{"id":1586345,"date":"2022-08-03T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586345"},"modified":"2022-08-03T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:50:16","slug":"lake-pulls-ahead-of-robson-in-heated-race-for-republican-nomination-for-arizona-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lake-pulls-ahead-of-robson-in-heated-race-for-republican-nomination-for-arizona-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Pulls Ahead of Robson in Heated Race for Republican Nomination for Arizona Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flake-pulls-ahead-of-robson-in-heated-race-for-republican-nomination-for-arizona-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kari-lake\">Kari Lake<\/a> pulled ahead of Karrin Taylor Robson in a heated five-way battle for the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona in the Aug. 2 primary.<\/p>\n<p>With about 80 percent of precincts reporting, Lake currently holds a lead with 46.2 percent of the vote. Robson trails at 44.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to Decision Desk HQ, the long-shots Matt Salmon, Scott Neely, and Paola Tulliani-Zen trail by significant margins with less than 5 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Robson and Lake ran high-profile campaigns primarily distinguished by their bitter rivalry and public hostility toward one another.<\/p>\n<p>Each presented herself as the conservative candidate best suited to lead the state through the current border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her campaign, America First candidate Lake characterized her opponent as an \u201cEstablishment RINO\u201d (Republican In Name Only), aligned with Arizona Democrats and establishment Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m up against a billionaire\u2014actually, her husband\u2019s a billionaire,\u201d Lake said at a recent campaign rally in Tucson. \u201cShe\u2019s spending more money than ever in a statewide race in the history of this country to try to defeat us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to let her win. Arizona is not for sale and can\u2019t be purchased. We\u2019re going to send them a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Trump Blessing <\/p>\n<p>Robson portrayed Lake as an unknown quantity\u2014an Obama Democrat turned Trump Republican only when she decided to run for office.<\/p>\n<p>Lake, a former Fox10 anchor, quickly gained momentum in the polls with the blessing of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. His endorsement of Lake proved key in the minds of many of her supporters.<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, Trump appeared at a \u201cSave America\u201d rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, to shore up support for Lake and other America First Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16\/kari-lake-1200x798.jpeg\"><\/a> Former President Donald Trump and Kari Lake, whom Trump is supporting in Arizona\u2019s gubernatorial race, speak during a rally at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kari Lake pulled ahead of Karrin Taylor Robson in a heated five-way battle for the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona in the Aug. 2 primary. With about 80 percent of precincts reporting, Lake currently holds a lead with 46.2 percent of the vote. Robson trails at 44.4 percent. According to Decision Desk HQ, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}