Chaos Agent Kari Lake's No Good, Awful, Very Bad Week

For most candidates, giving a campaign speech with the Confederate Flag as your backdrop on one day, managing to piss off State Sheriffs on another, and having your lawyer lose his license to practice law would be considered a bit of a setback. And it would be for anyone else, but not for the plucky election-denying radical extremist that is Kari Lake. For her, it's just par for the course. Like Trump, chaos follows her everywhere she goes.

Source: The Guardian

The Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.

In footage obtained by the Guardian, Lake is seen speaking into a microphone, surrounded by a group of supporters, at the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizona. Behind her, a Confederate battle flag and a yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” flag are affixed to the wall. Both flags are available for purchase on the website of Trumped Store, which sells an array of merchandise with the former president’s name and likeness.

Writing on X last week, Lake described the event as a “magical day”.

Reached for comment about the video, a spokesperson for Kari Lake told the Guardian: “The Kari Lake campaign does not respond to British propaganda outlets. We stopped doing that in 1776.”

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