Peters defeats James in US Senate race, wins reelection
Source: Detroit Free Press
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., defeated Republican businessman John James on Wednesday evening, winning reelection to a second six-year term as the count of absentee votes put him over the top.
Multiple media outlets, including CNN, called the race for Peters.
By 7:45 p.m., Peters had taken a 59,587-vote lead on James, beating him 49.6% to 48.5% with 98% of the vote counted. It wasn't clear, however, how many, if any, votes were left and whether Peters could build on that lead, given that earlier in the evening he had a much smaller 11,380-vote lead but with about the same amount of the vote counted.
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James had led in the race throughout Tuesday night and much of Wednesday as clerks across the state worked to count more than 3 million absentee ballots cast across Michigan. It was as those tallies came in Wednesday afternoon — especially as large numbers of absentee ballots in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties were counted — that James' lead narrowed and was ultimately overcome.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/john-james-gary-peters-senate-results/6112732002/
With Peters's win, Democrats now have 48 Senate seats, a net gain of one. The flips of AZ (Mark Kelly) and CO (John Hickenlooper) were offset by the loss of AL (Doug Jones). NC and GA are still too close to call.
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