Kari Lake met with boo’s as she endorsed new election-denying state GOP chair: report

Earlier this week, Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit abruptly resigned after failed gubernatorial candidate and 2024 US Senate hopeful Kari Lake threatened to "leak additional recordings of their private conversations."

In a statement released via X/Twitter on Wednesday, January 24, Dewit commented on the single recording Lake had already released, in which the Republican chair can be heard telling Lake "that he spoke with associates 'back East' who asked about 'any companies out there or something that could just put [Lake] on the payroll to keep her out [of the 2024 US Senate race],' and that there were 'very powerful people' who wanted her to stay on the sidelines."

On Saturday, according to the Daily Beast, "Lake nominated Gina Swoboda, another right-winger who was endorsed by Donald Trump, on Saturday at a GOP meeting in north Phoenix, where she was reportedly met with boos and jeers as she took the stage."

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Swoboda won the title by a "landslide," The Daily Beast reports, even as someone who "spread false claims about the integrity of the election system" as the "Trump campaign’s state Election Day director in 2020."

In his statement, Dewit emphasized, "Lake has a massive megaphone that I cannot compete with. I question how effective a United States Senator can be when they cannot be trusted to engage in private and confidential conversations."

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