Kari Lake, Arizona’s GOP gubernatorial candidate who cast herself as an election martyr following her loss to Democratic challenger Katie Hobbs, signaled Monday she would not be conceding anytime soon.
The former news anchor claimed that “printer problems, tabulation errors, 3-hour-plus lines or longer, and confusing instructions given by election officials” made Election Day the “most chaotic in Arizona’s history.”
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She claimed, without evidence, that half of the voting centers that opened for the first time on Nov. 8 were “not operational” or had “significant failures” and that voters affected were “overwhelmingly” hers and used that argument to justify refusing to bow out.
“Would you get on a plane if HALF of the engines didn’t work?” she asked in a letter released Monday. “Would our friends in the media be able to broadcast their nightly propaganda if HALF of their studio equipment was not working?”
Lake, a nightly news anchor for 22 years, said she is fighting for Arizonans’ “sacred right to vote,” which she claimed had been stomped on by nefarious actors. She asserted that thousands of voters had reached out and pleaded for her not to give up the fight.
“If we give up now, we will no longer have a country,” she said.
She also claimed a team of attorneys is working to gather information to support her claims and that whistleblowers have been coming forward.
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She added that problems on Election Day “destroyed any trust in our elections.”
Lake, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, refused to say on the campaign trail that she would accept the results of the election if she lost, instead telling multiple news outlets, including the Washington Examiner, that she would accept the results when she won. She is the last high-profile Trump-backed candidate still standing in the midterm election.
