AZ has finished counting votes. The nail-biter of a statewide race, Kris Mayes (D) v. Abe Hamadeh (R) for attorney general, concluded with Mayes ahead by 510 votes and will go to a recount. Unlikely that a recount will change the result by even a tenth of that number. Dems won every state-wide office except for treasurer (a sane Republican was running), superintendent of public instruction (an ethically challenged but non-MAGA Republican who previously held that job was running), and state mine inspector (Republican unopposed). This is a good rebuke to the worst slate of GOP candidates I think I've ever seen for statewide office (I'm an independent who voted in the GOP primary against all of the candidates who lost statewide races in the general and in favor of their more moderate counterparts who lost their primaries).
Abe Hamadeh has filed a suit to contest the election [prematurely, without waiting for the mandatory recount]. My prediction is that he will lose, and he will lose the recount which will give him at most ~10% of what he would need to actually win (e.g., perhaps 50 votes difference, when he lost by 510).
@DSmith_Tucson And Hamadeh's premature lawsuit has been dismissed, without prejudice, for just that reason.