defenders of democracy everywhere finchem was defeated by democratic candidate adrian fontes. and it was not just finchem s extremism that voters rejected. all of the election-denying secretary of state candidates lost their races in presidential battleground states. that is good news. in addition to finchem there was kristen karamo in michigan. she lost to democratic incumbent secretary of state jocelyn benson who will join our program in just one moment. kim crockett in minnesota was beaten by democratic incumbent secretary of state steven simon. and in a race called just this saturday jim marchant was defeated by democratic candidate cisco aguilar in nevada. all four of those republican candidates for secretary of state were endorsed by the twice-impeached ex-plnt. and they ran their entire campaigns on his big lie. washington post reports this. some pledged to decertify the 2020 result, although election law experts said that is not possible. others promised to decommission elec