Sometimes it pays to acknowledge the Head of the Table.
Fresh off her Arizona gubernatorial loss to Katie Hobbs and subsequent refusal to concede, Kari Lake was spotted in Mar-a-Lago with former President Donald Trump and WWE matriarch Linda McMahon. McMahon served in the Trump administration as Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
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Lake, who styled herself as a fervent supporter of Trump during the campaign echoing his unfounded claim that the 2020 election was “stolen,” has taken a further leaf out of his playbook and claimed that foul play deprived her of victory.
She has worked to assemble a legal team to challenge her loss.
“They had to do everything they could to stop us. Ballot harvesting. They had to shut down the machines on Election Day, but we know their tricks and they think they can slow and pour cold water on a movement. It is not possible people,” Lake told a cheering crowd at Mar-a-Lago.
A former news anchor for 22 years, Lake’s race with Hobbs dragged out days past election night and ended with her loss of 49.6% to 50.4% which multiple news outlets declared earlier this week. She was the latest in a string of Trumpist candidates to lose in the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump quickly embraced Lake’s election denialism.
“Wow! They just took the election away from Kari Lake. It’s really bad out there,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.
Lake endorsed Trump for 2024 after he launched his campaign on Tuesday. Since her defeat, she has focused on repeatedly claiming malfeasance in the 2022 midterm elections.
Political consultant Lorna Romero told the Washington Examiner earlier this week that Lake could have a path forward in Arizona politics if she lets go of the 2022 election and rebrands herself away from Trump. Lake was quick to reject that on Twitter.
“Never,” she said. Had she won Arizona, she may have found herself in the running mate conversation for Trump’s 2024 ticket.
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Trump’s early foray into the 2024 race earlier this week met with opposition from some conservatives, but Lake was adamant she would do everything she can to help him get back into the White House.
“I’ll tell you this right now. I don’t know what my future holds other than [that] I’m going to continue to fight for this country. But I will do everything in my power to make sure this man is back in the White House,” she told the crowd at Mar-a-Lago.
