Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate/U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake accidentally admitted during a radio interview this week what everyone else has known for years: that her fact-free claims of election fraud are, and have always been, complete B.S.
In an interview with local Arizona radio station KTAR News 92.3 FM, the 54-year-old drag-hating MAGA queen talked at length about a range of issues–from dodging questions about abortion to saying Ukraine should basically surrender to Russia so everyone can go home and watch TV to accidentally admitting her claims that the 2022 gubernatorial election was stolen from her aren’t based in fact.
“I want to look forward, and these lawsuits are meant to make sure that going forward our elections are strong, that the people of Arizona have faith in them,” Lake said when discussing the mountain of court cases she’s lost over the last roughly two years.
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She filed her first lawsuit before her election even happened, in April 2022, when she tried to have electronic voting machines banned. She lost and her lawyers ended up being sanctioned by the court for making “false, misleading, and unsupported” assertions, as well as making claims without “an adequate factual or legal basis grounded in a reasonable pre-filing inquiry.”
Since losing her election by over 17,000 votes in November 2022, Lake has filed over half a dozen more lawsuits, each one claiming that the election was rigged, hijacked, stolen, miscounted, mishandled, blah, blah, blah. She’s lost every case and appeal, with numerous judges ruling there was no evidence to support her claims.
Nevertheless, she has persisted.
“Right now, when you look at … polling and you talk to people on the streets … Arizonans are deeply concerned about our elections and the integrity of our elections,” Lake told KTAR News 92.3 FM this week, without actually citing any specific polls or naming any of the “people on the streets” she’s allegedly talked to.
When pressed to say who stole the election from her, she acknowledged that, um, well, she doesn’t actually know. 🥴
“I don’t know who exactly stole the election,” she confessed, before quickly adding, “But there are a lot of people who are running elections poorly, and we’ve seen the results.”
In an appearance on Real America’s Voice this week, Lake spoke more about her legal troubles and claimed her opponents are now trying to shut down her current bid for U.S. Senate by filing lawsuits against her.
Specially, she mentioned Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who is suing her for defamation after she falsely accused him of being a criminal when she lost her race for governor. (Richer, we should note, is also a Republican.)
“I wish I could sit here and tell you everything’s fine and dandy,” Lake said. “It’s not. But I do know this, they’re trying to bring down President Trump. They’re trying to sue me into oblivion for speaking about elections.”
“If they felt they could rig the elections in a way they have done in the past, they wouldn’t feel the need to do that,” she added, somewhat incoherently. “So something in their system is starting to go haywire, and we’ll see what happens in this next election.”
Lake is currently running for U.S. Senate in Arizona against pro-LGBTQ+ Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who has been outraising her by millions of dollars. Meanwhile, incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent, has yet to announce whether she’ll seek reelection.
Sinema has until April 1 to register but has remained tight-lipped about her plans, telling Face the Nation recently that she’s “laser-focused on the policy, on actually solving real problems” rather than answering “endless questions” about November’s election. If she does decide to run, polls indicate she’ll lose handily and it could tip the election to Lake. God forbid.
As usual, people are getting fed up with her antics.
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Kari Lake is a total Gollum…….. “a small, slimy creature” who lived on a small island in an underground lake at the roots of the Misty Mountains. Over the years, Kari Lake’s eyes adapted to the dark and became “lamp-like”, shining with a sickly pale light.
Then she transformed into a republican whore who makes shit up.
Eric’s father has himself sued people into oblivion…see Sheena Monnin, Miss USA hopeful. And what limits did he respect when he sent the feds after Kathy Griffin?
This Republican shtick where they victimize people and then whine loudly about they themselves being victimized is past tiresome. I hope she does indeed get her comeuppance through the courts. She is a danger to civilization.
I think she wants to be white as a ghost but…well, let’s just say a DNA test might tell her a different story from the one she probably grew up hearing.
@abfab That’s still not what the headline claims though. Saying she doesn’t know who did the thing [that never happened] isn’t the same as admitting she made it up. Would be nice if she would actually do that, so she can stop wasting everyone’s time with this nonsense, but she probably raises too much money from people to stop, and I doubt her supporters would care even if she did.
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dbmcvey
But it won’t matter to the brainwashed MAGA cult.
abfab
Restrooms matter to them.
still_onthemark
“I don’t know who exactly stole the election,” she confessed…
Bilbo Baggins stole it! He s-s-stole it, my precious!
abfab
Kari Lake is a total Gollum…….. “a small, slimy creature” who lived on a small island in an underground lake at the roots of the Misty Mountains. Over the years, Kari Lake’s eyes adapted to the dark and became “lamp-like”, shining with a sickly pale light.
Then she transformed into a republican whore who makes shit up.
Fahd
Eric’s father has himself sued people into oblivion…see Sheena Monnin, Miss USA hopeful. And what limits did he respect when he sent the feds after Kathy Griffin?
This Republican shtick where they victimize people and then whine loudly about they themselves being victimized is past tiresome. I hope she does indeed get her comeuppance through the courts. She is a danger to civilization.
abfab
She’s dangerous! Armed and extremely dangerous!
abfab
If she actually talked to ”people on the street” (don’t you love that phrase!) she’d have a sun tan from the blistering AZ sun.
She’s as white as a ghost. A ghastly ghost.
Kangol2
Kari Lake, you mean?
I think she wants to be white as a ghost but…well, let’s just say a DNA test might tell her a different story from the one she probably grew up hearing.
abfab
Are you saying it’s all a fraud? I don’t believe it, I JUST DON’T BELIEVE IT! Dish the dirt sweetie!
someplace
I was looking forward to reading the pathetic loser’s accidental admission, so, where is it? The quote provided certainly ain’t it.
abfab
Read it over again.
Baron Wiseman
There isn’t one. Click bait
abfab
And as always, Barron takes the bait.
”When pressed to say who stole the election from her, she acknowledged that, um, well, she doesn’t actually know”.
someplace
@abfab That’s still not what the headline claims though. Saying she doesn’t know who did the thing [that never happened] isn’t the same as admitting she made it up. Would be nice if she would actually do that, so she can stop wasting everyone’s time with this nonsense, but she probably raises too much money from people to stop, and I doubt her supporters would care even if she did.