about ideology, not about anything in a democracy we try to debate with each other. it is about the people trying to steal your vote with the audacity and arrogance to announce in advance that s what they want to do. well, for ms. lake, she is the loser of this race whether she can publicly acknowledge it or not. as the loser, nobody s going to care that much because she s out of power. that s an update there complete with the snl routine. i m going to tell you that everyone is tracking whether or not we learn whether there s a new entry in the republican field, but there s new legal heat coming on a trump organization employee who was convicted, now testifying under oath. that s later. but first, as we talk about voters rejecting extremism. i want to get into a special conversation with someone who knows our history well and can also discuss why some of the endless talk about polarization may be missing the mark. ken burns is here live next. to. (screaming) defeat allergy headaches
stories. democrats clinch the senate. new clashes over who should lead the gop as we have been discussing to the intrigue over who will run for president in the gop. all of it is made for plenty of interesting discussion, debate, and jokes. snl just had a field day about the midterms buck think about this one thing about political jokes they don t work that well if they re super partisan, because then only about half the audience laughs. that s why it s notable that snl would so easily roast one of the week s losing republicans in a nonpartisan way. talking about maga election denier kari lake, who you see just officially lost the governor s race in arizona to katie hobbs. lake s critical attacks on democracy which zigged and zagged were so obviously self-serving they made for easy self-parody. the election is rigged and the results should be thrown out.
neither has lake conceded even as her allies at fox were reporting the first word that her opponent hobbs i m about the show you quote, has been elected governor. all right, apparently they did have a drop in arizona, and fox is projecting that democratic secretary of state who should have recused herself, secretary hobbs has been elected governor of arizona. and this is a trend. we have been tracking these races. election deniers running for key posts, including overseeing elections in states. biden called hobbs to congratulate her. and imagine this, if the other candidate, ms. lake had won, biden, as he s done with all the states where republicans have won, would have done that as well. there are outliers. it s not about partisanship, not
arizona governor s race, where election denier kari lake is trailing the democrat katie hobbs by some 30,000 votes. let s take you to nevada, where cnn s rosa flores has the very latest from las vegas. reporter: the stakes were high, the margins were razor thin, but in the end, the democratic incumbent prevailed. catherine cortez masto gets to stay as the senator from the state of nevada, and with that, the democrats get to keep and maintain control of the u.s. senate. here s how it all went down. the republican adam laxalt was in the lead for days, and then on saturday evening, clark county released a batch of about 23,000 votes and here is how those votes were divided. catherine cortez masto receiving about 14,000 of those votes, or 60% of the vote. laxalt received more than 8,000 votes, or about 35% of that
stand up and serve. reporter: and now needs to reach out beyond his conservative base. new hampshire is an ornery state, more independents than members of either party in new hampshire, as the independents go so goes new hampshire. reporter: a bolduc switch on the legitimacy of the 2020 election from this so i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying trump won the election and i stand by it. to this. you believe the election was not stolen. not stolen but irregularities and fraud. reporter: the state republican party chairman says it s all for the greater good. if we are going to change the direction of this country, you have to support our entire republican ticket because if you don t, the democrats win and the direction of the country doesn t change. reporter: unity at all costs, not only in new hampshire, consider virginia governor glenn youngkin s support for election denier kari lake. the republican party has to be a party where we are no