Kari Lake

The Trump-endorsed champion of voter-fraud allegations now gets to experience the slow uncertainty of tallying votes first-hand.

Again, Lake’s lead (unlike Scott’s in 2018 or Trump’s deficit in 2020) is probably large enough that she will be certified as the winner. But it establishes the idea that the race is hers, setting the stage for the candidate and her team to potentially present that any shift in Robson’s favor as illicit or fraudulent. The two counties that have reported outstanding votes are both ones in which Lake is leading. He earned only 39 percent of the vote against his competitors’ 29 percent and 18 percent, but in a first-past-the-post contest, that was enough. The difference, of course, is that Lake took the lead as votes were counted. That Lake is still waiting to see if she won and Masters isn’t is in part a function of the field of candidates in each race.

After a year of blasting fellow Republicans, Kari Lake wants all RINOS, doormats, golddiggers and globalists to get behind her campaign for governor.

“It just shows you how dangerous the RINO-class of the Republican Party is,” Lake said on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Ward not only took sides in multiple Republican primaries. And this is why they stabbed President Trump in the back on the fourth of November and we remember that.” Let’s do this!” “This is the Cindy McCain branch of the Republican Party. They’re not Republicans. They’re globalists and they want – I think they want an end to America. They want a globalist agenda, a new world order, whatever you want to call it.” Lake, who defeated Karrin Taylor Robson in the GOP governor’s race, held a news conference on Wednesday to take a victory lap and call on Republicans to come together for the coming campaign for governor.

Kari Lake said her slim lead in the GOP gubernatorial primary election would hold up and she declared victory Wednesday afternoon, even as more than 100000 ...