Across the country last week, voters in swing states handed stinging rebukes to Republican gubernatorial candidates who embraced false claims about who won the presidency in 2020, electing their Democratic opponents instead.
As vote counting continues, Arizona could follow — or emerge as the lone exception.
Kari Lake, the former television news anchor turned Republican nominee for Arizona governor who has said she would not have certified the election two years ago and claimed "stealing going on" before her primary victory, was in a toss-up race with her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs.
As of late Saturday, the race to replace Republican Gov. Doug Ducey was still too close to call. Hobbs, Arizona's secretary of state, maintained a slim but slightly widening 1.4 percentage point lead over Lake with about 265,000 votes left to count.
That Lake was the last election denier still standing bucked a national trend in a year when an expected red tsunami never materialized. Instead, many candidates who adhere to election denialism were sent packing, some by resounding margins.
GOP candidates who supported former President Donald Trump's false claims of fraud and sought governorships in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania lost their races, while Republicans in two other swing states sailed to victory after standing up to Trump.
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