Arizona's Kari Lake Is Already Claiming Election Fraud

This year, Lake has besides pushed conspiracy theories astir mail-in ballots and aboriginal voting, demanding a azygous time of in-person voting. Her enactment for aboriginal and mail-in voting connected the eve of the predetermination echoes the flip-flopping from erstwhile president Donald Trump, who has besides realized that without aboriginal and mail-in voting helium does not person a accidental to win.

Lake whitethorn person changed her caput connected the veracity of mail-in ballots, but she remains convinced that the election volition beryllium stolen. The lone solution? “We’re going to marque it excessively large to rig,” Lake told her supporters.

Throughout her Senate campaign, Lake has repeatedly refused to reply a elemental question: Would she beryllium consenting to judge the results of the election?

Polling suggests that Lake could beryllium astir to look different loss, and based connected her remarks passim the campaign, it is improbable that Lake, who volition inactive not concede she mislaid successful 2022, volition beryllium consenting to graciously concede.

Ultimately, Lake took her situation to court, and mislaid again. Undeterred, Lake continued to ingratiate herself with Trump and MAGA, and was adjacent considered arsenic a imaginable vice statesmanlike candidate.

Now, Lake has claimed it would beryllium foolish to perpetrate to accepting predetermination results without knowing what those results are.

Many of her supporters who spoke to WIRED connected Monday nighttime agreed with Lake, convinced determination was fraud afoot successful the predetermination already.

“I don’t deliberation we should judge thing until we cognize that the predetermination is an honorable election. We cognize the past 1 was rigged and the 2020 1 was rigged,” Sandy, a Lake protagonist from Prescott Valley, tells WIRED.

But determination were besides immoderate supporters who urged their campaigner to bash the close happening and concede if she was defeated.

“We’ve got nary choice, we’ve got to judge the results,” says Rick Starmer, from Chino Valley successful Yavapai County.