All but one of the republican candidates running for office here in arizona this year is an election denier. that includes by the way, author of the republican parties nine nominees for care, like the attorney general nominee a., it and the secretary of state nominee, mark finchem. remember these names on going to be talking about them a lot in this show. even among this group, mark finchem stands out. he continues to deny the legacy of president biden s victory and the results of the 2020 election. earlier this, year mark finchem introduced a bill in the state legislator to decertify the results of the 2020 election, from three of arizona s largest counties. finchem, also by the way, attended the stop the steal rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. he was seen outside of the capital, as the insurrection was happening. now he is running a tight race for secretary of state. arizona s top election officials and the executive who s first in line for the
Good morning to you, it is saturday october 29th. the sun is still not up, that is because i am in phoenix, arizona and remains the middle of the night here. i m velshi on the road this week for another edition of velshi across america, this time as i say, in beautiful phoenix, arizona. one of the most hotly contested states by the way, arizona is, in this election cycle. i travel here this weekend to really understand what is happening here on the ground. yesterday, i had an amazing insightful conversation with a group of arizona voters from across the political spectrum. republicans, democrats, about the issues that they care about most as they prepare to head to the polls. we re gonna have more of that conversation to show you later in this hour and throughout the weekend. there are only ten days left before this year s midterms, the first nationwide election since donald trump began spreading the big lie following his loss to joe biden in 2020. it fueled the fire that led to the vi
Arizona to resume some of the wall construction. so, despite what he said right there, and despite what they will say from the podium of the white house who they are actually building more wall. yeah, they are going to do that certainly through november 9th when mark kelly s re-election campaign will be over in arizona. and that is why they are doing it. this is they are targeting a particular election in a particular state they know, frankly joe biden s immigration policies have been under water with ordinary americans who vote democrat since he implemented them. and so that doesn t help mark kelly in arizona where they are bearing the brunt of this. every state gets hit by this illegal wave. but, arizona is, of course, on the frontline. this is to help mark kelly in his re-election as frankly, masters closes in on him now within the bhar gin of error in
Lot of leverage, but she s using her leverage here. i have to say i i was with an arizona republican yesterday who kind of said in a not joking way but joking way, you know who the best republican we have out in arizona is, kyrsten sinema, because they feel like she is doing the bidding for them in a way that they never expected watching her path starting as a progressive in the state. we re going to talk more about that later in the program, about her politics back home, but in terms of the politics here, the president is going to address the american people tonight. it s hard to sell your plan when so much of your plan is still tbd but the president wants to say we note basics. we ll have universal pre-k. how long it lasts that s to be determined. community college scholarships, money for housing, medicare expansion, obamacare subsidies, but because one of the challenges for the president is the debate has been about the price tag because until you get to that it s hard to know,
Life was taquita. jerome and taquita first locked eyes at an indiana mall in 1996, at a time when both of them were struggling to get back on their feet. what was going on in your life when you met her? i just lost a job. i was in a bad state. bad time. she just caught my eye. she was pregnant. the guy left her. she just needed someone to show her some love. in the 20 years since that first meeting, much has changed. despite jerome s incarceration and takita s move to arizona six years ago, they kept the spark alive. can we see some of the videos that you two have exchanged? absolutely. they stay connected through kiosks in indiana s prisons, who let inmates exchange videos with loved ones. that s why arizona is