Now, Lake is using her Arizona campaign experience to catapult herself to Washington, D.C., as part of Republicans’ efforts to seize control of the upper chamber, which is narrowly held by Democrats. “The Senate is so critical right now. I mean, we don't know what's going to happen in this next election,” Lake said.
“There's a chance maybe we won’t hold Congress. Now, I believe we're gonna get President Trump in the White House. But God forbid that doesn't happen, the Senate is what is going to be holding our country together by a thread. So we have to make sure that the Senate is firmly in the hands of Republicans." headtopics.com
✓ The big picture: Lake is courting more establishment Republican support this time around, fielding meetings with allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and representatives from the Senate Leadership Fund and National Republican Senatorial Committee, Politico reports.
EXCLUSIVE — Republican candidate Kari Lake is facing one of the most competitive Senate races in the country as she prepares for a possible three-way contest in Arizona against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). But the staunch conservative isn’t backing down, saying many on the other side of the aisle may end up backing her bid instead.
Kari Lake says ‘disaffected’ Democrats and independents are key to her Arizona Senate bid
/ Source: dcexaminer
. . .The Senate election in Arizona is expected to be one of the most competitive races of the 2024 cycle. The election took on new significance late last year after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced she would be leaving the Democratic Party to instead identify as an independent, opening the door for a three-way race in a vital swing state.
Gallego has already announced his bid to challenge Sinema, which could threaten to split the Democratic and independent votes should the incumbent choose to run for reelection.“I think we have a really great opportunity,” Lake said. headtopics.com
Cami Mondeaux is a congressional reporter. She started with the Washington Examiner as a copy editor, later joining the breaking news team and eventually settling on the Congress beat. A Utah native, Cami graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 2021 and covered state government as a breaking news reporter for KSL News Radio.
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Kari Lake's lawsuit over metro Phoenix's electronic tabulation systems has been tossed out | AP News
FILE - Republican Kari Lake waves to supporters as she announces her plans to run for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat during a rally, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Scottsdale, Ariz. On Monday, Oct. 16, a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit brought by former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Lake that was previously dismissed, challenging use of electronic voting machines and sought to ban them in last year’s midterm elections. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit brought by former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake that was previously dismissed, challenging the use of electronic tabulation systems and that sought to ban them in last year’s midterm elections.
Lake and failed Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, both Republicans, filed a lawsuit in April 2022 that alleged the ballot tabulation systems were not trustworthy.
The former Phoenix TV anchor wound up losing her race by more than 17,000 votes while Finchem lost by over 120,000 votes.
In the ruling Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said their claims didn’t show “a plausible inference that their individual votes in future elections will be adversely affected by the use of electronic tabulation, particularly given the robust safeguards in Arizona law, the use of paper ballots, and the post-tabulation retention of those ballots.”
Messages left for lawyers for Lake and Finchem seeking comment on the appeal court’s ruling weren’t returned Tuesday.
Still pending is a ruling in another lawsuit that Lake filed this year demanding that Arizona’s most populous county release images of 1.3 million ballot envelopes signed by voters under the state’s public records law.
Lake is among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates promoting former President Donald Trump’s election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign.
While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She is campaigning for U.S. Senate and is regarded as a contender to be Trump’s running mate in his 2024 campaign.
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This story has been updated to correct that Lake’s lawsuit challenged the use of electronic tabulation systems, not voting machines.
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