Kari Lake is right: Arizonans do know BS when they see it

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     November 15, 2022 In the wake of another humiliating GOP defeat, Kari Lake, the former local news anchor who parlayed a [career peddling fear on TV]( into a run for Arizona's governorship, is doing what Kari Lake does best: denying election results. This time, they're her own. After Democrat Katie Hobbs [officially defeated Lake]( late Monday Lake tweeted, "Arizonans know BS when they see it." The thing is: She's right. Arizonans could see the [BS of Lake's candidacy](— which reeked of MAGA and bonkers threats to jail her Democratic opponent—pretty clearly. As my colleague Tim Murphy writes, watching her campaign ads now feels like having uncovered "[an artifact of a wave that never really cam](e." Check out this excellent kicker to his takeaways from Lake's big loss: Kari Lake was so confident about her state’s true politics, so steadfast in her belief that Democrats’ 2020 breakthrough wasn’t legitimate, that she made an unusual request to voters at a campaign event last December. “We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here, do we?” [she asked](. There was a loud of chorus of boos. “Alright, get the hell out!” On election day, they did. That's pretty satisfying to read. I wonder if we'll get the same in Colorado's third congressional district, where the race between Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch is still too close to call. As promised, my newsletter co-host, the great Abigail Weinberg, recently visited Boebert's district where she discovered why some former supporters have [recently turned on Boebert](. "I don't think she did sh*t," is how Ed, who typically leaned conservative, succinctly put it. Of course, Abigail met some election-denying MAGA diehards, too. What they had to share with her was both alarming—[and exactly what you'd expect from Boebert's base](. —Inae Oh Advertisement [UC Press - Hajjar]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Katie Hobbs Defeats MAGA Star Kari Lake in Arizona]( Another election-denying gubernatorial candidate loses a key swing-state election. BY TIM MURPHY [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( [Trending] [Foreign governments sucking up to Trump spent lavishly at his DC hotel, new document shows]( BY RUSS CHOMA   [GOP's weak midterm showing is great news for Biden's climate plans]( BY MARIANNE LAVELLE   [Why Lauren Boebert might lose]( BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG   [Health group accuses Canadian Gas Association of greenwashing]( BY NATASHA BULOWSKI Advertisement [UC Press - Hajjar]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [In swank Vail, resort worker housing vies with wild sheep habitat]( There are only about 20,000 bighorns left in the United States. BY JONATHAN THOMPSON Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755