Up to last night she has come across as a nut job….
She LOST the Arizona Governor race….
She , like fellow Republican Donald Trump, cried and got lawyers to to try to challage her lost….
It did NOT work….
Then she danced around trying to be Trump’s Vice President…..
NOPE….
Now she’s running for the US Senate …..
The Democrat….Rep. Ruben Gallego is riding high in the polls for the spot Kristen Simema has as a Independant, not a Democrat, and will lose….
The problem for Lake is WHO she HAS been….
Those who had run against her in the past said they had no appetite to challenge her again in the present.
“She’s the kind of person that doesn’t just run to win. She runs to destroy,” said former Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), who dropped out of the 2022 governor’s race and endorsed the establishment candidate, Karrin Taylor Robson, to try to avoid opening a path to victory for Lake. Robson ended up losing in the primary.
Salmon recalled that Lake once accused him of wanting children with special needs to be sexually assaulted because he didn’t believe in putting cameras in the classroom. “To walk through the kind of sewage that you have to walk through to campaign against Kari Lake — it’s not a pleasant prospect,” he said. Running against her now, he added, would be a “suicide mission.”
But Lake hasn’t just scared off her Republican skeptics; she’s courted them too. She spent last week on Capitol Hill, meeting with senators across the ideological spectrum, including Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), two allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). She had a “productive” sitdown with Josh Holmes, a McConnell adviser, and Steven Law, the president of the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund.
“She’s impressive,” Cornyn said. “I’m looking forward to seeing how the campaign goes.”
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has not ruled out endorsing Lake, according to a person familiar with its planning. Its chair, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), met with Lake when she was in D.C. He has said he hopes she will focus on the future — and not elections of the past.
Lake’s operation this time around is more professional, too. Whereas in 2022 she was loath to hire professional consultants, leaned heavily into a young and inexperienced team and disparaged TV advertising, this time around she is preparing to bring on more seasoned operatives….