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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKari Lake was unflinchingly loyal to Trump. Then her campaign unraveled.
Washington PostPHOENIX After Kari Lake rode former president Donald Trumps endorsement to the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona, some of her aides and allies urged her to moderate her campaign to compete in the November election.
Advisers wanted her to focus less on Trumps false claims of voter fraud and more on homelessness, water independence and border security, according to people familiar with their counsel. Business leaders recommended that she tone down her MAGA message to create a friendlier climate for capital. Republican strategists asked her to stop denigrating early ballots, a method of voting once critical to Republican victories in the state.
In an August meeting at the state partys headquarters, GOP operatives delivered a warning, which was recalled by two attendees: Campaigns that failed to mobilize supporters to vote early would be at a disadvantage. After pushback from some members of Lakes team, the candidate herself spoke up. She said that True The Vote, the Texas-based group pushing unfounded claims of voter fraud, had told her to instruct supporters to mail in their ballots not put them in drop boxes as a way to confuse the Democrats.
The eyebrow-raising comment made clear to those present that Lake, 53, was a true believer, cocooned in a pro-Trump echo chamber.
She would never break frame, said a fellow Republican who spoke with Lake about her refusal to acknowledge Trumps defeat. Shed sort of look at you with a puzzled face and be like, But the election was stolen in 2020.
Advisers wanted her to focus less on Trumps false claims of voter fraud and more on homelessness, water independence and border security, according to people familiar with their counsel. Business leaders recommended that she tone down her MAGA message to create a friendlier climate for capital. Republican strategists asked her to stop denigrating early ballots, a method of voting once critical to Republican victories in the state.
In an August meeting at the state partys headquarters, GOP operatives delivered a warning, which was recalled by two attendees: Campaigns that failed to mobilize supporters to vote early would be at a disadvantage. After pushback from some members of Lakes team, the candidate herself spoke up. She said that True The Vote, the Texas-based group pushing unfounded claims of voter fraud, had told her to instruct supporters to mail in their ballots not put them in drop boxes as a way to confuse the Democrats.
The eyebrow-raising comment made clear to those present that Lake, 53, was a true believer, cocooned in a pro-Trump echo chamber.
She would never break frame, said a fellow Republican who spoke with Lake about her refusal to acknowledge Trumps defeat. Shed sort of look at you with a puzzled face and be like, But the election was stolen in 2020.
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Kari Lake was unflinchingly loyal to Trump. Then her campaign unraveled. (Original Post)
brooklynite
Dec 2022
OP
she is a victim of her own stupidity and hatred of our rights to vote, and that is poetic justice
Takket
Dec 2022
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Ray Bruns
(4,111 posts)1. She'll still go around blaming everyone else.
Srkdqltr
(6,322 posts)2. Mail their ballots to "confuse" the Democrats??
That is just too stupid for words
Sky Jewels
(7,140 posts)3. I don't get how this woman went from a rational, Obama-supporting anchor
to this ... a parody of a foaming-at-the-mouth Q-nut Trump humper.
viva la
(3,318 posts)6. Trumpism is a descent into a rabbit hole
of paranoia, resentment, and delusion.
She willingly jumped in.
GreenWave
(6,766 posts)8. She smells the $
Make her take a lie detector test on Maury!
Takket
(21,629 posts)4. she is a victim of her own stupidity and hatred of our rights to vote, and that is poetic justice
Javaman
(62,534 posts)5. She's dug herself a hole so deep, no light reaches the bottom
Shes nuts
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)7. You can't tell people that have this mentality of a rock anything. Next thing you know, is that she
will believe anything crazy. What got me was that she was 53 years old, supposedly old enough to know better by now, but obviously not.
kairos12
(12,873 posts)9. She is a Toxic Lake Of Maga lunatic lies and disinformation. She is vile.