Republican control of the U.S. Senate has increased, as a previously too-close-to-call race in Alaska has been declared for candidate Dan Sullivan. Sullivan, 49, who defeated incumbent Mark Begich, is a former Alaska attorney general and U.S. Marine Corps officer who was assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush. He was leading by a mere 8,100 votes on Nov. 4, but Alaska law requires elections workers to wait a week before counting the 20,000 absentee ballots.
