early as Nov. 30. That would shrink the GOP's Senate majority and complicate the path to confirmation for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

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FILE - In this Feb. 2019 file photo, former astronaut Mark Kelly speaks during his senate campaign kickoff event in Tucson, Ariz. If Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly wins a seat in the U.S. Senate, he could take office as early as Nov. 30, 2020. A Kelly victory would shrink the GOP's Senate majority at a crucial moment and complicate the path to confirmation for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

Because the contest is a special election to finish McCain’s term, the winner could be sworn in as soon as the results are officially certified. Other winners in the November election won’t take office until January.for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died Friday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed that Trump’s nominee “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

She has not elaborated on whether the confirmation vote should come before or after the election. But she highlighted the renewed stakes of her race in a fundraising pitch on Saturday.

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Marxist Mark Kelly has deep financial ties to Communist China. If elected, he'll protect those interests. He'll also vote to take your doctor away from you, defund police, cancel culture, and everything else Ilhan Omar and AOC tell him to do. Kelly = China influence

NOPE!

Picture is worth a 1000 words.. say No to Mark kelly

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Please support Mark Kelly in AZ

Yes!!!!

Can't wait to see CaptMarkKelly in the Senate and the grifting SenMcSallyAZ fired! She's just squatting in that seat anyway. No one voted for her. VoteOutTheGOP

mkraju Heard you said on CNN tonight that Dem needs two more Rep Senators to sink McConnell’s despicable move. Based on the above AP article, Dem only needs one more, assuming they can hold it out until 11/30. Don’t you agree?

grandmatojosie1 It’s past time AMERICA had another ASTRONAUT in the SENATE!!!!!

grandmatojosie1 Why assume the vote won’t be in the next few weeks? I’ve seen things about the Senate calendar, but can’t Mitch revise it?

nutmeg62

The only reason this anti gun prick wins is because Arizona got infected with the California influx. Arizona used to be a solid Republican state and then they were invaded from the west

24fan4 Mark Kelly must win. More energy and resources must head to Arizona now.

Unless they try to ram it through before the election.

FillTheSeat

NavyGirl1983 “Lord, Hear our Prayer”

Vote for Mark Kelly

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joncoopertweets Arizona help save America Do not rest! Do not be afraid to vote! Vote early, vote once! Be afraid of the consequences if you do not VOTE! VoteMarthaMcSallyOutOfOffice VoteForMarkKelly2020 And don't forget too VoteBlueForCongressToo VoteOutAnyRepublicanSupportingMitch

joncoopertweets Keep hope alive. DONATE SUPPORT FOLLOW MarkKelly CaptMarkKelly

Plus he looks like Locke on Lost

joncoopertweets Trump lost the 2016 presidential election popular vote by 11,094,158 votes. 74,074,037 voted against Trump

joncoopertweets Tried to post this on FB and had my account restricted. I guess someone doesn't want Mark Kelly to win... VoteMarkKelly

He still has to be seated. Could take a couple of months.

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CaptMarkKelly has been leading SenMcSallyAZ in Arizona from day one!! 👍🇺🇸 Once again Mark Kelly outclassed McSally on the Death of Justice Ginsburg. McSally immediately went into her *Trump mode*. RuthBaderGinsburg🙏

Go Mark! Go Mark!

equi_noctis Wouldn’t MoscowMitch have to swear him in?

Except Trump's choice will be jammed through on Nov. 4th.

FoxytailRedhead The Senate will get it done before then

jennycohn1 Pass. This is not single payer MedicareForAll. You support it or you lose.

I love astronauts. I do not like failed graduates of the USAFA who do not live the values of the institution.

RodSzone1 November 30 is after the general election. MoscowMitch will push through a SCTUS judge well before the Nov3 election.

I approve!😄

As if you needed more reason to vote against him.

Wishful thinking.

Literally anything is better than McSally

Something needs to. 🤬

potus senatemajldr

We MUST change the senate!!!

Cope

Mark Kelly is an astronaut. Why would he want to dive in head first into the swamp? 🐊

Senate Republicans can refuse to seat Mark Kelly if he wins the special election. The House or Senate have final authority to decide a contested election, superseding even a state legislature or court.

Justice will be confirmed before the election. You guys are really trying hard.

GaydosKTAR Don’t fuck it up Arizona.

Get him in we cant do RGB dirty like senatemajldr wants to do

SPRH_2020 If

GO KELLY!!!!

This democrat must not be elected

Trump & McConnell will try to push through a new justice before the election. Supposing Trump will lose,they will want to see the court leaning heavily toward an anti-abortion position, a long-time dream of the religious-right nutters. A Biden win would make this process look bad

YelloPain This is 🔥 and I want all people to hear it and VOTE! The president can do nothing for the good of all people without a competent and law abiding Congress. One hundred million plus people did NOT vote in 2016.

Not likely. Any confirmation will likely take place sooner given that Dems are gunning for an election fight anyway

Barrett will be confirmed long before then.

One day we will all get along

you guys really do lean toward the Democratic Party, don’t you? So much for independent, unbiased news media.

The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Yes, a man will stop a woman from getting on Supreme Court. If it’s a liberal stopping a conservative woman, that’s ok, but if it Vice versa, those conservatives are sexist!!!!

Won't happen!

Donate!

Dems will try to stall and reason the POTUS and Senate need to star the conformation process immediately after the POTUS names his pick next week. Dems will try to pull everything out they can to stall and it will make them look as extreme as they are.

Done deal by then

lofthouseparty sorry I misspoke earlier!!

Deep thought: Kelly wins. But his swearing-in ceremony gets delayed until Jan 2021. No?

Um, they’ll confirm before the election.

Why are you blatantly supporting one side shouldn't you be neutral after all you are media....

Stranger things have happened Vote

Dems: 'what straws are left to grasp?' MSM: 'well, there is Mark Kelly' Dems: 'whatever....everything is on the table'

Why do we even need Congresmen when it’s the Senate that matters? We could get rid of all those politicians.

One can hope. But its a long shot, at best.

So we need to put it to a vote before then. Thanks.

Why are so many astronauts hellbent on ruining their reputation in politics?

Ohhhhh, AP has a boner for Mark Kelly. Don’t tell Gabby!

🙏

If Maybe Might It's possible Feasible Who knows But probably doesn't matter.

'If Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly wins a seat...' He's not going to. Stop with the DNC fan-fiction

November 30th? Trump will have a SCOTUS in place in two weeks!

This making headlines does seem kind of biased towards democrat agenda is there an alternate similar bias towards Republican agenda? I’d like my news unbias - just saying

I like when the Dems said O donate to act blue. The only blue they don't is the cops dress in blue .

Ah anf there it is... its all about appointing someone you like so you can have power. Too bad a republican lead senate, voted by the people, will nominate a Trump nominee.

damian_godden I donated yesterday

If....the media is the Democrat party

They're going to railroad someone in before November 3rd. The only way we're going to fix this is (a) electing Biden, (b) electing the GOP out of Senate control, and then in January (c) amending the Judiciary Act. Then for good measure? Give PR & DC statehood.

You really think after what happened to his wife GabbyGiffords & their stance on gun control that Mark Kelly won’t work hard to take your guns? If you don’t believe he will, tell me how’s the weather up there with your heads in the clouds?

Second or third time AP has tweeted this today. LOL, AP is not even hiding it's political support now!

Dems/communists are up to old tricks! It's their last ditched effort. There are trying their best. Won't matter, too late. Stop the BS! Vote Trump, vote red

Feeling helpless? Feeling hopeless? Give whatever you are able to donate to Mark Kelly. Let’s win Arizona and stymie Mitch McConnell. Vote Mark Kelly.

GaydosKTAR If? No, when he wins his seat.

Where is his cashapp? I need to donate right now

Hurry up then

with the lies again.

Simple, vote to confirm before this clown is sworn in

If he wins, his vote will be irrelevant. Stop your hypothetical situations.

The vote to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett will be well before Nov 30

Come on Arizona! The whole country depends on you! Let’s get out the vote!

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ATTN: REPUBLICAN VOTERS ❗️

Let’s vote and get him in. Flip the senate!

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

kenjeong Let’s hope so.🙏🏽 I hope my state elects him & flips the state to blue. McSally is awful!

We’ll make sure that doesn’t happen FillTheSeat

Thats ok. We’ll push it through. YOu’re not cheating this election.

You do know the new SCOTUS will be confirmed before the election, right?

Vote on the 29th then. Easy Peasy.

Like they cant get it done before nov3

The nom will already be in by then... no worries

I fear that even if Mark Kelly wins the special election in Arizona, McConnell and the Republicans will block his confirmation as Senator during this session of Congress.

Nope! Trump’s nominee will be confirmed before!

I'm donating to his campaign again! Election2020 Vote

Reporterroblang Don’t worry, the nominee will be confirmed well before Nov. 30

Vote RED! Enough liberals!

GREAT WIN FOR OUR DEMOCRACY. This is only the beginning of what will be a landslide victory for Democrats in all of the upcoming elections. Good-bye Trump. Hello a better world.

If if's and buts were candy and nuts, we would all have a merry Christmas.

Arizona will transition to a Blue State faster than Colorado, and that's saying something! The demographics favor it! BlueArizona

Go, Mark, go

IF IF IF

It’s easy to see what AP wants

Don't count on that even if Kelly wins. Look for MoscowMitch and the Arizona Governor Ducey to possibly delay his taking office as long as they can legal or not.

Desperate. So desperate.

shilling and hoping for this

Confirmation will be before then

This is true. AZ for CaptMarkKelly

When*

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