Far-Right Republican Who Called For 'More Gallows' Wonders If GOP Had A Messaging Problem

As updated vote tallies began to cement a loss for Trump-backed Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake on Monday, a far-right state lawmaker who told a gathering of white nationalists that we need to build more gallows started to have second thoughts about her partys pitch to voters.

We wonder now if we were in an echo chamber, said state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R), who has also suggested throwing county officials in solitary confinement and spent years lying about the 2020 election.

I dont know, Im just beginning to get some perspective, added Rogers.

In the final days of her unsuccessful campaign against Democrat Katie Hobbs, Lake bear-hugged Rogers, despite the fellow Republican being one of the nations foremost elected supporters of the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes .

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The Charlie Kirk livestream right now is incredible, they're going through the stages of grief pic.twitter.com/yqj2syJewf
Joe (@JoePostingg) November 15, 2022

Rogers realization about echo chambers occurred in an interesting place: She was speaking to Charlie Kirk on his YouTube show, which is also broadcast on the Salem Radio Network.

Kirk is the founder of the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA, which has close ties to the Trump family and spent considerable time and money working to elect Arizona Republicans . The groups nationwide endorsement page is now sprinkled with painful losses , including Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters (R).

Every pollster was wrong, every single one, Kirk told Rogers. Later, he apologized to listeners for getting the projections wrong referring to positive polling for Lake as Kool-Aid and mentioned that hed heard they didnt run an internal poll the whole campaign.

Never again are we going to trust polls, or tracking, or any of that stuff, Kirk said.

As the results rolled in, the crew speculated that Lake, who in many ways emulated former President Donald Trump s election denialism and theatrical antagonism of the press, was simply too much for some otherwise winnable Arizona voters.

If every person who voted to retire [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi in Arizona voted for Kari Lake, shes governor, Kirk said, referring to Arizonas U.S. House delegation, which went from 5-4 Democratic to 6-3 Republican with this election.

What that means ... is a Republican undervote, and it looks like that happened, he added, referring to voters who supported Republicans other than Lake.