WASHINGTON — Kari Lake, the former Phoenix newscaster who claimed to be the lawful governor of Arizona despite losing the election, has again refused to acknowledge defeat in that 2022 contest, or in her Senate bid two years later.

This time the Republican’s election denial was under oath.

“The Senate race was confirmed for Ruben Gallego. It was certified. Pardon me. Certified,” she said during a Sept. 9 deposition involving mass firings at Voice of America that she oversaw as head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

Gallego, a Democrat, won the Senate seat by more than 80,000 votes out of roughly 3.3 million, a margin of 2.4 percentage points.

Two years earlier, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs topped Lake by 17,117 votes out of about 2.6 million, a margin of about 0.6 percentage points.

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