Arizona held its highly-anticipated primary elections Tuesday night.
The GOP gubernatorial primary, featuring Trump-endorsed Kari Lake and Pence-endorsed Karrin Robson, captured the evening’s attention.
Kari Lake is one of the fiercest and most dynamic candidates throughout the country.
Lake dominated the primary polls and drew crowds at rallies that dwarfed those of Robson.
Now multiple polls in the last couple of days showing Kari Lake with the lead in AZ-GOV GOP primary
@OHPredictive (Lake +18)@Data_Orbital (Lake +11)@AlloyAnalytics (Lake +10)@trafalgar_group (Lake +9):
— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) July 29, 2022
Yet, Robson miraculously outperformed by 20 points Tuesday night.
The establishment candidate stormed to an early lead to start the evening.
However, Kari Lake roared from behind to capture the lead.
.@KariLake celebrating after taking the lead in Arizona pic.twitter.com/6TnhAvcBoa
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 3, 2022
Kari Lake has finally taken the lead… https://t.co/0pEzKnvp3t
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 3, 2022
Kari Lake is defiant:
"The party is just beginning, they're continuing to count votes, and we're going to win. We won Election Day votes 7 to 3 and they have just begun to count our Election Day votes." pic.twitter.com/vEf91VN1r7
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 3, 2022
Kari Lake:
"We're winning 7 out of 10 on Election Day votes. The majority of votes coming in are Election Day. We are going to win this, without a doubt.. Nothing got done to shore up our election and they are Wild West down here, lawless, and we're going to fix it!" pic.twitter.com/6p0xpXTTKI
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 3, 2022
Kari Lake blows the whistle on Arizona's election system:
“I want them to see some of the outrageous corruption and problems that we’ve seen, we’ve been documenting it for days now.” pic.twitter.com/1PPplvekcA
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 3, 2022
Lake took the lead with 79% of the vote counted.
As of 7:16 a.m. ET, Lake led by nearly 2 points with 81% reporting, according to The New York Times.
Watch below for live coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQMWpBQfzKE
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