Former President Donald Trump called for defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to be named victor and appointed governor on Monday while repeating baseless voting fraud conspiracies that he has similarly used to contest his own 2020 defeat.

Trump, in a post on Truth Social , claimed without supporting evidence that the former TV news anchor-turned politician was a victim of another criminal voting operation and that her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, ran the election.

Massive numbers of BROKEN voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to FIX them made them worse. Kari had to be taken to a Democrat area, which was working perfectly, to vote, he wrote. Kari Lake should be installed Governor of Arizona.

Lake previously said that she chose to vote in a liberal district in downtown Phoenix on Election Day because we wanted to make sure that we had good machines. She did not suggest that this decision was based on her encountering malfunctioning machines.