Kari Lake’s lawsuit to overturn her defeat in the midterm election for Arizona governor was mocked by Democrat strategist James Carville, who told CNN’s Jim Acosta that her efforts to sow distrust in the electoral process may not be the biggest story in Arizona. needed.
“Well, there’s Lake Kari, there she is. She’s mindless and stupid and ignorant, Carville said on Sunday. “She’ll keep doing everything, every stunt she can to get attention. But I really don’t think this is the bigger story going out from here.
Trump endorsed GOP candidates on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging the certification of the gubernatorial election results, naming victorious incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer as primary defendants. After losing the race, Lake accused election officials of intentionally tampering with ballots, which led to “oppressively long lines” in Maricopa County on election day, affecting Republican voter turnout.
The lawsuit claims, “Lake received the largest number of votes and deserves to be the winner.” “Alternatively, the election should be rerun in Maricopa County to eliminate the effect of malpractices and invalid votes on the number of votes cast as reported by Maricopa County.”
Carville believes more attention should be paid to a ballot measure in Arizona that expands campaign finance disclosure and passed by another ballot measure as well as one that restricts non-profits living in Arizona. -Will allow US citizens to pay tuition rates at public colleges and in-state. universities.
“This is big news. Kari Lake being a mindless, right-wing idiot is hardly big or shocking news,” Carville said.
Carville and Acosta were joined by CNN conservative political commentator SE Cupp, who believes that Trump, Lake and the other defeated alt-right candidates challenged the legitimacy of the elections they lost by pushing the Big Lie more and more. alienated more voters.
“It has been so ineffective, not only practically that it has not carried any elections, but it has really hurt the party and the image of the party,” Kapp said. “And for independents, which, you know, you’ll need if you’re a Republican running for office, it’s a huge turnoff — electoral denial, conspiracy theories and these never-ending fake Audits and recounts and lawsuits. I think people are sick of it.”
