For Immediate Release
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Contact: Olivia Taylor-Puckett, otpuckett@azdem.org
ICYMI: 12 News’ Square Off: “[Kari Lake] Has Losing Energy,” GOP Primary A “Collision Course”
PHOENIX -– The Arizona GOP Senate primary is already on a “collision course” and the potential frontrunners, losers Kari Lake and Blake Masters, haven’t even entered the race yet, per 12News NBC’s Sunday Square Off.
WATCH:
“‘Losing energy,’ ‘paranoid,’ ‘erratic,’ like ‘drunk people call[ing] their exes,’ – all ways Republicans are describing their own nightmare Arizona Senate primary candidates,” said Olivia Taylor-Puckett, Senior Communications Advisor at the Arizona Democratic Party.
Here’s what host Brahm Resnik, Republican activist Tyler Montague, and Democratic consultant Stacy Pearson had to say:
Resnik: What’s going on in the Republican primary for the US Senate? Daily Beast reported last week on a bizarre phone call between Kari Lake, loser of 2022 governor’s race, and Blake Masters, loser of the 2022 Senate race.
Resnik: The call was described as ‘intense,’ ‘paranoid,’ ‘erratic’ on both sides it seems. Are these two on a collision course in that primary? Could they both run or maybe neither of them will run?
Montague: All that can happen, I think if they both run, I think Kari Lake has more uh, name recognition and would probably win that primary, but she has losing energy. People don’t vote ‘no’ on somebody and then vote ‘yes.’ I think she can win the primary and lose the general.
Montague: And it’s weird that she would call Saturday night at 11 o’clock– that’s when drunk people call their exes.
Resnik: That’s when she reportedly, she called–
Montague: That’s when she called Blake Masters–
Resnik: Nothing good happens on Saturday night at 11 pm.
Montague: That’s right. So I don’t know how that’s going to shake out, it’s weird when Sheriff Lamb is kind of the sane guy in the race but I don’t, I don’t know uh, how that’s going to work.
Resnik: Is this a dream for the Democrats?
Pearson: Oh It’s fabulous.
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