Election denier and extinct Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake promised that she “may additionally no longer discontinuance” stopping after her election lawsuit bought struck down in court.

Lake, who lost to Democratic Governor-elect Katie Hobbs in November, tried to self-discipline the election ends up in a suit filed this month, accusing Hobbs and Maricopa County election officers of intentionally interfering with the midterm vote.

The extinct candidate, who became once backed by ex-President Donald Trump, faces over $33,000 in lawful costs for witnesses who helped defend Hobbs and election officers in the suit’s two-day trial. The defendants had filed a motion to sanction Lake and her lawful workforce for practically $700,000 on Monday, but Maricopa County Express Peter Thompson, who has presided over the case, denied the request in a call on Tuesday.

Thompson wrote in his pronounce that whereas Lake had failed to present “optimistic and convincing evidence” to reinforce her claims of intentional election misconduct, that did no longer “equate” to her claims being “unsuitable” or equipped in “unfriendly religion.” Hobbs and Maricopa County officers had argued of their motion to sanction that Lake’s lawsuit became once brought forward without “reliable justification.”

Lake spoke with conservative podcast host Steve Bannon on Tuesday to discuss proposed sanctions from Hobbs, and acknowledged that the motion became once “gross.”

“I would no longer discontinuance,” Lake acknowledged whereas exhibiting on Bannon’s Battle Room. “If they ponder this may originate me discontinuance, they’re irascible.”

Lake also filed to allure Thompson’s decision to push aside her case on Tuesday, and told Bannon sooner than filing that her workforce became once unable to recent all of their evidence in the shortened window of the trial.

“We comprise so grand evidence on this case,” Lake acknowledged. “We want we may additionally comprise equipped it to expose the total world in court, but we only comprise five hours to originate our case, which is terribly uncomfortable for the parents of Arizona.”

In some unspecified time in the future of her marketing campaign walk, Lake became once an outspoken supporter of Trump, and continued to push the extinct president’s lie that the 2020 presidential election became once stolen. Lake also sidestepped questions when requested sooner than the midterm election if she would decide to conceding in the election if she lost to Hobbs.

Other extinct Arizona Republican candidates also challenged the outcomes of Arizona’s election in court. The lawsuit from Value Finchem, who ran for secretary of tell, became once brushed off sooner than it may additionally attain court, and ex-candidate for attorney normal, Abraham Hamadeh, lost the trial in his suit to overturn his loss to Democrat Kris Mayes.

Finchem and Hamadeh comprise also refused to concede in the 2022 election.

Newsweek hasreached out to Hobbs’ office for comment.