Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said Sunday she plans to spend the next eight years as the state's governor, dismissing growing speculation that she might be picked to be former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate if he runs again.
When asked by Jon Karl, the host of ABC's This Week, if she would commit to serving all four years as governor if elected next month, Lake responded,"I'm going to serve eight years as governor of Arizona."The Republican gubernatorial nominee is locked in a tight race against Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs, the current secretary of state in Arizona.
She claimed Sunday that 2,000 mail-in ballots were accepted by Maricopa County after Election Day in 2020. Maricopa County officials have denied those claims and said no ballots were accepted after the 7 p.m. deadline on Nov. 3, 2020. Some ballots were scanned the following morning but they all had been turned in on Election Day and had a corresponding time stamp.
Lake, who was a local television news anchor for 22 years before last year, has said in the past that she would only accept the election results if she won. Karl tried to press her on the matter Sunday. Karl responded,"If you were to lose — and you're ahead — but if you were to lose, and you had all your appeals; they went through ..."Last week, CNN's Dana Bash pushed back on Lake's claims that there was"plenty of evidence" to prove the 2020 election was stolen during an interview with the candidate.
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