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Democrat Katie Hobbs is leading Republican Kari Lake in the Arizona gubernatorial race, reporting just over half of the district. are already casting doubt on the election results.
Lake won the Republican primary after amplifying former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election and falsely claiming the election was rigged and stolen. And while the current margins could change dramatically as votes are counted, Lake has suggested without evidence that there could be problems with Tuesday’s results. , rejected Republican efforts to overturn the results in the 2020 election).
In a speech at headquarters Tuesday night on election night, Lake said it felt like “groundhog day.”
“November 3, 2020 was called Incompetence 101,” Lake says. She went on to suggest that “incompetence” was at work in both the August primary and Tuesday’s election. This is a not-so-subtle criticism of the election’s opposition director. It wasn’t immediately clear what she was referring to, but there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
“We need fair elections and we will get them to you in Arizona, and I guarantee it. She later told her supporters to be patient and she said she was confident she would win.
Hobbes also addressed her supporters on Tuesday night, saying the campaign was happy with what they were seeing.
“I know we all want to know who won each of these incredibly important races, but we need to be patient and wait for all the votes to be tallied.” “I know that my opponents and their allies have sowed suspicion and confusion throughout this campaign, and today, when people are exercising their right to vote, they should be on their side.” It is unacceptable that they were spreading false information.”
All four Republican candidates at the top of the Arizona ticket are repeating Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. As a clear echo of some conservatives’ repeated attempts to question the results of Maricopa in 2016, it raised the idea of fraud despite assurances to the contrary from county officials.
Arizona has been a key battleground for governors and the Senate this year and likely to become president again in 2024, with major Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, criticizing Republicans for their election fraud and intrigue. Warnings have been issued that accepting the theory could endanger democracy. if they take power.
Charlie Kirk, founder and president of right-wing group Turning Point USA, tweeted false allegations about a two-hour wait in Maricopa County, the site of repeated partisan “audits” in 2020. did. He rejected a Republican proposal to extend polling hours by three hours to a Maricopa County judge Tuesday night, and he said there was no evidence that voters were being prevented from exercising their voting rights.
Lake has repeatedly said he will not certify Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona in 2020.
The former Fox 10 newscaster in Phoenix rose quickly to become one of the most prominent candidates of the 2022 cycle as she and Hobbes battled to replace limited-term Republican Governor Doug Ducey.
Lake has stayed true to Trump’s playbook, not just for the 2020 election. She promised to declare an “invasion” at the border — an effort she described as an effort to amass greater power for the governor’s office to deal with the immigration crisis — and She called for the arrest of both Dr. Anthony Fauci and her Democratic opponent.
Before announcing her bid, Lake quit her anchor job in 2021, saying she didn’t like the direction journalism was going after becoming a household name in Phoenix. In one of the videos, she said she had a sledgehammer for “left-wing lies and propaganda.”
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She forcefully denounced the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by Democratic leaders, dispatching major opponents and denouncing restrictions such as masks as unnecessary and harmful to children. welcomed comparisons to Trump throughout the campaign.
Hobbes, a former social worker who worked with victims of domestic violence before becoming a state legislator, is much more conservative, restricting access to reporters and holding small, intimate events with supporters. We ran a modest campaign.
She made democracy and abortion rights a central focus, and called Lake as an “extreme” and “dangerous” person who could jeopardize the sanctity of the 2024 presidential election by refusing to prove results. drew
