The Kari Lake Effect
Kari Lake, who’s still trying to overturn her November election loss in Arizona, is one of four women Trump is considering for VP, according to a new report from Axios. Lake is flirting with another possibility too.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
- A view of American history that leads to one conclusion
- Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last act
- Prepare for the textpocalypse.
Seeing What Sticks
You might remember Kari Lake from the November midterms, when she lost the Arizona governor race to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes and proceeded to cry foul for weeks (and weeks). Well, the former local news anchor is still at it—with an obvious eye toward the future.
To catch you up: After the Arizona election, Lake to overturn the results, claiming that the election process was corrupt. (At the time, I wrote about the at polling places in Maricopa County that helped fuel Lake’s false claims of malfeasance.) She , and last month, . Now Lake is waiting to hear whether the state supreme court will take up her case. We should know more in early April at the latest.
