...Kari Lake is looking to make nice with the same people that she trashed in 2022
From Politico -
Kari Lake ‘drove a stake’ through the heart of McCain Republicans. Now she wants a meeting.
Kari Lake is finally ready to move on from the 2022 election — or at least she wants her rivals to.
The Arizona Republican has given up — for now — the fire-and-brimstone approach she took in her failed gubernatorial bid last year, adopting a different tack in her current Senate campaign: diplomacy.
One thing in the article caught my attention (emphasis added by me) -
She has not made contact with former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, according to a person familiar with their interactions. And Sharon Harper, a consigliere for Cindy McCain, the widow of the late senator, said Lake has not reached out to her. Harper is fundraising for Sinema.
My guess is that many of the "traditional" Rs want to vote for Kyrsten Sinema, if she runs for re-election. If she doesn't, those folks will be faced with two options that they won't like - voting for Ruben Gallego, a Democrat, or voting for Kari Lake, someone who openly despises them.
If Gallego can siphon off enough supporters, it may help him.
...If Lake wins election to the US Senate, she may be moving to a schoolyard...at a middle school.
From The Oklahoman -
OK Sen. Markwayne Mullin defends Senate fight, tells Sean Hannity it's 'Oklahoma values'
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, said he believed Oklahomans "would be pretty upset" at him if he hadn't threatened a union leader to a fight during a senate hearing,
Mullin, 45, and Teamsters leader Sean O'Brien had a heated exchange during a senate hearing on labor unions, at the end of which Mullin asked O'Brien if he wanted to fight. Mullin even stood from his chair, but was stopped by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who was chairing the hearing.
...In what may be the news of the week, a convicted felon is joining the clown car of the race to replace the outgoing Debbie Lesko in CD8.
From NBC -
'QAnon Shaman' who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 files paperwork to run for Congress
Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who gained notoriety as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the battleground state’s 8th Congressional District.
Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., announced last month that she won’t seek re-election.
Chansley cannot vote for a candidate for elected office as a convicted felon, but he *can* run for office.
One question: will he be in costume while on the campaign trail? I'm guessing "Yes."
From the NBC story -
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While he has yet to form an FEC committee for the run, at least not one that I can find, he has filed a statement of interest with the Arizona Secretary of State
That statement, emphasis added by me -
