Just a few days after a video she made became public and forced the state party chair to quit, Kari Lake was not well-received by Arizona Republicans at a state party event but she pressed on with her message to those in attendance.
Five days after the recording went viral and seemed to show Lake accepting a bribe from former state party chair Jeff DeWit in return for not competing for the Senate in 2024, the Republican candidate for the Senate addressed the state party's annual conference in Phoenix on Saturday. Although DeWit quit, she said that the video had been "selectively edited" and that Lake's team had threatened to disclose other tapes.
Lake acknowledged creating the tape and even seemed to acknowledge that she was the one who released it in a Newsmax interview on Wednesday.
"I believed there may be a danger, so I taped this out of worry," Lake said. "I never listened to it until just a few days ago," she said. Furthermore, I have no idea what motivated me to listen to the audio. Seated next me was my twenty-year-old daughter. I then hit the play button. And while she listened to this call, she was breathless. "Mom, what are you going to do about this?" she said. Furthermore, I had no intention of taking any action. And I had the idea, "Oh my god, what would my daughter think if I do not do anything about this type of behavior?"
Following the event, attendees at the Arizona GOP annual conference booed Lake loudly. In video that Washington Post's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez uploaded on X/Twitter. They specifically mocked Lake for saying that the elections in Arizona are a "corrupt disaster."
Gina Swoboda won the election to become the next state party head at the gathering. Donald Trump, the previous president, endorsed her campaign.
Five days after the recording went viral and seemed to show Lake accepting a bribe from former state party chair Jeff DeWit in return for not competing for the Senate in 2024, the Republican candidate for the Senate addressed the state party's annual conference in Phoenix on Saturday. Although DeWit quit, she said that the video had been "selectively edited" and that Lake's team had threatened to disclose other tapes.
Lake acknowledged creating the tape and even seemed to acknowledge that she was the one who released it in a Newsmax interview on Wednesday.
"I believed there may be a danger, so I taped this out of worry," Lake said. "I never listened to it until just a few days ago," she said. Furthermore, I have no idea what motivated me to listen to the audio. Seated next me was my twenty-year-old daughter. I then hit the play button. And while she listened to this call, she was breathless. "Mom, what are you going to do about this?" she said. Furthermore, I had no intention of taking any action. And I had the idea, "Oh my god, what would my daughter think if I do not do anything about this type of behavior?"
Following the event, attendees at the Arizona GOP annual conference booed Lake loudly. In video that Washington Post's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez uploaded on X/Twitter. They specifically mocked Lake for saying that the elections in Arizona are a "corrupt disaster."
Gina Swoboda won the election to become the next state party head at the gathering. Donald Trump, the previous president, endorsed her campaign.
