Thread by @AriDrennen

New: In Arizona, Republican candidate Kari Lake's closing message is the most vile, desperate attack I have seen. With the help of the Daily Wire and Charlie Kirk, she's attacking Katie Hobbs for the crime of being married to a trauma therapist with a trans patient.

I cannot exaggerate how despicable this attack from Kari Lake is. Are therapists now supposed to refuse care to trans people? Sick, twisted, and pathetic. She should never show her face in public for the rest of her life.

Story by @lawton_sophie: mediamatters.org/daily-wire/dai…

@lawton_sophie I cover right wing media narratives about LGBTQ people for a living. It takes a lot to shock me. But this did. Think for a moment of the implications of attacking a trauma therapist for even working with a trans person. They are not even hiding that they would prefer that we die.

@lawton_sophie Anti-trans people go on and on about how they supposedly care SO much about people with gender dysphoria, it's just that they think it's a mental illness. So who do you go to if you have a mental illness? You go to a therapist, like Katie Hobbs' husband.

@lawton_sophie Kari Lake is an election denier with links to Nazi sympathizers and the QAnon movement. She will do and say anything in her bid for power. She has never hid exactly who and what she is. mediamatters.org/face-nation/cb…

@lawton_sophie Kari Lake also seems likely to win on Tuesday. And that's completely unacceptable. She is a dangerous liar and an extremist who is willing to inflict any pain on her most vulnerable constituents if it means she gets to live in the Governor's mansion. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor…

@lawton_sophie Lake is not alone in attacking trans people in the days remaining before the midterms. JD Vance is doing it. Blake Masters is doing it. Ron DeSantis has made it a full-time job. If somebody's campaign message rests on attacking us, it's because they have nothing to offer.