Former astronaut Mark Kelly was sworn in as the new U.S. senator from Arizona on Wednesday, after flipping the highly prized Senate seat for Democrats last month.
Vice President Pence officiated the ceremony, as is customary in his role as president of the Senate.
Kelly defeated Republican Martha McSally in November’s special election, one of the most closely watched Election Day races, as Democrats had been attempting for years to push the state further blue. His swearing-in trims Republicans’ Senate majority in the current term to 52-48.
Kelly, who brings experience in the military as well as NASA, was able to take his oath of office in December, as opposed to other incoming senators who will be sworn into office in January. Kelly’s freshman term, ending in 2022, fills the remaining term of the late Republican Sen. John McCain, who died of brain cancer in 2018.
Read more at NPR.
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