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Eliot Rosewater

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3. This is what I found, I am confused...
Wed Jul 24, 2024, 06:51 PM
Jul 2024
Who would replace Kelly?
After Kelly’s resignation, it’d fall to Gov. Katie Hobbs, a fellow Democrat, to replace his successor.

Hobbs’ appointee, by law, would also have to be a Democrat – the same political party as Kelly when he was elected to a full six-year term in 2022.

But that appointee could be temporary.

When there’s a U.S. Senate vacancy, state law also requires a special election be held during the next general election – that’d be in 2026 – to determine who gets to serve the remaining years of Kelly’s term, which expires in 2028.

Kelly was first elected to the Senate in a similar situation. In 2020, he won a special election to serve the remaining two years of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain’s term in office.



https://www.kjzz.org/kjzz-news/2024-07-24/q-az-if-mark-kelly-becomes-vp-pick-what-will-happen-to-his-arizona-senate-seat

Doesn't this say her appointment would be good till 2026? How am I misreading this?

My op question has a mistake, it would not be her pick for remainder of term but for 2 more years, right?

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