Reuters reports:
Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a far-right ally of Donald Trump, on Tuesday is expected to announce her candidacy for her party’s U.S. Senate nomination, in what could be a highly competitive three-way general election race in November 2024.
Arizona is already one of the most politically competitive U.S. states but its Senate race became all the more so after Senator Kyrsten Sinema in December dropped her Democratic affiliation and declared herself an independent.
Sinema has not yet said if she will seek reelection but Democratic U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego, a liberal and former Marine with Iraq war combat experience, is making a bid for the Democratic nomination for that seat.
Read the full article. Lake filed the paperwork last week.
“I don’t believe that the Republicans in Arizona want to hand over our Senate vote to a New York liberal like Chuck Schumer,” @KariLake said.”
And that’s what they’d get with rubber stamp Democrats @kyrstensinema & @RubenGallego. https://t.co/HRN76VMJMZ
— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) October 10, 2023
BREAKING: Kari Lake, the Trump-aligned former news anchor who still hasn’t accepted her 2022 Arizona gubernatorial defeat, filed paperwork on Tuesday to run for U.S. Senate. https://t.co/FlPRvaZcf8
— Axios (@axios) October 3, 2023