CHANDLER, Arizona – Kari Lake and the Trump campaign held a press conference on Thursday in anticipation of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s visit to the state on Friday. Lake, who is running for U.S. Senate and emceed the event, got into it with several members of the mainstream media who asked her questions, and criticized their lack of coverage of important events. Several officials joined Lake speaking, along with a Democratic couple who lost their teenage son to fentanyl.
Lake addressed Harris’ event Friday evening at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, her vice presidential pick. “We know that Kamala Harris is coming to Arizona again tomorrow, and again, she won’t visit the border. The border czar won’t be visiting the border. Apparently the only wall that she supports is her VP pick by the name of Walz, I guess.”
Lake criticized Harris’ replacement of Joe Biden in the presidential campaign. “Nobody’s voted for her to be on the ticket,” she said. “Not a single American voted for Kamala Harris to be on the ticket. Not a single Democrat. And my question to Democrats out there is, are you okay with that? Democracy? It sounds like it to me.”
Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda spoke about support Republicans are picking up outside the party. “I think you will see, if you look at the data from our primary, that independents — are people that are party not designated; they haven’t chosen to affiliate with a party,” she said. “They pulled the Republican ballot two to one. So they are looking for people that represent the issues that matter to them, and what matters to them is a secure border, because our people are dying. We’re losing more people to fentanyl in this country than we have lost in many wars.”
