The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee is advising Arizona GOP firebrand Kari Lake to focus on the future as she prepares to announce a Senate bid next week to unseat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ).
“I think one thing we’ve learned from 2022 is voters do not want to hear about grievances from the past,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) said in an interview with CNN. “They want to hear about what you’re going to do for the future. And if our candidates stay on that message of looking down the highway versus the rearview mirror, I think they’ll be a lot more successful, particularly in their appeal to independent voters, which usually decide elections.”
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Lake has refused to acknowledge her 2022 gubernatorial loss to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), claiming faulty machines and voter disenfranchisement led to her defeat. The fiery former news anchor has been one of the most vocal Republicans still committed to peddling former President Donald Trump’s false election claims, which she turned into the centerpiece of her failed gubernatorial bid. Since then, Lake has brought a litany of lawsuits attempting to have the results of her loss to Hobbs overturned, which …
Kari Lake warned by NRSC to stop dwelling on the past in Arizona Senate run
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