mark fincham is running to be the.ales of election justice. he spoke to me to my documentary trump to come back. would you ever accept a democrat could win arizona or do you not think that's possible? i democrat could win arizona or do you not think that's possible?— not think that's possible? i have a hard time believing _ not think that's possible? i have a hard time believing that's - not think that's possible? i have a l hard time believing that's possible. everywhere i go, the vast majority of people still show support for president trump.— of people still show support for president trump. mark 'oins us now from arizona. h president trump. mark 'oins us now from arizona, thank _ president trump. mark joins us now from arizona, thank you _ president trump. mark joins us now from arizona, thank you for - president trump. mark joins us now from arizona, thank you forjoiningl from arizona, thank you forjoining us again. we cover gubernatorial races, senate races, congressional races, senate races, congressional races,

the john mccain republicans who absolutely refused to vote for kari lake and blake masters and mark fincham>> prior to the election, you wrote in a "new york times" op-ed that the republican party's embrace of apparently high risk candidates is a sign of confidence, not weakness. do party voters feel strong enough about the populist pro-trump positioning that they have supported this candidates over more experience and less controversial figures. given the results of the midterms today, do you still stand by that assessment? >> i do, but my timeline was off. i think the populist right made some important gains in midterms, with j.d. vance, and the candidates who even fell short did well in an election ascent mostly incumbents back into office. blake masters, a 36 year old, got within five points or so of knocking off an incumbent senator, so i actually think the momentum is still on the populist right at the moment and that donald trump as well as a candidate like ron desantis, the governor of florida, can claim a victory here. >> trump is, as we said, reportedly expected to announce his bi

and then, like, do i think that mark fincham running for secretary of state in arizona, and is polling behind, let's be clear, that if he loses, the arizona state race, is he going say you got me? probably not. i that i does have some meaning. >> i guess i should say there is a difference between not only maga republicans and regular truth accepting republicans, but also who is -- who we're talking about, they're the elected officials and theny' the grassroots. and at this point i truly feel like the grassroots are actually leading the party.g right? >> yes. >> y and in the numbers if you look atth who is in the republin party and whatwh they believe, % of them believe the election was stolen for joe biden. the president of the united states, joe biden who won, i think wants to believe that number is smaller. or he believesr. in the goodnes of this country. and two-thirds of the republican party as it is the people of the republican party does not believe he is legitimate. >> no. i think the math that you're running there is correct. i think incorrect in the president's speech. he call

this is kind of ground zero for the entrance of people like kari lake and mark fincham.hink it's great that president obama spoke up there, and is trying to speak not only to republicans in arizona, where it has swung purple in recent years, but to independent voters who show are supportive of senator kelly, and some of these republican election deniers. so arizona really is, i think, the most frightening place where we're going to face this test of whether or not we are people who are elected who are not necessarily going to certify the results of the 2024 election if they don't like the outcome. >> so rick, we have been talking about this since i think the dust didn't settle in 2020. for trump, it's all about 2024. it's all about getting rid of all of the country's brad raffensperger's who would not bend to his will and replacing them all with mr. finchems in every state. it's all about 2024. and president obama connects those dots more artfully in a speech that's devastating and funny and all of those things, but it's maybe the first time that as we watch the midterms

a lot of people are aware of the prominent one in arizona where republican mark fincham is trailing hisocratic chaler. but the race is still too close to call. what is your assessment of that race and where the secretaries of state are landing overall? >> well, obviously very glad to see him win in georgia. i mean that to me was the biggest threat we talk about threats democracy and deniers. the people that actually administer elections. if they're not willing to say an election was honest if they lost, then that's the biggest problem. he was probably the biggest threat. this guy is way off the deep end on this than the fact that arizona voters saw that is really encouraging. so we have some real bright spots in these things. it is something we have to be really diligent about going forward. if someone like that is in charge of counting votes, it all falls apart. i'm sure arizona will be reckonning with this for a long time. kari lake won't take this well and it's important. >> gerrick hak and ben jolly, thank you for joining us. >> nicole hit florida overnight. first, we're going to ta

that follows a number of other republicans who lost statewide like blake masters and mark fincham.r take away from the results in arizona and nationally? barrett: absolutely the take away is arizona is a conservative state, it just is not a trump state. arizona still bleeds red, but trump has annoyed, disenfranchised, really turned off voters who are right-leaning independents, moderate republicans, and the john mccain republicans, who absolutely refuse to vote for kari lake and blake mkinch. a mndrsastelaura: daniel, you r to the election, the republican party's embrace of apparently high risk candidates is a sign of confidence, not weakness. the party voters feel strongly enough about the populist pro-trump positioning they have supported those candidates over more experience and controversial figures. do you still stand by that assessment? daniel: i do, but my timeline was off. i think the populist right has made important gains. j.d. vance, even people who fell short like blake masters in arizona did well in an election year that has sent mostly incumbents back into austin -- i

projects that democrat adrian fontes wins the race to be arizona secretary of state, defeating mark fincham. also a self-proclaimed member of the radical right wing group the oath keepers. once again, cnn projects that democrat adrian fontes wins as arizona's secretary of state. let's go to john king and take a closer look what is going on. lots ovf developments in arizon. this is the future of the u.s. senate. >> not often we're on television talking about a secretary of state race. that's a win for math. that's a win for team normal. that's a win for somebody that counts the votes. the democrats win, the democrats win. that's the way it's supposed to happen in elections and mr. fontes won. where are we now? let's come back to the united states senate. we just projected mark kelly the winner here. bring this map out. this is a head. i'll do this. these are races we called, right? so right now democrats have two shots, two shots. they win either here or here. they get the senate majority. republicans need now to win them both because republicans need 51. democrats need 50 because they have

he is facing off against state representative mark fincham, who we have mentioned a lot on this programe he was at the january 6 rally. he is a four term state representative who has led the efforts, at least in arizona, to throw out the results of the 2020 election. he introduced a bill in the state congress to that effect, to throw out the votes of maricopa county voters in 2020. fincham is currently trailing fontes by more than 4%. there are still a lot of votes that were cast and have not been counted. it is too early for anyone to be celebrating. what i will say this, this is closer than a lot of consuants i spoke to would have expected. there are more registered republicans in arizona. it is a republican leading state . as one gop consultant i spoke to described, republicans have turned out is the best election cycle in years and made it competitive. his take is that arizona ultimately is not a trump estate. trump certainly has a lot of enthusiastic supporters here, but biden did win arizona in 2020 by 10,500 votes. this consultant believes summer publicans and independents in par

we even think mark fincham might pull out a win and abe as well. so president trump will have a pretty good record by the time they count these these ballots. >> let's go back to a conversation we had on my radio show yesterday and you told me, well, we've got about a little over four hundred thousand votes outstanding. and we expect that. i think you said two hundred and thirty five thousand our day of voting. now, here we are a day later, they counted sixty two thousand votes. now we're hearing and we're close to six hundred and fifty thousand ballots remaining. and of which nearly or close to four hundred thousand or so votes in blake masters case because you have a bigger lead than he does. he told me earlier tonight that they're winning 68% of those day of votes. i think you're winning 70%. so if that math holds, blake masters will be the next senator from arizona. >> if that math is right. yeah, if that math holds, i mean, we're going to win by hundreds of thousands, maybe more than two hundred thousand ballots or votes, which would be great.

candi you have a candidate forcretar secretary of state, mark fincham, both ofy of s whom havd that they will only honor the results of an electionhe ifn they agree with it. and if you card ife about the survival of our republic,pep we cannot give people power.le we will not honor elections. >> i've never voted for. a democrat. well, of course, liz is a left wing democrat. we'll stop lying. so in response in res, ad, y. kerry lake wrote this letteru fo to liz cheney begins, quote, dear liz, thank you for your generous income and contribution to my campaign. your recent tv ad urging arizonans not to vote for me is doing just the opposite. our campaign donations are skyrocketing and our website traffi crashed from the traffiec . gary lak e is running for r governor of arizona. as noted, she joins us today fo. >> thanks so much for coming con in. is that true? that's true.. trueliz cheney now is my offici. my biggest fund raiser to date . we've raised a half a million r dollars since she did the anti endorsement. and people are still flockinsegd to our websitecking to. com and donating.om a

and all other trump-endorsed republicans up and down the line including mark fincham, jim marchand, christinaano. it was hard-working patriots like you who built this country and hard-working patriots like you who are going to save our country. we will stand up to the radical left democrats and we will fight for america like no one has ever , ever, ever fought for. if there is though mountain we cannot climb. there is no summit we cannot reach you there is no challenge we cannot meet. there is no victory we cannot have. we will not bend. we will not break. we will not yield. we will never give an. we will never give up. and we will never ever ever back down. as long as we are confident, united and loyal to the cause, the tyrants we are fighting do not stand even a chance because we are americans and americans kneeled to god and to god alone. [applause] >> the silent majority is back and stronger than ever before. we will take our country back. my fellow citizens, this incredible journey we are on together has only just begun and it is time to start talking about greatness again for our countr

do you have any view about a secretary of state being someone like mark fincham, an election denier,trying to spread distrust out there. we have worked very hard since 2020 to address all of this misinformation. we have as much misinformation as we have any state in the union. we have a so—called audit, back in 202!, by the... that spreads are much more information. the 2020 election in maricopa county was one of the most scrutinised in the history of the world. we passed with flying colours. we are doing everything we know to do this and run it as a safe and secure election, now and 2022. bill gates, we are very grateful for your time. thank you for the work that you are conducting as well, thank you. that you are conducting as well, thank you-— in the crucial civic duty of people who deserve not to be intimidated while getting on with theirjob. and go back to london tonight, so i will leave you with the results and you can bring them to me on monday but i just want to take a stand back. 30,000 feet, we said at the beginning of the week, this was a big test... we started the week, s

expressed skepticism about whether they would ever allow a democrat to win a race in the case of mark finchamlake the republican is doing better here, she is only trailing by 27,000 votes. i just took you through how that could be enough ultimately to get her to victory. we'll see. now, here is the secretary of state's race. the republican, this looks more like the senate race. so dynamics in the senate race retain in the secretary of state race as well. and then again, you take a look here in the -- in nevada, the republican running for secretary of state there, he already is trailing the democrat in that race by 5300 votes. again, you take a look at the senate race, it is cortez masto who is playing catchup there. so again, there is a small difference there, you know, that is about it at 14,000, 15,000 vote difference between the two of them, but a significant difference because we're asking can cortez masto get to the point where she finishes a couple thousand votes or more ahead of laxalt. already in the secretary of state race democrats have the lead. >> steve, what can you tell us about

you have mark fincham who has spouted some qanon conspiracies and who is also an election denier from basically, his job, if he were to win would be to certify the vote. to certify the next presidential election. and that has some folks, especially in the county worried. if you didn't believe that the perfectly fair election that didn't have any major problems was not a fair vote, what will happen in other instances? a lot of people have their eyes on arizona trying to figure out who voters believe and what they want. it is a good bellwether because it is one of the swing states. >> thank you. once again, the arizona assistant secretary of state. thank you for joining us. do we have any idea of timing? and any idea of, what else can you tell us about the ballots we're about to learn about? >> yeah, so maricopa county has said they will provide an update in the 6:00 hour. so it will be very shortly here. i think that we are going to see a small number of early ballots that came in over the weekend. so these will be 48, saturday, sunday. it might not be as big of a batch as folks are ex