Kari Lake

Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake took the overnight lead against Karrin Taylor Robson, 46% to 44%.

Early in July, Lake announced on Twitter that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio endorsed her with three weeks left in the race. PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake took the overnight lead against Karrin Taylor Robson, with 46% to 44% of the vote. We won this race.” Some of her supporters were seen praying in a circle around 10 p.m.

Kari Lake -- who backed by Donald Trump -- held a lead of fewer than 12000 votes over Karrin Taylor Robson, a member of Arizona's Board of Regents.

And that’s one of the reasons why I’m standing here,” Lake told a crowd of supporters, according to the Arizona Republic. Because at the end of the day, we’re going to win this thing.” “Whether you cast a ballot for me or one of my opponents, every legitimate vote counts.” Robson — who also was endorsed by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and term-limited Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey — encouraged her backers not to lose confidence, telling them to “keep calm. “There are a lot of good people involved in this process and it is vitally important that they take the time necessary to get it right,” Robson said. The Republican gubernatorial primary in Arizona was too close to call Wednesday as candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence held the top two spots.

(The Center Square) – Arizona's Republican candidate for governor has yet to be settled with Kari Lake and Karrin Taylor Robson in a tight race.

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See All We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. “The voters have spoken – be careful what you wish for.”

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But moderate Republicans generally believe in the integrity of the system and the election officials who run it. They would have liked to see more moderate Republicans prevail, but they don’t believe the fix was in. She sure as hades can be if she can win the governor’s office. The question now is can “the racist” Hobbs be redeemed? Fifty legislatures, not the Supreme Court, will now determine the future of reproductive and fetal rights. She spent as much time spearing moderate Republicans as she did liberal Democrats. With her rudder jammed so far right, it’s not clear how she can ever tack to the center.

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Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake took the overnight lead against Karrin Taylor Robson, 46% to 44%.

Early in July, Lake announced on Twitter that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio endorsed her with three weeks left in the race. PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake took the overnight lead against Karrin Taylor Robson, with 46% to 44% of the vote. We won this race.” Some of her supporters were seen praying in a circle around 10 p.m.

Election denier and Trump-backed candidate for Arizona's governor Kari Lake prematurely declared victory in the GOP primary despite only holding a narrow ...

The race became a proxy war when the former vice president endorsed Robson in July, marking only the second time Pence publicly backed a top challenger to Trump's chosen candidate. Lake was leading her opponent Karrin Robson by less than 2 points as of 7 a.m. on Wednesday. "I wanted to come out here tonight.

PHOENIX (AP) — Vote counting continued Wednesday in the close race to determine the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona, with former television news ...

Democratic nominee Hobbs, as Arizona’s top elections official, endeared herself to party voters with an impassioned defense of the integrity of the 2020 election, a stance that has drawn death threats. She also emphasized Lake’s prior support for Democrats, including a $350 contribution to the last Democratic president. Masters emphasized cultural grievances that animate the right, including critical race theory and allegations of big tech censorship. Lake is well known in much of the state after anchoring the evening news in Phoenix for more than two decades. Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day of the riot — and claims Trump was cheated out of a second term. Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted. Trump endorsed and campaigned for a group of candidates who supported his falsehoods about the 2020 election, including Lake, who says she would have refused to certify President Joe Biden’s narrow Arizona victory. Robson, whose housing developer husband is one of the state’s richest men, mostly self-financed her campaign. Though Trump is still the most popular figure inside the GOP, his efforts to influence primary elections this year have yielded mixed results. A hand recount led by Trump supporters in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest, found no proof of a stolen election and concluded Biden’s margin of victory was larger than the official count. She said Tuesday night that changing election laws was her top priority. Trump-backed state lawmaker Mark Finchem won the Republican primary to oversee elections as secretary of state — Hobbs’ current job.

Congratulations to my home state for full making the transition to full blown MAGA/conspiracy theory/fraudster"

"This is the Cindy McCain branch of the Republican Party," said of the establishment GOP on a podcast. In response, McCain quickly backtracked, claiming that "my initial predictions were right despite the initial excitement of Robson pulling ahead." "The voters have spoken - be careful what you wish for…"

The winner will advance to the November general election to take on Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

Democratic nominee Hobbs, as Arizona’s top elections official, endeared herself to party voters with an impassioned defense of the integrity of the 2020 election, a stance that has drawn death threats. Lake is well known in much of the state after anchoring the evening news in Phoenix for more than two decades. She also emphasized Lake's prior support for Democrats, including a $350 contribution to the last Democratic president. Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day of the riot — and claims Trump was cheated out of a second term. Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted. Trump endorsed and campaigned for a group of candidates who supported his falsehoods about the 2020 election, including Lake, who says she would have refused to certify President Joe Biden's narrow Arizona victory.

Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for Governor in Arizona, is tweeting her way to victory in the Republican primary.

Right-wing accounts have been quick to hop on the bandwagon of accepting the Lake victory as fact. Lake advocated for the imprisonment of her would-be opponent in the general election in November, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, citing unspecified election crimes. Lake cozied up to the former president, repeatedly denouncing the results of the 2020 election and advocating for stricter election laws in her campaign speeches.

The Trump-endorsed champion of voter-fraud allegations now gets to experience the slow uncertainty of tallying votes first-hand.

Again, Lake’s lead (unlike Scott’s in 2018 or Trump’s deficit in 2020) is probably large enough that she will be certified as the winner. But it establishes the idea that the race is hers, setting the stage for the candidate and her team to potentially present that any shift in Robson’s favor as illicit or fraudulent. The two counties that have reported outstanding votes are both ones in which Lake is leading. He earned only 39 percent of the vote against his competitors’ 29 percent and 18 percent, but in a first-past-the-post contest, that was enough. The difference, of course, is that Lake took the lead as votes were counted. That Lake is still waiting to see if she won and Masters isn’t is in part a function of the field of candidates in each race.

After a year of blasting fellow Republicans, Kari Lake wants all RINOS, doormats, golddiggers and globalists to get behind her campaign for governor.

“It just shows you how dangerous the RINO-class of the Republican Party is,” Lake said on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Ward not only took sides in multiple Republican primaries. And this is why they stabbed President Trump in the back on the fourth of November and we remember that.” Let’s do this!” “This is the Cindy McCain branch of the Republican Party. They’re not Republicans. They’re globalists and they want – I think they want an end to America. They want a globalist agenda, a new world order, whatever you want to call it.” Lake, who defeated Karrin Taylor Robson in the GOP governor’s race, held a news conference on Wednesday to take a victory lap and call on Republicans to come together for the coming campaign for governor.

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There’s nothing that is going to help them to say anything today until tonight, when that rest of that drop happens, and they will make a statement," said Coughlin. You have entrusted me with the most powerful possession that exists in a constitutional republic: your vote," said Robson. "The verdict has been rendered. Robson, meanwhile, remained quiet on Aug. 3. We won," said Lake. I mentioned that earlier.

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"And she wants to take that incompetence that she's shown as secretary of state and move it to the governor's office?'' "I'm not going to release it to the fake news,'' she said at a press conference in front of her campaign office. "That's why we won,'' she continued. But that doesn't address the question of how many people, told there were no ballots, simply left and never returned. No date has been set for a hearing. That's why they came out in droves.'' But his name remained on the ballot and he picked up 25,000 votes. "And they're being reported every day by voters.'' Lake pointed out Wednesday that when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Then they need to be scanned into the system. "I'm running for governor, not God.'' By contrast, the figure for Robson was nearly 87%/

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Fever dreams about The Donald’s loss still sell with a large chunk of Arizona’s GOP base, but it pushes away other Republicans, most independents and all Democrats. Stephen Richer, a Republican and staunch defender of the 2020 results, presided over Maricopa County’s vote on Tuesday. Either both turned “ultra MAGA” or the election wasn’t stolen, then or now. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, was secretary of state then and now. Then, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when “no one was watching,” everything had flipped. With an estimated 40% of the votes counted, she led Kari Lake by more than 10 percentage points. Arizona still has mail-in ballots, voting sites still use felt-tip pens, and election night still features an achingly slow vote count. The election process hasn’t changed much. On Election night 2020, I too was confused by Biden’s rapid turn of fortune. Instead of calling for counts, recounts and audits, Lake saw enough by late Tuesday night, despite an estimated 20% of ballots were yet to be counted. I did a bit of reading and emerged more informed on the other side. “There is no path to victory for my opponent and we won this race. Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Republic and azcentral.com. On Twitter: @exjon.