evidence, and the answer was no. all right, jonathan, let s turn to you. arizona, not yet in the rearview mirror, but mark kelly having been the projected winner, all eyes are on nevada, and the very close senate race there. what can you tell us? as you know, stephanie, i always think all eyes should be on nevada. but especially, all on nevada right now. listen, adam laxalt is ahead by 800 votes. steve kornacki laid it out very well. there are about 23, 25,000 ballots to come in clark county. clark county is a very democratic county. she s been winning there by about 60% in the post election mail dump. she has a win with that kind of percentage to get over 800 votes. i think that democrats were a little disappointed in the votes that were just released from wuzhou county, the 11,000 that steve talked about. she only picked up about 1100 votes, won by about ten points
described, changes the outlook, perhaps, in the governor s race. because here, you have democrat katie hobbs leading republican kari lake. we ve seen all week that katie hobbs has been leading by a smaller margin, about 80,000 fewer votes than mark kelly. and we have been looking at this race and saying, well, that giant batch of votes in maricopa county, if it is a republican batch of votes, it may not be enough for blake masters to overtake mark kelly. but it certainly could be enough for kari lake to overtake katie hobbs, with the numbers we saw from that batch of vote tonight, we saw hobbs get more votes out of it than kari lake. so, it raises the possibility that it is a giant batch of votes in maricopa, the ones that were dropped off at polling places on election day, may not even be enough to lift kari lake past katie hobbs. this race is far from being called. but i think there was a lot of thought that this lead from katie hobbs may not hold. it s still may not. but the possibi
that it happened in 2020, they said it was gonna happen again in 2022, and it was blake masters was gonna go past mark kelly. we got a big batch of about 75,000 votes, many of them, that exact same type of ballot on describing, and not only did blake masters not do as well as expected, mark kelly actually carried them. mark kelly actually won more votes, significantly more votes from that batch then blake masters did. so, with that, he just do not see a path for blake masters to catch up in the senate race. so, mark kelly holds on to the senate race. as significantly, potentially, in arizona, where i just described, that dynamic i just described, changes the outlook, perhaps, in the governor s race. because here, you have democrat katie hobbs leading republican kari lake. we ve seen all week that katie hobbs has been leading by a
donald trump? we are starting to see some republicans come out and say, it s time for donald trump to move on. a tweet from one of the big original trump supporters, saying tonight, that he is done. he is over. we ll have to wait to see. i think a little bit to find out whether that s actually true. i love every time i hear anyone saying donald trump s advisors. news flash, he has no advisors. he listens to no one. people are just turning on trump, so. john, they are also turning on mitch mcconnell, it s sort of a circular firing squad within the republican party. i want to share a bit of a blake masters who had just defeated by mark kelly in arizona, what he had to say tonight about mitch mcconnell when he was on fox news earlier tonight? mcconnell decided to spend millions of dollars attacking a fellow republican in alaska, instead of helping me defeat senator mark kelly. had he chosen to spend money in arizona, this race would be over. we d be celebrating a senate
political reporter for the atlanta journal-constitution, and an msnbc political contributor. he is also the author of flipped, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. and nbc s vaughn hillyard is here. he is from phoenix, arizona. he joins us tonight, wearing a b.o.l.o. tie, honoring his state with that look. van, what a night for arizona, mark kelly, the projected winner, what are you hearing on the ground from both sides? look, let s just put it in the context, the fact that for the third election cycle in the row, if u.s. senate seat here will go to a democrat. this is also not just any democrat, when you paint this democrat mark kelly, in contrast to kyrsten sinema, this was an individual over the course of the last two years, consistently voted with the biden administration and the democrat majorities agenda. he voted for the inflation reduction act. he went on board with, essentially, every element of the democratic agenda here. and then, the big q