The Arizona governor’s race between Katie Hobbs and MAGA election denier Kari Lake remains close this morning, with Hobbs maintaining a slight lead. But Lake needs 60% of the approximately 160,000 left votes to beat Hobbs, and she's unlikely to get it. Via the New York Times:
Results released from Maricopa County on Sunday evening appeared to narrow Ms. Lake’s path to victory. She won only 55 percent of the vote in that batch — less than she needed to mount a comeback — even though that group of ballots was thought to be Republican-friendly.
After the vote tallies were released on Sunday, Ms. Hobbs’s campaign manager, Nicole DeMont, called her the “favorite to become the next governor of Arizona.”
“Katie has led since the first round of ballots were counted,” Ms. DeMont said, adding that with Sunday’s results, “it’s clear that this won’t change.”
