{"id":1587072,"date":"2022-08-03T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587072"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:26:07","slug":"we-won-this-race-kari-lake-prematurely-declares-victory-in-arizona-republican-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-won-this-race-kari-lake-prematurely-declares-victory-in-arizona-republican-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Won This Race\u2019: Kari Lake Prematurely Declares Victory In Arizona Republican Primary"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwe-won-this-race-kari-lake-prematurely-declares-victory-in-arizona-republican-primary%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=1587072&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-8276-e1659541446386.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake prematurely declared victory in the Republican primary early Wednesday, despite the race being too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>Lake declared victory while holding a 46%-44% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/08\/02\/us\/elections\/results-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lead<\/a> against her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/mike-pence-karrin-taylor-robson-arizona-governor-kari-lake-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opponent<\/a>, Karrin Taylor Robson. She claimed election officials intentionally attempted to interfere in the election to prevent her victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no path to victory for my opponent and we won this race, period,\u201d she said to a cheering crowd. \u201cBut there\u2019s a ton of problems with this system. You know what\u2019s going on in Pinal County? They knew we were going to have record turnout because we aren\u2019t going to take it anymore, and one hour into voting they ran out of ballots? What the hell\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 20 precincts in Pinal County <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PinalCounty\/status\/1554617201679687680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1554617201679687680%7Ctwgr%5E89cc118090970589af7f261243689aaa2f52ebaf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc15.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitical%2Felections%2Fseveral-pinal-county-election-precincts-run-out-of-in-person-ballots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ran low<\/a> or out of ballots, leading election officials to immediately print and distribute more to each affected polling place.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>She vowed she will win the race when the votes are counted and promised to \u201creform our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish our election officials had their act together, don\u2019t we?\u201d she continued. \u201cI wish they could count votes, I wish they didn\u2019t give us the felt tip pens that we know we don\u2019t like. I wish it were all better, but we didn\u2019t have the people with courage last session to get anything done. But I guarantee you, when we get into office, which we will, January of 2023, we are turning it all around and we\u2019re fixing our election system for once and for all.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/02\/what-to-look-out-for-az-primaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: What To Look Out For In The AZ Primaries)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lake\u2019s official campaign Twitter account, Kari Lake War Room, declared her victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the exact moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KariLake<\/a> found out she won the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3c4LQYgmfF\">pic.twitter.com\/3c4LQYgmfF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLakeWarRoom\/status\/1554762496182865926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lake ran a large portion of her platform on reforming elections and claiming the 2020 presidential election was \u201cstolen\u201d from former President Donald Trump. She called the so-called \u201crigged election\u201d the \u201cbiggest story out there,\u201d and has delivered a warning that more elections will be stolen in the future, Ballotpedia <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Arizona_gubernatorial_election,_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She previously sparred with CNN senior national reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/23\/kari-lake-brutal-message-cnn-reporter-kyung-lah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyung Lah<\/a> over election fraud in an October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2021\/10\/21\/arizona-conspiracy-theorists-elections-lah-ac360-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>. Lake accused the reporter of pushing a narrative by denying the election was fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">\u201cYou\u2019re buying into everything they say,\u201d Lake told Lah. \u201cThis is the same people who did not want this forensic audit. I know what you guys are trying to do, you don\u2019t give a damn about our elections. You\u2019ve got a narrative and you\u2019re trying to push it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">\u201cAnd what is that narrative?\u201d Lah asked.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">\u201cThe narrative is, it\u2019s fraud, it\u2019s fake. I will be damned if when I\u2019m governor, we\u2019re gonna have another election run this way,\u201d Lake said.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">Her claims contradict the findings of federal election security officials, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news\/2020\/11\/12\/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news\/2020\/11\/12\/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659621496712000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3vcF8rYK9kNboOTwVDkhHc\">said<\/a> the 2020 election was the \u201cmost secure in American history,\u201d and there was no evidence of widespread election fraud after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/06\/arizona-maricopa-county-2020-election-donald-trump-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/06\/arizona-maricopa-county-2020-election-donald-trump-joe-biden\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659621496712000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3mpYpNxe7ObgvkPAS441Hj\">recounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">Lake recently claimed she \u201cdetected some stealing going on\u201d in the weeks prior to the election due to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/01\/poll-republican-arizona-robson-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling results<\/a> showing the two candidates competing neck-to-neck. Taylor Robson called her claims \u201cmeritless\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Karrin4Arizona\/status\/1552168873075494912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/Karrin4Arizona\/status\/1552168873075494912&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659621496713000&#038;usg=AOvVaw16yNQBn0NjZ_5qhKgVyJg_\">statement<\/a> July 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more Kari Lake panics she is going to lose this\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AZgov?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AZgov?src%3Dhashtag_click&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659621496713000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3YGER-Gu7Bh4SF7Rc6AU6Y\">#AZgov<\/a> election, the more she attempts to sow doubt about its results,\u201d she said in the tweet. \u201cHer allegations are meritless, reckless and disqualifying in someone who seeks the will of the governed in leading our state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake prematurely declared victory in the Republican primary early Wednesday, despite the race being too close to call.Lake declared victory while holding a 46%-44% lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-1587072","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\/1587072","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587072\/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=1587072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}