Kari Lake contemplates Senate run

Kari Lake, still fighting to show that the 2022 Arizona governor’s race was crooked, said she might enter the Republican Senate primary race – though she insists she will keep her election fraud case alive.

Kari Lake for Senate?

The candidate broached a Senate run in an interview for Breitbart News for the outlet’s Fourth of July Special. (Breitbart has a news channel on Sirius XM, the popular satellite radio service.) Matthew Boyle, Washington Bureau Chief for Breitbart, asked her whether she was considering running for office again. She took pains to say that she has not withdrawn and will not withdraw her election fraud complaint. As she told the interviewer, she has an active appeal pending with the Arizona Supreme Court.

Then she said she was “considering” running for the U.S. Senate. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) is up for re-election. Already at least one Democrat (Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.) has announced for the Democratic Primary. Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona has likewise announced for the Republican Senate primary. So Kari Lake would have to fight him for the nomination.

Technically she lost the 2022 governor’s race, but she has been alleging election irregularities ever since. The case has been fraught from the beginning with an apparent desire on the part of the trial judge (Peter Thompson, in and for Maricopa County) to make sure she loses. To that end, according to Lake, he has been imposing burdens of proof beyond what Arizona election law actually requires.

Lake has written a book, Unafraid: Just Getting Started, about her experiences, her motives, and her determination. In the interview she shared an interesting – and disturbing – reason why she titled the book as she did.

Offer of a remittance

To put the matter bluntly, some “high-profile” person, whom she would not name, asked her, in so many words, how much some equally unnamed group could pay her to get lost.

Originally, I was going to name the book, I was going to title it Unafraid, and then I had a pretty high profile person come to my door and offer me money to put my movement on hold and my political career on hold — offered me a cushy job, nice paycheck, position on a board, and I said, “Are you kidding me? I left a cushy job…I’m not motivated by money.” And then the conversation turned, “Well, what would it take for you to not run for office again, at least until after 2024?” And I thought, “Oh my gosh, this is the kind of stuff of movies.’”

If these people, the political elite, want me out of politics so badly that they’re willing to bribe me, that tells me I need to stay in. So that’s when I decided to add the subtitle Just Getting Started just to give them a little bit of a fear because I’m just getting started.

Kari Lake made that allegation earlier (June 27) on Eric Metaxas’ radio show.

The “cushy job” she left was an anchor job at “Fox 10 Phoenix,” on Channel 10 in the Phoenix television market.

If she does enter the Republican primary, she would be a heavy – but not runaway – favorite to win. According to The Hill, an April poll showed her dominating a hypothetical four-way Republican field. Polling at 38 percent.

About the image

This portrait of Kari Lake by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 .