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Carrie Lake shows no signs of letting up after she was projected to lose the Arizona governor’s race to Democratic challenger Katie Hobbs. The Republican Donald Trump endorser traveled to his Mar-a-Lago residence Thursday, days after the former president announced his entry into the 2024 presidential race. Ms. Lake, who dutifully embraced his bogus narrative of a stolen 2020 election, sought to represent the state that gave birth to the Stop the Steal movement and was central to the conspiracy-fueled scrutiny following Joe Biden’s victory. In a video posted to social media on Thursday morning, she called her election loss “inexcusable” and told supporters she was “still in this fight,” repeating baseless claims that a “broken electoral system” had ” exempt’ ‘tens of thousands’. » of voters in the state. Ms Hobbs told supporters at a victory rally this week that Arizona voters had chosen “to solve our problems over conspiracy theories” and “sense over chaos”.

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ICYMI: Arizona GOP candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general endorse Trump

Donald Trump has endorsed all three GOP candidates for Arizona’s top statewide offices. On Tuesday night, as the former president announced his 2024 candidacy, all of those candidates pledged their support in return. The state was one of two during this year’s midterm elections where all three non-incumbent Republicans running for statewide office – governor, secretary and attorney general – had rejected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. If those candidates take office, they could upend the electoral administration and challenge the results in 2024, part of an effort backed by Trump and his allies to install loyalists to ensure GOP victories in battleground states who lost Alex Woodward November 18, 2022 11:00 am 1668765600

“Conservatism is winning in Arizona. Crazy doesn’t: Analysts weigh in on Democratic losses after Republicans call for party chairman to resign

Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelly Ward is facing calls to resign after major losses in the midterm elections, including to Senate candidate Blake Masters and gubernatorial candidate Cary Lake. Democratic candidates saw historic success. the state will be represented by a Democratic governor and secretary of state, with two Democratic senators in Congress, defeating far-right candidates who rejected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and advanced baseless claims about the election process. “Conservatism is winning in Arizona. A crazy person doesn’t,” according to Chris Baker, a Republican political consultant who works on congressional and legislative races in Arizona and elsewhere. “The Republican Party in Arizona is at a crossroads right now,” he told the Arizona Mirror. “Is this the direction we want to continue in?” Alex Woodward November 18, 2022 10:00 am 1668762000

ICYMI: Kari Lake refuses to concede, claiming a ‘broken election system’ that ‘disvalued’ voters

Kari Lake told supporters she’s “still in this race” and refused to concede the Arizona gubernatorial race after her projected loss to Katie Hobbs. In a video posted on social media Thursday morning, he claimed a “broken election system” has “turned away” “tens of thousands” of voters in an election that also saw establishment Republican victories and the GOP win two House seats. . Everyone was on the same ballot with her. Ms Lake essentially said she would not accept the election results she lost and suggested her opponents would have to “cheat even more to win it”. Just as Trump spent months undermining the election process before his defeat and continued attempts to overturn the results, Ms Lake is now appropriating allegations of voter suppression to fuel conspiracy theories about her loss. “We are exploring every avenue to correct the many mistakes made last week,” he said. Alex Woodward18 November 2022 09:00 1668758400

The election naysayers failed miserably in 2022. The candidates who defeated them are gearing up for 2024

Secretaries of State — both Democrats and Republicans — have been critical of the 2020 election to resist Donald Trump and his allies from efforts to throw out or overturn the results. These officials certified votes, protected poll workers and volunteers from harassment and abuse, and, in at least one case, fended off a direct impeachment attempt—recorded on tape—by Trump himself. Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gained national profile after the 2020 election when then-President Trump called on him to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Denied. “We will support the rule of law,” he told reporters at the Nov. 15 briefing. “They will support the Constitution. And that’s where we are right now. And we continue to push to ensure that we have a fair, just election.” Alex Woodward18 November 2022 08:00 1668754800

ICYMI: Supreme Court rejects Arizona GOP chairman’s bid to block phone records from Jan. 6 committee

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward will likely have her phone records in the hands of the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol. He was among the so-called “surrogate electors” in a scheme to falsely declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The plot was based on a bogus legal theory that involved a series of fraudulent certificates from key states that falsely supported his electoral college votes. Mr. Trump. On Monday, the US Supreme Court gave the committee the green light to access those records. Republican officials in Arizona are calling for Ms. Ward to step down after the party lost races for governor, attorney general and the US Senate. Alex Woodward18 November 2022 07:00 1668747600

ICYMI: Condemning letter from Arizona GOP official calls for state party chair to resign

Under the leadership of Arizona GOP Kelli Ward, the 2022 midterm elections will be the first in nearly 50 years that Republicans have lost majorities in statewide races. Karrin Taylor Robson, a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents, called for Ms. Ward’s resignation. “Kelly Ward’s leadership of the Republican Party has been an unmitigated disaster,” he wrote in a damning letter Tuesday. “For the good of the party she claims to love and the future of the state we all love, Kelli Ward must do the right thing,” he added. “Kelli Ward Must Resign as Chair of the Arizona Republican Party”. Alex Woodward18 November 2022 05:00 1668740414

Kari Lake gets applause at right-wing think tank event at Mar-a-Lago: report

Kari Lake traveled to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Florida after her predicted loss in the Arizona governor’s race. He reportedly received a standing ovation at an event organized by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing group formed by Trump allies and former members of his administration, according to the Washington Post. The group’s event Thursday was aimed at “ensuring that policies are prepared and finalized for the new congressional and state sessions.” Alex Woodward18 November 2022 03:00 1668733214

ICYMI: Election complaints flood Maricopa County hearing

Kari Lake and her campaign and allies urged people to attend a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors hearing Wednesday night, where a round of public comments slammed the board as a cancer, issued threats and warnings and called for resignations. Verbal attacks against the board and chairman Bill Gates largely focused on printing issues that required county voters to place their ballots in a secure Box 3 designed for just those scenarios. But it has been the subject of widespread misinformation and allegations of malfeasance — including from the GOP presidency itself and other Lake allies — despite repeated efforts by election officials to debunk them and ensure their ballots are counted. Alex Woodward18 November 2022 01:00 1668726330

Kari Lake has refused to concede in the Arizona governor’s race and is instead assembling a legal team and creating a website to collect alleged evidence of voter suppression after her loss. In a two-minute video posted on social media, the far-right candidate said she had “assembled the best and brightest legal team” to explore “every avenue to right the many wrongs made last week.” In recent days, her campaign has released videos of people claiming to have experienced long lines and problems with ballot processing machines — problems that election officials have acknowledged are affecting about a third of polling places in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county. In many of the videos, people admitted that they were finally able to vote. (Getty Images) But election officials stressed that voters had several options to make sure their ballots were issued and counted, including voting at other polling places in the county — wait times were posted online — or submitting paper ballots to a secure box. Cary Lake’s allies and the chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, however, told voters not to use them. Republicans nationally have also questioned the legality of early voting, voting by mail and the use of ballots, insisting that people only vote in person on Election Day. Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, accused Ms. Ward and other GOP officials of spreading baseless claims…