Commentary: Reality deniers like Kari Lake fit right in with Arizona’s history of wishful thinking
by Tom Zoellner, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2023
3 minutes
Kari Lake isn’t giving up. Even as she prepares to mount a campaign for U.S. senator, and more than two months after her opponent was sworn in as Arizona’s governor, she insists that she won the governor’s race and that the election was stolen.
Election denial has become one of the pillars of the modern GOP — but the desert soil of Arizona soaks up such hallucinatory claims like rain, at least partly because of the state’s unique history. Through most of the last
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