Watch CNN’s coverage of the US Senate race in Arizona on “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” at 11 a.m. ET.
GOP leaders have counseled Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake to avoid airing grievances about past elections and instead center her campaign on a more forward-looking message.
She hasn’t exactly taken the advice.
While Lake did say she is more concerned about her upcoming battle against Democratic candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego, the former TV broadcaster is still not shying away from echoing former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the election when asked about the issue as she fights for a critical Senate seat in a battleground state.
In a wide-ranging interview with CNN last week, Lake continued to insist there were “major problems” with her own failed gubernatorial bid and falsely claimed the 2020 election was “rigged.”
“I think it was a rigged election. … I believe it was. But what I’m trying to do is look forward,” she said in the interview, which will air on Sunday’s “Inside Politics” with Manu Raju. “I do continue to talk about it when I’m on the campaign trail in Arizona. … When I’m on the campaign trail, the people care deeply about it.
“I want honest elections that all voters – whether they be the most liberal Democrat or most conservative Republican – knows that their one legal vote counted, and we actually have results when we go to bed on election night,” she added. “We can live with the results because we believe the process was fair. And that’s not what we have right now.”
Trump’s claims that the election was “stolen” have been dismissed not only by the courts, but by numerous officials who worked in his administration and on his campaign. And Lake lost her own race to…
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