Kari Lake

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Kari Lake

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Lake began her media career in the early 1990s and was an anchor at Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV from 1999 to 2021, when she left to run for governor.{{Cite news |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2021/03/02/arizona-news-anchor-kari-lake-leaving-fox-10-phoenix/6885160002/ |title=Why longtime Fox 10 news anchor Kari Lake is leaving the Phoenix station after 22 years |first=Bill |last=Goodykoontz |access-date=March 19, 2024 |date=March 2, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Arizona Republic]] }} In the [[2022 Arizona gubernatorial election]], she won the Republican nomination with the endorsement of [[Donald Trump]], and promoted [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|Trump's false claims of winning the 2020 presidential election]] during her campaign.{{Cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-arizona-governor-election-karrin-taylor-robson-e8f6cb66e63bc63464d149112d77d2a4 |title=Trump ally Kari Lake wins GOP primary for Arizona governor |first=Jonathan |last=Cooper |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |date=August 4, 2022}} She narrowly lost the general election to [[Katie Hobbs]] in one of the closest gubernatorial races that year. She did not concede and filed a lawsuit challenging the results; the case lasted nearly two years and was ultimately rejected by Arizona state courts.{{refn|}} She later ran in the [[2024 United States Senate election in Arizona|2024 U.S. Senate election in Arizona]], winning the Republican nomination but losing in the general election to [[Ruben Gallego]].
Lake began her media career in the early 1990s and was an anchor at Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV from 1999 to 2021, when she left to run for governor.{{Cite news |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2021/03/02/arizona-news-anchor-kari-lake-leaving-fox-10-phoenix/6885160002/ |title=Why longtime Fox 10 news anchor Kari Lake is leaving the Phoenix station after 22 years |first=Bill |last=Goodykoontz |access-date=March 19, 2024 |date=March 2, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Arizona Republic]] }} In the [[2022 Arizona gubernatorial election]], she won the Republican nomination with the endorsement of [[Donald Trump]], and promoted [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|Trump's false claims of winning the 2020 presidential election]] during her campaign.{{Cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-arizona-governor-election-karrin-taylor-robson-e8f6cb66e63bc63464d149112d77d2a4 |title=Trump ally Kari Lake wins GOP primary for Arizona governor |first=Jonathan |last=Cooper |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |date=August 4, 2022}} She narrowly lost the general election to [[Katie Hobbs]] in one of the closest gubernatorial races that year. She did not concede and filed a lawsuit challenging the results; the case lasted nearly two years and was ultimately rejected by Arizona state courts.{{refn|}} She later ran in the [[2024 United States Senate election in Arizona|2024 U.S. Senate election in Arizona]], winning the Republican nomination but losing in the general election to [[Ruben Gallego]].





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