Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake faced an unrelenting line of questioning Monday revolving around whether she would finally concede that she lost in her 2022 bid for Arizona governor — which she refused to do in a tense back-and-forth with a CNN host.
“Have you changed your position on whether you lost the 2022 election for governor?" Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Lake on her show, “TheSource.”
Lake, who lost the Arizona gubernatorial election two years ago to Democrat Katie Hobbs — and an appeals court challenge earlier this year — launched into a string of deflections by instead pointing out the “huge turnout right now in Republicans voting early.” Collins again asked her about the 2022 race.
“Why are we looking backward? I’m looking forward,” responded Lake, a former Phoenix TV news anchor.
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“Because you have yet to concede that race,” Collins quickly shot back. After continuing to grill Lake on the issue, Collins told her: “So you’re not going to say whether you’ve lost the 2022 race — is that what I’m hearing?"
Lake then launched into what she’s looking forward to in her current election, before hitting on her campaign talking points and then blaming the media who, she claimed, “can’t get over it.”
“I want to make sure our elections are being run properly and I’m still in litigation, so I don't want to speak to that. But I do want to look forward and it's so funny that the media, Kaitlan — hold up, hold up — the media can't get over it. You say I can't get over it and it looks like you can't.”
“I don’t think I said that. I just said you haven’t conceded the race and I know you mentioned your litigation — you filed multiple lawsuits — have any of those lawsuits been successful?" Collins asked.
“Hold up, Kaitlan. We've had 10 questions, probably, and you've had all of them being about elections or abortion… you've asked zero questions about inflation and the cost of living in Arizona.”
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