Kari Lake, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arizona, blasted a reporter who requested if former President Donald Trump was “dividing the nation” “by falsely telling folks he gained” the 2020 election.
The query got here throughout Lake’s press convention Thursday following President Joe Biden’s speech, wherein he referred to as MAGA Republicans a risk to America.
“You say you are feeling like Joe Biden is dividing the nation, however do you are feeling like Donald Trump is doing the identical by falsely telling folks he gained that election when he misplaced it?” the reporter requested.
This is likely one of the finest solutions to the media’s 2020 election questions I’ve heard. pic.twitter.com/yYni3wwjhi
— Realignment Politics (@politicsrea) September 2, 2022
“How does that divide the nation? Questioning an election the place there are clearly issues is dividing the nation? Since when can we not ask questions on our elections?” Lake, a former Fox 10 phoenix anchor, requested the reporter. She continued:
As a journalist for a few years, I used to be a journalist after 2016 and I distinctly keep in mind many individuals identical to you asking quite a bit questions concerning the 2016 election outcomes. And no one tried to close you up. No one tried to inform Hillary Clinton to close up. No one tried to Kamala Harris when she was questioning the legitimacy of those digital voting machines to cease.
We have now freedom of speech on this nation and also you of all folks ought to admire that. You’re supposedly a journalist, you need to admire that. So, I don’t see how asking query about an election the place there are a lot of issues is dividing a rustic. What I do see as dividing a rustic is shutting folks down, censoring folks, canceling folks, attempting to destroy folks’s lives once they do have questions.
Lake added that “we’re going to avoid wasting” the “structure, and we’re going to carry again freedom of speech, and possibly sometime you’ll thank us for that.”
Previous to her spar with the journalist, Lake responded to Biden’s speech, dubbing it “essentially the most absurd, frankly obscene, tackle [she’s] ever seen a president give to the American folks.”
“MAGA republicans take a look at America and see carnage, darkness and worry”
No, Joe.
We see an distinctive nation that you’re bringing to its knees.
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) September 2, 2022
“What I noticed was someone who’s attempting to divide this nation,” including that Biden “carries in his coronary heart a substantial amount of disdain for an entire lot of actually good American folks.”
She went on to stipulate that the America First agenda “is about discovering options to the issues that we’ve had for a lot of, a few years, and we noticed that with president Trump when he got here into workplace as an outsider.”
“Washington, DC, by no means desires an outsider as a result of it ruins their political agenda when someone is available in from the surface. And we’re seeing this throughout proper now,” she went on to say. Lake asserted that the American individuals are deeply dissatisfied with the Biden Administration, and they’re getting concerned in politics to create change.
“What’s taking place is we’re seeing Americans, mothers and dads, stepping ahead working for workplace, and Joe Biden is threatened by that,” she detailed earlier than taking intention at her common election opponent, Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
“And folks like Katie Hobbs, people who find themselves profession politicians, are threatened by actual people who’re stepping ahead, getting off the sidelines, getting within the recreation. They usually’re saying, ‘you already know what, I’m going to run. I’m going to assist my fellow countrymen,’” she added.
