The battle for attorney general, featuring Democrat Kris Mayes and Trump-backed Republican Abraham Hamadeh, remains too close to call. It is truly an honor of a lifetime, and I will do everything in my power to make you proud.. The money laundering and racketeering scheme allegedly uses fraudulent mortgages, real estate transactions, and insurance claims in Maricopa County to hide money made through cartel human trafficking, drug trafficking, and bribery of elected officials, and to rig elections, intimidate, or murder those who threaten the operation. On Thursday February 23, 2023 the Arizona Legislature's Senate Elections Committee and House Municipal Oversight & Elections Committee held a joint hearing. November 11, 2022 12:09 AM EST. Defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she's assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters who had trouble casting ballots as she considers her next move. Katie Hobbs (D) defeated Kari Lake (R) and seven other candidates in the general election for governor of Arizona on November 8, 2022. Right, Kari Lake, Arizona Republican candidate for governor, speaks to supporters at the Republican watch party in Scottsdale. Arizona Democrats, who boosted Lake during her primary, had hoped that her refusal to moderate her stances, which include declaring an invasion at the southern border and vowing to enforce new abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, would help Hobbs court independent voters. Hobbs led by 26,000 votes, a 1 point margin, down about 10,000 votes from a day earlier. As of Tuesday afternoon, Hobbs was around three-quarters of a percentage point ahead of her GOP opponent, Kari Lake, winning just over 50% of the vote. It came Lake and other statewide GOP candidates blasted the process, some suggesting without evidence that nefarious activity was afoot. If Ducey received that information, he and his administration did not act on it. 5th Arizona-born governor. She ran a campaign for governor on pledges to defend democracy as she did following the 2020 election, receiving threats . Governor Republican Primary. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. We will declare victory, and we will get to work turning this around, she said. Lakes team filed a lawsuit in state court on Wednesday against Maricopa County, demanding information on voters whose ballots were affected by voting machine problems. Have a story idea or tip? With 82% of votes in, Hobbs, the current secretary of state, leads with 50.7% of the vote as Lake, a former TV news anchor, trails with 49.3%. Katie Hobbs, several of the Maricopa County Supervisors, 12 Maricopa County Superior Court judges and the mayor of Mesa of taking bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel. Only thing is, that was not enough to make up for the fact that Hobbs has been picking up votes elsewhere. Lake and her allies have bombarded Maricopa County with complaints about Election Day problems, which stem largely from a problem with printers at some vote centers that led them to print ballots with markings that were too light to be read by the on-site tabulators. Maricopa Countys board of supervisors voted unanimously to certify their results, while two GOP-led counties held off on doing so. Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lake's lawsuit, failed to provide any "clear and convincing", Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Breger did not provide any evidence to back up her claims, except to point to a book soon to be released by John Thaler, a Valley attorney and her boyfriend. Trump added it was SO OBVIOUS that Lake, 53, should not have lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizonas 52-year-old secretary of state. Thank you. And if that trend holds for the remaining 195,000, it won't be enough for Lake to overtake Hobbs. They claim workers at the facility put their own mail ballots into the pile, rather than returning them through normal channels, and also that paperwork documenting the transfer of ballots was missing. Election Date: Aug. 2, 2022 | Updated 9:18 PM EDT Aug. 10, 2022. 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Lake, the former television news anchor with Fox 10, won the Republican nomination over Karrin Taylor Robson and centered her campaign around the values of former President Donald Trump. Republican Kari Lake fell further behind Saturday in her bid to be Arizona governor. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. In December 2022, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson threw out the lawsuit because Lake failed to provide any "clear and convincing" evidence of irregularities or misconduct costing the Republican her midterm election. Arizona counties had until Monday to certify their vote totals. First social worker governor. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. Brian Kemp gained more votes compared to Trump in . She said in her Feb. 23 presentation to a joint meeting of the House and Senate elections committees that the bribery scheme also included election fraud in Maricopa County. The canvass certifies the election results and includes vote totals from early, regular and provisional ballots, per the Arizona secretary of state's website. The AZ Mirror, poking holes in Bregers arguments, said: In perhaps the most bizarre presentation given to the committee so far this year, Gilbert insurance agent Jacqueline Breger accused Gov. Politics Nov 11, 2022 12:55 PM EST. This is almost as bad as the 2020 Presidential Election, which the [House] Unselect Committee refuses to touch because they know it was Fraudulent!, Trumps latest diatribe came in response to a Truth Social post by Lake that claimed that Arizonans have no Faith & Trust in our Elections., Our Election Officials are incompetent (or worse) They have failed us, Lake said. Privacy Policy | Hobbs, 52, is Arizona's secretary of state and a former state lawmaker. Chief Editor. It's much less common in a close race for an open seat. In a Twitter update on Sunday, Lake confirmed she will be taking her case to the Supreme Court this week. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File; Ross D. Franklin/Pool via REUTERS). About 53,000 of those are from Pima County. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Responding to concerns from allies about her own campaign, Hobbs said last month: I am out here. Lake, who lost her race to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes, is still refusing to accept the results while claiming, without evidence, that voting irregularities and misconduct cost her the election. Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. In the portion of her presentation on Governor Hobbs, she said, as the Gateway Pundit reported: When our investigation leads to a name of a particular individual that we suspect to be involved in these racketeering activities, we research their deeds of trust, which are recorded with the Maricopa County Recorders Office and publicly available. 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She won a majority of the 99,000 votes reported in Maricopa County on Sunday, but it's not clear if she'll be able to narrow the gap with the roughly 160,000 remaining to be counted statewide. Whatever the outcome, it will have wide implications for 2024 and beyond. Katie Hobbs, after she dismissed all other 31 . In southern Arizona, Republican Juan Ciscomani maintained his narrow lead over Democrat Kirsten Engel for an open House seat. But this is unlikely.". Democrat Katie Hobbs expanded her lead in the Arizona governor's race over the weekend, but Republican Kari Lake gained some ground over the past couple nights.. 1996 - 2023 NewsHour Productions LLC. While most of the other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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