Kari Lake’s Cameo In The Meadows Texts Shows How 2020 Election Denial Became An Enduring Movement
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Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake makes only one appearance in the 2,319 text messages former President Trump’s last chief of staff Mark Meadows provided to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
However, Lake’s cameo provides an especially vivid example of how the challenge to Trump’s 2020 loss helped spur the creation of a new political movement that remains a force in American politics. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/kari-l…
Lake is an election denier extraordinaire who is still engaged in a frivolous lawsuit to contest her loss nearly one month after that race was called. Before (publicly) jumping into politics, Lake had a longtime career as an anchor at KSAZ-TV, the local Fox affiliate in Phoenix.
Lake was still in this position on November 7, 2020, when, based on the text log, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward texted Meadows with a hot tip that she said came from Lake. 
In other words, according to Ward, Lake, who had interviewed Trump, had come to the leader of the state’s Republican Party with information from a “source” that called into question the election result in Arizona, where Joe Biden won. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/kari-l…
Ward’s message came shortly after most of the major broadcast networks declared that Biden had won the presidency. Lake declined to comment on this story.
Read the latest installment in #TheMeadowsTexts series here: talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/kari-l…
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