Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake didn’t have a perfect day in courtroom on Wednesday in her last-ditch try to overturn the result of the 2022 election.
“Two hours in and this trial is already over,” wrote Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts. “Or it must be.”
Lake’s “celebrity witness,” Roberts wrote, as a substitute “proceeded to annihilate Lake’s case” as soon as at the witness stand.
Lake, a former TV host who has became a conspiracy theorist and acolyte of Donald Trump, misplaced to Katie Hobbs by means of greater than 17,000 votes in November’s election.
Fairly than concede, she has made a sequence of untamed and unproven claims, and sued. Whilst maximum of her felony claims were disregarded, the Arizona Excellent Courtroom is listening to her claims over the signature verification procedure in Maricopa County, the place the majority of the state’s electorate reside.
Lake claims the county failed to accomplish higher-level verification on ballots that had been flagged for attainable inconsistencies.
However Roberts stated Lake’s witness, Jacqueline Onigkeit, spent an hour explaining how thorough that procedure is, with per week of coaching, more than one ranges of overview and reminders to be wary and listen.
Every other Lake witness additionally strengthened the county’s case, she added.
“As blockbusters pass, Kari Lake is midway there,” Roberts wrote. “For those who depend the ‘bust’ phase.”
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