dormant calling the 2020 election fake. in new mexico, incumbent secretary of state defeated republican audrey trujillo who publicly questioned president biden s 2020 win. we re also following two major secretary of state races that we have not yet called in arizona. we re awaiting new vote numbers. the race between the republican mark finchem and democrat adid font. he is a self-proclaimed member of the oath keepers. in nevada we re following the still undecided between republican jim marchant and aguilar. marchant denies that president biden legitimately won the 2020 election and claims that stop congressional democrats have been installed by what he calls the deep state cabal. there you go. finchem and marchant in their own words. ladies and gentlemen, we know it, and they know it.
speaker of the house who stood up to trump and giuliani and all those folks on the whole issue of election denial. and he was leading the charge on the other side of it. so we has a deep, rich history. and think how dangerous that is. yeah. well, kari lake we sort of have to see how that turns out. she is kind of the leader of election deniers, one of the most famous ones. and she has said that if she doesn t win, you know, the election was rigged, et cetera, et cetera. she is kind of symbolic of that. and if she wins, i think it would give a little momentum. i mean, secretary of states according to cnn, 12 republican nominees were eelection deniers and four won. you know, being an election denier to the extent that finchem was and a few others, mastriano, some of the real extremists, it s not a platform that has appeal beyond a small number of people.
donald trump won. president trump and i lost an election in 2020 buzzecause of rigged election. i ve been working since november 4th, 2020 to expose what happened. and what i found out is horrifying. and when i m secretary of state of nevada, we re going fix it. let s get more on all of this with our team. i mean, this was a strong rebuke of election denials in a lot of states that we saw. i think so. i really do think this is a big part of the dynamic. i think this is part of the fabric that people were rebelling against. there were big efforts that went into these secretary of state races. an organization called i vote that has spent millions and millions of dollars in these secretary of state races against these election deniers. but this guy finchem in arizona was the guy in the state house who faced down rusty bauers, the