She told you the 2020 election was rigged. She claimed that thousands of “illegal ballots” counted in 2022 meant that your vote didn’t matter.
And now she wants you to vote for her in 2024.
Kari Lake, the leading Republican candidate for U.S. senator from Arizona, spent the last year fighting unsuccessful court battles to overturn her 17,000-vote loss in the 2022 governor’s race to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Lake spent much of that campaign as a leading purveyor of the “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, who showered her with praise in 2022 and has now endorsed her Senate bid.
Lake, who has repeatedly claimed that she is the “true governor” of Arizona and has yet to acknowledge the fact that she lost, is one of several Republicans seeking office in 2024 who have spent the past year telling voters — without evidence — that elections in Arizona and other parts of the country are rigged against Republicans and that voting by mail is rife with fraud. Their message has been clear: Elections aren’t fair.