{"id":1030523,"date":"2024-04-03T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030523"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:42:28","slug":"kari-lake-donald-trump-election-denying-maga-losers-who-are-too-extreme-for-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/kari-lake-donald-trump-election-denying-maga-losers-who-are-too-extreme-for-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Lake +\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump: Election-Denying MAGA Losers Who Are Too Extreme for Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ahead of Kari Lake\u2019s fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, <\/em>DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump won\u2019t show his face in Arizona, but he is still desperate enough for cash to let his fellow election-denying MAGA extremist fundraise at Mar-a-Lago. Lake is running on the same losing MAGA agenda of banning abortion nationwide, undermining our democracy, and putting fealty to Trump over the American people. Lake and Trump\u2019s delusions that they can win in the general election might play well at Mar-a-Lago, but Arizonans will reject them both again in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake is a notorious election denier who STILL won\u2019t accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and her own loss in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake has put false claims about the 2020 election at the center of her campaign \u2013 repeatedly and falsely declaring the election \u2018stolen\u2019 and even calling it \u2018disqualifying\u2019 and \u2018sickening\u2019<\/strong> that her top rival in the party primary wouldn\u2019t say the same. In an interview with The New York Times in early August, after primary voters had cast their ballots, Lake said of Biden: \u2018Deep down, I think we all know this illegitimate fool in the White House \u2013 I feel sorry for him \u2013 didn\u2019t win.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cLake was quick to brandish her Trump endorsement and criticized Robson for not rejecting the results of the 2020 election. Lake said the 2020 election was \u2018corrupt and stolen\u2019 and that Biden lost the election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cArizona Governor candidate Kari Lake, the Republican who recently received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, said she would not have certified the 2020 election results in the state. <\/strong>Trump lost Arizona by over 10,000 votes. \u2026 Lake has routinely echoed Trump\u2019s baseless claims of election fraud.<\/strong> \u2018Considering how much already at the time information we had about serious irregularities and problems with the election, I would not have certified it right then,\u2019 Lake said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake, the Republican defeated in Arizona governor\u2019s race, is formally challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs, asking a court to throw out certified election results from the state\u2019s most populous county and either declare her the winner or rerun the governor\u2019s election in that county. The lawsuit filed late Friday by Lake centers on long lines and other difficulties that people experienced while voting on Election Day in Maricopa County. The challenge filed in Maricopa County Superior Court also alleges hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally cast, but there\u2019s no evidence that\u2019s true. Lake has refused to acknowledge that she lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Duda, Axios<\/a>: \u201c.@KariLake called for @SecretaryHobbs to be imprisoned over fictional election rigging claims.<\/strong> \u2018Frankly, I think she should be locked up.\u2019 Crowd starts \u2018lock her up\u2019 chant. Lake says, \u2018I agree.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like Trump, Lake is an anti-choice extremist who would rip away reproductive freedoms if given the chance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201c[Lake said she] would support and enforce Arizona\u2019s pre-Roe ban on abortion, which would prohibit the procedure in nearly all cases and would criminalize doctors who perform it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that\u2019s already on the books. \u2026 It will prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we\u2019re going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cLake told Baier that she would \u2018very much support\u2019 banning abortion pills in the state.<\/strong> \u2018I think it\u2019s really scary that a young, afraid mother could be at home taking a pill without medical supervision,\u2019 Lake said. \u2018It could be the end of the mother as well.\u2019 While Lake expressed concern about women undergoing abortions without medical supervision, she supported the closure of all abortion clinics.<\/strong> Lake told Baier if she\u2019s elected governor, she\u2019ll let the Legislature pass laws \u2018to protect the unborn.\u2019 She noted that if abortion is illegal, it will be \u2018very difficult for abortion clinics to survive and be open.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake railed against the popular bipartisan border security deal that Trump directed congressional Republicans to reject.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cLake, a longtime Trump acolyte and MAGA star who lost a run for governor in 2022, didn\u2019t mince her words in talking about the bill in Phoenix over the weekend. \u2018She is crafting the worst border legislation that I\u2019ve ever heard of<\/strong>,\u2019 Lake said of Sinema. \u2026 \u2018This is a disgusting plan<\/strong> that includes giving more of our hard-earned tax dollars to Ukraine and nothing to stop people from going across.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Republic<\/a>: \u201cIn Phoenix, Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor who is running for Sinema\u2019s seat, hailed the bill\u2019s failure. She said it didn\u2019t include funding for a needed border wall <\/strong>and would have instead fueled war efforts abroad while ignoring the threat of fentanyl in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLake called the bill \u2018300 pages of pure garbage,\u2019 before tossing it in a waste basket placed near her podium.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI think [Republicans] are making a terrible mistake if they vote for the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cTrump made this clear when he reportedly urged Republicans in Congress to turn against the bipartisan Senate border security bill scheduled for a vote Wednesday so that he could keep the issue alive through the presidential election.<\/strong> His supporters have largely fallen in line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigator Research<\/a>: \u201cTwo in Three Americans Support the Bipartisan Immigration Deal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo in three Americans supported the bipartisan immigration deal reached in the Senate, but that will not be taken up for a vote in the House. \u2026 On the Republican approach to the recent immigration package, Americans\u2019 greatest concerns are that they are focused on the wrong issues and playing politics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe immigration deal earns support across party lines, including among three in four Republicans (net +58; 74 percent support \u201316 percent oppose), two in three independents (net +48; 64 percent support \u2013 16 percent oppose), and three in five Democrats (net +32; 59 percent support \u2013 27 percent oppose).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Trump pledges to be a dictator on \u2018day one\u2019 and parrots language used by Hitler, Lake is following his lead by spouting white nationalist talking points and embracing dictators.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Matters<\/a>: \u201cLake\u2019s connections to political extremists in the media are not new.<\/strong> A longtime local TV newscaster who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, she has appeared with a Nazi-sympathizing YouTuber, QAnon activists, and once endorsed a far-right, antisemitic streamer running for Oklahoma state Senate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Matters<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake has embraced numerous antisemitic media figures<\/strong> in the relatively short time that she has been in politics. These figures have said that Jewish people are \u2018lethal enemies of Americans\u2019 and \u2018must be stopped and then scoured from the continent\u2019; defended the Nazis as \u2018protecting their sovereignty\u2019; and said, \u2018I\u2019m not beholden to Jews.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cLake added that U.S. media is going after what she called \u2018the truth tellers and the peacemakers,\u2019 which she said included Trump and Hungary\u2019s populist prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/strong> \u2018I hear those two men talking about peace, but I hear the saber-rattling and the drum beat of \u201clet\u2019s start a war\u201d from a lot of these countries with globalist-type political leaders,\u2019 Lake said.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Republic<\/a>: \u201cKari Lake\u2019s immigration remark plays into racist ‘Great Replacement Theory<\/strong>,’ scholar says\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business Insider<\/a>: \u201cSpeaking at a convention of Georgia Republicans, Lake told hundreds of delegates that the \u201875 million Americans\u2019 who voted for Trump are armed and ready to defend him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of Kari Lake\u2019s fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, DNC spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: \u201cDonald Trump won\u2019t show his face in Arizona, but he is still desperate enough for cash to let his fellow election-denying MAGA extremist fundraise at Mar-a-Lago. Lake is running on the same losing MAGA agenda of banning abortion nationwide, undermining our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKari Lake +\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump: Election-Denying MAGA Losers Who Are Too Extreme for Arizona - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/kari-lake-donald-trump-election-denying-maga-losers-who-are-too-extreme-for-arizona\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-03T16:11:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T16:42:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/kari-lake-donald-trump-election-denying-maga-losers-who-are-too-extreme-for-arizona\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/kari-lake-donald-trump-election-denying-maga-losers-who-are-too-extreme-for-arizona\/\",\"name\":\"Kari Lake +\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump: Election-Denying MAGA Losers Who Are Too Extreme for Arizona - 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