Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
ARIZONA -– Kari Lake will do or say anything to gain power, stay in the limelight, and advance her toxic agenda. As Kari Lake takes the stage at tonight’s Republican National Convention, she can’t hide her record of supporting abortion bans, denying elections, and calling for cuts to Medicare and veterans’ benefits.
Here’s what you need to know about Kari Lake:
Lake supports banning abortion and ripping away Arizonans’ freedom to make their own health care decisions:
- Lake supports Arizona’s “draconian” territorial ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, saying sheriffs should enforce the ban, and lamenting that it wasn’t enforced.
- Lake has a yearslong, on-camera record of calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, saying abortion is “not health care,” and she “very much support[s]” banning medication abortion.
- Lake says abortion is “killing,” “sacrifice,” “execution,” and the “ultimate sin.”
Lake continues to relitigate her failed 2022 gubernatorial election and the 2020 presidential election – even after national Republicans “urge[d] her to look forward:”
- As recently as last week, Kari Lake continued to deny the results of the 2022 election, asking the Arizona Supreme Court to “either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or ‘proportionally strike 275,000 ballots’” and declare her governor.
- The U.S. Supreme Court “brushed aside” Kari Lake’s request for them to “endorse a conspiracy theory” election denial case that has previously been described as “furthering false narratives,” “baseless,” and “reckless” – and it has resulted in over $100,000 in sanctions.
Lake has called for the federal budget to be cut by “50% — or better yet 75%,” which would trigger catastrophic healthcare cuts for seniors, families, and veterans:
- Kari Lake “proposes massive cuts to Medicaid and Medicare” in a “budget proposal [that] could imperil border security,” which would “gut Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits” and jeopardize healthcare for over 1.4 million Arizonans in Medicare, almost 1.5 million Arizonans on Medicaid, including children, and nearly half a million veterans living in Arizona.
Kari Lake’s quest to boost herself and stay in the “limelight” has been “raising eyebrows” as GOP Senators express concern that “Lake is not a strong candidate in Arizona:”
- Reporting shows “Lake keeps spending lots of time outside the state, much to the chagrin of Republicans.”
- Kari Lake’s Save Arizona Fund faces a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service, requesting an investigation to determine whether Lake has improperly used the organization for her own private benefit, in violation of its tax-exempt status.
- Kari Lake’s “limelight” chasing campaign is “raising eyebrows” for “how much attention she’s paying to her national profile” as doubts increase among Republicans that Kari Lake’s campaign is “making the kind of outreach to independent voters necessary to win a general election in Arizona.”