By Art Moore
Trump-backed candidates won key Republican primary contests Tuesday night in Arizona, Michigan and Kansas.
In Arizona, as Election Day votes were counted, former TV news journalist Kari Lake came roaring back to take the lead from Mike Pence-backed candidate Karrin Taylor Robson in the gubernatorial primary.
Lake, who believes Trump won Arizona in 2020 and says she would not have certified the election results, was 10 points down Monday night as the mail-in ballots were counted. But she has been winning more than 70% of the Election Day vote. With nearly 80% of the vote counted, Lake leads Robson by about two points.
Lake told Steve Bannon in a “War Room” interview Wednesday morning that she expects the lead to increase to eight or 10 points.
“And there were a lot of shenanigans going on,” she said, referring to reports of voting irregularities. “So, we knew the shenanigans were happening. We knew that the first batch to be counted was going to go to my opponent, most likely.”
Then, she said, “when we started seeing the numbers come in as big as they were, the day-of voting – we’ve never seen anything like it.”
See Lake’s interview with “War Room”:
Trump-backed Blake Masters, whose campaign was sponsored by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has been declared the winner in the Arizona GOP Senate primary, with 39%, over Jim Lamon’s 29%. Masters will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
In the Arizona GOP primary for secretary of state, Mark Finchem, whose campaign focused on election integrity, was the winner.
“At the end of the day, I stand for the rule of law, that nobody has their thumb on the scale of election integrity and election justice,” the Trump-backed Finchem told the Epoch Times.
“I want to make sure every candidate, whether they’re Democrat, Republican, Libertarian – I don’t care what party they are – they have a right to be on the ballot if they qualify, and they have a right to be treated fairly under the law,” said Finchem, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
Trump appeared with Finchem at a rally in January in Florence, Arizona.
Finchem declared to the crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, we know it and they know it – Donald Trump won.”
Significantly, Arizona’s state House speaker, Rusty Bowers – who testified against President Trump before the Jan. 6 committee – lost his bid for a state Senate seat by some 30 points.
In Arizona’s GOP attorney general primary, Trump-backed Abe Hamadeh is leading.
In Michigan, Trump-backed GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon won decisively with 40% of the vote over Kevin Rinke.
In a Michigan GOP House primary, incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer – one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump in January 2021 – lost to Trump-endorsed challenger John Gibbs nearly 3 points in what was considered an upset.
Gibbs, who served in the Trump administration as an acting assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, spoke Wednesday morning with Steve Bannon on “War Room.”
“This was an earthquake throughout the nation,” said Gibbs, a former software developer in Silicon Valley.
“We were outspent on outside spending probably 100 to 1, on hard cash probably 10 to 1. [Meijer] was sending out two to three mailers a day for the past two or three weeks. Expensive TV ads, radio ads,” said Gibbs.
“It didn’t work. We were out there doing the thing that didn’t cost any money. Meeting people.”
And Gibbs, who was a Christian missionary in Japan, said “the power of prayer undergirding us” was the most important difference, noting he has a place on his campaign website where people can sign up to commit to pray for him and his campaign.
See Gibbs’ interview with “War Room”:
In the closely watched Missouri Senate primary, former governor Eric Greitens finished third to Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Trump caused confusion Monday when he announced his endorsement for “Eric,” which has been interpreted to mean that he viewed both Erics as acceptable candidates.
Schmitt will square off in November with Democratic Party winner Trudy Busch Valentine, the Anheuser-Busch heiress, for the seat vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Roy Blunt.
I see many water main breaks in our election future.
I see Trump filling republican primary slots with candidates less likely to win elections. Losses may very well follow.
You don’t see anything but what you are told to see and that is only leftist propaganda.
It is, and was, literally impossible for Joe Biden to win a Democrat Primary, much less a Presidential election.
The elections mean nothing now. You can never be sure it was free and fair.
Every national poll that was taken weeks ahead of the election indicated Trump would lose, and lose “bigly.” Trump’s strategy to declare himself the winner anyway was acknowledged by Steve Bannon beforehand. There’s an effin’ recording of it.
Your cult has detached itself from reality.
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And they were wrong, weren’t they? It took widespread fraud to drag that ignorant bag of shit and ice cream across the finish line. Thanks to fraud, look at the catastrophe idiot Biden and the Democrats have brought upon the nation.
“Every national poll that was taken weeks ahead of the election indicated Trump would lose, and lose “bigly.””
The Polls were MORE WRONG than they’d even been, and more cooked than ever as well. The aim was to convince people Trump would lose. It’s simply a Psy-Op, and you know it. Kind of like the Trump-RX9Ninja Missle Trump used to kill our enemies needs to be suddenly attached to Biden like it’s new.
Polls are meant to influence public opinion, not measure it. You only believe them because they back your partisan rhetoric, and probably helped to installed it in that pea-brain of yours.
My “cult” is the only thing keeping people like you from committing genocide.
Nobody acknowledges that insider Bannon revealed Trump’s Big Lie strategy a week before election day.
Why do you think he’s willing to risk jail for Contempt of Congress rather than testifying under oath? Because of his honorable intentions, patriotism, and high moral principles?
Bannon is part of an obvious cover up, like all of Trump’s co-conspirators. They’re not just trying to protect their careers as liars and betrayers of the Constitution and the American people. They’re trying to avoid felony convictions and long prison sentences.
Steve Bannon, 7 days before the election: “After then, Trump never has to go to a voter again.”
Like Alex Jones, Bannon has become a multi-millionaire peddling poison to his receptive audience. They’re all part of the same social-media malignancy.
The only big lie is that there was no 2020 election fraud and idiot Biden is president.
Meanwhile, the Biden Regime is Preparing for Domestic War.
“They’re not after me. They’re after you.”
– 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump
Funny how Leftist scum can comment on “polls” and “hearings”, but not the obviously totalitarian moves their installed regime is making, publically.
They know.
As long as it is aimed at their enemies (fellow Americans who merely think differently from themselves… or think at all), they love and endorse it. They aren’t smart enough to know that it ALWAYS comes back to bite them.
No matter what we see or hear from the M.S. Media Gutter Dwellers since most Americans no longer trust the M.S. Media Gutter Dwellers
Here is hoping that many democrats are lying awake at night worrying if their still going to have a job while the working class rest peacefuly in their homes
These results are good news. I only hope that Republicans who did not vote for the Trump backed candidates that won still vote in the general election. Not voting is the same as choosing “D” in the voting booth.
So, who was this “Fred Chance”?
BREAKING: Florida Gov. DeSantis Suspends State Attorney Andrew Warren for Failure to Prosecute
It’s about damn time.
DO YOUR JOB AND FOLLOW THE LAW.
It’s actions like this that will ensure Republicans win BIG in November.
Democrats don’t have a chance.
That’s what LEADERSHIP looks like. Democrats have nothing that even resembles it.
geggie the village idiot, do you remember Biden saying before the election that it was fixed for him to win? Why is no one quizzing him? Two levels of justice?
Democrats aren’t your problem. Republicans with integrity and principles are your problem. He Knows It
@Greg
Democrats ARE the ENTIRE problem. They create the problems and they exploit the problems they cause. It is tearing the country apart.
Then why do Trump and his clones target other republicans?
Because they aid and abet the corrupt Democrats.
‘Everyone but Trump and his crew is corrupt‘ just doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Greg, The Democrats are behind everything that troubles Americans wake up and smell the Coffee you fool
Democrats aren’t your problem. Republicans with integrity and principles are your problem. He Knows It
I am not voting for the Trump backed candidate for Wis Governor, no balls at all, couldnt show for the debate. 1 candidate didnt give a weasel answer if voter fraud happened in Wisconsin, verified by our supreme court.