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Lake closes in on Hobbs as race for Arizona Governor tightens
Arizona's Family ^ | November 9, 2022 | Peter Valencia

Posted on 11/09/2022 8:34:28 AM PST by kellymcneill

It’s been a contentious and, at times, a controversial battle between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs to become Arizona’s next governor, and no clear winner was projected on Election Night. As of Wednesday morning, the race remains quite close, Hobbs was up 51% to 49%, with 62% of expected votes counted. CBS News said the race had moved from toss-up to “leans Democrat.” Still, early voting trends often benefit the Democrats, who are statistically more likely to vote early or submit absentee ballots.

At 5:30 a.m., Hobbs carried an approximate 30,000 vote lead over Lake, but by 7:15 a.m, it shrunk even more. Latest election returns have Hobbs at a 10,000-vote lead, an immense loss from the over 100,000-vote lead she had late Tuesday night.

Lake was optimistic when she addressed supporters at the GOP Headquarters in Scottsdale. “We are going to win this,” Lake confidently said. She pointed to when she was down double digits early on in the August primary to Karrin Taylor Robson and eventually won. “If we have to, we’ll take this fight through, we will, even if it takes hours or days,” Lake said.

(Excerpt) Read more at azfamily.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 700000plusvotesleft; hobbs; kari; katie; lake; r65tod35pctelectday
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To: fightin kentuckian
Desantis did it by NOT playing with the dims. I hope Lake is merciless on the dims like Desantis.

DESANTIS is riding the Florida's Red Wace of PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 2020 campaign. TRUMP untiredly prepared the fertile ground for him to plant on.

How soon people forget.

21 posted on 11/09/2022 9:00:15 AM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: livius

“you know you’re in trouble”

*************

Yes we are, but its been clear for a long time that we are a nation in decline. The system and culture that once made this country great is breaking down.


22 posted on 11/09/2022 9:01:34 AM PST by Starboard
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To: kellymcneill

I still don’t get how it’s legal for the person in charge of the election is running for the governor job. She should have stepped down as SoS


23 posted on 11/09/2022 9:01:36 AM PST by hattend
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To: kellymcneill

Sounds like the remaining votes are mostly Lake and she will win in spite of vote irregularities.


24 posted on 11/09/2022 9:01:45 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: No name given

Is Lake at heart and actress, meaning, presuming she wins this election, will she leave the honeymoon-phase cocoon she’s in having metamorphosized into a RINO?

May be totally off base here, but am just getting that kind of feeling, based on the vibes she gives off during certain adverse interviews during which her interlocutor gets under her skin.

She doesn’t say it, but the phrase from Romney circa 2012 comes to mind—”I’m a severe conservative.” As in, said no conservative ever...


25 posted on 11/09/2022 9:03:46 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: TigerClaws

Lake’s spokeswoman said at this point it’s mathematically impossible for Lake not to win. Hope she’s right. I’ve never seen anyone campaign as hard as she did.


26 posted on 11/09/2022 9:04:48 AM PST by lilypad
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To: rdcbn1; Nextrush

Well said. I would say, however I am more than guardedly optimistic— closer to fairly confident the Red slate is going to pull this out in the end for the reasons stated by Nextrush in post 13.


27 posted on 11/09/2022 9:04:51 AM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: rdcbn1
A lot of hard work was done state wide in Az Some of it was literally historic.

Very true.

Too bad the same can't be said in PA.

28 posted on 11/09/2022 9:05:03 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Starboard

That’s why I don’t trust any demonrats.


29 posted on 11/09/2022 9:05:15 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: TigerClaws

70% of 400,000 is 280,000.

30% of 400,000 is 120,000.

If Hobbs is up by 10,000 votes, and gets 120,000 and Lake gets 280,000, Lake wins.

The 7,000 provisionals won’t help Hobbs.


30 posted on 11/09/2022 9:05:59 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: 1Old Pro

806,641 Estimated votes to be counted at top right corner.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/arizona-governor-results


31 posted on 11/09/2022 9:06:18 AM PST by CalTexan
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To: stars & stripes forever

“DESANTIS is riding the Florida’s Red Wace of PRESIDENT TRUMP’S 2020 campaign. TRUMP untiredly prepared the fertile ground for him to plant on.

How soon people forget.”

Not forgotten at all. But to say that seems to take away Desantis’ accomplishments. Yes Desantis does benefit from Trumps 2020 campaign but what happened last night in Floirda is due largely to Desantis leadership decisions over 4 years.

Desantis and Scott barely won 4 years ago and almost had it stolen by the Palm Beach Co. elections official who kept printing ballots a week after the election. Rubio ordered the police to raid the office, literally, to stop the steal. Now there are no election shenanigans, and he wins by 20 points. Yes Trump gets some credit, but Desantis knocked it out of the park.


32 posted on 11/09/2022 9:09:41 AM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: stars & stripes forever

That is ancient history, nobody cares.
DeSantis earned his landslide victory and doesn’t owe anything to Trump at this point.


33 posted on 11/09/2022 9:14:48 AM PST by nbenyo
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To: kellymcneill

The biggest reason Lake needs to win is that she recognizes that elections are rigged and she will either expose it or die trying. For that reason she is probably the most important candidate in the entire election.


34 posted on 11/09/2022 9:20:49 AM PST by Revel
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To: CalTexan; TigerClaws

CalTexan wrote:


806,641 Estimated votes to be counted at top right corner.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/arizona-governor-results

Tiger claws, ping to this; which is the latest figure, 400,000 per your post:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4107599/posts?page=15#15

or 806,641?


35 posted on 11/09/2022 9:21:10 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: CalTexan

I’m so jaded at this point I won’t believe any of it until Hobbs concedes, along with Kelly and Laxalt’s opponent.


36 posted on 11/09/2022 9:22:55 AM PST by daler
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To: kellymcneill

Biggest turnout I have seen in AZ since I have lived here (’94). My wife said the same, and she has lived here most of her life. We voted after work and the community college down the street had a 3-hour wait (We were told).

Voted at a small church near my house where there was no line, but it was very busy and was still humming when I left.

The poll workers were very nice, helpful and organized.


37 posted on 11/09/2022 9:26:13 AM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: Antoninus

Andy Biggs was on the radio here this morning and said it was very curious that the Rep strategy was a strong day-of ground game and then there is a huge problem at the polling places. It took them eight hours to figure to the ballot printing problems? Really? Then problems with the tabulators?

Even a non-partisan person would look at all of it and at least have some notion there was something else going on.

I don’t believe in coincidences.


38 posted on 11/09/2022 9:29:35 AM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: kellymcneill
Please God, let Kari Lake win.

There needs to be a statewide audit of Dominion machines, and she would be the only governor who would do it.

39 posted on 11/09/2022 9:35:34 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: cld51860

Dr. Andrew Jackson
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Kari Lake will take the lead today and will never lose it again. The pattern as the primary.

GOVERNOR KARI LAKE


40 posted on 11/09/2022 9:36:11 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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