Defeat for Trump supporter: Kari Lake loses election challenge

Defeat for a Trump supporter
Curry Lake lost the election challenge

12/25/2022 6:59 am

Star Republican Gary Lake was defeated by his Democratic challenger in the midterms. However, she did not want to accept the decision. He stubbornly goes to court raising doubts about the proper electoral process. There she must now take the next defeat.

A court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Republican Gary Lake against his loss in the November gubernatorial election in the US state of Arizona. In his ruling, Justice Peter Thomson said there was no clear or compelling evidence to support Lake’s systematic malfeasance by those responsible for the election. Endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Lake was among those who repeated his baseless claims that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election through massive fraud.

The 53-year-old lost the gubernatorial race to Hobbs, a Democrat who defeated his Republican rival, a staunch Trump supporter, by 17,117 votes. Saying he was “100 per cent” confident of winning the election, Lake persistently tried to cast doubt on the correct course of the election after casting his vote. Among other things, he noted problems with voting machines in the administrative district of Maricopa, where lines formed in front of some polling stations on election day. According to the officials in charge, no one was prevented from voting.

An Arizona court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in lieu of clear and compelling evidence, said Thompson, who upheld election winner Katie Hobbs’ victory. Lake announced on Twitter that he would appeal the decision to “restore trust and integrity in our elections.” After all, he proved to the world that elections are illegitimate, the 53-year-old said on Twitter.

The district, which includes Arizona’s capital city of Phoenix, is already under intense scrutiny for unsubstantiated allegations of vote fraud in the 2020 presidential election. At the time, Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes over Trump — something Lake continued to cast doubt on during his campaign in November. Despite his defeat in the election, Republican insiders and media experts believe the former TV anchor has a good chance in the race for the White House in the future.