red states and rural areas still held strong for the republicans. you also say trump has remade the gop in his own image and it s costing them. let s take the arizona senate race, for example. the entire context of that was that jeff flake decided not to run for re-election after his fights with the president, after he said there wasn t a place for someone like him with his immigration views in the republican party. you ended up having a very divided and contentious republican primary season. at the end of the day, you ended up having democrat kyrsten sinema win that contest. we also saw the president intervene in that south carolina 1 house race where he supported ka katy errington over mark sanford. we also saw him endorse chris kobach, and republicans ended up losing that as well.
certified the governor come thursday after that balloting is finished. in the senate race and in the ag commissioner race, they re likely going to hit that quarter of a percent, which will trigger a hand recount. that s when we get into this all over again where some of the bigger counties will have to keep working around the clock to make sure they re counted in time. so mark, let s talk about the consequences of the rhetoric we ve been hearing for the past few days. desantis is looking likelier to win, but at the same time, you have the president, you have one of his counterparts in the republican party in florida, rick scott, saying that there s fraud and there s cheating going on. they re saying that. you could call it a case study in how to undermine the integrity of an election. how do you go from saying this is not fair, this is not being done correctly, then declaring a republican winner? do voters in that state have faith in their electoral system? that s a great question.