Democrat in Arizona in front: Forecasts: Trump protégé Lake loses gubernatorial election

And another setback for Donald Trump: Kari Lake, former TV presenter and rising star of the right-wing Republicans, apparently loses the race for the governorship in the state of Arizona.

Democrat in Arizona in front: Forecasts: Trump protégé Lake loses gubernatorial election

And another setback for Donald Trump: Kari Lake, former TV presenter and rising star of the right-wing Republicans, apparently loses the race for the governorship in the state of Arizona. Forecasts by the major US news channels put her Democratic competitor Hobbs ahead.

According to forecasts, Democrat Katie Hobbs has won the contested gubernatorial election in the US state of Arizona. According to forecasts by the TV stations NBC and CNN, the 52-year-old prevailed against the Republican right-wing candidate Kari Lake, who was one year older.

Hobbs served on the state government for counting votes in the 2020 presidential election, which then-President Donald Trump and his supporters contested. Her rival, Lake, was Trump-backed and is among those repeating his unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden won the presidential election through massive fraud.

Kari Lake brought the possibility of voter fraud back into play. After the counts showed that her competitor had a slight lead, she spoke last week of "incompetence" that was involved in the election. At the same time, the journalist and former TV presenter was confident that she had won.

Former Republican governor Doug Ducey was unable to run due to a term limit. Arizona is a contested state. The former Republican stronghold has changed more and more in favor of the Democrats. In the election on Tuesday last week, governors were voted on in 36 states. It is the most important office in a federal state, comparable to a prime minister of a federal state in Germany.