Kari Lake Hopes You’ve Had Your Fingers In Your Ears The Last Four Years

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 6: Arizona Republican Senate Candidate Kari Lake and an aide depart Capitol Hill on March, 6 2024 in Washington, DC. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-elect... WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 6: Arizona Republican Senate Candidate Kari Lake and an aide depart Capitol Hill on March, 6 2024 in Washington, DC. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election, possibly shifting some voters toward Lake who is running for Sinema's seat in U.S. Senate. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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After earning an endorsement from the National Republican Senatorial Committee at the beginning of the year, Kari Lake is trying to appear less insane to Arizonans who have had the unfortunate experience of being exposed to her politics since 2020.

Last week the Republican Senate candidate tried to moderate her stance on abortion in an interview with NBC News. This is, of course, the same candidate who has called abortion “the ultimate sin,” actively helped Republicans in Ohio try to block the passage of a constitutional amendment codifying the right to an abortion, pushed for the passage of a “carbon copy” of Texas’ six-week ban in Arizona and, as recently as November, said she supports Arizona’s extreme, very old ban that is currently on hold as the courts hear challenges to it.

Lake told NBC News last week that she thinks Arizona will ultimately allow abortions up to 24 weeks, called the state’s 15-week ban “a good law” and completely backtracked on her support for the territorial-era ban that she once called “a great law.”

“It’s probably going to be the 15th week or whatever is in this ballot initiative. … I trust the people of Arizona to vote on this, if that’s what happens, and get this right,” Lake told NBC News before saying the 15-week ban is “something that Americans can get behind because it gives people options, gives women options, and makes sure that there are carveouts.”

“The vast majority of Americans and Arizonans hold the view that abortion should be legal and that late-term abortion should not be legal,” she added, “with exceptions for rape, incest and obviously the health of a mother.”

Her pivot to the general has continued this week. Over the weekend, the election-denying conspiracy theorist, who ran her entire gubernatorial bid in 2022 on the back of her belief that the 2020 election was stolen and then claimed that the 2022 race was rigged, walked back some of her past remarks.

During an interview on CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday,” Lake refused to answer questions about whether former Vice President Mike Pence should’ve certified the election — a position she has not previously been shy about.

“If you had been vice president, would you have certified the 2020 election result?” CNN’s Melanie Zanona asked.

“These are crazy … this is like a hypothetical going forward, and a hypothetical going backward,” Lake said. “I’m not going to entertain that.”

She also walked back her past claims that Arizona’s governors race was stolen from her, suggesting instead that there were “major problems.” She did, for her part, stick with her story on the 2020 election, however.

“2020 election, I think it was a rigged election,” she said. “I believe it was.”

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  1. The thing all these Republicans need to be asked is whether they will vote “No” on anything that comes before them to vote on. Because it doesn’t matter if they say they support a 15-week, or a 24-week ban, if they will vote in favor of a 6-week ban or even a complete ban, if a bill comes to a vote.
    Get them to commit to voting “No” on something. They won’t.

  2. Anyone stupid enough to believe that Kari Lake changed any of her beliefs or moderated any of her views is either gullible or complicit. Probably the later.

  3. “The vast majority of Americans and Arizonans hold the view that abortion should be legal and that late-term abortion should not be legal,” she added, “with exceptions for rape, incest and obviously the health of a mother.”

    Kari Lake tries to find what she thinks you want to hear; while, leaving open moving the goal posts over what constitutes “late” term.

  4. Kari Lake is just Trump but with better cleavage. She too will soon experience the thrill of losing a defamation case, and if a jury is involved, financially she will be shit out of luck!

  5. That kind of flip flopping used to be fatal for a politician.

    Now, it’s just kind of sad.

    And the Gallegos campaign should beat her to death with those flip-flops.

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