The results in Arizona are not technically in, God knows this process has been incredibly drawn out, but several outlets have already called the race declaring that Kari Lake’s opponent Katie Hobbs is the winner.
“Arizonans know BS when they see it,” Lake tweeted after the outcome was declared by multiple outlets, implying that she was not yet ready to concede. Hobbs secured 50.4 percent — a total of 1,266,922 votes — to Lake’s 49.6 percent — a total of 1,247,428 votes — with 98 percent of the votes counted, according to the Associated Press. The race was called almost a week after Election Day as many ballots were being dropped off and counted for days.
Hobbs is the first Democrat to serve in the governor’s office since 2006. “Democracy is worth the wait. Thank you, Arizona,” Hobbs tweeted Monday night. “I am so honored and so proud to be your next Governor.”
As Arizona’s secretary of state, Hobbs managed the elections in the state this cycle. After a Tuesday fiasco in Maricopa County in which some tabulation machines malfunctioned at multiple voting centers, Lake suggested that Hobbs was compromised and should have recused herself from overseeing the election. While on the campaign trail, Hobbs was remembered for her abortion extremism, failing to name a single restriction on the procedure that she would support if elected governor.
Kari expressed her concerns multiple times claiming that she and her staffed called for Hobbs to resign from her position where she oversees the election process.
“We called for her to recuse herself July of last year of 2021, right after we got into the race, recognizing that there’s a major ethical problem there. Obviously, just the optics of it looks bad. And she didn’t do that,” Kari Lake said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”
“Even though many people been calling for her to recuse herself, it creates problems to say the least,” Lake continued.
Lake expected to beat Hobbs with the only location that was still counting at the time she spoke with Bartiromo was a Republican stronghold.”Many of them in Maricopa County, and they are from heavy, very heavy, Republican areas. So, we’re waiting for the vote to be counted,” Lake told FOx News Earlier this week.
So what the heck happened in Maricopa?
