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Right-wing Republican Carrie Lake went on a media blitz claiming she has already won the governor’s race in Arizona, despite results showing her still trailing Katie Hobbs. As of Thursday morning, Ms. Hobbs, a Democrat, had counted 50.3 percent of the vote to 49.7 percent for Ms. Lake, a former pro-Trump TV host. The difference in votes counted for the two candidates in the state is currently over 13,000. Election naysayer Ms Lake appeared on Charlie Kirk’s show and said she was “disappointed” and thought the way the election was run in her state was “disgraceful”. “Now, I feel 100 percent sure we’re going to win it, I hate that they’re delaying and dragging their feet and delaying the inevitable. They don’t want to reveal the truth, which is that we won,” he said. Ms. Lake added that she believed a large majority of the remaining ballots counted would be in her favor. “We have about 622,000 votes to count and of those, 384,000 are people who picked up their postal ballot and entered it on election day. I think we all know how the majority of these people will vote,” he said. “We’re going to win it and there’s nothing they can do about it. But they are trying to throw cold water on this movement.” He told Kirk he was already working with a transition team because “I know we’re going to win this.” Meanwhile, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Bill Gates said Thursday that more than 4,000,000 votes remaining in Maricopa County, home to about 60 percent of the state’s population, are unlikely to be counted until next week. Ms Lake also appeared on the Louder with Crowder podcast to re-boost her early claims of victory. She claimed that the 384,000 voters who received postal ballots and left them at polling stations would break for her “two to one, or maybe even three to one”. “Put a fork in it,” Ms Lake tweeted.
