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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Ruben Gallego, a congressman from Arizona, is running for Senate against the ultimate in MAGA

celebrities, Carrie Lake. You may remember Lake. A leading 2020 election denier, she was the MAGA

superstar who was supposed to cruise to victory in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, but she lost and spent the next year screaming fraud and trying to reverse the results.

Now she's running again, but some new polls show Gallego ahead. Emerson has him leading Lake by 36 to 30 percent,

with 21 percent backing independent Senator Kirsten Cinema if she runs, which is uncertain.

With just Gallego and Lake, it's 46 to 39. Another poll has similar findings.

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