frisch and losing those races, that is a big win for democracy, they were pure election denialism, they were intent to oversee elections in these vertical battleground states, it was driven by their politics and the agenda and not just the processing of elections, that was a real threat, and these democratic wins in the secretary of state races, that is what joe biden can take back on the world stage to say, we are making sure that we are not just trying to promote democracy around the world to try to make sure we are cleaning hours up as well. he said we have to figure out where the redlines are. i ve always had straightforward discussions with him. so it would be nice to be a fly on the wall in those discussions. a historic night here that
voters reelected the entire democratic ticket for governor. that includes an entire slate of election deniers. nevada called several key races last night. joe lombardo on see the democratic governor, steve sisolak. he handed the gop their first governor pick up there is also the attorney general and secretary of state races. this was called overnight by in the nbc news. the election denier spirited to lose to the democrat. they are gonna be joining me just a moment. meanwhile, democrat mark kelly was declared winner of arizona senate raise overnight. they defeated the mega candidate, blake masters. he weighed in on his own failing social media platform. it is called truth social. possibly corrupt officials have
went into these midterms with a certain level of heightened anxiety about the future of democracy and whether it would survive this election. according to the counter nbc news, there were 260 election deniers running for office this year. that is about 47% of the 569 republican candidates running across the united states. so far, 151 people who denied, lied about, or actively cast doubt on president joe biden s 2020 victory one house seats. eight election deniers won senate races. for one governor races, and three election deniers one secretary of state races. that looks bad, and it actually is. but, election denier victories were not as widespread as many people expected. we watched major races unfold in democracy s favor, like in pennsylvania for example where election deniers doug master no and mehmet oz lost their bid for governor and senate respectively. in michigan, all three election denying candidates for governor, secretary of state, an attorney general failed. so, as a result
dormant calling the 2020 election fake. in new mexico, incumbent secretary of state defeated republican audrey trujillo who publicly questioned president biden s 2020 win. we re also following two major secretary of state races that we have not yet called in arizona. we re awaiting new vote numbers. the race between the republican mark finchem and democrat adid font. he is a self-proclaimed member of the oath keepers. in nevada we re following the still undecided between republican jim marchant and aguilar. marchant denies that president biden legitimately won the 2020 election and claims that stop congressional democrats have been installed by what he calls the deep state cabal. there you go. finchem and marchant in their own words. ladies and gentlemen, we know it, and they know it.
donald trump won. president trump and i lost an election in 2020 buzzecause of rigged election. i ve been working since november 4th, 2020 to expose what happened. and what i found out is horrifying. and when i m secretary of state of nevada, we re going fix it. let s get more on all of this with our team. i mean, this was a strong rebuke of election denials in a lot of states that we saw. i think so. i really do think this is a big part of the dynamic. i think this is part of the fabric that people were rebelling against. there were big efforts that went into these secretary of state races. an organization called i vote that has spent millions and millions of dollars in these secretary of state races against these election deniers. but this guy finchem in arizona was the guy in the state house who faced down rusty bauers, the