The Washington Post reports:
Former president Donald Trump has long had a soft spot for his acolyte Kari Lake, the expected GOP Senate nominee in Arizona, joking that Lake would pivot to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen even if she was asked about the weather.
But since Lake jumped into the race, Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about her political prospects in a state he sees as key to his bid to return to the White House, and has shown annoyance with her frequent presence at his Florida resort.
After grumbling for months that she was at his Mar-a-Lago Club too often, Trump gently suggested to Lake that she should leave the club and hit the campaign trail in Arizona. Trump has also asked others if she can really win in Arizona and if she might drag down his own poll numbers.
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” … according to 3 people familiar w/ [Trump’s] reaction. ‘She tapes everything?’ he asked, sitting in a New Hampshire hotel suite b4 taking the stage on the night he won that state’s primary. ‘That’s good to know.'”
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