Thousands came out for a Kari Lake “Save Arizona Rally” Sunday night as the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s legal team prepares to argue her election challenge before the state Court of Appeals this week of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ win.
“I didn’t think we’d have this many people show up. We would have gotten a bigger room. You know what this shows everyone? We are so powerful when we are together,” Lake told her supporters at the Scottsdale event.
“We have four times the capacity of this room. I’m so sorry to the people outside. I didn’t realize that everybody would show up tonight,” she added.
Lake also apologized on Twitter for those who were removed from the room by the fire marshal, and later spoke to hundreds who remained outside until it was over.
Chain of custody is “basically the law that ensures illegal ballots don’t get counted and don’t infect our elections,” she explained.
She further stated that whistleblowers had come forward with information causing Lake’s legal team to conclude that at a minimum 140,000 ballots were counted with bad signatures with no attempt to “cure” them by contacting the voter to verify his or her identity.
“We have the strongest election lawsuit of our lifetime in the court of appeals right now,” Lake asserted. “We are going to win this legal battle.”
“I have a message for the twice-convicted racist Katie Hobbs is a squatter in the governor’s office. Don’t get too comfortable, sweetie,” she said.
Last month, a trial court judge ruled in Hobbs’ favor finding that Lake’s legal team did not provide “clear and convincing” evidence of intentional misconduct by Maricopa County officials to impact the result of the race.
Lake argues in her appeal that the judge used the wrong standard, saying, based on court precedent, the misconduct that invalidates an election can be much broader than intentional action taken in favor of a particular candidate.
Oral arguments are set for Wednesday.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.