Posted on 11/09/2022 1:31:20 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
PHOENIX — Democrat Katie Hobbs lost ground overnight to Republican Kari Lake in the race for Arizona governor.
Hobbs led 50.3%-49.7% in numbers released around 7 a.m. Wednesday by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, down from her previous share of 51.3%.
Only 11,726 votes separate the candidates.
Lake, the former television news anchor with Fox 10, won the Republican nomination over Karrin Taylor Robson and centered her campaign around the values of former President Donald Trump.
Her television-ready demeanor, confrontations with journalists and combative message for Democrats made the first-time candidate a rising star on the right whose future in national politics is already being debated.
Hobbs, Arizona’s Secretary of State, easily won the Democratic nomination on the strength of her rebuttal of fraud claims pertaining to the 2020 election.
The two candidates never debated during the cycle, a decision Hobbs said was due to her belief Lake “was only interested in a spotlight and creating a spectacle.”
The results will be a window into the pulse of the electorate in Arizona, a longtime Republican stronghold that turned toward Democrats during the Trump era.
They’ll provide insight into whether Biden’s success here in 2020 was a onetime event or the onset of a long-term shift away from the GOP.
Tensions between Hobbs and Lake continued into the final weeks before the election.
Hobbs’ campaign office was broken into Oct. 24, a crime the Democrat attributed to Lake’s words and actions.
No link was found between the accused thief and Lake’s campaign.
Polling averages had the two candidates close in the months leading up to the election.
FiveThirtyEight had Lake up 2.4 percentage points, while RealClearPolitics had Lake with an advantage of 3.5 percentage points on Tuesday.
I’m all thumbs- literally!!
Just spitballing here:
They took so long to count, I believe, at the direction of the establishment. They wanted to paint a picture that the red wave was a bust and use it to blast Trump as needing to go. They knew the states where the Fox was in and where it was not. If Fetterman was going to lose in PA, you can bet that count would still be going on now.
Is Maricopa a “red” county??
Did not realize that. Cool.
No doubt about it!
They can talk all they want about any other county..but I challenge them to prove that other than major state level, below national levels, do they have democRATS running for office? If so, then they can not claim the top spot.
Fair point.
Sitting on pins and needles.
Now the AZ election website says Hobbs is leading by 8,000.
9PM dump not good for Kari or AG. Kari now down by 8100, AG now slightly behind the rat
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The latest dump has Hobbs up by 13K votes now.
AP has Hobbs up by 13,000. And worse still, Masters is down by almost 100,000.
You notice 46% voter turnout?
Yep, and AG Dem is leading by 4K+ now.
Lake is on Tucker Carlson tonight. Haven’t seen that part yet.
Because he's not at 50% yet (according to them) and they are busy "finding" more RAT ballots.
It's more than "bias", it's more than conflict of interest. That has to be some kind of felony or "high crime".
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