Has Kari Lake Conceded Yet? What She’s Said After Arizona Election Results

Multiple newspapers and organizations have called Arizona’s Senate race for Democratic nominee Ruben Gallego, but his Republican counterpart Kari Lake appears yet to concede.

With 92 percent of the Senate vote in for Arizona, Gallego had a 50 percent lead on Lake’s 48 percent, according to The New York Times live election results map.

Election data organization Decision Desk HQ is one of several that have projected Gallego’s win against Lake, a major Donald Trump ally.

Newsweek has contacted Lake’s team, via email outside of normal working hours, for comment.

But Lake has not yet conceded, it seems, with her official campaign account on X, @KariLakeWarRoom, sharing her team’s efforts to “ballot cure” over the weekend.

This is when voters are given a specific time frame in which to correct issues with absentee or mail-in ballots, such as a missing signature.

On Sunday, @KariLakeWarRoom reposted a message which said: “Need your ballot cured? We can help! Even after the election, we’re still working and doing what we can to help our fellow republican candidates and our beloved Kari Lake get across the finish line.”

This was posted by Angel Guess, who is working with Turning Point Action, which focuses on grassroots campaigning in support of conservative candidates.

@KariLakeWarRoom has also posted multiple calls from conservative figures, urging people to check whether their ballots have been counted to see if they need to be cured.

“Our team is full of HUSTLE and we will not quit until every vote is rightfully counted especially with SO MANY races that are this close on the line,” said Tyler Bowyer, who also works with Turning Point Action.

This was reposted by @KariLakeWarRoom, along with a message from Arizona Republican Pam Kirby, who said: “Respectfully to all suggesting that Kari Lake be White House press secretary, lead the FCC, or be the EI Czar: Can we pls just wait until every legal vote is tabulated?

“Kari deserves the AZ Senate seat. Stop listening to the establishment political consultants or the lamestream media say it’s over. Just because they WANT it to be over doesn’t mean it is! Keep curing ballots!”

The campaign account also shared a DailyMail.com article from last week, which reported that election official Stephen Richer, Maricopa County Recorder, wanted to “make life hell for Kari [Lake],” citing transcripts of a June 21 deposition.

Newsweek has contacted Richer, via email outside of working hours, for a response to this.

Field Director for Kari Lake, Matthew C Martinez, who also works with Turning Point Action, has repeatedly posted “Turning Point Action data updates,” which show Lake in the lead in several Arizona counties, which @KariLakeWarRoom has shared multiple times.

After the period for ballot curing closed, Lake posted on her personal X account: “Barring a last-minute legal intervention, the period for ballot curing has closed. Thank you to all of the grassroots patriots who worked so hard to ensure that every vote gets counted. I love you, Arizona.”

Since this time, she has also reposted a @KariLakeWarRoom image of her addressing the crowd with the caption: “Ditat Deus.” This is Arizona’s motto, meaning: “God enriches.”

On top of this, Lake shared a post that said: “Not only do I not know a single Republican who voted for Ruben Gallego, I know several Dems who refused to vote for Gallego because of what a transparent prick he is.”

This was written by Arizona writer RazörFist, who was commenting on a post by conservative political strategist Joey Mannarino, who said: “I have 500,000 followers. Does anyone here know a single person who voted for Donald Trump AND Ruben Gallego in Arizona? Anyone? Even one person?”

Mannarino was referring to the fact that Trump won Arizona, as he did every other swing state in the country in the U.S. election last week.