If she loses to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona on November 8, Republican gubernatorial contender Kari Lake has declined to declare if she will accept defeat.

Lake refused to accept the election results many times when asked by CNN’s “State of the Union” moderator Dana Bash on Sunday. Lake insisted that she was going to win the election.

Lake declared,  “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” simultaneously saying that Hobbs was a racist.

Bash questioned Lake, “If you lose, will you accept that?” throughout the conversation.

Lake repeated, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that results.”

Originally, on October 12, Arizona PBS was going to have a televised discussion between Lake and Hobbs, but Hobbs bowed out, claiming that Lake was “just interested in making a spectacle” and labeling Lake a “conspiracy theorist.”

“Kari Lake has made it clear time and time again that she’s not interested in having substantive, in depth conversations about the issues that matter to Arizonians,” Hobbs told Bash on Sunday’s CNN broadcast. “She only wants a scenario where she can control the dialogue, and she’s refused to sit down in a one-on-one lengthy conversation to really clarify with Arizonians where she is on the issues.”

After the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission, which had collaborated with PBS to host the debate, backed out, Arizona PBS had planned to interview Lake this Wednesday instead of holding the debate.

Lake has worked with Fox News before. At present, Hobbs is Arizona’s Secretary of State. On Thursday, a Fox 10 Phoenix/InsiderAdvantage survey showed that Lake had a four-point lead over Hobbs in the campaign for governor.

In addition to having the endorsement of the former president, Trump ally and Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga), Lake also has the backing of MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

She also helps promote Trump’s false allegations that significant voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election, despite the fact that the Justice Department has found no evidence to support such accusations.

According to Lake, both Trump and Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, have “BDE,” or “big dick energy.”

DeSantis, she continued, “has BDE;” she didn’t know if the audience was familiar with the term. Does anyone have any idea what that means? Ask your kids about it later.”

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  On Friday, the Justice Department issued a partially redacted search warrant affidavit detailing the reasons FBI investigators visited the Florida property of former President Donald Trump this month.

As part of an ongoing criminal investigation into whether or not Trump illegally removed White House records before he left office in 2021, a search was done. In order to safeguard witnesses and the legitimacy of the inquiry, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart mandated the release of the affidavit while allowing for redactions.

Probable cause is stated for both the existence of classified materials at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and for the existence of “evidence of obstruction” there.

The statement also said there was reasonable suspicion that “evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other goods illegally possessed” would be located at Trump’s residence.

After leaving office, presidents are obligated to provide the National Archives with a large quantity of paperwork. Since last year, the National Archives and Records Administration has been pestering Trump to return documents that belong in the archives.

On Friday, an affidavit was made public claiming that federal officials suspected Trump was hiding secret materials after reviewing several boxes of Trump’s donated records to the archives. Several of the papers contained the “HSC” marks that denote top secret information.

According to the affidavit, the National Archives sent the case to the FBI in February. The FBI wanted to know who took the documents from the White House without permission, how they got there, and if Mar-a-Lago was a legitimate storage facility.

There are many potential violations of federal law listed in the affidavit, including a law that makes it illegal to steal materials relevant to national defense and not return them to the United States government. Any person who violates 18 U.S.C. 793 (e) is subject to a 10-year prison sentence and penalties.

The affidavit also refers to 18 U.S.C. 1519, which provides that anybody who obstructs justice may be subject to a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 20 years.

According to the affidavit, the government made numerous attempts to obtain the files months before the search was conducted.

On June 8th, the government addressed a letter to Trump’s legal team reiterating that “Mar-a-Lago does not have a safe place permitted for the preservation of sensitive material.” All White House items and the secure location where they are being housed were requested in the letter.

The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, had requested that Reinhart unseal the search papers in the interest of openness and transparency.

The Justice Department persuaded Reinhart, he said on Thursday, that certain parts of the affidavit should remain sealed because their release would reveal “(1) the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, (2) the investigation’s strategy direction, scope, sources, and methods, and (3) grand jury information.”

According to Reinhart’s analysis, the government proved its case that the withheld information is little and necessary to safeguard the operation.

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On Thursday, a Florida judge ruled against a measure supported by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would have limited racial discussion and analysis in the workplace and classroom.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee ruled in a 44-page opinion that the “Stop WOKE” act is unconstitutionally vague and a violation of the First Amendment. In addition, Walker did not order a stay that would have allowed the law to remain in place while the state appealed.

According to DeSantis, the law is meant to counter what he calls a “pernicious” mindset represented by critical race theory, which holds that racism is systematic in U.S. institutions and helps to maintain white domination.

Walker argued that the state’s prohibition on discussing specific topics in training programs violates the First Amendment as applied to diversity, inclusion, and bias training in the workplace.

The judge said, “If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,” “But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.”

A message sent to the governor’s office was not immediately answered. DeSantis has warned repeatedly that conservative appeals courts are likely to overturn any setbacks at the lower court level on his priorities.

Teaching or operating a company on the basis that members of one racial group are fundamentally racist and should feel guilt for the acts of other groups is illegal. It also disallows the view that a person’s privileged or oppressed status is inherently tied to their race or gender, or that discrimination is permissible in order to create diversity.

It was one of three lawsuits contesting the Stop Woke act that resulted in Thursday’s verdict. Clearwater-based Honeyfund.com and others have filed suit against the state, arguing that the statute violates their right to free speech by prohibiting them from discussing topics such as diversity, inclusiveness, bias elimination, and the avoidance of workplace harassment in company training programs. It is possible for employees to file a civil case against businesses with 15 or more workers if certain conditions exist.

According to the complaint, Honeyfund, a company that facilitates wedding registries, is fighting to ensure that private companies can “engage in open and free exchange of information with employees to detect and begin to rectify discrimination and injury” inside their own ranks.

“Diversity in the workplace is good for business,” Honeyfund CEO Sara Margulis said on Twitter after the ruling. “Diversity training often addresses concepts like systemic racism, unconscious bias, and privilege. This is why @Honeyfund challenged this illegal restriction on free speech.”

College professors and students filed a lawsuit against the state on Thursday, claiming the law constitutes “racially motivated censorship” that will “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study, and address systemic inequalities” that have been brought to light by the national conversation about race following the May 2020 police killing of Black man George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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