Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) has quickly made clear she opposes a court decision to effectively ban abortion in the state — even though she also supports Donald Trump's position that states should decide the issue. Lake made the remarks Tuesday after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state must follow a 123-year-old law that bans nearly all abortions, except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant person. "I speak to more Arizonans than anyone and it is abundantly...
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake on Thursday released a video detailing her full position on abortion in the wake of the Arizona Supreme Court decision to enact a 19th century law that imposes a near-total abortion ban in the state. Lake announced she opposes the ruling on Tuesday and was joined in her opposition by former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Both Trump and Lake have suggested Governor Katie Hobbs and the Arizona State Legislature should immediately approve legislation to...
Far-right US Senate candidate joins Republicans who have decried state supreme court ruling but who blocked appeal effortKari Lake, the far-right US Senate candidate and Donald Trump ally, denounced Arizona’s abortion ban on Thursday, arguing that the strict legislation she previously praised does not have the support of the state’s residents.“This total ban on abortion the Arizona supreme court just ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are,” she said in a video on...
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake took criticism from both flanks of the abortion debate during a visit to the University of Arizona Thursday evening, as she and other candidates navigate the fallout from this week’s state Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s Civil War-era abortion ban. Lake’s flip-flop on the law — which she called a “great law” in 2022 but now opposes and is pushing fellow Republicans to repeal — illustrates the tricky political position she and other...
By any fair measure, the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion rights was a policy and political bombshell. Republican-appointed justices ruled that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban — first adopted before Arizona was even a state — is enforceable. As we discussed soon after, once Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it was common to hear reproductive rights advocates talk about rolling back the clock a half-century. The Arizona ruling rolls...
Political pros say Kari Lake is a generational political talent -- but faces a series of self-inflicted challenges as she looks to broaden her appeal and soften her image in the race for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat.
Kari Lake, the Trump acolyte and Arizona GOP Senate candidate, says she does not support a near-total ban on abortion that's set to take effect soon in the crucial battleground state.That law, more than 160 years old, was written when Arizona had not yet become a state and would outlaw abortion in all instances, except to save the life of the mother."I have traveled to every corner of this state on the campaign trail," Lake said in a statement on Tuesday. "I speak to more Arizonans than anyone...
Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has been on the road, far from the state she’s running to represent, to fundraise and build support for other MAGA-approved candidates. She’s built a national profile since her failed Arizona gubernatorial run in 2022, allowing her to appear at a steady clip of GOP events and build momentum for […]
Donald Trump-loving Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake was lying in a past primary debate when she discussed abortion, according to a body language expert who analyzed how she conducted herself.Kari Lake, who famously claimed she was the governor of Arizona even after losing the election to her democratic opponent, recently followed Trump's lead when it came to his new abortion stance. But she has misled the public on that issue in the past, the expert said.Dr. Jack Brown, who previously...
Senate candidate Kari Lake has made calls to state lawmakers to push for the repeal of Arizona's Civil War-era abortion ban, according to a Republican legislator who spoke about receiving a call from her. The GOP-controlled Legislature is considering its next steps after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's 1864 near-total ban on abortion is enforceable. The Arizona House convenes again Wednesday. Lake's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday...