This sore loser needs to fuck off already:
It appears that Arizona’s self-proclaimed “real governor” may be setting her sights on next becoming Arizona’s next real senator.
No, I don’t mean the real real governor, Gov. Katie Hobbs.
I’m talking about the perpetually aggrieved unsuccessful candidate who runs around all day every day, telling anyone who will listen that evil Republican election officials stole her crown and set all of America on a path to becoming Venezuela.
Get ready, Arizona, for the Kari Lake Vindication Tour.
Laugh if you want but here’s the thing. She could actually win in 2024.
I am not kidding.
This weekend, CNN’s Kate Sullivan and the Washington Post’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, citing sources, reported that Lake is considering a run for the seat now held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – something she won’t decide until after she exhausts her appeals contesting the 2022 election.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who is paying attention.
Lake has not gone quietly since losing that November nail biter to Hobbs.
Since her defeat – both at the polls and more recently, in court – she’s become a full-time resident of Fantasyland, making the rounds of the far right’s stolen-election circuit to insist that she, not Hobbs, is Arizona’s “duly elected governor”.
That she, in fact, won in a “landslide”.
And Rep. Ruben Gallego (D. AZ-07) had the perfect response:
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) jabbed former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on Twitter on Monday amid reports that she is considering making a run for Senate.
“Arizona has a very strict resign to run law,” Gallego said, responding to a tweet from a CNN reporter that a source said Lake is thinking of running for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) seat in 2024. “It’s not possible for her to be Arizona’s shadow governor and a Senate candidate at the same time.”
Gallego referred to an Arizona state law that requires candidates for local, state or federal elective office to resign from any current elected or appointed position they hold unless they are in the final year of their term.
Lake notably refused to concede her election loss in the Arizona gubernatorial contest to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) in November. She mounted legal challenges to the results based on unproven claims that misconduct from election workers and voter disenfranchisement cost her votes, but they were dismissed in court.
By the way, here’s a recent poll showing what that race would look like with Lake in it:
Kari Lake, the Republican who lost the Arizona governor's race this past November, could beat both potential competitors Ruben Gallego and Kyrsten Sinema were she to run in 2024 for the latter's Senate seat, according to a recent poll.
The survey, released January 11 by website Blueprint Polling, imagined a scenario in which Sinema, a former Democrat turned independent who's held her Senate seat since 2019, runs for reelection against Lake and Gallego, a Democrat who represents the state's 3rd Congressional District.
Lake, who rumors say is considering running for the seat but has not confirmed this, polled at 36 percent, according to Blueprint, well ahead of the two rivals. Gallego trailed closely with 32 percent, while Sinema ran a distant third with 14 percent.
Running for the state's Senate seat would force Lake to admit she lost November's gubernatorial race to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Despite her defeat to Hobbs by over 17,000 votes, Lake has not conceded and has legally challenged the results of the race, saying that problems with the ballot printers in Maricopa County prevented her from winning.
It’s clear that Sinema is a spoiler here and a threat to our Democracy in a three person race. Also:
Little more context here:
Two years after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema voted against raising the minimum wage with an exaggerated thumbs-down, the Arizona Independent once again reduced political debate to an infuriatingly twee hand gesture.
This time, she initiated a high-five with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) over their shared refusal to reform Senate rules. At a World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland, Sinema denounced partisanship as “not healthy for democracy” before celebrating a process that stifles political action by requiring 60 senators’ approval before a bill can be brought to a vote.
“While some would say that there were reluctant folks working in Congress in the last two years,” she said, gesturing to herself a Manchin, “I would actually say that that was the basis for the productivity for some incredible achievements that made a difference for the American people in the last two years.”
“We still don’t agree on getting rid of the filibuster,” Manchin said.
“That’s correct,” Sinema said, tossing her hand in the air.
Gallego is showing no mercy here:
Gallego is expected to make his official announcement soon. Click here if you want to donate to Gallego’s campaign.