in 2022, trump allies in the arizona republican party attempted to steal arizona's electoral votes by certifying a false slate of electors. 18 co- conspirators were indicted by a grand jury for this scheme. your trial is set to resume in january. here with me now is phoenix , arizona secretary of state, adrian fontes, also a board member of the secretary of state. he priestly curve served as mayor of maricopa county. good to see you. i love that you came out and we have these conversations. to me, you are the opposite of everything i just said. there are people sowing doubts in the political, democratic process in this country. we don't really have a problem in the voting process in this country, or the state, michigan, pennsylvania, georgia, or anywhere else. people like you that administer elections in the state, it works well. >> and it is a bipartisan system . by regular folks like you and me, almost 10,000 or restrictions in the united states of america. maricopa county is the second largest. we do it in so many different ways. local laws, statutes, the local where the government

i am in arizona, it is raining. as we speak, and about half an hour, the sun will be beating down on my bald head, this is what you got to do in arizona. >> the navajo police patch or the jacket, we watched you the entire commercial break. how do we get this jacket? >> well, thank you very much and i hope we live up to the cost a lot we do the show. have you guys yourselves a good afternoon, and "velshi" starts now. >>> good morning. it is saturday, october 19th. >>> there are 17 days remaining in this year's extremely close an important presidential race, a contest that will likely be decided in seven swing states and i am in one of those swing states this weekend. arizona, where joe biden won the race over donald trump by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2020. it was biden's narrowest margin of victory that you're in terms of votes, also the closest presidential race in arizona history, a state that has largely been a republican stronghold for the past 70 years. this year's election is almost certain to be just as compe

we are focusing on arizona. joining us first is camryn sanchez, a political reporter with kjzz radio in phoenix who is getting up very early for us this morning. thank you for doing so and thank you for being on the program today. guest: thanks for having me. host: most people would consider that usually that is a red state. how would you describe it this year? guest: purple. it was red, but now it is sort of changing direction quite a bit. you can see that because all of the big players, national candidates are coming in here pretty much every other day to try to with up. host: what are the factors that you would say that make the state purple this year? guest: it was red, going for republicans in the presidential elections before trump. five times in a row at least. trump changed the game, or rather things changed along with trump. it went for trump in 2016, more slightly than anyone expected it to. he didn't have a landslide victory by any means. democrats haven't held a lot of statewide offices. now, fast-fo

host: we continue our look at arizona with thom reilly of arizona state university. he is codirector for the center for sustainable democracy. mr. riley, good morning. guest: good morning. host: the center, what does it involve itself with and what is your role? guest: i'm a professor in the school of public affairs. the center is a nonpartisan thing take that focuses on nonpartisan governance as well as the role of the independent voter, why people are leaving the two-party system. a deep dive into the independent voter. host: when it comes to the political dynamics of the state how would you describe it in its current day? guest: in its current state? it has intraday purple stage. for a long period of time it was pretty solidly red. in the last couple of elections that has been changing host: can you explain why? guest: i think there are several reasons why we see arizona moving from this reliable red state to a purple state. one is the rise of the independent voter. we look at voter registration and we consider the small amount of minor parties, unaffiliated voter

that is not fair for arizona. it is not arizona water for arizonans. the principle that used to guide what we are doing. there is so much that we can do however. we need to make sure that we are supporting our farms and our ranches to make sure we are using part of the most efficiently with conservation we can help our homeowners, our developers use water much more efficiently. >> thank you for that response provokes my experience as an environmental attorney to do that. >> thank you. mr. ciscomani what is your stand on leasing state land overseas companies? is that something you would support a future? >> in the future? >> absolutely not. give other nations coming in, especially adversary nations like china buying up farmland like they do in latin, america that the huge danger and huge issue. we need to make sure is we apply innovation here. i met with the staff are farmers there and they implemented this drip irrigation. saving a huge amount of water for them over 40% savings into another piece of land they have as well but that produces more egg and

velshi starts now. >>> good morning from phoenix, arizona. it is sunday, october 20th, 16 days until election day. crunch time on the pain trail and candidates and surrogates are out in full force all over the country this weekend. coming up, vice president kamala harris is on the move in georgia. we will bring that to you live, plus i will be joined by some of arizona's top medical players from both parties, former senator jeff take -- jeff flake, -- is open senate seat against trump li, kari lake in a face-off that could decide control of the senate. just two weeks ago, early voting is ramping up in many states and kamala harris campaign is turning its focus toward boosting enthusiasm and importantly, voter turnout. yesterday afternoon harris appeared an event to kick off the first day of early in- person voting in the detroit metro area. in the evening she held a similar rally to get out the vote in atlanta, georgia where early voting began last tuesday and shattered records. 300,000 voters cast their ballots on the first day alone, that i

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good morning, from phoenix, arizona. dickstein days until arizona election day. the candidates and their surrogates are out in full force all over the country. i will be joined here in a few moments by arizona senator mark kelly and ruben gallego who is running for arizona's open senate seat. early voting is ramping up in many states and kamala harris campaign is turning focus toward boosting enthusiasm and turnout. yesterday, she was in atlanta, georgia, where early voting began last tuesday and shattered records. more than 300,000 voters cast their vote which is double the record for early voting. as of last night, nearly 1.3 million people have already voted across state. women represented more than half of those early votes so far. during her speech in atlanta last night, harris spoke about abortion bans and how they have upended lives , not only in georgia, but all across the south. this will be the first presidential election since the supreme court overturned roe v wade. a new set of polling results released just this morning by nbc news suggested is still

and gayle bass in arizona.nd us some rain. [laughter] >> i will see what we can do, gayle. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. ♪ ♪ commonwealth leaders are preparing to defy the u.k. at their summit by agreeing to look at ways of getting -- the british prime minister sir keir starmer says the issue is not up to the summit in samoa and apologizing for his part in the slave trade. >> a warm welcome for the king -- when they gather, and here, the point of dispute is over justice for historic -- caribbean leaders want the prime minister to apologize. >> the principal must be established, the conversation needs to be had, and some decision has to be made, how do you go forward with dealing with the issue of reparations? so once you broach the subject, it may take a well for people to come around, but come around they will. >> it has taken many forms. it could be -- so some asked whether instead britain could instead form a colonial past, but some are asking if that involves -- sir keir starmer sa

but there's a lot going for arizona. but there is a really, really mixed population, as you say there. about a quarter of the population would be members of the latino community. so that's obviously a key constituency that we've seen harris and trump courting as well. and you've got a big immigrant population here as well, and people move around the state. but there is really a sense here that people are quite upset with both candidates. i would have to say, you know, i mean, there are solid trump voters and solid harris voters, but a lot of people just aren't happy with either of them. you know what i was wondering, looking at that you're in arizona and abortion being on the ballot, you know, there are ten states in this election cycle where abortion is on the ballot. and, you know, you have states like florida and arizona and, you know, looking at the way that people feel about abortion across the country, i wonder if abortion would be enough to change how people vote in the presidential election, but also down ballot

arizona -- [speaking spanish] thank you. [crowd chanting ruben] >> please welcome the vice president of the united states, kamala harris. [cheers and applause] ♪ [freedom by beyonce] ♪ vice president harris: arizona! [cheers and applause] hi everyone! [cheers and applause] thank you. we have work to do. thank you. thank you. can we hear it for ruben gallego? and i have known ruben for a long time and arizona knows him so well, a veteran of the marine corps, a veteran and champion for all of arizona. and please send him to the united states senate. [cheers and applause] it's so good to be back in arizona and phoenix. are we ready to do this? [cheers and applause] are we ready to vote? [cheers and applause] are we ready to win? [cheers and applause] it's good to be back and be with so many incredible leaders -- i love you back. i want to thank governor hobbs and senator kelly and gabby giffords. and ambassador jeff flake. mayor giles and to all the tribal leaders and elected leaders and community leaders here today, i thank yo

abc 15 arizona.r campaign has been working prettily hard this election season to went over the votes of native citizens in arizona. will you promise they will have a seat at the table, roles and your administration should you get to the white house? sen. vance: i appreciate you asking that question. we have tried to reach out to a lot of trouble americans, a lot of native americans and i have had some very good conversations with some of the tribal leadership across our country. the reason why you have native americans coming around to donald trump's candidacy and a lot of these folks have not voted republican in their entire lives. certainly not in many years. they recognize a wide open southern border and unaffordable groceries and rent hits are native communities as hard as it hits anybody else and we have got to stop it to we have to look out for people who have the legal right to be here that is true of our native citizens. the thing i promise both for me and on behalf of president trump as we a

everybody knew it was unconstitutional, and arizona -- i will speak to the women of arizona. i am the only woman on this stage right now. i don't think i'm standing next to a woman, so we understand how difficult these choices might be. we have the choice has arizonans to decide what our abortion law will be, and we will decide in november. ruben gallego wants to take the choice away from us. he wants to bring it back to the federal government and take away our right and arizona. i want us to have that choice, and whatever the law ends up being i will respect. i come from a large family. i am the youngest of nine, and we have a girls. i am a daughter myself, and i want to make sure that we have the choice to decide what our abortion law is in arizona. we are running for federal office. this is not going to be decided in the senate, this is not, and i will never pass a federal abortion ban nor will i approve the use of federal tax dollars for abortion. here is what i will do, because i am a mother and i care deeply about women. more and more people are choosing to have an abor

rob reynolds, l, g, 0 flagstaff, arizona. arizona is one of the 7 battleground states, expect it to the side. this is presidential race through a venue explains why it's important for both harrison trump and explains this strategy. let's go straight to the us, select real map and this time we're talking about arizona and it's 11 electoral votes. it is now a closely contested state, and that by the way, it's a pretty new development because the more than 70 years, arizona voted republican in every election, but one until 2020, and one of the biggest election night surprises. 4 years ago, joe biden flipped the state, putting it into the democratic column, with a majority of just over 10000 votes. so how did he do it? earlier elections had actually hinted that things were changing in the state from carried hours on it in 2016. but by a smaller margin, the mitt romney had in 2012 a pay attention to that pale red section there. most of the attention is on maricopa county homes of the state, capital of phoenix, and about 62 percent of arizona's population lives there by one. by shifting it in

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but in arizona, we have a documented proof of citizenship law. in all other states, you simply have to attest that you are a united states citizen in order to be able to participate. but we have to provide an actual documentation, so a birth certificate or a passport. and most of that comes through the motor vehicle division because most of that's on file because the motor vehicle division requires it. but there were a few people, that number, who were marked as having documented proof of tizenship on file, but didn't actually. but they still lived in arizona prior to 1996, and they attested that they were united states citizens. - so elon had a field day. - yeah. - he got 38 million views for this tweet. quote, "arizona is refusing to remove illegals from voter rolls?" so you responded to him directly. so what impact did musk's interfacing withou have? - he's very able to drive conversations. and to jocelyn's point about this is a man who has access to everything he could possibly want. and so i just wish that he would use some of that access to

host: we continue our look at arizona with thom reilly of arizona state university.is codirector for the center for sustainable democracy. mr. riley, good morning. guest: good morning. host: the center, what does it involve itself with and what is your role? guest: i'm a professor in the school of public affairs. the center is a nonpartisan thing take that focuses on nonpartisan governance as well as the role of the independent voter, why people are leaving the two-party system. a deep dive into the independent voter. host: when it comes to the political dynamics of the state how would you describe it in its current day? guest: in its current state? it has intraday purple stage. for a long period of time it was pretty solidly red. in the last couple of elections that has been changing host: can you explain why? guest: i think there are several reasons why we see arizona moving from this reliable red state to a purple state. e is the rise of the independent voter. we look at voter registration and we consider thsmall amount of minor parties, unaffiliated voters and th

>> i'm a fighter for arizona. sometimes it takes me to different spectrums of the political world, but what happens no matter what is i'm always looking up 1st for arizona, making sure it gets what it wants and needs and its representation. >> some excellent reporting from nbc's von hilliard. joining me now is ears on a congressman himself, ruben gallego. he is the democratic nominee for arizona's open u.s. senate seat. >> things for having me. >> you heard some of the conversation that i had with those voters here in phoenix. republicans and democrats. in this particular case, they were all voting for vice president harris and tim walz, and all voting for you. in fact, your race has now become -- you got -- i want to see a comfortable lead. >> no lead until i when. >> you are outside the margin of error according to poling. the whole country is looking at certain particular states this year, including this one. >> arizona is in the independent-minded state. we are very western. and i think a lot of people are see

arizona is a key swing state. nbc news has been talking to a lot of arizona voters.rter said he believed trump's claims that he actually won in 2020, false claims. he didn't buy similar claims from kari lake in her last election. let's take a listen. >> how about the 2022 governor's race with kari lake, do you think that was a fair election? >> i think it was fair and quite honestly i think what happened is the mccain republicans in arizona hate donald trump so much that they sat on the sidelines. a number of prominent republicans in this state did not endorse kari lake. they didn't endorse anybody. >> so he'll me understand why trump would be more popular with republicans than kari lake in her state. >> reporter: it's a really, really good question. what we hear from voters is basically there's only one donald trump and kari lake is kind of a copy. she's trying too hard to be like him, attach herself to him. you know, also, she's been running for three years. she lost the governor's race. hasn't let that go. the day after the election the arizona supreme court was g

oh, it's good to be back in arizona. all so very much. joe biden gave a eulogy forjohn mccain. they were friends. so republicans like myself felt comfortable supporting joe biden because we knew, all right, he's a democrat, but he's fine. he'll be fine. he'll be a centrist. he'll be moderate. that's fine. we don't feel the same way about kamala harris. yep, you guessed it. some believe she turns too far to the left. kamala was the first to help pay for a prisoner's sex change. the power that i had, i used it in a way that was about pushing for the movement, frankly. and the agenda. she's also running on a record in government of high inflation, soaring interest rates and mortgage costs. for decades, arizona was its own little world of mccain conservatism. now so much has changed. almost there. don't forget your phone, keys or bag. this is one of the half dozen or so swing states that will decide this presidential election. so whomever wins here will probably be driving to the white house. you're here, please make sure it

oh, it's good to be back in arizona.biden did in 2020? thank you all so very much. joe biden gave a eulogy forjohn mccain. they were friends. so republicans like myself felt comfortable supporting joe biden because we knew, all right, he's a democrat, but he's fine. he'll be fine. he'll be a centrist. he'll be moderate. that's fine. we don't feel the same way about kamala harris. yep, you guessed it. some believe she turns too far to the left. kamala was the first to help pay for a prisoner's sex change. - the power that i had, i used it in a way that was about pushing for the movement, frankly, and the agenda. she's also running on a record in government of high inflation, soaring interest rates and mortgage costs. for decades, arizona was its own little world of mccain conservatism. now so much has changed. almost there. don't forget your phone, keys or bag. this is one of the half dozen or so swing states that will decide this presidential election. so whomever wins here will probably be driving to the white house. yo

do you see in that anything that can translate to arizona? >> yes i think the temperature of georgia is similar to the political temperature of arizona. we are a big mail-in ballot state as well. i mailed in my ballot a couple of days ago now. i am sure the trend you are seeing in georgia will also be reflected in arizona as well and i think that is a good sign for the vice president. >> what is your sense of how long it may take three weeks from now to get a decision in arizona with the vote counting there? >> it will take a few days. i do not predict we will know the answer on who takes arizona on election day or maybe for a day or two later. 80% of our county votes are mail-in ballots. a lot of them are delivered on election day at the polling places so we have a very secure election system in the state of arizona but it will take time. just like what you are seeing in georgia we will have record turnout this year and arizona will frustrate a lot of people i think. i predict we will be the last state to have a outcome and will be at least

and in 26 days we will turn arizona read and make time for -- arizona red and make trump the next presidentf the united states. normally i try to speak for half an hour or so. we will shorten it up a little bit because it is hot out here. afterwards i will hang out and say hello to folks and take photos. we have an air conditioner team -- where is that where? ok. if you are getting hot and you are not feeling great, we have an air conditioning team. they are back there. please take care of yourselves. i am from ohio, i am not used to this. last time we went to arizona, i believe we were in scottsdale. we brought our three kids with us and it was 115 degrees. somebody said something to me, it's ok, it's just a dry heat. i thought, you must be a kamala harris voter, because 115 degrees feels hard whether it is a dry heat or moist heat, or whatever it is. [laughter] speaking of kamala harris, i don't know if you all saw, she had an amazing -- amazing for us, amazing for all of us -- incredible interview with "the view." did y'all see that? they asked kamala harris this amazing question. step b

about half of finance, which is the largest city in arizona, is, is hispanic. and the similar to, to arizona, nevada, las vegas is, is the largest city by far. i'm and where the population center is in nevada and there's a lot of hispanics there. so in spanish are extremely important. there's about 18000000 hispanics that we're expecting to vote in this in this next election. so joe biden, donald trump in 2020 by just 10000 votes or 10490 votes. and so any, any movement by science is going to be very consequential in selection. so steven, as a cynic, sometimes i say emotional sites vide as a promise of incentives, but by profit from the relative importance to an outcome, what uh, latino advice has been promised. what are they being sold? they'll promised in return for they both you think right now the big thing is dealing with the consequences of inflation and jobs. and so which he knows are asking for a, a perspective on what the new economy is gonna look like in the future. and i think both candidates are trying to, trying to convince latino, is that the job

arizona is going to frustrate a lot of people. predict we will be the last state to have an outcome and it will be at least a day or two after the election. >> i know that doug began his week in arizona this week. what else is coming in the harris campaign in arizona? >> every day you will see one of the principals in arizona. either in maricopa county, which is phoenix and mesa and about 60% of the population of arizona. also, in tucson and yuma. president trump is coming here equally all the time. j.d. vance was in my city a few days ago. arizona, along with pennsylvania and a few other places are at the center of the universe right now. you will see all the principles here on a daily basis. >> what is the closing issue for the harris campaign in arizona? >> i think people still need to get to know the vice president. there are ample people like me in arizona who voted for nikki haley in the presidential preference election. 110,000 people voted for nikki haley after she had left the race in arizona. turning people off to donald

more "velshi" in arizona after this. this. >>> last sunday, in an interview with fox news, trump said this. >> i think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroyed our country, totally destroying our country. the towns, the villages being in you dated. i don't have a problem in terms of election day. i think the bigger problem, the people from within. we have some very, very bad people, we have some sick people. radical lunatics. and it should be very easily handled, if necessary, by national guard, or if really necessary, by the military. >> a former president and current republican nominee for president, just weeks before the election, suggesting that he would seek the military on americans. this should be a five alarm fire movement. we have become so accustomed to donald trump's ongoing authoritarianism and fascism, that some of this just blends right in. wednesday, in a town hall that aired on fox news, trump did it again. >> it is the enemy from within, and they ar

chris merrill in arizona. going to ask you the same question.e key things people are calling in to talk to you about? >> the biggest issues in arizona, we are on the southern border of the u.s. the border, border security and immigration is a massive issue in arizona. that goes for every state whether it is a swing state or a solid blue or solid red. abortion is on our ballot so abortion is going to be a big driver to the polls this year. >> same question. what are people talking about? >> we are in -- of our state ana lot of people are simply saying that we do not want this to become an eastern part of california, that's what my colours are talking about, they do not want plastic grocery bag bands and have extra fees or taxes that is of the fear a lot of this could happen. our governor has said will become irrelevant if democrats gained a super majority of both the state simply in the state senate. bringing california politics, what tangible daily terms, what does that mean? it means extra regulation that we have not seen here in nevada. it mea

that's arizona. and now in arizona, we have a corresponding kimberly. how could she's in phoenix, arizona for us? let's start with the trump side of things. kimberly how important is arizona to the trump campaign? it's a major state for the trump campaign. and let me tell us you mentioned that job live and did narrowly win this in 2020. but the trunk campaign believe that it couldn't win the state this time around because of the issue of immigration, and that is what it's seizing on. because when for our president, donald trump was in office, there was a policy in place that many of these immigration cases were adjudicated on the mexico side of the us mexico border. but joe 5 and and tomba harris change that on day one. when they came into office and donald trump religious the bad lead to millions of illegal immigrants, or i'm documented migrant entering the united states. it's something that he says he wants to change and that's what he believes is something that is really going to motivate voters here in this border states to come out and vote. so tha

so arizona good to fight this battle on every front. in this election you have the chance on the state level to vote. yes. on proposition 130 yet it's far from certain whether proposition 139, a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution will give her a definite edge abortion and immigration are colliding in arizona, like few other battles well, grounds with both issues literally on the ballot proposition 314 would make immigration violations a state crime virtually no money has been spent on ads compared to abortion, which dominates the airwaves, which you can end arizona's abortion ban by voting yes on prop 139, it's something that resonates with independents, with democrats, with republicans. laura dent help gather more than 800,000 signatures from arizona voters to put abortion right on the ballot as volunteers go door to door three weeks before the election to spread the word against the measure obviously, we don't come with them in on monday. >> the other side does a former clinic manager for planned parenthood

oh, it's good to be back in arizona.e. ..could kamala harris get their vote, asjoe biden did in 2020? thank you all so very much. joe biden gave a eulogy forjohn mccain. they were friends. so republicans like myself felt comfortable supporting joe biden because we knew, all right, he's a democrat, but he's fine. he'll be fine. he'll be a centrist. he'll be moderate. that's fine. we don't feel the same way about kamala harris. yep, you guessed it. some believe she turns too far to the left. kamala was the first to help pay for a prisoner's sex change. the power that i had, i used it in a way that was about pushing for the movement, frankly. and the agenda. she's also running on a record in government of high inflation, soaring interest rates and mortgage costs. for decades, arizona was its own little world of mccain conservatism. now so much has changed. almost there. don't forget your phone, keys or bag. this is one of the half dozen or so swing states that will decide this presidential election. so whomever wins here wi

trump lidera arizona, georgia y tambiÉn carolina del norte.ciÓn. o sea, trump pudiera pintar de rojo los que acabamos de pintar de azul. quÉ pasarÍa si, por ejemplo, lo hace con nevada, que tiene tan solo seis votos electorales? no le alcanzarÍa para impedir que kamala harris fuera la presidenta de los estados unidos? pero vamos a intentar con otro estado para que vean ustedes como si pudiera revertirse la situaciÓn. por ejemplo, si gana wisconsin o gana michigan. y si gana pensilvania, sobre todo, que es el que tiene mÁs. entonces, si donald trump ganarÍa la elecciÓn. pero kamala harris tambiÉn puede cambiar los que pintamos de rojo a color, a color azul y vamos a ponerle por ejemplo, en el caso de carolina del norte. si, por ejemplo, kamala harris ganara este estado. entonces sÍ ganarÍa la elecciÓn presidencial. no serÍa asÍ? si, por ejemplo, cambiara de color rojo a color azul, el estado de. de arizona. y si nevada, por ejemplo, se quedara todavÍa de rojo? o sea que son muchas las combinaciones que vamos a poder ver la noche de la elecciÓn.

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>> kari lake is running for arizona's open seat in the u.s. senate.atedly spread lies that the 2020 election and her last race were stolen. >> people cannot take this level of fraud much longer. >> lake is one of eight election deniers running for congress, either for reelection or for the first time in arizona this november. and throughout the state, a number of influential republicans are still convinced that the 2020 election was rigged. craig is chair of the maricopa county republican committee. he believes that mail-in ballots are a problem. >> we have to decide whether we want to trade our freedom for convenience or not. and the mail-in ballots because a detriment into our freedom. but we also have the issue now because we are a border state of the illegals crossing the border. and being registered to vote. and the mail-in ballots, it all combines into an issue that keeps us up at night. >> his basis for his distrust comes from the widely debunked conspiracy that maricopa county counted 200,000 mail-in ballots with mismatching signatures in the

vance is rallying in arizona and former president obama is in madison, wisconsin. let's listen in for a moment. >> for your senator nine mark tammy baldwin, and for the next president of the united states of america, kamala harris sacks-mak >> thanks to that decision, arizona are paying $1000 more per month to buy what they could've bought when donald trump was president. that's over. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: you are looking live now for president barack obama is campaigning for harris in wisconsin, let's listen in here. >> from now until november first, or when you vote on election day tuesday, november fifth. [cheering] and if there's any confusion, if you need to know where you are early voting sight is or drop box location, go to with dams that orc/boat. there cheering for don't avoid. i voted yesterday. don't wait. about it yesterday. [cheering] i went to chicago, got my ballot, feel it in an maxx yehl that, signed it, then i walked which i don't really get a chance to do but the secret service got nervous but i said no let's walk to our mailbox and my younger staff was

and that's why i'm here in arizona.you a picture of what it's like here in the south of the united states — since that dobbs decision, almost every southern state has significant restrictions on abortions. some of them ban it after 15 weeks of pregnancy, some after six weeks. some have a complete ban. they call it a "heartbeat bill" — as soon as a heartbeat can be detected. some have exceptions for cases of rape, incest, the life of the mother. some do not. there's a whole patchwork of laws across the united states now. and in ten different states in this election, voters are being asked if they either want to completely ban abortion or if they want to protect abortion rights. one way or another, abortion is on the ballot because it's like a little mini—referendum where voters are being asked to choose what abortion laws they want in their state. this happened in the midterms in �*22 as well. about five states voted on that. every single one of them voted by decent margins to protect abortion rights. yeah. and i think o

that is not fair for arizona. it is not arizona water for arizonans.he principle that used to guide what we are doing. there is so much that we can do however. we need to make sure that we are supporting our farms and our ranches to make sure we are using part of the most efficiently with conservation we can help our homeowners, our developers use water much more efficiently. >> thank you for that response provokes my experience as an environmental attorney to do that. >> thank you. mr. ciscomani what is your stand on leasing state land overseas companies? is that something you would support a future? >> in the future? >> absolutely not. give other nations coming in, especially adversary nations like china buying up farmland like they do in latin, america that the huge danger and huge issue. we need to make sure is we apply innovation here. i met with the staff are farmers there and they implemented this drip irrigation. saving a huge amount of water for them over 40% savings into another piece of land they have as well but that produces more egg and c

and i'm optimistic about the potential outcome in arizona.an ruben gallego is an outstanding candidate, and i think we have a well organized ground game in arizona to connect with folks, even though it's almost 100 degrees today. early voting has started, mail-in voting is a big part of voting in arizona, and making sure that we can protect the ballot and get the message out to voters about former president trump's increasingly unhinged attacks on political opponents, his strident and ill-informed positions on what he should do as president to advance our economy or harm our economy and the strong ways in which vice president harris has laid out a clear, positive and forward-looking proposal for how she would continue the economic recovery that's begun under president biden. >> i know you know how this works, and i also know you well enough you did not go to arizona without doing your home work. let me ask you this, do you think the message that's going to turn polls around is an anti-trump message, is it a particular issue, do you think the

states senate. >> hey arizona, this is barack obama.mmander-in-chief i had the honor of working with so many dedicated marines, soldiers, public servants and veterans. and this fall you can choose one of the best. to represent you in the senate. ruben gallego. he is the son of an immigrant single mom. he and his three sisters didn't have much. he worked in construction and at a pizza shop as a meatpacker. and anything to help his family, then he went to harvard and served in the marines. in a battalion that suffered terrible casualties in iraq. and in congress ruben has proven that he will stand up to corporate price gouging and work to lower costs for families. the guy is tough, and a proven fighter, now we have to fight for him. so make your plan to vote early, vote by mail, or on november 5 for ruben gallego. >> like kamala harris, democratic senate candidate ruben gallego is being endorsed by conservative republicans. >> i grew up as conservative as it gets. lifelong republican, still am but i cannot vote for terry lake, she doesn't

let's talk about arizona. what are you hearing there from voters?we have an early vote here. two republicans are trying to get out the vote right now and do much better than they did in 2020. they're doing slightly better than 2020 when the message to republican voters was don't vote early. democrats are keeping pace on the turnout side. unfortunately for democrats, their registration numbers are way down in 2020. right now they have a historic deficit against republicans of about 7% on registration. that matters because democrats need republican voters as well as independents to get them over the top. that climb could get a little steeper. also, the ground game, that's where democrats think clear. this is something they know how to do, started with barack obama in '08. the model carried forward, been tweaked. they have been on the ground here since the beginning of the year really with their first office and have been continuing. they're up against an untested -- i'm a test lab for a ground game running by turning point usa and charlie kirk and elo

we're going to talk about arizona in a minute, but you're exactly right. i just want to get to i feel like this is one of those times were weakened, say, all things can be true. he, he is intentionally going for the author authoritarian look, if you will, because they believe and they're even surprised that it not only helps with people who haven't voted in a while or maybe ever not just sort of white working class, but african-american, hispanic. it's, it's, it's a socioeconomic situation that they're finding in the trump campaign rather than a even a geographical situation and yet some of what he says can be really dangerous in the real-world, even right now, just the washington post headline about what he said last week and the week before about north carolina hurricane recovery officials in north carolina relocated emine report, a report of armed militia according to a famous folks woman, some fema teams helping disaster survivors apply for assistance are working from a secure disaster recovery center because of the threats that they are receiving. and

i won't go into all the details which i will mention arizona, for the sake of time, arizona very important state just like georgia, arizona every year state law requires the secretary of state to review and if necessary revise what's called the election procedure manual, the state manual for how you do elections in arizona. this previous iteration the secretary of state was a democrat revised, did a complete overhaul of the election procedure manual, including a provision that makes it now for the first time a crime, makes it a crime in arizona for anybody to engage in any behavior that somebody would consider intimidating or harassing or insulting behavior but here's the thing, if there's any lawyers out there, the way the law was written it said with the intent or effect, the second clause, or the effect, that is legalese for it doesn't matter what the speaker intended. all it takes is somebody to say i am triggered by that and we provided examples to the court when we challenged this in state and federal court and we won in both cases, if somebody wears a red baseball hat, what color ar

>> yes, in arizona, it is difficult to be an independent. of hearts that is what i would rather be. to make any difference, they were saying you want to go vote for the better republican candidate. i think that is where it makes the most difference in arizona, for me. >> has become easier and easier to not vote for people that don't stand for normal conservative rentable. and instead deny election results and try to justify attempted coup in our country. he can't say that january 6th was a loving event where people got together toward the capitol. that is not reality. >> i'm heartbroken about it and i don't know if i will remain a republican but i feel like i was a no man's land but i'm in women's land because i'm a harris supporter. i don't know if i can stay with the party and the republican party that i joined was a republican party that really respected the patriotism of the other and was not, remember small government, not overreaching into your life or your life or your life. whether it is how you want to present or your identity or it