Trump-Backed Arizona Candidate Cries Election Fraud BEFORE Election Even Happens

Kari Lake, the Trump-backed candidate in Arizona's Republican gubernatorial primary, is already telling her supporters that she has seen evidence of fraud in the upcoming primary election, even though the election hasn't happened yet. While there have been close to 250,000 ballots returned, there is no evidence that there are any improprieties with any of these ballots, and Lake is likely trying to make an excuse in advance in case she loses. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Well folks, we still have a couple days to go till the Arizona Republican primary, where you have two Republican candidates vying for that gubernatorial nomination. You have Carrie lake who is endorsed by Donald Trump, a staunch 2020 election denier versus Karen Taylor Robson, who also denies the result of the 2020 election. But she's still viewed for some reason as the more rational Republican she's endorsed by Mike Pence endorsed by other members of the Republican establishment and the polls show that the race is getting tighter. So how has Carrie lake responded? Well, she responded recently by giving a speech to a crowd where four separate times, she claimed that the election was already being stolen. That they're already seeing evidence of stealing. She says, here is her her statement. I'm telling you right now, anybody trying to steal this. First of all, we're already detecting some stealing going on, but you guys know I'm a fighter, right? We're not gonna let them steal an election.

Hmm. While it's true that, uh, 250,000, uh, Republican ballots have already been returned. Um, you need to elaborate on what's what what's being stolen here. Where is this stealing? You said you saw it. You said you have seen the evidence of stealing already taking place. So where is it? What federal authorities have you alerted to this? What state authorities have you alerted to this? Why are you not out there? Actually holding press conferences, holding up this alleged evidence, saying, look at all of this fraud, we're already detecting. We all know why you're not doing that. We all know why law enforcement officials have not been alerted to any of this because none of it is real. Carrie lake is in fact lying about this. And if you care to prove me wrong, Carrie, feel free to send us all of that evidence. If I'm wrong, I'll correct it.

But I don't think I am. And I don't think anybody watching this thinks that I'm wrong either because here's the thing. As I mentioned to start this segment, the polls are getting tighter, except of course, for one poll that actually shows Carrie lake ahead by 11 points, uh, that was done by pollster George Koff, whose father actually happens to serve as Kerry Lake's campaign treasurer. So the son of somebody working very closely with your campaign does a poll that shows you 11 points ahead. But all the other polls show that there is not that big of a gap between you and Ms. Robson. So yeah, you're getting scared. And when Republicans get scared, they trot out all these accusations, oh, it's being stolen. I know people aren't actually voting yet, but, but we are seeing it being stolen right before our eyes. And we're just gonna do nothing about it, except for wh and complain. And of course not show you the evidence that I

Swear to God is totally real. This is how elections are run. Now, this is what Republicans do when they're falling behind. They simply lie. They tell they're idiot, little followers that, oh, it's being stolen. And these morons in the crowd are gonna believe it. They don't care about evidence. They don't ask for evidence. They most likely don't even wanna see evidence. All it takes is for one demigogue figure like Carrie lake or Donald Trump to go out there, tell 'em a thing is happening. And immediately it becomes a fact in their brain. That's what we're dealing with.