story for a variety of reasons. what is really interesting is that laxalt, who was an election denier, he cried fraud on behalf of trump in 2020. he has been tweeting recently that it is not look good for him. it looks like the democratic ballots are trending towards masto. that is an air of inevitability to those tweets. think about that. the republican candidate for governor just one. if laxalt were to go out and cry fraud, imagine what that would do to the governor s race. presumably, there would have been fraud as well. lombardo won. he is going to end up winning by a relatively narrow margin. i think that is despite the fact that trump is crying fraud right now. wax old is not. jonathan allen, give me a big picture view here. we re looking at the state of nevada. if katherine cortez masto pulls out a win here, you have a split ticket win. what does that say to you about
republican congressman zeldin. hanging onto governor s seat there. in wisconsin evers won over election denier tim michels. democrats pick up a win the josh shapiro again mastriano. and democrat wes moore becoming the states first black governor and third in the nation. defeating the trump endorsed dan cox by more than 20 points flipping from red to blue in a state dominated by democrats. two key contests too early to call. with with 80% of precincts reporting nevada incumbent governor trails the republican lombardo by five points. one of the most closely watches governor s races of the year. arizona democrat katie hobbs
governors. the question for joe biden, will they go back to the republican ways. this is another state like arizona where we could find a way to find out. a lot of mail voting in nevada. could this affect the senate races? cortez mastro is one of the most vulnerable. it could. we ll see how much straight ticket voting. lombardo has risen. we ve seen the republican candidate rise and fall. what s up in new york? this is a race i don t think a lot of us thought we were going to pay attention to. new york is such a blue state but kathy hochul has seen representative lee zeldin nipping at her heels. lee zeldin, a conservative republican at least in the state of new york. what other state? arizona. very red state.
everybody, but it s because we have two different mindsets. i ve always heard about lombardo and his policies so i figured he would be the same. you want to see change in nevada? yeah. but will i get it? now, the big race here is for the u.s. senate seat, catherine cortez masto looking to get re-elected. her challenger, adam laxalt, who picked up a lot of traction over the last couple of months. it s a very close race. i think it s going to come down to those nonpartisans. interesting. tremayne, what about what s happening in georgia? reporter: i m here in southeast atlanta, liberty baptist church. i ve been talking to black folks, especially black voters about these high stakes races. abrams and kemp for governor.
lombardo says donald trump won in 2020. which he did not. he did not. it s purple and it s at play in presidential elections. yeah. you have it and then you come here, this is probably the poster child of the new trump candidates running in 2022 and that is the former broadcaster kari lake who again, says donald trump won in arizona. that arizona was stolen from donald trump and it was not and maybe the grace of this matchup running against the current secretary of state katie hobbs that certified the arizona results in 2020. again, arizona, nevada, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, all states absolutely critical to the citizens of those states but pivotal in american presidential politics. they will be for the foreseeable future. one other point on arizona which is if we can go back for a second. yes, kari lake a big election liar who said that if she had been governor in 2020, she would not have certified the state. the republican governor currently republican governor