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‘Selling the Big Lie’: Reporter unloads on Kari Lake after her campaign ends in defeat
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‘Selling the Big Lie’: Reporter unloads on Kari Lake after her campaign ends in defeat
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When Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial race was called for Democrat Katie Hobbs on Monday night, November 14, there was no shortage of gloating on Twitter. Far-right GOP nominee Kari Lake, according to her critics, went out of her way to be as insulting, condescending and mean-spirited as possible during her campaign. But in the end, she went down in defeat. In 2023, Hobbs, not Lake, will replace Republican Doug Ducey as Arizona governor.
The gloating came not only from Democrats like Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, but also, from some of Lake’s critics on the right, including conservative activist Meghan McCain and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. And the following morning, some more gloating came from NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Clearly, Lake’s defeat was something that a variety of liberals, centrists and conservatives savored, including “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough (a conservative ex-GOP congressman) and Mika Brzezinski (a liberal). And when Hillyard weighed in, he explained why so many people were delighted to by Lake’s defeat.
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“Look, I’ve covered Kari Lake for the better part of the last year and half here,” Hillyard told Scarborough and Brzezinski from Palm Beach, Florida. “And I think it was perhaps fitting to be here across from Mar-a-Lago today…. I felt like I was covering Donald Trump’s campaign of 2024, but in Arizona, over the last year, she predicated her campaign on trying to sell the Big Lie — on trying to sell the conspiracy theories. When she wonders how she lost this race, look at it. This is the third election cycle in a row in which Arizonans rejected Trumpism.”
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