Republican Kari Lake is attempting a rebrand as she ramps up her campaign for U.S. Senate, even as she continues to litigate her 2022 loss in Arizona’s governor’s race.
In recent weeks, the conservative firebrand has extended olive branches to Republicans she burned during her 2022 race for governor, in a bid to win the moderate bloc whose support could be crucial to her ongoing campaign. She has courted national GOP leaders to support her candidacy, receiving the backing of at least one top Republican lawmaker.
And she has largely replaced her fierce insistence that the 2022 gubernatorial election was “rigged” against her — a claim which, for nearly a year, was the centerpiece of her political brand — for Republicans’ poll-tested messaging on issues such as border security and inflation….
But while she moderates her language on the campaign trail, the former candidate for Arizona governor continues to contest her 2022 loss in court.
Last week, more than a year after her loss to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, Lake asked an Arizona appeals court to nullify the result of that election and hold a new one.
In the brief, Lake doubles down on her baseless claim that Maricopa County “apparently rigged the November 2022 Election to fail on Election Day” and argues that the court should reopen the issue because of new evidence.