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.
Wow! That’s encouraging!
The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru
@Garrett_Archer
Graham county has tabulated 1,178 ballots.
Batch breakdown
Governor
@KariLake
77.8
@katiehobbs
22.2
Senate
@bgmasters
76
@CaptMarkKelly
22.5
AZSOS
@RealMarkFinchem
75.5
@Adrian_Fontes
24.5
AZAG
@AbrahamHamadeh
77.7
@krismayes
22.3
One thing that is more important than Congressional Senate seats is the state legislatures and the Governors. If the conservatives have a majority in their state, along with a conservative governor, they can pass laws that stop this “two month” election “day”, the mail-in votes for any reason, and a unsecured ballot drop box on every corner.
For each state that has a GOP majority, election laws can be changed to make sure the cheating is not allowed. This will then allow for conservative Senators to be elected in those states. See DeSantis (FL) for an example.
(I’m trying to be optimistic here and see some silver linings in the clouds).
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
So Kari should be in the lead- correct?
Kari is up BIG in Pima
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These are all election day votes, or election day drop offs. She should be up big, no matter what county.
Apologies. On my phone and it never clicked/posted on my end
still down 5,000 votes but she will end up winning
The latest update I can find shows that Kari Lake is behind by only 4100 votes.
The longer it goes the worse it is for Lake...they’re taking so long because they’re having to offset lakes gains as much as possible.
Maricopa Co. expects to drop new election results around 6pm tonight (mainly early ballot votes).
Hobbs lead down to 4,750 votes.
Kari Lake will win big!!!
Excited? lol
According to Charlie Kirk and Tyler Bowden, she’s got it, and so does Blake. Just don’t watch MSM, including Fox, for news about the election.
Thank you!
It looks like they and other races like Alaska have stopped counting. All day.
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