head, although he did a good job with teresa. she was an absolute goldmine. we are a goldmine. that's why you have to dvr the show. the button on your remote says dvr, hit it, and it automatically records the show. "tucker carlson" is up next. always remember one thing, i'm watters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." what exactly happened in yesterday's midterm elections? wish we could tell you with some precision. that's our job, but we can't, because in a number of key races around the country we still don't have a vote total. in arizona, for example, there's no declared winner in the senate race or governor's race. at this point it seems like both kari lake and blake masters will win. we'll speak to kari lake in just

a minute. the official results may not be in for more than a month. a month. officials said they are prepared to work through thanksgiving and possibly christmas as well. that means results by new year's in a race that was held in early november. that seems late how late is it? by comparison, the results of the 1862 midterm electrics, tabulated by candlelight, without machines or electricity, in the middle of a raging civil war, were clear before the end of the week. that was the entire country. arizona is a single state, a fraction of the state of florida, which tallied its votes in an entire day. counting the votes isn't an added extra you get for government. they have a surplus, like fighting climate change, counting the votes is a core function of government, along with law enforcement, keeping

the border secure. efficient elections are the reasons you pay taxes. arizona doesn't seem to have them. why is that? don't ask. no unauthorized questions. instead watch country. or if you don't have cable, simply trust your local officials. >> that's the wonder of democracy, whether you're a democrat or republican, and i wanted to point that out to be the crank in the room, following brianna. stay off social media, people. if you're trying to figure out if there are really issues with voting, trust your local officials, trust us here, a news source that you knows, and they're doing their jobs and doing it right. >> tucker: "they're doing their jobs. they're doing it right." ha-ha-ha! really? the state of our elections is embarrassing, but so were last night's elections. republicans swore they were going to sweep, a red tsunami. that's what they told us, and

we, to be honest, cautiously believed them. they did not sweep, not even close to weeping. the republican party may take control of the house and senate, but only by a tiny margin at best. that's great, but that was not the plan. the plan was simple. it seemed easy a week ago. an unpopular president, a faltering economy, an open border, the looming risk of nuclear war, how about that, put that together, how could that not be a massive republican win nationally? there weren't. joe biden was not punished. in fact, he's out there bragging about himself today. pretty frustrating. you want republicans to win, not because they're so great, but beca.one offense people whose jt was to win and did not win should go do something else now, we're speaking specifically of the republican leadership of the

house and senate. they took hundreds of millions of dollars to paint the map red and they didn't. doesn't mean they're evil, they should be jailed. it does mean they shouldn't be promoted. no one should ever be rewarded for failure. if there's a truly conservative principle in life, it's the principle of meritocracy. you reward excellence. you do not reward mediocrity. democrats kept promoting tony fauci despite his ineptitude. what is that? that's corruption. republicans shouldn't do anything like that. what's the point of voting for them if they do? they're no different. the question is why did republicans underperform last night. people are saying it's about abortion, suburban ladies mad about roe, probably true. on the other hand, a number of resolutely pro-life survived.

so abortion may have been a factor, but it's not the whole answer. many others are saying that donald trump is the reason why republicans didn't do as well as they thought they would. that's a more complicated question. the truth is we can't see the entire picture this early. [coughing] excuse us. the truth is trump has been a mixed blessing politically. the downsides mixed with the upsides. republicans last night suffered a fair amount of losses in races that had nothing to do with trump, in michigan, for example. whether you like trump or not, and many don't, and a lot do, it's more complicated than just him. then there's the most amusingly stupid explanation of all. [coughing] excuse us. all this election talk. so bad candidates were the problem. that's all over twitter. the twitter pundits are saying the candidates were subpar. candidate quality matters. that's true. the quality of a candidate does matter, but how much does it

matter? let's see. joe biden got elected president two years ago from the basement. john fetterman became a u.s. senator last night. does anybody think john fetterman was a quality candidate? ha-ha-ha. is that why he won, because they had quality candidates on the left? did the voters of pennsylvania really want a brain-damaged candidate? probably not. give them credit for at least knowing who they were voting for. and they voted for john fetterman. he won anyway. what does that tell you? it tells you in some cases candidate quality is not the most important thing. what is? well, the mechanics of an election. they matter. in that case, they matter sometimes than any other individual running in the election. the way people vote makes a big difference to the outcome. so does access to communication. why does that matter? well, because you can say whatever you want, but if no one hears you you're not really speaking. that's the case for republicans. so often, republicans can

communicate their message unencumbered on a single cable television and low-trafficked websites. that's it. the rest of the american media amounts to a gigantic filter designed to distort republicans. it's a campaign apparatus, and only the democrats have it. you can whine about that. "ooh, the media are liberal." it's not about liberal or conservative. it's about winning elections. democrats can win because they have that. so if republicans want to win elections too they might spend money to fix that, to achieve parity. as of tonight, democrats have far more control over the election machinery, and almost total control of the manner media, and republicans don't. these are not ideological problems. it's not a question of who's right on the issues. that's settled in our minds, but probably in the minds of people who vote republican if it would kurt to them, but it doesn't, because they don't know what they stand for.

these are questions, again, not who's right or wrong, but who makes it into elective office, who yields power. many on the road don't understand this at all. they don't care about the details. 2.5 years ago, republican allies in congress watched in glassy-eyed sedation as the democrats rewrote laws around the country in order to get their own candidates into office. they didn't do it by accident. they knew what they were doing. last night, those laws, many still on the books, paid off. john fetterman bombed in his one public debate. he humiliated himself. he made a mockery of the election, but it doesn't matter. thanks to early voting, his margin was already in the bank. nearly 70% of democrats had voted early in the pennsylvania races. only 20% of republicans did. so, okay, it's over, but it doesn't need to be repeated. these are fixable problems. you can get your message out.

you can force the other side, if you try hard enough, to agree on fair election rules. but you can't do any of that unless you acknowledge these problems exist. so those are probably the real problems. enough of the depressing recap. there were bright spots last night. there were, as dispirited as you may have been, and we think it's important to enjoy them always. the good news is we're savoring. the first piece of good news is the flip side of the worst piece of news, which is that john fetterman won in pennsylvania, won without speaking a single coherent sentence for the entire campaign. you may have been appalled by that, but in some sense it's an achievement. john fetterman in winning shattered the thickest of all glass ceilings, which for centuries as prevented the unapologetically brain-damaged from winning state election. john fetterman is not just a u.s. senator now, he's a pioneer. there's nothing the democratic party loves, reveres and elevates more quickly than a pioneer. take a look at the white house

press secretary. so the question is, given his awe-inspiring achievement, how can john fetterman not be the frontrunner for the democratic nomination in 2024? we can't control that, he and kamala play it out, but expect entertainment value for senator john fetterman. samier every moment. so the second piece of good news for republicans, that they should celebrate, because it's great, sometimes watching your enemies get vanquished is a virtue in itself, the sean patrick maloney lost. probably the oiliest, slippiest, and by and far the stupidest member of congress on the democratic side, losing to michael waller in a race that nobody thought a republican could ever win. it seems like lawler won for a couple of reasons. the first is that sean patrick maloney spent the last year and a half huffing and puffing about january 6th. they're going to win on

january 6th. unlike most of them, clever as he is, maloney seemed to believe it. he claimed that an officer was, quote, killed on january 6th. last night after his defeat, he once again invoked, can you guess it, january 6th. >> a short while ago i spoke to my opponent, michael lawler, and congratulated him on a good win. we hope the high watermark of some of the anger and division that we have dealt with this entire cycle, from january 6th on through, and we hope for something better for our country, because that's what all americans deserve. >> tucker: ha-ha-ha. we mentioned he was clever. so what seemed like a gracious concession, and we're all in need of those on both sides, was in fact another attack on january 6th, the insurrection. watts interesting is that

maloney's district is upscale. if there's one group republicans have had trouble winning recently, since the inversion of 2016, it's upper income white collar voters, but in that district they went republican. so republicans should study what happened there, and not just there, all over new york. democrats lost several seats across the hudson valley and long island in blue areas. democrats, this is their base, upscale suburban voters, democrats are more vulnerable than they believe they are. again, republicans should study how exactly that happened. one race that will be studied for quite a long time, and enjoyed for at least six years, is what happened in ohio last night. republicans in ohio stunned the democratic party. now, they'll tell you, oh, it was a republican state. but even by the standards of a so-called republican state,

republicans dominated in ohio last night. no democrat came within 10 points of any republican in races for executive positions or supreme court races. now, in the now famous race for senate in ohio, democrats spent tens of millions of dollars more than the winner did. that would be j.d. vance. but j.d. vance won. not only did he win, he won as a decent person. that's rare in any legislative body. he won on the right message. watch this. >> now the people of ohio have given us a job. what we need to do over the next couple of years, over the next six years for the full -- the full length of this senate term, whoever is in the majority, whatever the president looks like, we have a very simple job to do. it's to go to work every single day and fight for the people of ohio. fight for our workers. fight for our families.

fight for the people struggling with the opioid addiction problem. fight for the people, the struggling moms struggling to raise babies just like my mom raised me. we've got a great state. whether you voted for me or not, the thing i promise to do its go to the united states senate and fight every single day for the people of ohio. thanks to you we get an opportunity to do just that. >> tucker: we've lost more than a hundred thousand americans from drug abuse in the last year. many hundreds of thousands over the past five years. yet when was the last time you saw mention it in a victory speech? i will fight for them, their families, the people left behind from this epidemic, from china through mexico, destroying future parts of america. j.d. vance said that, and he clearly means it. he won by a lot, despite being outspent by a lot. that's really good news. almost as good, we will not see

for quite some time the likes of beto o'rourke and stacey abrams against, because they lost yet again. how many offices have these two run for? how much money have democratic donors spent to get them elected? ha-ha. a lot. ha-ha-ha. hundreds of millions of dollars, and both are unemployed, because it doesn't matter how much you spend on the advertising campaign on dog poo p.o. dog won't it. so now the last and probably biggest piece of good news, as you already know, is what happened last night in the state of florida. ron desantis absolutely killed it. voters of every education level supported ron desantis over

charlie crist. ron desantis even won among post grads by 7%. republicans do not win statewide among people with postgraduate degrees, but desantis did, winning in all but five counties in florida. to th democrats' astonishment, e even flipped miami-dade county. miami-dade went for hillary clinton by 30 points in 2016. listen to the audible gasps at msnbc as they realized hispanic voters had betrayed them. >> miami-dade, a big one in florida. we've got the -- yeah. so let's put this in perspective. miami-dade county has

2.75 million people. in 2016, this was a democratic county by 30 points. hillary clinton won this county by 30 points. miami-dade is 70% hispanic. and look at this. in the mail-in and early vote, which again tends to be more democratic friendly, marco rubio, the republican is outright leading in miami-dade county by seven points. >> tucker: exactly. good for them for being honest about what happened. really no lying about it. again, it wasn't just ron desantis. it was also marco rubio. no republican has won in miami-dade county in 20 years. but ron desantis did. marco rubio did it. in the end, desantis won by nearly 20 points. things were so bad for democrats in florida that cbs went looking for charlie crist supporters, and couldn't find any in public. watch. >> by the way, i got to point out, once we started digesting our food and digesting the day, we realized on that daylong trip

we spoke to dozens of people up and down the coast of florida, all in precincts, by the way, that voted for president biden in 2020, but to our surprise we did not run into a supporter of ron desantis' democratic opponent. that would be charlie crist. >> tucker: ha-ha-ha. poorly charlie crist. of course charlie crist was the lamest possible candidate the democrats ever could have run, probably because they knew that desantis was going to win. this is one of those those rare elections in which voters were, of course, rejecting the other side, but in this election a lot of those voters appear, the polling shows this, to be affirming the side they voted for. they weren't just voting against. they were voting for. they were voting for ron desantis. pretty amazing actually. according to desantis, this is a realignment. here he is. >> you know over these past four years, we've seen major challenges for the people of our state, for the citizens of the united states, and above all for the cause of freedom.

we saw freedom and our very way of life, and so many other jurisdictions in this country, wither on the vine. florida held the line. we chose facts over fear. we chose education over indoctrination. we chose law and order over rioting and disorder. thanks to the overwhelming support of the people of florida, we not only won election, we have rewritten the political map. >> tucker: so as disappointed as you may have been by the results last night, what happened in florida is legitimately a big deal. probably be a while before we know exactly what it means, but we know for certain that it was out of the ordinary, unexpected, and profound. as we told you a minute ago, the

other thing that happened, that's kind of great, that we're enjoying, the guy in charge of getting democrats elected to congress lost. his name is sean patrick maloney, representing the hudson valley, beaten by the congressman elect. he joins us. thanks for coming on. how did you do this? >> thanks for having me, tucker. well, look, democrats control everything this with washington, albany, and new york city for the first time in our nation's history, and created an absolute mess. a 41-year record high inflation, surging crime, skyrocketing energy costs, and a porous southern border, with a massive inflow of illegal immigration, but drugs coming into our communities, killing 300 americans a day. voters in new york were fed up. they had enough. they wanted to restore balance and common sense to every level of government. we've picked up four congressional seats in new york. we'll have 11 of new york's 26

members as republicans come january. that is historic. i think in my district especially, you know, sean patrwanted toknock republicans e seats. they did it. the courts intervened. a democrat-appointed court of appeals, threw out the mess, called itgerey mannedderred and unconstitution, and appointed a special master. we got a map. when i looked at the map, i knew i could win the seat. 42% is from the county where i'm born and raised. i've lived here my entire leave. we won rockland i by 10 points. that's why i defeated sean patrick maloney yesterday. >> tucker: probably not enough victories to celebrate, but the ones that came through are worth

celebrating. this is special amazing, because he's the charge of getting democrats elected to congress. do you think he saw it coming? >> no, not really, because he was galavanting across the globe to paris, geneva and london jays month ago raising money for nancy pelosi. about two weeks ago he realized he had a problem when he had to call in bill clinton to come campaign. he asked hillary clinton to send an email, not the 30,000 that she deleted, but he also asked joe biden to come in and do a fundraiser for him just last week. you know, this district is home to the clintons and george soros. and the fact that they now have a republican congressman speaks volumes to where the electorate is. >> tucker: that's pretty great. really is. we're going to celebrate. congressman elect mike lawler of rockland county, new york, thank you so much. >> thank you, tucker.

>> tucker: we told you the counting is still underway in maricopa county in arizona, about 63% of the entire state's population lives. new results about to come in. you're seeing it on your screen right there. the final results of the two of the most closely-watched races in the country. kari lake for governor, blake masters for senate. what exactly is going on with these races? well, a live report from the rnc attorney on the ground and also kari lake herself joins us straight ahead. plus, for all the focus on the elections, this story has been missed by many. another hurricane on its way to the united states, probably worst than a lot of people expected it to be. hate to tell you that, but it's coming very soon. a full report straight ahead.

>> this is a fox news alert. these are long voting lines in arizona. that was yesterday's chaos at polling sites across the state, particularly maricopa county, the population center of arizona. that chaos continues today. this is a live picture from voting-counting underway in that county, which includes tempe and phoenix. results received at the top of

the hour out of that county, but they're apparently delayed. what's going on? we're in phoenix tonight where legal challenges may soon be underway. what is the latest in these two races? >> >> the maricopa county is way behind, the county is way behind in counting these votes. one of the reasons here they switched a couple years ago to what's called a vote center model. instead of the old-fashioned model where you would go vote in a precinct, they go cut the number of places you could cut e by 2/3. they don't have preprinted ballots to vote. whenever you show up, they print a ballot for you, which takes time. if the printer is screwed up, then you have the chaos you're seeing on the screen there. you have two-hour lines. you have poorly-trained election

officials, not used to the model, telling people they can go to another place to vote, but they can't. when they go to the next place, they're told they already voted. this is disenfranchised voters. we went to court to get a judge to keep the maricopa county voting places open longer. the judge rejected this. so people were disenfranchised by this chaos. so there's a lot of things that when kari lake becomes the governor of arizona, she needs to do to confirm -- to convene a legislative session to make several changes, i believe, to arizona law so that this never happens again, that people can have confidence in the outcome of the elections here. we still have a third of the ballots that haven't been counted. i mean, compare and contrast that with florida, where they had results very quickly. that's as a result of all the experimentation and other shenanigans going on like mark zuckerberg's organizations giving in-kind contributions to

the recorder's offices in arizona, even though banned. i could go on and on. many problems with arizona voting, but we're pretty close to hopefully getting a couple move leaders there who will turn things around. >> tucker: yeah. this stuff really matters. shame on the governor and the secretary of state. harmeet dhillon, thank you for the update. a huge percentage of all votes cast yesterday have not been counted. if they get those numbers at this hour, of course we'll tell you. we'll go to kari lake, running for the governor of arizona, one of the most watched races in the countries. she joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. where do you think you are in this? >> i feel 100% certain i'm going to win. the question is how big will that win be. can you believe this, tucker? we still have 650,000 votes that have not been counted. guess who these voters are. they're the people who showed up

on election day. >> tucker: right. >> they're the people, 275,000 of them are people who brought their mail-in ballots to the polls on election day, because they don't trust the mail and they don't trust the drop boxes. guess who those voters are. they're our voters. we're only down by a few thousand votes right now. when those votes come, we'll see liberal minds blowing up. >> tucker: i'm not alleging a crime, but broadly speaking it's criminal to screw it up this badly. did anyone know this was going to happen? are you confident that it's on the level? it's so outrageous. what is this? >> i'm not shocked at all. i mean, they've been calling me an election denier. i've been sounding the alarm on 2020 november 3rd election, which was disastrous, and we had problems in the august 2nd primary as well. now we have the same problems. they have all this time to get this figured out. you know one of the main problems, 20% of those machines went down, the tabulator

machines. i noticed they were primarily in republican areas of town. arcadia, anthem. a lot of different areas. it was a shame. we ended up voting in a liberal part of town because we can choose what voter center to go to, and they said they had no problems. the bigger issue is we can't keep having this problem. this is what i've been trying to say. i want all democrats, independents and republicans to trust in the system. when with i win, and trust me we will win this, this is going to be top of my agenda. day one, i'll take my hand off the bible, we issuing a declaran of invasion at the border, and we'll get rid of the machines that are not reliable, and obviously we saw what kind of problems they can cause. >> tucker: well, it's insane. if you're serious about elections, you vote on paper ballots. you don't use electronic voting machines. france dis.

if we wanted secure elections, we could have them, don't you think? >> you don't have election season, you have election day, paper ballots, and count them in the precincts. harmeet talked about how they went to the centers during covid. we used to vote at churches and schools. when coved struck, we couldn't because they were shut down. it forced us into big vote centers, where it's easier to have problems. we're going to go back to small precincts, where it's easier to detect problems, and easier to fix them. and tub easier to hand-count vos as well. i'll work with the legislature. the u.s. constitution says our lawmakers, state lawmakers, are the ones who are to determine our election laws. i know we're ready to solve this problem. we're sick of being an embarrassment that maricopa county has made us become. we won't do another election like this. >> tucker: amen. if you care about democracy, you need to convince people it's on

the level. and what happens in maricopa county yesterday does not. kari lake, i appreciate it so much. good luck. >> thank you. >> tucker: so as we told-the outset, florida is bigger than arizona, but they were able to count their ballots in a day. the results were crystal-clear, an overwhelming victory for the republican party for ron desantis in particular. why is that? we'll hear from the florida governor straight ahead

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>> tucker: takes a while to figure out why candidates have won or lost, but first thing you need to know how big the margins were. the biggest margin last night was the governor's race in florida, where ron desantis was re-elected. hears part of what he said when he won. >> we reject woke ideology.

we fight the woke in the legislature. we fight the woke in the schools. we fight the woke in the corporations. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. >> tucker: the question over who's woke is considered by republicans in washington to be a social issue, that doesn't work, but it work for ron desantis last night. luna won last night, taking over charlie crist's old seat in congress. pretty great. she joins us tonight. congratulations on your victory. how did you do it? >> i can tell you that there's a strong emphasis from the beginning on grassroots activisim. tucker, we were outspent $12 million to $1. i had barack obama dropping a robocall the friday before the election, and beat them -- well, i was doing the grassroots, the emphasis, the secret sauce. and also, too, hold true to your

convictions. >> tucker: barack obama did a robocall? what did he say? >> i didn't actually listen to it, but i know that he did the robocall. ironically enough my democratic opponent was funded by a single billionaire that he was related to, tied to not only obama, but perkins coie, and you know what they cooked up. >> tucker: amazing. you just got elected. you should not know this. i don't know it. i'm just interested. are there any republicans who had more money going into the races last night anywhere? >> i don't think so. at least not in the state of florida. it seems as though the democrats don't like conservatives, especially not those that can target the largest voting minority in the country. you know, i'm first and foremost american, but i'm a veteran, and i also, too, know how to target the largest voting minority in the country. so it seems as though they saw me a threat, but i hope to be their worst nightmare in the next couple years.

>> tucker: good luck in washington. you'll find it interesting. >> ha-ha-ha. >> tucker: great to see you. we told you, just joking at the top of the hour that john fetterman has broken the glass ceiling, where people with brain damage never get elected, but he did. maybe he'll be the democratic party's nominee for president. ha-ha-ha. msnbc took it seriously. we've got the tape. and news that's not political, a hurricane hitting tonight. a live update minutes away.

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wing right now in the united states because they always beat you to it. parity is indistinguishable from reality. msnbc, hours before we spoke, and we didn't know this, had suggested it, but in dead seriousness. >> fetterman as a nominee at some point for president, i know there's some variables obviously, but i just -- you know, what he did in the super red, deep red parts of pennsylvania, the way that he ran ahead of biden, ran ahead of trump, it makes you wonder about his future. >> tucker: yeah, it does make you wonder. by the way, fetterman should demand it. if he's not the democratic candidate in two years, it's an enablist party, a racist one. john fetterman, 2024. not to brag, but we thought governor ron desantis was doing

interesting things a year and a half ago when we sat down with him for about an hour when we asked him questions not specifically related to politics, including what makes a good leader. we dug up the tape because they thought it was relevant to what happened last night. here it is. >> i think leadership matters, and willingness to take decisive strong action without being worried about your own shadow makes a difference. i'll talk about the first part of my term. then more recently with coved. covid. when i became governor, i fired the sheriff's office of broward county, who mishandled the parkland massacre the year before. i fired the palm beach county supervisor of elections, who had botched a number of election, and got brenda snipes from broward with county to resign. they were quick, decisive actions. we had one of the smoothest elections in the country in 2020. people at the time, it was considered controversial, but it was the right thing to do.

fast-forward to covid, you know, i had to make a lot of decisions that cut against the grain of conventional elite opinion, certainly the media, we took incoming every single day, but you make the decisions, you know why you're doing it, you stand your ground. now we're in a situation where march of 2021 states wished they could have had florida's performance. i mean, our unemployment rate is 4.8%. states like california are 9%. our covid mortality is less than the national average, even though we have the oldest population in the country. we've had schools open, one of only three or four states in the country, where 100% of our parents have access to in-person education. we got the big things right in the moment. a lot of people were throwing stones at it, but take the action, stand your ground, and hold the line. >> tucker: so you went to hazard, you went to yale. you were a naval officer. you served in congress for six years. you've certainly been around a lot of elite institutions.

you ignored them as they criticized you. >> of course, yes. >> tucker: why? >> first of all, when i first went to yale -- i grew up in florida. i was a blue collar kid. i showed i up my first day in jean shorts and a t-shirt because that's what we wore on the west coast of florida. it was a major culture shock. it wasn't received warmly. i never quite fit in there. it was a total culture shock to me. i really rebelled against the leftist orthodoxy i saw on the campus and other institutions. i've had a strong distrust of elites in american society. that was natural. i don't seek the approval of elites. i got elected by people in florida, the folks i was elected to serve. i don't care what people in the beltway or in new york city think about what we're doing in florida. >> tucker: it's interesting, because you see it a lot, people come from a little town, out in

the provinces, and show up like harvard, or law school, and this is decide the world that i love, the values i believe. symptoms like you came away from your experiences more cont contemptuous. >> i remember going to yale, sitting in class -- i had never heard anybody criticize america. everything was about how bad america was in these classes. i go to church. i'd never heard anyone criticize god or. yale's motto is for god, for country, for c yale. they hated god and country. seeing that was eye-opening. i realized early on this was not quite where i personally fit in. >> tucker: fox news alert for you. new votes, 24 hours after the election, coming out right now in arizona.

katie hobbs' total, 953,783. canine 40,716. what does this mean? kari lake joins us now with her view. kari, thanks for coming back. what does this tell you about where this is going? >> i look back and last night, down 15 points. now we're down two/tenths of a point maricopa county elections officials, the most inquestion incompetentin the country, hopey they'll start telling us about the republican voters, the ones that showed up on game day to vote. that's what we're waiting for. we think they'll start delivering the results tomorrow. 2275,000 of those votes were people who had a mail-in ballot, did not trust the system, wanted

to wake walk it in on election day. we know this big group of voters, 650,000, are going to swing very heavily our way. we believe we will be victorious at the end of the day, and maybe in a very comfortable way. we're going to be seeing this continue. as i said, we were 15 points down last night. now we're down two/tenth of a point. i'll start to take the lead very soon. >> tucker: we shouldn't be treated like this by our government. who's in charge of elections in arizona? >> steven richards. my opponent, shocking, my opponent in the miss i don't debate and hide in the basement katie hobbs, secretary of state is in charge of our elections as well. we have two of the most incompetent people in all of government in this country running elections in arizona. but i want the people of arizona to know this, we're going to see this start going in my direction. on day one, we're going to start

working to reform our elections so that all voters can feel confident we have honest elections. >> tucker: well, yeah. are you struck by how the news media keep telling us this is totally normal, it's always been this way? like muggings on the subway, always been this way. not always been this way, has it? >> no. when i started voting in 1988, you voted, you showed up on election day, you were given a ballot, they hand counted them, and you knew the winner before you went to bed. the first election -- i've been covering elections since the '90s as a journalist if in my old job. i remember in 2000, when that election went all night, disputed between gore and bush, that was the start of when we started seeing a lot more disputes and distrust in elections. this is not rocket science, tucker. we can go back to the way we used to do it, which worked. it's a shame that my homeowners association election is far more secure and accurate than the elections we seem to have here

in arizona. we're going to change that. this is one of the reasons people are voting for me. one of the reasons that i will win is the voters in arizona are tired of shoddy elections that are run by imbeciles. that's going to change. >> tucker: they're proving your point. really quick, what's your plan tomorrow? >> well, we're going to wait for the votes to come in. we think they're going to start go heavily our way. we'll see what happens from there. we do feel very confident -- i have 100% confidence that we win this. i'm sleeping well. we know how things work in maricopa county. they drag their feet. we will wait. god did not, you know, decide this was going to be an easy route. when you are trying to work through corruption at high-levels and incompetence at high levels, you've got to dig through, get to the other side of that. when we get to the other side of this and win, that's where we will start to make sure we root out all corruption in our government and all incompetence. we don't want incompetent people

in our government anymore. >> tucker: we certainly have them. kari lake, great to see you tonight. good luck. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: a fox news alert. a major hurricane is amazingly about to hit the state of florida again. brian norcross joins us right now. brian, when is this coming and what will it be like? >> it's coming tonight, tucker. the big thing about the storm is not the intensity so much, it's the size of it, it's the scope of it. take a look here. here's the center of it now. when that comes ashore, yes, there are going to be strong winds and so forth, but this big band here is already coming ashore with strong winds that you take out power and so forth. when we look at the wider view, we have relentless winds, pushing the water, the ocean water, up against the coast. we have flooding up and down the florida coast right now. it's undermined homes along the coast. that's going to continue to be the situation through the night. national hurricane center makes

this big yellow bubble to say where are the disruptive winds. well, then we have the strongest winds right here in the orange. watch as it comes ashore here tonight. so about 1:00 in the morning, we expect the peak winds right at the coast. that's called the treasure coast, south of cape canaveral, the biggest push of water will be there. the water will be piled against all of the florida coast. then tomorrow, it continues as a strong winds cover the entire northern half of the state during the day. then finally by late in the day, things start to let up. the system moves up the east coast. heavy rain all the way up to new england over the weekend. tucker? >> tucker: all the way up to new england. brian norcross for us, fox weather hurricane specialist, nice to see you. thanks for that. we've got continuous coverage of what is called hurricane nicole on the fox weather app.

a lot going on in the world. we will keep you up to date on it as it unfolds. pretty amazing moment to be watching. thanks for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. we will see you tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., but in the meantime sean hannity takes over from here. >> sean: all right, tucker. sometime three months from now, you might get the results from arizona and nevada. if you wait long enough. it's coming, it's coming. don't worry. welcome to "hannity." tonight the midterm elections are over, but the balance on capitol hill is still in flux, as we predicted repeatedly on this show, key races were decided by razor thin margins, many elections yet to be called. this is not a surprise. we knew it would be extremely tight. we warned all of you every night, in fact, on election eve, we pointed out, the razor thin margins that decided 2016 and 2020, and we made this prediction. just to remind you -- >> as