With ballots continuing to be counted in various counties around Arizona, specifically including the corrupt county of Maricopa, Republican candidate Kari Lake has extended her lead beyond the ability of Arizona election officials to remove it. The Associated Press calls the race for Kari Lake.
PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, a former news anchor who walked away from her journalism career and was embraced by Donald Trump and his staunch supporters, won the Republican primary for Arizona governor on Thursday.
Lake’s victory was a blow to the GOP establishment that lined up behind lawyer and businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson in an attempt to push their party past the chaotic Trump era. Lake said she would not have certified President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and put false claims of election fraud at the center of her campaign.
“The MAGA movement rose up like their lives depended on it,” Lake said as she declared victory prematurely on Wednesday afternoon, a day before the race was called, using an acronym for Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “And it proved that you can’t buy an election, at least not in Arizona. We the people rose up and spoke.”
Robson, who is married to one of Arizona’s richest men, largely self-funded her campaign. She called the 2020 election “unfair” but stopped short of calling it fraudulent and pushed for the GOP to look toward the future.
[…] Former Vice President Mike Pence, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all campaigned for Robson in the days before the election. (read more)
We still have a long ways to go before I will have complete faith in our elections again. It sounds like they tried like hell to cheat American voters again.
After what has been exposed, I will NEVER have complete faith in our elections.
The purple thumb approach would do it for me…..
False claims???? Guess that tells me everything I need to know about the “news” source.
Associated Press is trash – biased, twisted, and false.
Yahoo always says ‘election lies’ in every article on yahoo about Trump.
Hopefully, she is a regular person. Government doesn’t need any more lawyers.
Great win. So happy. Kari Lake is the future of America. Thank you President Trump. Huge win. Praise God!
Aww too bad for the McCain hateful rinos on their quest for revenge. Trump did more for America in 4 years then McCain did in his decades in congress. You go KARI LAKE! She is not afraid of a fight and she is now a huge target just like President Trump.
Re ‘false claims’: The election audit last year showed that 9,000 more mail-in ballots were returned (and counted) than were sent out. I think that’s pretty much all we need to know. Also, Kari’s opponent in the general election, Katie Hobbs, is the AZ secretary of state and thus in charge of elections. I’m flabbergasted that’s legal, it’s an obvious conflict of interest in this instance.
Hobbs was almost certainly involved in ‘underestimating’ the number of in-person ballots needed in Pinal and Pima counties. As I mentioned yesterday, that resulted in midday closures of polling places, for hours, across both counties.
Bottom line: The legacy media can mewl, puke and squeal ‘false’ and ‘no evidence’ all they want, but doing so will only hasten the decline of whatever influence they have left. Clearly a majority of Arizonans don’t buy it.
Hobbs, who will be Lake’s opponent in Nov is now SoS, and RINOs do not want Lake so they stopped the counting as Lake was gaining but they could not stop it forever. They then tried to work on fixing the votes as many people complained that their votes were not counted or like in Pinal County they had nothing to register the votes, but Lake still gained so they could not stop her. This vote fixing in Arizona is no real change from 2020. After November AZ Vote People need to be ready to go with Lawyers to go after the SoS and election officials as there will likely be similar problems.
It’s not just about cheating. It’s about blunting the message the voters sent to the GOP. It’s about stealing our joy and robbing us of the election night celebration and party(ies).
They tried to steal another one and for a day or two I thought they might.
Too much attention being paid to that race to get by with it this time. Every race counted and called but Kari’s.
Blatant attempt to steal her victory. They failed this time but they’ll try again.