influential donors to take over the election apparatus in critical states before the 2024 presidential election. i m wondering though, for looking ahead to 2024 we know president bush will be out there with former president obama as well. talking about this very issue again, the fight for democracy. if this is something they can ride all the way through 2024 to make this an issue, top of mind for voters? i think so because i think tuesday prove just how important this issue is to people. just how much goes into this idea of being inside or outside of the mainstream. you look at a lot of the exit polling, 33% of some states, maybe a third of voters, do not think joe biden is a duly elected president of the united states. that leaves two thirds of voters who have rejected that idea. the idea that republicans are going to continue with this
think it s only going to get stronger again as we go farther and farther from it. so, i do you think, if you look at where the party is both the sit right now, it s really republicans that are in that circular firing squad. in a place where i think many democrats thought the party would be at this time, a week ago. so, it s fascinating. because your former boss, former president barack obama, essentially got out there on the campaign trail, early in his element there, talking about how this was a fight for democracy. a lot of folks kind of got on board with that, and voters really made that clear that that was incredibly important to them in the exit polling that we saw. with the midterm election results. and there really was a rejection of election deniers as a whole, especially folks that were in a position to help decide the election results in any state. and here is what the new york times says. they halted a planned by some allies of former president donald j trump in other
and so the tourist industry, et cetera, et cetera. so i think we see why given everything else this race remains so tight. in a race this close, everything causes you to win and everything will cause you to lose. right. with such small numbers. on our exit polling, 75% of respondents said the economy was not good or poor and cortez masto pulled 36% of those. the people that thought it was excellent or good she got 92%. the people upset in the state where economy was really ravaged during covid still went with the democrat does speak to the idea that other issues crept in there. we thought it would be an economic election and inflation election but obviously, there were people mad about that but then opted for other things. coming up, senate balance of power coming sharper in focus after a dramatic night. we ll continue to track the vote night as numbers come in and donald trump unleashed a fleury of attacks on social media given
voters in arizona recognize the nonsense that they presented, and it looks like voters across the country are pushing back hard against this big lie, and i m just very proud to be one of the folks carrying that standard forward, and i m very excited. this is just a media call. we re gonna respect the process, which is the appropriate thing to do. you know, when i look at the exit polling of issues of importance to arizona voters, inflation is at the top by far, crime is in there on the list, down at the bottom of the list. but most of these issues, abortion, they have nothing to do with the job of secretary of state. so, what did you find to be of concern to voters in the job of secretary of state? well, the issue was whether or not they ll be able to vote in the future. look, these folks will be wanted to stop regular americans from voting. my opponent had actually sponsored a bill to take this election to the u.s. senate. u.s. senators away from the voters in 2018, before the big
exit polling suggests this was a decent calculation, high inflation was decent calculation, high inflation was the number one issue for voters, but crucially, it was not the only issue. let s turn to pennsylvania because they re in a race for the senate, the democratjohn fetterman was the victor. i m proud of what we ran on, protecting a woman s right to choose. cheering ..raising the minimum wage. fighting the union way of life. cheering ..health care as a fundamental human right. we heard john fetterman talking about abortion rights there and since injune when the supreme court removed the constitutional right to abortion, democrats have campaigned on the issue. polling suggest it was the second biggest concern for voters.