After trailing Democrat candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia in the initial updates that focused on early voting tallies, incumbent Republican Abe Hamadeh surged to the lead in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District race.
The update at 5:19 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, showed Hamadeh leading with 127,063 votes (compared to Surprise resident Greene-Placentia's 121,500) of the tabulated votes.
In an update nearly five hours earlier, Greene-Placentia led with 104,526 early tallies (50.91%) of the vote, while Hamadeh had 100,441 (48.92%).
