Arizona authorities did not discover any substances in the “suspicious mail” sent to gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s headquarters last week, law enforcement said Friday.
Law enforcement in Phoenix said that an investigation indicated there “was no substance” in the envelope, which was obtained by police after a staffer on Lake’s team mentioned touching white powder in two envelopes. The staffer was placed under medical supervision as a precaution but did not report any symptoms.
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“The state lab tested the items turned over to them regarding incident #2022-1665892 and has determined there was no substance inside,” police told Fox News.
FBI and Phoenix police, hazmat and bomb squad units, and other first responders arrived at Lake’s headquarters last Saturday to investigate in a response that lasted from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The gubernatorial candidate was at a Saturday night event and did not come into contact with the envelope. The incident caused the headquarters to close two days before the midterm elections, where Lake is facing Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in a battle to be the state’s next governor.
In a statement after the incident, the Lake campaign did not cast blame on her opponent, a contrast to when Hobbs and the Democrats blasted the Lake campaign after someone burglarized the Democrat’s headquarters last month, only to find out soon afterward that the allegedly homeless thief was unrelated to Lake’s campaign.
At the time of the break-in, Hobbs’s campaign manager said the burglary was a “direct result of a concerted campaign of lies by [Lake] and her allies.”
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Lake and Hobbs have been neck-and-neck since election night. Hobbs is now in the lead with 50.7% of the vote so far, according to the Associated Press. Lake has 49.3%.
