Failed
Alt-Right
2022
MAGA extremist election denier Republican candidate for Arizona
Governor. Experience:
Born in Illinois and
grew up in Iowa.
Lake worked as an anchor for KSAZ-TV (Fox 10
Phoenix) from 1994 to early 2021 and for other
anchor, weather and reporter roles for locations in
Illinois and New York). Kari Lake lost to Katie Hobbs by
17,000 votes in the
2022 General Election. Lake is running for election
to the U.S. Senate to represent Arizona.
She advanced
from the
Republican
primary on
July 30,
2024.
"A trio of
high-profile cases
filed by Arizona
Republicans
challenging their
losses to Democrats
in the 2022 election
are over. The
Arizona Supreme
Court on Wednesday
declined to hear
appeals brought by
Kari Lake,
Abe Hamadeh and
Mark Finchem
related to their
losses over two
years ago. The
decision brings
finality to the
cases two days after
another election in
which Arizonans
elected Hamadeh and
Finchem to other
posts."
"“We’re ahead of my
opponent, and I feel
comfortable with our
polling,” she
insisted. “Our
polling is a little
different. We take
polling, but we also
combine it with AI,
which reads all of
what’s happening on
social media and
across the
Internet.” Do you
have any idea what
that means? Of
course not. No one
does. It’s
meaningless
bullshit. It’s the
Internet equivalent
of Peggy Noonan in
2012 convincing
herself Mitt Romney
was cruising to
victory because
she’d seen lots of
yard signs for him
in Florida. Lake
might as well be
reading chicken
entrails or tarot
cards. This card of
a skeleton squinting
at its Apple Watch
indicates a great
upswell of support
on Threads,
therefore I’m
cruising to
victory."
"Arizona Republican
Senate nominee
Kari Lake on
Monday repeatedly
refused to answer
whether she lost the
2022 gubernatorial
race to Arizona Gov.
Katie Hobbs." [ . .
. ] " Pressed again
by Collins, Lake
said, “You’ve seen
thousands of
interviews from me.
I’ve answered that a
million times.” When
Collins raised that
Lake has not
directly answered
the question, Lake
replied, “Well, I
want to make sure
our elections are
run properly, and
I’m still in
litigation, so I
don’t want to speak
to that."
"GOP Senate
candidate Kari
Lake’s latest
effort to sling mud
at her opponent in
the Arizona race,
Ruben Gallego,
backfired — and
exposed her
desperate campaign,
weeks out from
Election Day."
"While discussing
Lake’s climate
change denial on
Wednesday night,
Gallego also called
her out over her
election denialism.
“She’s still in
denial about climate
change. We should
not be surprised by
this. She’s still in
denial about the
2022 election. And
now, I give you one
minute. You have one
minute. Will you
finally tell the
people of Arizona,
did you win or lose
that election?” “Can
we, can I talk about
water really
quickly?” replied
Lake, dodging the
question. “Because I
thought we were
gonna do water.”"
"Many Arizonan
Republicans have
been turned off by
the intense MAGA
rhetoric of former
President
Donald Trump and
Lake, one of
Trump's top
henchmen. While
some, such as former
Arizona Gov.
Doug Ducey, have
swallowed their
consciences and
endorsed the pair,
others have thrown
their support behind
Gallego and the
Democrats. That’s
led to the launch of
a “Republicans and
Independents for
Gallego” coalition.
Gallego’s campaign
website boasts a
section just for
Republican
endorsements,
listing almost 50
names."
"The media company
now alleged to have
been
part of a Russian
election
interference plot
featured interviews
with prominent
Republicans
such as a
daughter-in-law of
former President
Donald Trump,
one of Trump's
lawyers and a member
of Congress, a USA
TODAY review of its
content reveals.
Tenet Media’s
podcasts, broadcast
on platforms such as
YouTube, included
appearances by
Republican National
Committee Co-Chair
Lara Trump, who is
married to Donald
Trump's son Eric;
Rep. Brian Mast of
Florida; longtime
Trump lawyer Harmeet
Dhillon; and former
Trump national
security aide Kash
Patel. Other notable
Trump-supporting
guests who have
appeared on Tenet
Media include
Republican U.S.
Senate nominee
Kari Lake of
Arizona, former
Republican
presidential
candidate
Vivek Ramaswamy
and former
Democratic Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard of
Hawaii, who recently
endorsed Trump."
"Former President
Donald Trump was
apparently so upset
that his surrogates
were bogarting the
stage at his most
recent campaign
rally that he
communicated a
message to one of
them through a
teleprompter. While
stumping on Friday
night in Glendale,
Arizona, Republican
U.S. Senate
candidate Kari
Lake was given a
clear signal to
finish her speech
early so the former
president could
speak. Arizona
Republic national
politics editor Dan
Nowicki tweeted a
birds-eye view photo
of the rally stage
that showed Lake
speaking to a crowd
of supporters while
a teleprompter
message from someone
named "Colton"
instructed her to
"wrap asap" with a
timer showing that
her speech had gone
on for six minutes
longer than her
allotted time. "[P]lease
get off stage," the
teleprompter read.
"Trump waiting.""
"The Pinal County
sheriff and U.S.
Senate hopeful says
Lake tempted
him with an offer
she isn't even
authorized to make:
A position in
Trump's Cabinet."
"Lake
suggested the court
throw out Maricopa
County’s election
results entirely,
which would tilt the
race in Lake’s favor
by 20,000 votes.
Either option would
also upend—or negate
entirely—the results
of over 300 other
elections and 10
ballot propositions
sent to county
voters that year,
and the county would
be tasked with the
expensive and
exhaustive task of
running a special
election to obtain
the 2022 results
while simultaneously
administering the
2024 election."
"The Save Arizona
Fund was
incorporated as a
domestic nonprofit
in Arizona in
December 2022,
shortly following
Lake’s election loss
to now Democratic
Gov. Katie Hobbs. It
describes itself as
an “Arizona-based
non-profit social
welfare organization
operating as exempt
from federal taxes”
as a 501(c)(4)
organization. The
complaint filed this
week by Sanor claims
that the
organization has not
pursued those goals
but “instead
operates primarily
for the private
benefit of Kari
Lake” and
requested that if
the IRS finds they
have not been
“operating for the
promotion of social
welfare” that their
tax-exempt status be
revoked." [ . . . ]
"The Lake campaign
and Save Arizona
Fund did not respond
to a request for
comment about the
letter."
"Republican
U.S. Senate
hopeful Kari
Lake has
lost yet
another
appeal in
her effort
to overturn
the 2022
election for
Arizona
governor. "
[ . . . ]
"She’s been
unsuccessfully
fighting the
loss in
court ever
since, but
has lost at
every turn,
in the trial
and appeals
courts, as
well as in
front of the
Arizona
Supreme
Court. A
three-judge
panel for
Arizona’s
Division Two
Court of
Appeals
affirmed the
lower
court’s
rulings on
June 11, in
an opinion
authored by
presiding
Judge Sean
Brearcliffe."
Video shows Arizona Senate candidate repeating election-fraud claims at event with Confederate flag behind her
"Reached for comment about the video, a spokesperson for Kari Lake told the Guardian: “The Kari Lake campaign does not respond to British propaganda outlets. We stopped doing that in 1776.” In the video, Lake is heard repeating her baseless accusations of widespread election fraud in the 2022 gubernatorial race, which she lost to the Democrat Katie Hobbs. When a supporter told Lake that she actually won the 2022 election, she replied: “Of course we did. They stole our government.” In the months after the 2022 election, courts repeatedly dismissed Lake’s legal claims challenging the results of the gubernatorial race, and her lawyers were sanctioned for making “false factual statements”. In April, the US supreme court dismissed Lake’s lawsuit challenging Arizona’s use of electronic voting machines.""
"Kari
Lake had
a “meet and
greet” on
Friday with
Steve Slaton
at his
Trumped
Store in
Show Low,
during a
campaign
swing
through
northeastern
Arizona." [
. . . ] "Yet
there was
Lake on
Friday,
standing arm
in arm with Slaton,
a Republican
legislative
candidate
who parades
around
claiming to
have been a
combat
veteran.
Specifically,
an attack
helicopter
co-pilot
during the
Vietnam War.
According to
official
military
records,
however, Slaton
was a
helicopter
repairman
stationed in
Korea in
1974. He
didn’t even
join the
Army until
June 29,
1973 — fully
three months
after the
last U.S.
combat
troops left
Vietnam."
"Democratic
Rep. Ruben
Gallego has
consistently
said that he
opposes
allowing
anyone other
than United
States
citizens to
vote in
Arizona and
in federal
elections.
But in a
campaign ad
attacking
him, Arizona
Republican
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake misleadingly
claims that
the
congressman
“supports …
allowing
illegals to
vote.”"
"During
her
appearance
on
“Sunday
Morning
Futures,” Lake was
asked
about
her
confidence
in
the
legitimacy
of
this
fall’s
election,
and
she
claimed
she
wasn’t
“so
confident”
that
the
November
election
will
be
fair.
This
reflected
her
suggestion
ahead
of
the
2022
election
that
the
governor’s
race
could
be
rigged
against
her.
And
it
was
particularly
troubling
that
a
candidate
recently
advised
her
followers
to
strap
on a
“Glock”
in
preparation
for
what
Democrats
might
do
this
election
season.
In
her
Fox
interview,
she
also
raised
bigoted
claims
that
align
with
the
racist
“replacement
theory,”
accusing
liberals
of
offering
welfare
services
to
immigrants
to
recruit
them
for
election
fraud.
Such
claims
have
inspired
multiple
acts
of
racist
violence.
And
she
touted
“lots
of
lawsuits”
(seemingly
including
her
own
failed
legal
challenges
in
the
2022
election)
that
she
said
would
make
voting
in
Arizona
safer."
"U.S.
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake on
Sunday
announced
she
was
endorsed
by
state
Sen. Sonny
Borrelli,
a
Republican
with
a
history
of
domestic
violence
and
misogyny.
In
addition
to
Borrelli's
domestic
violence
incidents
years
ago,
in
March
the
Lake
Havasu
City
Republican
also
notoriously
suggested
that
women
should
put
aspirin
between
their
knees
as a
means
of
birth
control.
Borrelli,
the
Senate
Majority
Leader,
is
the
second
most
powerful
lawmaker
in
the
chamber."
[ .
. .
]
"The
backing
from
Borrelli
is
just
another
feather
in
Lake's
endorsement
cap,
which
also
includes
support
from
Sen. Jake
Hoffman.
The
powerful
Republican
is
among
Arizona's
11
fake
electors
recently
indicted
and
facing
nine
felony
charges
for
their
alleged
efforts
in
trying
to
overturn
the
2020
presidential
election."
"The
Supreme
Court
declined
Monday
to
take
up a
case
brought
by
Republicans Kari
Lake and Mark
Finchem over
the
use
of
voting
machines
in
Arizona
elections,
the
latest
blow
to
the
duo
of
GOP
candidates
who
have
seen
their
lawsuit
rejected
several
times.
Lake
and
Finchem
asked
the
Supreme
Court
to
review
a
federal
appellate
judge’s
decision
to
dismiss
their
case
last
October.
The
suit
sought
to
block
electronic
voting
machines
from
being
used
in
the
state,
questioning
their
accuracy
and
reliability.
Lawyers
for
Lake,
who
is
running
for
a
Senate
seat
in
Arizona
this
cycle,
and
Finchem,
who
is
seeking
a
state
Senate
seat,
argued
in a
court
filing
to
the
Supreme
Court
that
they
had
sufficiently
argued
that
all
“Arizona-certified
optical
scanners
and
ballot
marking
devices,
as
well
as
the
software
on
which
they
rely,
have
been
wrongly
certified
for
use”;
Arizona’s
voting
machines
had
been
“hacked”
and
“manipulated”;
and
that
there
were
apparent
discrepancies
in
the
Maricopa
County’s
vote
count
after
the
2020
election."
"Republican
Senate
hopeful Kari
Lake took
criticism
from
both
flanks
of
the
abortion
debate
during
a
visit
to
the
University
of
Arizona
on
Thursday
evening,
as
she
and
other
candidates
navigate
the
fallout
from
this
week’s
state
Supreme
Court
decision
upholding the
state’s
Civil
War-era
abortion
ban.
Lake’s
flip-flop
on
the
law
—
which
she
called
a
“great
law”
in
2022
but
now
opposes and
is
pushing
fellow
Republicans
to
repeal
—
illustrates
the
tricky
political
position
she
and
other
Republicans
find
themselves
in
on
abortion
policy
ahead
of
the
2024
election."
"CNN's
Kaitlan
Collins
takes
a
look
at
Arizona
Republican
Senate
candidate
Kari
Lake
and
other
state
politicians
who
have
seemingly
changed
their
views
on
abortion
or
spoken
out
after
the
Arizona
Supreme
Court
ruled
the
state
must
adhere
to a
century-old
law
banning
nearly
all
abortions."
"in
February
2022,
when Lake appeared
at a
candidate
forum
while
running
for
governor,
her
thoughts
on
the
near-total
ban
were
much
different.
“We
have
a
great
law
on
the
books
right
now,”
Lake
said
of
the
old
law,
which
had
become
unenforceable
under
Roe
v.
Wade.
A
month
later,
Arizona
passed
a
15-week
ban
in
anticipation
of
the
Supreme
Court’s
decision
ultimately
overturning
abortion
protections. If
Roe
v.
Wade
was
struck
down,
Lake
said
at
the
time,
“we
will
be a
state
where
we
will
not
be
taking
the
lives
of
our
unborn
anymore.”"
"Richer
celebrated
it
as a
victory.
“For
a
person
who
both
says
she
never
surrenders,
and
who
claims
she
has
all
the
evidence
at
her
disposal—I
think
it’s
fairly
telling,”
he
said.
In a
tweet,
Richer
called Lake’s
motion
a
“[c]omplete
and
total
surrender
on
liability”
for
defamation.
“Meaning
it
was
always
all
B.S.,”
he
added."
"Kari
Lake,
the
Republican
candidate
for
Senate
in
Arizona,
wants
the
Supreme
Court
to
upend
how
Americans
vote
by
declaring
it
unconstitutional
for
voters
to
cast
their
ballots
through
electronic
voting
systems.
Attorneys
for
Lake
and
former
Arizona
state
Representative Mark
Finchem filed
a
petition
with
the
Supreme
Court
on
Thursday,
asking
the
court
to
revive
their
2022
lawsuit
challenging
the
use
of
electronic
voting
machines
in
Arizona.
It
had
been
slammed
by
judges
as
"frivolous"
at
the
time.
In
the
new
filing,
attorney
Lawrence
Joseph
asked
the
Supreme
Court
to
give
the
Arizona
Republicans
a do
over"
[ .
. .
]
"The
petition
is
the
latest
development
that
continues
to
drag
out
the
now
two-year
fight
over
Arizona's
election
system.
The
plaintiffs
are
asking
the
Supreme
Court
to
declare
it
unconstitutional
"for
any
public
election
to
be
conducted
using
any
model
of
electronic
voting
system
to
cast
or
tabulate
votes.""
Wade Searle poses with Kari Lake at a March 3 event that Lake, a GOP candidate for Senate, held for campaign volunteers.
"Kari Lake grinned widely and flashed a thumbs up as she posed for a photo March 3 with a far-right political operative who is reportedly a fervent follower and close associate of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. A few days before the event for campaign volunteers, Wade Searle, who worked as the digital director for U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar until shortly after he was unmasked as one the “strongest soldiers” for white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes, was standing almost directly behind Lake at a press conference where Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso endorsed her." [ . . . ] "Searle was outed by Talking Points Memo in May 2023 as a prominent member of the “groyper” movement, the name for a collection of young white nationalists who use online trolling tactics and aim to normalize extreme and racist views by aligning them with Christianity and so-called “traditional” values."
"Arizona
US
Senate
Candidate Kari
Lake’s
recent
financial
disclosures
reveal
the
former
news
anchor
has
taken
advantage
of
both
internal
and
external
opportunities
to
increase
her
personal
wealth.
In
addition
to
bringing
in
over
$75,000
in
speaking
fees
for
appearances
at
political
events
in
2023,
ZenVideo,
a
business
owned
by
Lake
and
her
husband,
Jeff
Halperin,
was
paid
just
over
$8,000
from
her
campaign
for
video
production
services,
according
to
the
Federal
Elections
Commission."
[ .
. .
]
"Halperin
is
known
to
be a
staple
of
Lake’s
political
work.
Often
seen
at
her
side
with
a
camera,
his
videos
are
used
as
social
media
posts
to
promote
her
campaigns.
And,
while
Lake
has
solicited
the
services
of
other
video
production
companies
for
her
Senate
run—$5,500
to
AZ
Media,
Inc.,
and
$550
to
Charles
Lemmon
Cinematography—the
lion’s
share
of
her
video
production
budget
has
been
reserved
for
family."
"Kari
Lake is
going
to
have
to
defend
herself
in
court
against
claims
she
defamed
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer.
In a
brief
order,
the
Arizona
Supreme
Court
rejected
arguments
by
the
failed
2022
gubernatorial
candidate
that
she
had
a
constitutional
right
to
make
the
comments
that
she
did
about
Richer
and
the
way
he
conducted
the
2022
election
she
lost
to
Democrat
Katie
Hobbs.
And
even
if
they
were
not
true,
she
said,
she
either
believed
that
they
were
or
that
the
claims
were
mere
"hyperbole,"
both
of
which
she
said
are
protected
against
defamation
claims."
[ .
. .
]
"That
means
Lake's
free
speech
arguments
have
now
been
rejected
by a
trial
judge,
the
state
Court
of
Appeals
and,
now,
the
state's
high
court.
That
leaves
her
nowhere
to
go
other
than
back
to
trial."
"Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is getting slammed for a racist social media post about Nikki Haley. After the former South Carolina governor suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday, the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and unhinged conspiracy spouter made a post on X, formerly Twitter, to mark the occasion. Refusing to refer to Haley by her middle name, “Nikki,” which she uses professionally, Lake instead called Haley “Nimrata,” a misspelled version of her birth name, “Nimarata,” in the post."
"Republicans
spent
decades
staking
out
increasingly
extreme
positions
on
abortion,
while
at
the
same
time
shooting
down
family-supporting
initiatives
like
child
tax
credits,
paid
parental
leave,
prenatal
care,
and
government-subsidized
child
care.
But
now,
as
it
becomes
abundantly
clear
that
their
extreme
forced-birtherism
is
marginally
less
popular
than
the
raw
vegan
tapas
booth
at
CPAC,
they’re
trying
to
pretend
they’re
not
Republicans.
Now
the
GOP’s
conspicuous
flip-floppery
has
found
its
exemplar
in
U.S.
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake.
Lake—a
key
proponent
of
the
Big
Lie
who
denied
the
election
results
in
her
own
losing
Arizona
gubernatorial
bid—wants
us
to
believe
she’s
had
a
genuine
change
of
heart
when
it
comes
to
forcing
her
would-be
constituents
to
give
birth
to
babies
they
don’t
want.
In a
new
interview
with
NBC
News,
Lake
tried
to
distance
herself
from
her
past
forced-birth
positions
like
Quint
scurrying
away
from
the
shark
at
the
end
of
“Jaws.”
Maybe
the
interview
wasn’t
quite
as
gruesome
as
that
scene,
but
then
“Jaws”
wasn’t
filmed
through
six
layers
of
gauze
and
enough
Vaseline
to
squeeze
a
Clydesdale
through
a
cat
door."
"Arizona
Senate
hopeful
and
inveterate
election
denier Kari
Lake pulled
off
a
coup
of
her
own
last
month,
dethroning
the
chair
of
the
state’s
Republican
Party
after
disclosing
a
recording
of
what
Lake
described
as a
bribe
offer
last
year
to
keep
her
out
of
the
race
to
claim
the
seat
currently
held
by
independent
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema.
At
the
time
the
recording
was
made,
Lake
still
had
a
financial
connection
to
that
ousted
GOP
chair, Jeff
DeWit—via
a
campaign
tech
startup
closely
tied
to a
top
MAGA-world
nonprofit,
a
company
whose
most
notable
characteristic
is a
glaring
absence
of a
political
paper
trail.
In
fact,
that
startup—called
“Superfeed
Technologies,
Inc.”—had
its
authority
to
do
business
revoked
by
the
state
of
Arizona
while
it
employed
both
DeWit,
its
former
CEO,
and
Lake,
who
reported
receiving
more
than
$100,000
from
the
entity
in
the
personal
financial
disclosure
she
filed
last
month."
"For
the
second
time
in a
month,
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake is
scheduled
to
hold
a
fundraiser
hosted
by
someone
who
has
promoted
the
QAnon
and
other
fringe
conspiracy
theories
online."
[ .
. .
]
"Lake
and
Sen.
John
Barrasso,
R-Wyo.,
the
chair
of
the
Senate
Republican
Conference,
are
scheduled
to
appear
Thursday
at a
fundraiser
hosted
by
Monica
and
Brad
Litle,
according
to
an
event
invitation
obtained
by
The
Arizona
Republic."
[ .
. .
]
"Monica
Litle
has
expressed
support
online
for
several
conspiracy
theories
not
backed
by
evidence,
according
to a
review
of
her
social
media."
"Meghan
McCain
said
on
Wednesday
she
isn’t
buying Kari
Lake’s
claim
that
all
of
her
jabs
at
John
McCain
were
merely
jokes.
“My
entire
take
on
this
situation
is
just
that
the
internal
polling
for
Kari
Lake’s
campaign
must
be
just
staggeringly
awful
and
scary
to
them
when
it
comes
to
Independents
and
McCain
Republicans
not
voting
for
her,”
she
said
during
a
Wednesday
interview
with
KTAR
News
92.3
FM’s
Outspoken
with
Bruce
and
Gaydos.
“There
is a
giant
swath
of
Arizonans
who
will
never
vote
for
this
woman
in
no
small
part
because
of
how
much
she
has
attacked
my
dad,
who
is a
beloved
Arizona
icon,”
she
added."
"Lake was
asked
who
stole
the
election
from
her
and
how
they
did
it.
She
noted
that
she
wasn’t
the
one
raising
the
issue,
then
conceded
she
lacked
the
details
of
the
'rigged'
election
she
has
widely
discussed,"
reported
Ronald
Hansen.
"'I
don’t
want
to
sit
and
look
backwards,'
Lake
said.
'These
lawsuits
are
meant
to
make
sure
that
going
forward
our
elections
are
strong.'
Pressed
again
on
her
allegation
of
theft,
Lake
said
the
elections
'are
run
very
poorly.'"
During
the
interview, Lake
also
suggested
the
United
States
should
abandon
Ukraine
and
claimed
that
using
medication
for
abortion
puts
women's
health
in
danger."
"Arizona
Republican Kari
Lake,
the
likely
GOP
nominee
for
Senate
in
Arizona,
is
headlining
a
campaign
fundraiser
hosted
by
the
wife
of
controversial
“finfluencer”
Grant
Cardone
this
month
in
Texas.
Elena
Cardone
is
the
longtime
spouse
of
Grant
Cardone,
who
oversees
a
real
estate
investment
empire
he
claims
is
worth
billions.
Grant
Cardone
and
the
firm
he
founded,
Cardone
Capital,
have
faced
scrutiny
and
a
string
of
lawsuits
over
the
alleged
exploitation
of
renters
and
accusations
that
Cardone
—
who
has
7
million
Facebook
followers
and
millions
who
follow
him
on
other
social
media
platforms
—
overhyped
his
investment
fund
and
lured
followers
into
expensive
contracts
for
his
programs.
HuffPost
reported,
in a
lengthy
investigation
in
July,
that
“court
records
from
lawsuits
involving
Grant
Cardone’s
training
programs
include
claims
from
former
clients
who
say
they
were
trapped
into
lengthy,
inflexible
contracts
that
they
were
unable
to
pay
for
or
get
out
of.”
But
none
of
the
legal
cases
so
far
appear
to
have
resulted
in a
determination
of
wrongdoing
against
Cardone
Capital."
"Arizona
Republicans
have
turned
on
failed
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake as
she
seeks
the
nomination
for
U.S.
Senate."
[ .
. .
]
"“I
don’t
trust
her
— I
am
done,”
said
Barbara
Wyllie,
an
81-year-old
lifelong
Republican
who
turned
on
Lake
after
a
recording
leaked
against
the
state
GOP
chair."
[ .
. .
]
"“When
she
did
that
to Jeff
DeWit,
it’s
like,
‘Okay,
she’s
wired
for
everybody,”
Wyllie
said."
"Kari
Lake,
the
Republican
Senate
frontrunner,
was
scheduled
Friday
to
attend
a
fundraiser
hosted
by
two
donors
who
have
expressed
support
for
the
far-right
conspiracy
theory
known
as
"QAnon."
[ .
. .
]
"The
donors,
Caryn
and
Michael
Borland,
have
promoted
the
“QAnon”
conspiracy
theory,
a
belief
system
centered
on
claims
made
by
an
anonymous
individual
known
as
“Q”
that
holds
that
former
President
Donald
Trump
is
fending
off
forces
of
evil
within
the
government,
often
involving
child
sex
trafficking."
[ .
. .
]
"According
to a
copy
of
the
event
invitation
obtained
by
The
Arizona
Republic,
the
fundraiser
was
set
for
Friday
evening
at
the
Borlands’
home
in
Prescott.
The
price
of
tickets
ranged
from
$50
up
to
$13,200
per
person."
"Arizona
US
Senate
Candidate Kari
Lake reported
$75,000
in
speaking
fees
last
year,
directly
contradicting
claims
by
her
campaign
that
she
isn’t
paid
for
public
speaking.
According
to
Lake’s
Jan.
30
financial
disclosure,
she
received
payment
for
the
following
speaking
arrangements
in
2023..."
"Former
President Donald
Trump and
failed
Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake were
blasted
by
columnist
E.J.
Montini
in
The
Arizona
Republic
Wednesday
for
relying
on —
and
fighting
to
perpetuate
—
chaos
at
the
border
as a
"campaign
strategy."
This
comes
as
President
Joe
Biden
and
Senate
Republicans
have
struck
up a
bipartisan
plan
that
would
tighten
border
security
and
implement
several
GOP
policy
goals
—
but
it
appears
headed
for
a
dead
end
as
Trump
heavily
lobbies
House
and
Senate
Republicans
to
kill
the
deal
and
Speaker
Mike
Johnson
(R-LA)
has
said
he's
unlikely
to
allow
it a
vote.
"A
bipartisan
deal
to
address
the
border
problem
is
the
best
thing
for
the
country,"
wrote
Montini.
"But
it
is
the
worst
thing
for
Donald
Trump,
who
has
made
the
border
crisis
the
key
element
— if
not
the
only
element
— of
his
campaign.
The
same
is
true
of
sycophants
like
U.S.
Senate
candidate
Kari
Lake,
who
follows,
head
bowed,
in
Trump’s
footsteps.""
"Arizona
Republicans
let Kari
Lake have
it
this
weekend
as
they
hurled
boos
and
jeers
her
way
at a
state
GOP
meeting
following
a
scandal
involving
her
and
the
now-former
head
of
the
state’s
party."
"“[Obama]
created
so
much
division,”
said
Brown.
“These
DEI
programs
–
they’re
negative
for
everybody,
including
Black
Americans.
Ben
Carson
was
one
of
the
all-time
great
surgeons.
Yet
now,
because
of
DEI,
when
you
see
a
black
surgeon
you
get
a
question
in
your
mind.
What
you
want,
is
you
want
the
blacks
that
are
on
top,
that
do
succeed,
to
be
there
on
their
merit.”
No
longer
trafficking
in
dog
whistles,
Brown
is
just
saying
the
qui[e]t
part
out
loud."
"The
head
of
the
Arizona
Republican
Party, Jeff
DeWit,
alleged
today
former
gubernatorial
candidate
and
presumptive
Republican
U.S.
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake blackmailed
him
into
resigning.
DeWit’s
resignation
follows
a
leaked
audio
recording
where
he
offered
Lake
employment
or a
“number”
to
step
out
of
politics.
Lake’s
audio
recording
and
DeWit’s
subsequent
departure
comes
days
before
the
party’s
statewide
mandatory
meeting
and
signals
a
growing
schism
in
the
state
and
national
party.
"
"Lake’s
superpower
is
that
she
can
spew
insanity
with
a
telegenic
smile,
whether
she’s
insisting
that
Trump
was
“the
real
winner
of
Arizona”
in
2020,
calling
for
journalists
to
be
locked
up,
defending
the
Jan.
6
insurrectionists
or
claiming
that
an
unspecified
group
of
“evil
people”
pushing
a
“globalist
agenda”
have
“unleashed
viruses”
and
“tried
to
shut
down
the
country.”"
"“Arizona
clearly
states
that
no
proof
of
citizenship
is
required
for
federal
elections,”
wrote
Musk,
who
owns
the
social
media
platform
X,
formerly
known
as
Twitter.
The
claim
was
misleading.
States
aren’t
allowed
to
set
those
kinds
of
rules
for
federal
elections,
and,
as
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer
pointed
out
in
response,
Arizona
is
the
only
state
with
any
proof
of
citizenship
requirement
for
state-level
elections.
Still, Kari
Lake,
the
former
gubernatorial
candidate
now
running
for
U.S.
Senate,
took
Musk’s
comment
in
stride.
“This
is
why
they
had
to
stop
me.
My
plan
to
shut
down
the
human
smuggling
and
their
open
borders
policies
would
thwart
their
agenda
to
register
illegal
voters,”
said
Lake,
who
continues
to
insist
without
evidence
that
she
was
the
rightful
winner
of
Arizona’s
2022
governor’s
race."
"Lake on
Thursday
offered
up
the
mother
lode
of
conspiracy
theories,
revealing
that
“they”
unleashed
COVID-19
in
order
to
stop Donald
Trump from
getting
reelected.
Sadly,
Lake
didn’t
disclose
who
“they”
are.
The
Jews?
The
Chinese?
Maricopa
County
Recorder
Stephen
Richer?
Lizard
people?
Heck,
maybe
they’re
all
in
on
it.
But
she
made
it
clear
that
there
is
only
one
person
who
can
save
us."
"During
her
journalism
career, Lake made
several
statements
supporting
trans
youth.
However,
throughout
her
political
career, Lake
has
become
anti-trans,
expressed
anti-LGBTQ+
views,
and
made
derogatory
comments
about
the
LGBTQ+
community. During
her
2022
campaign,
she
appeared
in
an
ad
with
a
pastor
who
called
LGBTQ+
people
“child
molesters.”"
"Despite
losing
all
of
her
court
cases
challenging
Arizona’s
gubernatorial
election
results,
the
polarizing
politician
claimed
Sunday
she’s
exposed
her
state’s
fraudulent
vote
counting
process
to
the
world."
"Senate
candidate Kari
Lake in
recent
weeks
has
issued
a
flurry
of
congratulations
and
sympathy
towards
participants
in
the
Jan.
6,
2021,
attack
on
the
U.S.
Capitol,
in
which
a
mob
of
supporters
of
former
President Donald
Trump violently
entered
the
Capitol
grounds
in
an
attempt
to
prevent
Congress
from
certifying
the
result
of
the
2020
presidential
election.
Like
some
other
Republicans,
Lake
has
suggested
that
prosecution
of
Jan.
6
participants
is
politically
motivated,
despite
a
wealth
of
evidence
and
court
judgments
that
many
participants
broke
the
law
that
day."
"Election
lawyers
for
failed
2022
Republican
candidate
for
governor
of
Arizona, Kari
Lake continue
to
face
disciplinary
action
over
their
efforts
to
overturn
the
result
of
Lake’s
election.
AZ
Central
reported
on
Wednesday
that
Kurt
Olsen,
Bryan
Blehm,
and
Andrew
Parker
were
all
order
probable
cause
orders
this
week
by
the
Attorney
Discipline
Probable
Cause
Committee
to
advance
investigations
into
their
conduct
that
would
likely
lead
to
some
kind
of
public
discipline.
“All
three
have
previously
been
sanctioned
by
judges
in
Arizona"
"Senate
candidate Kari
Lake is
no
longer
cheerleading
the
near-total
abortion
ban
at
the
center
of a
Texas
legal
fight.
Lake
once
said
she
would
sign
an
Arizona
version
of
the
Texas
law
“in
a
heartbeat.”
Kate
Cox,
a
Dallas-area
woman,
petitioned
a
judge
to
grant
her
an
exception
from
Texas'
abortion
restrictions
after
her
fetus
was
diagnosed
with
a
fatal
genetic
abnormality.
The
Texas
Supreme
Court
on
Monday
ruled
against
Cox,
overturning
a
lower
court's
ruling. While
campaigning
for
Arizona
governor,
Lake,
a
Republican,
praised
Texas’
abortion
law,
which
is
one
of
the
most
stringent
in
the
country.
"
"In key 2024 battleground states, some Republican Senate hopefuls have quietly shifted elements of their abortion positions." [ . . . ] "Lake — who could end up in a three-way general election against independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Democratic challenger Ruben Gallego — was one of the first and most prominent Republicans to shift her position on the abortion issue."
"An
Arizona
Republican
who
ran
against Kari
Lake for
governor, Matt
Salmon,
said
he
would
not
consider
supporting
her
without
"an
engraved
apology"
for
her
past
interactions
with
him."
[ .
. .
]
"Short
of
an
engraved
apology,
I
wouldn't
consider
helping
her
with
anything,"
Salmon
told
The
Washington
Post.
"She
employs
the
politics
of
personal
destruction,
and
she'll
say
anything—the
most
vile
things
in
the
world—to
get
ahead.
And
I'm
sorry,
I
just
can't
forget
that.""
""A
judge
has
rejected Kari
Lake’s
request
to
examine
signed
ballot
envelopes
of
1.3
million
early
voters,
giving
the
defeated
Arizona
Republican
candidate
for
governor
another
loss
in
her
third
trial
related
to
last
year’s
election.
In
an
order
filed
Thursday,
Maricopa
County
Superior
Court
Judge
John
Hannah
Jr.
argued
their
release
would
undermine
the
ballot
verification
process
in
future
elections.
“The
broad
right
of
electoral
participation
outweighs
the
narrow
interests
of
those
who
would
continue
to
pick
at
the
machinery
of
democracy,”
Hannah
wrote."
[ .
. .
]
"Lake
is
among
the
most
vocal
of
last
year’s
Republican
candidates
promoting
former
President Donald
Trump’s
election
lies,
which
she
made
the
centerpiece
of
her
campaign.
While
most
other
election
deniers
around
the
country
conceded
after
losing
their
races
in
November,
Lake
did
not.
She
is
openly
considering
a
run
for
the
U.S.
Senate
and
is
regarded
as a
contender
to
be
Trump’s
running
mate
in
his
2024
campaign."
"Now
that
it's
become
clear
to
the
MAGA
party
that
an
outright
ban
on
abortions
at
either
the
state
or
federal
level
is a
losing
strategy,
fake
Arizona
Governor Kari
"Soft
Focus"
Lake has
taken
a
U-turn
and
is
now
pretending
she's
always
been
in
favor
of
granting
certain
exceptions
for
abortion."
"Kari
Lake's
string
of
defeats
continues
as
the Donald
Trump ally
and
losing
Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate's
bid
to
have
the
Arizona
Supreme
Court
hear
her
election
lawsuit
was
rejected
unanimously.
Lake,
a
former
TV
news
anchor,
had
previously
tried
to
skip
the
Arizona
Court
of
Appeals
and
go
directly
to
the
State
Supreme
Court
as
she
tried
to
call
for
a
new
election
or
be
named
the
governor
despite
the
state
finding
no
evidence
of
the
widespread
voter
fraud
she
had
been
claiming."
[ .
. .
]
"the
Supreme
Court
rejected
Lake's
appeal,
with
Justice Bill
Montgomery writing
in
the
ruling,
"Appellant
Lake
does
not
show
good
cause
for
transferring
the
appeal
from
the
court
of
appeals,
where
the
matter
has
been
fully
briefed.""
The
failed
Republican
gubernatorial
candidate-turned-Senate-candidate
in
Arizona
has
seemingly
attempted
to
take
a
less
extreme
approach
on
some
issues
this
time
around
in
an
effort
to
woo
voters.
But
a
new
court
filing
submitted
on
her
behalf
should
end
speculation
that
she’s
anything
but
a
far-right
conspiracy
theorist.
And
that’s
because Lake is
still
trying
to
have
a
court
reverse
her
gubernatorial
election
loss
last
year
as
she
wages
a
bid
for
a
completely
different
office.
The
filing
Wednesday
claims
a
court
“can
and
should
set
aside”
the
2022
election
results,
in
which
Lake
lost
to
Democrat
Katie
Hobbs
by
more
than
17,000
votes.
Lake’s
filing
asks
the
Arizona
Court
of
Appeals
to
vacate
the
certification
of
last
year’s
gubernatorial
election
and
order
a
revote.
"
The
failed
gubernatorial
candidate
"has
begun
reaching
out
to
Republicans
she
attacked
last
year,
trying
to
mend
the
relationships
she
shredded,"
according
to
the
report,
however,
it's
still
"unclear"
whether
her
attempt
to
attract
necessary
GOP
support
will
succeed.
"Lake's
bid
to
make
nice
could
pay
off
if
it
at
all
weakens Sinema's
appeal
with
the
more
moderate
wing
of
the
Republican
Party,"
Politico
notes,"
but
"Sinema
has
not
decided
whether
she
will
run
but
she
has
strong
relationships
with
centrist
Republicans
in
the
state,
particularly
those
in
the
mold
of
the
late
Sen. John
McCain."
Ex-Arizona
state
House
Speaker Kirk
Adams,
a
Republican,
commented,
"Will
those
traditional
Reagan-McCain
voters
trust
the
new Kari
Lake?
That's
a
good
question.
She
went
out
of
her
way
to
offend
that
group
of
voters,
and
she
wore
it
as a
point
of
pride,
and
I
don't
know
if
people
will
change
their
opinion
of
her.""
"U.S.
Senate
candidate Kari
Lake has
embraced
numerous
antisemitic
media
figures
in
the
relatively
short
time
that
she
has
been
in
politics.
These
figures
have
said
that
Jewish
people
are
“lethal
enemies
of
Americans”
and
“must
be
stopped
and
then
scoured
from
the
continent”;
defended
the
Nazis
as
“protecting
their
sovereignty”;
and
said,
"I'm
not
beholden
to
Jews.”
Lake
is
part
of a
trend
of
Republican
politicians
who
have
promoted
antisemitic
media,
as
Media
Matters
has
documented.
In
Arizona
alone,
Rep. Paul
Gosar and
state
Sens. Wendy
Rogers and Janae
Shamphave
promoted
media
outlets
or
figures
that
have
praised
Adolf
Hitler."
"On this date one year ago, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” had its first profile of Kari Lake, a 2022 candidate to be the Governor of Arizona, a former local Fox News anchor whose name recognition made her an early favorite in the race, but who was hampered by being a raving loon that in any sane state, would not have a prayer of even sniffing a party nomination, let alone potentially winning the race.
While Kari Lake pushed herself to the fore of the primary by being the worst example of a human that she could be, there was one controversy that nearly cost her the nomination, and that would have been when she started railing against drag queens for “grooming” children. After a post she made on Twitter about “God having been taken out of our schools” (when a separation of church and state assures he wasn’t there in the first place) and “letting the drag queens in”, part of Lake’s past in her personal life came back to haunt her in the form of Richard Stevens, aka local Phoenix drag queen Barbara Seville.
Seems like either Lake was pretending to not be a terrible person then, or she’s pretending to be a terrible person now. Which, the latter kind of just makes you a terrible person."
"A
federal
appeals
court
rejected
an
attempt
by
2022
GOP
candidates Kari
Lake and Mark
Finchem to
stop
Arizona’s
use
of
electronic
voting
machines,
saying
the
claims
did
not
raise
a
“real
and
immediate”
threat
of
voter
fraud.
The
ruling
Monday
by a
three-judge
panel
of
the
9th
U.S.
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals
upheld
a
2022
U.S.
District
Court
decision
to
dismiss
the
suit
on
the
same
grounds.
It
was
the
latest
defeat
for
Lake,
the
failed
Republican
nominee
for
Arizona
governor,
and
Finchem,
the
party’s
failed
nominee
for
secretary
of
state,
who
have
mounted
numerous
legal
challenges
to
their
defeats.
Finchem
said
Tuesday
that
he
is
“not
at
liberty”
to
comment
on
the
ruling.
Lake,
who
recently
announced
a
2024
bid
for
U.S.
Senate,
did
not
immediately
respond
to a
request
for
comment."
"You
may
think Kari
Lake's
cuckoo
for
Cocoa
Puffs,
a
self-described
"proud
election-denying
deplorable"
who
lost
the
governor's
race
in
2022
to
Katie
Hobbs
by
more
than
17,000
votes
while
maintaining
she
was
the
real
winner
of
that
contest.
But
despite
her
pile
of
dismissed
lawsuits
challenging
the
governor's
race
and
her
sluggish
book
sales,
she
still
made
out
like
the
second
coming
of
Willie
Sutton,
raising
more
than
$2.5
million
even
after
Hobbs
kicked
her
tuchis
in
the
general
election.
Now
she's
gearing
up
to
run
for
the
U.S.
Senate
in
2024,
and
thanks
to
the
political
hubris
of
Arizona's
now-Independent
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema,
it's
shaping
up
to
be a
three-way
race,
with
Lake
as
the
likely
Republican
nominee,
U.S.
Rep.
Ruben
Gallego
as
the
Democratic
nominee
and
Sinema
running
for
reelection
as
an
indie.
Does
this
mean
Lake,
a
polished,
telegenic
fanatic
if
there
ever
was
one,
could
be
headed
for
a
seat
in
the
hallowed
halls
of
D.C.'s
most
exclusive
club?
Who'd
bet
against
her?
With
a
three-way
split
in
the
race,
you'd
be
crazy
to
do
so —
unless
Sinema
unexpectedly
takes
a
powder
and
doesn't
run
in
2024.
Here's
hoping
there
really
is a
Santa
Claus,
because
we
know
what
we
want
for
Christmas
this
year."
"Failed
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake and
secretary
of
state
candidate Mark
Finchem want
a
Ninth
Circuit
Court
of
Appeals
panel
to
reconsider
the
dismissal
of
their
lawsuit
seeking
to
ban
electronic
voting
systems."
[ .
. .
]
"But
attorneys
for
Secretary
of
State
Adrian
Fontes
and
for
Maricopa
and
Pima
Counties
point
out Lake
and
Finchem
have
yet
to
cite
any
evidence
of
hacked
tabulation
machines
in
Arizona."
"Ahead
of
Thursday
night’s
game,
the
Kansas
City
Boys
and
Girls
Choir
performed
the
song
“Lift
Every
Voice
and
Sing,”
which
is
considered
by
many
as
the
“Black
National
Anthem.”
The
song
was
sung
throughout
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and
has
become
and
important
part
of
Black
history
in
America.
But
conservative
politician Kari
Lake was
not
happy
that
it
was
played
before
Thursday
night’s
game."
[ .
. .
]
"“I
hear
the
@NFL
is
still
trying
to
force
this
divisive
nonsense
down
America’s
throats.
I
won’t
stand
for
it.
Literally,”
Lake
said
in
her
post,
re-sharing
a
photo
of
her
sitting
during
the
playing
of
the
song
at
the
Super
Bowl
back
in
February."
"Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) is primarily known for being a vocal election denier and one of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters. That is why she is considered to be on the short list of the former president’s potential running mates in the 2024 election. This week, she showed why she is so popular in the MAGAverse by taking to Twitter to make a statement that, even in today’s toxic political environment, is so reprehensible and mean-spirited that it needs to be highlighted and filed away."
"Kari
Lake is
knowingly
spreading
false
information
about
the
woman
who
beat
her
out
for
the
governorship
of
Arizona,
according
to a
local
news
columnist.
Lake,
who
has
repeatedly
been
called
out
for
spreading
fake
news
about
her
political
opponents,
recently
claimed
Democrat
Governor
Katie
Hobbs
"ran
a
sham
election"
and
that
she's
now
"using
her
illegitimate
office
to
order
her
illegitimate
AG
to
INDICT"
Donald
Trump.
This,
Lake
says,
is
"a
threat
to
democracy.”
The
only
problem?
Hobbs
doesn't
have
the
power
to
"order"
such
an
indictment,
and
Lake
knows
that,
according
to
AZCentral."
“I
have
a
message
tonight
for
Merrick
Garland,
and
Jack
Smith,
and
Joe
Biden.
And
the
guys
back
there
in
the
fake
news
media,
you
should
listen
up
as
well,
this
one’s
for
you,”
she
said
at a
speaking
event
in
Georgia.
“If
you
wanna
get
to
President Trump,
you’re
gonna
have
to
go
through
me,
and
you’re
gonna
have
to
go
through
75
million
Americans
just
like
me.
And
most
of
us
are
card
carrying
members
of
the
NRA."
"A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled against Kari Lake again on Monday.
According to court records, "Plaintiff did not demonstrate any lack of compliance with statute or the EPM," the ruling explained. Though it did acknowledge that she brought a "signature verification expert," but there was "no statutory or regulatory requirement that a specific amount of time be applied to review any given signature at any level of review."
Lake had the requirement to demonstrate “clear and convincing evidence,” to support her case. It's something the judge noted she hasn’t yet done in her lawsuits"
"The
Arizona
Supreme
Court
ordered
defeated
GOP
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake's
attorneys
pay
$2,000
in
sanctions
for
making
an
"unequivocally
false"
claim
that
more
than
35,000
ballots
were
"injected"
into
Maricopa
County's
total
after
the
election."
"Failed
Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake is
being
criticized
for
essentially
calling
for
an
end
to
the
Republican
primary
and
a
declaration
that
former
president Donald
Trump is
the
winner
who
should
take
on
Biden.
Lake's
Kari
Lake
War
Room
Twitter
account
recently
posted
that
Trump
"has
proven
his
conservative
bonafides,"
simultaneously
declaring
that
he
"is
going
to
win
this
primary
by a
considerable
margin."
Lake
is
known
for
her
faulty
claims
of
election
fraud."
"Kari Lake and her lawyers are asking the Arizona Supreme Court not to sanction them for their election challenge case because Lake “honestly believes that electoral misconduct and illegal votes determined the outcome of the 2022 gubernatorial election.”
The Supreme Court invited the defendants in Lake’s case, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, to request sanctions against Lake and her legal team for bringing frivolous claims to the courts that aren’t supported by the facts.
Lake is a Trump-endorsed Republican and 2020 election denier who lost the November race for Arizona governor to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes. Since the election, Lake has continued to assert, without evidence, that she is the true governor and that her loss was owed to intentional malfeasance from election officials who didn’t follow proper procedures."
A
Jan.
23
Instagram
post
(direct
link, archived
link) from former
Arizona gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake shows
a
claim
about
purported
election
fraud
in
the
2022
midterms.
"Officials
sabotaged
Election
Day,"
the
caption
reads.
"On
November
8th
– when
75%
of
votes
were
for @KariLake –
nearly
1/4
of a
MILLION
voting
attempts
FAILED,
according
to
the
system
log
files
that
were
obtained
via
FOIA."
The
post
generated
nearly
43,000
likes
in
less
than
a
week.
Lake
shared
the same
claim on
Twitter,
where
it
accumulated
over
22,000
likes.
The
latest
Arizona
Public
Opinion
Pulse
(AZPOP)
survey
by
OH
Predictive
Insights'
on
Thursday
showed
that
among
three-quarters
of
voters
polled
said
that
there
is
no
evidence
of
election
fraud.
This
includes
93
percent
of
Democrats,
58
percent
of
Republicans,
and
76
percent
of
independents.
[...]
"Regardless
of
the
narrative
of a
stolen
gubernatorial
election
coming
from Kari
Lake,
the
acceptance
of
Katie
Hobbs'
win
is
shared
in
majorities
across
party
lines,"
said
Mike
Noble,
chief
of
research
and
managing
partner
of
OH
Predictive
Insights.
"In
fact,
voters
are
20%
more
sure
that
the
Governor's
race
was
accurate
than
they
are
confident
in
the
midterm
elections
as a
whole."
Lake chatted
with
hosts
who
implied
Christians
might
need
to
resort
to
“bloodshed”
and
who
called
for
attacks
to
“destroy”
Pfizer
over
“Satanic”
COVID
vaccines.
Arizona
statute
is
very
clear
about
when
and
where
a
voter
signature
can
be
shared
or
replicated
or
reproduced,
or
put
online
or
used
in
social
media,"
said
Tammy
Patrick,
chief
executive
for
programs
at
the
National
Association
of
Election
Administrators
and
a
former
Maricopa
County
elections
official
"The
answer
to
all
of
those
things
basically
is,
'Never'
and
'Not'
and
'It
can't
be,'
with
very
few
exceptions."
[...]
"Under
Arizona
law,
"The
records
containing
a
voter's
signature...shall
not
be
accessible
or
reproduced
by
any
person
other
than
the
voter."
A
violation
of
the
law
is a
Class
6
felony
that
could
carry
jail
time.
"Here’s
a
new
strategy
for
Kevin
McCarthy
as
he
gradually
realizes
he
should
have
spent
the
past
15
years
working
on
the
world’s
largest
ball
of
twine
instead
of
trying
to
be
speaker
of
the
House:
He
should
just
say
he
won
and
is
already
speaker!
Italian
satellites
have
downlinked
to
Matt
Gaetz’s
head
and
are
forcing
him
to
do
weird
things.
A
loose,
feral
panda
ate
a
shipment
of
bamboo
ballots
and
has
been
crapping
out
counterfeit
Boebert
brains
like
watermelon
Pez.
Dude!
Just
say
you
won!
After
all,
mouth-frothing
delusion
is
the
Republican
way.
Enter Kari
Lake,
the
answer
to a
question
no
one
has
asked
for
almost
two
months
now.
Her
Arizona
gubernatorial
bid
ended
in
mid-November,
but
she’s
persisted
in
her
delusions
with
a
Trumpian
tenacity
that
would
be
simply
adorable
coming
from
a
6-year-old.
The
difference
being
that
a
6-year-old
would
eventually
move
on
to
more
productive
endeavors,
like
eating
random
wads
of
Play-Doh
and
refusing
to
climb
into the
back
of
Ted
Cruz’s
windowless
white
van.
But
Lake
has
shown
no
such
maturity,
and
as
the
actual
Arizona
governor-elect,
Katie
Hobbs,
prepared
to
be
inaugurated on
Thursday,
Lake
was
once
again
raging
against
the
dying
of
the
filtered
light.
On
the
right-wing
network
Real
America’s
Voice,
which
is
essentially
what
Fox
News
would
be
if
they
wore
their
Hitler
Underoos
on
the
outside
of
their
pants,
Lake
confidently
asserted
that
she
was
the
“duly
elected
governor”
of
Arizona.
Because
why
the
fuck
not,
huh?
Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake (R)
is
appealing
a
Maricopa
County
judge’s
decision
to
dismiss
her
lawsuit
challenging
her
midterm
defeat. Lake
filed
a
notice
of
appeal
Tuesday
in
Arizona
Superior
Court
to
contest
the
dismissal
of
two
counts
that
went
to
court
for
a
two-day
trial
as
well
as
other
counts
that
never
made
it
to
trial.
The
short
trial
found
that
she
didn’t
have
enough
evidence
to
back
up
her
claims
that
local
election
officials
committed
intentional
misconduct
that
impacted
the
race
between
Lake
and
Gov.-elect
Katie
Hobbs
(D),
which
Lake
lost
by
some
17,000
votes.
A
judge
has
ordered Kari
Lake,
the
Republican
who
lost
the
Arizona
governor’s
race,
to
pay
$33,000
in
fees
for
witnesses
who
helped
defend
election
officials
against
Lake’s
failed
challenge
of
her
defeat
to
Democrat
Katie
Hobbs
The
only
thing Kari
Lake revealed
in
her
post-election
lawsuit
was
her
own
serious
limitations.
And
now
she
is
damaged
goods."
[...]
Kari
Lake
went
to
court
to
reveal
what
she
believes
were
shadowy
forces
that
manipulated
the
Arizona
electoral
system
and
stole
from
her
the
governor’s
seat.
She
had
no
case.
She
had
no
evidence.
But
she
did
reveal
something
important
about
herself.
Her
extreme
limitations.
An
Arizona
judge
on
Saturday
rejected
Republican
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake’s
lawsuit
attempting
to
overturn
her
defeat,
concluding
that
there
wasn’t
clear
or
convincing
evidence
of
misconduct,
and
affirming
the
victory
of
Democratic
Gov.-elect
Katie
Hobbs.
Lake,
who
lost
to
Hobbs
by
about
17,000
votes
in
November,
sued
in
an
effort
to
overturn
the
election.
Maricopa
County
Superior
Court
Judge
Peter
Thompson
allowed
a
two-day
trial
on
some
of
Lake’s
claims,
which
concluded
late
Thursday
afternoon.
The
court
ruling
marks
a
major
defeat
for
Lake,
who
built
her
candidacy
on
her
support
for
former
President Donald
Trump’s
lies
about
widespread
election
fraud
in
the
2020
presidential
election.
She
has
since
falsely
claimed
to
have
won
last
month’s
election.
Lake
weighed
in,
saying,
“if
they
think
they
can
continue
to
steal
and
rig
elections,
they
are
messing
with
the
wrong
people.”
Of
course,
the
election
was
not
rigged
and Kari
Lake simply
lost
fair
and
square
to
Katie
Hobbs,
who
will
be
the
next
Governor
of
Arizona.
Kari
Lake,
the
losing
Republican
candidate
for
governor
of
Arizona,
filed
a
lawsuit
Friday
contesting
the
results
of
an
election
that
was
certified
by
the
state
this
week.
Ms.
Lake’s
lawsuit
came
after
she
had
spent
weeks
making
a
series
of
public
statements
and
social
media
posts
aimed
at
sowing
doubt
in
the
outcome
of a
contest
she
lost
by
more
than
17,000
votes
to
her
Democratic
opponent,
Katie
Hobbs.
That
loss
was
certified
in
documents
signed
on
Monday
by
Ms.
Hobbs,
who
currently
serves
as
secretary
of
state.
A
former
news
anchor,
Ms.
Lake
centered
her
candidacy
on
false
conspiratorial
claims
that
the
2020
presidential
election
had
been
stolen
from Donald
J.
Trump,
who
had
endorsed
her.
For
the
past
month,
Ms.
Lake,
her
campaign
and
other
allies
have
been
soliciting
Election
Day
accounts
from
voters
on
social
media
and
at
rallies.
The
increasingly
delusional
Arizona
Republican
Party
wants
Gov.-elect
Katie
Hobbs
to
be
investigated
for
'suppressing
free
speech.'
But
its
'bombshell'
doesn't
even
rate
as a
small
fizzle.
Arizona
loser Kari
Lake has
never
made
a
secret
of
the
fact
that
she
would
not
accept
defeat.
But
the
lengths
to
which
the
failed
gubernatorial
candidate
is
going
in
order
to
somehow
insert
herself
into
an
elected
office
that
the
majority
of
her
would-be
constituents
voted
against
seeing
her
occupy
is
getting
hella
creepy.
In
her
latest
desperate
attempt
to
remain
relevant,
the
former
TV
personality
has
invoked
God,
of
all
people.
Though
exactly
what
The
Almighty
has
to
do
with
Lake’s
failed
election
is
anyone’s
guess.
The
secretary
of
state
will
turn
Arizona's
governor
seat
blue
after
triumphing
over
Lake,
a
2020
election
denier
who's
already
casting
doubt
on
the
validity
of
the
2022
midterms
According
to a
report
from
the
Daily
Beast's
William
Bredderman,
Arizona
Republican Kari
Lake has
been
receiving
free
--
and
likely
illegal
--
campaign
assistance
from
a
tech
company
that
once
paid
her
for
"consulting."
At
issue
is
an
app
developed
by
Superfeed
Technologies
for
Lake
"which
provides
regular
updates
from
Lake’s
social
media
feed,
notifies
users
of
campaign
events,
and
connects
them
with
donation
and
volunteer
sign-up
portals."
CNN's
Anderson
Cooper
and
Daniel
Dale
discuss
Arizona
Republican
gubernatorial
nominee Kari
Lake's
recent
comments
denying
that
she
made
light
of
the
attack
of
Paul
Pelosi.
Lake
is
blaming
"creative
editing"
from
the
"fake
news
media,"
which
is
false.
"If Lake wins,
her
administration
will
oversee
the
2024
elections
in a
key
state
that
could
help
determine
who
wins
the
presidency.
She
could
work
with
the
likes
of Mark
Finchem,
the
far-right
Oath
Keeper
who
is
running
to
become
the
state’s
top
election
official.
Already,
she
has
said
she
will
only
accept
the
2022
election
results
if
“fair,
honest
and
transparent”
by
her
standards,
declining
to
say
whether
she
would
accept
defeat."
During
the
campaign
event, Lake referenced
a
widespread
conservative
talking
point
about
a
nonexistent
U.S.
Department
of
Justice
policy:
I
don’t
believe
parents
are
terrorists
at
all.
And
I’ll
tell
you
what.
If I
were
governor
right
now,
and
Joe
Biden
even
thought
he
was
gonna
send
his
FBI
or
DOJ
in
to
start
coming
after
our
parents,
they
would
be
met
at
the
airport
with
the
state
police
and
arrested
for
going
after
our
rights.
We
finally,
as
parents,
have
to
rise
up
and
say,
“No,
we’re
gonna
take
this
anymore
and
they
call
us
terrorists.
That’s
unbelievable.
We’re
in
an
upside-down
world
and
we
need
to
right
it.”
"Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake called
for
repealing
the
Affordable
Care
Act
at a
campaign
event
on
Monday,
bringing
up
an
issue
all
but
forgotten
by
her
Republican
Party."
The
political
action
committees
for
Southwest
Gas
and
Pinnacle
West,
Arizona
Public
Service’s
parent
company,
have
maxed
out
their
contribution
limits
to Kari
Lake,
Arizona’s
Republican
gubernatorial
candidate,
according
to
third-quarter
campaign
finance
reports
that
the
companies
filed
on
October
15.
Both
utilities
have
also
given
to
the
Republican
Governors
Association,
a
political
committee
which
is
supporting
Lake.
Southwest
Gas’s
Arizona
PAC
contributed
$5,300
to
Kari
Lake’s
campaign,
the
maximum
contribution
for
a
PAC
giving
to a
statewide
candidate.
Pinnacle
West’s
PAC
contributed
$10,600
to
Lake,
the
maximum
contribution
in
Arizona
for
PACs
with
“mega-PAC”
status.
According
to
Arizona
campaign
finance
reporting,
a
PAC
can
qualify
for
mega-PAC
status
through
the
Secretary
of
State
if
it
can
prove
receipt
of
at
least
$10
from
at
least
500
individuals
for
the
four
years
prior
to
applying.
“Nancy
Pelosi
—
well,
she’s
got
protection
when
she’s
in
D.C.
Apparently
her
house
doesn’t
have
a
lot
of
protection,” Lake said,
prompting
laughs
and
applause
from
the
crowd
and
the
event
moderator
beside
her."
It’s
an
ordinary
and
straightforward
negative
ad.
A
local
businessman
in
Phoenix
named
Justin
Erickson,
who
says
he’s
a
husband
and
father
of
five
children,
earnestly
complains
that
his
family
and
his
employees
are
“overwhelmed”
by
rising
costs,
and,
as
ominous
music
plays
in
the
background,
he
declares
defiantly
that
he
can’t
vote
for
Katie
Hobbs,
the
Democratic
gubernatorial
candidate
in
Arizona,
because
she’s
“too
liberal
to
be
governor.”
The
spot
was
paid
for
by
the
Yuma
County
Republican
Central
Committee
and
authorized
by Kari
Lake,
the Trump-endorsed
election
denialist
who
is
the
GOP
candidate
for
governor.
It
covers
the
Republican
basics:
A
seemingly
conscientious
and
decent
owner
of a
small
business—and
his
family—is
dealing
with
economic
hardship
and
feels
endangered
by
those
liberal
Democrats.
But
the
ad
leaves
out
important
information:
Erickson
is
not
merely
a
local
business
owner
concerned
with
inflation;
he
is a
homophobic
and
Islamophobic
pastor.
Lake has
frequently
campaigned
on
the
false
claims
that
the
2020
presidential
race
was
fraudulent
--
at
times
wielding
a
sledgehammer,
claiming
it's
for
suspect
electronic
voting
machines.
She
raised
the
subject
of
the
2020
race
in
her
interview
with
Karl,
wrongly
alleging
that
"2,000
mail-in
ballots
were
accepted
by
Maricopa
County
after
Election
Day
in
2020,
after
Election
Day."
Maricopa
County
election
officials
told
ABC
News
that
no
ballots
were
accepted
after
the
deadline
on
Election
Day
in
2020.
Some
ballots
that
were
scanned
the
next
morning
--
giving
them
a
post-election
timestamp
--
were
turned
in
to
the
office
on
Election
Day,
the
officials
said.
In
her
interview,
Lake
offered
other
unsubstantiated
and
disproven
claims
about
Arizona's
2020
race.
At
one
point
Lake
said
she
wanted
to
discuss
other
topics,
but
Karl
noted
she
was
the
one
who
raised
the
previous
election.
Ms Lake,
the
Republican
governor
hopeful
for
Arizona,
said
at a
campaign
event
on
Wednesday
that
Martin
Luther
King
Jr
would
have
been
a
so-called
“America
First
Republican”,
or a
Maga
acolyte,
were
he
alive
today.
After
Ms
Lake's
bizarre
comments
drew
people's
ire
on
social
media,
Martin
Luther
King
Jr's
daughter
tore
into
her
for
being
dismissive
of
her
father's
"seminal
work
and
beliefs",
such
as
ending
voter
suppression
and
treating
people,
including
immigrants,
with
dignity.
The
ad
opens
showing Lake and
says
she
will
“stand
with
Arizona’s
border
sheriffs,”
a
plea
to
anti-immigration
voters.
It
immediately
cuts
to
footage
of
marching
troops.
Those
troops
are
Russian
soldiers,
not
Arizona
National
Guardsmen.
Recently, Lake pounced
on
what
she
thought
was
a
fat
'gotcha'
moment
against
her
opponent,
Democratic
Secretary
of
State
Katie
Hobbs.
From
the
Arizona
Republic:
In a
three-minute
social
media
video,
set
to
dramatic
music
and
featuring
patriotic
visuals,
Lake
claims
that
if
Hobbs
is
elected
governor
“your
kindergartner
wouldn’t
learn
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance,
but
your
precious
5-year-old
would
be
taught
about
sex.”
But
her
suggestion
is
built
on
misrepresentations
of
Hobbs’
votes
and
the
content
of
various
Arizona
education
bills…
Lake:
“As
a
legislator,
Hobbs
actually
voted
to
block
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance,
our
National
Anthem,
our
Constitution,
the
Declaration
of
Independence
and
even
the
Mayflower
Compact
from
being
taught
to
the
next
generation
of
Americans
right
here
in
Arizona.”
The
bill,
which
was
approved
by
lawmakers
and
signed
into
law,
did
not
affect
the
portion
of
the
law
that
permits
school
staff
to
read
or
post
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance,
the
National
Anthem,
or
the
other
documents
Lake
identified,
experts
say.
“It’s
an
incorrect
claim.
It’s
a
charge
that’s
untrue,”
said
Paul
Bender,
a
law
professor
at
Arizona
State
University.
“She
voted
simply
not
to
add
to
those
things,
‘In
God
we
trust’
and
‘God
enriches’.”
I
wonder
which
bright
staffer
dropped
the
Mayflower
Compact
in
there?
In
Arizona?
I
remain
unsure
whether
Lake
believes
the
Mayflower
Compact
is a
new
model
of
Subaru.
In a
tweet
on
Wednesday
appearing
to
double
down
on
her
previous
accusations,
Lake
added
another
claim:
that
Hobbs
opposed
displaying
American
flags.
As
evidence,
she
cited
Senate
Bill
1289,
Senate
Bill
1020,
and
Senate
Bill
1152.
An
AP
review
of
these
bills
found
no
instance
in
which
Hobbs
voted
against
displaying
the
flag
in
schools.
It
shouldn’t
be
this
easy
to
pull
a
candidate
apart,
and
it
should
matter
more
that
it
is.
Lake
in a
governor’s
chair
is
like
putting
a
duck
at
the
controls
of a
747.
Lake hurled
accusations
at
Hobbs
in a
3-minute
video
posted
on
Twitter
on
Tuesday
afternoon.
“In
Hobbs’
Arizona,
your
kindergartner
wouldn’t
learn
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance,”
said
Lake.
“As
a
legislator,
Hobbs
actually
voted
to
block
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance,
our
national
anthem,
our
Constitution,
the
Declaration
of
Independence
and
even
the
Mayflower
Compact
from
being
taught
to
the
next
generation
of
Americans
right
here
in
Arizona.”
To
back
up
Lake’s
shocking
allegations,
the
video
showed
a
bill
that
Hobbs
voted
against
four
years
ago.
However,
the
bombshell
Lake
promised
was
proved
to
be
incorrect.
“Voting
against
this
bill
would
not
be
voting
against
the
national
anthem,”
said
Wes
Gullett,
former
chief
of
staff
to
previous
Arizona
Republican
governor
Fife
Symington.
Gullett
points
out
the
bill
Lake
refers
to
only
covered
adding
the
state
motto,
“Ditat
Deus,”
which
means
“God
Enriches,”
and
the
national
motto
of
“In
God
We
Trust.”
It
would
not
have
purged
anything
from
the
approved
list
of
materials
that
could
be
read
and
posted
in
Arizona
classrooms.
Given the fact that Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, worships at the altar of Donald Trump, I suppose we should not be surprised when she compares herself and other Trump disciples to Jesus, as happened recently.
It was during a political event in a religious setting.
Lake is not speaking at a podium, but at a pulpit, playing every bit the Christian nationalist, which these days is heavy on nationalism and light – if not totally lacking – in Christianity.
While complaining about President Joe Biden’s speech condemning radical MAGA cultists, Lake said, “You can call us whatever you want, Joe. You can call us extremists. You can call us domestic terrorists. You know who else was called a lot of names his whole life? Jesus.”
Strange how politicians like Lake invoke the name of Christ and then go on to say or do un-Christian things.
That's not what Jesus said about migrants
As Lake did from behind that same pulpit, smugly echoing her Dear Leader’s disdainful remarks about migrants, saying, “The media might have a field day with this one, but I’m just going to repeat something President Trump said a long time ago and it got him into a lot of trouble. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. And they are rapists and that’s who’s coming across our border. That’s a fact."...
Kari Lake - Fire the Fed
Kari Lake wants to fire the federal government. A vote for her could cost Arizona everything.
Trump-backed
GOP
candidate
for
governor
of
Arizona, Kari
Lake,
endorsed
Jarrin
Jackson
for
Oklahoma
state
Senate
on
Thursday.
The
endorsement
raised
eyebrows
across
the
media
as
recent
reports
have
uncovered
Jackson’s
long
history
of
anti-Semitic
and
homophobic
statements.
The
Oklahoman
reported
in
July
that
Jackson
“said
being
gay
is
‘disgusting,’
called
the
LGBTQ
lifestyle
the
‘gateway
to
pedophilia’
and
said
he
is
not
‘beholden
to
Jews’
in
posts
and
videos
on
right-wing
social
media
platforms.”
The
report
noted
that
Jackson
posted
on
Telegram
in
January,
“All
Jews
will
go
to
hell
if
they
don’t
believe
the
gospel
of
Jesus
Christ
…
just
like
everybody
else.”
He
added,
“I
love
Jews
because
Christ
told
me
to,
not
because
they
deserve
it.”
"Far-right
candidate Kari
Lake thought
she
had
the
upper
hand
when
her
campaign
tried
to
troll
Dee
Snider,
but
the
Twisted
Sister
front
man
wasn’t
going
to
take
it."
Someone
or a
group
of
some
ones
are
paying
Arizona
state
Rep. Jake
Hoffman more
than
$2
million
to
help
make Kari
Lake the
Republican
nominee
for
governor.
But
it
is
not
clear
who
is
doing
so.
And
campaign
finance
records
filed
last
week
only
deepen
the
mystery.
Hoffman,
through
his
company
1Ten,
has
produced
$1
million
worth
of
political
propaganda
promoting
,
according
to
campaign
finance
records.
His
company
has
also
produced
$1.1
million
worth
of
materials
advocating
the
defeat
of
her
main
rival.
Both
types
of
ads
were
ordered
by a
political
action
committee,
Put
Arizona
First,
which
claims
as
its
only
donor
a
medical
company
whose
owner
denies
making
the
contribution.
Elected officials and candidates for office in 2022 continue to challenge and question the results of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.
The results have been examined and re-examined, challenged in court and in a monthslong ballot review. No evidence has been found of widespread fraud or error in the results.
Yet candidates deny the outcome. Others don't quite go as far. But they raise questions about potential irregularities they say could have influenced the vote and should be examined.
The Arizona Republic is listing candidates by category by the race that they are entered in. This list is not complete and will be updated throughout the 2022 election season.
Election deniers
These candidates in Arizona races deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, either in Arizona or nationwide.
One of the Phoenix area's best-known drag queens is calling his former friend — Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake — a hypocrite after Lake weighed in on drag performances, the latest front in the conservative culture war.
Richard Stevens, who has performed for 25 years as Barbra Seville, said he was disappointed and decided to speak out after Lake tweeted Friday that "they kicked God out of schools and welcomed the Drag Queens. They took down our Flag and replaced it with a rainbow."
Stevens shared pictures and texts from Lake in several social media posts and said Lake had attended countless shows and private events over the decades of their friendship. He said he had performed as Marilyn Monroe in front of Lake's daughter when she was 9 or 10 years old.
"She's picked a side in the culture war, but her actions in the past don't support it," Stevens said in an interview. "Of course my feelings are hurt, but it just proves that she is a hypocrite. ... She's thrown away my friendship with her to get votes from people that would rather hate gays or hate drag queens."
Stevens is one more critic to say Lake is new to such conservative beliefs, accusations that have dogged Lake's year-old campaign and offered opportunity for her opponents to attack. Lake is running a Donald Trump-inspired campaign to replace Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and has used false claims the 2020 election was stolen as a signature talking point.
Republican
candidate
for
governor Kari
Lake at
a
recent
campaign
event
seemed
to
make
her
case
for
holding
the
state’s
highest
elected
office
by
pushing
her
bona
fides
as
both
a
witch
doctor
and
a
witch
hunter.
And
proving
in
the
process
that
she’s
as
incompetent
at
those
two
occupations
as
she
would
be
as
governor.
Trump-endorsed Kari
Lake is
still
running
in
the
GOP
primary
for
Arizona
governor,
and
she’s
still
coup-coup
for
the
Big
Lie.
She
doesn’t
even
consider
Joe
Biden
the
real
president
of
the
real
United
States.
That’s
why
she
calls
President
Biden
and
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
by
their
first
names,
like
they’re
the
help.
She
tweeted
the
other
day,
“Joe
and
Kamala
are
driving
the
country
into
the
ground.
I am
running
for
governor
to
keep
them
from
taking
Arizona
with
them.” She’s
not
just
rude,
though.
She’s
also
openly
seditionist. She
declared
that
as
governor,
she’d
close
her
eyes
and
ignore
everything
Fake
President
Biden
said.
[...]
Lake
has
already
said
she
wouldn’t
have
certified
Biden’s
victory
in
Arizona.
Outgoing
GOP
Governor Doug
Ducey did
because
he’s
apparently
a
RINO
who
obeys
the
law.
Lake
still
thinks
Arizona
was
stolen
from
Trump,
but
don’t
waste
your
time
waiting
for
evidence
to
support
those
wild
accusations.
Lake
doesn’t
need
proof
when
she
has
instinct.
Kari
Lake,
a
gubernatorial
candidate
for
Arizona
backed
by
former
President Donald
Trump,
said
on
Monday
that
she
would
fine
airlines
$1,000
for
each
time
they
enforce
mask
mandates
on
passengers
while
in
Arizona
airspace.
Apr.
12,
2022
Photo: Politifact
Kari Lake, a TV journalist turned Republican candidate for Arizona governor, is running with Donald Trump’s endorsement on a platform of rehashing falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. Lake disputes that President Joe Biden received 81 million votes even though the results were certified and accepted by Congress. Lake has spoken favorably of "decertification" of the vote in Arizona, a process that does not exist. She predicted a review of ballots in Maricopa County would show Trump as "the real winner of Arizona," but that review, orchestrated by state Senate Republicans, confirmed the official results that Biden won. Falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lake downplayed the cases of the defendants in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia. Lake was asked if she thinks the defendants should be pardoned, an idea floated by Trump. Lake said she would have no say in that as a candidate for governor, then added, "What I don’t like is that people are being held in prison without being charged. That’s un-American." "
"We contacted Lake’s campaign to ask for her evidence and did not get a response.
So has the government imprisoned people associated with Jan. 6 without showing any evidence of alleged crimes?No. Court records show charges filed against hundreds of people who assaulted or resisted police and disrupted Congress in an effort to overturn the election results in favor of Donald Trump.
When
CBS
5/3TV's
Dennis
Welch
in
June
asked Kari
Lake about
her
donations
to
then-presidential
candidates
John
Kerry
in
2004
and
Barack
Obama
in
2008,
her
response
was
to
trash
the
reporter.
[. .
.]
When
12News’
Brahm
Resnik
asked
Lake,
during
her
August
mask
protest
at
ASU,
what
should
be
done
about
a
surging
pandemic,
her
response
was
to
trash
the
reporter.
[. .
.]
Are
you
catching
on,
Arizona?
Let’s
just
briefly
revisit
Lake’s
disaster
of a
Down
Under
interview,
which
on
Sunday
evening.
Kari
Lake,
the
longtime
Phoenix-area
news
anchor
turned Trump-backed
candidate
for
Arizona
governor,
has
been
campaigning
with
a
man
who
pleaded
guilting
to
trying
to
hire
a
hitman
to
kill
an
FBI
informant.
Lake,
who
is
no
stranger
to
controversy,
has
previously
been
documented
campaigning
with
QAnon
followers
and
Nazi
sympathizers.
Salon
documented
Lake’s
latest
campaign
scandal,
noting
that
her
campaign
even
paid
the
convicted
felon,
Kenneth
Ulibarri,
$2,000,
according
to
recent
filings.
Igor
Derysh
reported
that
“Ulibarri,
a
repeat
violent
offender
who
pleaded
guilty
after
the
DOJ
accused
him
of
trying
to
hire
a
hitman
to
kill
an
FBI
informant
and
an
unrelated
state
charge
of
battery
on a
peace
officer,
spoke
at
Lake’s
“Stand
for
Freedom”
rally
in
Scottsdale
last
July.”
Kari
Lake,
a
Trump-endorsed
candidate
for
Arizona
governor,
has
been
an
aggressive
promoter
of
lies
about
the
2020
election.
Earlier
this
month,
she
joined
Trump's
spokeswoman
in
promoting
another
dishonest
claim
--
about
Wisconsin.
12
News
swiftly
handed
down
a
response.
They
had
not,
in
fact,
censored
Lake's
ad —
she
had
just
been
confused
about
the
time
range
in
which
the
ad
could
air.
"Lake's
media
buying
company,
Strategic
Media
Placement,
Inc.,
placed
one
commercial
spot
on
12
News
for
the
week
of
Feb.
21-27.
The
order
indicates
the
singular
spot
could
air
Monday
or
Tuesday
evening
during
the
10
p.m.
news,"
wrote
the
station.
"The
purchase
was
made
with
12
News
on
Friday,
Feb.
18."
Lake's
candidacy
for
governor
of
Arizona
has
been
fraught
with
controversy
from
the
start.
She
has
endlessly
promoted Donald
Trump's
"Big
Lie"
that
the
2020
election
was
stolen,
even
calling
for
the
arrest
of
her
most
prominent
Democratic
opponent,
current
Arizona
Secretary
of
State
Katie
Hobbs.
She
has
also
campaigned
with
a
number
of
fringe
figures,
including
Ethan
Schmidt-Crockett,
an
outspoken
Nazi
sympathizer
who
terrorized
a
wig
shop
for
cancer
patients
over
their
COVID
masking
policy,
and Ron
Watkins,
who
has
been
accused
by
some
cyber
experts
of
being
the
mysterious
"Q"
behind
the
QAnon
conspiracy
theory
movement
"On
Feb.
4, Lake shared
video
on
Twitter
of
comments
she
made
on
right-wing
journalist
Tim
Pool's
"Timcast"
podcast
on
Dec.
3
and
tweeted,
"The
Feds
have
ABANDONED
us.
When
I'm
Governor,
we'll
finish
the
wall
ourselves
in
defiance
of
them.
"
[...]
"what's
Joe
Biden
going
to
do?
Arrest
a
sitting
governor?""
Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who's running for governor, began her speech with the theme of some of the other speakers, praising America under Trump and listing its problems under Biden. As did others, she called Trump “president” and slammed the 2020 election as “rotten to the core.”
[...]
We are so blessed to have Donald Trump with us here today. We know the election was stolen,” state Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, said when she took the stage, echoing the sentiments of other speakers and crowd members, who cheered her in response.
[...]
Like-minded Trump supporters in the Legislature included speakers at Saturday's rally such as Rogers, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, and former representative Anthony Kern, who's running for the state Senate.
[...]
“They attacked Donald Trump because he exposed them and their evil deeds,” said Finchem, who's running for Arizona secretary of state, a position that oversees state elections.
[...]
On Dec. 14, 2020, Kern and 10 other Arizonans, including state GOP Chair Kelli Ward and Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, signed a document that was sent to Congress. All 11 people were listed on the general election ballot as the would-be electors for Trump.
[...]
Borrelli pushed back on the fact that the belief in widespread election fraud that stole the presidency from Trump in 2020 was a “conspiracy theory.” He said there was indeed a conspiracy, but he claims "it’s not a theory.” He said the problem was “obstructionists” who oversee elections at the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office and in Maricopa County. Borrelli said that many of his peers in the Arizona House and Senate were behind him and other election deniers and that they were going to “tighten up the loopholes that these commie (expletive) have exploited.” The crowd cheered as Borrelli claimed that the “shamestream media” were hiding facts like “ghost voters” he said were found to have voted in Pima County in 2020. Pima County election officials deny there were any widespread problems with the election.
[...]
Arizona Republican U.S. Reps. Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, the latter two national leaders in the spread of falsehoods over the 2020 election, also spoke at the rally
Lake has
never
held
elected
office
before,
but
she’s
quickly
risen
in
notoriety
during
this
race.
She’s
appeared
with
QAnon
activists
and
Nazi
sympathizers.
She
has
supported
a
secretary
of
state
candidate
with
ties
to
the
QAnon
conspiracy
theory
movement.
[...]
Lake
has
said
that
if
she
were
elected
governor
she
would
direct
Arizona
Attorney
General Mark
Brnovich to
open
a
wide-ranging
criminal
investigation
into
the
2020
election
where
he
would
“seize
all
election
material,
all
election
equipment,
and
he
should
start
questioning
people
immediately.”
She’s
described
Trump
as
“pretty
close
to
perfect”
[...]
She
says
she’s
a
“MAGA
conservative.”
Lake
checks
all
the
boxes
of
an
anti-vaccination
alarmist.
She’s
bragged
about
how
she
sought
ways
around
vaccination
requirements
when
looking
for
a
restaurant
to
dine
at
in
New
York.
She’s
bragged
that
she
has
not
gotten
a
Covid
vaccine,
“and
I
don’t
plan
on
getting
it.”
She’s
also
propagated
the
same
arguments
casting
doubt
on
the
safety
and
efficacy
of
vaccines—a
position
that
actually
puts
her
to
Trump’s
right.
“I’m
not
believing
a
lot
of
the
science,
so-called
science
coming
out
of
some
of
our
so-called
experts,”
Lake
said
in
mid-January.
Oh,
she
has
put
out
a
few
ideas
for
what
we
can
expect
if
she’s
governor,
but
they
are
more
campaign
slogans
than
actual
policy
plans.
She
would
“finish
the
wall,”
though
she
hasn’t
explained
how
she
would
pay
for
it
(maybe
she
could
bill
Mexico?).
She
would
arrest
“OSHA
goons”
as
soon
as
they
set
foot
in
Arizona,
though
she
hasn’t
cited
by
what
authority
could
place
them
in
handcuffs.
Finally,
a
few
weeks
ago, Lake offered
an
actual
policy
proposal.
She
would
install
cameras
in
every
public
school
classroom
so
that
parents
would
be
able
to
root
out
“woke”
educators
and
their
secret
plan
to
indoctrinate
our
children
in
leftie
ideas.
Candidates
generally
are
either
committed
to
evidence,
or
they
aren’t,”
said
Will
Humble,
director
of
the
Arizona
Public
Health
Association,
when
asked
about
Lake’s
most
recent
comments.
“Kari
Lake appears
to
be
in
camp
two.
At a
campaign
event
in
late
August, Lake posed
for
a
photo
and
video
with
far-right
personalities
Ethan
Schmidt-Crockett,
the
founder
of
the
AntiMaskersClub,
who
harassed
a
store
specializing
in
wigs
for
cancer
patients
this
summer
because
it
required
customers
to
wear
masks,
and
Greyson
Arnold,
a
Nazi
sympathizer
who
has
a
history
of
making
White
nationalist,
racist,
antisemitic
and
pro-Nazi
statements,
including
once
calling
Adolf
Hitler
"a
complicated
historical
figure
which
many
people
misunderstand."
An
anti-mask
mandate
rally
Friday
that
will
feature
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake,
staunchly
anti-vax
Sen. Kelly
Townsend,
and
various
other
high
profile,
far-right
politicians
has
settled
on
an
interesting
venue:
an
elementary
school
campus
in
Phoenix.
Lake has
baselessly
advocated
the
imprisonment
of
state
Secretary
of
State
Katie
Hobbs,
who
is
now
running
for
governor,
over
unspecified
election
crimes;
there
is
simply
no
sign
Hobbs
broke
the
law.
Lake
has
also
pushed
for
the
imprisonment
of
unspecified
journalists
she
claims
have
told
lies
about
the
election
and
other
subjects.
"According
to
Vice, Watkins is
a
longtime
QAnon
activist
who
started
a
website
about
aliens.
He
was
also
a
featured
speaker
at
Mike
Lindell's
Cyber
Symposium.
Many
believe
that
Watkins
is
the
man
behind
the
QAnon
movement."
Kari
Lake,
a
former
news
anchor
who
is
now
the Trump-endorsed
candidate
for
Arizona
governor
in
2022,
told
One
America
News
on
Friday
that
she
“would
not
have
certified”
the
votes
had
she
been
governor
at
the
time.
She
cited
debunked
lies
about
“serious
irregularities”
that
were
spread
by
the
likes
of
Rudy
Giuliani
Kari
Lake,
the
former
Fox
10
Phoenix
news
anchor
running
as a
Republican
for
governor
of
Arizona,
is
taking
advantage
of
Twitter's
inconsistency
with
a
string
of
irresponsible
tweets
that
have
no
business
on
Twitter
or
anywhere
else.
It's
the
best
of
both
worlds
for
her.
She
can
tweet
Trump-like
nonsense
to
appease
her
followers.
It's
sad
that
a
candidate
for
Arizona
governor
chooses
the
morning
after
an
Arizona
gymnast
wins
Olympic
gold
to
try
to
score
cheap
points
with
Republican
voters
by
dissing
Olympic
athletes.
Lake made
her
religious
beliefs
a
theme
in
both
the
resignation
video
as
well
as
on
her
new
website,
which
outlines
the
duties
of
Christians
in
their
beliefs
[...]
Lake
got
her
name
in
the
news
more
than
a
year
ago
after
she
shared
on
Twitter
a
video
where
two
California
doctors
promoted
lifting
that
state’s
shelter-in-place
order,
saying
that
COVID-19
is
similar
to
the
flu
and
that
isolation
actually
may
weaken
the
immune
system
[...]
She
also
sent
out
a
Twitter
post
in
January
saying
the
“First
Amendment
is
under
attack’’
after
Twitter
and
Facebook
first
suspended Donald
Trump’s
accounts
after
the
platforms
concluded
that
his
misinformation
and
lies
inspired
the
Jan.
6
attack
on
the
Capitol.
Kari
Lake went
viral
in
2019
for
bashing
Phoenix
New
Times
to a
colleague
while
defending
her
affiliation
with
the
far-right
Twitter
clone
Parler.
Now,
she's
ventured
even
deeper
into
the
shady
ecosystem
of
far-right
social
media,
joining
a
social
media
network
known
as
Gab
that's
favored
by
neo-Nazis
and
QAnon
cultists.
Lake,
a
news
anchor
for
Phoenix
TV
station
Fox
10,
took
to
Twitter
to
spotlight
a
recent
viral
video
in
which
two
California
doctors
promote
lifting
the
shelter-in-place
order
in
the
state
—
doctors
whose
claims
have
been
roundly
criticized
by
health
care
professionals
[...]
Citing
a
violation
of
its
terms
of
service,
YouTube
removed
video
The
Phoenix
television
anchor
who
once
peddled
a
conspiracy
theory
about
#RedForEd
has
done
it
again,
retweeting
an
unverified
claim
of
election
fraud
on
Sunday
from
an
anonymous
account
to
her
9,000
followers
