“We called on her to step down in July of last year, 2021, right after we entered the race, recognizing that there’s a significant moral problem there. Obviously, just the perspective of it looks bad. And she didn’t do that,” Kari Lake told ” Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “Even though a lot of people were calling for her to step down, she’s causing problems to say the least,” Lake continued. Lake is up against Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, who currently has about 34,000 more votes than Lake with more than 88 percent of the vote counted. The state has been counting ballots since Tuesday night and has yet to determine the winner of the gubernatorial election. KARI LAKE TAKES AROUND ARIZONA’S POLICE SCHEDULE AS IT CLOSES GAP ON HOBBS Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Cary Lake, whose skepticism about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election has led to advocacy for tighter election security measures. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) WATCH: KARI LAKE ‘100% SURE’ WILL BE ARIZONA’S NEXT GOVERNOR Lake said a firm timeline for the final count is “wishy-washy” and said the state could have answers anywhere from Monday to later this week. Lake told Bartiromo that Hobbs is “partially” responsible for the election in which she is running for governor. Arizona Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs speaks at a press conference on Oct. 7, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) “She’s going to be the one who certifies the elections. She has a lot to do with registration, voter registration, all kinds of … voter rolls and advising the counties on how many ballots they’re going to need,” Lake explained. NPR PANNED FOR AZ RACE SLANT: ‘DENIAL OF ELECTIONS’ KARI LAKE AGAINST KATIE HOBBS ‘DEFENDING ELECTION INTEGRITY’ Lake said for now, she’s holding tight as polls continue to be counted and hopes the votes from deep-red districts haven’t yet been counted. A man fills out his midterm ballot on Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) “We have an election season here. We start voting about a month before Election Day and we keep counting after Election Day — forever. And we’re in the process of counting votes and there’s about 300,000 ballots that haven’t been counted, that’s according to the county recorder,” he said. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “A lot of them in Maricopa County, and they’re from heavy, very heavy, Republican areas. So we’re waiting for the votes to be counted,” he added.
