After a judge ruled on Saturday that Kari Lake’s attorneys did not prove she lost the Arizona Governor’s race to Katie Hobbs because election officials intentionally tampered with Maricopa County’s voting machines and the ballots’ chain of custody, Lake said immediately that she would appeal the decision to the Arizona Supreme Court.
Monday she tweeted a claim that Peter Thompson, the Republican-appointed Maricopa County Judge who issued the ruling ending Lake’s misguided quest, was being coached by Marc Elias, the democracy champion. His team beat down most of trump’s flimsy lawsuits after the 2020 election, and they assisted Maricopa County and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ office last week. Almost immediately Lake deleted that tweet (see update at end).
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UPDATE: @KariLake has just deleted her tweet accusing Judge Thompson of having @marceelias "ghostwriting" his ruling denying Lake's Election Contest claims.
— AZ's Law (@arizonaslaw) December 26, 2022
Her amplifying the baseless accusations was not good for her in the pending sanctions proceedings.
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