A video of Fox News host Sean Hannity announcing the narrow defeat of Donald Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in Arizona on Monday has become viral on social media, gathering over 476,000 views.
"Apparently, they did have a drop in Arizona, and Fox is projecting that Democratic Secretary of State—who should have recused herself—Katie Hobbs has been elected governor of Arizona," Hannity declared, implying that Hobbs should not have remained election chief while running for governor.
The race was called on Monday by the Associated Press in favor of Hobbs, the Arizona's secretary of state who fought against efforts by former President Trump's allies to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
Lake, a former right-wing news anchor and a strong supporter of Donald Trump, ran her campaign on the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and has refused to say whether she would accept the results of the Arizona gubernatorial race if she lost.
After the race was called on Monday, Lake failed to concede defeat, writing on Twitter: "Arizonans know BS when they see it."
Hannity, like Lake, has embraced the debunked conspiracy claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged or stolen.
Only weeks after the 2020 election, Hannity was exchanging texts with Mark Meadows, then-White House chief of staff, saying that a Biden's victory was "just mathematically impossible," according to a report by CNN.
In another message, he wrote: "Everyone knows...
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