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Posted: 2024-07-31T03:58:15Z | Updated: 2024-07-31T03:58:15Z

Kari Lake on Tuesday won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona, setting her up to face off in Novembers general election against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who ran uncontested for his partys nomination. The winner will replace outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who said in March she would not seek reelection.

Lake, a former local news anchor, has made a name for herself as a hard-right Republican in Donald Trumps mold not only amplifying his lies about the 2020 election being stolen, but saying the same about her own unsuccessful race for governor in 2022. (Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, defeated Lake by 17,000 votes.) Lake played a video of Trump endorsing her when she launched her campaign in October, and Trump again voiced his support for Lake in a call with supporters Monday.

Lake is currently still litigating the last election as the defendant in an ongoing defamation lawsuit from Stephen Richer, a Republican and the elected recorder in Maricopa County, Arizonas largest county. After Lake accused Richer of intentionally sabotaging the 2022 election, Richer sued for defamation. In March, Lake declined to defend herself against Richers suit, calling it a perversion of our legal system. Discovery is ongoing in the dispute.