Midterm election results updates: Dems keep control of Senate with Nevada win

There are about 50,030 mail ballots that still need to be counted in Nevada's most-populous and most Democratic-leaning county, Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria told reporters Friday.

Nearly 16,000 ballots will be sent to tabulation today, Gloria said.

“We're getting to the tail end of what we need to do,” he said. “The tabulation team stays pretty consistent because that's the fastest of all the groups. They can read, if they have to, about 1,000 ballots an hour.”

Saturday is the last day for mail ballots to be received and elections officials will be doing two trips to make sure none are left behind. The deadline to finish counting mail-in ballots is Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto and her Republican challenger, Adam Laxalt, are locked in a tight race for the U.S. Senate. As of Friday afternoon, Laxalt had a lead of roughly 9,000 votes.

-ABC News' Abby Cruz

There are a little more than 500,000 votes left to be counted in Arizona, according to the secretary of state's office.

Officials in Maricopa County -- the state's largest -- expect to "probably" be done with their count on Monday.

Two closely watched races have yet to be decided: the Senate contest between Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly and Republican challenger Blake Masters, as well as the gubernatorial race between Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Kari Lake.

Some Republicans are angry that results still aren't in, but officials stressed that this is how the process set by the legislature works and that accuracy is more important than speed.

Races that fall within one-half of a percentage point or less will trigger an automatic recount.

-ABC News’ Libby Cathey

In the hours since Republican Doug Mastriano flamed out of Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, losing to Josh Shapiro by double digits in a race that was somehow more lopsided than polls suggested it would be, some of the state senator’s own allies have publicly criticized the campaign.

The autopsies depict a candidate who was untrustworthy of experienced aides, blinded by his support among rural Pennsylvanians, and crippled by a refusal to engage with mainstream press. Mastriano has yet to concede to Shapiro, but he also hasn't indicated he plans to challenge the election results.

“He was nowhere in media. His campaign could not be gotten ahold of. They refused to respond to any opposition media. I think that was a huge mistake,” Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the campaign, said Thursday on Newsmax radio.

Meanwhile, Mastriano’s hardline stance on abortion was a losing strategy, said Dom Giordano, a Philadelphia-based conservative radio host who interviewed Mastriano several times throughout the fall.

“I don’t believe you can run statewide and ban all abortions, meaning even in the case of the mother’s health, rape and incest. If you say no to those things, meaning no abortions even in those cases, as Doug did, you are not going to win statewide. It is a loser,” Giordano said on his program Wednesday morning.

-ABC News' Will McDuffie

Elise Stefanik, the New York congresswoman who is No. 3 in the House GOP leadership, is endorsing former President Donald Trump in his yet-to-be-announced bid for the presidency.

“Republican voters determine who is the leader of the Republican Party and it’s very clear President Trump is the leader of the Republican party,” she said in a statement. “I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President in 2024. I fully support him running again.”

Trump told Fox News this week that he supports Stefanik for GOP conference chair, saying, "I think she’s fantastic.”

-ABC News’ Brittany Shepherd