Governor ducey and Lieutenant Governor bernadette. Historic election for several reasons. , thering for an election events undertaking even in normal circumstances, the complexity this year has been compounded by the pandemic. In spite of this, we had an extremely wellrun election and saw historically high voter participation. There were more than 3. 4 2 million ballots cast in this election and turn was nearly 80 . Increase from the, 2018 midterm elections and 8 increase from the 2016 president ial election. Of those 3. 4 2 million ballots cast, over 88 of them were cast early, which provides more proof arizonas solid by mail system works. Thetionally, despite ,nprecedented challenges arizonans showed up for our democracy. Every arizona voter has my thanks and should know that they can stand proud that this election was conducted with transparency, accuracy, and fairness in accordance with arizonas laws and elections procedures, despite numerous unfounded claims to the country. As a r
Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team. And i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths. And we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we sent out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide any more gruesome details about this deadly virus. But to remind everyone, again, it does not care how old you are. What politicale party you are. It does not care what gender you are. This virus can be deadly for anyone. And while we know that it is particularly precario
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In a move that could lead to the cash its breakup. We will speak to law professor zephyhr teachout, author of break em up recovering our freedom from big ag, big tech, and big money. Plus, we will talk about her call for Senate Democrats to use every procedural tool possible to block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Then to mexico. It is an unequivocal example of the decomposition of the regime, the governmental body was degraded. Amy former Mexican Defense secretary general salvador cienfuegos has been ordered held without bail in the United States after his shocking arrest last week at Los Angeles International airport for working with a Major Drug Cartel while heading mexicos military. We will get the latest and look at what this means for victims of human rights massacres during his time in office. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. We begin headlines with the story that incl