Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake didn’t have an important day in courtroom on Wednesday in her last-ditch try and overturn the outcomes 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 “star witness,” Roberts wrote, as a substitute “proceeded to annihilate Lake’s case” as soon as on the witness stand.
Lake, a former TV host who has changed into a conspiracy theorist and acolyte of Donald Trump, misplaced to Katie Hobbs by greater than 17,000 votes in November’s election.
Somewhat than concede, she has made a sequence of untamed and unproven claims, and sued. Whereas most of her authorized claims have been dismissed, the Arizona Supreme Court docket is listening to her claims over the signature verification course of in Maricopa County, the place the majority of the state’s voters reside.
Lake claims the county did not carry out higher-level verification on ballots that had been flagged for potential inconsistencies.
However Roberts stated Lake’s witness, Jacqueline Onigkeit, spent an hour explaining how thorough that course of is, with per week of coaching, a number of ranges of overview and reminders to be cautious and listen.
One other Lake witness additionally bolstered the county’s case, she added.
“As blockbusters go, Kari Lake is midway there,” Roberts wrote. “If you happen to depend the ‘bust’ half.”
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