Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

[brooklynite]

Last edited Mon Nov 14, 2022, 10:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Arizona Republic

Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Democratic election chief who built a national profile by standing up to false claims about the 2020 presidential election, has won the state’s race for governor.

NBC News and CNN called the race for Hobbs after 7 p.m. Monday, following a nail-biter week of election returns that highlighted the competitiveness of politics in the state.

Late-in-the-race polling showed her Republican opponent Kari Lake, the former television news anchor, with the momentum as Nov. 8 neared. Instead, voters offered a stunning rebuke of Lake, who was one of the nation’s most prominent election deniers.

With Hobbs’ win, Arizonans followed voters in other battleground states who rejected gubernatorial candidates who pushed false claims about election results.

Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/14/katie-hobbs-elected-arizona-governor-defeating-kari-lake/10700050002/

[Doc Sportello]

1. Sorry you finished 10th

In the race to announce the AZ results. Better luck next time.

[brooklynite]

4. Not in LBN

[Doc Sportello]

6. Think that gets you a participation ribbon

[brooklynite]

10. You realize that if I hadn't posted an LBN, someone else would have?

Not sure why you care.

[Doc Sportello]

12. You obiously do

I think it's amusing people get so worked up over being first to announce. But if being first in LBN makes you happy, then enjoy.

[brooklynite]

14. Um, every post in LBN is the "first to announce".

[Lunabell]

18. You're being really unkind.

[emulatorloo]

27. Please try to be civil. This is DU, not Elon Musk's Twitter or Trump's Truth Social.

[TheBlackAdder]

32. What's going on here?

[Maeve]

9. True that.

Takes longer to meet LBN format rules than GD.

[tonekat]

2. I saw that on MSNBC just a few minutes ago

YAY! NYT and WAPO have yet to catch up.

Uh, Doc, what's your problem??

[Doc Sportello]

8. I have a sense of humor

Not having one is a problem.

[Lunabell]

19. elon musk thinks he has a sense of humor too.

[onenote]

23. Second best burn I've seen tonight.

[emulatorloo]

28. Trump thinks he has one too.

[JohnSJ]

3. CNN isn't calling it. When Kornaci or Wasserman calls it, it is over. Bye bye lake you loser

[brooklynite]

5. Kornacki DOES NOT CALL races...

He reports what the NBC decision desk (panel of experts) decides.

[JohnSJ]

11. I know, but his analysis is right on before he hears from the decision desk. You see him with his

calculator all the time, and he know the numbers where the Democratic and Republican votes are coming from

And he is saying that lake cannot overcome a Hobbs 20000 lead. That isn’t coming from the decision desk

[brooklynite]

16. CNN called it as well

[JohnSJ]

17. Yes, a little later

[Lonestarblue]

7. Hallelujah! I hope Lake now disappears. She's the last sort of person we need in government.

Now if Boebert could be made to disappear as well, that would be good.

[BOSSHOG]

13. Lake can now play a "journalist" on Faux

Where she can ply her trade. Argh, argh.

[emulatorloo]

30. Faux dumped Trump. She'll have to get a job with Steve 'Stinky' Bannon or Newsmax.

[DemocraticPatriot]

22. NO! The MAGAt courtesan (and I had other words in mind),

will go on to a new career on ONLYFANS....


.... where incel MAGAts will pay good money to "pray" to their Trump-in (and out) of a skirt goddess....

[msfiddlestix]

15. So relieved to read this official report.

what a freaking nail biter!

[appmanga]

20. Unfortunately...

...Democrats didn't flip AZ-1.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. AP has called it

Link to tweet

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9:21 PM · Nov 14, 2022

[EnergizedLib]

24. So, how did we get here?

How did we go from Arizona being deep red and crazy, like another Florida, during the Obama years, to being purple and even blue in recent elections?

[cloudythescribbler]

26. the GQP keeps getting more & more far out -- too much so for a lot of conservatives

=

[emulatorloo]

31. Because the IMHO MAGA's keep over-reaching and showing their true colors.

And sane voters don’t like the crazy.

[orleans]

25. urgent message to keri lake:

WOMP WOMP

[emulatorloo]

29. Thanks for the post. Appreciate all your updates during the "Red Tsunami!1!1"

Sorry about the rudeness above. You don’t deserve that.

[Hiawatha Pete]

33. K&R

[sprinkleeninow]

34. ...

[LittleGirl]

35. You're welcome! I voted for Katie! nt

[wolfie001]

36. Back in 2016, she called Dump....

.....the second most obese Prez since Taft. Ah, the memories.

[republianmushroom]

37. GOOD

Suck it up Lake.