Posted on 08/05/2022 8:52:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Kari Lake has won the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary, according to an Associated Press projection.
‘Bout time. https://t.co/LtmoB0tWMb
— Kari Lake for AZ Governor (@KariLake) August 5, 2022
Lake’s victory on Thursday came two days after Election Day, following delays in Arizona’s ballot reporting. Although Lake initially trailed her challenger, Karrin Taylor Robson, on Election Day, Lake eventually took the lead as more ballots were processed and reported.
The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Arizona issued a joint statement on election night that blasted Arizona’s Pinal County for its poor handling of the election and called on the county elections director to resign.
The statement said:
During Arizona’s primary elections, the RNC and Republican Party of Arizona’s poll observer program documented and reported multiple failures by Pinal County’s Elections Administrator, including 63,000 mail-in ballots delivered to the wrong voters and multiple Republican- heavy precinct locations running out of ballots. This is a comprehensive failure that disenfranchises Arizonans and exemplifies why Republican-led efforts for transparency at the ballot box are so important. Pinal County Elections Director David Frisk should resign immediately.
BREAKING: RNC and AZ GOP release joint statement BLASTING Pinal County pic.twitter.com/AjO8ZSTSAq
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 3, 2022
At the time the race was called, Lake earned roughly 47 percent of the vote, with 93 percent reported. With more than 336,000 votes, Lake had an estimated 20,000 vote lead over Robson, who earned 44 percent of the vote.
Republican candidate Matt Salmon earned nearly four percent of the vote despite dropping out weeks before the primary was held.
Lake defeated Robson despite her being backed by establishment Republican politicians like former Vice President Mike Pence and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who cannot run again due
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Though the results took longer than they should have, Arizonans who have been forgotten by the establishment just delivered a political earthquake. My opponent Katie Hobbs had one job in government, and that was to ensure an efficiently-processed election. She failed spectacularly, and yet just like every other failed establishment politician, now she wants a promotion. Arizona just sent a clear message: our state is done with failed politicians like Katie Hobbs.
The Rino Republicans in charge will be doing everything they can to keep Kari from winning in November. And the big guns will come out to fraud the vote.
One step at a time I guess. I wonder if Pence will go to Arizona again - in support of the Democrat?
Mourning Joe
Has Ducey congratulated her yet?
He's waiting to do it at Biden's next press conference, you know, the kind where reporters get to ask unscripted questions and Biden answers them without a list.
Did the results take longer to tally, or did the media just refuse to call it for her?
You’re right. The real fight begins now.
“One step at a time I guess. I wonder if Pence will go to Arizona again - in support of the Democrat?”
Good question. Will the RINOs back the Democrats, after all they are assistant Democrats.
She’ll be our bulldog-a pretty one at that. Early 50’s, good future if she wins. Her past Kenyan/Hillary support has to be scrutinized only after November. We’ll be pleasantly surprised. A disappointing Governor would not be as bad as a disappointing senator.
As Gov. can she clean up Maricopa County and it’s voting shenanigans? Take no prisoners.
All of leftdom is very scared because they’ve just LOST their ability to cheat in a state that help put over the myth that Joe Biden actually got 81 million votes.
First thing that needs to happen is every swinging leftist in Maricopa county elections capacity needs to be indicted for fraud or thrown out.
Wow, you’re right, she’s in her 50’s. From her picture I thought she was in her late 30’s, 40 at oldest.
It must have been a blowout...it’s been over 72 hours and the establishment couldn’t “find” enough ballots to beat her. Impressive.
There was an effort to fix this and it failed. But note this is a GOP primary, the fix effort was by the GOP. If anyone out there still believes that the steal in 2020 was a matter of republicans being naive, stupid, and/or weak please give it up. The GOP knew what was happening and were participating in it.
Bet on it.
It's important that these establishment RINOs understand that if they do this, they will be cast into the outer political darkness where there will be nothing but weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I think that was the final nail in the proverbial coffin for a lot of people. I haven't forgiven Ducey for certifying a fraudulent election.
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