“Abundantly Clear Lake Will Say Most Anything” To Gain Power

Monday, October 7th, 2024

ARIZONA -– Last week in Kari Lake’s “Best Dumpster Fire” campaign, Lake was “cantankerous, contentious, combative,” refused to admit that she lost the 2022 gubernatorial race, “blew” a chance to win over moderates, and was called out for it “[becoming] abundantly clear that Lake will say most anything if she thinks it’ll land her a seat in the U.S. Senate.”

Kari Lake will say anything to gain power, as pointed out by Arizona Republic Opinion’s Laurie Roberts: 

• “Just as it has become abundantly clear that Lake will say most anything if she thinks it’ll land her a seat in the U.S. Senate […] She believes that ‘all life counts’ … until her own political life is on the line?”

Kari Lake “had a chance to win over moderates and independents in the half-hour interview on PBS show. And blew it” by being “cantankerous, contentious, combative,” refusing to admit that she lost the 2022 gubernatorial race, saying “I never want to move on” from her court cases to overturn the 2022 election, saying the host had a “very short memory,” and “snapped” at him, saying “I have a great idea for you. When you retire here, you should go work for Kamala Harris:”

• “Kari Lake put on a seminar on Thursday night in her interview on KAET’s Horizon. I call it: How to Lose an Election in 30 Minutes or Less […] Arizona’s PBS station, meanwhile, is watched by the sort of voters she desperately needs to win over.”

• “Yet there she was on Thursday evening, swinging her rhetorical sledgehammer with giddy abandon as an audience likely filled with McCain moderates and independents looked on […] It was vintage Lake: cantankerous, contentious, combative. And, for a majority of voters, unlikable.”

See for yourself why Lake “blew” the interview by being “cantankerous,” “combative,” and “unlikable:” 

TED SIMONS: Last question on this, and again, I’m going to go back to the first question on this. I mean, you’re running for Senate, but it sounds like you think you are the governor of Arizona and you won that race. Get the line. Give us a definitive “I’m out of that. I’m into this.”

KARI LAKE: Well, I’m obviously running for US Senate, yeah. But I’m also fighting for transparent and honest elections.

SIMONS: We’re not going to get an answer, I think, regarding whether or not you still think you won the 2022 gubernatorial race, but that’s — I understand that. I want to move on —

LAKE: I think you can look back at every interview I’ve done, and you can figure out where I stand on it. But here we are, what? Five minutes into this.

LAKE: You know, let me just for a minute. Let me just for a minute, Ted. Let me just for a minute. You talk about me every week on the show, never invited me on. You get your group of liberal journalists, propagandists, and you talk a lot about the election. You can’t move on. 

SIMONS: Stock market is playing touch and go with record with record numbers here, and you’re saying the economy is, I think you’re quote was —

LAKE: You know what I have a great idea for you, when you retire here, you should go work for Kamala Harris, because you’d be a great spokesperson for her policies. 

SIMONS: Explain why you say the economy is falling apart when all these indices show that it’s not.

LAKE: I talk to a lot more people in Arizona than you do Ted, every day. 

LAKE: I’m sorry you have a very short memory and don’t remember that.

SIMONS: Actually, I don’t have a short memory. 

SIMONS: Please stop saying that. Please, stop saying. No, it’s not obvious at all. Please stop saying that it’s not true. 

LAKE: Well, you’re not for it. 

SIMONS: It’s not true.

LAKE: So you are for it. 

Simons: It’s not true. 

Simons: It doesn’t matter what I think. This is about you, Kari. 

LAKE: Well you are certainly making the argument for trying to get rid of him. 

SIMONS: No, I’m trying to get you to explain yourself. You better be able to explain yourself if you’re going to be United States Senator.

LAKE: Thank you, thank you, Ted. Thank you for lecturing me I appreciate it.

SIMONS: You betcha. You betcha. No problem. 

SIMONS: Okay, we’re running out of time here, but I got to ask you this, because, again, you’re going to the world’s most deliberative body. That’s where you want to go. That’s your goal here, to go to the United States Senate. Do you, and you have a contentious style. You’ve cultivated a contentious style. You’ve tried to be contentious with me. Do you think that Arizonans want that to represent them in the upper chamber of Congress on Capitol Hill? Is that what Arizonans want to see from their United States senator?

LAKE: I am not contentious. I actually am ,you know, I’m in a debate with you because you’re debating me right now, rather than asking just fair questions,. I think you’re kind of pushing back, and that’s why I’m treating you this way.

SIMONS: I had a viewer ask me to ask you, why do you think that is? And it could it be this confrontational style that turns people off?

LAKE: Well, I’m sorry if my personality turns you off, Ted.

Last week was “another day, another heaping helping of disaster” for Kari Lake as her campaign was awarded “Best Dumpster Fire,” over 100 Arizona moms launch a coalition against her, pundits said she is not an “intellectual powerhouse” and the “self-imposed stake to the heart of Lake’s campaign comes down to one simple thing: Likeability.”