{"id":50844,"date":"2021-10-02T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50844"},"modified":"2021-10-02T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:42:36","slug":"trumps-candidate-for-arizona-governor-would-not-have-certified-2020-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50844","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Candidate for Arizona Governor Would Not Have Certified 2020 Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MAGA “movement”<\/em> is continuing to excrete waste from certain reddish regions of the country. While it remains a minority in most of the nation, there are pockets of sewage that float to the surface here and there. And when they do, Donald Trump is there to flush it out to the rest of his cult followers.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

This week Trump endorsed Kari Lake as his anointed candidate for governor of Arizona. That’s the state that just completed a fake audit (fraudit) performed by the rabidly partisan “Cyber Ninjas”<\/em> that ultimately still found that Joe Biden is the legitimate president and was was fairly elected<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lake is the perfect Trump surrogate. She is a TV celebrity with no political experience who embraces conspiracy theories, advocates for building a wall on the Southern border, peddles quack COVID cures, and most importantly, adores Trump almost almost as much as he does.<\/p>\n

Lake’s job prior to jumping into the race was as a news reader on the Fox owned-and-operated television affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona. Trump viewed that as a plus in his endorsement tweet, posted by his spokes-shill, Liz Harrington, whose proxy Trump tweeting is a violation Twitter’s rules<\/a><\/strong> against circumventing a ban. Trump gushed that…<\/p>\n

“@KariLake is running for Governor in the Great State of Arizona. She is a fantastic person who spent many years working as a highly respected television anchor and journalist. Because of this, few can take on the Fake News Media like Kari. She is strong on Crime, will protect our Border, Second Amendment, Military, and Vets.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continuing to tick off the tedious talking points that have become Trump\/GOP\/Fox News gospel, he said that Lake “is against COVID lockdowns, Cancel Culture, and will end ‘woke’ curriculum in our schools.”<\/em> But most cringeworthy was Trump’s assertion that Lake “will fight to restore Election Integrity (both past and future!).”<\/em> How he expects Lake to restore any of his warped versions of reality from the past remains a mystery. The election is over and cannot be rerun, decertified, or otherwise altered. However, that didn’t stop Lake from going on the fringe, right-wing One America “News”<\/em> Network (OAN) to participate in this softball exchange with OAN’s Senior Propaganda Pusher, Natalie Harp<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Harp:<\/strong> Have you thought through how you would have handled November differently? We all remember the scene where [current GOP governor] Doug Ducey is sitting there. The phone rings. It’s president Trump. He doesn’t answer. And he signs results that we now know – he certified it under penalty of perjury – weren’t accurate. How would you have handled that differently?
\nLake:<\/strong> Well, considering how much already at the time information we had about serious irregularities and problems with the election, I would not have certified it right then. I mean, we actually had Rudy Giuliani in town at that very moment going through pieces of evidence, affidavits, that were presented through people of, that had witnessed things that were wrong or that didn’t add up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor, says she would not have certified Arizona's 2020 election results if she was governor at the time. pic.twitter.com\/wcDXtNkzxX<\/a><\/p>\n

— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) October 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n