Here are the latest updates in the Arizona gubernatorial election that’s taking what seems like a century to complete.
Although Kari Lake still trails Katie Hobbs, Lake is gaining ground against her Democrat opponent.
The latest Pinal County ballot drop favored Lake, as the Republican took roughly 69% of the tabulated votes.
Pinal County has tabulated 3,288 ballots
Est. 10,626 remain (93% complete)Batch breakdown
Governor@KariLake 69.5@katiehobbs 30.5Senate@bgmasters 66.9@CaptMarkKelly 30.7
AZAG@AbrahamHamadeh 70@krismayes 30
AZSOS@RealMarkFinchem 67.3@Adrian_Fontes 32.7
— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 14, 2022
New Drop just now from Pinal County, Kari Lake takes 69% of the vote. This is a good trend.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 14, 2022
The big drop tonight will come from Maricopa County.
90,000 votes are expected to be tabulated this evening.
Charlie Kirk explains in this thread:
If Kari Lake gets 57% -64% she’s in a great spot and ensuing drops should only get better
If Kari Lake gets under 57% tonight it will be tough (but not impossible) for her to overcome it with the remaining ballots to be counted, it just depends how much below that mark she hits.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 13, 2022
Pima still has outstanding Election Day drop offs—the same batch Trump won in 2020—and which Kari could end up winning in the final drop, but Pima remains an X-factor.
Either way, tonight will tell us A LOT.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 13, 2022
According to Landon Wall, 71% of remaining ballots are in Republican leaning Legislative Districts.
Saturday night’s Maricopa County ballot drop drew mostly from blue-leaning districts.
Looking more granularly, 71% of remaining ballots are in Republican leaning Legislative Districts. pic.twitter.com/bfV2s45AmA
— Landon Wall (@LandonWall_) November 13, 2022
About 90k of the remaining 170k uncounted EVs are from the ruby red CDs 5, 8, and 9. Another 70k from purple CDs 1 and 4. https://t.co/AAijIbiNyF
— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 13, 2022
Why are we so bullish on remainder? Because the disparity in drawdown from the worst parts of Maricopa County happened again last night.
61% CD-3 (Downtown Phoenix) https://t.co/eVqxHL2R1I pic.twitter.com/AbnSu4f2Uj
— Tyler Bowyer (@tylerbowyer) November 13, 2022
Tune into The Charlie Kirk Show for real-time updates on Maricopa’s upcoming ballot drop:
Kari Lake on Sunday called Arizona’s election process a “laughingstock.”
The Hill reported:
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on Sunday called her state’s elections process a “laughingstock” as her race against Democrat Katie Hobbs has yet to be called five days after the election.
“I consider someone’s vote their voice. I think of it as a sacred vote. And it’s being trampled the way we run our elections in Arizona. I have been sounding the alarm for two years. Nothing got done. Very little got done last legislative session. And we need to get in there and restore faith in our elections,” Lake said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“We can’t be the laughingstock of elections anymore here in Arizona. And, when I’m governor, I will not allow it. I just won’t.”
With 88 percent of votes counted as of Sunday afternoon, Hobbs is leading Lake by 1.5 percentage points — and Arizona officials have said the process of counting ballots will stretch into next week.
The Trump-backed Republican has called Arizona election workers “incompetent” and accused them of intentionally slowing down the process.
Many of those uncounted ballots are in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county. The head of elections in the county, Bill Gates, has called Lake’s claim that officials are “slow-rolling” the process “offensive.”
“It’s really sad to hear that we have the Republican nominee for governor here in Arizona who is talking like that,” he told CNN earlier this week.
“I understand that Kari Lake wants us to move quickly and a lot of people do, but you know what’s more important? That this is done accurately.”
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