it is very modern. when it breaks down by party even more than a third o republicans agree, david, so how far can desantis s ant woke campaign take him do you think it is a losin strategy no, i think it is a ver powerful one for one reason. at the root of trumpism is thi narrative that people ar coming for your culture. and that this is a message t white rural america. people are coming for your culture. that is the basic instinct o trumpism, it is what trump xenophobic and racist policies and narratives have all said so this anti-woke thing, t don s point, is exactly that i think the democratic party and i think those immediat with conviction on this cannot wait to long they need to call it what it i right now. which the anti woke agenda i racist and homophobi and they need to start t tie people who are preaching anti wokeism and make them fee the shame and punishment o
and the democrats. the rest of them, the expectation was that they were going to go in the direction of that republican ticket. what you are looking at is that that was not the reality that played out. now, we saw a couple of hundred thousand ballots here, but about 40, 40,000 of these ballots in this drop where those tuesday mail ballots that were hand-delivered on tuesday, going into today, there were 290,000 of those left. so, those 40,000 are gonna be reflected for the expectation is reflective of most of the outstanding ballots left here in maricopa county. and if what we just saw play out tonight police out over the following days, you are looking at a very tough scenario for kari lake to try to overcome the democrat katie hobbs has mounted here in the last couple of days. this is a real testament to it, i think where independents and the state of arizona are, but even some of those conservatives that have shown willingness to vote against trumpism, again, yet again. this time in
those conservatives, reticent to trumpism, would they be able to stop voting for democrats for third cycle in a row? and what the results here tell us tonight is the answer is yes. arizona is a legitimately purple state now. donald trump was not on the ballot here. it was at the time while inflation was high, and immigration was at the forefront, a record number of migrants crossing the sheer. republicans truly believed that they had, a national race here, they had everything they needed to pull off a win and again this republican seat. but that s not the reality here. and then, if you shift and look at the governor s race here right now, i just got to be frank. this turned pretty much everybody s heads here, but also, with the kari lake campaign, the katie hobbs campaign here. to give you an idea of what this batch was comprised of, just 13.5% of this ballot drop where the mail early votes from monday that skewed heavily towards katie hobbs, mark kelly,
in maricopa county. and if what we just saw play out tonight plays out over the following days, you are looking at a very tough scenario for kari lake to try to overcome the democrat katie hobbs has mounted here in the last couple of days. this is a real testament to it, i think where independents and the state of arizona are, but even some of those conservatives that have shown willingness to vote against trumpism, again, yet again. this time in 2022, stephanie. or maybe even some of those conservatives who are sick of conspiracy theories. arizona was ground zero for cyber ninjas, the audit after audit. you ve got election deniers all over that state, including mark finchem, the republican candidate for secretary of state, who just announced was defeated. how big of a deal is that? it is significant. you are looking at, again,
sides? look, let s just put it in the context, the fact that for the third election cycle in the row, if u.s. senate seat here will go to a democrat. this is also not just any democrat, when you paint this democrat mark kelly, in contrast to kyrsten sinema, this was an individual over the course of the last two years, consistently voted with the biden administration and the democrat majorities agenda. he voted for the inflation reduction act. he went on board with, essentially, every element of the democratic agenda here. and then, the big question was, in arizona, independents and those conservatives, reticent to trumpism, would they be able to stop voting for democrats for third cycle in a row? and what the results here tell us tonight is the answer is yes. arizona is a legitimately purple state now. donald trump was not on the