Wannabe Arizona senator Kari Lake is once again fanning the flames of alleged election tampering as she stares down a bruising battle with Rep. Ruben Gallego.
“If [the election] were today, I wouldn’t be all that confident,” Lake told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“I know we have a lot of people, including myself, fighting to improve the laws and make sure they’re following the laws. We have got many lawsuits running, one of them in Arizona, fighting to make sure illegals aren’t voting,” she said.
Lake, 54, has long trafficked in dubious claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” against former President Donald Trump and that electoral malfeasance robbed her of victory in her 2022 bid to be governor.
She has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the 2022 election results but has so fail largely failed in court.
Now that she is vying for the Senate, Lake is seemingly trying to burnish more of an appeal to centrists, including by moderating her stance on abortion and trying not to dwell on past elections.
On Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiormo asked Lake if she believed the motivation behind the White House’s open-border crisis is to “get illegals, foreigners to vote for the Democrats.”
“Oh, absolutely, 1,000 percent. Otherwise, they would be working hard to get the SAVE Act through, which will prevent that,” Lake replied, referring to proposed legislation that would require proof of US citizenship to vote in federal elections.
“Instead, in every state around the country, you’re seeing Democrats fight tooth and nail any piece of legislation which will prevent illegals from voting,” Lake said.
Fresh polling shows Lake down relative to Gallego.
Gallego is currently narrowly eclipsing Lake 45% to 41%, according to polling from the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College.
Lake is also down in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of Arizona polling 41% to 46%.
Meanwhile, Trump tops President Biden in the Grand Canyon State 49% to 42%, the poll shows.
Arizona is widely regarded as a key battleground state in the 2024 race for control of the Senate.
Democrats are effectively forced to defend 23 seats compared to Republicans’ 11.
In the battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Trump is largely outperforming Republican contenders while Biden is underperforming Democrats, the survey says.
In Pennsylvania, Republican David McCormick trails incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) 41% to 46%, while Trump is besting Biden 47% to 44%, according to the poll.
Out west in Nevada, Republican Sam Brown trails Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) 38% to 40%, while Trump was up 50% to 38%.
Some political pundits and analysts expressed doubts that Trump really has a double-digit lead over Biden in Nevada.
Then up north in Wisconsin, Eric Hovde was behind incumbent Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) 40% to 49%, while Trump narrowly lagged behind in Wisconsin with 45% to Biden’s 47%.
The poll sampled 4,097 registered voters between April 28 and May 9. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 points in Arizona, 3.6 points in Pennsylvania, as well as 4.5 points in both Nevada and Wisconsin.
