- Arizona GOP Gov. Doug Ducey congratulated new governor Katie Hobbs.
- This inspite of Hobbs’ GOP opponent Kari Lake refusing to concede the race.
- Prime Republicans are mainly disregarding fraud statements pushed by Trump allies defeated in the midterms.
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey congratulated Democrat Katie Hobbs on Wednesday, immediately after she secured more than enough votes to be successful him, irrespective of the refusal of her Trump-backed GOP rival, Kari Lake, to take defeat.
Past 7 days Hobbs was projected as the winner in the gubernatorial race in Arizona, with her 17,000 vote direct also big for a recount to get put below state legislation.
But Lake has claimed, with out evidence, that her supporters ended up disenfranchised and prevented from voting, and has demanded a re-operate.
Ducey appeared to give quick shrift to Lake’s prior statements, congratulating Hobbs on her victory and pledging to ensure a smooth transition of power.
“Today I congratulated Governor-elect Katie Hobbs on her victory in a challenging-fought race and provided my whole cooperation as she prepares to presume the leadership of the Point out of Arizona,” Ducey stated in a statement.
“My administration will do the job to make this transition as clean and seamless as possible,” he extra.
—Doug Ducey (@DougDucey) November 23, 2022
Lake, a former tv news anchor, mainly mimicked former President Donald Trump’s playbook in the November 8 midterms, refusing to say just before the election that she’d take the consequence, and then raising allegations of fraud just after her defeat.
“We are not able to make it possible for an election like this to stand. What they did on Election Working day to punish election working day voters is outrageous,” Lake claimed in a movie posted on Twitter on Wednesday.
Trump famously refused to take defeat in the condition immediately after the 2020 presidential election, and stirred baseless voter fraud allegations.
At the time, Ducey was criticised by Trump for refusing to aid his bid to subvert the final results, which noticed Democrat Joe Biden get the state’s presidential vote.
Lake has seized on issues with voting equipment in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous county, to forged question on the consequence of the midterms.
Arizona state election authorities have claimed there had been printing difficulties with voting machines in all around 70 voting facilities, but that this did not protect against any voters from casting their ballots.
Previously this 7 days it was reported that a senior election official in Maricopa County had been forced to go into hiding right after receiving a string of dying threats in the wake of Lake’s defeat.
Democratic candidates are also projected as winners in the state’s Senate and secretary of point out races from Trump-endorsed Republicans pushing voter fraud claims.
Support for his election fraud “Big Lie” was one particular of the vital criteria Trump utilized to choose the candidates he endorsed in the 2022 midterms. Many have absent on to be defeated in their races, with people who subsequently pushed fraud allegations becoming mainly overlooked by Republican Celebration leaders.
