Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake is on a mission to court centrist Republicans she unapologetically attacked when running for governor last cycle, but her outreach has been met with some skepticism.
Lake was among the most vocal of last year’s Republican candidates who promoted former President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims. After narrowly losing her bid for governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs, Lake continues to challenge her own loss in 2022.
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Nonetheless, the former local TV anchor is positioning herself in the 2024 Arizona Senate race as a conservative who can reach far beyond her base of Trump backers to win the John McCain wing of the Republican Party and even soft Democratic voters.
Lake will first need to defeat Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in a primary and then compete in what could be a three-way race with progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the likely Democratic nominee, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), an independent. Sinema has not yet said if she is running for a second term after leaving the Democratic Party late last year.
“I think the media has tried to label me as somebody who has extreme views,” Lake said in an interview with the Washington Examiner this month. “I am always reaching out to every voter. I want every single vote. I want the independents, I want the Republicans, and I even want the disaffected Democrats who are kind of lifting their head up, going, ‘Whoa, this is not the Democratic Party we thought it was.'”
Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake talks in the spin room after former President Donald Trump held a campaign rally …
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