Kari Lake is using conspiracy theories to explain away her gubernatorial defeat. The truth is much simpler. (via MaddowBlog)
, accusing Arizona of having a “criminal voting operation,” and insisting, “Kari Lake should be installed Governor of Arizona.”Kari Lake has suggested incompetence by election officials or cheating against Republicans by election officials hampered her failed gubernatorial bid. Other top GOP candidates have offered similar explanations for Democratic wins in Arizona’s statewide U.S. Senate and secretary of state races.
To be sure, many of the top-of-the-ballot contests in the Grand Canyon State were highly competitive. The results of the state attorney general race were so close, the outcome is facing an automatic recount. But as the Arizona Republican’s analysis found, far-right election deniers, including Lake, simply turned off enough voters from their own party to deliver key victories to Democrats: Key Republicans candidates “running in a Republican-leaning environment in a traditionally Republican-friendly state fell flat in Republican areas.”
The newspaper spoke to Fred Solop, a politics professor at Northern Arizona University, who agreed that the party ended up with nominees who were too much even for a swath of the GOP electorate. “When democracy was on the ballot,” he said, “a significant number of Republicans were rejecting Republican candidates.”
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