OXON HILL, Maryland — Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake heaped praise on former President Donald Trump as a “bull in a China shop” during a gala speech in which she repeatedly rejected the legitimacy of her electoral defeat last year.
Lake contended that there is a battle between the “globalists vs. we the people” and characterized Trump as the great champion on behalf of the people during a keynote address to hundreds of VIP guests at the Ronald Reagan dinner for the Conservative Political Action Conference. Her speech illustrated Trump’s dominance at CPAC.
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“Donald Trump not only warned us about it — he started to dismantle that entrenched globalist machine,” she said. “That man was a bull in a China shop. And I missed that man so much. That’s exactly what we need right now.”
Harkening back to the American Revolution, she suggested that the country was founded through a fight between “globalists vs. the colonists” and that “we still have that DNA from our founding fathers.”
She juxtaposed Trump with President Joe Biden, decrying the latter as weak. At one point, she suggested Biden had “blood on his hands for this young generation” due to the border crisis. She later postulated that Trump could’ve brokered a peace deal in Ukraine in “24 hours.”
Lake lamented her and Trump’s losses in their respective elections and alleged that fraud deprived them of victory. Election officials have repeatedly disputed those accusations.
“There’s no hiding it. There’s no sugarcoating it. They stole that election. The entire world saw that crime was committed in broad daylight on Nov. 8. They sabotaged Election Day,” she said, referencing her election specifically.
Lake lost to then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, narrowly 50.3% to 49.7% last year. Her defeat was certified by the state last year, and Hobbs has since been sworn in as governor, but Lake has refused to concede. Instead, she has embarked on a campaign to overturn her loss through the court system. This endeavor has so far been unsuccessful.
Lake also argued that the globalists “are trying to kill us to try to get rid of us,” referencing an incident in which a man threatened to drive a jeep through an event in Iowa.
“I’m not just the most dangerous politician in America when it comes to globalism — I’m the most dangerous politician in the world,” she later proclaimed, contending that she was a strong warrior against globalism.
Hundreds of people attended the gala at the Potomac Ballroom located in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. Attendees were served steak and salmon.
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Tickets sold for about $375 apiece but did not appear to fly off the shelf, with some remaining available a few days before the dinner took place. Guests largely dressed more formally than at the run-of-the-mill CPAC events, which were laxer in attire.
Numerous conservative darlings were spotted entering the reception, including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson from the conservative duo Diamond and Silk. Ineitha “Diamond” Hardaway died earlier this year.
