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Exactly- a turnip should have been able to defeat Hobbs beczuse she was so horrible and refused to even debate and let people know what Zhe stood for. Kari however was no turnip, and is a solid smart tough woman who should,have by all rights dominated the election. The problem with Arizona though is that she is no John McCain, so the rinos there either didn’t vote for her or voted for Hobbs (not to mention there likely was some cheating g going on to defeat Kari). If Kari isn’t one of,our most electable, by all rights, then I don’t know who is.

I still remember the multi-day national funeral for McCain where they took a multi-day funeral train to Washington, took over the Capitol Rotunda like they did for Reagan, and had a nationally televised “bipartisan” service with endless tributes to a man who did his best to scupper the conservative wing of the R party and who had a questionable financial background, to say the least. Frankly, this copying of the Lincoln funeral was a bit much. I knew Abe Lincoln (at least from history) and John McCain, you were no Abe Lincoln. Not even close.

Hobbs herself has few supporters in AZ, but the Democrat (tm) brand does. Young people are universally brainwashed by universities and social media to see Democrats as the more libertarian option and Republicans as tyrants. Many of these were automatic votes for Hobbs, though few of them had ever heard her speak or knew anything about her qualifications: "At least she's not taking away our right to CHOOSE!"

I have no doubt Lake got more actual votes cast by actual AZ voters - maybe a lot more. But between the mail-in ballots, hordes of out-of-state university students voting in AZ instead of their home states, a corrupt Soros Sheriff, McCain-ite Republicans in Maricopa County, and top state GOP officials refusing to endorse her, she had a harder path to victory than it appeared - even with her ability to draw Trump-like crowds at her rallies.

Hobbs could not have won on her own merits, but with Lake having to defeat both Democrats and Republicans her chances were not as good as they seemed. And her post-election legal actions are not likely to go anywhere.

Hopefully, the GOP-led AZ legislature will put the brakes on any attempt by Hobbs to become the next Hochul or Whitmer. Someone suggested that she will try to play it like Sinema does - as a maverick Democrat opposed to to the national party's overreaches - but I'm not sure she is smart enough to pull that off.