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Presidents don’t ordinarily pick the director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the US government. But President-elect Donald Trump says he wants his ally Kari Lake to take over VOA. Trump’s Wednesday night social media post – in which he said, “I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America” – presages many future fights over VOA, which became an ideological battleground during Trump’s first term in office. Some journalists at VOA are highly concerned about that idea that Lake, a longtime local TV anchor turned...

I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America. She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media. Kari was a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years. Congratulations Kari!

I’m sure the halls of the Republican Party establishment were not pleased with the reports that President-elect Donald J. Trump had former Arizona journalist Kari Lake at the top of the list to be our next ambassador to Mexico. Lake is a twice-failed candidate in Arizona and burned many bridges with some key members of her party. She’s reportedly been working trying to mend the fences. Yet, that’s no longer an issue for the ambassador to Mexico job. Trump announced he’s going with Ron Johnson. No, it's not Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI).🚨President-elect Trump taps Sen. Ron Johnson for United States...

Does anyone actually believe that Trump won Arizona by 5.5% but Kari Lake lost? You think Trump voters really went in there and voted for the open border cartel guy? Arizona’s elections are an absolute joke ... Arizona FINALLY finished counting votes yesterday, a mere 20 days after Election Day. Trump won AZ by 5.5% making it the reddest of the seven swing states. President Trump won Maricopa County, the biggest prize in the state, by over 3%. This puts Arizona in the same category as Minnesota (Kamala by +4), Virginia (Kamala +5), New Mexico (Kamala +6), and New Jersey...

In 2022, Kari Lake narrowly lost the race for Arizona governor to Katie Hobbs. Many pundits predicted a bright future for the outspoken former television news broadcaster in the MAGA Republican Party. But this month, Lake came up short again, this time by a larger margin, in her Senate race against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). She ran eight points behind Donald Trump and six points behind GOP candidates for the House of Representatives in Arizona.

George @BehizyTweets Eric Hovde may challenge the Wisconsin Senate Race because nearly 99% of Milwaukee votes dumped at 4 AM went to his Democrat opponent The 2024 Wisconsin Senate race was STOLEN, just like the 2020 election.

President-elect Donald Trump has officially won Arizona, securing 312 electoral votes and sweeping all seven swing states. On Saturday evening, the race in Arizona was called, which gives Trump 11 more electoral votes and brings his total to 312 electoral votes. Vice President Kamala Harris is currently at only 227 electoral votes. Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. The president-elect also picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. In 2020, President Joe Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1%. Before that,...

Conservatives heaved a sigh of relief when Donald Trump was announced the winner of the presidential election, since most believed the left was going to cheat and steal the election again from him. While there was almost certainly cheating in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona between Kari Lake and no-name, open borders Ruben Gallego, as well as with Arizona’s abortion-till-birth Prop. 139, Trump was allowed to win the state and the six other battleground states. The common wisdom developing is the massive increase in observers watching this election compared to the 2020 and 2022 elections made the difference. Combined...

Just filed our papers in the Arizona Supreme Court opposing the ACLU’s effort to extend ballot curing past the statutory 5 pm deadline today. Now we wait for the high court to rule … ... There’s no way Trump won Arizona & Lake didn’t. ... The same criminals curing the ballots in Arizona are the same criminals curing the ballots in Nevada. ... This extended ballot counting is ridiculous and has to be stopped .... No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego. I have friends there & they're outraged. 1,394,484 votes for Gallego with 1,266,536 reg...

Meghan McCain mercilessly tore into Kari Lake as a 'loser' after projections show her failing in her bid for the U.S. Senate. While the Arizona Senate race has not officially been called, Decision Desk HQ has Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) winning against the Republican candidate. In response, McCain posted to X a meme of Lake at the wheel of a vehicle and the message: 'Get in loser, we're going losering.'

Four days after Election Day 2024, a winner has finally been projected in the Arizona senate race. Democrat Ruben Gallego narrowly defeated Republican Kari Lake, according to Decision Desk HQ, and will fill the seat currently held by Independent Kyrsten Sinema. The race was tight. As of 10:35 p.m. on Saturday night, with 88% of precincts reporting, Gallego had 49.7% of the vote, compared to Lake's 48.2%. Independent Eduardo Quintana, who is a member of the Green Party, earned 2.1%. https://x.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1855430284428161399? Gallego is currently the representative for Arizona's 3rd District, a seat he's held since 2015. Before that, he was...

Maricopa County released another batch of election results totaling 104,407 ballots Saturday night, and it’s clear that something’s not right. The results went 42.4% for Kari Lake and 54.5% for her opponent, Democrat Ruben Gallego, who is actually a neighbor and friend of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer. But it’s not over yet, as hundreds of thousands of ballots are yet to be counted. Remember that Stephen Richer, the county’s top election official, also hates Kari Lake with a passion. The Gateway Pundit reported on a deposition he gave in his defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake, where it was revealed...

An operational update on Election Integrity: The RNC, our state parties and legal teams remain fully engaged in every state where votes are still being counted — including Arizona, Maine, Nevada and Pennsylvania. We will continue to aggressively protect the vote and defend every Republican candidate throughout vote counting, canvassing, and tabulation. We will be on the ground until all votes are counted and finalized. Protect the Vote! ... Then how did Sam Brown lose his seat? Bob Casey won’t concede. Kari Lake is being robbed again. ... Well you definitely let go of Michigan. Because they stole the Senate...

The election official overseeing voting in Arizona's most populous county told a friend last year that he was interested in pursuing a Senate run 'to make life hell for Kari [Lake]', according to court documents seen by DailyMail.com. As Maricopa County Recorder, Stephen Richer is in charge of the ballots that could decide whether Lake triumphs in her tight run for the Senate. But the comments will raise questions from allies of the conservative firebrand about whether he can be trusted to run a fair election. The explosive words come from the transcript of a June 21 deposition that will...

Ruben Gallego 1,381,684 Kari Lake 1,348,362

It’s taking far longer than expected in multiple counties across Arizona to count ballots and report election results. The delay means numerous congressional, statewide, and local races have yet to be called, including a U.S. Senate contest and races that would help determine the balance of power in the U.S. House. Voter advocates are warning that voters won’t have enough time to fix any problems with their ballots if the counting goes on too long. This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. An updated statewide number of uncounted ballots...

CANDIDATE VOTES PCT. Ruben Gallego DEM 1,321,836 49.7% Kari Lake GOP 1,285,088 48.3% Eduardo Quintana GRN 54,647 2.0%

The long-awaited arrival of ballots from Arizona’s Maricopa County has brought good news to Kari Lake, the firebrand U.S. Senate candidate still in the running against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). The Lake campaign on Thursday night revealed that the Republican picked up 57.39% of the nearly 70,000-ballot drop from Maricopa County. The result puts her a hair’s width of overtaking Gallego’s 0.7% lead; he holds a 43,846-vote lead with over 75% of the vote counted, according to NBC News. A third-party candidate, Eduardo Quintana, managed to siphon away more than that, or 53,596 votes.

From memory, she has caught up by about 10,000 with this update from last night. 79% reporting now. She very well may pull this out!

Kari Lake has taken the lead in the Arizona Senate race with days to go before the election, new polling suggests. The polling, published by Data Orbital, shows the controversial Republican candidate on 45.2 per cent of the vote, narrowly ahead of her opponent on 44.5 per cent.