Trump-endorsed Kari Lake celebrated the one-year anniversary of launching her leading Arizona gubernatorial campaign Wednesday with a party. Still leading her Republican primary opponents by double digits, she told the crowd of her top supporters at the Pleasant Harbor Marina in Peoria, which she referred to as a “lakefront,” that the campaign has broken multiple records.
Lake brought the crowd to laughter multiple times, especially when describing her opponents. She characterized one of the other Republican candidates, Karrin Taylor Robson, by imagining “if John McCain had a baby with Liz Cheney, who grew up to marry a 95-year-old billionaire.” Taylor Robson is, she said, “frail, nervous; a RINO who puts millions into deceptive ads, trying to buy the election.”
Looking back at the campaign’s successes and records, Lake said it took her only three weeks to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot; volunteers were enthusiastic about working for the longtime Fox 10 news anchor. She told attendees that, in contrast, candidates often take nine months to collect enough signatures, using paid signature gatherers. Lake’s campaign has 4,000 volunteers, the most of any candidate in the county other than Donald Trump’s campaigns. She raised more money than any of the other candidates, which The Arizona Sun Times reported on last week. Americans from every state have donated to the campaign, which is mostly funded by small donors, nearly 30,000 in total. She’s also had record attacks on her by the mainstream media.
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