In this conservative state rightly won by Joe Biden in 2020, 60 % of voters of the great Old Party are “deniers”, who dispute the legitimacy of the Democratic President.
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No need to make the presentations. “How many of you have seen Kari on TV?” Asks Matthew Martinez, the candidate’s campaign director. Three -quarters of the assistance raise their hands. Kari Lake is a star in Arizona. She presented the newspaper on the local Fox News antenna for two decades. She interviewed Barack Obama and Donald Trump (twice). His taste for controversy precipitated her into politics. After being suspended from the antenna for “disinformation”, on Twitter, she resigned in March 2021: from the chain and the profession. Today, she is a candidate for the post of governor of Arizona. On the left, some described it as “trump in petticoat”. When fame acts as an experience to conquer power.
Tuesday, September 20, fifty days from the US mid-term elections on November 8, Kari Lake, 53, answers voters’ questions at the American Way restaurant, who is also a bakery and craft store Western, in Chandler , near Phoenix. The republican base drinks from the Petit-Fa. Nothing as comforting as hearing denouncing the lack of objectivity of the media by a media star. “The media indoor our young people,” complains a mother of four. “You can count on me to denounce the” fake news “, promises the candidate for applause.
The public does not quite resemble the assistance “Maga” (the acronym of “Make America Great Again”)). In this bourgeois suburb, it is rather the big old party version “Country Club” which is represented. Few pro-Trump red caps but from Apple Watch on the wrist. Liz Harris apologizes for being late. In 2020, this real estate agent organized a recount of the results of the presidential election. Today, she counts on her notoriety as an electoral fraud (imaginary), to be elected to the Arizona Assembly.
Kari Lake has the job. The suave voice, well known to viewers, even when it takes place. “The Founding Fathers would be with us, she says. On the side of the” America First “[” America first “].” The accusations of President Joe Biden, who denounced on August 25 “Semi-fascist” who crosses the Republican Party, leave it of marble: “Do you know who has been called all names for years? Jesus.”
The ex-journalist grew up in rural, ninth iowa of a siblings that had eight girls. She was republican, then Democrat, under Barack Obama, by disappointment of the positions go to the war of George W. Bush, before falling in love with Donald Trump, whose themes she adopted: immigration, crime, Decline … As soon as it takes office, it intends to declare the existence of an “invasion on the border”: a proclamation which would allow it, she assures, to call on the police of the State to arrest and expel migrants. Constitutionalists are skeptical. “It is a theory that has not been tested on the legal level, nuances the political scientist Gina Woodall, of the State University of Arizona. Immigration is a federal prerogative. Arizona would immediately do the ‘Object of prosecution. “
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