Election-denying failed MAGA candidate emerges as leading contender for Trump role: report

Two-time failed Republican candidate Kari Lake has emerged as a leading contender to become President-elect Donald Trump's ambassador to Mexico, Semafor reported Monday.

Lake lost her bids for governor and senate in the past four years. She then spent a lot of time at Donald Trump's country club in Palm Beach, Florida, until she was shoved out. She has also helped promote Trump's ongoing conspiracy theory that he won the 2020 election.

Among the policy agreements she shares with Trump is a hardline on immigration through the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Semafor recalled Lake calling it an "invasion."

Lake also campaigned on the need for a border wall, increasing judges to hear asylum claims, fast deportations and more border detention facilities.

"As US ambassador to Mexico, Lake would be responsible for engaging with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government on a host of contentious issues, including migration, counternarcotics, and Trump’s pledge to enact new tariffs on imports," the report noted.

Lake must be confirmed by what the Republican-controlled Senate will be, and she can only afford to lose three votes if zero Democrats vote for her.

Read the full report.