into leadership. he doesn t deserve to be majority leader, or minority leader. you have the choice, you can stand with your constituents and stand with americans or you can stand for mitch mcconnell. so there is that. republican leadership is so upset about all of this that they may and mitch mcconnell s 15-year reign over the senate. and then there s this. on a conference call with republican senate leadership yesterday, senator lindsey graham went so far to suggest fraud in nevada if republican adam laxalt doesn t win the senate race there. quote, there s no mathematical way laxalt loses. graham said. if he does, then it s a lie. sitting senator planting seeds of distrust in our election system, but only if the guy from his party loses. we see what you re doing there, senator graham. like i said, as anxious as you may be, it looks like republican leadership is even more so. joining us now is the great steve kornacki at the great big board. steve, i understand that we still have som
adam laxalt doesn t win the senate race there. quote, there s no mathematical way laxalt loses. graham said. if he does, then it s a lie. sitting senator planting seeds of distrust in our election system, but only if the guy from his party loses. we see what you re doing there, senator graham. like i said, as anxious as you may be, it looks like republican leadership is even more so. joining us now is the great steve kornacki at the great big board. steve, i understand that we still have some new voting coming in from arizona. what can you tell us about that? huma county, a tucson area, second biggest county in the. say we have another batch of 24,000 votes out there. mark kelly basically winds that batch of votes by a 2 to 1 margin. and so that extends his lead statewide. you can see this over blake masters, nearly over 120,000 votes. nearly six points as well. six percentage points. so i think that really raises the stakes for what we are
normalcy and put us back in the international stage and get his ratings are worse than the former president s now. i know, isn t that interesting, shannon? if he had actually governed the way that he talked about in his inaugural address, i believe things would be different. yes, history shows that, you know, when there s inflation, when their midterms come in, the president s party loses, but he ran as a moderate, stayed in the basement a lot, and then his inaugural speech talked about unity in moderation. people didn t want the drama and they wanted you know, the adults are back, and get there s been a left-wing progressive, to put it mildly, set of policies that have led us to where we are now s are not surprised his ratings are so low. shannon: interestingly enough, the president has blamed president putin over in russia for what s happening at the gas pump and for inflation, even though we all know it started well before the incursion, the war into ukraine. but the newest ta
loyalists in the offices that oversee our elections. on that last point, the new york times has some incredible brand-new reporting. quote, nearly 2,000 republicans who have publicly questioned or disputed the results of the 2020 election are running for secretary of state across the country. in some cases, after being directly encouraged by allies of former president trump. their candidacies are alarming watchdog groups. democrats and some fellow republicans who worry that these trump supporters, if elected to posts that exist largely to safe guard and administer the democratic process, would weaponize those offices to undermine it, whether by subverting an election outright or by sowing doubts about any local, state, or federal elections their party loses. those secretary of state campaigns are happening as republicans and state legislatures continue their anti-democratic policy endeavors. two dozen bills were put forward by republicans in arizona this month that would significantl
target those republicans running for state and local office in 12 key states, who denied the results of the 2020 election. one of those trump endorsed election deniers, sure to be singled out is arizona state representative mark finchem. he is one of some 21 candidates running for secretary of state who disputed joe biden s win. according to the new york times, these candidates are raising alarms that they quote, would weaponize those offices to undermine the democratic process whether by subverting and election outright or by sowing doubts about any local, state, or federal elections their party loses. this week, mark finchem was subpoenaed by the january six select committee for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. that includes spreading lies about a rigged election, and organizing a hearing in november with rudy giuliani, and other trump allies who