republican congressman zeldin. hanging onto governor s seat there. in wisconsin evers won over election denier tim michels. democrats pick up a win the josh shapiro again mastriano. and democrat wes moore becoming the states first black governor and third in the nation. defeating the trump endorsed dan cox by more than 20 points flipping from red to blue in a state dominated by democrats. two key contests too early to call. with with 80% of precincts reporting nevada incumbent governor trails the republican lombardo by five points. one of the most closely watches governor s races of the year. arizona democrat katie hobbs
i m a man. why would you ask me that question? that s a moment you go wait. this cuts across all demographics. we saw it last night. you look at the issues that did cut across demographics, abortion and economy. fears about rising crimes? but then what didn t was election denial and january 6 conspiracy theories. americans did not seeing the capitol stormed on january 6. we saw that in how the election played out. there was such a stark divide between apoll jazzes for what happened at a the capitol and decent americans who might lay republican but they are not okay with that. they are not okay with seeing an election disregarded. a free and fair election. democracy was the animating issue. where are we going to haul in all the strategists and pun dits
people have forgotten. it was the alabama special election in 17. i was told there s no way a democrat is going to win in alabama. then as the votes came in suddenly they started talking about the black belt in alabama across the center of the state. suddenly we hear the turnout in the black belt in an off year special election, which we all know. nobody comes out for those. actually, black voters came out at a higher rate than they did in the second obama election. they elected doug jones in that election. they elected doug jones. you look what happened in 2020 when we were sitting there looking. it was black women in milwaukee. it was black women in elaine county. it was black women in georgia.
what i found in focus groups we had 16 in a focus group and blue collar voters were talking about trump. one woman goes, he s one of us. hold on. she said he s one of us. that was a moment. i said wait a second. something is happening here. this year it was when you were talking to voters and you re talking to trump voters. they bought in to ever conspiracy theory. they bought in to every stolen election narrative. you go down the line they were saying things that made you go, oh my gosh. going onset while we were watching that was extreme. then you ask that one guy, it was really all in on the conspiracy theories. what do you think about roe v. wade overturned? he says that s none of my business.
that is the dark vision he won on and tonight colorado is rejecting that vision. and rejected it handily. senator bennett join us now. good morning. good to see you. getting a big round of applause. it s great to see you. let s talk about your race. interesting opponent in joe o dea who tried to distance himself from former president trump on issues like same-sex marriage and abortion rights and the 2020 election conspiracies. he was attack aed last night after you won handily by president trump for not going ie along more with the election conspiracy. what was at the center of your race, what decided this and how did you win by so much? i think what was the center of the race was rejection of 40 years of washington consensus of trickle down economics that colorado wants to reject. we have one of the most dynamic economies in america but people