The governor's race in Arizona is still too close to call as the number of votes left to count dwindles.
On Sunday afternoon, she had a 1.6 percentage point lead over Lake, up from her previous lead.
Lake needs to win more than 50% of the remaining votes to overtake the statewide lead.
Lake and Hobbs were the top two vote getters in the ballot count update from the county.
Lake needs to win a larger percentage of the votes released by Maricopa County to gain ground on Hobbs, who has inched the gap between her and Lake to 1.6 percentage points.
The election results are live.
Pima County, Arizona's second largest and home to Tucson, added about 12,000 votes to its totals, which gave it 60 percent of the vote. Ahead of the vote count update in the evening, it helped to widen her lead.
Just over 100,000 ballots are left to be counted when work returns on Monday, according to officials in the county.
He is the secretary of state in Arizona. She ran for governor on a promise to defend democracy and restore abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned the Wade decision.
Lake, a former television news anchor, made a name for herself by sticking to false claims of election fraud championed by former President Donald Trump. Lake was an anchor on Phoenix's Fox 10 station for over two decades. She made border security, election reform and a "tough love" homelessness policy part of her campaign.
Both candidates urged their supporters to be patient as the vote counting continues and Lake questioned the length of the process.
"We're going to stay the course, be patient, and let our local election officials do their jobs without fear or interference, because the spirit on Team Hobbs is high, and we're going to stay the course, be patient, and let our local election officials do their job
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Lake said she was confident she would win the race.
She told Bartiromo that Arizona can't be a laughing stock of elections anymore.
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