'Salty MAGA tears': Kari Lake critics pounce as her latest lawsuit goes down in flames

An appellate court yet again declared that Democrat Katie Hobbs is the rightful governor of Arizona as it rejected Republican Kari Lake’s latest challenge to her 2022 election loss, unanimously backing the lower court's decisions.

In Judge Sean Brearcliffe's 23-page opinion, he surgically explained the various reasons why Lake's appeal efforts came up short.

"The court did not ignore the evidence Lake offered; Lake’s expert’s methodology was contradicted at trial by election officials put forward by Hobbs," the papers say. "In the court’s ruling, it specifically weighed Lake’s evidence against testimony offered by election officials ,and found that the election officials’ testimony―that meaningful verification had occurred―was more credible."

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He concluded that the "substantial evidence" secured the favorable result to Hobbs because "we cannot say the trial court’s determination was clearly erroneous."

One of the arguments that Lake and her supporters have tried to peddle is blaming Maricopa County Co-Elections Director Scott Jarrett for being untruthful about the printer issues that affected some of the 2022 Voting Centers on Election Day, according to AZ Law.

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The Court of Appeals analyzed it and determined: "At best, this is a misunderstanding between an attorney and a witness that was ironed-out during a trial."

Lake, a MAGA loyal Republican who is campaigning to win a U.S. Senate seat, filed her initial election challenge in December 2022 after she was bested in the governor’s race by Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.

The candidate never conceded to Hobbs and protested that the election was stolen, despite her claims failing to convince judges in December 2022 and May 2023 trials, as well as multiple appeals in between the two.

And yet whatever setback legally, Lake has stayed defiant, and continue to preach that the election was somehow compromised.

“Everything I’ve ever said about the elections is true and I stand by it,” Lake said in March.

Lake's critics on Twitter were quick to relish her latest defeat.

"Waste of tax payers money," writes @resist_xrp_user.

One created a composite of Lake up in age with grey hair, circa 2050 and still fighting to overturn the 2020 election. Another mockup of a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor called "Kari Lake Lost" featuring "salty MAGA tears" and "big chunks of election denial."

"When Kari Lake loses either in her primary or in the general will she pursue a claim to be the 'real' senator from Arizona," asks @marysjogren1.

Debby Williams appeared to indulge on the defeat in court for Lake. "Another loss for Kari Lake!"

"How many times has Hobbs won the election now," reads a post by @gatesisthedevil. "I’ve lost count."