Election Denier Kari Lake Casts Doubt on Loss With ‘BS’ Tweet

Kari Lake formally lost her race to change into Arizona’s subsequent governor on Monday evening and virtually instantly recommended the result was fraudulent. “Arizonans know BS when they see it,” she tweeted. Lake, a former journalist, grew to become a right-wing media darling throughout her marketing campaign by regularly pushing false claims of voter fraud within the 2020 election. Lake’s election loss to Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs additionally caught the attention of former President Donald Trump, who wrote on Truth Social: “Wow! They just took the election away from Kari Lake. It’s really bad out there!” It was much more excessive over on Telegram, the place far-right figures together with activist Ivan Raiklin known as for a “new election” in a hair-brained scheme that included “subpoena[ing] Katie Hobbs and Doug Ducey.”