Array
Trump-backed candidates won key Republican primary contests Tuesday night in Arizona, Michigan and Kansas.
In Arizona, as Election Day votes were counted, former TV news journalist Kari Lake came roaring back to take the lead from Mike Pence-backed candidate Karrin Taylor Robson in the gubernatorial primary.
Lake, who believes Trump won Arizona in 2020 and says she would not have certified the election results, was 10 points down Monday night as the mail-in ballots were counted. But she has been winning more than 70% of the Election Day vote. With nearly 80% of the vote counted, Lake leads Robson by about two points.
Lake told Steve Bannon in a “War Room” interview Wednesday morning that she expects the lead to increase to eight or 10 points.
“And there were a lot of shenanigans going on,” she said, referring to reports of voting irregularities. “So, we knew the shenanigans were happening. We knew that the first batch to be counted was going to go to my opponent, most likely.”
Then, she said, “when we started seeing the numbers come in as big as they were, the day-of voting – we’ve never seen anything like it.”
Trump-backed Blake Masters, whose campaign was sponsored by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has been declared the winner in the Arizona GOP Senate primary, with 39%, over Jim Lamon’s 29%. Masters will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
In the Arizona GOP primary for secretary of state, Mark Finchem, whose campaign focused on election integrity, was the winner.
“At the end of the day, I stand for the rule of law, that nobody has their thumb on the scale of election integrity and election justice,” the Trump-backed Finchem told the Epoch Times.
