Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and current Arizona Senate Republican candidate Kari Lake has lost yet again. This latest defeat came in a defamation lawsuit by an Arizona election official who accused the MAGA Republican of defaming him over her claims that the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election results were fraudulent.

This is the latest Kari Lake defeat as she continues to lose cases regarding her claims about the 2020 and 2022 elections being stolen. Her actions have caused a deep divide in the Arizona Republican Party, with the McCain Republicans publicly rebuking her after she tried to reconcile. Lake infamously attacked the late Senator John McCain to appeal to the MAGA base and please former President Donald Trump.

Unlike her other court defeats where Lake usually acted combative and challenged everything that was against her, Lake did not even try to fight this one, which was filed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, also a Republican.

The Daily Beast reported that Lake has already notified the court that she "has no intention of defending her claims" that Richter "deliberately wrecked her gubernatorial campaign in 2022." In that lawsuit, she is accused of falsely accusing the Arizona election official of "intentionally [printing] 19-inch images on 20-inch ballots," resulting in the counting of 300,000 "illegal, invalid, phony or bogus" early ballots.

Richter was also the target of internet abuse from Lake's supporters as she constantly targeted the Republican election official on social media, often calling him an "incompetent, corrupt fool" and a "reprehensible human being."

Lake did try to have this lawsuit tossed but this attempt was previously denied by a judge in one of her many legal defeats. After the judge tossed out Lake's bid last December, Richter stated, "My family and I have faced endless and vile threats, including calls for our execution, and I've lost important personal relationships and seen my reputation severely damaged by the Defendants."

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When Lake backed down, she essentially conceded to have defamed Richter. This also means that the case would not go to trial anymore and would immediately head to deciding how much damages she would have to pay.

Despite this, CNN noted that the infamous Donald Trump ally is still not backing down on her already-debunked claims that the elections in 2020 and 2022 were stolen. In fact, she recently doubled down on these claims and vowed to continue her challenges to her 2022 election loss despite courts throwing out her claims one after another.

Kari Lake Struggling in Her Senate Run

After losing her other court battles, her 2022 election run for Arizona governor, and this latest lawsuit, polls have shown that the MAGA Republican is also poised to lose her run for Senate, though she is still expected to call foul soon after.

According to MSN, these struggles were thanks to moderate Arizona Republicans whom she has dubbed the McCain Republicans remaining against her. While she remains a favorite against her Primary opponent, Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, she continues to struggle in the general election as polls continue to show that she would lose against Democrat Ruben Gallego. A big part may be those McCain Republicans either not voting or voting against her.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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