Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake says she’s “not that confident” the 2024 election will be fair, revisiting the election-denial conspiracy that threw the 2022 gubernatorial race into legal trouble. I stepped into it.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Lake strongly opposed efforts to encourage voter registration to enroll in Medicare and Medicaid, saying the process is part of a conspiracy to create voter fraud. He argued that it could be a department.
“What they want is to put a line on the voter rolls so someone can vote for that person,” she said of the concept. “That’s why they’re asking people to register to vote when they set up Medicare and Medicaid, because they’re providing them with all these services.” They register to vote. I’m asking you to. Then a line will be added to the voter list and someone will vote with that name. ”
Lake added that he was “absolutely 100 percent” convinced that the proposal was aimed at forcing noncitizens who are in the country illegally to vote in the 2024 election. Allegations of a no-referendum vote have been consistently linked to the white supremacist conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement Theory. There is no record of noncitizens voting in large numbers in recent elections.
Asked how he felt about the 2024 election, he said he was “not that confident” in a fair outcome.
The rhetoric is reminiscent of Arizona’s failed 2022 gubernatorial race, in which she consistently repeated false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. She also denied her loss in her own election after losing to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D).
The comments have repeatedly brought Lake and her campaign under legal scrutiny. Her lawyers have been forced to pay thousands of dollars in fines for filing fraud lawsuits, and she was disqualified from representing her in a defamation lawsuit filed this year by state election officials over a fraud conspiracy.
Lake is facing Arizona Representative Ruben Gallego (D) in what is expected to be one of the closest Senate races in the country, with the majority of seats at stake. Gallego had a slight lead over Lake in early campaign fundraising and polling. The average poll from The Hill/Decision Desk headquarters shows him with a 4.1 percentage point lead over Lake.
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