one of the last big important races has now been called down goes Carrie Lake,
Katie Hobbs was able to defeat her in the gubernatorial race in Arizona.
We don't have the actual totally finalized vote count yet.
But as of right now, Katie Hobbs has 50.39% of the vote to carry Lakes 49.61.
It is not gonna flip, It isn't even looking especially likely to be within
that half a percentage court mandated recount.
That doesn't mean that there isn't going to be a lot of continued talk
about how some would really like to overturn the results of it, but
it's not going to happen at this point, Kerry Lake would be an absolute disaster.
We're gonna be discussing the implications of that.
But first, why did she lose?
Some people are surprised by this.
I mean, look, Katie Hobbs is happy.
She says democracy is worth the wait, Thank you.
Arizona honored and proud to be your next governor.
But some had really expected Carrie like to win, Tommy Lauren tweeted,
how does an empty pantsuit who refused to debate or
even establish a platform suddenly pull out a win in Arizona.
How and well look, I could provide a lot of reasons why Harry Lake ended up losing,
but I'm actually gonna toss it over to NBC news correspondent Vaughn Hilliard,
He's got a couple of possible explanations.
She campaigned alongside steve Bannon.
She campaigned alongside one of the chief promoters of Pizza Gate.
She campaigned alongside an individual who promoted the notion of the war
on white people.
She campaigned alongside state senator Wendy Rogers who just earlier this year
was here in florida.
Speaking at a white nationalist conference,
somebody who frequently spews anti Semitism.
This is an individual who just last week called her democratic opponent a pervert.
This is an individual who suggested there should be perp walks for elections,
official criminal charges against individuals who oversaw
covid response in 2020 in Arizona.
This is an individual who's celebrating putting a dagger into the quote,
the McCain machine.
She asserted that Cindy McCain wants to end America.
She called Mike lindell one of the great patriots of our time.
She said Denise DeSousa is one of the greatest patriots in America.
She suggested paul Gosar was the kind of lawmaker of founding fathers envision she
called the media the right hand of the devil, the scourge of the earth.
But that doesn't sound like donald trump.
I don't know what does.
Yeah. So I I don't know tammy pick one of those.
It's, it's probably some of that stuff actually.
But anyway, she did did the big one.
Lauren roberts race still hasn't been called and
obviously we have the runoff in Georgia.
But Jessica,
what do you think about Kerry Lake not gonna be the next governor of Arizona.
What's crazy is when I came to move out to L.
A. I drove through phoenix and there were so
many signs that were like Kari Lake donated to Obama.
Like that was the big thing that they thought would tank
her campaign that was their attack against Kerry Lake.
But I mean this is someone who people know is a phony right?
They used to get their news from her, they saw that she used
to be a much different person from the one that she is now,
she used to donate to candidates like Obama but then she got so
caught up in the attention she was getting from being a trump supporter.
And I think honestly people saw through that and
they were like this is just about attention and power, not not very popular.
Yeah, no, it is interesting how little that seemed to bother a lot of
the Maga people in Arizona once they got past the primary.
I mean look I'm I'm all happy and everything because she lost but
she does have very close to 50% of the vote despite all of the things that
Vaughn Hilliard pointed out and then also maybe we should point this out,
she has no qualifications to be governor.
Like I don't even know why she was a candidate other than the fact that she was
willing to say all of that crazy stuff despite honestly let's keep it real
probably not believing basically anything of it, but there's all the stuff that
Jessica pointed out, we know that she was friends with drag queens just a few years
ago and now routinely villainize is them as part of the right wing culture awards.
So honestly, as much as I despise people like Mike lindell and
marjorie Greene and paul Gosar and all that.
At the very least they do seem to believe this crazy stuff.
They are that deranged, they are that dumb.
They're both, they're dumb ranged.
But someone like Kerry Lake, it's worse when you cosplay being a neo Nazi,
I think like when you're willing to pretend to hate these two in the end,
it's the same, you're driving, you know,
harassment campaigns and, and violence and murder and all of that.
But it's so weird to pretend to believe this stuff,
like you look at marjorie Greene's eyes and
she really believes that I've looked at Alex jones eyes, he's actually that crazy.
But Kari Lake selling her soul and not even getting the seed that doesn't mean
that she's done, I'm sure trump has future plans for her.
She's not going anywhere, not even in the short term, but
it's just it's terrible Jessica that she could get this close to actually being in
control of an entire state.
Yeah, it's, it goes to show how much politics these days is a popularity
contest and so much more about what you say than about what kinds of
concrete policies you support in your experience representing people or
being someone in a community because Kerry Lakes rise to fame essentially was
her working on a news program where they had these incentives for
the most views you get on social media for your segments.
It was a competition among her and her co workers.
And she became addicted to this.
They said addicted to winning addicted to getting the most views.
And when trump started running,
she realized that trump content gets the most views.
Like it was absolutely a social media game that skyrocketed her
into the position she's in now and she loved playing that game.
I think that's super weird.
I'm not saying it's a good reason, but it's interesting that that was
her foundation for getting into politics and supporting trump.
Well you can add that to a list of reasons that everything about the And
what we choose to watch is so terrible.
I mean, it's not lost on me that yesterday our coverage of this race got,
you know, 30 times the views,
our coverage of the death sentences being handed down on Iranian protesters or
the fact that no matter how we approach climate change, it ends up getting
a tiny fraction of the views of you know, other stuff that's annoying.
We fight against that by continuing to cover this stuff, but
there's certainly no algorithmic incentive to do so