in arizona, the big ticket race that remains to close excuse me, too early to call. steve kornacki has been telling us. votes are still being counted. we re watching for votes to come in tonight that could potentially be determinative. we shall see, the race is very close. that, of course, is why late last night, republican candidate kari lake told her supporters to be calm and patient and wait for democracy to run its course. obviously, i am kidding. of course, she did not say anything like that, at all. we had a big day today, and don t let those cheaters and crooks think anything different. i want you to know that we will monitor the ballots. the system we have right now does not work. when we win, and i think it will be within hours, i think it will be within hours, we will declare victory, and we will get to work turning this around. no more incompetency, and no more corruption in arizona elections.
has quoted james baldwin. i m going to give you the last word. i want you to speak to not what democrats should do. it is abundantly clear what democrats should do, but what the country should do. i think part of the problem is the whole impetus is on democrats. there are a whole bunch of voters out there who don t vote for the same party every election year. they typically determine which party prevails in mid-term elections, and they care a whole lot about fairness. they care a whole it is hard to vote in a mid-term, as i think you have all pointed out. there s not, you know, presidential atop the ticket race. they want to make sure that they vote, that it is counted. just talk about a new frame for this issue. we have to dare to be otherwise, nicolle. we can t keep doubling down on the old ways that brought us to now, and it seems to me folk have to muster the courage to acknowledge our failures so that
want to move up to statewide office go for not necessarily because they re saying i m election administration person, it is a stepping stone. what are you seeing on the ground? candidates across the country get early start to the race. not huge surprise that secretary of state is not traditionally top of the ticket race. would be shocked if many viewers could name them pre2020. going to change this year, going to be historic year. what we ve seen early so far, republican candidates talking about or in the race about running for secretary of state who haven t accepted the results of the 2020 election and have gone further and actively sought to undermine legitimacy of president biden s victory. georgia is biggest example, he has the former president s endorsement. but others as well.
traditionally top of the ticket race, right? i d be shocked if many viewers could name a secretary of state pre 2020. that s going to change this year. we ve already seen a lot of candidates get in. we ve seen groups investigating, that this is going to be an historic year. what we ve seen is that early so far there are republican candidates who are talking about who are already in the race about running for secretary of state who haven t accepted the results of the 2020 election and have gone further of that. they actually sought to undermine the legitimacy of joe biden s victory. in georgia it s a big example of the race. raffensperger. he has the presidents endorsement, or rather former president trump s endorsement but there s others as well. yeah, i didn t know a lot about the representative mark finchum who is a state rep in arizona who is going to run and i want to just play this sound first. that maricopa county board of
front of trump in florida. biden has 50% of support, trump 41%. how much do you read into that? i don t want to diss quinnipiac here too much but i can t really see a top of the ticket race in florida with a nine percentage point margin at the end. the past five top of the ticket races have been decided by 1.2 percentage points or fewer. quinnipiac has also on occasion had large spreads in favor of democrats, for instance, it did it in 2018 with the florida governor s race. looked like andrew gillum was going to blow away ron desantis. that didn t happen, either. i would caution people not to read into this too much. the cross tabs of the polls, what s interesting is trump is getting lower white support than exit polls showed he had gotten in 2016. should be around 64%, 65% in order to carry the state. the quinnipiac poll is between 54% and 55%. not only joe biden is doing