A small handful of election deniers gathered outside the state capitol in Arizona on Tuesday to protest against Kari Lake’s loss in the gubernatorial race.
Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs won the Arizona governor’s race on Monday night, defeating Donald Trump-backed Ms Lake in one of the most-watched midterm contests in the country.
The race was called as Ms Hobbs was ahead by roughly 20,000 votes, with 50.4 per cent of the vote count to Ms Lake’s 49.6 per cent.
In remarks to supporters the morning after her projected victory, Ms Hobbs said Arizona voters chose “solving our problems over conspiracy theories” and “sanity over chaos” after defeating the Trump loyalist who has amplified the former president’s false narrative that the election was stolen from him.
Ms Lake, meanwhile, has branded the results of the election “BS” and has appeared to refuse to concede.
