Kari Lake rallies Republicans in Iowa against election fraud
Republican politician Kari Lake speaks in front of a crowd of supporters during the Story County Iowa GOP Lincoln Highway Dinner at the Story County Fairgrounds in Nevada, Iowa, on April 6, 2023.
Former Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate and Iowa native Kari Lake spoke to Story County Republicans about wanting fair elections, claiming her election in 2022 was stolen and that Iowans have to stand for their rights.
According to the Associated Press, Lake lost her election by 0.67%, or 17,000 votes, to current Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, and Lake has not conceded the race.
“I want to be where the people elected me to be, in the governor’s office in Arizona,” Lake said. “They don’t want to give us the envelopes to show us how bad the [mail-in ballot] signatures are, and we’re going to fight it, and we’re going to take it to the U.S. Supreme Court if we have to.”
Lake said the election was stolen, causing her to file two lawsuits disputing the results of the race, which saw most of her arguments dismissed by the Arizona Supreme Court. She added that during her primary people made attack ads against her because they feared the America First movement.
“They’re so worried about the America First movement going forward and frankly you know what they’re worried about? Donald Trump, going forward, they don’t want that, that’s why they unleashed COVID,” Lake said.
Lake was critical of Former Chief Medical Adviser to the President of the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci and claimed he had been lying for decades in his position as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“I used to watch Dr. Fauci, that evil, evil, Dr. Fauci, come up there and do those press conferences, and my little Iowa antenna was going, ‘Uh oh, something’s not right here, this guy is not being honest with us,’” Lake said. “How about we start going after evil Dr. Fauci? We know that that guy lied to us, he lied to us about everything.”
Lake said Fauci was probably tied with President Joe Biden for the person who has done the most harm to the U.S.
“Let’s go after the real criminals, and I know one that’s sitting in the White House who’s been bought and paid for by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] and Ukraine, his name is Joe Biden,” Lake said. “They’re going after President [Donald] Trump for a nothing burger. It was a copy and paste [of] 34 indictments.”
Lake said in an interview with the Iowa State Daily that former President Trump was innocent of the 34 charges brought against him in New York for allegedly paying two women for extramarital sexual encounters. According to the Associated Press, Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified that he paid porn actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 through a shell company and was reimbursed by Trump.
“What I’m most offended by and I think that even Democrats in New York City are offended by this, I’ve been to New York it has become a lawless city,” Lake said. “They’re not going after the hardened criminals, they’re doing a witch hunt against a president.”
Lake said that Iowa has a good election system but that Maricopa County Chairman Bill Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer have more control over elections than Iowans.
“These two guys in Maricopa County have more power in deciding the trajectory and the future of our country than everybody in this room and everybody in Iowa,” Lake said.
Additionally, Lake said Democrats are laundering tax money and have billionaire George Soros behind them.
“Can you imagine going against those globalists?” Lake asked. “I mean, you know what George Soros is like, King George was kind of the same thing but even bigger.”
Lake called out Republicans who believe she lost her election, saying they were not very smart or had their heads in the sand.
On discussing policy, Lake said it was hard to come to the middle on issues like a wide open border, “transgenderism,” drug cartels, defunding police and indoctrinating children.
“I don’t know how we come to the middle on some of this; I think we go right there to the heart of our Constitution– to our own hearts and back to God and say ‘God, what’s the right thing to do here,’” Lake said. “That’s where we need to go as a country and that’s what I want to do.”
Lake said that a lot of students are supporting her and that young people are coming around to America First values.
“My message to young people at Iowa State is to follow the Constitution, stand up for your rights, and use your voice,” Lake said. “If we relinquish our First Amendment, we let people shove us down for standing up for what we believe in, we’re not going to have a country much longer.”
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Mary Darrow | Apr 8, 2023 at 9:22 am
More noise with no evidence, but it works so they keep making noise when they lose. Sad times.
Nuke | Apr 7, 2023 at 8:34 am
Just like POTUS 45, all claims filed in court have been rejected for lack of evidence (this includes being rejected by judges POTUS 45 himself installed on the bench). For POTUS 45, it was over 60 failed legal attempts to burn democracy to the ground. And here’s a clue: Kari Lake was attacked in political ads because people fear America First? Uh, yeah. It is a White supremacist movement. Fun fact: America First was a slogan used in the 1920s and 1930s by anti-Semites Charles Lindbergh and the Radio Priest, Father Coughlin. Let that sink in. And then look up the politicians of all kinds who have used the slogan Make America Great Again. That slogan, too, is rooted in racism.
Dennis Ethington | Apr 7, 2023 at 8:25 am
What a crock. I presume that she really believes all that but those are a lot of idiotic statements. Democrats “unleashed Covid”. Dr Fauci is evil. Any thinking person knows better. The citizens of Arizona paid a lot of money to “cyber ninjas” to recount all Arizona ballots and she did lose by over 17,000 votes.
ISU Class of 1972
Madison | Apr 7, 2023 at 7:35 am
Not a big fan of uncritically platforming far right conspiracy theorists but that’s just me I suppose
Stef | Apr 7, 2023 at 6:51 am
Ask Iowa’s Secretary of State who has talked to my American Government class how much election fraud there is in Iowa. The answer is none. Don’t believe the Russian and North Korean story that elections are corrupt in America. If they are then did Iowa’s 4 Republican House members, two Senators, Governor and other Elected Republicans winners (Republican majorities in the State House & Senate) because of fraud?
If we don’t rally around our democracy and stick together then we will become unglued and our nation will slowly crumble. Find what we agreed in not on what we disagree.