Kari Lake's election denial obsession was too much even for Trump: new book

Arizona MAGA stalwart Kari Lake's obsession with bogus claims about voter fraud was so strong that even former President Donald Trump got tired of hearing about it, a new book claims.

The Guardian has obtained a copy of a new book from Politico journalist Meridith McGraw, titled Trump in Exile, and it claims that Trump mocked Lake behind her back for constantly harping on the purportedly "stolen" 2020 election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

“It doesn’t matter what you ask Kari Lake about,” Trump said at one point, according to McGraw. “‘How’s your family?’ And she’s like, ‘The family’s fine but they’re never going to be great until we have free and fair elections.’”

In another instance, an acquaintance of Trump quoted him as saying of Lake, "You could ask her, how’s the weather? And she’ll turn it into the election. ‘Oh, the weather in Phoenix is OK, but you can never have great weather unless the election is fair.’”

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Lake, of course, didn't just dispute Trump's 2020 election loss but her own loss in 2022 to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs.

Lake filed numerous lawsuits aimed at overturning her loss in the 2022 election but all of them were dismissed by courts.

Despite her record as an election denier and loser, Lake on Tuesday won the Arizona Republican primary for the United States Senate, and she will go on to face Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) this fall in the race to replace Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ).