The Associated Press remained unable to call the race because elections officials have yet to tally how many of at least 34,000 write-in votes cast in the election went to Brown, whose name didn’t appear on the ballot.

Brown, who had asked supporters to put his name down on their ballots after his primary loss in June, declared himself the winner of a record fifth term. “The people chose four more years of the Brown administration,” he said at his campaign headquarters late Tuesday, where supporters responded with chants of “four more years.”

political newcomer who beat him in the Democratic primary.

Sounds like the dem party's old tricks from 2020.