Kari Lake officially announced her entry into the U.S. Senate race in Arizona Tuesday evening at Jetset Magazine in Scottsdale. Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema, now an independent, is expected to run again, and Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) appears to have the Democratic primary locked up. Lake will face Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in the Republican primary. Over a thousand showed up for the event, filling the area outside the business. Former President Donald Trump appeared by video to endorse Lake.
Abe Hamadeh, who is still challenging his 280-vote loss to Democrat Kris Mayes in the attorney general’s race, gave a brief speech first. He slammed the politicians concerned more about their “decadent, self-serving cocktail parties,” In reference to his previous military experience, he said he was ready to be “down in the trenches” with Lake and the campaign.
Lake began her speech by saying she missed Trump as president, including his “mean tweets,” which were “keeping us safe.” She went after Joe Biden, “I’m about to put him on an Amtrak back to Delaware.” She said she didn’t care “where he wants to go … China, Ukraine, Iran.”
Lake addressed the recent atrocity in the Middle East, Hamas’ attack on Israel. “I’m worried about the same thing happening here,” she said. She cited the “thousands of young men” coming across the U.S.-Mexico border and the “heavily armed cartels going back and forth across the Arizona border like they own the place.”
She declared, “The cartels own Arizona!”
Lake said Biden was in Arizona two weeks ago, but “nobody cares;” he “stumbled off the plane” and “recited a few lines that somebody told him his handlers told him he had to say, but he never once uttered a word about the invasion of our southern border.”
Biden called MAGA “a threat to democracy,” she said, but “you, Joe, are a threat to America, and crooked Joe, you are a threat to the world.” She said, “Can you believe this on day one, he came in and he reversed President Trump’s policy that made us energy independent. I mean, what kind of a fool does that and that is what is leading up to the out-of-control inflation.”
She said, “No one has been hit harder [with inflation] than Phoenix.”
The senate candidate said Arizonans are forced to use credit cards to pay their bills.
“When President Trump was in office, we had record low mortgage rates. Now they’re at 8 percent and they’re climbing. And 75 percent of Americans say that things are going in the wrong direction,” Lake said.
She added, “We’re going right off the cliff now.”
As Lake does in every speech, she blasted her former colleagues in the media, labeling the packed risers with reporters at the back of the event as “propagandists back there in the media.” She asked, “Have you noticed how they like to build up the warmongers and the liars? And they like to tear down the peacemakers and the truth tellers.” “The news is full of crap,” she said. “It’s gone full-blown propaganda.”
