investigation has the expresident and his allies i suppose hope will some day, somehow overburn president joe biden s clear and sizable decisive win in the 2020 election. even before the findings of the arizona audit were released, republicans in several states have already gotten ahead of it, doing trump s bidding by launching more election probes. the latest is texas. texas won texas by more than five points. it is unclear what they are looking for there. thetimes tries to explain eight and a half hours after trump made a public demand for greg abbott to conduct an audit, they announced a comprehensive forensic aught audit of the results from four of the state s largest country. joining us, the maricopa county recorder, also a candidate for arizona secretary of state. and alex berman is back.