Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake faced an unrelenting line of questioning Monday revolving around whether she would finally concede that she lost in her 2022 bid for Arizona governor — which she refused to do in a tense back-and-forth with a CNN host.
“Have you changed your position on whether you lost the 2022 election for governor?" Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Lake on her show, “TheSource.”
Lake, who lost the Arizona gubernatorial election two years ago to Democrat Katie Hobbs — and an appeals court challenge earlier this year — launched into a string of deflections by instead pointing out the “huge turnout right now in Republicans voting early.” Collins again asked her about the 2022 race.
“Why are we looking backward? I’m looking forward,” responded Lake, a former Phoenix TV news anchor.
“Because you have yet to concede that race,” Collins quickly shot back. After continuing to grill Lake on the issue, Collins told her: “So you’re not going to say whether you’ve lost the 2022 race — is that what I’m hearing?"
Lake then launched into what she’s looking forward to in her current election, before hitting on her campaign talking points and then blaming the media who, she claimed, “can’t get over it.”
“I want to make sure our elections are being run properly and I’m still in litigation, so I don't want to speak to that. But I do want to look forward and it's so funny that the media, Kaitlan — hold up, hold up — the media can't get over it. You say I can't get over it and it looks like you can't.”
“I don’t think I said that. I just said you haven’t conceded the race and I know you mentioned your litigation — you filed multiple lawsuits — have any of those lawsuits been successful?" Collins asked.
“Hold up, Kaitlan. We've had 10 questions, probably, and you've had all of them being about elections or abortion… you've asked zero questions about inflation and the cost of living in Arizona.”
DIAPER DON posting pre-election LIES because he's gonna LOSE AGAIN!
Former President Donald Trump sowed swing state election fraud fears late Monday night with an angry Truth Social post that hurled accusations without providing any source for them.
Trump claimed that York County in Pennsylvania had received thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registration forms and mail-in ballot applications from a third party group.
"WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA???" Trump wrote. "Really bad 'stuff.'"
But York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler said the applications were not unusual beyond the large number submitted by the political group, which Fox reported focuses on election advocacy in communities of color.
"As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal," Wheeler said in a reported statement. "If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney's Office, which will then conduct an investigation."
The York County District Attorney's office confirmed it is in contact with York County Board of Elections and will investigate if necessary.
Despite assurances from Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt that such incidents are infrequent and the system is working, Trump on Monday struck a sinister tone.
"Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!!" Trump wrote. "WOW!!!"
Trump faces criminal charges in Washington D.C. and Georgia linked to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on baseless claims of voter fraud. He pleaded not guilty.
Election experts say the Republican National Committee, co-run by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, had been preemptively and aggressively raising voter fraud concerns to cast doubt on the 2024 results.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) lost her temper during a roundtable discussion on Piers Morgan's show, getting into an argument with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who grilled her both on the double standard of painting herself and the MAGA movement as "anti-war," and her claim that President Joe Biden was destroying the U.S. energy industry.
"Why did you run with John McCain?" said Hasan of her former presidential ticket in 2008, adding that he believed if McCain had been elected, he would have gotten America into further wars.
"You don't know that!" scoffed Palin.
"He said it! He said bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," said Hasan. "I'm just saying, because you say you're against war abroad, and yet, I just want to remind everyone, you ran with the most warmongering senator in my lifetime. I know why you ran, you wanted power. I'm just saying you're not consistent."
"I wanted to talk about energy production," Palin complained. At which point, Hasan noted that under the Biden administration, there is "record energy production."
"No! I'm saying that on day one, what the Biden administration did was halt so much of our exploration and construction of pipelines," said Palin, as Hasan attempted to make his point. "You lie! You're a liar, you lie!"
"Do you know he handed out more licenses than Trump? Did you know that?" said Hasan. "Destiny just said energy's higher, and you said no. So if anyone lied, you did."
A GOP guest booted from CNN after a bitter blow-up with a pro-Palestinian panelist hit back early Tuesday, claiming his comment that sparked a furious on-air fight was a "joke."
Republican strategist Ryan Girdusky infuriated guest Mehdi Hasan, a former MSNBC host, current editor-in-chief of Zeteo and a pro-Palestine campaigner, on the network's show "Newsnight."
He was removed from the show after quipping, "All right, well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off" as Hasan spoke about supporting Palestinians. It was a reference to an Israeli attack on Hezbollah which targeted beepers and walkie talkies.
"Are you a racist, violent person, inciting violence against me?!" said Hasan. "Good job CNN, let's have first block say the Muslim guy should be blown up on TV."
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