Kari Lake

A week after her opponent was sworn into office, Lake maintained that the people of Arizona "were denied a free and fair election."

In her speech, Hobbs said that teachers are "caught in the middle of crises of our own making," which was driving Arizona teachers out in droves. Last month, Maricopa County judge ruled against her, concluding that "every single witness" in the two-day trial refuted Lake's claims of election misconduct. While Hobbs is not seeking to mandate the use of pronouns, there is a new Republican-led bill making its way through the Arizona Legislature that seeks to prohibit teachers from addressing students by their preferred gender pronouns without parental consent.