From Banning Abortion to Denying Elections and Gutting Medicare, Lake is “Still An Extremist”
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
ARIZONA -– Ahead of tonight’s Republican Senate primary, here’s what you need to know about Kari Lake’s efforts to gain power, stay in the limelight, and advance her toxic agenda. Lake has a long record of supporting abortion bans, denying elections, calling for cuts to Medicare and veterans’ benefits.
Here’s what you need to know about Kari Lake:
Kari 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 Roe v. Wade to be overturned, saying abortion is “not health care,” and saying she “very much support[s]” banning medication abortion.
- Lake calls abortion “killing,” “sacrifice,” “execution,” and the “ultimate sin.”
Kari Lake continues to relitigate her failed 2022 gubernatorial election and the 2020 presidential election – even after national Republicans “urge[d] her to look forward:”
- Just this month, Lake asked the Arizona Supreme Court to “either order a new 2022 gubernatorial election, or ‘proportionally strike 275,000 ballots’” and declare her governor of the election she lost two years ago.
- The U.S. Supreme Court “brushed aside” 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.
Kari 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:
- 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 health care 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
Kari Lake is “still an extremist” who “[flirts] with political violence:”
- Lake encouraged political violence, urging supporters to “strap on a Glock” to prepare for the 2024 election.
- Lake made a campaign speech standing in front of a Confederate battle flag, continuing to push election conspiracy theories and standing alongside a legislative candidate who faces “allegations that he inflated his military background.”
- Lake said, “election fraud is just a watered-down whitewashed phrase for treason. It’s treason. They stole our government.”