Wednesday, August 7th, 2024

ARIZONA -– This week’s anniversary of Kari Lake bragging that she “drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine” and her “embarrassingly close” primary serves as a reminder that Lake has repeatedly disparaged the late Senator John McCain and alienated Arizonans. 

Lake previously told McCain supporters to “get the hell out” of her event and claimed that Senator McCain was “reaching up from the grave trying to keep power in Arizona.” Her power-hungry politics and dangerous agenda demonstrate exactly why “no one is better than Kari Lake at alienating Republicans.”

WATCH:

KARI LAKE: “We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here do we? [audience boos] Alright, get the hell out […] John McCain may be dead, but he is reaching up from the grave trying to keep power in Arizona […] Rarely did he do anything good for the people, and the people are aware of that.” 

Read more about how Kari Lake’s power-hungry politics have alienated Arizonans: 

• KGUN: “Lake alienated many establishment Republicans during her campaign for governor, even telling ‘McCain Republicans” to “get the hell out’ of a campaign event, describing the late and beloved Arizona Sen. John McCain a ‘loser.’”

• The Gaydos and Chad Show’s Larry Gaydos: “No one is better than Kari Lake at alienating Republicans. No one is better than Kari Lake at alienating a large number of independent voters […] Kari Lake can’t win a general election. She’s kryptonite to general elections. She’s a joke.”

• 12 News Sunday Square Off: Matt Benson, Republican Consultant: “…There’s two plus years of record that’s going to come back at her in TV ads and what not from everything she said during the last cycle, including telling McCain Republicans like myself to get the hell out. So that’s gonna be, look, you can’t just snap your fingers and disappear it.”

• Tucson Sentinel’s Blake Morlock: “She’s told Democrats, moderate Republicans and one can only assume moderate independents that she hates them.”

• Arizona Mirror’s Jim Small: When you tell voters to ‘get the hell out,’ prepare to lose embarrassingly

• Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts: Kari Lake didn’t want moderate Republican voters, and it appears they’re returning the favor

• CNN Opinion: Opinion: Kari Lake told Arizona’s McCain Republicans to ‘get the hell out.’ They did

• The Washington Post: Kari Lake’s loss is the biggest blow to MAGA yet. “If there was a quip that defined Kari Lake’s now-failed 2022 campaign for governor, it was what she said about the late Sen. John McCain.”

• People: “Lake again noted that the Republican party was ‘the party of McCain,’ sneering her face before saying, ‘I know. Boy, Arizona has delivered some losers, haven’t they?’”