The former TV news personality narrowly lost an Arizona gubernatorial bid in 2022 and has never conceded that race.
PHOENIX — Republican Kari Lake, a Donald Trump ally who has refused to acknowledge her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, will soon launch her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by independent Kyrsten Sinema, a senior adviser said Thursday.
A charismatic former television anchor who is well known in the Phoenix market, Lake built an enthusiastic following among Republicans with her unflinching support for Trump and her steadfast promotion of false claims of election fraud. The Arizona race is a top target for Republicans looking to regain the Senate, where Democrats hold a 51-49 edge that includes Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in 2022 but still receives her committees assignments from Democrats. The 2024 Senate map heavily favors the GOP, with Democratic-held seats up for grabs in three states that Trump won in 2020.
Sinema is raising money for a potential re-election campaign and is stepping up her public appearances in Arizona, but she has said she’s in no hurry to announce a decision on seeking a second term in the Senate. Her party switch came after she had infuriated many Democrats who saw her as too close to business interests and an impediment to progressive change.
From the archives : Kyrsten Sinema was pivotal in Senate’s failure to pass voting-rights legislation in 2022. She’s sanguine about it at Davos. Democrats posted surprising success in last year’s Senate races despite a tough economic picture and an unpopular Democratic president after voters rejected Trump-backed Republican nominees in battleground states, including Arizona.
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