Kari Lake officially announced her entry into the U.S. Senate race in Arizona Tuesday evening at Jetset Magazine in Scottsdale. Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema, now an independent, is expected to run again, and Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) appears to have the Democratic primary locked up. Lake will face Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in the Republican primary. Over a thousand showed up for the event, filling the area outside the business. Former President Donald Trump appeared by video to endorse Lake.
Abe Hamadeh, who is still challenging his 280-vote loss to Democrat Kris Mayes in the attorney general’s race, gave a brief speech first. He slammed the politicians concerned more about their “decadent, self-serving cocktail parties,” In reference to his previous military experience, he said he was ready to be “down in the trenches” with Lake and the campaign.
Lake began her speech by saying she missed Trump as president, including his “mean tweets,” which were “keeping us safe.” She went after Joe Biden, “I’m about to put him on an Amtrak back to Delaware.” She said she didn’t care “where he wants to go … China, Ukraine, Iran.”
Lake addressed the recent atrocity in the Middle East, Hamas’ attack on Israel. “I’m worried about the same thing happening here,” she said. She cited the “thousands of young men” coming across the U.S.-Mexico border and the “heavily armed cartels going back and forth across the Arizona border like they own the place.”
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