Kari Lake’s Loss in Arizona Is Biggest Rebuke of Election Denial
- Trump had enthusiastically endorsed gubernatorial candidate
- Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Dixon in Michigan also lost
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Katie Hobbs’s defeat of Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race represents the most stinging and high profile defeat of an election denier in the midterms.
During the campaign, Lake repeatedly and relentlessly cast doubt on Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, saying she would not have certified it as governor. As secretary of state, Hobbs oversaw that vote and insisted it was fair.