Lake keeps reversing her own positions and stirring up feuds, and some in the GOP see other states as better targets this fall.
Kari Lake has continued to talk about the 2020 presidential election and the 2022 governor election she falsely claims to have won, though countless Republicans have urged her to stop. | Jonah Elkowitz for POLITICONational Republicans embraced Kari Lake’s Arizona Senate bid, reasoning she was likely to win the primary with or without their support.
Now, as Democrats have placed tens of millions of dollars in fall TV reservations, national Republicans haven’t begun to seriously invest in the state. Senate Republican Leaderleft Arizona off his list of places where the party is certain to play, and the top Senate GOP super PAC has begun placing ad buys in other states — but not in Arizona.
Yet as Lake has attempted to moderate her image and grow her support outside the party’s MAGA base, she is reversing her own positions and stirring up feuds. A spokesperson for the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund, which has reserved air time in Ohio and Montana, said the group is still evaluating Arizona and other states., reserved $23 million for the fall campaign. And Gallego has spent $7.9 million on ads and had $9.6 million on hand at the end of March; Lake has spent just $170,000 and has $2.5 million.of Wyoming, the No.
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