hopefuls saying i would expect him to come out swinging, which sounds scary at first, but when he comes out swinging, it looks like this. another trump-backed election denier falls. this time, kari lake in arizona. as nbc news calls the governor s race there for democrat katie hobbs. lake has responded, but has not yet concede ed. we ll have that and the reaction from liz cheney that has now gone viral. plus, the new reporting that shows donald trump spent more money trying to defeat republicans than he did in any single battle ground state. what? also, the new polling that shows republicans in key states have moved on from trump to ron desantis for 2024. we ll have those numbers for you. also house minority leader
coaches county, but for the most part, we re looking at very few ballots still outstanding. so, 60,000 you said? that s right. and do you believe the arizona governor s race will go to a recount? so, the recount statute right now says if the merchant is within 0.5%, right now, secretary hobbs is outside of that recount margin. so, as long as the vote totals continue to come in around but they have been, we are likely to see that. but if we see anything different change then it would be the recount margin. we are tracking a couple of races right now. state legislative races, as well as some other states races that are within the recount margin like the attorney generals raise, and the superintendent of public construction. kari lake, just tonight, has raised questions on fox about katie hobbs, secretary of state, overseeing the elections, essentially, counting all the votes. it s katie hobbs they are
republican icon. you look at her attacking voters who voted for a guy who was considered to be a mainstream conservative/moderate republican who was extraordinarily successful in arizona. again, this goes back to trumpism not being transferable. yes, donald trump in a primary attacked john mccain and he survived in a primary. but what i have been saying for years is that politics is a game of addition. and not a game of subtraction. at the beginning of the trump era, there were several aides who got on tv and said some outrageous things, and i actually called them up, said listen, politics is a game of addition, not subtraction, stop attacking people. try to bring people together. and willie, i wasn t doing that.
worth the wait. thank you, arizona, i m so honored and so proud to be your next governor. but, as you can well imagine, not everybody is buying that. arizonans know b.s. when they see it said kari lake. um-huh. so we will see how that all shapes up. meantime, here in washington, the balance of power is oh so close to going to the republicans way in the house 217 to 205. by the way, just last night, a bunch of races called for g.o.p. candidates, including new york 22 which was a very deep blue district. left of center california 41. california 45 as well. so, a big night for the team in red. meanwhile, on the hill, there are some g.o.p. stalwarts who frankly aren t ready to choose leadership. at least not yet. it s time for something different. and to come in here and to tint status quo isn t acceptable. we need a change. we need to earn people s respect. and that starts tomorrow with having a full-fledged debate
we saw this with the same set of candidates, golden was a challenger there. one other ring choice runoff. so, with the two democrats out of this entire list of seats. here i think game two is when the democrats maybe feel the best about it. there are few others that they feel good about. but the problem is if they get to a team there are some where they get are a bit prohibited against kari lake in arizona. and they re going to need some surprises if they want to get to 18. yeah, we should see areas on the six is one of them. they are kind of stand on a tough goal. that s the county update we just got a couple minutes ago. the pima county portion of the six district is not as democratic as the rest of the county. in fact, it allowed the republican advantage for the first time to move north of 3000 votes. that is going up almost 15,000 votes. democrats are running out of votes there. they are running into maricopa county. it was last nights update, it was the first one that put hi