Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake said she isn’t “all that confident” that the 2024 election will be fair, delving into election denial conspiracies that landed her in legal trouble in the 2022 gubernatorial race.
In a Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” interview with Maria Bartiromo, Lake expressed significant opposition to initiatives to increase voter registration when people sign up for Medicare and Medicaid, alleging the process could be part of a scheme to generate bogus votes.
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“What they want is to have a line in the voter rolls so that somebody can vote for that person,” she explained. “That’s why they encourage them to register to vote when they sign up for Medicare and Medicaid, since they provide all of these benefits.”They’re asking them to register to vote. “Then they have a line on the voter roll, and someone will vote under that name.”
Lake further stated that she is “absolutely, one thousand percent” certain that the plan is to let noncitizens living in the country illegally vote in the 2024 elections. The “great replacement theory,” a white nationalist conspiracy theory, has long linked allegations of noncitizen voting. There is no record of noncitizens voting in considerable numbers in recent elections.
When asked about the 2024 election, she said she “wouldn’t be all that confident” in a fair result.
The language recalls her failed 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, in which she repeatedly falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen. She also rejected her own election loss to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D).
Lake and her campaign have been subjected to legal scrutiny several times as a result of their comments. A state elections commissioner this year launched a defamation claim against her for fraud conspiracies, ordering her attorneys to pay thousands of dollars in sanctions for pursuing bogus legal lawsuits.
Lake will face Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego (D) in what is likely to be one of the country’s most competitive Senate contests, with the Senate’s majority hanging in the balance. Gallego has marginally outperformed Lake in fundraising and polls. According to the Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling average, the congressman leads Lake by 4.1 percent.
