let's listen to steve bannon talking about jim marchant. >> jim marchant in nevada, the head of the coalition is on the march. the j-6 committee is totally irrelevant. >> just for folks who don't know, last night, jim marchant, a trump loyalist, easily won nevada's republican nomination for secretary of state. that means somebody who is against democracy, against elections, could be theoretically in charge of running them if he wins the general election in what's anticipated to be a good republican year. >> yeah, that's correct, and look, regardless of your political affiliation as an american, this should be extremely alarming. the fact that we're trying to hold someone accountable for what led to january 6th, here's bannon, right, and now you have this other person who is gaining power, and there's a lot of individuals like the one in this situation that are running for office currently who stand a likelihood of actually getting into office, and what does this say about the state of our democracy ongoing? that means this threat, this movement that led to january 6th lives on. >> this is wha

jim marchant who told nbc news he would not have certified the 2020 result is the republican nomineeretary of state bringing him one step closer to being the top elected official in that crucial sping swing state. adam lacksalt won the prime aer to take on incumbent katherine cortez masso while in south carolina tom rice one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach trump in his role in the insurance lost making him the first pro impeachment republican to lose a primary against a trump-backed challenger. also in south clone, incumbent nancy mace who criticized trump won her primary against a trump-backed challenger narrowly dodging the purge by embracing trump for re-election. more in a minute then a victory four maya flores. joining me is msnbc political analyst and david pepper former chair of the ohio party and laboratories of autocracy. a book certainly timely. let's go back, circle back to south carolina for a minute. let me play nancy mace's the makeup. this is how she managed to hold her seat. take a look. >> hey, everyone, congresswoman nancy mace here. i went on t

. >> reporter: but also for secretary of state jim marchant, a 2020 election conspiracy theorist he would oversee nevada's next presidential election yet he says he would not have certified the 2020 results when trump lost the state by more than 33,000 votes. down in texas, the gop making inroads with latino voters, republican mayra flores pulling off an upset in a heavily hispanic district that biden won by 13 percentage points less than 2 years ago over the next two months, four other republicans who voted to impeach the former president will also face trump-backed primary challengers. most notably liz cheney lester >> okay. vaughn hilliard, thank you. >>> in 60 seconds, new federal charges filed against the suspec that killed three people in a buffalo supermarket. and john hinckley jr., the man who shot president reagan >>> the u.s. is sending a billion more dollars in military aid to ukraine, including anti-ship missiles, launchers, rocket, artillery and howitzers. president biden made the announcement today after a call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. it comes as russia

jim marchant a national leader in saying that 2020 election was stolen. you the result, he would not have certified that rults from nevada in 2020 had he been secretary of state. with the win in the republican primary, again, the climate this year, certainly possible marchant could end up the secretary of state of nevada when the 2024 presidential election plays out. >> that suddenly becomes a huge election for democrats if they don't want him to be in power around the 2024 presidential election. in the 34th congressional district of texas why was that significant? >> this is a district that is going to be eliminated at the end of this year, but it is in a part of texas we've been talking a lot about. south texas, the rio grande valley, heavily hispanic and check this out. this is significant because this is, by population, the second most heavily hispanic congressional district in america. and last night a republican, mayra flores, won the special election in this district. she will serve from the seat only for the next few months. she's nominated to run

judy: he has played an active role, jim marchant, yes. annie: jim marchant won last night.hink that is something that the sort of pro-democracy groups are -- they were watching that race closely and are really worried about his advance, because it changes the way that -- nevada is a swing state, and he will have an incredible amount of influence over how nevada's election is run in 2024. judy: because the role of secretary -- annie: if he wins. if he wins. judy: that's right, if he wins. but the role osecretaries of state is typically to oversee elections, which could have huge consequences in this nember. annie: huge consequences, yes. judy: couple of things i want to ask you about, but you have been doing some really interesting reporting in the last few days, annie linskey, about, in a few states, a few places around the country, democrats, we know ey're going to be running ads against republicans. but they are running ads in some places for republicans who they think may be a weaker opponent in the fall. annie: this has been a tactic that i have been really astounded by

. >> that's jim marchant is now known for supporting conspiracy theory. he's on the campaign trail that he would not have certified biden's victory. many voters have nominated dozens of republican candidates for state or federal office who have backed trump's false claim. the question for the committee and everyone watching is will the revelation we have learned stop that track? remember when the panel accused trump campaign yesterday using election lies to swindle reporters for money? later on cnn pointed to one example of donald trump jr.'s fiance getting paid about $60,000 to speak for about 2.5 minutes at the stop and steal rally on january 6th. sources tell cnn today that it was conservative protrump, turning point action who gave the big paycheck. cnn went back to lockrin and she said this. >> did you miss characterize that payment? >> i don't think so. the question is are trump individuals benefiting from these whole enterprise of raising money around the so-called stop and steal and the answer is yes. >> let the voters decide whether i think so or

jim marchant, 38% of the vote, he's the winner.e in nevada to have oversight of the elections there and he is an election denier from 2020. this is the real world still modern day, not looking back to january 6th, but today and going forward potential threat to sort of our democracy, to the foundations of free and fair elections. he's the republican nominee in nevada. i want to show you in nevada in the senate race there, one of the key contests of the cycle, if i can get to it, you'll see here adam laxhalt, he's the big winner in the republican nomination. he'll go up against katherine gomez, one of the vulnerable candidates. >> crucial race there. take us to texas and this special election victory for the gop. >> i think this race is important to pay attention to. it's down here in the brownsville area, rio grande valley. mia flores, a republican, wins this race. it was a democratically held seat. joe biden won it by 4 points in 2020. the democratic congressman left congress. this produces a flip for republicans. nancy pelosi's m

meanwhile, republicans in nevada picked jim marchant to be their candidate for secretary of state. marchant is an election denier who was urged to run for office by a prominent backer of the qanon conspiracy theory. marchant is a leader in an alliance known as america first which helps backers of trump's coup attempt to run for top election offices. according to "the washington post," more than 100 republicans who backed trump's election fraud claims have already won primaries this year. in another closely watched race, republican mayra flores won a special election for a house seat in south texas which had been held by a democrat for the past 10 years. flores, who was born in mexico and is married to a border patrol agent, outspent her closest democratic rival by a margin of 16 to one. the house select committee investigating the january 6 insurrection appears divided on whether the panel should make criminal referrals of donald trump or anyone else to the justice department. on monday, the committee's chair bennie thompson said that is "not our job." but the committee's vice chai

organized other election deniers around the country to run -- judy: he has played an active role, jim marchantannie: pro-democracy groups are watching that race closely and are worried about his advance. nevada is a swing state and he will have an incredible amount of influence over how nevada's election is run in 2024. judy: the role of a secretary of state typically is to oversee elections, which could had huge consequences. you have been doing interesting reporting the last few days about in a few places around the country, democrats, we know they are running ads against republicans, but they are running ads in some places for republicans who they think may be a weaker opponent. annie: thisas been a tactic i have been astounded by. you have democrats in the january 6 committee hearings talking about the importance of drawing a line between, as biden calls them, ultra mag of candidates. some of the committees are running ads to help promote the far right candidates, believing they will be easier to beat. the democratic strategists i have talked to say this is dangerous and y have to be caref

. >> that's jim marchant, who is now known for supporting conspiracy theories. he is on the campaign trail, that if he were secretary of state in 2020, he wouldn't have certified biden's victory. now, many voters have already nominated dozens of republican candidates for state and also federal office who have backed trump's false fraud claims. in fact, at least 10 sath according to a new tally by "the washington post." so the question for the committee and everyone watching is, will the revelations we have learned through these hearings stop that in its tracks. stop the trajectory of it all. the thing is, the art of persuasion requires those revelations from the committee to be fully accurate. remember when the panel accused a trump campaign just yesterday of using election lies to swindle supporters of money? congresswoman zoe lofgren called it the big rip-off and later on cnn pointed to one example of donald trump jr.'s fiancee kimberly guilfoyle getting paid about $60,000 to speak for about 2 1/2 minutes at the stop the steal rally on january 6th. now, source

and in nevada, there was a critical race, jim marchant, former state lawmaker, who has bought into theinues to push it, he's now the gop nominee, for secretary of state, for the fall. how much are we seeing this in other pivotal states, in terms of these secretary of state candidates who believe in the big lie and how dangerous is it? >> i think it is super dangerous. it is mixed, right. we saw down in georgia a couple of weeks ago donald trump failed to take out raffensperger, his enemy, the republican secretary of state in georgia, who would not go along with the big lie. so trump doesn't always win. sometimes he endorses people or tried to take people out and they lose. but if you're trying to flip an election, you only need a few states sometimes, right? and so when we're seeing happen in nevada is happening in other places. we're seeing republican trump-backed and often cases trump-backed republicans who support the big lie, who are winning the secretary of state primaries in certain states, and including michigan, nevada, new mexico, and then in pennsylvania the republican primar

the winner of the republican primary last night, jim marchant is a national leader in the movement claimingthis was nevada's result in 2020. this was a very close state. marchant says, had he been secretary of state, he would have not had certified this result. he wins the republican primary, if he wins office in november he would be in position the make that decision in the 2024 election. >> and last night mayra flores flipped a seat in houston. she will be the first mexican-born congresswoman. significant. >> this is extremely significant. here's the results here. again we are talking about south texas going down to the rio grandee valley. what she was elected to was a term that will run for only a few months because the lines are going to be redrawn. and she will run in a different direct this november. but specifically along the border, the rio grande valley, south texas we have seen county after county this district and districts to the west of it where voters moved 10, 20, 30, 40 points away from the democrats and toward the republicans. this district that mayra flores won last night

. >> i was talking about jim marchant of nevada getting the gop primary for secretary of state there.'s also talk about new mexico and what is happening there. there is a primary that the elections board is refusing to certify? >> yeah. so there are multiple players here, right. you've got the federal layer, you have members of congress, you have secretaries of state at the statewide level. now in new mexico, you've got the head of the cowboys for trump, coy griffin, he is the commissioner of a county and they're saying they're not going to certify the recent primary votes. so that could throw a pretty significant procedural monkey wrench into new mexico elections they may not be able to get things in place for the general -- >> and this is all about dominion voting machines, chris? >> yup. this is all part of the my pillow guy movement and a former new mexico state university professor, dave clements, that's part of this effort. the my pillow guy said he wants to melt down all these machines and turn them into jail bars or something like that. there's a group of folks in the country

. >> jim marchant wins the republican primary.is a leader in the movement denying that trump lost the election, he wins this republican primary. he says that this is the biden trump race in 2020. he says that had he been secretary of state, he would have refused to certify this result. he is now the republican nominee for secretary of state. >> nevada, now the latest swing state where republicans have nominated an election denier for a position that would oversee elections. similar far-right candidates have checked of victories in michigan and pennsylvania. let's bring in msnbc political contributor, my friend matthew dowd. he is a former george w. bush's strategist, a founder overt country over party. we welcome to the program for the first time ever leigh mcgowan, the internet's popular politics girl, who i would like to point out has taught me more about physics than all four years of high school. lee, let's start with how worried are you about the political success of these election deniers? they could oversee elections. >> ye

it's jim marchant. he's a projected winner and will now advance to the general election.f he were to win in november, he would be in charge of future elections in that key battleground state of nevada. he made repeated misleading claims about the 2020 election and now it looks like the businessman and former state lawmaker will be on the primary ballot in november. again, if these results in nevada and south carolina are viewed as a sort of test of trump's influence, the results so far have been mixed. george? >> andrew dymburt, thanks. amy? >>> now the latest on the war in ukraine. president zelenskyy pleading for more weapons as russian forces gain ground, possibly on the verge of taking a key city there. our foreign correspondent james longman has the latest. >>reporter: this morning, as ukraine tries to hold off the overwhelming russian force in the east, president zelenskyy with a plea for more military help from the west. [ speaking foreign language ] he says he's grateful for what's come so far but it must come faster. now new satellite images show bridges surround

now in nevada last night, we have a secretary of state candidate in jim marchant clinch the republicanhe election and lost his own election in 2020. he lost by about 16,000 votes. he also claimed fraud in that. he has a long history of doubting election results and american democratic norms. in the senate, adam waxalt, you know, he was talking even before yesterday's election about forming a legal team to challenge eventual election results and we had audio of him from earlier this year talking to supporters about how important a legal team was to challenge election results, that he would even take from his campaign's field team to pay for it. these are candidates that are putting it at the front of their campaigns and they're getting rewarded by the republican base, you know, and they're choosing them to be their nominee in november. >> in any of the states or races that you discussed, was there any voter fraud in 2020? >> there was not, no. there was no voter fraud in any state in the country that impacted any race from, you know, the lowest denominator to the highest, and we've seen

in nevada, jim marchant, who was pushing to overturn the election, won the republican nomination for a question for doug about where republican bases are, but let's focus first of all on time race, but he wasn't just focus first of all on time race, but he wasn'tjust beaten, he was clattered. he didn't even get 25% of the vote. clattered. he didn't even get 2596 of the vote. . . clattered. he didn't even get 2596 of the vote. . , ., , the vote. that is remarkable. i talked about _ the vote. that is remarkable. i talked about this _ the vote. that is remarkable. i talked about this yesterday - the vote. that is remarkable. i | talked about this yesterday and the vote. that is remarkable. i - talked about this yesterday and said that he was at risk, but we were looking at a potential runoff situation where he would lose after the runoff was held because he had lost support in his base. this is a district in south carolina that is plus 26 republican. this is read blooded republicans who support donald trump and time race voted to impeach donald trump. he crossed donald trump and that wa

in nevada, for instance, secretary of state candidate jim marchant has said if he had been in office in 2020, he wouldn't have certified joe biden's victory. that is dangerous stuff. to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, do they realize that? this undermines the democracy sacred to all of us, democrat, republican, independent. america needs to be watching what's happening in states like new mexico and nevada, because if we're not careful it will be a preview of greater hor yo, to come -- greater horrors to come. it's not a partisan argument. it's simply about democracy versus authoritarianism. many of the things said by some of these office holders who won were said by people who then led their country to authoritarian regimes. doesn't matter if you're a democrat or republican or independent. democracy is at risk if we elevate individuals who don't believe in the sirchghtity of elections -- in the sairveghtity of elections. i urge the american people, regardless of party, to reject these candidates. our democracy is literally on the line. on the ocean shipping bill, today

jim morchant, a far-right radical, who openly believes that the 2020 election results were illegitimate, i believes the big lie, and he's now running to be the top elections official in nevada. mr. marchant openly thinks donald trump should be president right now. and if he wins in november, he'll be nevada's most important election official and would pose a direct threat, a direct threat, to the democratic process in that state. he must be rejected by the people of every political persuasion. it doesn't matter if you're a democrat or republican, an independent, a liberal or conservative or moderate, democracy is at risk if we elevate individuals who don't believe in the sanctity of elections. that is the road to authoritarianism, to dictatorship. this isn't a partisan argument. undermining democracy endangers all of us, democrats, republicans, independents. if the proponents of the big lie are elected to office, they pose a direct threat to our democratic way of life. the january 6 hearings have made abundantly clear that even donald trump's inner circle knew the big lie was utter garbage. so it's nothing short of horrifying to see that radicals who profess the big lie are gaining stren