hopefully, a billion dollars richer. simone picks things up from here. greetings. you are symone watching. in a midterm election where the stakes could not be hire. and with election deniers on the ballots in droves, and it is more important than ever to make sure your vote is counted. we will be on the to talk to the democratic candidate for governor in arizona. we will talk with kari lake we will get into it. also, let me say it again because we can t say it enough. democracy is literally on the ballot. nbc news has details from a new report with disturbing findings about election deniers, running for state legislatures in key battleground states. and the impact on the 2024 presidential election if they win. plus, we are speaking to someone deep in the battle for democrats to hold on to control of the house. amelia sykes is running for congress in a newly drawn district in ohio. she has lots of support. but will that get her across the finish line? i am symone and
For democracy and for our future. for folks in new york watching, vote. make sure your cousins about. make sure your aunties, everyone votes. we can t concede any ground, particularly in this battle we re having right now. obama talked about to the polls today. stick around. my panel is not going anywhere. we have more to chat about. after the break, we are gonna get into the aftermath of that harrowing attack on speaker pelosi s husband by a suspect he was reportedly looking for her. and the dangerous political discourse in our country, that s up next. i also want you all to send me your questions on the midterm elections. text me. i ve got that for a two number. you can tweet me. i m gonna have answers on tuesday s show. send in your questions, y all. we will be right back. will be right back. so, for me and the hundreds of drivers in my fleet, staying connected, cutting downtime, and delivering on time depends on t-mobile 5g. and with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway m
Rejected that motion. so, look at the rate in arizona tell us about the strength of our institutions and the future of our democracy? joining me now to help answer those questions is the arizona secretary of state, democratic candidate for governor, katie hobbs. welcome to you, madam secretary. what do you have any new details on the robbery of your campaign office? we don t. just that the investigation is ongoing and we are cooperating with law enforcement and we are incredibly grateful to them for their quick and thorough response to this burglary. let s take a look at the overall landscape here. i want to put this in perspective for folks at home. you are camping headquarters were burglarized. you have armed poll watchers lurking outside of elections offices. speaker pelosi s husband was brutally beaten in his own home, a man who was allegedly looking
Founding partner of the states project, the group that compiled this data and works for both state legislative campaigns. i want people to know that he is also a former state legislator himself, a former state senator from new york. you are more than qualified i think to be leading these efforts. let s show folks the stakes that you investigated for 2022. arizona, nevada, minnesota, pennsylvania and new hampshire. daniel, spell this out for us because these are all states that are very important when it comes to the electoral college and that cannot be a coincidence. absolutely, and you talked about it in terms of policy and we just heard the secretary of state in arizona talking about it in terms of democracy. the answer is, it s both of those things. every one of these is a close swing state, we have a majority of republican lawmakers, who have signaled that they do not believe and legitimate election
Insinuate that elections are not secure, distrust in the process after the 2020 election. she even posted a tweet warning that, quote, without election integrity, we will cease to be the greatest nation in the world. gilbert has also made statements about voter fraud in elections. these are all just baseless claims. are you concerned that these claims have taken up root in ohio s 13th congressional district. hi, simone. thank you for having me on today. absolutely, we are concerned. this election is certainly going to help determine where our democracy looks like in the future. my opponent is one who has been identified as one of the election deniers on the ballot this year. we are doing everything we can to make sure that she does not find herself as a member of congress. we have way too much at stake this election cycle to allow for people who truly do not believe in fair and free elections. that s why it is so important for me to work very hard to