Kari Lake loses her lawsuit. Now it is time for her to supply Arizona a present

In what ought to come as a shock to utterly nobody, a decide on Saturday dominated that Kari Lake was not robbed of her proper to be Arizona’s subsequent governor.

“This Court docket acknowledges the anger and frustration of voters who had been subjected to inconvenience and confusion at voter facilities as technical issues arose throughout the 2022 Common Election,” Maricopa County Superior Court docket decide Peter Thompson wrote. “However this Court docket’s responsibility just isn’t solely to incline an ear to public outcry. It’s to topic Plaintiff’s claims and Defendants’ actions to the sunshine of the courtroom and scrutiny of the regulation.”

Naturally, Lake reacted to the loss together with her trademark refusal to simply accept actuality.

“My Election Case supplied the world with proof that proves our elections are run outdoors of the regulation,” she tweeted. “This Decide didn’t rule in our favor. Nonetheless, for the sake of restoring religion and honesty in our elections, I’ll enchantment his ruling.”

Or put one other manner, for the sake of constructing a hope-for political future – one which requires her to maintain her supporters in a state of perpetual fury.

Right here in the actual world, Decide Thompson bent over backwards to offer Lake her day in court docket.

Two days, truly, through which the decide afforded her each alternative to show {that a} Maricopa County elections officer deliberately rigged the Nov. 8 election and that in consequence, Lake misplaced to Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs.

As a substitute, Lake introduced a parade of witnesses who supplied up opinions, hypothesis and a large quantity of wishful considering to attempt to persuade the decide that the Republican nominee was the sufferer of a fiendish plot by the Republican-run county.

However what’s that outdated saying? Wishin’ don’t make it so.

In his 10-page ruling, the decide eviscerated the testimony of every of her witnesses …

…From the partisan pollster who testified that his exit ballot confirmed she ought to have received …. to the cyber knowledgeable who claimed the county shrunk ballots in order that they couldn’t be counted, earlier than conceding that these ballots nonetheless would have been counted.

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“It bears mentioning that election staff themselves had been attested to by each Plaintiff’s witnesses and the Defendants’ witnesses as being devoted to performing their function with integrity,” Thompson wrote. “Not completely, as no system on this earth is ideal, however greater than enough to adjust to the regulation and conduct a sound election.”

Greater than enough to adjust to the regulation.

This being Christmas, it could appear time for Kari Lake to supply the state of Arizona a present.

After 46 days of decrying her loss and defaming the state’s election staff, Lake ought to muster the grace to simply accept the decision of the decide and concede the governor’s race.

I do not count on Lake to want Hobbs effectively however she may no less than acknowledge that Arizona has spoken.

Oh, I do know. The prospect of that’s someplace between none and what-the-heck-is-in-that-eggnog-you’re-drinking.

Nonetheless, it’s the season of miracles.

Peace on earth and goodwill towards even those that defeat us.

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