GOP downballot disaster: Trump’s picks could come back to haunt him

Published September 6, 2024 5:25am ET



Less than a year after Kari Lake lost a winnable gubernatorial race in Arizona, she was back on her horse. 

At the kickoff event for her 2024 Senate campaign last October, she rolled the tape on a video recorded by former President Donald Trump, who explained that he would need “strong fighters like Kari in the Senate” once he was “back in the White House.”

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