AZ-SEN: Kari Lake pushes 'great replacement theory' [View all]
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake claimed without evidence Sunday that Democrats are allowing undocumented immigrants to flood across the border as part of a nationwide plot to pad voter rolls while registering that group for Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
The Republican front-runner echoed the "great replacement theory" favored by white nationalists as she mixed accusations of election fraud with welfare fraud to a credulous Maria Bartiromo on her “Sunday Morning Futures” show on Fox News.
Lake has repeatedly employed these themes, in part to explain her 2022 gubernatorial loss. Lake is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has urged Lake to focus on matters such as inflation and the rising number of illegal immigrant entries, not election denialism. On Sunday, Lake seemed to again conflate the border situation with election outcomes.
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