Kari Lake is a former television news anchor and politician from the United States. She retired from her anchor position at Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV in March 2021 after 22 years of service. On June 1, 2021, she launched her candidacy for governor of Arizona, and she is the Republican candidate in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.
Hobbs leads Lake by a Lake narrows with 93% of the ballots tallied.
With 93 percent of the state’s votes counted, Democrat Katie Hobbs’ advantage over Republican Kari Lake in the race for governor of Arizona has shrunk to just one percentage point. Five days after the election last week, there are just 26,000 votes separating the two contenders. Early in the day, Hobbs had a lead of roughly 36,000 votes. Despite the advantage, Lake’s chance of winning seems to be dwindling.
Following the most recent vote decrease on Sunday, Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report said that it is “very difficult to see how Kari Lake (R) wins today.” With 54% of the almost 100,000 votes counted on Sunday night, Lake made gains in Maricopa county, but not by a percentage that would allow Hobbs to catch up to her. According to AZ Central, as of Sunday night, Lake needed 58 percent of all cast ballots to win.
Arizona authorities have said that the ballot counting may take place into the next week as the state continues to process mail-in votes in the tight race. Maricopa County has the bulk of those uncounted ballots. Lake has referred to Arizona’s voting system as a “laughingstock” and said that authorities were deliberately delaying the process. Bill Gates, the director of elections in Maricopa, referred to Lake’s assertions as “offensive.”
I get that Kari Lake and many others want us to move rapidly, but you know what’s more crucial? That this is carried out correctly,” Gates said earlier this week to CNN. There are concerns that Lake won’t accept defeat even if she loses since she has long questioned the validity of Arizona’s electoral process and repeated bogus allegations of election fraud in 2020.
Early Life
Kari Lake was born in 1969 (at the age of 52-53) in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. She holds an American nationality and she belongs to the white ethnic group.

Kari Lake’s parents and siblings make up her family. Her parents, Larry A. Lake and Sheila A. Lake welcomed her into the world in 1969 in Rock Island, Illinois. Her mother was an Appleton nurse, and her father, Larry, was a teacher and basketball and football coach. She is her parents’ eldest kid by a few years. She has eight siblings as well.
Education
Kari Lake earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and journalism from the University of Iowa after graduating from North Scott Senior High School in Eldridge, Iowa.
While still a student at the University of Iowa, Lake started working as an intern at KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, in May 1991. Before beginning her 1992 employment as a daily reporter and weekend weathercaster at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois, she first worked as a production assistant. Lake was hired by KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona, in August 1994 to serve as the weekend weather anchor.
Later, she was promoted to evening anchor at KPNX, and in the summer of 1998, she moved to Albany, New York, to work for WNYT, taking Chris Kapostasy’s place.
In 1999, Lake moved back to Arizona and started working as an evening anchor for KSAZ-TV (Fox 10 Phoenix). President Barack Obama in 2016 and President Donald Trump in 2020 were both interviewed by Lake while he worked at KSAZ. Lake shared false and unverified information on social media during her final years as a journalist, drawing criticism and earning a reputation as a provocateur.
Red for Ed movement
She argued against the Red for Ed movement in 2018 by saying it was a “big push to legalize pot,” later apologizing and taking an unplanned month-long leave from the station, according to the station’s regional human resources director. The Red for Ed movement sought increased funding for education through strikes and protests. On “hot mic” video in July 2019, Lake was seen promoting her account on the website Parler.
In April 2020, she spread false information about COVID-19 on Facebook and Twitter. In her final years at the station, Lake became a contentious figure among coworkers due to her statements and deeds. One day after FTVLive, a website for the television news industry published a video of Lake at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, she announced her resignation from KSAZ.
The website questioned whether Lake was attending as a journalist or as a movement member. She announced her bid for governor in June 2021.
Relationship
Tracy Finnegan is the first husband of Kari Lake. Tracy works as an electrical engineer. He has stayed out of the spotlight from his early years. Kari hasn’t revealed the exact date of their union, but they were wed for a time before things started to go south. The couple’s marriage didn’t last long, and they eventually parted ways, but they haven’t said why they did it.
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Kari married her current spouse, Jeff Halperin, after divorcing her first husband, Tracy Finnegan. In August 1998, she wed Jeff Halperin, her second husband, and they have been together since. About twenty years have passed since Kari and Jeff were married. It seems that their marriage is still going strong as time goes on.