. kari lake still has to concede for race for governor. the nbc news decision desk has called the race for her opponent democrat katie hobbs. as of now, there is a difference of .6% in the vote talley for governor. an automatic recount is triggered at .5%. the decision desk says the final tabulation could fall within that range but it s quote very unlikely. kari lake repeatedly claimed without evidence that results in arizona are illegitimate. she posted a video to twitter yesterday telling followers the, quote, fight to save our republic has just begun. while lake is sharing those videos on her social media feed, washington post reports she did so from mar-a-lago. a former local news television anchor was at donald trump s florida home and golf club yesterday to attend a luncheon
former local news television anchor turned right-wing superstar, kari lake s embrace of donald trump launched her to the forefront of the right grievance politics. lake is claiming fraud since before winning her primary in august and has continued to sow doubt in the general election. last night in lieu of a concession after nbc called the race for hobbs, lake instead tweeted, quote, arizonans know bs when they see it. suppose they do. january 6 committee vice chair and outgoing wyoming congresswoman liz cheney helped play a role in kari lake s defeat first by saying this to a resume of college students at a forum last month in arizona. i say this as somebody who, you know, my first vote i ever cast, i was 18 years old. i voted for ronald reagan. so for almost 40 years now i ve
the election to kari lake. that was going to deliver the senate race to blake masters and we ve had three or four days now consecutively of updates that have included those ballots, and every time we ve gotten them, the numbers have just not been there for kari lake. she was in a position where she was throwing a hail mary pass here, and she did not get what she needed. former local news television anchor turned right wing super star, kari lake s embrace of former president donald trump launched her to the forefront of the far right s grievance politics. lake has been claiming fraud since before winning her primary in august, and has continued to sow doubt in the general election. last night, after nbc news called the race for hobbs, lake tweeted quote, arizonians know bs when they see it. yes, they see it. she sets herself up as a
welcome back to morning joe, wow, it s tuesday, november 15th. adrienne elrod is still with us, and joining the conversation, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle and pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have both of you with us this hour. the nbc news decision desk predicts, katie hobbs has defeated kari lake in the race for arizona s next governor. a former local news television anchor turned right wing super star, kari lake s embrace of former president donald trump launched her to the forefront of the far right s grievance politics. lake has been claiming fraud since before winning her primary in august, and has continued to sow doubt in the general election, and last night, after nbc news called the race for hobbs, lake tweeted quote, arizonians know bs when they see
that s where sarah huckabee sanders is projected to be the first woman elected governor. remember her father was a governor there as well. so this is an interesting story for her. republicans also winning a few other big races. florida s ron desantis, georgia s brian kemp, greg abbott in texas all defeating their democratic challengers. the wall all red there except for the surrounding blue framing. so there you go. cnn s john berman. i walk over to the magic wall. here we go. can we talk about arizona? let s talk about arizona. katie hobbs is the secretary of state there. and kari lake is this election denying republican who has the support of donald trump, media hating. former anchor. former television anchor, not that there is anything wrong with being a television anchor, don. she is trailing katie hobbs by almost 11 points. one thing i do want to point out, just 56% in. we ve been talking about the arizona senate race. she is outperforming the senate