Arizona: Psychologically Unfun (with Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Arizona is ground-zero for the Big Lie about the 2020 election. The Republican nominees for Governor and Secretary of State, Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, are avowed election deniers, and Democrats may or may not rise to the occasion to beat them. But our guest HAS risen to the occasion: Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer joins Sarah to listen to Arizona swing voters and talk about his job running elections for 60% of Arizona voters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone this is James Harkin and Anna Tashinsky two writers of the TV show |
| 0:05.2 | QI and two-fourths of the hit podcast no such thing as a fish. |
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| 0:14.4 | interesting things there are to know about the world of sports. It's for you |
| 0:18.2 | whether you like sports or not. Did you know that legendary cricketer Gary Sobers scored his final century while drunk? |
| 0:25.7 | Or that games of lacrosse used to involve 100,000 players. |
| 0:31.7 | Learn that and so much more by getting everything to play for, the QI Book of Sports, available |
| 0:36.2 | in all bookshops and online right now. Hello everyone and welcome to the Focus Group podcast I I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the |
| 0:54.5 | bull work, and this week we are talking about the Arizona Governor's race. |
| 1:00.4 | Now if there is any race in the country this year that keeps me up at night it is this one. |
| 1:06.0 | Now Joe Biden won Arizona by 10,000 votes in 2020 which means two things. |
| 1:11.0 | This governor's race is a toss-up and whoever wins is likely to preside |
| 1:16.4 | over a close presidential election in 2024. Now if you're a regular listener of this |
| 1:21.8 | podcast you probably know by now. |
| 1:24.1 | Carrie Lake, the Republican nominee for governor, has said she wouldn't have certified the |
| 1:28.8 | 2020 election. |
| 1:30.0 | Putting the certification of the next presidential election in her hands could get dicey fast. |
| 1:36.0 | She's not talked about the 2020 election as much since winning her primary, |
| 1:40.0 | but she still won't say she't accept her own defeat. |
| 1:43.4 | Her opponent, Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, |
| 1:46.6 | refuses to debate her. |
| 1:48.6 | Democrats are worried this race is slipping away. |
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