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Fox News host Trey Gowdy has weighed in on former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s recent comments about Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
During a segment on “Sunday Night in America,” Gowdy said that “three months ago, she thought DeSantis was the best thing since sliced bread,” adding that he didn’t understand why Lake was going after the Florida governor all of a sudden.
Gowdy spoke about Lake promoting a false story that DeSantis has been endorsed for president by liberal megadonor George Soros. For starters, DeSantis has not made any public announcement about whether he will run for president. Secondly, Soros did not endorse DeSantis – he called the governor “shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious” and said he believed DeSantis could defeat former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary.
“This attack was from a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona,” Gowdy said. “Three months ago, she thought that Ron DeSantis was the best thing since sliced bread. Now she wants you to think that Governor DeSantis was endorsed by George Soros. Of course, that’s not true, but why let the truth get in the way?”
Gowdy noted that Lake recently praised DeSantis by likening herself to being “the DeSantis of the West.”
“Honestly, other than being called ‘Trump in a dress,’ that is the greatest compliment you could pay me,” she said in a speech to supporters last year.
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For her part, Lake is still fighting her election outcome in November’s midterms.
Last week, Lake said her election lawsuit is headed to the Arizona Supreme Court after the appeals court ruled against her. In their ruling, the court stated that voters were able to cast their ballots and votes were counted properly in Arizona during November’s midterm elections.
“Lake argues that the superior court erred by dismissing her claims asserting equal protection and due process violations. Her arguments fail, however, because these claims were expressly premised on an allegation of official misconduct in the form of interference with on-site tabulators — the same alleged misconduct as in Lake’s printer/tabulator claim,” the ruling stated.
It continues: “Because these claims were duplicative of a claim that Lake unsuccessfully pursued at trial, the superior court did not err by dismissing them. For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the superior court’s ruling confirming Hobbs’s election as governor. We deny Hobbs’s request for an award of attorney’s fees on appeal because she offered no substantive basis for the award.”
“Evidence ultimately supports the conclusion that voters were able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies the election results,” it said.
Lake responded on Twitter to the news, writing: “BREAKING: I told you we would take this case all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, and that’s exactly what we are going to do. Buckle up, America!”
BREAKING: I told you we would take this case all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, and that's exactly what we are going to do. Buckle up, America! 🇺🇸https://t.co/DXTi4WoEQ3 pic.twitter.com/ik5sSqMz5P
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) February 16, 2023
Earlier this month, Lake said she’s “entertaining” a possible U.S. Senate run.
Lake’s campaign responded to rumors that she is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Krysten Sinema, who left her party months ago and is now a self-declared Independent.
A recent poll showed that the firebrand Republican would defeat sitting Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Democrat challenger Ruben Gallego.
Since leaving the Democrat Party last month, Sen. Sinema has gained support from Republican and Democrat voters and, the poll said that her best chance to stay in the Senate “may be for the Republican party to nominate a candidate so flawed that moderate and conservative voters would abandon that person for the Independent Sinema.”
Sinema officially left the Democratic Party in December and changed her affiliation to the Independent. Her move weakens Democrats’ already tenuous hold on the upper chamber. Prior to her announcement, Democrats had a 51-50 majority in the U.S. Senate.
