Fresh off announcing her bid to run for Arizona's 2024 Senate seat, Kari Lake bailed on the "Stop the Steal" mantra that she espoused ever since she failed to win the gubernatorial race, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial.
"The most notable part of her 50-minute announcement speech was Ms. Lake’s pivot from her signature issue in last year’s failed gubernatorial campaign," according to the editorial.
Rather than continuing her effort to reclaim the governor's title, it appears Lake has turned over a fresh political leaf that the Journal likens to the "new Kari Lake" who is attacking the issues like the crises on the southern border and inflation.
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“There is not a gas pump out there for Republicans, and one for Democrats, right?” she said in a recent speech. “There’s not an inflation rate for Republicans, and then a separate one for Democrats. All Arizonans are feeling the stress of Biden’s reckless spending.”
Lake served as one of the most outspoken Republican candidates parroting ex-President Donald Trump’s election line.
When she stumped, she had at one time called for her opponent to be arrested, attended rallies with QAnon cultists and Nazi sympathizers, and until recently refused to accept that she lost in her run for governor.
When it appeared in the voting count that she had lost Lake refused to concede.
She then opened a legal bout that the election results couldn't be trusted when they suggested that her opponent Democrat Katie Hobbs was the victor.
That fight appears to be stagnant after a judge dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Lake's challenge of her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor.
“I am never going to walk away from the fight to restore honest elections,” Ms. Lake said. “I’m never going to stop until every voter feels confident that their one legal vote counts.”
