Kari Lake Formally Announces Run for Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate Seat

On Tuesday night in Scottsdale, Kari Lake, the Republican firebrand who narrowly lost the Arizona governorship to Democrat Katie Hobbs in 2022, officially announced that she is running against Ruben Gallego (D) and Kyrsten Sinema (I) for Sinema’s Senate seat. Citing a deep belief in God and country, she told supporters that she is ready to fight against what she characterized as Joe Biden’s policy failures that are hurting Arizonans.

Wearing a dynamite off white jacket over a simple blue dress and seriously dangling earrings, Lake shouted, “Hello, Arizona!” to a large receptive crowd that greeted her enthusiastically.

Lake alluded to the varied crises the US finds itself in, including a second war that has broken out over the weekend. “The world is on fire and it seems like every day, Joe Biden wakes up and pours a little more gasoline on it.” She asked the crowd, “Who else misses President Trump? I do. I do. I miss the mean tweets and the cheap gas. The mean tweet were making us safe.”

Lake was introduced by fellow Republican Abe Hamadeh, who is still battling against the 2022 election results in his razor-thin loss to Kris Mayes for the state’s Attorney General position. Hamadeh took the stage to chants of “USA! USA!” For too long, our system has “benefited the few at the expense of the many” he told the crowd. He cited Ronald Reagan’s warning from 1964 — 30-ish years before he was born — and notes that the most dire predictions seem to have come true.

“Left wing lunatics have overtaken every single institution. They took over corporate media, corporate board rooms, big tech, education, our legal system to crush dissent. They brought chaos to our streets, chaos to our borders and chaos to our elections.” It’s a dark vision, reminiscent of Trump’s Jan 2017 inauguration speech. But it’d be hard to find anyone with a tv set and an internet connection who could disagree with Hamadeh’s description of the current state of affairs.