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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) connected Wednesday congratulated Katie Hobbs (D) connected her triumph to win him aft Republican nominee Kari Lake declined to concede the race.
Hobbs was declared the victor of the high-profile gubernatorial contention past week, and Ducey connected Wednesday met with her and offered his afloat enactment to statesman the modulation amid GOP allegations of elector disenfranchisement.
“Today I congratulated Governor-elect Katie Hobbs connected her triumph successful a hard-fought contention and offered my afloat practice arsenic she prepares to presume the enactment of the State of Arizona,” Ducey said successful a statement.
“My medication volition enactment to marque this modulation arsenic creaseless and seamless arsenic possible,” helium added. “Our work is to guarantee that Arizona’s 24th Governor and her squad tin deed the crushed moving and proceed our state’s unthinkable momentum.”
Lake, an state of erstwhile President Trump, has declined to concede the contention contempt Hobbs starring her by astir 17,000 votes, a borderline supra the threshold that triggers an automatic recount.
Prior to the election, the Arizona Republican declined to accidental she would judge the results of the contention connected aggregate occasions.
Ducey successful 2020 had drawn Trump’s ire aft refusing to overturn the 2020 predetermination results successful the state.
“All of america person waited patiently for the antiauthoritarian process to play out,” Ducey said. “The radical of Arizona person spoken, their votes person been counted and we respect their decision. No substance who we voted for, each of america person a involvement successful Arizona’s success. Our aboriginal is agleam and boundless. Let america ne'er hide that arsenic we statesman this adjacent section successful our state’s history.”
Lake and others person taken purpose successful peculiar astatine printer malfunctions connected Election Day successful Maricopa County, Arizona’s astir populous jurisdiction that spans the Phoenix area.
County predetermination officials acknowledged 70 ballot centers experienced the printer issues but importune that affected residents inactive had aggregate ways to formed a ballot. They said the contented affected 7 percent of Election Day voters.
But Lake has posted a bid of videos from Maricopa voters who raised concerns astir the voting process. Many of those voters, however, did not asseverate that they were yet denied an accidental to formed a ballot.
The Republican National Committee joined Arizona’s lawyer wide nominee successful contesting the results of his contention successful a suit connected Tuesday evening, though that contention is separated by a acold smaller borderline of conscionable 510 votes.
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