his own social media accounts, we have nba legend charles barkley here to join cnn this morning to talk about that. and some of the other top stories this the sports world. and we re going to begin with john king joining us now. john king, welcome, good morning. can we talk arizona, sir? go, please. i m here to be the warmup act for chuck. what do you mean? look, look, this is a huge win in the state of arizona. it is also a huge win for democrats. if you look at the battleground map, the democrats lost the nevada governorship, but got a pickup, a flip of arizona, they held pennsylvania, they held michigan, they held wisconsin. if you re looking ahead to 2024 and the big battleground states, this is a huge win for democrats. if you look at the results there, talk about karma. it was katie hobbs, the arizona secretary of state, who helped uphold donald trump s win, i mean, joe biden s win in arizona in 2020, with the help of the outgoing republican governor steve ducey, by the way
expected her to win is what democrats were telling me a month out, which is katie hobbs, she s not the strongest candidate. when i say something like that on the air i don t say it on the air unless i m hearing it from a ton of democrats in arizona. she s not that strong of a candidate. she won t debate. we re trying to get they are to debate. she won t go on the campaign trail. she s in hiding. and democrats were very concerned about it, and i say the morning after she won. kari lake lost, and i think that is the ultimate rebuke to kari lake and the denialism. even when you have a candidate that s not doing all the right things, that s not debating, that s not taking the campaign to the people of arizona the way democrats wanted her to, kari lake still lost. yeah, that s right, joe, and look, you can debate, we can debate all day whether or not she should have debated. whatever her strategy was it