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Arizona Central reports: A Maricopa County judge ruled Wednesday that a defamation case against former gubernatorial and current U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake will go forward. Judge Jay Adleman determined that Lake failed to provide enough evidence to get the case dismissed outright under a recently revised state law intending to deter lawsuits that seek to censor or intimidate critics. …

The Independent reports: Kari Lake gave a ranting speech this weekend in which she labelled herself a “proud election-denying deplorable” before urging young supporters to procreate and calling Anthony Fauci an “evil elf.” Ms Lake called Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs a “nutjob” on Sunday at AmericaFest, a Turning Point USA conference of conservatives that was held in Phoenix. She added: …

Arizona Central reports: A committee that regulates attorneys in Arizona has found probable cause that three lawyers who represented former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in election-related cases should face discipline, marking a significant step forward in the attorney oversight process. The probable cause orders issued by the Attorney Discipline Probable Cause Committee were filed this week against lawyers Kurt Olsen, …

Fox News reports: Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., announced Monday his endorsement of Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, a conservative firebrand and former 2022 gubernatorial candidate, in her bid to flip the seat currently held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Democrat. “Kari Lake is the fighter Arizona needs. Joe Biden’s policies have been a disaster for Arizona and …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake had her request to appeal her election lawsuit directly to the Arizona Supreme Court denied Wednesday. The former television anchor had previously requested that the state’s highest court take up her case, after she had lost her second trial in Maricopa County Superior Court in May. In that case, she …

Mediaite reports: Kari Lake, the failed 2022 GOP candidate for governor of Arizona and 2024 U.S. Senate candidate, quickly endorsed Blake Masters’s GOP primary opponent after Masters announced a run for Congress on Thursday. A few hours later, Lake sent out a press release endorsing Masters’s main Republican opponent Abe Hamadeh. Hamaden ran for attorney general in 2022, while Masters …

The New York Times reports: Kari Lake campaigned for governor of Arizona last year as a fierce ally of former President Donald J. Trump who was in lock step with her party’s right-wing base, calling abortion the “ultimate sin” and supporting the state’s Civil War-era restrictions on the procedure. This week, she made a remarkable shift on the issue as …

The New York Times reports: Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor who refashioned herself as an ally and protégé of Donald J. Trump, officially announced she was running for the Senate in Arizona on Tuesday night, offering a dark vision of America and pitching herself as a fighter ready to take on the media and the left. Ms. Lake, …

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 …

Arizona Central reports: Kari Lake didn’t wait to officially enter the U.S. Senate race to begin debating U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego. The two clashed on social media while flying back to Arizona, with the conversation spilling into public view at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Their clash on Thursday continued in a videotaped encounter with Gallego at the airport. The …

“Kamala, she’s got citizenship issue. Did you see her where she tries to act like she’s human? They’re on the third clone with her. She’s just Obama, so he’s already on his third term destroying our country. And then so if he gets her in there, that’ll be his fourth term. He’s a little tyrant.  I’m not for dictators, but …

CNBC reports: Kari Lake, the Donald Trump acolyte who unsuccessfully ran for Arizona governor in 2022, will launch a candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on October 10. The Arizona contest, in which Sen. Krysten Sinema is expected to seek re-election, could determine by a three-way race which party controls the Senate. Lake, who narrowly lost the …

“Let us not forget that DeSantis also shut the beaches down. DeSantis took a page out of Gavin Newsom’s playbook. Despite what he says he shut the beaches down. He did force vaccines. He did force face masks on our kids. “So he tries to act like he was perfect. He forced vaccines on people, on workers. He forced face …

Politico reports: Arizona Republican Kari Lake will launch a Senate run as soon as early next month, according to three people familiar with her plans. Lake, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump who refused to concede her narrow loss in Arizona’s governor race last year, has been hinting at a bid for months. She has been active in …

“I’m glad that Governor Noem is endorsing President Trump. I’ve endorsed him since before he even jumped in because we need him so badly, and I know that she recognizes that as well. You know, you talk about VP and my name has been thrown out there. “I walked away from a career where I had fame and a fortune, …

Rolling Stone reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake have been locked in what one source close to Donald Trump describes to Rolling Stone as a “death race” to become his 2024 vice presidential pick. The two view one another with intense distrust and disdain, each seeing the other as direct competition for Trump’s political affections. Exacerbating the situation is …

“Don’t believe all the news you’re reading. Most of it is complete lies and garbage, and it’s meant to get into your mind and psychologically bring you down. We are winning. They are not winning. Donald Trump is winning. The American people are winning, but it’s going to be a fight, a street fight, a fist fight the next year. …

“We ran the greatest campaign, I think, in the country last cycle, and it was all about we the people, all about the people of Arizona who haven’t had great representation, unfortunately, by politicians who are just in D.C. to line their pockets. So if I decide to jump in, I will be an incredible candidate because I will be …

“You know what the plans I like, Kari? Those are all great. Those are all fantastic. But the plans that I know he has because I asked him last week when I sat down with him in Bedminster – he’s gonna go after the deep state. I’d love to see him – and he said he will. Chris Wray, FBI, …

Axios reports: Former Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake is staffing up for a Senate campaign in anticipation of an October launch, making Arizona ground zero to replay — and relitigate — GOP losses in the last two elections. A potential three-way battle, with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema running as an independent, will expose deep divisions in both parties on whether …