TWIT: Arizona serial loser can’t even accept the results of a Twitter poll
Kari Lake, who is not the Governor of Arizona and did not win her race to be the Governor of Arizona, is still fundraising — er, campaigning, on the false claim that she was the real winner, trying to prove it over the weekend with a Twitter poll, and even that was a miserable failure for her.
The race was a tight one, but in the end, Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by less than a full percentage point.
She’s been challenging the outcome through courts, on social media, and at Mar-a-Lago.
Over the weekend, one of her fans (on a Twitter account with a few thousand followers) tweeted a poll, asking viewers to share whether they’d cast their ballots for Lake or Hobbs, or abstained from voting altogether.
Lake shared the poll while she was ahead, but ended up deleting her share and replacing it with a screenshot after the tide turned.
Here’s the irony, in plainest terms: while Lake was ahead in a Twitter poll, she tried to imply to her following that this was proof she’d won the election, but when she fell behind in the poll, she quickly decided the end outcome was no longer relevant, and that everyone should instead see the way the count looked when she was winning.
If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s an echo of the ‘red mirage’ effect, in which a Republican candidate can sometimes lead early in the ballot-counting, but fall behind when absentee and mail-in votes are counted.
The January 6th Committee shared that taking advantage of this same sort of ‘mirage’ was one piece of advice Donald Trump was given ahead of his loss.
He was told to claim the win while he was ahead, and then holler “stolen” when or if the outcome changed in overnight counting.
Lake seems to have mastered the skill. What you’ll see below is her tweet, in which she posts a screenshot of her previous share of a poll. In the screenshot, she’s ahead, with 81% of the vote to Hobbs’ 14%.
To be entirely clear, Lake took a screenshot of her own retweet, about 5 hours after the poll was originally posted, deleted her retweet, and shared the screenshot instead.
Why would she do that?
The next image you’ll see tells that story.
In the end, the poll (which, again, was carried out by an individual Twitter user and has no bearing on or relation to the actual election) flipped drastically, with Lake receiving only 21.1% of the vote — or, fewer than 170 Twitter votes, compared to Hobbs’ 59.8%, or around 470 Twitter votes.
Even her own chosen metric, a meaningless poll on social media, says she lost, and Lake couldn’t even be honest and transparent about that.
Here’s Lake’s post.
Here’s the end result of the poll, no longer visible on Lake’s timeline.
