Former Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake on Tuesday pledged to appeal her latest courtroom loss in her effort to unseat Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
"We're also going to continue to, not only raise funds, but energy, for our legal team to continue pushing our case to the United States Supreme Court," Lake said in a news conference outside her campaign headquarters that pivoted between grievances over 2022, looking forward to 2024, and taking on reporters in Lake's characteristic combative style.
On Monday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson handed Lake another defeat in her six-month effort to set aside the November election result. Lake, a former television news anchor, lost the Governor's Office to Hobbs by 17,117 votes, less than 1 percentage point.
Lake has had an unusual two trials in her election challenge, both of which she lost after she was unable to present evidence to back up her claims of official misconduct and faulty procedures.
Last week, her legal team argued in a three-day trial that Maricopa County election workers verified signatures on ballot envelopes in a matter of seconds, too quickly to pass muster as signature verification as required by law. But even Lake's own witnesses testified that signature verification was taking place, and Thompson late Monday affirmed Hobbs' win in a ruling that says nothing in the law requires a certain amount of time be spent to compare signatures.
Thompson went further, writing in his ruling...
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