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Kari Lake, Marjorie Taylor Greene bank on defending Trump to boost their political fortunes

Kari Lake, Republican nominee in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election and a supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, greets guests before the start of an event hosted by Trump at Mar-a-Lago April 4, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — As supporters awaited former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Tuesday arraignment, Kari Lake walked into a ballroom of people cheering and chanting her name.

The defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate’s appearance at Trump’s Florida estate came as no surprise. Lake has emerged as one of the biggest political stars of Trump’s Republican Party and one of the loudest voices of the election denialism movement, which was sparked by the former president’s failed 2020 bid.

But since Trump’s indictment by a New York grand jury on charges related to the alleged cover-up of a 2016 hush money payment, far-right figures like Lake appear to be treating the moment as a clarion call to action for GOP politicians with ambitions for higher office.

As the former president’s legal troubles grow, Lake and other well-known Trump allies have rushed to his defense, seizing

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