Kari Lake formally announces for Senate

Kari Lake, in the middle of her challenge of the governor’s race results from Midterms, announced a new campaign. She will run for the United States Senate, contesting the seat that Sen. Kyrstin Sinema (D→I-Ariz.) now holds. In fact, polls show she would already lead in a presumed three-way race against Sinema and a Democratic challenger.

Kari Lake makes it official

The former newscaster, who has been thinking about a Senate run for more than four months, announced her Senate run last night in Scottsdale, Arizona.

According to Jordan Conradson at The Gateway Pundit, more than 1000 attendees showed up early to hear her. Lake took the stage at 7:30 p.m. Arizona Time. (Arizona keeps Mountain Standard Time year-round, so that while Daylight Time is in effect, Arizona keeps Pacific Time.) Conradson described her entrance as “explosive.”

Earlier yesterday, Conradson reported poll results showing Kari Lake in a commanding lead over likely Democratic challenger Ruben Gallego. Sen. Sinema is a distant third to both her rivals.

These results show 10 percent undecided. Undecided votes ten to break for the strongest challenger.

Arizona does not run runoff elections. Fourteen months ago, Axios ran a retrospective on why that is the case. Arizona experimented with runoffs after the controversial election of Republica Gov. Evan Mecham (1986). But the runoff system blew up with Fife Symington’s 1990 race. The Legislature put it to the people, who went back to the plurality rule. Thus whoever gets the most votes, wins, majority or no. (This rule applies to State-wide races only.)

Sen. Sinema declared herself independent last December, citing the tendency of Republican and Democratic partisans to sideline those who do not toe the Party line.

Sen. Bernie Sanders ((I-Vt.) bitterly resented her move, which she likely had three reasons for making, all reflecting ill on Democrats.

About the image

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