Kari Lake has sometimes been described as “Donald Trump in heels.” “That underrates how much Lake and her generation of Republicans have learned from their predecessors, and how intelligently they are operating right now,” benwallacewells writes.
In March, 2021, Kari Lake, who for twenty-two years had been the co-anchor of the 5local news at Fox 10 Phoenix, recorded a two-and-a-half-minute goodbye of sorts, and posted it to social media. Lake had been off the set recently, having taken a personal leave, and she said that she wouldn’t be coming back. “Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom,” Lake. “And I’ll be honest—I don’t like the direction it’s going.
Lake is now the Republican nominee in the race for governor of Arizona, and a very quickly rising figure within the national Party. Theon Thursday that, if Lake wins her race, she “would have to be considered the favorite to become Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick should he win the Republican nomination again in 2024.” She has done this without much of a traditional campaign operation.
, “I don’t know who those people are.” She then called over a young aide and told him to “show off his ‘’ tattoo,” which he did by pulling back his lower lip. Lake’s rise has been unsettling for reporters in particular, since she is bluntly antagonistic toward many of them. The Washington, found that Lake and her husband, an independent producer named Jeff Halperin, record their press encounters. She taunts reporters about their audience size; the clips go viral.
was the true winner of the 2020 Presidential election. But, in the general election, that political strength on the far-right has been compounded by another: perhaps unsurprisingly, Lake is exceptionally good at TV. She speaks concisely and evocatively, and maintains emotional control even while saying very aggressive things. During a televised