we had a free and fair, safe and secure election that joe biden won here in pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes. in the attempt to go forth and conduct this sham review, the senate republicans demanded the private information of 9 million pennsylvania voters, including social security numbers, driver s license numbers, and the likes. in my capacity as the attorney general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, i sued to stop them. to protect the privacy interests of pennsylvanians, who indeed we have both a statutory and a constitutional right to privacy here in the commonwealth. today, we finally had the hearing. today was the first time that the senate republicans couldn t rely on just the rhetoric that they keep spewing on other networks, but rather, they had to present facts and evidence in a court of law. and we learned two important things from counsel to the senate republicans. one, they acknowledge that there
here in pennsylvania. i use air quotes, of course, when i say audit because it s not a real audit. in fact, we ve had two legally required audits that show that we had a free and fair, safe and secure election that joe biden won here in pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes. in the attempt to go forth and conduct this sham review, the senate republicans demanded the private information of 9 million pennsylvania voters, including social security numbers, driver s license numbers, and the likes. in my capacity as the attorney general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, i sued to stop them. to protect the privacy interests of pennsylvanians, who indeed we have both a statutory and a constitutional right to privacy here in the commonwealth. today, we finally had the hearing. today was the first time that the senate republicans couldn t rely on just the rhetoric that they keep spewing on other networks, but rather, they had to present facts and evidence in
reporter: a cornerstone of lake s campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa county s 2020 presidential election. the system is corrupt. have you followed what s happened in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. reporter: relentlessly, repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. okay well, you are buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. you don t give a damn about our elections. you have got a narrative, and you are trying to push it. and what is that narrative? we the narrative is everything it s fraudit. it s fake. i will be damned if when i am governor, we are going to have another election run this way. i m afraid for our future. repor
reporter: a longtime former phoenix television anchor who quit her job. lake has built a name i.d. and a dedicated following like the students who insisted on gathering around her. you have a crowd. hi, everyone. reporter: as she agreed to speak with cnn. are you going to win? i believe we will. yeah. reporter: a cornerstone of lake s campaign? baseless fraud claims raised by the republican-led sham review of maricopa county s 2020 presidential election. the system is corrupt. have you not followed what s happened in our election here? absolutely. i covered the audit. reporter: relentlessly repeating misinformation. do you think it was the right thing to do to delete a bunch of million files the day before the audit? that was roundly debunked. not by the press but by the maricopa county recorder s office. zblk okay. well, you re buying into everything they say. these are the same people who did not want this forensic audit. i know what you guys are trying to do. y
they attacked and cheated on our elections. he lashed out at republican leaders in georgia for not helping him undermine confidence in the election. now the people of georgia must replace the rinos and week republicans who made it all possible. reporter: and even seemed to confess to pressuring georgia s governor to help him overturn the state s results. i said, brian, listen. you have a big election integrity problem in georgia. i hope you can help us out and call a special election. reporter: then outright lie about the recent sham review in arizona. claiming he won. we won on the arizona forensic audit yesterday at a level that you wouldn t believe. reporter: when, in fact, the partisan exercise conducted by cyberninjas, a florida-based company with no experience in auditing, found 99 more votes for joe biden and 261 fewer votes for trump. maricopa county supervisor, republican bill gates, hopes