“In this case, I would say they actually withheld numbers for Keri Lake in those dumps and focused only on Hobbs, in order to get her declared a winner while sitting on GOP ballots.”
It’s the press declaring Hobbs the winner. Nobody has been certified a winner by the State.
They want to set the narrative that Kari Lake has lost. One goal is to demoralize her voters into thinking that it doesn’t matter if they cure their contested signatures or not.