Takeaways from Kari Lake’s failed legal challenge to the election results

PHOENIX — Six months after losing her campaign for Arizona governor, Republican Kari Lake failed to convince a trial judge to set aside the results of the 2022 midterm election.

Lake, a former television news personality and prominent election denier backed by former president Donald Trump, has refused to concede and mounted a legal challenge late last year, claiming that the results could not be trusted because they were tainted by fraud or mistakes. Courts rejected most of Lake’s claims, and her attorneys were sanctioned $2,000 for making “false factual…