Arizona was won by Dem. Katie Hobbs (left) seems poised to win the election for Arizona's governor as it appears unlikely Republican candidate Kari Lake (right) will pick enough votes to beat her Democrat rival. Round 3: New winter storm pummels Arizona with snow and rain, Tree falls over during storm west of Phoenix. Source: Election results and race calls from The Associated Press. As Friday dawned, more than 500,000 ballots were yet to be counted across the state, with about 320,000 of those in Maricopa County, the state's most populous county that includes Phoenix. In Maricopa County on Wednesday, counting continued on ballots dropped off on Election Day and received in the immediate days before. "Arizonans made their voices heard," the statement continued. She claims "hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County.". In the following days, Trump narrowed Biden's massive 200,000 vote lead to 130,000 votes, and by three days after the electionit was clear Trump had fallen off the pace he needed to win as votes were added. In legal papers filed . Both men were outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the building in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying election results. Reach reporter Stacey Barchenger at stacey.barchenger@arizonarepublic.com or 480-416-5669. Ms. Lake told Fox News this week that she had absolute 100 percent confidence that I will be the next governor of Arizona.. Update: Katie Hobbs defeated Kari Lake in the race for Arizona governor. Hobbs gained national attention for defending Arizonas election results it was one of a handful of states where now-President Biden narrowly edged Trump as the then-president unsuccessfully tried to overturn the results. She earned Trumps admiration for her staunch commitment to questioning the results of the 2020 election, a stand she never wavered from even after winning the GOP primary. Get real-time 2018 Arizona Governor election results & live maps by county. Lake won the majority of those, over 54%, eating into Hobbs' lead in the county and cutting it from about 57,000 votes to 48,500. Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, defeated Mark Finchem, a G.O.P. Read the latest here. In Maricopa County, officials on Friday started counting more than 290,000 ballots that were dropped off on Election Day. She has previously called for officials in charge of the 2020 election to be jailed and said that if she were governor at the time, she would not have certified the state's vote for President Joe Biden. "And the truth and the summary here is that this election will be determined by the numbers of votes cast, not by the volume at which an unhinged former television reporter can scream conspiracy theories.". Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. As of Monday night, Hobbs was. Finchem, a state representative from Oro Valley, also alleged in the suit, without direct evidence, that Hobbs and his Democratic challenger, Secretary of State-elect Adrian Fontes, conspired with Twitter to censor and suspend his social media account at the peak of election season. Published: Nov. 13, 2022 at 2:12 PM PST. Our election is the only mid-term election in the 50 states with such a comical and tragic outcome.. Democrat Katie Hobbs has won the race for Arizona governor, defeating former television news anchor and Donald Trump loyalist Kari Lake on Monday in one of the nation's last races to be called. Many of the claims in Lake's lawsuit lacked supporting evidence, or were said to come from eyewitness or "expert" accounts that The Arizona Republic could not independently verify. Never miss a story sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer. But there are still no results from populous Johnson County, which includes moderate Kansas City suburbs. She appeared constantly on cable news defending the integrity of the vote count. . Follow her on Twitter@sbarchenger. Doug Ducey (R) was term-limited. Over the past few days, calls for people to stay patient have come from Republican election officials holding news conferences in Maricopa County, Democratic candidates blasting out emails to supporters and television journalists beaming into homes across the Phoenix metro area. The statewide total is about 160,000, according to statistics posted by the Arizona Secretary of State's Office. "The people of Arizona are sick and tired of elections being run like we're in some banana republic, and we won't have it anymore. The northwestern Arizona county is temporarily delaying certification of results from the midterm election until Nov. 28. Science/Health. The case has several ties to the 2020 ballot review and election, just as Lake's campaign for governor centered on her belief Trump won that race. President Joe Biden was not announced the winner in 2020 until three days after Election Day. Follow her on Twitter@sbarchenger. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. We can be patient and respect the results when they come out.". Originally from Czech Republic, Portychova lived in Arizona for 12 years before moving to New York and back to Tucson for her doctorate in musical arts. She was elected to the state Legislature in 2010, serving one term in the House and three terms in the Senate, rising to minority leader. Politics Live 2022 Arizona governor election results: Kari Lake vs. Katie Hobbs Follow along live as the final votes are counted. When the county released about 60,000 newly counted votes on Wednesday evening, Hobbs gained ground against Lake's tide of support among day of election voters. That filing came Friday, within a five-day window from certification of the election result that is set in Arizona law, and on the same day that several defeated Republican candidates filed their own challenges. Lake said in an appearance on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo she was confident she would win the race. Correspondent Kevin Corke reports the latest on the midterm election results from Washington, D.C. The Trump-endorsed Republican candidate has courted controversy for anti-drag comments (made despite past photos showing the Republican at a drag show) and for calling late Arizona Senator John McCain a "loser" after previously praising him as a hero. Ms. Lake and the other Republicans embraced the criticism, pitching themselves as a tight band of outsiders taking on the news media, the left and their own partys establishment. Getty. Despite what my election-denying opponent is trying to spin, the pattern and cadence of incoming votes are exactly what we expected, Ms. Hobbs wrote on Twitter. Ballots being processed this week at the Maricopa County Elections Center in Phoenix. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. "Everybody here wouldn't be here without women. She will succeed Republican Gov. Hobbs will replace incumbent Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who was term limited from seeking reelection in Arizona, which was become a major battleground as the state has become increasingly favorable to Democrats after years of voting red. See election results, a county-by-county map and more for the Arizona Governor election on Aug. 2, 2022. Prior to Sunday's big ballot update in Maricopa County, Lake needed to win 56% of statewide ballots left outstanding. But Arizona has remained ground zero in some Republicans' quest to cast doubt on elections, including by Trump himself, despite an extended ballot review of 2020 that proved Joe Biden's win. Stay with Fox News for coverage of all Governor's races . Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on Sunday called her state's elections process a "laughingstock" as her race against Democrat Katie Hobbs has yet to be called five days after . The margin between the candidates was razor thin, with over 600,000 ballots left to tally, according to estimates compiled by the Secretary of State's Office, meaning the counts and margins are likely to changepossibly significantly. Chief Editor. Election coverage: Live news updates | Arizona election results. For more information, please contact the Voter Outreach Coordinator by phone toll-free at 1-877-843-8683 or by email. Reporting by Alana Celii, Reid J. Epstein, Lalena Fisher, Katie Glueck, Jennifer Medina, Jazmine Ulloa and Jonathan Weisman; production by Amanda Cordero and Jessica White; editing by Wilson Andrews, Kenan Davis, Amy Hughes and Ben Koski. In this election, Arizonans chose solving our problems over conspiracy theories. Subscribe to azcentral.com today. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in 1991. Her opponent, Marco Lpez, has tried to capitalize on accusations of . "Hopefully a lot of young people will come and vote and save us like they did in the 2020 presidential election.". Democratic candidate for governor Katie Hobbs kepta small lead over her Republican opponent Kari Lake as the results in one of the state's most consequential races continued to roll in Wednesday evening. Senator, Democrat Jevin Hodge for District 1, Republican Eli Crane for District 2, and Republican Juan Ciscomani for District 6. Hobbs, who is Arizonas secretary of state, rose to prominence as a staunch defender of the legitimacy of the last election and warned that her Republican rival, former television news anchor Kari Lake, would be an agent of chaos. The four Republicans all ran under the banner of former President Donald J. 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Murray held 54 percent of the primary vote in early returns Tuesday night. PHOENIX (AP) Democrat Katie Hobbs was elected Arizona . On Wednesday evening, after largely spending the day out of the public eye, she told Fox News host Tucker Carlson she would get rid of the voting machines that caused issues on Tuesday. Pima County, Arizona's second largest and home to Tucson, added about 12,000 votes to its totals, which Hobbs won 60% to Lake's 40%. The former television news anchor, who rose to prominence by adhering to former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread election fraud in 2020, hasn't alleged fraud in Tuesday's election. Hobbs is running against Republican cand (Getty Images). Arizona underwent multiple ballot recounts after flipping blue for Biden and, despite attempts by some Republicans to find voter fraud in the state, an investigation found just "100 potentially questionable ballots" out of more than 2 million a number that wouldn't change the election results, even if the ballots were found to be definitively fraudulent. Her rival, Karrin . At this time, the races for District 1 and District 6 are also very close to 50/50. Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire. Read the latest here. Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington State, is set to face Tiffany Smiley, a Republican, in November. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Lake's second lawyer is Kurt Olsen, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who helped with a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results that was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. ", "They are controlling the narrative of election night here in this great country, and withholding and slow rolling results," Lake said, alleging that such actions only made it appear Hobbs, the Democrat, was in the lead. Both disputed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. A federal judge curtailed the activities of an election-monitoring group after some of its members followed and photographed voters in Maricopa County. Lake, 53, is a former television news anchor who zoomed into the national spotlight and several Saturday Night Live sketches as she adhered to false claims of widespread election fraud championed by former President Donald Trump. Hobbs, 52, is Arizona's secretary of state and a former state lawmaker. Arizona Governor Primary Election Results, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/02/us/elections/results-arizona-governor.html. Ducey's office confirmed he called Katie Hobbs to congratulate her Tuesday morning. 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