Arizona Republicans Ready For Kari Lake To Go Away Forever

Republicans in Arizona - from activists to GOP strategists - are ready for Kari Lake to go away, and they don't appear anxious to have her return at any point. Multiple Republicans recently spoke out about her lingering crusade to overturn the state's 2022 election results, and they understand that a continuing cycle of losses is only going to make their party look so much worse. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Kerry Lake, as we all know, has vowed to appeal the dismissal of her election challenge lawsuit that was tossed out last week. But Republicans in her state of Arizona are already getting pretty sick and tired of this. I mean, after all, Arizona just went through all the recounts of 2020, the Cyber Ninjas audit. They are sick and tired of re-litigating and reliving every failed election for the last two years. And Kerry Lake is doing absolutely nothing to let them forget the fact that Republicans in the state are pretty big losers. So Republicans from activists and strategists and consultants are starting to speak out about how much they would like Carrie Lake to simply go away for good. Here is what one strategist, uh, Arizona Republican consultant, Chuck Kauflin. This is what he told the Hill it's done in Arizona. I think the enormous amount of ill will that she's going to create as a result of the appeal.

I mean, it's okay to file a case, but then some of the stuff she's been saying on media and posts and just the degradation of the Arizona institutions, I think is really going to hurt her out here. And I don't really think she's got a future in terms of her own electoral space here in Arizona. Now, that's an important statement because Carrie Lake is already being floated as a possible Senate candidate for 2024. But here you have this Republican consultant in Arizona saying, listen, she's people off. She's attacking the institutions. And we've seen what happens when Republican candidates attack the institutions. It doesn't end well for those Republican candidates. Then you have another one, G o p strategist, Barrett Marson who said quote, uh, when basically, uh, backstory here. Marson was asked about Carrie Lake possibly being Trump's running mate for 2024, which you know has been speculated.

But he said, quote, if she had won this race, if she had become governor, yes, but now you can be a lot of things in Trump world, but you can't be a loser, which is exactly what Carrie Lake is. Marson then continued, this whole campaign was just an audition for either R B S N or One America News, newsmax, some conservative outlet. And so if that was her goal, she obviously did pretty well, and she could probably get some sort of anchor ship or gig on one of those channels, and that one hit it on the head. This was never, at least after the election, this was never about trying to become governor again or in the first place by overturning the election. That's never been her goal. Her goal, and I've said this in the past week, is to stay in the spotlight. That's what these election challenges are all about. That's what the appeal is all about. She knows she's not gonna win, and she also might be hit with even more sanctions because of this, but she has

To stay relevant. That's why she's been down at Mar-a-Lago for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time. She's doing it to stay in the limelight because if she gives up, if she surrenders, people will forget about her. She'll just go down. As that woman that lost the Arizona Governor's race, she's a loser. And losers typic typically get relegated to the waste bin of history, and that's what she wants to avoid. But as these strategists are correctly pointing out, in order to avoid it, you have to stay in the spotlight. To stay at the spotlight, you have to act like the sore loser and attack the institutions. And in the end, that's probably gonna cause you more damage than if you just shut up and went away. But Carey Lake, much like Donald Trump is not going to shut up about it. They're cut from the same cloth. She wants that same spotlight that Donald Trump gets, and she doesn't care how much damage she causes to the Republican party in order to stay in that spotlight.