Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake made the case that Democrats exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to usher in drastic changes to state election laws across the country, which allowed for Democrats to “rig” the 2020 election to “take down” 45th President Donald Trump.
Speaking to conservative pundit Steve Bannon on his renowned “War Room” podcast, Lake noted that many of the unconstitutional election law changes were allowed to remain in place during the 2022 general election and resulted in an “even worse” situation.
“It was all there to really destroy a president, bring down President Trump, and lead to the issues that led to the 2020 rigged election. Nothing was done about it. Very little was done to fix any of the problems that we saw in 2020, and now we get 2022 and it’s even worse. It’s all of the same stuff they pulled in 2020 and then they went above and beyond on that,” Lake explained.
.@KariLake: "Signature verification and chain of custody are our only security to make sure that we are having legal votes counted. We believe that there were hundreds of thousands of illegal votes counted and we believe our lawsuit proves it." pic.twitter.com/LUIrfqOvf3
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 12, 2022
“We have whistleblowers in our lawsuit that say just about 300 thousand illegal votes with no chain of custody were run through the system. We believe more than 130 thousand votes possibly have terrible voter verification and shouldn’t have been counted,” Lake stressed.
“We have whistleblowers who were part of that signature verification who said everyday they were churning out tens of thousands of ballots that should not have even been in the system — they had fake or no signatures, or scribbles, but they were somehow pushed through by somebody in the verification process.”
Bannon, taken aback by Lake’s assertion that hundreds of thousands of illegal votes were cast in her election, reminded the audience that Lake’s own opponent, Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, along with ideologically opposed officials in Maricopa County, were ultimately responsible for the election procedures and processes.
“Let’s face it, election laws and election rules are not optional. They’re not like ‘well, follow these if you want.’ They’re mandatory and they’re put there for a reason. Especially as all of these states and counties push toward mail-in ballots,” Lake added.
“Signature verification and chain of custody are our only security to make sure that we are having legal votes counted. We believe that there were hundreds of thousands of illegal votes counted and we believe our lawsuit proves it,” said Lake.
