Kari Lake Fires Off Biting One-Line Statement After Outlets Call Race for Katie Hobbs
Republican Kari Lake is not wilting after projections emerged Monday that she will lose the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
“Arizonans know BS when they see it,” Lake said on Twitter.
Arizonans know BS when they see it.
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 15, 2022
During the campaign, she had frequently questioned the integrity of the 2020 election that led to Joe Biden’s presidency, and last month she had told ABC News that she would concede the gubernatorial race only if “it’s fair, honest and transparent.”
“When I first started voting back in the ’80s, we had Election Day,” Lake said in that interview. “Our Constitution says Election Day. It doesn’t say election season, election month, and we’ve watched as our Election Day has turned into election week and election weeks and now election month. And the longer you drag that out, the more fraud with problems there are.”
On Monday, nearly a week after the midterm elections, ABC News projected Hobbs to be the winner of the Arizona race, concluding that her election was part of “a stunning rejection of election deniers in midterm contests.”
CNN also projected the Democrat to win, saying she was “defeating one of the most prominent defenders of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.”
Fox News joined the chorus declaring Lake had been defeated but noted that according to Arizona’s rules, the contest might face a recount.
The Associated Press explained its call for Hobbs by saying “the latest round of vote releases gave her a big enough lead that the AP determined she would not relinquish it.”
“The AP concluded that, even though Lake had been posting increasingly larger margins in vote updates from Maricopa County, she was not gaining a big enough share to overtake Hobbs and was running out of remaining votes,” the wire service said.
AP numbers posted in The New York Times on Monday night gave Hobbs a margin of about 20,000 votes out of the roughly 2.5 million votes cast with 95 percent reported.
Hobbs issued a statement after media outlets proclaimed her to have won.
“I want to thank the voters for entrusting me with this immense responsibility. It is truly an honor of a lifetime, and I will do everything in my power to make you proud. I want to thank my family, our volunteers, and campaign staff. Without all of your hard work, passion, and sacrifice this night would not be possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she said.
“For the Arizonans who did not vote for me, I will work just as hard for you – because even in this moment of division, I believe there is so much more that connects us,” she said, adding, “Let’s get to work.”
Democracy is worth the wait.
Thank you, Arizona.
I am so honored and so proud to be your next Governor. pic.twitter.com/O6ZFSHbIBe
— Katie Hobbs (@katiehobbs) November 15, 2022
During the campaign, Hobbs had labeled Lake an “election-denying, media-hating, conspiracy-loving, chaos-causing opponent.”
Journalist Kyle Becker offered his thoughts that denying an election was fair does not mean one wears the media label of “election denier.”
Anyone who has attacked @KariLake as an “election denier” needs to realize one simple fact: Katie Hobbs just proved Kari Lake’s point.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 15, 2022
*It’s false inductive logic, by the way.
‘This person rejects this product we call a vaccine, therefore he is against all vaccines, thus an ‘anti-vaxxer’.”
‘This person rejects that an election was run in a fair and legitimate way, therefore she is an ‘election denier’.”
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 15, 2022
It implies that anything Democrats say is a free, fair, transparent & legitimate election must be one & anyone questioning them is guilty of being an ‘election denier.’
No one is supposed to question whether Democrats have corrupt motives for framing a debate this way.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 15, 2022
Lake has said Hobbs, who as Arizona’s secretary of state oversees elections, should have recused herself from overseeing the election.
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