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And when you are looking at the stakes here, it takes not only the governor to certify an election but it also takes the secretary of state and attorney general here in arizona. and all three of those individuals have called for the decertification of the 2020 election. they ve even called for the arrest of elections officials. we are also looking at the potential of republican legislatures next session. so you can construct in your own imagination what type of legislation could be sent to potential governor kari lake s desk. now, what do we expect tonight here, chris? we are going to expect the initial batch of ballots when they drop one hour after polls close, that s at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, 8:00 p.m. local, to favor the democrats here. you ll recall this happened in 2020. donald trump had a significant deficit. but then the ballots that were counted, those of the individuals that voted in person, which are overwhelmingly republicans here in the state of arizona, and those that ar ....
look, kari lake in a primary, the day ahead of her primary suggested that there was evidence of irregularities and fraud, in other words, to this day, she has never ever provided any such evidence for a specific allegation. she ended up winning that primary. this time around, she is not making the same sort of allegations or suggestions that there is anything that could sway this election. frankly, her team feels very good about their positioning right now. at the same time, just last night, she said everybody will be attended to. and when polling is indicating her in the lead here, i don t want to play hypotheticals, but i think if folks can surmise that this is an individual who is still doubling down and calls for the decertification of the 2020 election, i think although it is fair to suggest, the quick to denounce this as a fraudulent election, if in fact she is behind or this is a tight race. we should also note, yasmin, that here in 2022, there is ....
That s what you are seeing so many of these outside figures come in. so many of the surrogates. that is because they now, at this, point is about turning out the voters that they have been messaging to for months and months now, before they show up at the polls now that it s time to cast the ballot. a battleground for sure, where you are. thank you so much for that. let s move to arizona where, vaughn hill, you are the democrat event for running for governor, katie hobbs. what do you think is happening there as we head into the final sprint? yeah, alex. we have been around here through the state over the last many months. really, back to 2020 working with voters over the course of what amounted to adverse to undermine the mare polk county election process following the 2020 election. ultimately that led to the candidacy of kari lake. really the trump acolyte candidate here who has been on the frontlines of calling into question the 2020 election, saying that if she were governor th ....
Candidate, but also lift up the senate candidate. she has been holding campaign rallies every single night over the last couple of weeks. including here, in rally in arizona where she is dressing up does but her guest here is blake masters, for all of the events that are at these rallies, blake masters has been attending most of them with her, that is where you see this play out in the polling here. she has a charisma that has appealed to a large swath of american voting electorate that was frankly turned off by the likes of donald trump. that is where you have seen katie hobbs, democrats, even the likes of liz cheney who went up on the airways today with a half 1 million dollar ad buy trying to impress upon voters here that kari lake is somebody who still calls for the decertification of the 2020 election. that she is an election denier and that she is a threat, somebody who has even defended ....
Of american voting electorate that was frankly turned off by the likes of donald trump. that is where you have seen katie hobbs, democrats, even the likes of liz cheney who went up on the airways today with a half 1 million dollar ad buy trying to impress upon voters here that kari lake is somebody who still calls for the decertification of the 2020 election. that she is an election denier and that she is a threat, somebody who has even defended the 15-week abortion ban here in the state of arizona, because democrats here, katie hobbs can see this as a path forward. if they were able to convince enough conservatives, anti trump conservatives in dependents here that katie hobbs is somebody that they can justify voting for, and at the same time turn out democrats in the numbers needed, whether it be on the abortion issue, that they have a way to make a crack at kari lake, and frankly, mark kelly continue to have a broad appeal to the electorate here. ....