In the Arizona governor's race, Democrats got a major swing state win when they knocked off one of the most hyped candidates in the race.
The race was decided by 50.41% of the vote.
In Maricopa County, which contains Phoenix and most of its suburbs, and in Pima County, the state's second-most populous county, she leads by a wide margin.
The race was too close to call for almost a week, but hundreds of thousands of additional ballots have been counted.
The governor's seat was open due to the fact that the incumbent was term-limited.
Two women were the major party nominees in the Arizona governor's race.
Democrats have won a lot of games this year in Arizona. Democrat Adrian Fontes defeated Republican Mark Finchem to become the new secretary of state, while Democrat Mark Kelly defeated RepublicanBlake Masters. Democrat Kris Mayes holds a narrow lead over the Republican in the race for state attorney general. In the last few years, Arizona has become a swing state, with Kelly and Biden winning in 2020 and Sinema winning in 2018?
How Lake will respond to the challenge. As county officials counted votes over the last week, Lake's campaign expressed some measure of confidence that she would win the race. Lake implied that conservative votes were being counted late.
The leader of a group of Trump-endorsed candidates who supported his false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election was Lake. Unlike other GOP candidates, who focused on attacking Democrats on more traditional issues like the economy and public safety, Lake embraced a push for "election integrity," which made Trump's false fraud claims a front-and-center issue for her campaign. Since she oversaw Arizona's 2020 election in her role as secretary of state, attacking her was easy. President Joe Biden was the first Democrat to carry the state since Bill Clinton in 1996. A five-month-long election audit concluded that Biden likely won by an even larger margin than what was reported after Trump pushed Arizona Republicans to investigate a series of conspiracy theories.
Lake was a frequent target of critical op-eds that appeared in the state's largest newspaper, the Arizona Republic, which slammed her for statements like calling Steve Bannon a "modern-day George Washington" after he was convicted for contempt of Congress. Her recent move to mock the attack on Paul Pelosi and her decision to run a campaign ad featuring a homophobic preacher who believes Islam is "satanic" drew condemnation from columnists. Lake, who worked for 22 years as a news anchor in Phoenix, brushed off the newspaper this week as a left-wing rag.
Many Democrats were not happy with her decision to not debate Lake and argued that she should have been more active on the trail. In an email to her allies, Nicole DeMont said that the campaign couldn't care less about what people in New York and Washington DC think. There were calls late in the campaign for her to step down from her position as the certifier of the state's election results. She said she wouldn't.
The decision not to debate GOP's Lake is defended by a Democrat.
The Arizona audit cost Trump supporters nearly $6 million.
There are contrasting styles of a Democrat who won't debate and a Republican who wants to.
In the heated Arizona Governor's race, calls grow for the Democrat to be the Elections Chief.
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