The Arizona election results have not yet been called in as the counting is still going and MAGA supporters are crying foul for Republican Kari Lake as she is projected to lose the Senate election while Donald Trump is a projected winner in Arizona. According to NYT, counting of Arizona takes days here as most voters cast ballots by mail. Donald Trump is at 52.3% and Kamala Harris is at 46.8%. In the Senate election, however, Republican Kari Lake is training at 47.9% and Ruben Gallego is leading at 50.1%.
GOP supporters questioned how the Republican candidate could lose in an election swept by the Republicans.
“Republicans won the Senate and the House. Kari Lake is just a bad candidate,” a post said. Many social media users claimed Kari Lake won and there was an attempt to steal the Arizona senate election. “Trump already won so it’s too big to rig against him so they are stopping Kari Lake,” one post read. “Why haven’t they figure out Arizona yet and what’s going on with Kari Lake, suggestion there was fraud involved,” one wrote,
“I’m not surprised. Kari Lake is a bad candidate,” one wrote.
“It’s not strange at all. People were warning ticket-splitting would happen with Lake all cycle. You can’t now pretend it’s circumstantial evidence of fraud. Gallego led the entire race, usually by a large margin. She was the worst major candidate of the cycle,” one wrote.
Who is Kari Lake?
55-year-old Kari Lake is a former Fox 10 news anchor and journalist who lost the 2022 governor’s race and called it an election fraud. Lake quit journalism to enter politics and became a MAGA spokesperson. During Covid, she led anti-mask rallies and said as governor she would not tolerate mask and vaccine mandates.
Who is Ruben Gallego?
Ruben Gallego, a liberal Phoenix Democrat, studied at Harvard and fought in Iraq as a Marine from 2002 to 2006. He has been the US representative for Arizona’s 3rd congressional district since 2015. Gallego was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, where he was assistant minority leader from 2012 until he resigned to run for Congress. Gallego was first elected to Congress in 2014.