Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes cited a tweet Lake posted last week that he said could violate state law about disclosing voter signatures.

In a closed-door session during this week's RNC meeting, two members working on the party's 2022 audit debated whether “candidate quality” was to blame for midterm losses.

Freshman Rep. George Santos, the Republican who confessed to fabricating large parts of his résumé, has faced growing calls for his resignation, but he has stood his ground so far.

House Republicans from New York joined state and local GOP leaders in calling for Santos to step down less than a week after he officially took office.

The speaker did not embrace calls for Santos to resign. Members of both parties warn that putting Santos on key committees could be a national security risk.

Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres of New York said Santos’ financial disclosure reports in 2020 and 2022 are “sparse and perplexing."

Manny Diaz, the former mayor of Miami, blamed the midterm losses on a host of historic, funding and organizational issues.

Retiring GOP Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas said Rep.-elect Santos would need to “take some huge steps” to regain public trust. “This is troubling in so many ways," he said. "Certainly, he’s lied repeatedly."

Lake, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who lost to Hobbs in November, previously filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the election.

From "red wave" predictions that never materialized to a Democratic meltdown in New York to election-denier losses across the country, this year's elections were full of surprises.

"Enough really is enough," Maricopa County said in its motion, which Hobbs signed on to, after an Arizona judge denied Lake’s bid to reverse her defeat in the governor's race.