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good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight it is election night in america and front and center tonight are trump s lies about the 2020 election, as the january 6th committee lays out its case for how trump tried to overturn the election and knowingly lie to his supporters about it. trump s conspiracy theories are not just a thing about the historical record, you know, that we need to put in there. they re not a thing of the past, they re actually still metastasizing, just listen to two of the trump-backed candidate on the ballot tonight. tonight, will transform our election. you know that they did it to the election in this city. we fought right through to the end. they took the election. we the people know the election was stolen and we are not taking it anymore. so, one of those was adam running for nevada senate, other is katie arrington running for house seat in carolina, where polls closed a the the hour. counting now. trying to unseat incumbent nanc ....
South carolina, john, what are you seeing now. split verdict so far in the very early results in these two congressional districts where donald trump is airing grievances if you will, look at the seventh south carolina congressional district, russell fry the trump-backed candidate, tom rice, is losing at the moment quite significantly to russell, fry, want to note we could take a different look at the district. see where the votes are coming in so far, the rural areas more in north western part of the district, if rice has a chance it will be with voters in the myrtle beach area, but this is a very republican district again, the trump-backed candidate with the early lead there. now look at district number one, where nancy mace is the incumbent, donald trump would like her defeated by the candidate katie arrington, but look, more than two to one lead, again, charleston county is nancy mace s base, but early results, you got a lot of math ....
, certify the election, and rice has kept right on, saying trump is the past the party. we ll see if republicans agree with him but no doubt this is the latest stop in trump s revenge tour, we ll see if republicans are listening to him or following their own lead. jeff, thank you very much and as we get results we ll go back to jeff. i want to go to john king at the magic wall, now, though, as these polls close in south carolina, john, what are you seeing? erin, no votes yet, this is the state of south carolina, remember how republican this state is, donald trump won it by a dozen points in 2020 so this is a good year for republicans, think whoever wins the primaries in the house district, easily coast to election but this is the tom rice district, it has myrtle beach, people say a house distr district, don t know where that is, this is along the coast of south carolina then stretches along to more rural areas, russell fry the trump-backed candidate, supports the big lie. what s di ....