Until last year Kari Lake was a television anchor for a local Fox news station in Phoenix. She is now one of the stars of the American political right. Lake, 53, has cemented her stardom in the Republican party by falsely insisting that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won the 2020 presidential election, and that if she had been governor of Arizona at the time she would not have signed off on her state’s votes for Democrats. Many find her rhetoric extremely concerning. Because the US elects the president not by popular vote but via the electoral college system, state officials need to certify the results for them to be legitimised and counted.
Lake is now running for governor of Arizona in the 8 November midterm elections and insists that if she wins she will certify Arizona’s votes in the next presidential election in 2024; by that time, she says, her state will have “honest elections”. What does that mean coming from a woman who pushes baseless accusations of election fraud?
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