Lake Kari Christmas weekend got off to a bad start when a judge turned her down election challenge Saturday, officially declared her a loser Arizona governor race.
The far-right Republican Party refused to give in to the race after losing to the Democratic Party’s Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. Instead, she spread conspiracies that the election was rigged, pointing to her anger at Maricopa County – the state’s most populous – and Hobbs, the secretary of state.
Lake immediately tweeted that she would appeal the judge’s decision in an effort to restore “trust and honesty in our elections.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to Lake for comment.
Lake’s lawsuit requires her to be declared the winner of the race and focuses on the technical problems facing Maricopa County on election day that many rightists have pointed to as evidence of fraud. . On Election Day, a judge denied that the issues disproportionately affected Republicans, denying a request from the state’s Republicans to extend last-minute voting hours.
However, Lake’s attorneys baselessly argued that “hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots were contaminated” with the vote. In recent days, Lake has escalated her attacks on Maricopa County officials, calling for “locking them up.”
The judge’s ruling is consistent with rulings in other Arizona Republican lawsuits denying the election, with both state candidate Mark Finchem and attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh’s defeats also lost. nominate.
Lake, former TV announcer joke recently Her pronoun “I/won,” has developed a radical brand as a theft prevention fanatic in 2020 and has pledged allegiance to former president Donald Trump. Before the election, Lake refused to tell CNN host Dana Bash that she would accept the results of the election, telling her instead that she would accept the results when she won.
Hobbs’ lawyer, Abha Khanna, said: “Over the past few years, our democracy and its basic guiding principles have come under constant attack from candidates who cannot or will not accept it. accept the fact that they have lost. “Kari Lake lost the election because, at the end of the day, she got fewer votes than Katie Hobbs.”
