Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said Sunday her campaign had welcomed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) promising to do whatever she can to make sure Lake doesn’t win. not in November.
Lake told Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox News’ ‘Sunday Morning Futures’, that ‘people in Wyoming can’t stand’ Cheney and she was sure ‘people in Arizona don’t like Liz Cheney’ either. .
“This might be the biggest and best gift I’ve ever received,” Lake said of Cheney’s comments. “The Republican Party, the new Republican Party, is the party of us, the people. It is no longer the party of warmongers.
“Liz Cheney should probably change her voter registration. Turns out she really is a Democrat after all,” the GOP nominee added.
Cheney, who recently lost her main battle to a Trump-endorsed challenger, said Saturday she would do everything in her power to make sure Lake doesn’t beat Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs.
“In this election you have to vote for the person who actually believes in democracy,” she said at the 2022 Texas Tribune festival. “If we elect Holocaust deniers, if we elect people who have said that they weren’t going to certify the results or who would try to steal the election, so we’re really putting the republic at risk.”
Cheney is vice chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the United States Capitol and is one of the GOP’s fiercest critics of Trump. She was kicked out of a leadership job in the House last year after speaking out against Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
Lake is among Trump-backed candidates across the country pushing these misrepresentations, even accusing Democrats of plotting to cheat in the upcoming midterm elections.
Hobbs declined to debate the GOP nominee, calling Lake a conspiracy theorist.
On Sunday, Lake accused Hobbs of using an “old Biden play in the basement” to avoid him on the debate stage, referring to President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19.
Hobbs leads Lake 49% to 48% in the latest AARP poll, showing a close race between the two candidates.