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‘I Will Become Governor!’: Arizona GOP Hopeful Kari Lake Insists She’s Still on Track to Overturn Dem Rival’s Election Win

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Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has insisted she’ll still become governor after the state’s assistant attorney general demanded explanations to polling day issues before agreeing to certify Lake’s Democrat rival’s win.

GOP rising star Lake spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com Saturday after her campaign was handed a lifeline on Saturday when the state’s attorney general’s office demanded explanations for a string of election day problems before the final results can be certified.

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Lake told DailyMail.com it vindicated her decision to fight on, even though the Associated Press and other news organizations called the race for her opponent.

With more than 95 percent of votes tallied, Lake trails Democrat Katie Hobbs by fewer than 18,000 votes. The Associated Press has already called the race for Hobbs – but Lake, who was widely expected to win the contest, is having none of it.

‘The way they run elections in Maricopa County is worse than in banana republics around this world,’ she said in an exclusive interview, referring to the state’s most populous county. (Read more from “‘I Will Become Governor!’: Arizona GOP Hopeful Kari Lake Insists She’s Still on Track to Overturn Dem Rival’s Election Win” HERE)

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Hobbs’s Lead Over Lake Narrows in Arizona Gubernatorial Race; Kari Lake Says She’s “Still in the Fight”

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Kari Lake Says She’s “Still in the Fight”

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Hobbs’s Lead Over Lake Narrows

Republican Kari Lake has narrowed Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’s lead in the state’s race for governor in a Nov. 15 update.

Hobbs’s lead of 19,382 narrowed to 17,249, according to unofficial results from the office of Hobbs, a Democrat, based on new reports from Maricopa County and other jurisdictions. Hobbs gained nearly 9,700 votes in the new tranche, while Lake gained 11,829.

Hobbs now has 1.276 million votes, while Lake now has 1.259 million. The margin between the candidates is about 0.6 percent, close to recount territory.

Under a new Arizona law, a recount is triggered if the margin is at or below 0.5 percent when all the votes are counted.

Some 27,545 uncounted ballots remain, according to the office of Hobbs, who is Arizona’s top election official. That estimate may not be reliable, however—the estimate was 28,033 before the latest count, but more than 20,000 votes were reported. (Read more from “Hobbs’s Lead Over Lake Narrows in Arizona Gubernatorial Race” HERE)

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Kari Lake Trails Hobbs by 26,000 Votes After Sunday’s Maricopa County Results

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Officials from Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa, released results from 98,618 ballots Sunday night that broke 54.6 percent in favor of Republican Kari Lake, bringing her closer to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

ABC 15 Data Analyst Garret Archer reported the batch breakdown to be 54.6 percent in favor of Lake and 45.4 percent in favor of Democrat Katie Hobbs, giving Lake a net gain of 8,911 votes. Maricopa County election officials noted in a press release that “nearly all” of the ballots in the batch “were dropped off on Election Day,” which have been widely expected to break for Republican candidates.

Lake trailed Hobbs by 26,011 votes statewide, with 93 percent of the total vote reported as of 9:00 p.m. Eastern, according to the New York Times[.] (Read more from “Kari Lake Trails Hobbs by 26,000 Votes After Sunday’s Maricopa County Results” HERE)

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There’s Been Yet Another Delay for Arizona Election Results

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Maricopa County election officials have yet again pushed back the deadline for when 2022 midterm election results will be finalized. Maricopa County is the largest county in Arizona and the fastest growing county in the country.

Originally, officials said all votes would be counted by Friday. Now, they’re saying things might be wrapped up after the weekend.

On Thursday, county officials started tabulating mail-in ballots that were dropped off rather than sent through the mail. Given the kinds of ballots and where the final totals will come from, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake believes things are moving in her direction.

(Read more from “There’s Been Yet Another Delay for Arizona Election Results” HERE)

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Arizona’s Election Administration Is an International Embarrassment

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Two days have passed since polls closed in Arizona and unsurprisingly, election officials in the state have failed to provide voters with the final results of numerous highly contested races.

As of this article’s publication, none of Arizona’s contested statewide races have been called for any of their respective candidates. With 70 percent of votes tabulated, Democrat Katie Hobbs leads her Republican rival Kari Lake in the gubernatorial race by fewer than 13,000 votes, while Democrat Mark Kelly leads Republican Blake Masters by a little less than 95,000. The races for Arizona attorney general and secretary of state also remain up in the air, with both still too close to call. . .

While countries with tens of millions of citizens, such as France and Brazil, are able to tabulate nationwide election results within 24 hours, the Grand Canyon State has continued to disrespect its voters by repeatedly leaving them in limbo and turning what’s supposed to be Election Day into “election season.” International election observers have regularly pointed to delayed election results as one of several warning signs of incompetent election administration, and although that doesn’t mean there was impropriety in this year’s Arizona elections, the failure to tabulate votes in a timely and efficient manner does nothing but undermine voters’ confidence in the electoral process.

Much like their counterparts in Washington, D.C., Arizona’s Republican leaders such as Gov. Doug Ducey have had numerous chances over the past two years to resolve delayed vote tabulations; and at every available opportunity, they have simply chosen to ignore it. In Kari Lake, many Arizona Republicans see a leader who tackles challenging issues rather than runs from them. And given what the public has witnessed over the past two years, it sure looks like the state could use one. (Read more from “Arizona’s Election Administration Is an International Embarrassment” HERE)

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Arizona Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Voter Org Monitoring Drop Boxes, a Week After Ruling in Their Favor

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Just days after allowing an activist group to monitor ballot drop boxes, a federal judge issued a restraining order restricting the group’s activities.

In an order handed down Tuesday evening, judge Michael T. Liburdi of the U.S. District Court of Arizona severely curtailed the activities that members of the election activist group Clean Elections USA can engage in while monitoring drop boxes in the state. The judge also mandated that the group’s founder, Melody Jennings, must correct public statements she made about ballot drop boxes, among other orders. . .

In addition, the judge ordered Clean Elections USA to post a statement to their social media accounts, and to Jennings’s personal Truth Social account. “It is not always illegal to deposit multiple ballots in a ballot drop box,” the statement reads. “It is legal to deposit the ballot of a family member, household member, or person for whom you are the caregiver. Here are the rules for ballot drop boxes by which I ask you to abide”: the posts must be accompanied by a copy of Arizona’s ballot drop box law, or a web link to the text of the law, along with a copy of or link to the restraining order itself.

The judge then ordered Jennings to post a separate message on her personal Truth Social account. “Any past statement that it is always illegal to deposit multiple ballots in a ballot drop box is incomplete; a family member, household member, or caregiver can legally do so.” (Read more from “Arizona Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Voter Org Monitoring Drop Boxes, a Week After Ruling in Their Favor” HERE)

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Tucker Carlson Reveals Trump Call With Arizona Senate Candidate

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Former President Donald Trump encouraged Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters to talk about election fraud in a phone call revealed as part of a new documentary from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

The conversation, shown in a Tucker Carlson Original streaming on Fox Nation, took place after Masters said in a debate this month against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly that there was no evidence of the vote count being rigged in favor of President Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump urged Masters to take cues from Kari Lake, a Republican candidate running for governor in Arizona, who has made election integrity a top priority in her campaign.

(Read more from “Tucker Carlson Reveals Trump Call With Arizona Senate Candidate” HERE)

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GOP Candidate Quits After Cop Catches Him Masturbating Outside Preschool

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A Republican running for an Arizona college district’s governing board suspended his campaign Tuesday, two weeks after he was arrested for allegedly masturbating outside a preschool at one of the colleges he was hoping to represent.

Police found candidate Randy Kaufman on Oct. 4 parked outside the child center at Rio Salado College with his pants down to his mid-thigh and “manipulating his genitals in a masturbatory manner,” according to a police report.

Kaufman was in full view of the campus’s Wirtzie’s Preschool and Child Care Center, where several preschool-aged children were playing outside, the report said.

“Seriously?” the officer said upon finding the Republican playing with himself.

“I’m sorry,” Kaufman allegedly told the officer. “I f–cked up. I’m really stressed.” (Read more from “GOP Candidate Quits After Cop Catches Him Masturbating Outside Preschool” HERE)

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Dems Fail to Derail Arizona’s Landmark School Choice Program

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Opponents of Arizona’s school choice program, which provides state funds to students to attend schools outside of the public school system, failed to collect enough signatures to place the issue on the general election ballot, according to a Friday statement by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

Save Our Schools Arizona, an organization that advocates for public schools, was unable to collect the required 118,823 signatures needed to put the state’s new school-choice program on the 2024 ballot, according to Hobbs. The school-choice program was signed into law in July, offering students the opportunity to receive funding for private and charter schools.

“The Secretary of State’s office has reviewed the petitions our campaign turned in and has determined we fell short of the minimum signature threshold required to stop universal voucher expansion,” Save Our Schools said in a statement. “Though our estimated signature count was much higher, the discrepancy was influenced by several factors, including the incredibly high volume of returns of petitions in the final week, days and hours of the campaign.”

Despite turning in more than 140,000 signatures, the effort by Save Our Schools failed because there were not enough legal and completed signatures, Hobb’s statement said. (Read more from “Dems Fail to Derail Arizona’s Landmark School Choice Program” HERE)

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Court Allows Arizona’s Near-Total Abortion Ban to Go Into Effect

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Arizona’s Pima County Superior Court lifted an injunction Friday that had prevented enforcement of a state ban on abortion unless necessary to save a mother’s life, allowing the law to go into effect.

The court declared the state measure, now called Arizona Criminal Code § 13-3603, unconstitutional within weeks of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. After Roe v. Wade’s June reversal, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich motioned the Pima County Superior Court to remove the decades-old injunction against enforcing the statute. . .

Arizona already passed a law restricting abortion after 15 weeks gestation earlier this year. The measure said it did not affect § 13-3603’s validity.

The court rejected plaintiff Planned Parenthood Arizona’s request for a modified injunction allowing licensed doctors to be exempt from § 13-3603. The organization said Friday the ruling was “sending Arizonans back 150 years” and its lawyers were mulling next steps. (Read more from “Court Allows Arizona’s Near-Total Abortion Ban to Go Into Effect” HERE)

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