Kari Lake has been vying to be Donald Trump‘s VP pick for over a year, reportedly going so far as to move into a suite at Mar-a-Lago so she could be closer to the 77-year-old demagogue. But it now appears all her hard work may have been for naught.
Fresh off his victory in Iowa last night, the one-term, twice-impeached, quadruply-indicted ex-president took to the stage and basically said his #1 fangirl won’t be his #2 on the 2024 presidential ticket, should he win his party’s nomination.
“She’s terrific,” Trump said yesterday after he was declared the winner in the Iowa caucus. “She’ll be a senator, a great senator, I predict, right? You’re going to be a great senator.”
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Lake, who campaigned heavily for Trump in the Hawkeye State over the last several weeks, is currently running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona and is largely considered the frontrunner in her primary.
She responded to Trump’s shout out last night with a tweet thanking him for his vote of confidence.
“Thank you for the shout out, President Trump!” she wrote. “I can’t wait to help pass your incredible America First agenda in the United States Senate.”
Many have interpreted Trump calling Lake a “great senator, I predict” to be an indication that she’s officially off his list of potential VP picks.
But while she is the frontrunner for her party’s nomination for U.S. Senate, most polls show her losing to her likely Democratic Party opponent, pro-LGBTQ+ State Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is also outraising her like crazy.
Last quarter, the drag-hating MAGA queen reported a fundraising haul of $2.1 million. Gallego, however, raked in over $1 million more than that. He brought in a cool $3.3 million, expanding his campaign warchest to an impressive $6.5 million.
In addition to having an uphill climb ahead of her in the general election, Lake is currently ensnared in a defamation lawsuit filed against her by one of Maricopa County’s top elections officials who she falsely accused of tampering with the 2022 election results.
Stephen Richer, a Republican, is suing Lake for repeatedly saying he “sabotaged” electronic ballot printers and inserted 300,000 fake ballots into the Maricopa County ballot count, thus costing her the governorship.
Lake has tried to get the defamation lawsuit against her dismissed twice but has failed both times.
Last month, a judge has ruled her claims about Richer could be proved false to a jury and ordered the case to go to trial. Earlier this month, her lawyers asked the Arizona Court of Appeals to intervene and dismiss the suit.
But considering she’s lost virtually every lawsuit and appeal surrounding the 2022 gubernatorial election so far, we’re guessing this one won’t be any different.
With Lake almost certainly out of the running for the veepstakes, all eyes are now firmly fixed on Kristi Noem, who, like Lake, has been positioning herself to be Trump’s #2 for some time.
Speaking to Newsmax last fall, South Dakota’s gay-hating governor said she’d take the gig “in a heartbeat.”
“Trump needs a strong partner,” she said. “He’s gonna need somebody who knows what it’s like to run a business … also to have a wife, mom, and grandmother isn’t bad either.”
Last night, almost immediately after he was declared in the winner in Iowa, Noem took to Twitter X to congratulate him.
“Iowa spoke loud and clear. @realdonaldtrump has won overwhelmingly tonight. He got more votes than all the other candidates COMBINED,” she wrote.
“It’s time to unite the Republican party. We need to put all our time, treasure, and talents into defeating Joe Biden and taking our country back – NOT figuring out who is in 2nd place. Congratulations, Mr. President.”
Baron Wiseman
My favorite headline from last night:
‘Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Wins Iowa Caucuses’
Donald Trump has stated several times that he has already chosen his VP pick. When it will be revealed is unknown.
dbmcvey
Yeah! And Republicans don’t care how corrupt he is!
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
As usual, you are missing the point.
Brian
Yeah, he’s a “Florida Man.”
But it’s weird that he’s also a “coastal elite,” which the Republicans supposedly hate. He attended private schools (including the Ivy League), he lives in Manhattan, and he owns a lot of gold. Small town Republicans will say that they hate these “coastal elites” but they’re loyal to Trump.
Ronbo
Brian,
Instead of addressing what triggers conservative voters, this media and the Democrats have primarily focused on what DEMOCRATS find repugnant. Preaching to the choir misses the point all together. Why?
Consider that both of the leading candidates are working for securing more from and for the wealthy and elites. If they can keep the status quo they please their masters. “Nothing will fundamentally change,” helped Biden secure Wallstreet when tRump pandered to win saying that he would “Drain the swamp.” Both are draining it all over the rest of us.
If Biden would say, even if he didn’t mean it, that he would make fundamental changes, I’d give him a second chance. But what he IS saying, “Bidenomics” is just more of the same. A choice between a heart attack and a stroke, isn’t going to help either of us.
My best hope is for a medical emergency to trigger Dean Phillips or Marianne Williamson into the arena. Yet another poll yesterday shows Biden dropping an additional two points! If we can’t accept reality, it’s going to put us under a self-addressed dictator. Don’t forget that “dictator” only scares Democrats – not Republicans and the Independents who are hanging on by their financial fingernails.
Neither party FIGHTS for the middle-class and voters. Saying the words is only marginally better.
How is everyone liking Republican ACA which is the leading cause of bankruptcy in America? Even with the “Best” BCBS plan, I went into debt for just over $3,800 and can’t afford physical therapy 3X a week for 8 weeks at out of pocket and deductible charges of $138 a session. At least I’m only a few thousand dollars away from meeting my deductible. Oh, wait, I’m back starting a new year’s deductible.
dbmcvey
No Baron. I got your point. We all get your point. You’re a Republican.
dbmcvey
I think he’ll choose one of his sons, probably Eric. He dreams of being like Kim Jong Un.
Hi
Interesting to see of all Trump stories not one on the Georgia DA, Fani Willis, and her blatant misconduct and mishandling of the case.
What’s that famous line Democrats love, ‘No one is above the law’.
This corrupt to the core DA, went on to ruin one African American family due to an affair with the lead prosecutor. One she hired, and has reportedly been paid over $650,000.00. In which she enriched herself with lavish trips to Napa, cruises. And we will soon find out what else.
The prosecutor billing on some occasions 24 hours in one day, along with his shady meetings with the White House. Can we say election interference?
And the best part is he’s never prosecuted a felony case before.
Good luck.
Oh, and it should be a giant tell how many registered Democrats have switched over to the Republican Party. Tens of thousands. They get it.
Brian
Trump really did lose the election. And his actions in Georgia were criminal.
The rest is just tinfoil hat garbage. Go far enough down that road, and it eventually becomes mental illness.
Hi
Brian,
You said the same about those questioning the Covid lab leak theory.
And you were wrong then.
It’s Flip Flopping Fauci that has blood on his hands after all.
So please enlighten us. What is It that’s tinfoil hat when It comes to the DA’s compromised relationship with the lead prosecutor on the case?
Ronbo
HI,
Just repeating false info, doesn’t make it true. I suggest you YouTube “Deception Detection” and learn to identify fallacies. The sun came up the same day that all your comments allege, blame the sun. s/
ZzBomb
LOL “Tens of thousands”
Sure, the record low turn out for the Iowa caucuses didn’t even achieve tens of a thousands of people.
Everything else you said is either bunk or completely irrelevant to Trump’s criminal activity in Georgia.
Kangol2
Hi-ho, Fani Willis has already secured FOUR guilty pleas in Don the Con’s attempt to overthrow Georgia’s legit presidential election. Four closer advisors and coup plotters have pleaded guilty, so no matter how much sh!t you, FoxNews and others throw at the fan, that fact remains.
Also, you can tally all the alleged party switches you want, but the fact remains that yet again, in 2023, when we were told the GQP was going to romp, they fizzled like a wet fuse. Both parties are problematic but only one, the GQP, is a cult led by a treasonous psychopath, Don the Con.
Lastly, the lab leak theory remains unproved. What is provable is that Don the Con’s disastrous lies and poor response to the Covid-19 outbreak led to anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 excess deaths. That blood is on his tiny hands!
Baron Wiseman
@Kangol2
I’m surprised…I thought you liked your Trump vaccine. How many have you had? 4? 5? 6?
More Americans have died from COVID under Joe Biden’s administration than President Trumps’, and Joe Biden already Trump’s vaccine!
still_onthemark
Scari Lake didn’t think things through when she jumped into the senate race. It’s extremely difficult to run for a senate seat as a nominee AND run for VP at the same time (even if it’s legal in your state). Plus, she still needs to claim every day that she’s really the governor!
So when she loses the senate race, will she be the rightful governor who was cheated in a rigged election or the rightful senator who was cheated in a rigged election? OR BOTH???
Invader7
BOTH !!!
ZzBomb
I think the best part, and most revealing, about the Iowa caucuses was how few people turned out for the Republicans, only 14% of registered voters. A record low for what the right is trying to call a “very enthusiastic” campaign season. And on top of that, for how “popular” Baron Whataboutism tries to paint the orange pig, he only garnered 51% of the the caucus goers. The expectation was he’d have a blow out.
Once the convictions start rolling in he’ll become even less fit for office than he is already.
No one wants a convicted criminal for a president. Democracies don’t usually survive such events so it’s also telling how much people like Baron care about America as they are actively trying to destroy it.
Vote Blue and Keep Voting
Herman75
Gallegos may have outraged her like crazy,
but no one will out-crazy Crazy Lake.
Invader7
Another gop wack job bites the dust !!!