With restrictions on discussions about race, Tennessee teachers hesitate to explore teachable moments from the ouster of two Black lawmakers by an all-white GOP majority.
With restrictions on discussions about race, Tennessee teachers hesitate to explore teachable moments from the ouster of two Black lawmakers by an all-white GOP majority.
and diligent and i applaud the work that they have done. you obviously are now the secretary of state-elect. your opponent, the republican mark finchum, has not conceded this race yet. do you expect he ever will? you know, if he s consistent with what he has done which is really destroy confidence in systems, run against regular american political norms and be sort of an outsider in the worst possible way, no, i don t expect his concession but quite frankly i don t need it. we have the will of the voters, the consent of the coverage governed is on our side in this race and once he have the final canvasses and everything is done and certified i ll be very happy to succeed secretary hobbs on seventh floor of the executive tower and serve every arizonan regardless of their political bent with my level best efforts. now you ve said that the vote-counting process in arizona is solid and, of course, it is
outcomes? look it depends on who you re talking to. democrats very clearly trust the system. a lot of independent women, these folks out in the suburbs, these moderate republicans, for example, they trust the system. there are ambassadorses for the system like rusty bowers, the arizona speaker of the house, who are, you know, one person at a time conveying their own trust in the system. i think that that has helped make sure, you know, that people do feel as though their votes are going to be counted and as though the results are going to reflect voters will. however, on the other side, we have had two years now of former president donald trump and his allies, lake, finchum, mark finchum, running for secretary of state, blake masters at the top of the ticket the republican primary for the u.s. senate. every one has played a critical role for the last two years
the oath keepers. they re the ones that stormed the capitol. they brought explosives, violence. it is absolutely a foundation. mark is a member of the oath keepers and led the effort to delegitimize the election in arizona. it would be insane to put mark finchum in charge of tallying the votes. that s a dangerous proposition. that s a new ad about the republican candidate for secretary of state. so this election is a simultaneous fight. at the same time it is a fight over whether or not we re going to use violence to settle our differences from here on out, whether we re going to use violence to put people in power, the argument for using violence, for taking over by force, for blaming some other and using that to just an abandon of