Article snippet: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has won Arizona’s marquee Senate race, handing Democrats a major victory six full days after Election Day. Sinema defeated Rep. MORE (R-Ariz.) in one of the most closely watched Senate races this cycle. Sinema led by a margin of 38,197 votes, or about 1.7 percentage points, out of more than 2.1 million votes cast, when the Associated Press called the race on Monday. The AP made the call after Sinema, who was first elected to Congress in 2012, increased her lead over McSally for the fifth straight day. Arizona still has about 200,000 ballots left to count, but McSally would have to win an improbable percentage of those remaining votes to overcome Sinema's edge. "I just called Kyrsten Sinema and congratulated her on becoming Arizona's first female senator after a hard-fought battle," McSally said in a video posted to Twitter on Monday evening. Republicans feared McSally might not regain the lead she lost when new vote tallies were reported Thursday, though they held out hope that the ballots to be counted early this week would come from voters who dropped off their absentee ballots on Election Day. Those hopes appeared dashed Monday, when Maricopa County reported a tally of another 19,000 ballots. Apart from Arizona, Nevada is the only other Senate seat that Democrats picked up this cycle. Rep. MORE carried in 2016. Democrats had not won a Senate seat in Arizona since 1988. But MORE carried Arizona by less than 5 points in 2016, a clos... Link to the full article to read more