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Opinion: A new poll shows Kari Lake up by 11 over Karrin Taylor Robson in the Arizona governor’s race. After you get done laughing about that, check out another poll that shows the race a dead heat.
By Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic
Kari Lake’s unofficial pollster released numbers on Monday showing she has “a commanding 11-point lead” in Arizona’s governor’s race.
“One thing is clear. Kari Lake is on her way to securing the Republican nomination,” announced the supposedly independent Data Orbital pollster George Khalaf.
Whose father just happens to be Lake’s campaign treasurer.
OK, so after I got done laughing about that, Karrin Taylor Robson released her latest internal poll numbers, showing the race is now a dead heat, tied at 43%.
That poll was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, a national polling firm that has no relatives with a dog in this fight. It also fits the trend of virtually all polling in the last few months, which has shown Taylor Robson catching up as she spends millions of dollars on campaign ads to introduce herself to Arizona voters.
Kari Lake, clearly, is worried about this race
With one week to go in this rock-‘em-sock-‘em election, here’s the key takeaway:
