Kari Lake, one of Arizona’s most fervent election deniers, seems to have accepted her loss in last week’s race for U.S. Senate to U.S. Congressman Ruben Gallego. At the same time, she’s still dealing with the fallout of her refusal to accept her loss in the 2022 election for Arizona governor.

One thing that may have made a difference is the 73,000-vote margin of this loss out of about 3.3 million ballots cast in the race. By contrast, Lake fell behind Democrat Katie Hobbs two years ago by a much smaller margin: just 17,117 votes.

Kari Lake has lost the Arizona Senate race, projections show. Democrat Ruben Gallego will beat Ms Lake and replace outgoing independent senator Kyrsten Sinema, according to a forecast by Decision Desk HQ. Mr Gallego, a former marine and congressman, led his Republican rival by 45,000 votes as of Sunday morning with 89 per cent of the vote tallied.